As Houston’s “first lady of rock and roll” during the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, Dayna Steele introduced a whole generation to the music of legends like Boston, Joan Jett and Melissa Etheridge on Rock 101 KLOL. Her fans, known as “Steeleworkers,” never forgot her influence on their lives. In 2016, Dayna was looking forward to retiring with her husband, a pilot for NASA, and spending the rest of her days on the golf course.

But the presidential elections in November of that year changed her mind and put her on a different course. The wife of a first-generation Cuban-American and the mother of an LGBTQ son, Dayna felt she had to do something to fight the resurgence of homophobia and xenophobia in the country she loves. On May 31, 2017, Dayna Steele announced her candidacy for the 36th Congressional District in the State of Texas.

Running as a Democrat in one of the reddest districts in a traditionally red state, Dayna knows this campaign will be a hard fight as she goes up against an incumbent who once notoriously said, “Sometimes a lady needs to be told when she’s being nasty.” With the future of the country on the line, Dayna is one nasty woman who is ready to fight for the people of her district. Her campaign motto says it all…Healthcare + Education = Jobs.

“Dayna Steele: Rock the 36” is a six-part docu-series that follows Dayna on the campaign trail. From raising campaign funds to driving miles and miles across her district to attend town hall meetings and even halting her campaign briefly to focus on relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, one of the worst natural disasters to hit her district in over a hundred years, viewers will get a firsthand look at what it takes to run for public office during one of the most turbulent periods in our nation’s history. Dayna will travel through her politically, ethnically and economically diverse district to talk with voters who feel unrepresented by our government, while confronting the challenges of running for public office for the first time.

Will she be able to help turn Texas blue? What does it take in 2018 to win an election? How can we, as a country, get past our political divide and learn to respect each other and our differences?