I am running statewide to serve all of Texas, and I am making a particular appeal to younger voters because I wanted to be known and remembered as the “Voting Rights Attorney General.” It all begins with getting high school seniors registered to vote. This is the law (Texas Election Code section 13.046d), and it’s simply not enforced. I will pleasantly and firmly enforce the law so every 18 year old in school is registered to vote and so they can vote in numbers to big to ignore and save their collective future.

Elected after 2008’s Hurricane Ike, Joe Jaworski served as the 55th mayor of Galveston, Texas.  

Joe risked his mayorship to support rebuilding Galveston’s storm-damaged public housing as mixed-income housing for thousands, a game-changer for the Island. Joe stood for bringing families home to Galveston.  

Before his election, Joe successfully sued the U.T. system and its Gov. Perry-appointed Regents in Galveston to enjoin their sudden, illegal decision to terminate over 4,000 UTMB-Galveston employees, creating a program to rehire them. Today, UTMB Galveston is thriving.  

Joe, a third-generation Texas attorney, practicing in the profession that his grandfather Leon and father Joseph pursued, graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with his wife Rebecca in 1991.

Joe owns The Jaworski Law Firm. He is a respected national and international mediator.  Joe and Rebecca are proud parents of Joseph, a fourth generation Texas lawyer, and Becca, a sophomore at University of Houston.

Affordability - I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of Affordability focused on helping young adult Texans afford the American Dream (graduating debt free, getting a good job that pays good wages, home ownership or affordable rent and starting a family). 

Elections - I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of Elections and Voter Encouragement to register every high school senior pursuant to Texas Election Code section 13.046(d) and to reverse decades of voter suppression wrought by GOP/Tea Party/MAGA Texas politicians.

Corruption - I will create and staff within the OAG a Division of Ethics and Integrity which will investigate, and with local District Attorneys will take punitive action to respond to, credible complaints of fraud, corruption and crime within Texas Government. The Texas AG DEI will also advocate for term limits, campaign contribution limits, independent redistricting commissions and citizen initiated legislation by petition.

“Heroes” by Bowie. The wall of majestic sound within this song reminds me of classic government of the people.

I oppose ICE. Here’s today’s campaign email which I wrote and which is on point:

As Americans, we share a core belief: the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land. Every elected official and every member of the military takes an oath to defend it.

I’ve taken that oath more than once. And I’ve kept my word.

The Constitution isn’t mysterious or hidden. It was written for the People. Kids study it in school. Adults carry pocket copies. The original sits in the National Archives for all to see. You don’t have to be a lawyer to understand what it stands for.

As a third-generation Texas lawyer, I understand something else too: it can happen here.

My family history is shaped by that lesson. My grandfather prosecuted Nazi officials after World War II and later prosecuted a President of the United States during Watergate. He warned that democratic collapse doesn’t happen overnight. It happens when people see wrongdoing and look away, when cruelty becomes normalized, and when leaders abandon their oath.

That warning matters today.

There are no “both sides” when the rule of law is abandoned. Accountability matters. Due process matters. Consequences matter.

I’m looking forward to the trials of Trump, Noem, Miller and the rest because they have abused their high office, and they’ve abandoned the Constitution. They’ve done horrible things, they continue to do horrible things, and they must be tried and convicted for what they’ve done. Impeachment at least; criminal trials should be on the table.

I’m a candidate for office, and I’m a lawyer. I believe in the Constitution, and I believe in defending it without compromise.

I’m proud to be an American. I’m staying right here. And I’m fighting to make sure our free institutions remain strong and effective.

I am not in favor of it. It’s been controversial in Galveston, Texas also.

I am very concerned about the negative impact these AI data centers will have on our water supply. My father, who lives in Wimberley, is on the TESPA Board of Directors, and he’s helping bring lawyers to fight over our water rights.

I believe Israel had a right to defend itself after October 7. It defended itself. Then its leadership decided to destroy Gaza. That was different than - and way beyond - defending itself. I do not support all-out war leaving civilians dead - and that’s what this was.

I stand with American students who have a right to be heard on their campuses - to protest at their schools - to voice opposition to Israel’s war machine and our American government’s funding of it. I support Jewish students’ rights to be heard in response. That’s a robust conversation our country should have, and students should lead the conversation. Texas state government wants to pick winners and losers debating this topic, and that partisan weight of government is unconstitutional and un-American. My primary opponent Nathan Johnson led this effort when he - as one of two senate democrats - joined all senate republicans and voted for SB2972 (89R) - the so-called “Campus Security Act” which limits free expression on Texas campuses. I’m glad a Reagan-appointed federal judge found the law blatantly unconstitutional and blocked the law from taking effect, siding with Texas students. As Attorney General, I will stand with the students and the First Amendment. My opponent has already shown his stripes. He sided with suppression, which is one reason - among many - that the UDems (University of Texas Dems) endorsed me, not my primary opponent.