Hey team, we just wanted to share a quick excerpt from a feature article in The Austin Chronicle on our race to flip TX-25. It really drives home the power of the movement we've built and the momentum we're seeing in these final 38 days of the election.

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"The first three times he ran, Williams won by at least 20 points. Then came 2018, and Dem nominee Julie Oliver cut that margin in half, mostly by campaigning nonstop up and down the 200-mile-long district, aiming to visit every county once a week.

Oliver didn't stop then either, and her rematch with Williams (after she prevailed in the Democratic primary against Heidi Sloan) is now by most accounts a toss-up. Partly, that's because the gerrymander itself is now busted. Travis and Hays are now almost totally blue, and the Fort Hood area is trending away from the GOP, and those places have all grown faster than the rest of the district. That's even before you get to the Trumpublicans' demographic struggles with suburban women, college-­educated voters, and now the military.

But Oliver is also a really, really good candidate. Her personal narrative has become better known – a former "Medicaid mom" whose son Brack has special health needs (i.e., preexisting conditions), who became a tax attorney and health care finance expert. That story will get a boost in upcoming weeks as Oliver launches a six-figure ad buy throughout the district, focused on health care."

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