Caitlin Rourk for Congress

The slick videos from Secretary Hegseth’s visit will fade, but our obligation to the young Texans he addressed won’t.
https://caitlinrourk.substack.com/p/when-we-ask-them-to-say-send-me

Our campaign runs on pure people power. So grateful for every volunteer writing postcards, knocking doors, and helping us reach voters in every corner of our community.

We held a campaign reception at Imerj Art & Advocacy Projects | Be Free Gallery in Huntsville, and I left thinking about a lot more than the campaign.

Daniel Celaya spent 20 years in prison himself. Today, he works with artists impacted by incarceration and helps people inside the state penitentiary system gain dignity and independence through art. He’s a remarkable guy.

Our conversation moved upstream. Hardship doesn’t excuse crime, but we know addiction, untreated mental illness, poverty, unstable homes, and lack of opportunity can make bad outcomes more likely and cause plenty of harm even if crime isn’t one of them.

It reminded me why I want to take this work to Congress: stronger schools, better access to mental health and addiction treatment, more economic opportunity, and support for programs proven to reduce repeat offenses.

Prison can’t be the first place we start asking what went wrong.

Photos by Tega Okperuvwe

We’ll be out knocking doors every weekend in Travis County and Brazos County, plus more block walks across TX-10 coming soon.

Come see what block walking with Team Rourk is all about.

Link in bio.

We have 50 days to win this race. There’s no time to waste.

We’re out there doing the work. What are you doing for the next 50 days?

Pick a shift. Bring friends. Let’s go.

Link to volunteer: https://linktr.ee/caitlinrourk

Kolaches and lots of conversations in Burleson County. Hard to beat a Saturday at the Kolache Festival!

My favorite part? When people are surprised to see their Congressional candidate show up in their community. Pretty soon, “surprised” is going to turn into “good to see you again.”

September 11 changed the course of millions of lives. Some ran toward danger that morning. American families lost husbands and wives, sons and daughters, fathers and mothers. Others raised their hands to serve because of what they saw that day.

25 years later, there’s no place I’d rather have spent today than alongside veterans who are still giving back to each another, to those still serving, and to the nation they served in uniform.

As MG (Ret.) Cucolo reminded us, we’ve seen the best and the worst of this world. We know how fragile our republic can be. And we know it only endures when people keep showing up for it.

Thank you to the Leading 2 Win team for hosting such an important event and for all they do throughout the year for this community.

Wishing everyone a meaningful day of remembrance.

We watched the towers fall. We watched Americans run toward the danger. We watched our generation go to war.

September 11 showed us what courage looks like. The years after showed us what sacrifice costs.

25 years later, may we remember all of it, including how small our differences became when America needed us the most.

https://caitlinrourk.substack.com/p/25-years-later