2019 Wave 2 Candidates are Here!

We are thrilled to announce our second wave of 2019 endorsements. These five new candidates for the Virginia State Senate and Louisiana House of Representatives join our existing slate of 10 candidates running for the Virginia House of Delegates and Mississippi House of Representatives. Supporting these 15 incredible candidates helps us achieve two of our […]

Long shot… or not? Supporting the Carter 4 VA campaign from San Francisco

Sister District CA-12 (San Francisco) June 1st kickoff fundraising party for Lee Carter’s Virginia House of Delegates campaign at Teeth in the SF Mission District

I joined Sister District after the 2016 election, because like many people, I felt that the old way of winning elections had failed us. Lee Carter, a 30-years old Democratic Socialist who lost the financial support of the Democratic Party, trounced the incumbent Republican house majority leader by 9 percentage points. To most, this came as a huge surprise, but for me and my fellow Sister District volunteers in San Francisco, it was validation of the core values that have driven us since the disastrous election of 2016

Hot Takes from Cold Virginia

Co-founders Lyzz Schwegler and Lala Wu with me, Cheryl Turpin, and her campaign staff.

Last night, I sat with my team in a freezing cold Northern Virginia strip mall parking lot as returns came in. The four of us gathered around our tethered laptops, frantically reloading the VA Department of Elections site, trying to understand what was happening.