State of Texas
State Representative, District 18
Janis Holt
Republican Incumbent- On ballot as
- Janis Holt
- Current role
- State Representative, Texas House District 18 (since Jan. 14, 2025)
- Background
- Co-owner, Hi-Tech Air Purification Systems, with her husband
- Raises Angus cattle
- Former dental assistant and 4th-grade teacher
- Lives in Silsbee (Hardin County) since 1993
- Experience
- Won in Nov. 2024
- Defeated incumbent Ernest Bailes in the March 2024 GOP primary
- Silsbee ISD trustee from 2014, including as board president (per official biography)
- Not on the district's current board list
- Top priorities
- "School Choice" that "empowers parents and students"
- Property taxes: "promoting fiscal responsibility and efficient governance while maintaining essential public services"
- "Secure Border"
- "Pro-Life"
- Tidbits
- Abortion: Campaign site: "End abortion by ensuring the right to life and equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization"
- Border and immigration: Campaign site: "Texas shall immediately deny all taxpayer funded services and subsidies to illegal aliens."
- Guns: Campaign site: "Protect our gun rights against threats, such as red flag laws, federal, state or other restrictions"
- Public schools and vouchers: Campaign site, on parental rights: "This shall include the choice of schooling where the money follows the child."
- Property taxes: Campaign site, under "Property Taxes": "The government should focus on promoting fiscal responsibility and efficient governance while maintaining essential public services"
- Endorsements
- Texas Home School Coalition (THSC)
- Texas Right to Life
- Texas Values Action
- CLEAT PAC (Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas)
- Young Conservatives of Texas (primary)
- True Texas Project (primary)
- Campaign website
- holtfortexas.com
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