Campaign Updates Week 11
Early voting begins Monday; Continued support from working-people; Recap of Citrus Theatre debate; Condemnation of Hamas propaganda at UTRGV.
Greetings comrades, friends, supporters and new subscribers from the campaign trail.
Early voting begins tomorrow, Monday, 20 October 2025. Be sure to go out and vote for my campaign, if you reside and are registered to vote in Edinburg, as well as telling your Edinburg-residing friends and family. I am the only working-class candidate in this race, a call-center worker who’s been working at produce and steel factories this past year and has worked in the food industry as a server and delivery driver since 2020. The other candidates represent the business- and landlord-classes, especially Mr. Ochoa who’s this year’s finance capital candidate.
Continued Support from Working People, Families
In these last couple week before voting, I’ve continued receiving enthusiastic and passionate support from working-people across Edinburg and the Valley at large.
A Texas Department of Public Safety vehicle pulled over a clunky, old vehicle, at a local McDonalds I was visiting recently. The driver had apparently been asked to exit his vehicle and was being hassled by the officer questioning him in the parking lot. The man, his wife, and son entered the restaurant not long after and were discussing with other patrons what had just occurred. I approached them, asked what happened, and explained how the police are trained to harass working-people and view us as the problem. I also mentioned my campaign and took enormous interest, along with his wife. An interesting discussion, regarding policing under capitalism, ensued. They said they would vote for me.
A few days later, in the same area, a mechanic from Mission who’s an immigrant from Mexico also expressed support and solidarity with my campaign despite the fact he could not vote in these elections given his current residence.
A former cashier at a Stripes gas station I used to always see in the past was excited to hear about my platform and campaign. I asked him if he was registered to vote. He said no and added that he would. I explained the deadline for voting registration had passed. He expressed regret. This interaction, however, serves to highlight and underline how many working-people don’t bother registering to vote because they’ve nothing worth voting for. It also shows how they would become politically involved, given the right campaign.
Neighbors of mine who are immigrants from Mexico have been quite excited, as well. Their head of household, their father/husband, was initially excited when he saw me in the newspaper coverage of the Futuro RGV election forum. He began telling all his friends. One of them, visiting him one day, waved and thanked me as I left the neighborhood. My neighbor’s son, who’s approximately 7 or 8 years old, touchingly encouraged me the other day.
Regardless of the 4 November election’s outcome, the greatest victory—that is, showing other working-people that a proletarian campaign is possible—has already been accomplished.
Citrus Theatre Debate Recap
While I heavily criticized the debate set at the historic theatre in Edinburg, my coworkers at the call center where I currently work encouraged me to go. They wanted to see me in action, and I thought it crucial to show them what and how a revolutionary working-class candidate conducts themselves in such a situation. Three of the four candidates—myself, Ochoa and Garcia—attended the forum.
Many of the same topics touched on in September were again. You can view the livestream by looking up the Citrus Live theatre’s Facebook livestream. I’m glad I attended because my coworkers were exhilarated by how I handled myself against the other candidates, particularly Ochoa’s barbs at my responses. I had the chance to express solidarity with the Cuban Revolution and talk about the importance of working-people taking political power worldwide.
Condemnation of Hamas Propaganda at UTRGV
The university’s campus magazine, Pulse, published a short video to their Instagram page showing an action hosted by “Students for (In)Justice in Palestine”. It occurred on the two-year-anniversary of the October 7 massacre of mostly Jews and Israeli civilians in Southwest Israel. The magazine which has a liberal bent that adapts to ultra-leftism adopted the group’s messaging that described that awful day as “the October 7 attack on the Gaza strip”.
The above framing of things places Israel as the aggressor, when they were simply defending themselves against genocidal assaults by a Nazi-like group. The capitalist media, as Malcolm X once said, will have victims appear to be the aggressors and the aggressors appearing to be the victims. This principle applies here.
Working-people worldwide have an enormous stake in Israel’s defeat of Hamas. Jew hatred, which is their organizing principle, is a deadly danger to working-people. Antisemitism, a middle-class conspiracy theory which blames the world’s problems on Jews, is weaponized by the capitalist rulers of all countries to distract from capitalism’s ills and their true source. The capitalist rulers of the Middle East, from Cairo to Islamabad, are embarked on such a course. While the defeat of Hamas would not end antisemitism (only socialist revolution can do that), it would lead to a major blow against it, leading to space for working-people in the region to organize for their class and national interests to open up.