09/12/2026
I spent some time looking into Pia Dandiya, Casey Askar’s Democratic opponent, and I’m going to tell you something. She is exactly the kind of candidate conservatives need to worry about. Not because she looks radical, because she doesn’t.
She is polished, smart and accomplished. Harvard graduate. Teacher. Principal. White House Fellow. She worked at Apple. She talks about children, families, affordability and bringing people together. Very pretty packaging.
Now look at what is inside.
Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Everytown for Gun Safety. Moms Demand Action. The Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus. The Palm Beach County Human Rights Council. EMILY’s List. The NRDC Action Fund. The DCCC. The Florida AFL CIO.
Those are not casual endorsements. That is the progressive political machine lining up behind one candidate. Everytown included Dandiya in a slate it explicitly described as Moms Demand Action volunteers running for office. So no, they are not helping send her to Congress because they believe she will defend your Second Amendment rights.
Her own platform calls for universal pre K, fully funding public schools, reversing Medicaid cuts, making the wealthiest Americans pay what she calls their “fair share” and protecting access to abortion and contraception. It also says every American, no matter who they love, deserves equal treatment under the law.
She does not use the word DEI on her priority page. Of course she doesn’t. She is running in Florida. Instead, we get all the pretty replacement words. Equality. Dignity. Progress. Opportunity. Then the organizations pushing the identity politics agenda show up on her endorsement page. That tells me everything I need to know.
I also went through her published priorities. Nothing meaningful about securing the border, illegal immigration, protecting the Second Amendment, parental rights, biological men in women’s sports, gender ideology in schools or protecting girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms.
She is very comfortable telling us where she stands on abortion and LGBTQ rights. On the issues that would expose just how far left she really is, suddenly there is silence.
She originally launched her campaign in District 21 against Brian Mast. When Florida’s congressional map changed, she switched to the newly drawn District 22.
But sure, let’s pretend this is just a sweet little grassroots campaign about helping children.
Her campaign says she has raised more than $2 million. The DCCC placed her in its Red to Blue program because national Democrats see this race as an opportunity to gain another seat and take control of the House.
That is the part voters cannot afford to miss. If Pia Dandiya wins, Democrats move one seat closer to controlling Congress and Hakeem Jeffries moves one step closer to becoming Speaker. That means control over committees, investigations, spending, immigration legislation, abortion legislation, gun legislation and whether President Trump’s agenda moves forward or gets buried.
You are not simply voting for a former principal with an impressive résumé. You are voting for every organization standing behind her and every vote they expect her to deliver.
Pia Dandiya is not frightening because she looks like a radical. She is frightening because she has been packaged to look harmless.
The résumé is impressive. That is exactly why you need to look past it.
Casey Askar has to win.
SOURCES:
Pia Dandiya’s biography:
https://piaforcongress.com/about
Her published priorities:
https://piaforcongress.com/priorities
Her official endorsements:
https://piaforcongress.com/endorsements
Everytown’s Moms Demand Action volunteer endorsement announcement:
https://www.everytown.org/press/everytown-for-gun-safety-action-fund-announces-new-round-of-volunteer-endorsements-backing-44-candidates-across-20-states/
Florida LGBTQ+ Democratic Caucus endorsement:
https://lgbtqdems.org/
Federal Election Commission candidate record:
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6FL21059/
Reporting on her switch from District 21 to District 22:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/06/priya-dandiya-florida-redistricting-democrat
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