"I have to continue to tell myself, ‘You are just modeling exactly your theory of change. You’re a regular-ass person, and these regular-ass people are going to build the movement that we need, so be vulnerable.'"

“We are running a campaign for people in this district to have a voice. [...] But electoral politics without community organizing, without issue-based organizing and a platform that empowers people, is electoral politics that will keep us exactly where we have been.”

“Roger Williams is the millionaire Republican who owns used car dealerships that he inherited from his father. He never comes to the district unless it’s for closed door fundraisers, and I got receipts man – he is Wells Fargo, he is Goldman-Sachs, he is developers and mortgage insurance companies, that is his entire list of supporters.”

“Hey y'all, my name is Heidi Sloan, and I'm a candidate for US Congress in Texas's 25th District. I've spent the last 7 years farming at a nonprofit housing community for the chronically homeless, and before that I taught toddlers with disabilities in public schools.”

"For me, it is that organizing, it is standing with people who are directly affected by the policies and by the movement that has potential to change our lives."

“We can actually solve for those [problems] by solving for human dignity and human rights as a whole and...we don't have to say it's a trade off. We can say that when we center folks who have been on the front lines, folks who have been most impacted by the social and economic system, life looks better for all of us.”