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Josh Wallenstein is the Democratic nominee for State Representative in Texas House District 133. He is an anti-corruption lawyer who has spent his career negotiating complex deals, rooting out corruption, and finding solutions that help businesses succeed.

Josh Wallenstein is an anti-corruption attorney who has spent more than two decades fighting fraud, waste, and misconduct and holding powerful interests accountable. He also runs his own Houston-based law firm, giving him firsthand experience with the challenges facing small businesses and working families.

Raised by a single mother, Josh credits Texas public schools with opening doors that eventually led him to Stanford Law School and a successful legal career. That experience has made him a strong advocate for fully funded public schools, strong teachers, and ensuring every Texas child has the same opportunity to succeed.

Josh has served on the HISD Capital Planning Steering Committee, helping guide investments in local schools. He has also participated in Leadership Houston, the Center for Houston’s Future, and the West Houston Democrats.

Josh Wallenstein is an anti-corruption attorney who has spent more than two decades fighting fraud, waste, and misconduct and holding powerful interests accountable. He also runs his own Houston-based law firm, giving him firsthand experience with the challenges facing small businesses and working families.

Raised by a single mother, Josh credits Texas public schools with opening doors that eventually led him to Stanford Law School and a successful legal career. That experience has made him a strong advocate for fully funded public schools, strong teachers, and ensuring every Texas child has the same opportunity to succeed.

Josh and his wife, a marriage and family therapist, are raising their child in Houston. As a father and someone who credits Texas public schools with changing the course of his life, Josh is deeply committed to strong neighborhood schools, safe communities, and making sure every child has the opportunity to succeed.

Josh has spent more than two decades as an anti-corruption lawyer, investigating fraud and misconduct and working to hold powerful interests accountable. He is running for State Representative because he wants to bring that same focus on accountability to state government and advocate for strong public schools, lower costs, and a government that serves the people of HD133 rather than special interests.

HD133 is located in west Harris County. It includes parts of Houston along with the communities of Bunker Hill Village, Hedwig Village, Hunters Creek Village, and Piney Point Village. The district sits at the heart of the Energy Corridor.

Notable features of the district include the Buffalo Bayou & Terry Hershey Park trail system, the Energy Corridor and its major employment centers, CityCentre and Town & Country Village, the Memorial City District (Mall & Medical Center), HISD and Spring Branch ISD schools, and the I-10/Katy Freeway and Westheimer corridors.

HD133 is defined by a mix of economic strength, established neighborhoods, and critical infrastructure, with residents who value strong schools, safe communities, and a business climate that supports both major employers and small businesses.

Josh has spent more than two decades as an anti-corruption attorney investigating fraud, waste, and misconduct and holding powerful interests accountable. He believes too many of the problems facing Texas families come back to the same issue: a government that works for special interests instead of the people it serves. In Austin, Josh will fight for transparency, accountability, and policies that lower costs and make government work better for working families.

As both an anti-corruption attorney and a small business owner, Josh knows that businesses succeed when the rules are fair, government is efficient, and powerful interests are not allowed to rig the system. He supports cutting unnecessary red tape, rooting out waste and corruption, and making it easier for small businesses to compete, grow, and create good jobs.

Josh supports protecting good-paying energy jobs while making sure Texas families have reliable and affordable power. He believes energy policy should put reliability, competition, and consumers ahead of politically connected interests, with greater accountability for companies and decision-makers when Texans are left paying more for an unreliable grid.

Josh believes it is unacceptable that families in HD133 can live near some of the best hospitals in the world and still struggle to afford basic healthcare. As an anti-corruption attorney, he believes Texans deserve a healthcare system where decisions are driven by what is best for patients and families, not by the influence of powerful special interests in Austin.

Josh believes Texas’s high uninsured rate reflects years of state leaders failing to pursue practical solutions that would expand access and lower costs. When families cannot afford coverage, the consequences ripple through the entire healthcare system, increasing financial pressure on families, hospitals, and communities.

Josh supports expanding access to affordable healthcare, lowering insurance and prescription drug costs, and making sure more Texans can get preventive and primary care before a medical problem becomes a financial crisis. He will also bring an anti-corruption mindset to healthcare policy by challenging the special interests that benefit when Texans pay more and get less.

Josh has said, “Public schools saved my life. Every child deserves the same shot I had.” Raised by a single mother, Josh credits Texas public schools with opening doors that eventually led him to Stanford Law School and a successful legal career. Protecting and strengthening public education is personal to him because he believes every child deserves the same opportunity to succeed.

Josh rejects the idea that Texans have to choose between strong public schools and affordability. He supports properly funding neighborhood schools, paying and retaining great teachers, and making sure education dollars reach classrooms instead of being diverted by waste, political deals, or special interests.

Josh believes Texas has failed its public schools by allowing political agendas and special interests to take priority over students, teachers, and taxpayers. He will fight to protect public education funding, increase accountability for how education dollars are spent, and make sure public money strengthens public schools and opportunities for Texas children.

Josh believes families are paying the price for a lack of accountability in Austin. Housing, property taxes, insurance, healthcare, and everyday expenses keep rising while powerful special interests continue to shape policy in their own favor. As an anti-corruption attorney, Josh wants to follow the money, challenge waste and special-interest influence, and focus state government on lowering costs for working families.

As a homeowner, father, and small business owner, Josh understands how rising costs can squeeze family budgets and make it harder for people to stay in the communities they call home. He believes the state government should focus on creating stability for families rather than policies that make housing more expensive or reward well-connected interests.

Josh supports policies that reduce the pressure of rising property taxes and housing costs while increasing accountability in state government. He believes Texans deserve to know where their money is going, who benefits from state policy, and whether government decisions are actually making life more affordable.

Josh believes reliable infrastructure is one of the most basic responsibilities of government. Families should not have to worry about flooded streets, failing drainage, deteriorating roads, or an unreliable power grid while billions of taxpayer dollars are being spent elsewhere.

Josh believes Texas should have infrastructure that reflects the strength of its economy. That means reliable electricity, effective flood control and drainage, well-maintained roads, and greater accountability for how infrastructure dollars are spent.

Josh supports investments in flood control, drainage, grid reliability, and resilient infrastructure. Just as importantly, his background as an anti-corruption attorney shapes how he approaches those investments: taxpayer dollars should be spent transparently, efficiently, and on projects that actually protect communities.

Josh believes strong communities are built on strong public schools, safe neighborhoods, reliable infrastructure, affordable healthcare, and an economy that gives families a real opportunity to get ahead. His approach is grounded in the same principle that has guided his legal career: hold powerful interests accountable and make institutions work for the people they are supposed to serve.

Josh believes Austin has become too focused on political fights and special interests while families are worried about schools, healthcare, property taxes, insurance costs, flooding, and the power grid. He is running to bring an anti-corruption lawyer’s focus on accountability to the Legislature and concentrate on the everyday issues that determine whether families can afford to live, work, and raise their children in HD133.

Supporters can volunteer with the campaign in a number of ways, including phone banking, block walking, data entry, event support, social media, policy research, fundraising, content creation, transportation, and hosting house parties. Interested volunteers can sign up through the campaign’s volunteer form linked on the Get Involved page of josh4texas.com.

Organizations, clubs, or community groups can connect with the campaign as coalition partners to help build broad support across the district. A coalition sign-up form is available on the Get Involved page of josh4texas.com.

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