At the Fort Bend County Democratic Party’s March monthly meeting, eleven precinct chairs introduced a resolution denouncing Sonya Jones’s conduct and her candidacy.
Jones, the Fort Bend County Clerk candidate faces Maria T. Jackson, a longtime Harris County state court judge, in the May runoff. The winner will go on to face Republican Tamara McFarland in the November general election.
Discussion was held during the Monday meeting where no attendee was in counter argument to the resolution. Precinct chairs introduced the resolution and handed out documentation detailing Sonya Jones social media posts.
The resolution claims Jones’s transition to the Democratic Party appears purely opportunistic, that she has used race-baiting tactics on social media, that she has justified right-wing Republican stances, and that Jones has never voted in a Democratic primary but has voted three times in Republican primaries.
The resolution was not official Fort Bend County Democratic Party CEC business and per Chairwoman Jennifer Cantu the resolution was not an item of business but rather a matter taken up to facilitate discussion.
Read the resolution in its entirety here:
Resolution condemning the conduct of candidate Sonya Jones
Disclaimer: This resolution does not represent the views or opinions of the County Executive Committee of the Fort Bend County Democratic Party
WHEREAS, the Texas Democratic Party 2024 Platform is rooted in the progressive values of inclusion, equity, and the protection of public education,” specifically opposing the diversion of public funds to private school vouchers and advocating for the safety and dignity of LGBTQ+ students [TDP 2024 Platform pages 13,45]; and
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones, while serving as a Republican-endorsed Trustee for the Fort Bend Independent School District (FBISD), she was openly endorsed by MAGA groups like Moms For Liberty, not only supported right-wing policy initiatives but never publicly opposed them including private school vouchers, the limitation of rights for LGBTQ+ students, and the placement of untrained chaplains as counselors for school children, advocated for the implementation of “Bluebonnet Curriculum” and other religious extremist educational influences, and supported the removal of books deemed helpful and diverse by professional librarians, thereby undermining the intellectual freedom of Texas students and
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones resigned from the FBISD Board of Trustees only after the election of a progressive majority in May 2025; and
WHEREAS, According to publicly available voting records Sonya Jones has never voted in a Fort Bend Democratic primary and has voted at least 3 times in the Republican Primaries; and,
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones has publicly justified her right-wing Republican stances through the use of scripture in a social media post in August of 2024 where she alleges that the Democratic Party left liberal values are akin to supporting a fool; and
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones has publicly disparaged the 2024 Democratic Nominee for President, Kamala Harris, using the derogatory and racially-coded term “DEI” to describe the Vice President’s qualifications and competence in a September 2024 social media post; and
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones has utilized race-baiting tactics so that she can play the victim card in her offensive post against the County Party Chair and Precinct Chairs in a March 2026 post by falsely alleging a precinct chair called her a derogatory name and that the party chair failed to respond, in a clear attempt to sow division and racial tension in the Party and showing she lacks the temperament and honesty we need in our leaders; and
WHEREAS, Sonya Jones’s transition to the Democratic Party appears purely opportunistic, occurring only after she was allegedly rejected by Republican circles and now we feel planted by those same circles raising serious questions about the sincerity of her political shift; and
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the following Fort Bend Democratic Party Precinct Chairs condemn the actions and rhetoric of Sonya Jones as being wholly inconsistent with the values and priorities expressed 2024 Platform of the Texas Democratic Party.