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It's amazing: After flipping 12 seats in the Texas state House last year, Democrats now need just nine more to do something that not long ago might have seemed impossible: take charge of a legislative chamber in the second-biggest state in the nation and, with that, put the brakes on Republican extremism. Without their hammerlock on state government, Texas Republicans would no longer be able to enact laws that target reproductive rights, attack LGBTQ people, suppress the vote, and gerrymander congressional districts.

Every seat in the House will be up next year, but one will go before voters much sooner, and that’s where we come in. House District 28, in the suburbs west of Houston, recently became vacant because a longtime Republican legislator decided to resign after facing the first close election of his career—and the long-term picture is ugly for the GOP. In 2012, Ted Cruz won the 28th District by a giant 64-34 margin. In 2018, he prevailed here just 51-48.

Those trends are a major part of why Democrats have an enormous opportunity to pick this seat up in a special election that’s fast approaching on Jan. 28. The other big reason is that we have an awesome progressive candidate running here whom Daily Kos is proud to endorse: educator Eliz Markowitz.

If she wins, she'll shrink the number of seats Democrats need to flip the state House next year to just eight. She’ll also take us one step closer to the age-old progressive ambition of turning Texas blue.

But she can only do so with your help. Republicans will do everything they can to prevent Texas from going blue. This is one of the most important elections anywhere in the country this year, and it’s all hands on deck. Even Beto’s been doing his part. The rest is up to us.

Please give $3 today to turn Texas blue!