Wow reminds me of the democrats we have in NYC. We have Congressman Adriano Espaillat who represents NY-13 which is D+32. It is one of the most bluest districts in the entire city yet he took a lot of stances connected to AIPAC until he decided to abandon the train to endorse Zohran Mamdani. DSA is preparing to run a candidate against NY-13 and tbh we might as well because we cannot take the risk of a shady politician taking advantage of our movement for his political career. Espaillat is not a ally towards progressive values and there is a chance he can just turn if we do fall out. DSA is not an organization that tries to run shady candidates. Our candidates run with the trust with the membership and its a valued resource. We dont run candidates in congress unless the full membership feels they can trust our candidates and they remain committed to helping better folks lives.
our endorsement i cannot go in detail but its basically a democratic process with the full membership voting on it. Not some type of exclusive club with representatives or donors.
I was thinking it would be a book for those that don’t follow Michelle. Those that need to learn quick. Like I did in 2016; when I told myself that I better learn how civics works and how I can help make a change that I want to see in my little world. Those that are on my ballot.
Thank you, Michelle! This was a great article & I love that you illustrated with 2 candidates that I know pretty well as I've been represented by them both. You are RIGHT-- that's exactly what we do, grrrrrrr. The time for that nonsense is PAST! Already shared on Bsky!
Thank you for the deets on this district. Do you think Hafeez has a chance given the other two have strong name recognition and probably plenty of money?
My poor city was ground zero for mid decade gerrymandering and just like our sister city in Arlington, we lost our democratic rep, Marc Veasy. And we lost all our precincts. Tarrant lost all, no democratic rep for you, said Abbott. He sold our sister Arlington to Trump. Then in Irving, we all lost, except 8 precincts, only 1 was in CD 6, of course our big giant blue precinct in Las Colinas. It plus the 7 others are heavy AAPI precincts, both Hindi and Muslim. Those precincts have grown a lot since Julie Johnson was our rep before 2021 redistricting. So they don’t really remember her. They know Cassandra and Marc. But they also know Colin because of the senate race. But these 8 precisions are packed and will vote. They do their research. And they are not happy at all about what is happening to children in Gaza. There are a lot of doctors and medical professionals in those precincts plus the largest Mosque in North Texas. And Zeeshan actually lives in our community, and has been endorsed by our Rep. Terry Meza. She is also well known in Grand Prairie which took on more of CD 33 (again, taking more Dem precincts from CD 6) but Terry had those precincts prior to 2021, when Julie had more of Irving. Those precincts are very heavy Latina. So Terry’s endorsement goes a lot further than all these DC Dems endorsing Julie (god, girl, why did you not call me! You have my cell phone I could have told you how much we all hate DC dems right now! I swear I do not want another damn text message or email or anything asking for my hard earned money when you have done nothing for us!) And Cass doesn’t have the same relationship with our Muslim community that Terry does, so my bets are they vote for Zeeshan. Without the Irving precincts to boost votes for Julie, Colin probably runs away with it. These rest of Irving is now in CD 6 with a person who doesn’t even care about his rural voters anymore. So our best hope for their representation is electing our own Tony Grimes to Dallas County Clerk.
Wow reminds me of the democrats we have in NYC. We have Congressman Adriano Espaillat who represents NY-13 which is D+32. It is one of the most bluest districts in the entire city yet he took a lot of stances connected to AIPAC until he decided to abandon the train to endorse Zohran Mamdani. DSA is preparing to run a candidate against NY-13 and tbh we might as well because we cannot take the risk of a shady politician taking advantage of our movement for his political career. Espaillat is not a ally towards progressive values and there is a chance he can just turn if we do fall out. DSA is not an organization that tries to run shady candidates. Our candidates run with the trust with the membership and its a valued resource. We dont run candidates in congress unless the full membership feels they can trust our candidates and they remain committed to helping better folks lives.
I’m going shine as much light on them as I can from now until the March 3 primary. Maybe we’ll get some more progressives in office in 2026. 🤞🏻
our endorsement i cannot go in detail but its basically a democratic process with the full membership voting on it. Not some type of exclusive club with representatives or donors.
Michelle-You are so knowledgable. Please write the book: "Texas Politics for Marginal Dummies."
Added to my to-do list 😁
Not that I'm implying your readers are "marginal dummies..." I'm sure we can come up with a better title!
Haha, obviously 🤣
I was thinking it would be a book for those that don’t follow Michelle. Those that need to learn quick. Like I did in 2016; when I told myself that I better learn how civics works and how I can help make a change that I want to see in my little world. Those that are on my ballot.
You are so right, Eva!
Thank you, Michelle! This was a great article & I love that you illustrated with 2 candidates that I know pretty well as I've been represented by them both. You are RIGHT-- that's exactly what we do, grrrrrrr. The time for that nonsense is PAST! Already shared on Bsky!
Praying that CD33 learns as much as they can about their candidates to choose the best for CD33, Get Out To Vote and get others out to vote. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I have 5 voting family members in that district, hopefully they’ll take my suggestions. 🤣
Thank you for the deets on this district. Do you think Hafeez has a chance given the other two have strong name recognition and probably plenty of money?
I think he does. He’s getting a lot of attention (besides me) and pulling in some big endorsements. Terry Meza was just one, off the top of my head.
My poor city was ground zero for mid decade gerrymandering and just like our sister city in Arlington, we lost our democratic rep, Marc Veasy. And we lost all our precincts. Tarrant lost all, no democratic rep for you, said Abbott. He sold our sister Arlington to Trump. Then in Irving, we all lost, except 8 precincts, only 1 was in CD 6, of course our big giant blue precinct in Las Colinas. It plus the 7 others are heavy AAPI precincts, both Hindi and Muslim. Those precincts have grown a lot since Julie Johnson was our rep before 2021 redistricting. So they don’t really remember her. They know Cassandra and Marc. But they also know Colin because of the senate race. But these 8 precisions are packed and will vote. They do their research. And they are not happy at all about what is happening to children in Gaza. There are a lot of doctors and medical professionals in those precincts plus the largest Mosque in North Texas. And Zeeshan actually lives in our community, and has been endorsed by our Rep. Terry Meza. She is also well known in Grand Prairie which took on more of CD 33 (again, taking more Dem precincts from CD 6) but Terry had those precincts prior to 2021, when Julie had more of Irving. Those precincts are very heavy Latina. So Terry’s endorsement goes a lot further than all these DC Dems endorsing Julie (god, girl, why did you not call me! You have my cell phone I could have told you how much we all hate DC dems right now! I swear I do not want another damn text message or email or anything asking for my hard earned money when you have done nothing for us!) And Cass doesn’t have the same relationship with our Muslim community that Terry does, so my bets are they vote for Zeeshan. Without the Irving precincts to boost votes for Julie, Colin probably runs away with it. These rest of Irving is now in CD 6 with a person who doesn’t even care about his rural voters anymore. So our best hope for their representation is electing our own Tony Grimes to Dallas County Clerk.
Thanks for the run-down.