578/21/2025
Isaiah Martin, a 27-year-old Democrat and candidate in the November 4 special election for Texas’s 18th Congressional District, is emerging as a fearless new voice for Houston’s future. Martin made headlines after being arrested during a July redistricting hearing, where he refused to stay silent in the face of Republican lawmakers pushing a controversial mid-decade map designed to lock in their power. His outspoken defense of fair representation and communities still recovering from disaster has energized supporters, casting him as a rising leader willing to challenge the status quo at a critical moment for Texas politics.
Isaiah's official statement below:
“Tonight, Texas Republicans officially bent the knee to Donald Trump’s MAGA power grab. But Texans know what’s really going on: Republicans are running scared.
They are running scared of an agenda that is taking people’s healthcare away, running scared of an agenda that is making life crushingly expensive for people across the country, running scared of an agenda that sold people a promise, but has handed us a bag of shit.
I’ve been in this fight from the beginning, and it’s time for Democrats across the country to fight back—with not just new maps of our own, but with the big ideas and the big backbone that American families deserve. Because the stakes are clear: would you rather take the moral high ground, or watch as families suffer more under the weight of crushing costs and unaffordable healthcare?”
For more info, visit IsaiahMartin.org.