John, it's official: we're less than one month away from the TX-28 Runoff Election.
For far too long, Henry Cuellar has put special interests before his own constituents. Before I ran for Congress the first time, Cuellar sided with Donald Trump on nearly 70% of his votes. His campaign was, and still is, bankrolled by the private prison industry and corporate PACs.
We're going to win if we can build on the momentum from the primary. That's why the Sunrise Movement is recruiting, training, and sending dozens of volunteers to GOTV for Jessica in South Texas in the final weeks of this runoff election — but we need your help to do it.
Will you help support these grassroots volunteers with a donation of $10 or any amount to cover the costs of their food, housing, and transportation so they can hit every door we need in this district? We're hoping to raise $10,000 to bring as many volunteers as possible to TX-28:
This campaign is about much more than defeating Cuellar. It's about sending representation to Congress that will fight tooth and nail for working people, for immigrant communities, for all of my neighbors in South Texas who have been ignored, neglected, and disenfranchised.
Texas's 28th District is what some people call a "blue seat." But our representative, Henry Cuellar, hasn't acted like a Democrat in Congress. Instead, he's catering to his corporate donors, the NRA, Big Oil, private prison companies, and big banks.
I'm running because we need a representative who'll fight for a path to citizenship, Medicare for All, and a Green New Deal that creates good-paying union jobs.
I'm running because we need to get big money out of politics and stop letting corporate donors stack the deck in D.C.
I'm running because this moment, in the wake of a devastating pandemic, requires Democrats in Congress who will actually get things done, not stand in the way.
Despite everything stacked against us, we defied expectations by barely losing our primary in 2020. But it was just the beginning.
Together, this time, we are going to prove that a big grassroots movement can take on the machine and win. But, I can't do it without you, so please help us out in the final stretch.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you to everyone who supported us last time (like all of you at Sunrise!) and is stepping up to support us as we get closer to the runoff.
In solidarity,
Jessica Cisneros