Amanda K. Edwards He is one of several democratic candidates in special elections representing the 18th Congress district of Texas – a cult, historically black district, which incorporates the Houston center and more. The places remained empty after the death in January 2025, former mayor of Houston and Congressmen Sylvester Turner, who replaced the deceased Congressmenka Sheila Jackson Lee after her death in 2024.

Of the greater than 800,000 TX-18 residents remained without representation in Congress, November 4 Special elections He will resolve who will fill the powerful post. Edwards, from Houston, lawyer, non -profit founder and a former member of the city council, claims that this moment is bigger than politics – it’s about protecting the future.

“We fight in life,” says Edwards Essence, pointing to the withdrawal of politics under the administration of President Donald Trump. He cites federal decisions that might increase the prices of pharmaceuticals, reduce Pell Grant funds, hurt small corporations and influence families throughout the country. “Everyone affects the Trump’s administration tariffs and other efforts to undermine our American economy.”

Edwards, a democrat, is one of not less than nine candidates who’ve declared his candidacyIn this Christian Menefee, former advocate of Harris’s Country; Isaiah Martin, former senior adviser to Jackson Lee; and James Joseph, who previously served as the director of civic involvement for the senator of State Borris Miles.

According to Edwards and Menefee are widely perceived as favors, each of whom has collected almost $ 400,000.

He also notes that the decision of the governor Greg Abbott, finally, finally call special elections After public pressure To make sure that that the inhabitants were not without a voice in Washington. And for Edwards, the heritage of the TX-18-represented by Trailblazer in favor of civil rights Barbara Jordan, lawyers of counteracting poverty Mickey Leland and a few years of Congressmenka Jackson Lee-is too essential to leave.

“They need a federal lawyer to provide financial support,” he says. “They need a federal lawyer to express their fears. They need a federal lawyer to become their decision -maker and they don’t have them.”

The basis of the Edwards platform are three primary issues: healthcare, economic possibilities and education. Her passion for healthcare reform is rooted in her own childhood. He remembers how he watches the battle of his father multiple myeloma When she was only 10 years old.

“I remember how I asked my father many questions at that time, for example, whether his life-saving care would be covered by the insurance, which I studied about,” he says.

Today, the same issue fuels her struggle for stronger health care in the Black Mother and support for Momlibus Act,The packet of federal bills that may extend the mother’s care and would cope with racial differences in health results. Economic capital is one other key pillar. As a member of the city council, she often questioned the concept that the representation itself is enough.

“What is the most diverse if we do not solve the challenges faced by our diverse communities – this is the meaning of equality, right?”

To this end, he’s in favor of larger federal investments in the financial institutions of community development (CDFiS), which regularly borrow their very own and their very own women in black.

“They borrow much higher rates to colorful enterprises, for women belonging to women, which are actually larger banks considered a higher risk,” explains Edwards.

He says that education is each deeply personal and at national level. Edwards, a graduate of the Houston public school system, won Emory University and Harvard Law School. But she is worried about nationwide efforts to censor what students can learn.

“We observe throughout the country, our students’ books have been taken and what they read politicization,” he says. He warns without access to a true story: “People do not have information, and therefore history can repeat themselves.”

He also criticizes educational cuts from the time of Trump and a wider lack of investment in students. “There is a large federal component of financing education that is omitted from this conversation.”

Despite the polarized political landscape and driveway battles often battling black candidates, Edwards claims that he’s unable. He is guided by the goal – and the belief that change remains to be possible through targeted strategic leadership.

“I spent my whole career how best to use difficult circumstances,” he says. “You find your ways to settle matters because they have to do.”

He can also be honest about the persistent barriers he stands with. “I enter the rooms every day and I am underestimated because of my sex. I am underestimated because of my race; I am underestimated because of my age. You can’t let the limited perspective of other people become your own perspective.”

When asked how a democratic party can higher support black women, Edwards doesn’t hesitate: “Authorized women strengthen women. We are smart, we are brave, we are brave, but we also have to get involved again.”

And if the party doesn’t perform real work in constructing trust and listening, it warns, risks further political errors. “If you don’t do this real job, guess what? You will have a problem with mathematics again. And you know what politics and choices are – mathematics,” he adds.

He believes that the path forward consists in accepting younger leadership, closing the gaps in the scope of obtaining funds and deliberate introduction of insufficiently represented voters and candidates.

“You see differences in obtaining funds for black women’s candidates. You see differences in their minds as if they are not asking for escape.”

Despite these challenges, Edwards says he’s unwavering in his mission. “I think that my goal is to use these blessings and the possibilities that I received to bring benefits to other people and improve the community,” he says. “I want people to say what my job meant for their lives, because that’s what I mean for me.”

In the November election on the horizon, Amanda K. Edwards calls voters to remain involved.

“Show. Speak. Stay involved,” he says. “Our future depends on this.”

This is a rare moment in American policy, when the ultra-conservative personality of Candace Owens Democrats are on the opposite side of Donald Trump. The political brand of the bonfire publicly condemned the president’s crusade against Harvard University and other university campus; Trump threatened to annul the billions of federal subsidies if the institution disagrees with the list of demands that Harvard described as “going beyond the power of the federal government.”

As Owens put it, Trump’s fight with Harvard – which increased to the federal lawsuit filed by the very wealthy Ivy league – is a struggle for freedom of speech.

“We cannot allow us to violate our rights. And if you think it will stop at university campus, you have no head,” said Owens, who previously supported President Trump. “So it’s better in this fight Harvard University. You should hope that they will overcome the Trump administration and this absurd definition.”

In his lawsuit, Harvard claims that their rights to the first amendment as a non-public institution are violated by the administration of Trump, who tried to force the university to meet their requirements regarding policies related to the solution to anti -Semitism in campus, in addition to other policies and reforms, corresponding to eliminating diversity, own capital and inclusion in principles, scholarship and honesty.

Apart from the violations of the first amendment, Edwards, a democrat applying for Congress in the 18th Congress District in Texas, said that her attempt to dismantle the Harvard of federal financing, which is used for research to increase innovation in medicine and technology, is especially disturbed.

A former member of the Houston City Council said that aiming administration on Harvard and other university campuses is “effective” and “irresponsible”.

Everton Blair, a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Graduate School of Education, who also candidates for Congress in the thirteenth Congress District in Georgia, said that he “enjoys” that the institution “will be in a state of himself”.

However, Blair said that he was and remains to be critical of his home parent, because the problem with how they handled campus tensions during the war in gas and other matters – even when he was a student.

“It is a bit interesting that only because it violates their ability to be independently conducted institution, that it recalled this resistance,” said Blair, former chairman of the board of Gwinnett County Board of Education. “They showed me once and again that they have very peculiar cash interests.”

Blair noticed that Harvard, who has over $ 50 billion equipment, has a “privileged position” to find a way to “work fully, even if he loses billions of dollars”, unlike other campuses. He said that he shows that “not all we are simply forced and forced to do things that are bad for people, bad for students (and) for the community.”

Edwards said that the attacks of the first correction of Trump’s administration on Harvard “cannot be normalized”.

“These are dangerous practices that do not intend to develop us. It must be more than revenge and political punishment. What is happening in our academic institutions affects how tomorrow may be clear tomorrow,” said the candidate for Congress in Texas.

In the future, attacking American universities and universities will affect the “position in the world”, said Edwards, including “what we produce, available talent and information to which we have access”.

She added: “The precedent, which is established along with the Trump administration attack on a higher ED and other institutions that were very significant and valuable in our society … This is something that we have to repel with, because our future depends on this.”

The federal judge dismissed the corruption case against the mayor of New York Eric Adams. The decision of the US District Judge Dale Ho takes place almost two months after the controversial Trump administration, tried to desert the allegations of a democratic mayor.

Judge Ho threw the case “with prejudices”, which permanently prevents Department of Justice From refusal against Adams in the American District Court in Manhattan. In his ruling, the judge criticized the request for dismissal of the case without prejudices, which might allow for future prosecution, CNBC reports.

He expressed concern that such an exemption might be seen as a political opportunity, stating: “Everything here strikes the opportunity: releasing the indictment in exchange for concessions regarding the immigration policy” by Adams.

He argued that continuing the case could make Adams’ ability to manipulate and cooperate with the immigration policy of President Donald Trump. This attitude led to internal fights inside the TO, which resigned from several prosecutors, including the function of prosecutor Manhattan Danielle Sassoon.

Judge Ho emphasized the unprecedented nature of the reasoning of the state, noting: “The state does not cite any examples, and the court is not able to find any government rejecting the allegations against the selected official, because it would allow an official to facilitate the goals of federal policy.” ​

Adams, who didn’t plead guilty for the allegations, including bribery and fraud, maintained his innocence in all proceedings. After the release, he said: “This matter should never be brought and I did not do anything bad.” ​

The release allows Adams to concentrate on his re -election campaign. He faces pretenders, including the former governor Andrew Cuomo, in its offer for the second term. On Thursday The mayor announced that now it’ll be Start for recurring as an independent candidate.

“I strongly believe that this city is better served by truly independent leadership, and not leaders pulled by extremists on the left or extreme right, but instead rooted in a common middle, a place where the vast majority of New Yorkers are very planted,” said Adams.