just testified at Austin City Council for the first time in quite a while in favor of our city leading in protecting our trans community, access to necessary healthcare, & bodily autonomy where the State is not only failing but vilifying residents & providers.
Let Austin Live! 💮
exciting ✨personal news✨ to officially share!
Starting next month, I will be the Higher Education Policy Analyst at
@EveryTxn
, an ATX public policy research & advocacy nonprofit! 💮
I'm so thrilled to work on expanding equitable access to college in TX at & beyond
#txlege
🏫🎓
Now that we’re official, some ✨professional news✨
Today was my first day as Legislative Director for Representative Lulu Flores (
@VoteLuluFlores
) in the
#HD51
office serving and defending SE Travis County in
#txlege
💜
(in a hallway full of besties 💞)
Day 1 down, 139 to go 💮
Thanks to the support of my fellow TX-35 state delegates, I have been elected as a Biden National Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in mid-August!
I’m thrilled to represent TX-35 Democrats in re-nominating President Biden & get him releected in November 🗳️
.
@BetoORourke
in Weatherford, TX tonight bringing out a full school cafeteria tonight to listen to the concerns of semi-rural Texans to best represent us in the Senate. The first time anyone can remember a Senator or Senate candidate visiting Parker County
#BetoForTexas
Pleased to announce my appointment as Chair of
@TCDP
’s Endorsement Committee at this afternoon’s CEC Meeting! Thank you Chair
@PoojaInTexas
for trusting me with this responsibility, I’m looking forward to vetting local candidates & props for recommendation to our County Party 💫
bit of a ~professional update~
Excited to announce that I am serving as Campaign Manager for notorious progressive tax policy expert (& my former coworker) Dick Lavine
@dlavine
in his race for TCAD Director, Place 3 & co-managing the Dem slate of Dick, Daniel Wang & Jett Hanna 🧮
In honor of TX filing day, here is me being the opposite of a surprise last-minute candidate when I was the first person in Travis County to file for anything this cycle as I filed for re-election as
@TCDP
Precinct Chair for Pct. 111 on the first day of filing 2 months ago 📑✍🏼🗳️
The path to maintaining a majority in the US Senate runs directly thru Texas 🔵
It was great to welcome
@ColinAllredTX
back to Austin post-primary as we unify our party around sending him to the Senate 🗳️
Texans & Americans need Congressman Allred to send Cancun Cruz packing 🧳
“If everything was s bigger in Texas, then the activism is bigger, the resistance is bugger, the justice is bigger, and the Movement is BIGGER in Texas” —
@AyannaPressley
with the Boston-to-Austin solidarity 💙
3 Wins for Public Schools 🏫
3 Wins for Public Parks 🏞️
3 Wins for all of Travis County 🏆
Today TravCo voters chose the reliable, experienced, trusted candidates for TCAD with over 30% margins!
I’m proud to have managed
@dlavine
’s campaign & helped elect this incredible slate💙
I did a thing and my favorite news publication
@TexasTribune
wrote about it 📰
“Texas Democrats cannot just do nothing about the housing affordability crisis & let the Republicans run on it,” said Skyler Korgel, co-author of the zoning platform language.
Proud to report that all *20* of my proposed planks to 2024-25
@TexasDemocrats
Platform were adopted by Perm Platform Committee at our marathon 8-hour meeting on Tuesday!
Representing true blue CD35, proud to have contributed to a truly progressive platform to guide our party🌠
Ready for DNCC Roll Call, TEXAS is PRESENT and casting our votes for VP
@KamalaHarris
& Governor
@Tim_Walz
to save American democracy, bury Project 2025, and continue President
@JoeBiden
’s legacy 🥥🗳️🇺🇸
Congratulations to
@jamestalarico
for phenomenal
#txlege
committee assignments as a sophomore on Public Education, Calendars, and Juvenile Justice & Family Issues!!
such a special night to fall out of a coconut tree & such a labor of love, thank you
@TCDP
& every elected who shows up for LGBTQ Texans 💮
Happy Pride, Austin 🌈
Weatherford’s first Pride was one for the books 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈💖✨
if they won’t move confederate statues from courthouse lawns in the middle of town, at least we can make them colorful to look at for a day 🌈
Us public servant "political staffers" all just worked 20+ hours over the holiday weekend for no additional pay or PTO in order to meet legislative deadlines, including SB 10's TRS COLA.
And just because office budgets got boosted does NOT mean staff salaries increased.
#txlege
DNCC Day 2!!
Starting off the day right with my Texas delegation breakfast hosted by the great Rep.
@CeliaIsrael
🤘
On 🤠 theme for our TEXAS spotlight during roll call today and hearing from
@BarackObama
&
@MichelleObama
🇺🇸
Let’s get it
#DNCC
Excited to support and help elect
@kristaforaustin
for D6 on Austin’s City Council as an important flip for ensuring an inclusive & more affordable city for all 🗳️
yimbyful first day at
@YIMBYtown
conference in Austin learning about pro-housing legislative wins in Montana, Vermont, California & Arizona to replicate in Texas and the intersection of urban planning & public policy 🏢🚲🚌🚏🚉
#yimbytown2024
Honored to have passed my Lawn Chair Brigade initiation today marching in the Northwest Hills Independence Day Parade as a first time participant but longtime admirer of the Lawn Chair Ladies ❤️🤍💙
Happy
#4thofJuly
to USA lovers everywhere 🇺🇸
A very special edition of
#MondaysWithMarianne
with some very special besties ✨💖✨
2nd pic is me asking
@marwilliamson
what Laura Dern (her roommate) was like in college - “Oh everything you’d expect her to be but more lively, more lovely” 💮
Ready to gavel in tonight’s DNCC finale hearing from the woman of honor, the icon, the next President of the United States —
@KamalaHarris
👩🏾💼
Sporting coconut suffragette white to honor this historic moment of the first woman of color accepting our presidential nomination 🤍
Such a pleasure to lit drop for the one and only
@BrandyforTexas
today in
#HD112
! I can’t wait to see her fight for strong public education, affordable health care, and immigrant rights in the TX House 📚🍎⚕️
#PeopleNotPolitics
I got my Enhanced Library Card today at
@AustinPublicLib
’s Southeast Branch Library! This new, free form of photo ID is the culmination of nearly a decade of community advocacy. Normalizing the use of this ID with APD & city services is key to ID equity in ATX 🪪
The Austin Public Library is now offering "enhanced" library cards to people who may benefit from having another form of photo ID. They're accepted by more than a dozen local agencies and organizations, including APD and Austin Energy.
Since the TX House will consider the fate of public education in our state, today’s outfit is a little more meaningful.
As a proud product of Texas public schools starting at Benbrook Elementary, I’m wearing my mom’s Benbrook PTA dress shirt & ofc Red for Pub Ed 🍎🏫
#txlege
Averie Bishop is ready for the TX House whether the TX House is ready for her or not!!
In 2020 I regularly blockwalked in HD-112 to help it flip then and we came within 222 votes, but this cycle Averie is going to finish the job. I can’t wait to help welcome her to
#txlege
!
an honor to preside over
@AustinYoungDems
’ local endorsement forum last night 🎤
such a pleasure introducing great Democrats & friends to give stump speeches focusing on improving quality of life for young Austinites 🩵
thanks to all the AYD members & candidates who attended 🪻
Good morning from the Italian Consulate in Houston after an 11 hour drive from El Paso to get my carta d’identità (temp paper copy just like Texas) as part of the Houston consulate’s pilot program offering Italian ID cards to citizens living abroad 🪪🇮🇹
Absolutely thrilled to get started serving on
@accdistrict
’s Regional Advisory Committee as the incredible Trustee
@sgharakhanian
’s Central Region appointee!!
ACC is truly an educational opportunity & community enhancement gem serving Central Texas tenfold our investments 🦇
Turning 30 may be scary, nerve-racking & bittersweet but not with all the friends I’ve made over 10 years in Austin🌃
Join me in celebrating my 30th birthday tomorrow!
Benefiting
@TCDP
,
@AustinYoungDems
, &
@StonewallAustin
— orgs that gave me a place in ATX, politics & life💙🪻🌈
It’s official~all 20 of my planks made it into
@texasdemocrats
Platform approved yesterday on the convention floor💙
TX Democrats embrace policies that deliver for everyday Texans from worker safety to ending period poverty, reducing car dependency, & unlocking housing solutions!
Proud to report that all *20* of my proposed planks to 2024-25
@TexasDemocrats
Platform were adopted by Perm Platform Committee at our marathon 8-hour meeting on Tuesday!
Representing true blue CD35, proud to have contributed to a truly progressive platform to guide our party🌠
such an honor to Chair the Travis County Democratic Convention Youth Caucus today following in footsteps of inspiring young party leaders
@itsJenRamos
&
@KolbyDuhon
bringing young delegates together to support youth-led resolutions & young candidates for party office/committees🩵