Fighting for Texas.
Delivering for El Paso.

On July 27, Vince hosted the El Paso People's Hearing — the second stop in the Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus's 2026 series, and the first held on the border. Unlike the invitation-only interim hearings in Austin, the People's Hearings are open to the public, held in the evening, in the community. Any Texan can show up and be heard.

El Pasoans testified on immigration detention — the existing facility at Camp East Montana and the one proposed for Socorro — and on public education funding. That testimony goes to Austin when the Legislature convenes in January 2027.

"We are not waiting for an invitation to the Capitol. We are putting El Paso's testimony on the record here, at home, and carrying it to Austin ourselves."

After TCEQ granted a contested-case hearing on the renewal of Marathon's El Paso refinery air permit — the first such hearing in nearly a century — Vince joined KTSM 9 to explain why he pushed to contest it, and what the refinery's emissions mean for air quality near Ascarate Park and the surrounding neighborhoods.