Join us this Sunday at 4pm ET/1pm PT for our weekly Progressive Town Hall. 

“Oh, our Minneapolis, I hear your voice
Singing through the bloody mist

We’ll take our stand for this land
And the stranger in our midst”

— Bruce Springsteen, Streets of Minneapolis

I just learned that my daughter participated in a walkout protest at her high school today. She wasn’t alone. Teenagers across the country walked out together in a truly national uprising—against ICE, against the assault on our democracy, and against the cold-blooded killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

This is a moment that demands our voices and our presence.

Please join us for our weekly National Progressive Town Hall this Sunday at 4pm ET. Every Sunday, PDA Nation comes together to learn from one another, organize, and strengthen the movement we need for this moment. As Springsteen reminds us, “We’ll take our stand for this land / And the stranger in our midst.”

RSVP here.

This Sunday’s featured guests are two bold progressives from Texas:

Clayton Tucker, a longtime PDA favorite, is running for Texas Agriculture Commissioner. His campaign has drawn national attention for taking on the hyperscale data center scam—projects that threaten to make climate goals unachievable, drive up electricity costs, and drain Texas’ water resources.

We’ll also hear from Zeeshan Hafeez, a cand​_idate for Congress in one of the most aggressively gerrymandered districts in the country. The district itself was designed to “pack-in” as many Democrats, especially Latino and African-American voters, into a singular district so that Repbulicans don’t have to seriously compete with Democrats in other nearby districts. As commentators have called it, the district looks like a “spider wrestling an octopus” or a Rorshach test.  By packing Texas Democrats into such a contorted district, Republicans think they are able to eliminate five Democratic seats in Congress. 

Zeeshan is the only progressive in this race and the only candidate backed by an anti-AIPAC organization, AIPAC Tracker.

Here’s how he describes the stakes:

Texas’ 33rd District is young, diverse, working-class, and ready for new leadership. After years of status-quo politics, families are facing rising rents, stagnant wages, high uninsured rates, food insecurity, and chronic underinvestment in schools, transportation, and community infrastructure.

Into this moment, two wealthy, establishment-backed Democrats—neither of whom lives in the district—have jumped into the race. Armed with national donors, AIPAC support, and millions of dollars, they lack real ties to the people who call TX-33 home. This race is shaping up to be a high-dollar, insider fight between politicians backed by the same interests.

Let’s come together this Sunday—ready to learn, ready to organize, and ready to fight. We must be in the streets defending our democracy and in our neighborhoods electing true progressives to lead this nation. RSVP here. 

Let’s stand for this land—and the stranger in our midst.

Sincerely,

Mike Oles, Chief of Staff,  and the National PDA Team