At 6:35 p.m. on December 23, 2025—after business hours and on the eve of Christmas Eve—the Dallas County Democratic Party Chair sent an email declaring me “ineligible to appear on the ballot.” That message was sent not to my campaign email address, but to an unrelated email address.

While the Party Chair has authority within the scope of his role to address eligibility challenges and procedural deficiencies, everything about how this determination was handled reflects impropriety, bad faith, and a subversion of the process.

The governing statute requires specificity when a candidate is excluded based on a challenge. I was provided none. I requested clarification—some explanation of what defect was so severe that it warranted complete exclusion from a ballot on which my name already appeared. That request was ignored.

The circumstances are not incidental:

• The notice was sent to a non-campaign email address
• At 6:35 p.m.
• On the night before Christmas Eve

I was given a 24-hour deadline to respond, requiring action on Christmas Eve, when the  offices of the Secretary of State and the Dallas Democratic Party were closed. I provided a three page, extensive response, relying on the Chair's representation of a prompt review and . As of January 3, 2026, no response has been received.

The practical result of this maneuver was to leave a single candidate on the Democratic Party primary ballot—an individual who is a personal friend of the Party Chair—as the sole option for a four-year judicial term.

This is not what the Democratic Party claims to stand for. This is not due process. And this is not merely about me or one judicial seat. It is about whether we will hold ourselves to the same standards of fairness, transparency, and accountability that we demand of our political opponents.

 This is not about compliance—it is about control.

A qualified candidate is being targeted for removal not for fraud, legal disqualification, or substantive failure, but through a vague and shifting administrative technicality invoked by a biased party official.

When rules are unclear, inconsistently applied, or weaponized after the fact, they stop serving democracy and instead become tools of exclusion.

Elections are decided by voters—not by discretionary paperwork traps. Administrative procedures exist to facilitate participation, not to obstruct it when the outcome makes those in power uncomfortable.

If this action is allowed to stand, it sets a dangerous precedent: any candidate can be erased, and any voter silenced, simply by invoking ambiguity instead of law.

Please sign this petition to join your voice with mine in calling on the Dallas County Democratic Party Chair, Kardal Coleman, to reconsider the removal of Attorney Maxine from the ballot. A fair, transparent election is essential to public trust—and to the integrity of our democracy.