Farzin Farzad

Save the date: March 31st is National Run for Office Day!! www.runforofficeday.com

If you are connected to a prominent news outlet and seeking to expand coverage of Iran to include voices and analysis of the situation specifically concerning the Azerbaijani Turkic population in Iran, please DM me.

Future Candidates Cohort - Run For Something Future Candidates Cohort Applications open: January 19, 2026Deadline: February 16, 2026 Session 1: Wed., March 4 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 2: Wed., March 11 at 8:00-9:30pm ETSession 3: Wed., March 18 a...

New @runforsomething.net program alert: We're launching the Future Candidates Cohort, a free 4 week live virtual program for young leaders who want to run in 2027, 2028, or beyond. The deadline to apply is 2/16! runforsomething.net/future-candi...

One of the most horrific state executions ever filmed.

We're all simultaneously terrified, grieving, and uncontrollably angry thinking about how easily all of this could have been avoided.

👋 oh hi - this is my team! Come work with me. Save democracy and all that.

Your Iranians friends are burdened by both brutal state violence against their friends and relatives inside of Iran and an extremely toxic Iranian diaspora that is competing (sometimes violently) to install their own authoritarian of choice.

Local leaders are working to keep communities safe against ICE.

Aurora City Councilor Alli Jackson, incoming Jersey City Councilor Jake Ephros, former Minneapolis mayoral candidate Jazz Hampton, and MO State Rep. Ray Reed are protecting residents and demanding accountability.

Oh my gosh you guys! The House just passed my bill to extend the health care tax credits for three more years!

School has been cancelled tomorrow and Friday across the city of Minneapolis, because our federal government has made it unsafe for children here.

This.

Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

This guy is the anti-Trebeck.

Hot take: Community-led governance isn’t scary. It’s actually two RFS alumni on the Cambridge City Council fighting like hell for affordable housing. @votejivan.bsky.social and Ayah Al-Zub are proving that governing with values is very much a thing. Your move. Run for office.

Some folks have decided that THIS is the administration with the requisite competence to finally do American imperialism the right way.

FOLKS NEED TO REALIZE HOW HUGE THIS IS

For the first time in modern Texas history, Dems have candidates running in every state and federal race on the 2026 ballot.

That includes all congressional seats, every state House and state Senate race, plus statewide judicial and State Board of Education.

From all of us at Run for Something: Happy holidays 💙

Thanks for showing up, believing in local leaders, and proving the future is worth fighting for. Rest up, recharge, and if running for office is on your 2026 vision board… bit.ly/Run4what

Batman Returns is a better Christmas movie than Die Hard.

A gerrymander is not a sure thing…

Formula is one of the many miracles of modern science that literally saves lives.

Fuck this guy.

Why Was Every President Born in the Same Year? YouTube video by Hank Green

An entire 45 minute @hankgreen.bsky.social video answering the question of why boomers run the government - in case you need some Thanksgiving eve viewing material that perfectly sums up why @runforsomething.net exists. youtu.be/IwgzuSqb7ys?...

Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness Oregon gave homeless youths cash payments with no strings attached. Read how it helped.

"The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing."

I'm excited to announce that I have been asked to join the Mamdani Transition Team to work on community safety issues. A New Era for NYC.

What stage of capitalism is paying "buy it for life" prices for planned obsolescence products?

With just one race left to call (ballots are still being cured), of 222 races up on 11/4, @runforsomething.net had 142 winners, 10 candidates moving to run offs, and 42 (!!!) red to blue flips.

Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:

Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.

So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

I just walked out of federal court where I pleaded NOT GUILTY to the charges against me.

I will continue to stand up to authoritarianism and call this out for what it is: a political prosecution.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

House will vote on Epstein files after newly sworn Democrat completes discharge petition Rep. Adelita Grijalva of Arizona was sworn in after record 50-day wait sparked by the government shutdown.

Wasted absolutely no time.