ERIC SWALWELL
A Tested Leader Meeting the Moment
Eric Swalwell, the fiercest face of the Democratic resistance, was raised by Republicans in Dublin, California.
When asked later how he came to the other side, Eric said it wasn’t hard: “Democrats just had the better ideas.”
His father, an honest cop, was always trying to keep his city’s streets safe. His mother, a small business owner, was always trying to keep her family’s lights on.
Like most Americans, they barely made it. And yet were insanely proud to be Americans. In that way, they were perhaps like their immigrant neighbors in one of America’s most diverse cities.
Being the oldest, Eric had to take care of his three brothers.
In addition, he had to start working. He got his first job at 10 running a paper route.
You want to know how to sand and install window frames? Ask Eric. He started doing that as a teenager.
But all that hard work - both in the library and on the field - earned Eric a Division One soccer scholarship and then a degree from the University of Maryland.
Eric wasn’t just the first in his family to graduate from college. He was the first to take a single class.
But of course, while in college and while playing soccer, Eric still had to work. Wanted to work. In that way, Eric was no different than millions of kids whose definition of a dream job is any job that’d pay.
One of the reasons Eric fights so hard for regular people, is because he is one, and because he’s had many of their jobs:
Just a few were:
Eric felt the pull of public service. So after graduating from the University of Maryland School of Law, he returned to California to become a prosecutor in the famed DA’s office of Alameda County (where SCOTUS Chief Justice Earl Warren plied). While there Eric led a successful Hate Crimes Unit.
In 2010 at the age of 29, Eric won his first election: To be a city councilmember in his hometown of Dublin. And now as a US Congressperson, Eric has already served over 12 years.
Eric also served for 8 years on the House Intelligence Committee where he was the chairman and ranking member overseeing the CIA. While there, Eric helped Adam Schiff lead the House investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. Later, he’d do the same in both the first and second impeachments of Donald Trump.
On January 6th, Speaker Pelosi asked Eric to preside over the Chamber and gavel Congress into session. Hours later he and his best friend and now U.S. Senator Ruben Gallego were on the House Floor, surrounded by the mob, gathering any weapons they could find. A week after the attacks, Eric was appointed as a House Impeachment Manager for Donald Trump’s Senate trial.
This was largely due to the respect given to Eric for his long leadership in the House and because on January 6th as a member of the Democrats’ leadership team, Eric stood his ground on the House floor. He did not see Josh Hawley running.
In 2020, Eric authored End Game, an inside look at what happened in the months leading up to and during the first impeachment of Donald Trump and what it means for our nation’s immediate future. In an attempt to intimidate and silence Eric, Speaker McCarthy stripped him of his Intelligence Committee assignment. Eric obviously kept speaking.
Eric was a candidate for president in the 2020 election, desperately trying to end senseless gun violence. He qualified to participate in the first presidential debate in June 2019 in Miami. There, he asked Joe Biden to “pass the torch."
A mere 1,850 days later, President Joe Biden did just that.
Eric currently serves on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security Committees. He is also Chairman Emeritus and founder of Future Forum, a group of young Democratic members focused on issues and opportunities for millennial Americans.
In his sparse spare hours, Eric has also founded a tech company - an AI political organizing tool. And has also become a television and film producer, having made two films and developed two television shows.
Eric and his wife Brittany, a small business owner in hospitality who refuses to read the TV pilot Eric developed, are the pleased parents of three children: Nelson, Cricket, and Hank.
The kids have not chosen a political party, but Eric has heard Nelson tell his younger siblings that Democrats “just had better ideas."
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