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Zeeshan Hafeez, founder of the North Texas Muslim Leadership Alliance and a former candidate for Texas’ 33rd Congressional District, has written an essay for Courage for Democracy about his campaign and the conversation it opened.
He begins:
By any conventional measure, my campaign was not supposed to matter.
I was not the handpicked favorite. I did not have the institutional backing, the consultant class, or the assumptions of inevitability that often define modern politics.