Rachel Hurley
@rachelandthecity
Running for office is hard. We put our lives on hold and spent months making the case for what we believe in. That takes guts, and it deserves respect no matter who wins today. Good luck to everyone! Now go vote! Polls are open until 7.
I checked every number on this. It's fine to make money. Plenty of people rent to the government and there's nothing wrong with it. But here's what I can't get past. The mayor job is only 10 hours a week - and pays 9k a year. So why keep it?
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I pulled the district-level early voting data. As of Thursday, 3 out of 4 District 5 Democrats haven't voted. Text your people in West Tennessee. Early voting ends Aug 1. GoVoteTN.gov #TN5 #VoteEarly
Midnight tonight is our deadline to hit our donor goal before the next FEC filing. No PACs. No corporations. Just regular people. If you haven't chipped in yet, today's the day. Help us prove we can win. https://secure.actblue.com/donate/rachel-hurley #TN05
We're broke! We've spent most of the $35,000 we've raised - and if that seems like a lot of money to spend - imagine what the campaign with almost $2 million is spending! Please help if you can! https://secure.actblue.com/donate/rachel-hurley
4 days in, the gap is growing. Districts 5, 8 and 9: 40,327 Republican ballots to 26,504 Democratic. 10 early voting days left. Vote early through Aug 1. GoVoteTN.gov #TN5 #VoteEarly
Monday was the biggest early voting day yet. In districts 5, 8 and 9, Republicans are outvoting Dems 29,732 to 19,583. The only fix is showing up. Vote early through Aug 1. GoVoteTN.gov #TN5 #VoteEarly
Early voting is open. First 2 days in Shelby County: 5,930 Democratic ballots to 3,159 Republican. Keep it going. Vote early through Aug 1. GoVoteTN.gov #TN5 #VoteEarly
Beef turned into a luxury this year. Here's the part nobody says out loud: four companies control about 85% of beef packing. They set what the rancher gets AND what you pay. There's a 1921 law and a bipartisan bill to fix it. Let's use them. https://rachelfortn.com/blog/lets-talk-about-beef/
Honda sold driving data from 97,000 cars for 26 cents a car. Hyundai auto-enrolled 1.7 million drivers who just turned on their car's internet. Insurers used it to raise rates. Nothing stops the next automaker from doing the same - here's the
Almost every rich country has a national data privacy law. America doesn't. Here's one reason why: ICE, the FBI, and even the IRS buy your location from data brokers - no warrant, just a purchase order. The customer won't close the
Everybody says they love small businesses. Almost nobody names what Congress could actually do for them. Swipe fees, working musicians, and the cost of health insurance when you work for yourself - three fixes already
The law that pays for your roads expires September 30. The fund behind it goes broke by 2028. The fight over what replaces it decides your commute, your prices, and your safety - and it lands in the next Congress. https://rachelfortn.com/blog/the-law-that-pays-for-your-roads-expires-september-30/
A computer picked the wrong man out of a blurry photo. Detroit police arrested him in front of his kids. There's no federal law on police facial recognition - and Memphis has no rules at all. "At this time" is doing a lot of
A camera probably photographed your license plate today. It went into a national database police can search with no warrant. A Texas deputy used it to hunt a woman who took abortion pills. Congress has a fix - it's sitting on
Crime prevention is the question I get asked most in Memphis. Here's the truth: the laws already passed - both parties voted for them. The administration just won't send the money. Courts can't fix it. The House can. New Daily
I just had to put two people on my campaign team on hiatus. We've run out of money to pay them. I haven't been paid anything from my campaign yet - I'm living off credit cards. If you can pitch in, it would really help us get to the finish line.
There's a 554-page veterans bill in Congress full of things veterans actually asked for - and it's paid for by cutting $57 billion in future disability benefits for tinnitus and sleep apnea. The Pentagon just got a $445 billion raise. We fund what we value. New Daily
ICE's own agents asked to be split off from ICE back in 2018. The letter went nowhere. Instead, Congress handed the agency more than $110 billion and cut the leash - no body cameras, no visible badges, no judge's signature on warrants. Memphis has lived the results. My new Daily Fix lays out the
Every city plays the same game - public money for stadiums and tourist stuff while neighborhoods wait on streetlights and a grocery store. The research is settled: the neighborhood is the intervention. Our rep won't even request the money. I would. New Daily
Disaster mitigation sounds boring until the flood shows up. Dyersburg spent a little after 2010 and it saved their water plant in 2025. Now xAI is stacking hundreds of giant batteries next to South Memphis homes - and I can't find the fire plan. New Daily
I Love Naps But I Stay Woke. The whole mood in one shirt. All proceeds go to the campaign. rachelandthecity.threadless.com/designs/i-love-naps-but-i-stay-woke
The world's largest supercomputer sits in Memphis' backyard - while 30,000 Memphians still don't have internet. AI companies say they'll lift everyone up. Fine - prove it where you compute. Here's the ask, and I've already sent
Congress built an AI task force, wrote 273 pages, then shut it down. Since then: exactly one AI law. Bring it back - and make it permanent. New Daily Fix: https://rachelfortn.com/blog/congress-built-an-ai-task-force-then-sent-it-home-bring-it-back-for-good/
Congress's own AI report told them how to protect your data, your rights, your job, your healthcare, and your work from AI. 18 months later, they've done one thing on the list. I read the report - here's what they
Hate Does Not Make America Great. Never has. Wear the correction. All proceeds go to the campaign. rachelandthecity.threadless.com/designs/hate-does-not-make-american-great