Keith's Midterm Cheat Sheet

Johnny Garcia is the Bexar County sheriff, in office since age 21. He began his career in the county jail leading a second-chance rehabilitation program, joined the SWAT Crisis Negotiation Team handling high-pressure situations, and helped make the sheriff's office one of the nation's most transparent law-enforcement agencies.

Sam Forstag is a union leader and smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into remote country to stop fires before they spread. As an organizer and advocate at the state legislature he fought for libraries, healthcare, and constitutional freedoms, and as a union vice president he stood up to Elon Musk's attempt to gut public-land agencies.

Rebecca Bennett is a former U.S. Navy helicopter pilot and National Guard air officer who graduated flight school at the top of her class — the only helicopter pilot to attend Navy Test Pilot School. After earning her MBA she chose a career in healthcare, driven by a desire to help patients.

Joanna Mendoza is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and Navy veteran who deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. She went on to earn a master's in leadership and serve as a nonprofit leader, policy expert, and congressional staffer fighting for common-sense solutions.