🧵*sigh* Alright folks, it is time to have an honest conversation about South Texas:

I’m going to say something very unpopular. Henry Cuellar and Vicente González were always going to win.
The reason there was such a frenzy to protect their seats is because they’re lazy. 1/10 Henry and Vicente have never done town halls or any public facing events for their constituents. They also got regularly outraised by Michelle Vallejo, who got the short end of the stick because of these deadweights. 2/10

[🧵] I got into politics because I was a child whose single parent home fell through the cracks of the AG’s office.
For most of my life, I’ve been the only political one.
Working class families live to survive so it’s not uncommon for people to never register to vote 1/7 My mom cast her very 1st ballot in 2016 but she started paying closer attention to politics in 2018 when I worked on my first statewide campaigns. Even so, she doesn’t really get what I do for a living or what I do as an activist. 2/7

THREAD
TW: Domestic violence, gun violence

When I was 10, my mom remarried and relocated our family to Eagle Pass. When we moved, we discovered her husband was an abusive alcoholic.
He is also in the Border Patrol. 1/ For over a decade, my family lived under the silent terror of his abuse. He was physically, psychologically, and emotionally abusive to my mother and me when I tried to stand in his way to keep him from hitting her. 2/