In January a federal judge ordered New York State to move its primary elections for Congressional races to June from September.

So get ready everybody: there’s a primary on Tuesday, June 26th.

This primary has nothing to do with the presidential race. But it will determine who will be on the ballot for the congressional race this coming November.

We’re talking the Congress here. The House of Representatives. Important stuff.

Nydia Valazquez, the first Puerto Rican woman in Congress, has been the 12th district’s representative for 2o years. She is currently serving her tenth term. In the 112th Congress, she is the Ranking Member of the House Small Business Committee and a senior member of the Financial Services Committee.With this election she will have real senoirity. But clearly some people in Brooklyn want her out.

This year, three Democrats are fighting for her seat. According to Friend-In-The-Know, this is the race to watch. AND VOTE IN.

There’s City Council Member Erik Martin Dilan, who is endorsed by Vito Lopez (Kings County Democratic Party Leader and a true Kingmaker in Kings County), newbie Dan O’Connor, a Libertarian running out of an office in Chinatown; he speaks Mandarin Chinese, and George Martinez, an Occupy Wall Street candidate running on the Bum Rush platform. He writes on his website: “Our goal is to create an open-source, crowd-sourced DIY campaign.”

The 7th and 12th congressional districts have recently been redrawn. According to the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, the re-mapping added ground to Nydia’s district in Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Park Slope, Brooklyn Heights and Manhattan’s Chinatown, as well as wide chunks of Woodhaven and heavily Hasidic South Williamsburg.

Valazquez was recently endorsed by Sen. Charles Schumer, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.