Colin Allred: “We need to have federal voting protections as we`ve talked about to try and make sure that these things don`t ever go…”

I think he would say to us: We are better than this. And I think he would say: If you do this, then we have to mobilize in a way we’ve never seen before.

Texas' 33rd Congressional District: Colin Allred, who went undrafted but played 32 games for the Tennessee Titans, won this Dallas-area district with a whopping 79 percent of the vote. He's a Democrat.

In the past few days, I’ve come to believe that a bruising Senate Democratic primary and runoff would prevent the Democratic Party from going into this critical election unified against the danger posed to our communities and our…

But I'm nowhere near done serving my community and our state. Today, I'm announcing my campaign for Congress to represent the newly drawn Congressional District 33.