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"These are people with an important political background. Unlike male motivation — both white and Latino — women run with a political reason focused on helping their communities. "Not only am I the first female candidate here in Dallas, but really there has never been a Latina mayor in any of the main U.S. cities in the history of this country," Montoya said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News. That means this year’s Legislature has 32 women, up from the previous total of 29. Keeping momentum "The Latino vote and African-American vote in city elections in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are the worst in the country," said Jorge Contreras, director of Working Families Party in Texas. "In cities like Arlington, just 0.5 % of Latinos vote in local elections,” Contreras said. Latinos in the ticket Even though city elections are nonpartisan — meaning candidates don’t run under a party affiliation -- some of the new Latino faces running for office have volunteered for Democratic campaigns in the past. That's the case of Giovanni Valderas, an alumnus of the Latino Center for Leadership Development, who announced in October his bid to represent north Oak Cliff in the Dallas City Council’s District 1 seat. Valderas had already worked for the campaigns of Paula Rosales, who in November was elected Dallas county judge, and current council member Omar Narváez. And most important, to not forget the people who elect us."

The political winners of 2018 include a first-time candidate for Congress who is the first Democrat to win her district, a leading Republican who was not caught napping, a party chair who got out of her chair and traveled the state... and a sports team. McMorris Rodgers relinquished her House GOP leadership position after the election, when faced with a challenge from Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. -- Ex-tech executive, ex-Seattle City Council member Tina Podlodowski took over as chair of Washington State Democrats, after a 2016 election where the Dems won in King County but lost in a lot of other places across the state. The party's wafer-thin 50-48 House majority is up to 57-41. The party gained a seat in Congress. The have made women's professional sports matter, witness the parade through downtown Seattle and the sight of Mayor Durkan and Police Chief Best cheering at courtside. All three measures were put on the ballot after the Legislature did not act. One more win: Despite getting backing from billionaires, the Alliance for Gun Safety entrusted the campaign to young people, a 22-year-old campaign manager and a steering committee on which sat a high school student. -- The oil and beverage industries deployed big money, and bought election victories. Ericksen was co-chair of the 2016 Trump campaign in Washington.

Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the day in national politics. Some of President Trump’s biggest financial backers live here. In the final days, much of the midterm election seems to have clarified around a central question: What is American identity? But discomfort with the president’s rhetoric among college-educated white voters, particularly women, is also part of the reason that Democrats have a shot of winning long-held Republican House seats in suburbs like Highland Park, which has been represented by the Republican Pete Sessions since 2002. ____________________ Lots of people are voting early With less than a week until Election Day, 28 million ballots have been cast through early and absentee voting. That’s a lot: Four years ago, 27 million people voted early. (Both of those states have high-profile Senate races.) • Even a few states without major competitive races, like Maryland and Louisiana, have surpassed their early voting numbers from the last midterms. ____________________ Today in live polls: Georgia, and the big picture Image As the election nears, The Times’s live polling project is talking to voters in some of the closest races. Today, Nate Cohn and the Upshot team highlighted a few polls happening right now: If We Had More Time: We’ve run out of time to add new House polls.

Now Allred says he wants to look out for the district by becoming its public servant. Making matters tricky was that on the outside, he looked like a black kid, but the only family he ever knew was white. Allred's father, a black man who lived in Dallas, was not in his life. "It's a North Texas story," he said. Help from the village Allred was a smart kid who loved to read. "He played like every game was his last. Allred earned a football scholarship to Baylor, where he played linebacker. In his fifth season, he suffered an injury during a game against the Dallas Cowboys, with his mother, aunt and uncle in the AT&T Stadium stands. "I thought the community that I grew up in and that allowed me to do all these things wasn't getting the representation it deserved." Derek Smith, who worked at the YMCA that Allred frequented as a kid, said he would be a good congressman.