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Candidate positionFreedom is not a word Dione Sims learned from a slogan. She learned it as a responsibility, something you protect with your hands, your time, and your choices. In her family, freedom was never abstract. It was measured in whether a neighbor could keep their home, whether a child had a real chance to succeed, and whether a community had enough food, safety, and opportunity to make it through the week with dignity.
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Freedom is not a word Dione Sims learned from a slogan. She learned it as a responsibility, something you protect with your hands, your time, and your choices. In her family, freedom was never abstract. It was measured in whether a neighbor could keep their home, whether a child had a real chance to succeed, and whether a community had enough food, safety, and opportunity to make it through the week with dignity.
The Braided Identity
Candidate positionThree pillars define Dione's approach to leadership and the fight for freedom.
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Three pillars define Dione's approach to leadership and the fight for freedom.
Freedom Everyday for Everybody
Candidate positionThis is not a persuasion campaign. This is a reclamation of freedom. Dione names what people are losing and who benefits from that loss. She translates policy into freedom gained or freedom lost.
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This is not a persuasion campaign. This is a reclamation of freedom. Dione names what people are losing and who benefits from that loss. She translates policy into freedom gained or freedom lost.
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Candidate positionFor Dione, freedom is not symbolic. It is deeply personal and deeply practical. That is why she sponsors Opal's Farm, an urban farming initiative that reduces food insecurity while offering second chance training and employment opportunities. It reflects her belief that people deserve more than survival. They deserve stability, opportunity, and the dignity of being able to provide for themselves and their families.
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For Dione, freedom is not symbolic. It is deeply personal and deeply practical. That is why she sponsors Opal's Farm, an urban farming initiative that reduces food insecurity while offering second chance training and employment opportunities. It reflects her belief that people deserve more than survival. They deserve stability, opportunity, and the dignity of being able to provide for themselves and their families.
Candidate statement
Candidate positionBy profession, Dione is a Software Quality Manager, a role that mirrors her mindset. She believes in accountability, systems that work, and follow through. People trust her because she says what she means and does what she says she will do. She is known for being honest, sometimes blunt, but always rooted in care. When conflict arises, Dione does not inflame it. She brings people together, names the truth, and works toward resolution.
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By profession, Dione is a Software Quality Manager, a role that mirrors her mindset. She believes in accountability, systems that work, and follow through. People trust her because she says what she means and does what she says she will do. She is known for being honest, sometimes blunt, but always rooted in care. When conflict arises, Dione does not inflame it. She brings people together, names the truth, and works toward resolution.
Candidate statement
Candidate positionDione is running for Congress because she believes freedom must protect people, not just power. Today, too many Texas families are working hard and still falling behind, not because they failed, but because the system keeps pulling the floor out from under them. Costs rise, wages lag, and decisions made far away fail to reflect the realities of everyday life in Texas communities.
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Dione is running for Congress because she believes freedom must protect people, not just power. Today, too many Texas families are working hard and still falling behind, not because they failed, but because the system keeps pulling the floor out from under them. Costs rise, wages lag, and decisions made far away fail to reflect the realities of everyday life in Texas communities.
Candidate statement
Candidate positionDione Sims talks about freedom the way families in Texas live it, as something practical. Freedom is being able to work one job and still pay the bills without needing a second shift, a side hustle, or a constant prayer that nothing breaks. Freedom is not wondering whether a doctor's visit will turn into debt, or whether your child's future will be smaller than your own. And it is not watching Washington protect the powerful while telling everyone else to "work harder." Dione is running because she believes freedom has to mean security, dignity, and the right to build a good life, not just for a few, but for everyone.
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Dione Sims talks about freedom the way families in Texas live it, as something practical. Freedom is being able to work one job and still pay the bills without needing a second shift, a side hustle, or a constant prayer that nothing breaks. Freedom is not wondering whether a doctor's visit will turn into debt, or whether your child's future will be smaller than your own. And it is not watching Washington protect the powerful while telling everyone else to "work harder." Dione is running because she believes freedom has to mean security, dignity, and the right to build a good life, not just for a few, but for everyone.
1. Close the Texas Healthcare Coverage Gap
Candidate positionDione will advocate for Texas to capture available federal healthcare resources instead of allowing Texans' federal tax dollars to support healthcare expansion elsewhere while millions of Texans remain uninsured.
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Dione will advocate for Texas to capture available federal healthcare resources instead of allowing Texans' federal tax dollars to support healthcare expansion elsewhere while millions of Texans remain uninsured.
2. Make Private Health Insurance More Affordable
Candidate positionHealthcare reform must also help working and middle-class Texans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but are struggling with premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.
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Healthcare reform must also help working and middle-class Texans who earn too much to qualify for Medicaid but are struggling with premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.
5. Put Patients and Families Ahead of the Healthcare Bureaucracy
Candidate positionDione supports greater transparency so Texans can better understand what healthcare will cost before receiving a bill.
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Dione supports greater transparency so Texans can better understand what healthcare will cost before receiving a bill.
HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionDione Sims believes expanding healthcare must be accompanied by fiscal responsibility. With the federal government already facing substantial deficits, Washington cannot simply write another blank check.
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Dione Sims believes expanding healthcare must be accompanied by fiscal responsibility. With the federal government already facing substantial deficits, Washington cannot simply write another blank check.
1. Make Childcare More Affordable for Working Families
Candidate positionDione Sims will support expanding childcare assistance for working- and middle-class families so that childcare expenses do not consume an unreasonable percentage of household income.
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Dione Sims will support expanding childcare assistance for working- and middle-class families so that childcare expenses do not consume an unreasonable percentage of household income.
5. Strengthen Early Head Start, Head Start and Pre-K Partnerships
Candidate positionSims will advocate for protecting and strengthening Early Head Start and Head Start, while encouraging partnerships among childcare centers, school districts, community organizations and employers.
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Sims will advocate for protecting and strengthening Early Head Start and Head Start, while encouraging partnerships among childcare centers, school districts, community organizations and employers.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionThe Sims plan would use a public-private financing model rather than placing the entire cost on Texas taxpayers.
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The Sims plan would use a public-private financing model rather than placing the entire cost on Texas taxpayers.
CHILDCARE IS ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Candidate positionTexas invests in roads because Texans need roads to get to work.
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Texas invests in roads because Texans need roads to get to work.
Responsible Technological Innovation
Candidate positionDione Sims believes America should lead the world in artificial intelligence and emerging technology. But technological leadership must be measured by more than how quickly we build, automate, or deploy. Progress should improve people's lives, strengthen communities, expand economic opportunity, and protect the resources Texans depend on.
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Dione Sims believes America should lead the world in artificial intelligence and emerging technology. But technological leadership must be measured by more than how quickly we build, automate, or deploy. Progress should improve people's lives, strengthen communities, expand economic opportunity, and protect the resources Texans depend on.
Texans Should Decide What Gets Built in Texas Communities
Candidate positionData centers can bring substantial economic benefits. They can attract billions of dollars in private investment, expand local tax bases, create construction and technology jobs, strengthen digital and electrical infrastructure, and position Texas as a global leader in the rapidly expanding AI economy.
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Data centers can bring substantial economic benefits. They can attract billions of dollars in private investment, expand local tax bases, create construction and technology jobs, strengthen digital and electrical infrastructure, and position Texas as a global leader in the rapidly expanding AI economy.
Balancing the Benefits and Costs of Data Centers
Candidate positionAt the same time, large facilities can create substantial electricity demands and, depending upon their technology and cooling systems, significant water requirements. Communities may also face questions involving transmission infrastructure, backup generators, noise, land use, construction traffic, environmental impacts, utility costs, emergency preparedness, and compatibility with nearby residential development.
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At the same time, large facilities can create substantial electricity demands and, depending upon their technology and cooling systems, significant water requirements. Communities may also face questions involving transmission infrastructure, backup generators, noise, land use, construction traffic, environmental impacts, utility costs, emergency preparedness, and compatibility with nearby residential development.
No Progress Without Transparency
Candidate positionDione Sims will oppose backroom arrangements that commit taxpayer resources or significantly affect communities without appropriate transparency and public accountability.
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Dione Sims will oppose backroom arrangements that commit taxpayer resources or significantly affect communities without appropriate transparency and public accountability.
Independent Leadership: No Big Tech Corporate PAC Money
Candidate positionCongress will make consequential decisions involving artificial intelligence, data privacy, technology competition, infrastructure, energy, and data centers. Texans deserve representatives whose judgment is independent of the corporations affected by those decisions.
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Congress will make consequential decisions involving artificial intelligence, data privacy, technology competition, infrastructure, energy, and data centers. Texans deserve representatives whose judgment is independent of the corporations affected by those decisions.
The Sims Standard for Responsible Innovation
Candidate positionInnovate boldly. Train our people. Protect our resources. Invest in our communities. Empower Texans. Demand transparency.
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Innovate boldly. Train our people. Protect our resources. Invest in our communities. Empower Texans. Demand transparency.
Freedom to work, provide & build a future
Candidate positionDione Sims’ Plan for Affordable, Accessible Childcare for Texas Families
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Dione Sims’ Plan for Affordable, Accessible Childcare for Texas Families
Freedom from corruption
Candidate positionThe American people deserve a government that works for them, not a system where elected officials, political appointees, or other powerful individuals can abuse their positions to enrich themselves, manipulate markets, reward family and friends, or provide special access to well-connected insiders.
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The American people deserve a government that works for them, not a system where elected officials, political appointees, or other powerful individuals can abuse their positions to enrich themselves, manipulate markets, reward family and friends, or provide special access to well-connected insiders.
The Dione Sims Healthcare Affordability Plan
Candidate positionAs a member of Congress, Dione Sims will work across federal, state and local government to pursue practical reforms that expand coverage while lowering the actual cost of healthcare.
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As a member of Congress, Dione Sims will work across federal, state and local government to pursue practical reforms that expand coverage while lowering the actual cost of healthcare.
1. Close the Texas Healthcare Coverage Gap
Candidate positionAs a federal legislator, she will support policies that strengthen incentives for Texas to close its coverage gap while protecting taxpayers and demanding measurable results from healthcare programs.
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As a federal legislator, she will support policies that strengthen incentives for Texas to close its coverage gap while protecting taxpayers and demanding measurable results from healthcare programs.
2. Make Private Health Insurance More Affordable
Candidate positionDione will support targeted federal assistance that makes Marketplace coverage more affordable for working families while pursuing reforms that address the underlying cost of healthcare rather than simply shifting those costs to taxpayers.
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Dione will support targeted federal assistance that makes Marketplace coverage more affordable for working families while pursuing reforms that address the underlying cost of healthcare rather than simply shifting those costs to taxpayers.
3. Lower Prescription Drug Costs
Candidate positionDione will support strengthening Medicare's ability to negotiate the prices of high-cost prescription drugs, increasing competition from safe generic and biosimilar medicines, improving transparency across the prescription-drug supply chain and holding pharmaceutical companies and intermediaries accountable for practices that unnecessarily increase consumer costs.
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Dione will support strengthening Medicare's ability to negotiate the prices of high-cost prescription drugs, increasing competition from safe generic and biosimilar medicines, improving transparency across the prescription-drug supply chain and holding pharmaceutical companies and intermediaries accountable for practices that unnecessarily increase consumer costs.
4. Protect Rural and Community Healthcare
Candidate positionDione will fight for federal investment in rural hospitals, community health centers, telehealth, mental-health services, maternal healthcare and workforce programs that help underserved Texas communities recruit and retain physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
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Dione will fight for federal investment in rural hospitals, community health centers, telehealth, mental-health services, maternal healthcare and workforce programs that help underserved Texas communities recruit and retain physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Candidate positionProtect the patient. Strengthen the family. Lower the cost. Expand access. Spend taxpayer dollars responsibly.
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Protect the patient. Strengthen the family. Lower the cost. Expand access. Spend taxpayer dollars responsibly.
THE CHILDCARE AFFORDABILITY CHALLENGE IN TEXAS
Candidate positionAffordable childcare is therefore not only family policy. It is workforce policy, economic-development policy, and an affordability issue.
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Affordable childcare is therefore not only family policy. It is workforce policy, economic-development policy, and an affordability issue.
1. Make Childcare More Affordable for Working Families
Candidate positionAssistance should be structured on a sliding scale: families with the greatest financial need receive the greatest support, while working families above traditional assistance thresholds can receive more limited help.
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Assistance should be structured on a sliding scale: families with the greatest financial need receive the greatest support, while working families above traditional assistance thresholds can receive more limited help.
2. Expand the Supply of Childcare
Candidate positionSims will support federal-state partnerships that help qualified childcare providers expand capacity, particularly in rural communities and childcare deserts.
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Sims will support federal-state partnerships that help qualified childcare providers expand capacity, particularly in rural communities and childcare deserts.
4. Support Parents Who Work Nights and Weekends
Candidate positionSims will support incentives for qualified childcare providers that expand evening, weekend, early-morning and nontraditional-hour childcare, particularly in communities with large populations of shift workers.
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Sims will support incentives for qualified childcare providers that expand evening, weekend, early-morning and nontraditional-hour childcare, particularly in communities with large populations of shift workers.
6. Protect Quality While Expanding Access
Candidate positionSims supports maintaining appropriate licensing, health, safety and background-check requirements while expanding access to high-quality providers, including Texas Rising Star programs.
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Sims supports maintaining appropriate licensing, health, safety and background-check requirements while expanding access to high-quality providers, including Texas Rising Star programs.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionFirst, protect and maximize existing federal childcare funding. Texas already receives federal childcare resources. Sims will fight to ensure Texas receives its fair share and that federal dollars reach working families and communities with the greatest shortages.
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First, protect and maximize existing federal childcare funding. Texas already receives federal childcare resources. Sims will fight to ensure Texas receives its fair share and that federal dollars reach working families and communities with the greatest shortages.
CHILDCARE IS ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE
Candidate positionWe invest in electricity because businesses cannot operate without power.
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We invest in electricity because businesses cannot operate without power.
DIONE SIMS’ COMMITMENT
Candidate positionFreedom means more than telling Texans they are free. It means creating the conditions that allow people to use that freedom.
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Freedom means more than telling Texans they are free. It means creating the conditions that allow people to use that freedom.
Responsible Technological Innovation
Candidate positionArtificial intelligence has the potential to transform healthcare, education, agriculture, manufacturing, government, transportation, energy, and small business. It can increase productivity, create new industries, and strengthen America's global competitiveness.
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform healthcare, education, agriculture, manufacturing, government, transportation, energy, and small business. It can increase productivity, create new industries, and strengthen America's global competitiveness.
Texans Should Decide What Gets Built in Texas Communities
Candidate positionWhen major technology companies choose Texas communities for large-scale data centers—particularly when they receive public incentives or infrastructure support—Dione believes they should be prepared to become genuine community partners.
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When major technology companies choose Texas communities for large-scale data centers—particularly when they receive public incentives or infrastructure support—Dione believes they should be prepared to become genuine community partners.
No Progress Without Transparency
Candidate positionDione supports appropriate public disclosure surrounding major technology and data-center developments, including electricity and water requirements, infrastructure needs, public subsidies and incentives, anticipated employment and economic benefits, environmental and community impacts, and commitments made to the communities hosting these projects.
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Dione supports appropriate public disclosure surrounding major technology and data-center developments, including electricity and water requirements, infrastructure needs, public subsidies and incentives, anticipated employment and economic benefits, environmental and community impacts, and commitments made to the communities hosting these projects.
Preparing Texas Small Businesses for the AI Revolution
Candidate positionAI training can help small businesses automate routine administrative work, improve customer service, strengthen marketing, analyze business information, manage inventory and scheduling, prepare proposals, enhance cybersecurity awareness, identify new customers, and allow employees to devote more time to higher-value activities.
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AI training can help small businesses automate routine administrative work, improve customer service, strengthen marketing, analyze business information, manage inventory and scheduling, prepare proposals, enhance cybersecurity awareness, identify new customers, and allow employees to devote more time to higher-value activities.
Protecting Workers While Building the Workforce of the Future
Candidate positionAI will change some jobs, create others, and transform many existing occupations. Dione believes government should neither attempt to stop technological progress nor tell displaced workers that they are simply on their own.
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AI will change some jobs, create others, and transform many existing occupations. Dione believes government should neither attempt to stop technological progress nor tell displaced workers that they are simply on their own.
Freedom from corruption
Candidate positionIn Congress, I will fight for aggressive oversight and meaningful accountability whenever credible evidence suggests corruption, fraud, conflicts of interest, insider dealing, market manipulation, self-enrichment, or abuse of governmental power.
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In Congress, I will fight for aggressive oversight and meaningful accountability whenever credible evidence suggests corruption, fraud, conflicts of interest, insider dealing, market manipulation, self-enrichment, or abuse of governmental power.
3. Lower Prescription Drug Costs
Candidate positionDione wants Congress to build on approaches that demonstrably reduce costs while preserving American medical innovation.
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Dione wants Congress to build on approaches that demonstrably reduce costs while preserving American medical innovation.
5. Put Patients and Families Ahead of the Healthcare Bureaucracy
Candidate positionHealthcare policy should be designed around the patient — not around bureaucracy.
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Healthcare policy should be designed around the patient — not around bureaucracy.
2. Expand the Supply of Childcare
Candidate positionThat can include competitive grants and financing for licensed providers to expand classrooms, renovate facilities, meet safety requirements, and open childcare operations in communities with demonstrated shortages.
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That can include competitive grants and financing for licensed providers to expand classrooms, renovate facilities, meet safety requirements, and open childcare operations in communities with demonstrated shortages.
3. Expand Employer-Supported Childcare
Candidate positionFederal law already provides an employer-provided childcare tax credit, and beginning in tax year 2026 the maximum credit increased to $500,000 annually—or $600,000 for eligible small businesses—with enhanced reimbursement percentages for qualifying expenditures. Sims would work to increase awareness and utilization of these incentives among Texas employers.
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Federal law already provides an employer-provided childcare tax credit, and beginning in tax year 2026 the maximum credit increased to $500,000 annually—or $600,000 for eligible small businesses—with enhanced reimbursement percentages for qualifying expenditures. Sims would work to increase awareness and utilization of these incentives among Texas employers.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionSecond, strengthen childcare tax relief for working families. Sims will support federal tax policies that allow working families to keep more of their own money when paying legitimate childcare expenses.
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Second, strengthen childcare tax relief for working families. Sims will support federal tax policies that allow working families to keep more of their own money when paying legitimate childcare expenses.
No Progress Without Transparency
Candidate positionFor projects receiving substantial public benefits, Dione will advocate for transparent Community Benefit Agreements or comparable enforceable commitments when appropriate. Instead of vague promises, communities should be able to see what companies have committed to provide—from scholarships and workforce programs to educational investments and infrastructure improvements—and whether those commitments have been fulfilled.
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For projects receiving substantial public benefits, Dione will advocate for transparent Community Benefit Agreements or comparable enforceable commitments when appropriate. Instead of vague promises, communities should be able to see what companies have committed to provide—from scholarships and workforce programs to educational investments and infrastructure improvements—and whether those commitments have been fulfilled.
Freedom from corruption
Candidate positionI will support lawful congressional investigations that follow the facts and the evidence—regardless of political party, wealth, title, or personal connections. Where wrongdoing is uncovered, I will support appropriate referrals to independent law-enforcement, regulatory, and ethics authorities so allegations can be investigated through the proper legal process and individuals can be held accountable when the evidence establishes violations of the law.
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I will support lawful congressional investigations that follow the facts and the evidence—regardless of political party, wealth, title, or personal connections. Where wrongdoing is uncovered, I will support appropriate referrals to independent law-enforcement, regulatory, and ethics authorities so allegations can be investigated through the proper legal process and individuals can be held accountable when the evidence establishes violations of the law.
HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionCapturing federal healthcare funding available to Texas while requiring strong fiscal oversight and measurable outcomes. Reducing waste, fraud and unnecessary administrative spending across federal healthcare programs. Expanding effective prescription-drug competition and negotiation where it produces documented savings. Closing unjustified tax loopholes and ensuring that major corporations and extremely wealthy taxpayers meet their lawful obligations rather than shifting the burden to working families. Investing in preventive and primary care where evidence demonstrates that earlier treatment can reduce more expensive emergency and acute care. Requiring transparency and accountability so taxpayers can see where healthcare dollars are going and what results they are producing.
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Capturing federal healthcare funding available to Texas while requiring strong fiscal oversight and measurable outcomes. Reducing waste, fraud and unnecessary administrative spending across federal healthcare programs. Expanding effective prescription-drug competition and negotiation where it produces documented savings. Closing unjustified tax loopholes and ensuring that major corporations and extremely wealthy taxpayers meet their lawful obligations rather than shifting the burden to working families. Investing in preventive and primary care where evidence demonstrates that earlier treatment can reduce more expensive emergency and acute care. Requiring transparency and accountability so taxpayers can see where healthcare dollars are going and what results they are producing.
2. Expand the Supply of Childcare
Candidate positionThe campaign will also support responsible expansion of licensed home-based childcare providers, which can be particularly important in rural Texas.
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The campaign will also support responsible expansion of licensed home-based childcare providers, which can be particularly important in rural Texas.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionThird, leverage employers and the private sector. Federal incentives can encourage employers to invest directly in childcare rather than requiring government to finance every childcare slot.
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Third, leverage employers and the private sector. Federal incentives can encourage employers to invest directly in childcare rather than requiring government to finance every childcare slot.
DIONE SIMS’ COMMITMENT
Candidate positionDione Sims will fight for a Texas where raising a family and earning a living are not competing ambitions—and where affordable childcare gives working Texans greater freedom to pursue the American Dream.
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Dione Sims will fight for a Texas where raising a family and earning a living are not competing ambitions—and where affordable childcare gives working Texans greater freedom to pursue the American Dream.
Responsible Technological Innovation
Candidate positionDione supports a balanced approach: encourage innovation, protect American competitiveness, and establish responsible guardrails so technological progress does not come at the expense of workers, families, taxpayers, communities, or future generations.
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Dione supports a balanced approach: encourage innovation, protect American competitiveness, and establish responsible guardrails so technological progress does not come at the expense of workers, families, taxpayers, communities, or future generations.
No Progress Without Transparency
Candidate positionPublic resources require public accountability.
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Public resources require public accountability.
Freedom from corruption
Candidate positionI will also fight for stronger transparency and ethics requirements, including meaningful financial disclosures and safeguards designed to prevent public officials from using confidential government information or the power of their offices for private financial advantage.
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I will also fight for stronger transparency and ethics requirements, including meaningful financial disclosures and safeguards designed to prevent public officials from using confidential government information or the power of their offices for private financial advantage.
HOW DO WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionDione will insist that major healthcare legislation identify its costs and financing before asking taxpayers to support it.
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Dione will insist that major healthcare legislation identify its costs and financing before asking taxpayers to support it.
HOW WILL WE PAY FOR IT?
Candidate positionFifth, use targeted investment rather than universal subsidies for wealthy households. Public resources should be concentrated on working-, middle-class and economically vulnerable families for whom childcare costs create a genuine barrier to employment.
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Fifth, use targeted investment rather than universal subsidies for wealthy households. Public resources should be concentrated on working-, middle-class and economically vulnerable families for whom childcare costs create a genuine barrier to employment.
Freedom from corruption
Candidate positionAs your representative, I will work to restore something fundamental to American democracy: the principle that elected officials work for the people—and that public power must always be exercised in the public interest.
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As your representative, I will work to restore something fundamental to American democracy: the principle that elected officials work for the people—and that public power must always be exercised in the public interest.