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Born | Houston, Texas, U.S. | August 30, 1977
Political party | Democratic |
Education | Amherst College (BA) |
Laura Moser (born August 30, 1977)[1] is an American author and politician who founded the anti-Trump resistance movement Daily Action. She was a candidate for the United States Congress in Texas's 7th congressional district.[2]
Moser was born in Houston, Texas.[3] Her grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany.[4] She attended St. John's School and graduated from Amherst College in 1999.[1] She later worked in publishing at the Harvill Press in London before becoming a freelance journalist.[1]
Moser published her first book, an "efficient, compact" biography of the actress Bette Davis, in 2005.[5] With her friend Lauren Mechling, she co-authored a series of young adult novels about the experiences of a girl who moves from Houston to Brooklyn.[6]
Moser has contributed to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, and The Jewish Daily Forward. She was the education columnist at Slate.[7]
After the 2016 United States presidential election, Moser founded the organization Daily Action.[8] In 2017, she moved back to Texas's 7th congressional district to run for Congress in 2018.[9]
In February 2018, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), citing concerns about Moser's electability in the general election, called attention to her past controversial statements.[10] That DCCC action was condemned by DNC chair Tom Perez[11] and Our Revolution, which endorsed Moser a few days later, on March 1, 2018.[12]
In the March 6 Democratic primary, in a seven-candidate field, Moser earned 24.3% of the vote to Lizzie Fletcher's 29.3%.[13]
In the May 22 runoff, Fletcher defeated Moser, 68% to 32%, becoming the Democratic nominee in the general election.[14]
In the November 6 general election, Fletcher defeated incumbent representative John Culberson by five percentage points (52.5% to 47.5%).[15]
Moser is married to Arun Chaudhary, who was President Barack Obama's White House videographer.[16] Her brother is Benjamin Moser, a New York Times Book Review columnist. She has two children.[17] In April 2020, she and her family moved to Berlin, Germany.[18]