Texas — 27th District

This series is called Meet The Candidates. Over the next six months, I’ll spotlight a handful of Democratic races each month, mainly in the Legislature and in Congress. These aren’t endorsements. They’re introductions, a way to understand who’s running, the districts they hope to represent, and what’s at stake for people across Texas.

Tanya Lloyd is a public school teacher, a rural Texan, and someone whose politics are rooted in lived experience. She grew up on a farm outside Lockhart, raised by educators and a grandmother rooted in civil rights work, in a family that built what they had by hand.

That background shows up in how she talks about policy. She’s spent nearly two decades teaching in public schools, most of that time in Title I classrooms, where she’s watched families stretch paychecks, kids come to school hungry, and systems fail the people they’re supposed to serve. That’s something that shapes how you see everything.

Before becoming a teacher, she worked in car dealerships…