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Dione Sims received a bachelor's degree in business administration from Texas Wesleyan University.

Dione founded Unity Unlimited over 25 years ago, an organization that provides people with educational activities and resources.

Dione Sims's campaign for U.S. House Texas District 25 is her first entry into politics.

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Dione's campaign for U.S. House Texas District 25 is her first entry into politics.

Supports raising wages, protecting labor organizing, and addressing wage theft.

Plans to reduce "everyday costs" by addressing corporate price gouging, expanding affordable housing, and lowering health care and prescription drug costs.

- Supports raising wages.
- Plans to reduce "everyday costs" by addressing corporate price gouging, expanding affordable housing, and lowering health care and prescription drug costs.
- Aims to protect labor organizing.
- Wants to address wage theft.

Economy

Believes in allowing workers to report unsafe conditions "without fear."

- Believes in allowing workers to report unsafe conditions "without fear."

Public Safety

Supports making healthcare affordable and accessible by strengthening the Affordable Care Act (ACA), expanding Medicaid, and protecting coverage for preexisting conditions.

Supports making healthcare affordable and accessible by "strengthening" the Affordable Care Act, expanding Medicaid, and protecting coverage for preexisting conditions.

- Supports making healthcare affordable and accessible by "strengthening" the Affordable Care Act, expanding Medicaid, and protecting coverage for preexisting conditions.

Healthcare

Supports fully funding public schools, enforcing special education protections, and allowing teachers to teach "accurate history without fear."

Believes in "fully funding" public schools.

Aims to enforce "special education protections."

Supports allowing teachers to teach "accurate history without fear."

Believes education "can't run away from technology."

- Believes in "fully funding" public schools.
- Aims to enforce "special education protections."
- Supports allowing teachers to teach "accurate history without fear."
- Believes education "can't run away from technology."

Education

As of January 22, 2026, Dione Sims’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Energy & the Environment

Opposes the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allows for unlimited political spending by corporations and unions.

Supports term limits for Congress members.

- Opposes the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling, which allows for unlimited political spending by corporations and unions.
- Wants term limits for Congress members.

Voting & Elections

Supports a roadmap to citizenship for immigrants, including "Dreamers" and Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders.

Supports a roadmap to citizenship for immigrants, including "Dreamers" and Temporary Protected Status holders.

Said, "I will vote to prohibit foreign influence; there must be strict prohibition on all foreign gifts."

Promises to vote for a strict prohibition on all foreign gifts.

Aims to reform work visa programs to "prevent exploitation."

- Supports a roadmap to citizenship for immigrants, including "Dreamers" and Temporary Protected Status holders.
- Promises to vote for a strict prohibition on all foreign gifts.
- Wants "humane" asylum processing.
- Aims to reform work visa programs to "prevent exploitation."

Foreign Policy and Immigration

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Dione Sims

Supports raising wages, protecting union organizing, and addressing wage theft.

Supports transparency, strong ethics, and anti-corruption laws in government.

Opposes policies that reduce healthcare benefits or increase costs.

Supports equal protection and free speech.

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