{"id":80624,"date":"2025-12-08T18:32:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80624\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:32:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:32:06","slug":"friendship-west-baptist-church-pastor-frederick-haynes-iii-mounts-campaign-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/80624\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship-West Baptist Church pastor Frederick Haynes III mounts campaign for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Dallas minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/08\/five-things-to-know-about-friendship-west-baptist-church-pastor-frederick-d-haynes-iii\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2025\/12\/08\/five-things-to-know-about-friendship-west-baptist-church-pastor-frederick-d-haynes-iii\/\">Frederick Haynes III<\/a>, leader of Friendship-West Baptist Church, on Monday filed his candidacy for Dallas\u2019 30th Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Haynes\u2019 candidacy comes as the district\u2019s current representative, Dallas Democrat Jasmine Crockett, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/elections\/2025\/12\/07\/jasmine-crockett-expected-to-launch-senate-campaign-ahead-of-candidate-filing-deadline\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected to announce a Senate campaign.<\/a> Crockett is staging an event Monday at 4:30 p.m. to discuss her political future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Haynes\u2019 leadership of the 13,000-member church in Oak Cliff has given him a significant platform and he\u2019s been heavily involved in political events and social justice causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">With Crockett expected to leave her District 30 seat, Haynes is one of several candidates expected to run to replace her. Haynes was a major supporter of Crockett\u2019s campaign and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Cztjzylu2ML\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he\u2019s her pastor.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Political Points<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__3beff secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-20 text-center text-gray-dark\">Get the latest politics news from North Texas and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__8MgJa flex flex-wrap text-gray-dark secondaryRoman secondaryRoman-10 text-center justify-center\">By signing up, you agree to our\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/terms-of-service\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Terms of Service<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a class=\"dmnc_features-cta-social-article-cta-social-module__lU9-l border-b border-gray-dark hover_border-0 focus_border-0 active_border-0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/help\/privacy-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Haynes will join a contest that\u2019s likely to include U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Fort Worth, who has represented nearby District 33 since 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4096 \/ 2730\"   class=\"dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain\" width=\"4096\" height=\"2730\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GS4PQTBY2BFB7EUBDZSVPUDXQQ.jpg\" alt=\"U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett hugs Rev. Frederick Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West...\"\/><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett hugs Rev. Frederick Haynes III, senior pastor of Friendship-West Baptist Church, as she takes the stage to address a rally at Antioch Fellowship Church on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025, in Dallas.<\/p>\n<p>Smiley N. Pool \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">The Republican-controlled Legislature redrew that district this summer and removed Veasey\u2019s Tarrant County political base. District 30 was changed also. It\u2019s dominated by Black voters and includes a swath of Tarrant County, including areas Veasey used to represent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Haynes is making his first run for major office. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">In 2024 Haynes took over leadership of the Chicago-based civil rights organization Rainbow PUSH Coalition. Less than three months later he resigned.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"aspect-ratio:190 \/ 127\" class=\"dmnc_features-article-body-embeds-related-story-module__2UraD flex-none object-cover dmnc_images-modern-image-module__QFaG- max-w-full h-auto text-white dmnc_images-modern-image-module__9Zlll bg-gray-light object-contain dmnc_images-modern-image-module__P3kZ4 w-full\" width=\"190\" height=\"127\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ABVQZSHZJBCGLD6C5BYCISK64M.jpg\" alt=\" The Rev. Frederick D. Haynes III, pastor of Friendship West Baptist Church, speaks to The...\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"body-text-paragraph\">Haynes recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/faith\/2025\/10\/20\/friendship-west-pastor-frederick-haynes-iii-returns-to-pulpit-after-medical-leave\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/faith\/2025\/10\/20\/friendship-west-pastor-frederick-haynes-iii-returns-to-pulpit-after-medical-leave\/\">returned to his duties<\/a> as Friendship-West pastor after a brief medical leave.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas minister Frederick Haynes III, leader of Friendship-West Baptist Church, on Monday filed his candidacy for Dallas\u2019 30th&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2671,102,104,103,1881,3481,15926,4896,287,10806],"class_list":{"0":"post-80624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-congress","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-headlines","11":"tag-dallas-news","12":"tag-faith","13":"tag-jasmine-crockett","14":"tag-marc-veasey","15":"tag-oak-cliff","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-u-s-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}