Fil-Am Miss Texas pushing back against state’s right-wing officials

Averie Bishop has openly supported gun control, racial equality, voting rights, sex education in public schools, the right to abortion, affordable health care access, student debt forgiveness and other liberal causes.

Fil-Am Miss Texas, Averie Bishop, a lawyer and the first Asian American to win the crown, is bravely taking on the state’s conservative Republican public officials by using her platform to advocate for liberal causes, according to a Washington Post feature story by Molly Hennessy-Fiske.

Using her pageant win as platform on social media, Bishop, 26, has pushed back against book banning and the removal of diversity studies in state schools by Gov. Ron De Santis (R) and other right-wing officials’.

Bishop has openly supported gun control, racial equality, voting rights, sex education in public schools, the right to abortion, affordable health care access, student debt forgiveness and other liberal advocacies.

Born to a conservative white father, a bus driver, and a Filipina domestic worker who answered his newspaper ad for a wife, Bishop attended public schools and put herself through law school at Dallas’ conservative Southern Methodist University.

Averie Bishop with her mother, Marevi. TULONG FOUNDATION

She joined pageants for the scholarship prize money and has won “nearly $90,000, putting a dent in her student debt,” the Washington Post reported.

She has amassed more than 800,000 followers on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube and earned praises from civic leaders from Planned Parenthood and the chamber of commerce.

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In the next few years, Bishop hopes to run for a seat in the state legislature to mix it up with the state’s lawmakers.

“We are literally pushed to our wits’ end,” she said of young Texans. “We are equipped and ready and just waiting for the time for these individuals to be challenged,” she told the Washington Post.