Dani Welch

Well this is delightful.

Look, a good thing happened!

A tawny chinook dog (Cassie) reclines on a hardwood floor with one paw forward and her leash wrapped around her. Her eyes are closed and her mouth is open, large pink tongue hanging open.

Also:

No advice, but I'm sorry this happened. You deserve better.

Ice cream?

Last night, while heading out to collect signatures to get on the ballot, I told the 2.5-year-old that mommy had to go back out to the store and asked if she wanted to come with me.

"No, I not want to, but bring me more chocolate."

She's been having a hard time with all this. She got chocolate.

Yes. Please, please vote out Suozzi, ideally in the June primary (because a Republican would be even worse): www.votewelch.com

He's being primaried.

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He has a primary challenger.

It's me.

I could really use support!

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Voters: please support primary challengers.

Sign our petitions so we're on the ballot.

Help get other people to sign.

Send us money because we have a bad, expensive system that is very stacked against challengers.

(Predictably, my opponent @tomsuozzi.bsky.social voted yes.)

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Dear congressional democrats, we all want you to weaponize the rules and disagree.

Congressional democrats:

I am running for Congress!

If we're going with biological grandpas, one was a farmer, the other was a preacher.

And I've just realized I sound like the subject of a Dolly Parton song.

Do @tomsuozzi.bsky.social next.

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And if they supported DHS funding in January, support their primary challengers.

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Danielle Welch for Congress It isn't enough for Democrats to flip the House in 2026. We need leaders who will fight for us.

Suozzi should *definitely* lose to his pro-Trans rights challenger (me).

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Warrants are already required to enter your home without consent.

There’s really zero excuse to not have a left-wing challenger in every single primary race across the country this year

This is why Black feminist theory made so much sense to me when I read it. Hell any feminist theory centering women of color honestly.

It’s also the theory that underpins my book #TheInstigators on why Black women are essential to fighting authoritarianism and building an inclusive US Democracy

Ah, yes, thanks. I forgot that just because I am personally unskilled in shell game techniques doesn't mean there aren't learned shell game champs.

See: cat in initial post.

Elect more Welches.

(No relation, but I do love a good cross-examination.)

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It seems like Congress could fix this.

Of course, we all know how @tomsuozzi.bsky.social feels about profiting on government villainy. You should probably vote for the other Democrat in the race.

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Weird that collaborating with masked federal agents who are kidnapping children and murdering people in the streets is unpopular.

/s

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Bro, ICE is still here kidnapping people, now they’ve even got transit vans advertising fake companies.

Meanwhile, I have represented people in criminal court for playing games of chance with tourists on the sidewalk.

Good system we have here.

Thanks so much!

You're right, forgot to update and will do so when I am back from collecting signatures. Thanks for flagging.

Oh, and I don't have Nazi tattoos or Nazi views.

As my website notes, I support universal healthcare, universal childcare, expanding social security, affordable housing, abolishing ice, immigration reform, and transitioning to clean energy.

I've been a public defender my whole career, first-gen college graduate, and I am running to help people.

I'll grant you the bio is on the short side and I don't have 100% of my platform up, but both do exist at www.votewelch.com. Will work on expanding it, but since I didnt decide to run until Suozzi's DHS vote, I am catching up on months of work and focusing on getting on the ballot right now.

Still true (though it is supposed to be a signature by signature challenge, I believe.)

You have to hire an attorney just to get on the ballot. Wild that more people don't run for office, truly.