Taylor Rehmet is a veteran who knows firsthand what it means to serve and what it feels like to be forgotten. He believes our duty to veterans doesn't end with a folded flag or a ceremony, it means real support for the challenges veterans face after service. Taylor will fight to fully fund mental health care, job training, housing, and support services for veterans and their families across Texas. He’ll push for programs that prioritize housing the unhoused, create career pathways in public service, and ensure every veteran is buried with dignity and honor.

As a union president and machinist, Taylor believes the backbone of Texas isn’t the boardroom, it’s the workshop floor. He knows the best way to raise wages, protect jobs, and ensure dignity on the job is through strong unions and worker power. Taylor will lead efforts to repeal anti-union laws, expand collective bargaining, and bring good-paying, union jobs back to Texas communities. He supports reclassifying gig workers to guarantee benefits and will fight for apprenticeship pipelines that create career paths for the next generation.

Housing isn’t a luxury, it’s a right. Taylor will fight to make housing affordable for the people who actually live and work in Texas, not the developers and hedge funds pricing them out. He supports statewide rent stabilization, tenant protections, and deep investment in public and nonprofit housing that working families can actually afford. Taylor believes renters deserve dignity, transparency, and power and he’ll work to stop corporate landlords from turning Texas neighborhoods into profit machines.

Taylor is a proud graduate of public schools and believes every student deserves a real future whether it’s college, the military, or a skilled trade. He’ll fight to reinvest in public education, expand high school vocational programs, and reverse the privatization of Texas schools by way of tax-payer dollars. Taylor believes in rebuilding the pipeline between schools and good-paying jobs, and he knows we must treat educators with the respect and resources they deserve. He supports fully funding public schools and ending voucher schemes that drain them.

Texas is home to some of the most breathtaking land and natural resources in the country and Taylor believes it’s our responsibility to protect it for future generations. He’ll fight to stop the selloff of public lands to developers, safeguard water access, and invest in rural conservation jobs. As a lifelong Texan and steward of the land, Taylor believes environmental justice must include the people who live closest to the land, farmers, ranchers, rural communities, and Native American tribal authorities. He’ll prioritize clean air and water no matter your zip code.

Every Texan deserves fair representation. Taylor will fight to end racial and partisan gerrymandering by pushing for an independent redistricting commission and ensuring communities of color aren’t cracked or packed out of power. When precinct lines are drawn behind closed doors to silence working families, that’s not democracy, it’s theft. Taylor supports legislation that increases transparency in the redistricting process, creates enforceable protections for minority voting blocs, and strengthens the Voting Rights Act.Every Texan deserves fair representation. Taylor will fight to end racial and partisan gerrymandering by pushing for an independent redistricting commission and ensuring communities of color aren’t cracked or packed out of power. When precinct lines are drawn behind closed doors to silence working families, that’s not democracy, it’s theft. Taylor supports legislation that increases transparency in the redistricting process, creates enforceable protections for minority voting blocs, and strengthens the Voting Rights Act.

Texans deserve to get to work and get home without wasting hours stuck in traffic or going broke at the toll booth. Taylor supports bold investment in infrastructure, widening roads where needed, modernizing public transit like TEXRail, and building smart, long-term transportation systems that grow with our communities. He’ll fight for walkable neighborhoods where seniors, veterans, and working parents can move freely without relying on a car, and he’ll work to secure funding for high-traffic corridors like 121, 820, and 183.

Taylor also believes it’s time to revisit Texas’s broken toll road pricing model. Families in SD9 and across the state are paying outrageous fees just to get to school, work, or the grocery store. Infrastructure should serve people, not drain our wallets and Taylor will fight to deliver real relief to the people footing the bill.

We need schools that teach, not culture-war battlegrounds. Taylor will stand with teachers, parents, and students to invest in neighborhood schools, protect public education from privatization, and keep extremist politics and religious ideology out of the classroom. He supports teacher raises, mental health staff in every school, and strict oversight to prevent school boards from banning books or invading student privacy. The future of Texas depends on what we teach our kids today and they deserve the truth.

Property taxes are crushing working families while billion-dollar corporations get carve outs and breaks. Taylor will fight for a fair tax system that shifts the burden off homeowners and renters and demands big business pay its fair share. He supports capping appraisal spikes, expanding exemptions for veterans and seniors, and closing corporate loopholes that drain local school funding. Families shouldn’t be taxed out of their homes just so lobbyists can keep their perks.

The fentanyl crisis is devastating families across Texas and Taylor believes we need to get serious about both justice and recovery. He’ll fight to hold traffickers, dealers, and bad actors accountable to the fullest extent of the law. If you're poisoning our kids and cashing in on suffering, you're part of the problem and there will be consequences.

But Taylor also knows addiction is a disease, not a moral failure. He supports expanding access to mental health care, fully funding recovery programs, and making life-saving tools like Narcan widely available. Every Texan deserves a fair shot, a second chance, and a system that doesn’t throw people away. Real public safety means protecting our communities and helping people get back on their feet. Taylor is ready to lead with compassion, strength, and common sense.