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In today’s episode of Tacos of Texas, we sit down with Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for Governor of Texas. Earlier this year, she ate tacos with former President Barack Obama & James Talarico. Today she’s discussing them with us. We’ll talk about what it means to run for governor as a Latina woman and her abuela’s sage advice that she still carries with her. Pull up a silla to our kitchen table.
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Hinojosa [00:00:00] I’ve been in the Texas house now, and I’ve been watching and fighting in the trenches for a long time. And what I believe is the only fight in this state and in this country right now is, are we going to be a state by and for the people, or is this the billionaire’s world and we just live in it?
Mando Rayo [00:00:20] What’s up, Taco World? I’m taco journalist, Mando Rayo, and welcome to the Tacos of Texas podcast, El Seis, produced by Identity Productions in partnership with KUT and KUTX Studios. And we’re back exploring taco culture in Texas through the eyes of the people in the Lone Star State. So grab a flour tortilla and some barbacoa and get ready for some muy tasty taco conversations.
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Mando Rayo [00:01:02] In today’s episode of Tacos of Texas, we sit down with Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic nominee for governor of Texas at my house, Casamando. In May, she ate tacos with former President Barack Obama and James Tellerico. Today, she’s discussing them with us. We’ll talk about what it means to run for governor as a Latina woman and her abuela’s sage advice that she still carries with her. Pull up a seah to our kitchen table. We asked Governor Greg Abbott to come on the podcast, but he did not respond to our request. Que onda mi gente, Mando Rayo here, coming at you from Casita Rayo Granada. This season we’re inviting you into my little casita, that’s right, into my own home, a place where semillas and tacos grow. One of the things I love about tacos is they don’t care what’s on your business card. CEO, abuela, chef, candidate. You sit down, you order. If you wear a tie, toss it over your shoulder. You eat the same thing as the person next to you. That’s the energy in our casita today. Civil rights lawyer, school trustee, Texas state rep, and now sitting at my table, Gina Hinojosa is running to be the next governor of the Lone Star State. And before any of that, a kid spending summers in Mission, Texas, with her abuela, who taught her a lesson she’s never forgotten. No te dejes. Fight back. Dale Shine, Gina!
Speaker 4 [00:02:40] Thank you.
Mando Rayo [00:02:48] Join Austin Parks Foundation for Party for the Parks, happening on October 7th on the ACL Festival grounds in Silker Park. This unique fundraiser brings together hundreds of park people for a night of revelry and live music while raising critical funds for Austin Parks, trails, and green spaces. Learn more at party.austinparks.org. Gina Hinojosa is a state Texas representative and the Democratic nominee for the governor of Texas. She’s a Valley native, real Grand Valley that is. And if she wins this November, she’d be the first Latina ever elected governor of the state of Texas, Gina, welcome to my casita. It’s great to be here, Amanda. I really appreciate the invitation. Yes, I mean, I had to because I was like, you know what, you’re breaking barriers. But you’ve been doing it for a long time, right? So you’re from the Rio Grande Valley. Right. And you don’t quit, right. Yeah. Where does that come from?
Hinojosa [00:03:55] So that’s interesting. That comes from my grandmother. My grandmother used to always tell me like a regaña, like a scolding, no te dejes. When I think about it, actually everything that my grandmother ever said was like in that scolding voice. But. It’s an old.
Mando Rayo [00:04:12] Cool.
Hinojosa [00:04:12] Yeah, it’s the old school love, right? Yeah, yeah. It’s the tough love. And she’d always tell me, not this, right. And I don’t know, you were raised with that saying, but what I am hearing on the campaign trail is mostly women who are telling me that their mothers or their grandmothers would tell them that. And so I wonder whether it’s mostly passed through the women.
Mando Rayo [00:04:36] In our tradition. Yeah, definitely. I have a daughter and I’m always like, hey, stand up for yourself, you know, like no te dejes without even thinking about it. Right. But I know that it’s kind of ingrained as well because I think just a lot of the barriers that women and young girls come up against, right? Right, right. So when you think about that phrase, no te dejes, for somebody that doesn’t know, what does that mean?
Hinojosa [00:05:04] You know, I socialize this with a lot of people who speak Spanish to try to come up with the translation that fit best, and it’s hard, right? There’s not a literal translation. What I think it means is know your worth and defend it.
Speaker 5 [00:05:22] Hmm
Hinojosa [00:05:23] I mean, right, of course, that’s not literal translation or fight back, right? So those are the closest English translations I could come up with.
Mando Rayo [00:05:31] Love it, love it. No, and I know we have a lot of those kind of terms that are in English, in Spanish, in Spanglish. You know, like dale shine. I’m always, I’m gonna say dale shine, you know? Dale shine, actually, I don’t know that one. You don’t that one? No, dale shine is like to give it your best, give it all, because you’re gonna shine your shoes, like you’re going to wear your best shoes, give it some shine, you know what I mean? You know what I mean?
Hinojosa [00:05:55] Yes, yes, yes. That’s great. I never heard that.
Mando Rayo [00:05:57] Yeah, yeah. It must be like an El Paso border thing. So we all, you know, like depending on which border you grew up on, you kind of have that terminology is a little bit different, right? So tell us about growing up in the valley and, you know, what was life like and what are some of those early memories that you have around just kind of being inspired to do something more?
Hinojosa [00:06:19] Well, growing up in the valley, when we did our launch video, when we our launch videos, it was hard for me to capture what it meant to me growing up the valley. A lot of people have this idea of the valley as the rancho. A little bit dusty, right? That was not my experience. My experience of the Valley was more agricultural, was more about the bounty of the value, was more. All the things, everything grows in the valley, all the foods, right? I grew up with a Mongol tree right outside my kitchen door. That’s amazing. Right, like, yes. My dad has an avocado tree in his yard, but it’s just the bounty of the land there is what I think of when I think about the valley. I love it, I love the humidity of the valley actually. Oh, yeah. The thick air, I just feel like I breathe better in it.
Mando Rayo [00:07:13] Yeah, yeah. That’s funny. When you think about like the production of produce and all that, right? What grows there, I mean, it feeds a lot of Texans. Right, that’s right. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And so let’s talk a little bit about like growing up and maybe some tacos. Okay. Right? I know you recently ate some tacos with former president Barack Obama. Yes, I did. How did that happen?
Hinojosa [00:07:36] Well, they reached out and offered to come and help boost our campaign. And of course, we took him up on it. That was amazing. Wow, that was so cool. The owner of the restaurant didn’t even know that he was coming.
Mando Rayo [00:07:48] Wow.
Hinojosa [00:07:49] I mean, nobody told me. Nobody knew. We were sworn to secrecy. And so it was so cool. It was so cool to be able to do that. There’s a lot of controversy over James Talerico’s taco order, right? I know. So I’m curious what you think about this. My explanation of James’ taco order is that’s the right taco for central Texas. Yeah. In the valley That’s not the right taco order. You would get barbacoa. Barbaco for sure, hands down. In San Antonio you would add a big red.
Mando Rayo [00:08:24] Ándale, ándale.
Hinojosa [00:08:24] Right in El Paso, maybe you’d have something with Chile Colorado. I don’t know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Like I think that’s what outsiders from Texas don’t understand. Like as if we have one taco that symbolizes who we are as Texans. That symbolizes who we are as Texans.
Mando Rayo [00:08:38] Well, because outside of Texas, people think that the crunchy taco as the main taco, no, no, it’s not, right? But the cool thing about Texas is the tacos are so mixed and the variety is all there, and you have to know the place is important and the people, right. The New York Times and CNN reached out, and then they were like. Well, what do you think about this order, the taco order? And I’m like, I love it because that’s what people order here. Right, right. You know, potato, egg, and cheese? Yeah. That’s like, if you’re around this region and area, it’s what your grandma or your mom made for you. Because, you know, the papas make it last, right? Right, Right. And then you got the cheesiness and the bacon, the saltiness, and it’s like perfect. People wanted to make something out of it, but I don’t think it worked. So what’s your go-to taco then?
Hinojosa [00:09:27] Well, it depends. Where I am, right? It depends not only where I am, but what restaurant I’m at, right. And so this morning I had tortilla con avocado. That’s what I grew up on. That was what my grandmother used to always make me. Homey tortillas, flour tortillas. Now I eat corn tortillas with avocado, but that’s just to me, that’s like the homeiest taco. It just reminds me of Being a kid
Mando Rayo [00:09:58] Love it, love it. No, and sometimes it’s kind of like the simple things. Sometimes it’s just a warm tortilla with a little bit of salt and butter.
Hinojosa [00:10:05] Yeah, right. Oh, my grandmother used to make homemade flour tortillas with melted butter and sugar.
Mando Rayo [00:10:15] And sugar. Oh, it was like a quasi like Buñuel or something.
Hinojosa [00:10:19] Yeah, but it was soft, and my parents were very strict about sugar, but when I went, I’ll never forget, my grandmother used to always make it, and she was making me one, and my dad said, you can’t eat that. And his dad said she’s in my house, she’ll eat whatever.
Mando Rayo [00:10:39] Oh, she wants to eat? It’s because, you know, you’re cheaply with your grandparents, right?
Hinojosa [00:10:43] That’s right, that’s right. Your grandparents stand up for you.
Mando Rayo [00:10:46] Yeah. So it seems like your grandmother, your abuela was a big influence on you. What are some of those things that I think you still hold dear from her?
Hinojosa [00:10:56] Well, and I was lucky and very fortunate to have two grandmothers who were very influential in my life. My grandma Hinojosa was the one who always said, no te dejes. And I do think it was that lesson of always telling me know your worth and defend it that made me who I am really, and made me understand my responsibility to fight and my responsibility to stand up against what I think is wrong. But yeah, I spent my summers in Mission, Texas, where my grandparents lived. So my parents would be working and they’d send me for the summers to my grandparents. And I just loved hanging out with my cousins. We would play all day. All day, right? Yeah, play all-day outside. It’s a whole different vibe.
Mando Rayo [00:11:41] When you’re with your primos.
Hinojosa [00:11:42] That’s right. Absolutely.
Mando Rayo [00:11:44] But you don’t have to explain yourself, you’re just like, hey, of course we just.
Hinojosa [00:11:47] And of course, we’re just hanging out. Exactly. Yeah, it’s just like the good old days, right? Life was not complicated. There were no devices we were on. We were outside. We would, on weekends, watch cartoons in the morning and then we were freed and we would just roam outside and get into all sorts of natural.
Mando Rayo [00:12:09] Yeah, yeah, love it. So from that, you were like, okay, so now I have to, you know, you go to school, and then the trajectory to now, you have to have gone through, through many from a school board member, you know, to state rep. So what, what do you think influence you as a woman, as a Latina to go on that trajectory?
Hinojosa [00:12:33] My kids, it was being a mom. Okay. So I ran for the school board because my son’s school, my son Mateo, he was in kindergarten and his school, Pease Elementary was going to be shut down. And I had found this perfect school. I loved that school. I remember when I first visited it, I thought the school’s like Sesame Street. It was small, it downtown, it was very diverse sets of families, people from all sorts of families were part of that school and the teachers wanted to be there and I loved it. I found this perfect. When you first put your kid into school, you’re taking a leap of faith, right? It’s scary. And so then when it was threatened for closure, I just got mad and I ran for the school board. I won and we saved schools. There were a group of schools that were threatened for a closure at the time. We saved them. We didn’t shut down any schools. OK. When I was on the school board. Since then, peace has shut down, since I left the school boards.
Speaker 5 [00:13:36] Okay.
Hinojosa [00:13:37] Because, and this is happening all over the state. Yeah. When I ran for the school boards, because my own kids’ school was shutting down, now there are hundreds, over hundreds of schools in Texas being shut down. We have 150 school districts out four days a week because they can’t afford five days a weak. That’s how bad the budget situation is for our schools. And so that’s part of the inspiration for me that this is something that families rely on. It’s one of the most important things that government does in Texas. It is enshrined in our Texas constitution that we shall have public free schools and that the state provides them. And the state is failing in that job. Greg Abbott is the fault. And so I’m running against him because I know we can do better.
Mando Rayo [00:14:22] Yeah, we can always do better, obviously. So yeah, so looking at all the issues that we’re experiencing in the Lone Star State, from everything from affordability, gas prices, but also how communities of color, immigrants are being targeted. How do you wrap your head around all these issues and catapult yourself into the governance race?
Hinojosa [00:14:44] Yeah, so I’ve been in the Texas house now, and I’ve been watching and fighting in the trenches for a long time. And what I believe is the only fight in the state and in this country right now is, are we going to be a state by and for the people or is this the billionaire’s world and we just live in it? That is the fight. Public schools is what that fight is about, right? Because there are billionaire interests. One of them gave Greg Abbott. $12 million, the largest campaign contribution in Texas history, and he has a financial interest in vouchers, but they want to privatize our public schools. My platform, my agenda is the American Dream Agenda. The American Dream is what I grew up understanding, that if you put in the work, if you work hard, you can be anything you want to be. You can afford to own your own home. You can pay your bills. You can take a vacation. You can have kids. I can’t tell you. How many young people tell me now they don’t think they’ll ever be able to afford kids?
Speaker 5 [00:15:44] Mm-hmm.
Hinojosa [00:15:45] That you could afford to retire with dignity. Yeah. That was the American dream, the promise that I grew up understanding. And for many young people, it’s just not even, they can’t even afford to dream anymore. Right. We have to fight for that. Yeah, we do. That’s who we are. Right? That is who we is as a country that was defining for us and public schools are part of that. You can’t have… The American dream without strong public schools. They are the gateway. They are opportunity to the American Dream, right? So the American DREAM agenda that I am running on is to save Texas schools by wiping clean, corrupt vendor contracts that Greg Abbott sends our money to and use that money to pay our teachers to be amongst the highest paid in the nation. Also hold down utility costs by making corporations pay their fair share, including data centers, right. Data centers. Are here in droves. They are being built on our dime. They’re getting big tax breaks and they’re guzzling up water. They’re guZZling up electricity. To create a product, what, AI? To take all our jobs. Yeah, take everybody’s jobs. Right? I mean. Or maybe even a podcast. I don’t know. Right, right. No, they could never replace you, Mondo. But to hold down utility costs by making corporations pay their fair share. And then finally. Ensure every Texas child has quality healthcare. We have the most children of any state without health insurance. But we’re a world economic powerhouse. We built that power. Our kids should benefit from it and the minimum.
Mando Rayo [00:17:27] They should have access to quality healthcare. Yeah, quality healthcare, education, everything that in a sense like, yeah, growing up in Texas, growing in the United States, you’re like, hey, you can do this, right? But all of a sudden, you take away all those liberties and freedoms and resources, and people are still struggling, they can’t move up. That’s right.
Hinojosa [00:17:50] People are working one, two, three jobs and still can’t make it. What happened to the American dream? We have the most people in Texas who are disconnected from their electricity because they can’t afford to pay more than any other state. The most people without health insurance, the most children without health insurances, as I said, we’re the most bankruptcies of any state. Let me tell you that our small businesses are really struggling in Texas.
Mando Rayo [00:18:18] Oh, yeah, I know that because I talk to them like almost on a weekly basis, you know, from taqueros to small businesses, restaurant owners, and even their staff, you know, so they can feel that.
Hinojosa [00:18:30] Yes. And when I think about our small businesses, I think they embody our kind of bold Texas ambition that we are proud of, right? The state does nothing to help them out. All the tax breaks, all the help goes to the big global corporations and not our small business owners who are an economic engine in our communities and are slowly dying off. And we also have the first major American city to potentially run out of water in Corpus Christi.
Mando Rayo [00:18:59] Right. Yeah.
Hinojosa [00:19:00] Right? That’s Greg Abbott’s record. He owns it. That is, we pay more, we get less, because we’re all paying the Greg Abbot corruption tax. Our money is going to special interests. Our property taxes have gone up 75% under Greg Abbitt. Why are schools shutting down? Why is everything harder? And it’s because our money’s going into a system that is working against us.
Mando Rayo [00:19:24] Right, right. So what are some of your solutions to figure that out?
Hinojosa [00:19:29] Again, save Texas schools, wiping clean the corrupt vendor contracts and hold down our utility costs by making corporations, including data centers, pay their fair share. Corpus Christi water situation, same deal. They have enough water in Corpus for the people to live and to drink, but the industry guzzles more than all the people combined in Corpus Christi. There’s one. Saudi plastics plant that guzzles as much as all the people in Corpus Christi. That was built with our taxpayer dollars.
Mando Rayo [00:20:01] Yeah, that’s crazy. A lot of people, I think everyday people don’t know this, you know? So I think that’s where we have to dig in into some of these issues and understand the reality of what’s happening. And so, what would you say to an everyday voter, a person that’s thinking about voting, maybe even for the first time, what will get them to the table?
Hinojosa [00:20:24] I know you are tired, people are working hard, and to think about one more thing to do to vote is hard when you’re tired, but we can make it so you’re less tired. We can make so the system works for you, not against you. It shouldn’t be this way. We can it better. Yeah, yeah.
Mando Rayo [00:20:43] And you know, like being potentially first Latino governor of Texas, you know. What does that mean to you for representation?
Hinojosa [00:20:52] Right. So. Because I grew up in the Valley, I never saw myself as a minority growing up. Yeah, well, everybody’s brown. And even the people who weren’t Mexican-American adopted our culture. Sure, yeah. Right? And so, in some ways, I think that made me see Texas as, I’m just like everybody else, right? To me, it is natural and normal that there would be a Latina governor for Texas. We are a huge part of the population. And why not?
Mando Rayo [00:21:29] Right? Yeah, especially like when we think about, you know, households and the way our families are run or our households are run. I mean, you now, my name is Mando, but my wife, she’s Amanda.
Speaker 4 [00:21:43] I love it, that’s great.
Mando Rayo [00:21:46] A friend came up with that years ago, shout out to AD. I think that there’s a lot of power in that, and I think if we can mobilize and really think about the opportunity and provide people like, hey, this is what you can have here in the state of Texas. We don’t have to just get by. Right.
Hinojosa [00:22:09] That’s right. The American dream was always you put in the work and you can thrive, not just survive. That was the American, and especially in Texas. Back to this issue about your wife, Es la que manda. You know, some people have asked me, well, Latinos vote for a Latina, right? There is this perception that somehow Latinos won’t vote for Latina. And what you just said is my experience, too. In lots of ways, our community is matriarchal. Our grandmothers, our mothers, they ran the household, they were in charge, right? And so yeah, I think, I mean, look at the president in Mexico. We have a woman president in mexico, right. And so I don’t think it would be such an unusual drawing thing to see a woman as governor for Latinos.
Mando Rayo [00:23:03] Yeah, oh no, yeah, exactly. You know, I think there are definitely some things that we as a community need to kind of grapple with and that’s my chismo, you know? But at the same time, like, you now, it’s our job, it’s out role to lift up our communities, you know, whether it’s the Latinas, whether they’re our children, whether they are our neighbors, that’s what we can do, you know, and I think for me, like you know, I’ve been involved in a lot of like grassroots and non-profit organizing and taco organizing. But it takes like that conocimiento of who lives next to you. And so the idea of like, hey, if I know my neighbor, we can explore and have a relationship, talk about issues. And then we can kind of like all right, this, you know, we’re not so different. Right. Like everybody thinks about Texans. It’s also the very stereotypical. Like bravado, Texas, type of cowboy. But no, Texas is such a big mix of different people. It sure is. Yeah. So what are you seeing out in the campaign trail around that?
Hinojosa [00:24:10] Yes. Running for governor of Texas is like running for president. It is such a lot of territory to cover. The diversity is huge. And so it’s been fun. It’s been fun to travel this day. I’m always somewhere different. And meeting with people, it’s hard to cover all the territory. And it’s a good problem to have when people are like, When are you gonna come here? We’ll be there, we’ll get there, but yeah, it’s a beautiful state with beautiful people and that is our strength, right? That is our strengths as a state and it’s just been great to be immersed in all these different kinds of communities and cultures and to be accepted by them and to have them be part of this. Movement that we’re launching to win it over.
Mando Rayo [00:25:08] Nice, nice. And what are you hearing from folks? Is there a difference of what you hear from folks from a small town to a big city like Houston?
Hinojosa [00:25:20] I will say that when we are in the small towns, they’re so much more appreciative of the visit because they don’t get visits as much, right? But I generally hear the same concern and the same concerned is I work hard and it’s just harder to make it. Right? Greg Abbott has been in statewide office for 30 years since I graduated high school, my Lord. And I know
Mando Rayo [00:25:49] No, I look young, but I’m not sure.
Hinojosa [00:25:50] Yeah.
Mando Rayo [00:25:52] It’s all that manteca in the tortilla.
Hinojosa [00:25:57] It’s that humane, valiary group. But yeah, it’s harder to make it than when I was growing up. And I thought I had my whole future ahead of me. Now people, young people, they have fear about the future. They don’t have hope like when I growing up and it shouldn’t be that way. This should be, Texas should be the land of opportunity just like it was when I was growing up. But people aren’t feeling it in the same way.
Mando Rayo [00:26:33] So what gives you hope? What gives you a hope in the future for not only yourself and what you’re trying to do, but for the next generation, yeah.
Hinojosa [00:26:44] What I’m seeing that I haven’t seen before is that people are not waiting to be saved. They are taking matters into their own hands and they are doing all sorts of amazing things on their own. People have figured out that they have to make the change happen. We already see, there was somebody who came to me, I always tell this story because it just happened recently, but it was so cool. She brought me all these stickers that she had made that were QR codes of my Instagram page. And she was just plastering the city with them. And she said, look, people need to know who you are. And so they’re gonna go to this QR, they’re going to go to the QR code and go to your Instagram page and they’re to learn about you. She just did it. And I was like, that’s awesome, thank you. But it’s like that kind of energy and that kind, what can I do? People asking themselves, what I can do to make the change that we need. And I just love it. We had We launched this week, Team Texas Public Schools. It’s an organizing effort across the state. And it is to try to cut through the partisanship. In 2023, we beat vouchers. We beat voucher with rural Republicans defending public schools with us, right? And not just rural, some other Republicans too. We saw a moment where it was very difficult for us to understand what was going on. It wasn’t a partisan divide, but it was more about who we are as Texans. I think that is still here in this state. We had standing room only at our first organizing meeting in Plano, Texas, for Team Texas public schools. School just let out, people are tired, it’s hot, but they showed up in the middle of a weekday to be part of. The launch of Team Texas Public Schools to go through a training to learn how to do this, right? I mean, it’s just so cool that people are rolling up their sleeves and making change happen.
Mando Rayo [00:28:46] Love it, love it. So if you had like, you know, a message for somebody that was maybe on the fence, right? Yeah. Of like who they’re gonna vote for, what would you tell them?
Hinojosa [00:28:56] I’d tell them I never wanted to run for anything. I’m a mom, I got mad because my son’s school was shutting down, now schools all over the state are shutting down. I have a plan to save Texas schools, I have plan to hold down our electricity bills, our water bills, and I have to plan to ensure every Texas child has healthcare. And also, to rein in the health insurance companies for those of us with health insurance, they charge us more, they make it harder to see the doctors when you get the medication we need. We need to. Rein in all of these corporations that are taking advantage of us. I’m not anti-business. I’m anti-corporation. It is their job to make money. We need a governor who says, okay, that’s enough. There needs to be balance, and we don’t have that right now. And that’s why I’m running.
Mando Rayo [00:29:39] Okay, so on election day, what are you having for breakfast?
Hinojosa [00:29:43] I’m going to Polvos, and I’m gonna have huevo con opal, a plate of huevo with opal in there, homemade corn tortillas. It’s not on the menu, but they got it.
Mando Rayo [00:29:54] Oh, and you know, because you’re part of the community.
Hinojosa [00:29:58] That’s right. En café con canela. Oh, that sounds good. They have a good café con Canela.
Mando Rayo [00:30:02] Okay. Okay. Well, Gina, it’s been such a pleasure to have you with us here. Well, thank you. It’s been great. And especially in our little casita, you know. Beautiful home. It really is. And we’re going to see you probably up in the campaign trail.
Hinojosa [00:30:13] Yes, we’ll see you. Awesome. Thanks so much. See you. All right, thank you.
Mando Rayo [00:30:22] No te dejes, man. You know, I love connecting with Gina Nojosa. It was great to understand kind of her story and the inspiration, but also like her plan and her strategy of doing something better for every Texan right here in the Lone Star State. So I just want to say thank you so much to Gina for coming out and her staff for visiting our home right here in our little casita. And with that, you always have some kind of call to action. Pal la casa, this week, two things. Uno, call your grandma or your tía or whoever told you, no te dejes when you were little. Tell them that you remember. And numero dos. Register one person to vote this week. Somebody who isn’t already registered, maybe they just turned 18, maybe they moved here from another state, or they moved across town and didn’t realize their registration didn’t follow them. So go to votetexas.gov. That’s V-O-T-E-Texas.G-OV. So fill out the form, print it, do the things that you have to do, and get yourself registered so you can vote for this governor’s race. This has been the Tacos of Texas podcast developed and produced by Identity Productions. If you enjoyed today’s episode and are craving more taco content, go to our website at www.identity.productions, or follow us on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and YouTube at IdentityProductions and United Tacos Of America. This is your host, Mando, El Taco Journalist Rayo. Vamos a los tacos! In the next Proximo, Tacos of Texas, cooking with Veracruz All Naturals new cookbook. Join Chef Reyna Vazquez as we dig into her brand new Veggie Forward Cookbook.
Louisa Van Assche [00:32:25] The Tacos of Texas podcast is presented by Identity Productions in partnership with KUT and KUTX Studios. Our host and producer is Mando, our taco journalist, Rayo. Our audio is mixed by Nicholas Worden. Our video production is taken care of by Dennis Burnett. Our wonderful interns are Quetzal and Diego Rayo and our story and line producer is me, Luisa Min Van Asse. Music was created by Peligrosa in Austin, Texas. And King Benny Productions located in the Quinto Barrio of Houston.
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