Astoria, Queens, has been my beloved home for 20 years. I'm running to be District Leader to revitalize local Democratic club organizing and mobilize local Dems to help Democratic candidates win in flippable, swing districts near us. In our neighborhoods, the deciding elections are the Democratic primaries in June, so we have months of organizing we can do to help beat Republicans come November.

 

After the 2024 election, many neighbors shared that they were devastated and didn't know how to fight the Trump administration.

I want to organize to empower these neighbors to help Democrats in tight races that will make an impact, like defeating Republican Mike Lawler in New York's 17th Congressional District, just north of New York City.

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In 2024, I volunteered my time to organize hundreds of volunteers to go to Pennylvania to canvass Spanish-speaking voters to get out the vote to stop Donald Trump and his hateful agenda. I saw a need that the Harris campaign was not meeting, so I made calls, sent emails, and kept pushing until I figured out a way to get access to buses, I relentlessly recruited volunteers (later with the help of Team AOC), and I worked with the Harris campaign's field staff in cities like Redding and Hazelton to bring them volunteers that they desperately needed.

The longer distance meant that I had to train people and assign lists of voters on the bus so we could hit the ground running when we arrived.

By the final weekend before the election, we had three buses filled with volunteers. Even though we lost the election, the sense of camaraderie and empowerment that filled those buses made the effort well worth it. 

 

We can cultivate that same energy and community in our neighborhood Democratic club. Democratic clubs are places where people can come together to learn, to organize, to activate, and to be part of creating a community of shared political values. Unfortunately our local ones have slowly declined, which is a loss to our community.  We may not all perfectly agree on our ideologies or positions on the spectrum of the Democratic party, but we all still agree that we must fight the Republican agenda.  Let's reunite as a community and organize together to help Democratic candidates win where we can!