Lone Star Left Endorses Dr. Letitia Plummer For Harris County Judge
The kind of leadership this moment actually requires.
What kind of leader actually survives governing Texas after 2026?
In Texas, urban counties are treated less like partners in government and more like obstacles to be contained. That’s the political conditions of leadership for the largest blue county in Texas. Republican state leadership has made it that way. They’ve spent years chipping away at local control, with Harris County being their top target.
The instinct of moderate Democrats, for years, has been to calm things down. Build relationships. De-escalate. Negotiate in good faith and expect the same in return. That approach only works when everyone involved is trying to preserve the same system. But we all know at this point the other side has gone completely off the rails.
So this election isn’t about personality, likability, or who has the smoother style of leadership. It’s about response to power.
Houston has recently seen what happens when they elect a radical centrist (Whitmire), who spends all his time playing nice with the very people tearing down this state. But as we’ve all seen, playing that game only works when both sides are trying to preserve institutional stability. But the modern-day Republican Party has moved far beyond that.
Harris County needs a bold progressive who is going to respond appropriately to the GOP’s funding threats, their preemption laws, administrative overrides, and manufactured controversies designed to force submission.
And Letitia Plummer is the only progressive running for Harris County Judge.
That’s why Lone Star Left is endorsing Dr. Letitia Plummer for Harris County Judge.
Dr. Letitia Plummer’s pattern is consistent.
Plummer is someone who grew up inside public schools and stayed rooted in the same community experiences the system from the other direction. You see how policies land on actual families long before you ever see how they’re drafted. That changes what counts as a “minor” disruption and what counts as a serious one. And you can see that in the way Plummer operated as a former Houston City Council Member.
She is also a dentist and came from a healthcare background. Medicine trains you to prevent crises because once the emergency arrives, options shrink and costs explode. The instinct becomes identifying risk early, not managing fallout later. Applied to public policy, that means investing in infrastructure, health access, and environmental safeguards before they turn into disasters, the county has to spend ten times as much fixing them.
And then there’s Plummer’s family legacy around civil rights work and desegregation. Her grandfather made history as the first African-American judge in Texas and courageously desegregated the Harris County cafeteria system.
That’s why she governs differently.
Her priorities include expanding public health capacity, investing in flood control, supporting small businesses, and strengthening environmental standards. She governs upstream.
Why Harris County can’t embrace the “old guard” establishment.
Plummer represents progress and the future. Her opponent represents the “old guard.”
One model of governing prioritizes relationships. Keep channels open, lower the temperature, make deals where possible, and you can try to maintain stability, as long as the broader system is interested in staying stable. When institutions are behaving normally, that approach works. But it doesn’t take into account that the modern-day Republican Party is now a full-blown fascist organization.
The other model starts from a different premise. What if stability isn’t the shared goal anymore? What if the GOP pressure is deliberate and ongoing? Then the job changes. You spend less time smoothing conflict and more time making sure the county can withstand it. Not escalation for its own sake, but readiness for an environment where escalation is built in.
That’s the real contrast in this race. Experience navigating yesterday’s politics is not the same as preparing for tomorrow’s pressure.
You can also look at who has already endorsed in this race.
It’s worth noting that the Houston Progressive Caucus has endorsed Dr. Letitia Plummer.
Harris County is one of the largest economic engines in the state.
It’s also become a political proving ground. State preemption fights don’t land here by accident. Policies get tested here first because success or failure sends a signal to every other urban county watching. If authority can be narrowed here, it can be narrowed anywhere.
The county judge is a shield, someone responsible for maintaining the county’s ability to function when outside pressure is part of the environment.
And that brings us back to, what kind of leadership actually survives governing Texas after 2026?
Dr. Letitia Plummer understands how power actually operates right now. Her record shows a willingness to confront pressure rather than quietly work around it and hope it goes away. Her priorities consistently lean toward long-term planning rather than short-term calm. Her approach to policy focuses upstream, preventing damage instead of managing the aftermath. And her work in the community centers on building local capacity so fewer decisions depend on outside approval in the first place.
Harris County doesn’t get to choose the political climate in which it operates. That decision gets made elsewhere, and they live with the consequences. In calm times, you elect administrators. In volatile times, you elect defenders. This is a volatile time.
That’s why Lone Star Left is endorsing Dr. Letitia Plummer for Harris County Judge.
You can learn more about Letitia Plummer on his website and Facebook.
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There is a reason why they keep making it difficult to vote in Harris County. Especially when they disbanded the county election office. They know Harris County can make or break the state political elections. Its just a little disappointing that it had to take this extent for people to take Texas more seriously in general.
(I saw the other one, but am saving it for the morning. PS-- I'm stoked! That's who I had decided on!)