During her campaign, Johnson spoke on topics important to her and her platform, including youth activism, women’s healthcare, LGBTQ rights, energy infrastructure and gun safety.

Johnson argues young people play a key role in pushing for change and stresses how important youth activism is for students who assume they can’t make an impact if they are below the legal voting age.

“There are a lot of people who are busy working multiple jobs and feel like their vote doesn’t matter,” Johnson said. “It’s [a younger] generation, who does not yet have the ability to vote that can remind somebody of the significant voice they have available to them, simply because they’re 18. What I always tell people is find out where you can be in this fight. If you can vote, vote. If you can’t vote, participate in the ways that you can.”

As an LGBTQ representative who’s been married to her wife, artist Sonya Cuellar, for seven years, Johnson advocates for the queer community’s rights when speaking about issues concerning trans athletes, trans restroom controversy, and others. Meeting with both her Republican and Democrat coworkers once or twice a week for dinner, Johnson uses the gatherings as an opportunity to oppose the anti-LGBTQ bills that damage the community, including the 21 introduced in 2021–now dead, by illustrating how they affect her. 

“I talk about my wife; it’s just a normal exposure for them about what my life, my world and my reality are,” Johnson said. “And maybe it softens their hearts a little bit to know that when they vote on these bills that are attacking our community, they’re really also personally attacking me.”

Johnson believes that finding common ground beyond political values is the key to effective change in government. She wants to ‘get beyond partisanship’ to find solutions that don’t center around political preference.

“If somebody’s a victim of a crime, rarely does somebody get asked ‘are you a Democrat or Republican,” Johnson said. “We want people to be safe, we want kids to be safe, regardless of what your partisan affiliation is. What if we focused on solving that problem?” 

The issue Johnson called ‘the most devastating piece of legislation passed in Texas’ is the Trigger Law passed on Aug. 25 that makes abortion in Texas a felony. Johnson believes that there is nuance to the issue.

“You never know what situation somebody is in. You never know what it would be like for them to have to give birth to a child,” Johnson said. “I trust Texas Women to make their decisions about their own health care. The civil bounty hunter bill, the trigger bans, those are complete removals of a woman’s moral compass around her own body and to me that is absolutely wrong.”

The representative also worries about the new Open Carry law regarding the 38 school shootings in 2022 so far — including the Robb Elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. 

“Anybody can walk around with a gun on their hip into any business and to me that is a significant concern for public safety — especially for kids, because guns are now the number one killer of kids,” Johnson said. “We didn’t address the issue; in fact, we made it worse. That’s devastating to me.”

Along with social issues, Johnson also wants to improve key infrastructure like the Texas energy grid, which – in the winter storm of Feb. 2021– allowed around 700 people to die due to various causes like hypothermia and carbon monoxide poisoning.

“Nobody should have died,” Johnson said. “We could have done things differently. And the people who are in leadership and the governor made different choices.”

In light of her former position as Chief Human Trafficking prosecutor of Harris County, Johnson makes sure to keep in mind her love of “advocating for people who can’t advocate for themselves’.

“I was representing kids in juvenile court who had mental health issues, and the state of Texas drastically cut our budget for kids with mental health, and that’s a population that needs our help the most,” Johnson said. “My commitment to running for office is I love advocating for those who can’t advocate for themselves.That’s what I love about this job. It gives me a chance to fight for the people that I know need to be fought for the most.”