I appreciate the Indepth, excellent resource and guidebook you have outlined here. I would like to point out, as a lifelong TX progressive Democrat, that we have had efforts such as you outline, including Texas Organizing Project, Battleground Texas, Beto's Powered By People, TDP efforts, county Democratic Party outreach, Democratic Clubs, and candidate campaigns. The problems contributing to our lack of success include a lack of funding (DNC takes money out of TX); the large size and expense of our media markets; difficulties in countering the voter suppression efforts of the TX GOP; voter apathy; the large number of counties (254) in TX; and the lack of civic engagement. Our TX Constitution requires high schools to register seniors to vote, but the TX GOP discourages this type of voting activity. Let's hope these problems can be overcome soon.
Levi! I'm stoked to see you on substack. This is amazing, well-researched and well-organized work. Thanks for putting it out there!
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I appreciate the Indepth, excellent resource and guidebook you have outlined here. I would like to point out, as a lifelong TX progressive Democrat, that we have had efforts such as you outline, including Texas Organizing Project, Battleground Texas, Beto's Powered By People, TDP efforts, county Democratic Party outreach, Democratic Clubs, and candidate campaigns. The problems contributing to our lack of success include a lack of funding (DNC takes money out of TX); the large size and expense of our media markets; difficulties in countering the voter suppression efforts of the TX GOP; voter apathy; the large number of counties (254) in TX; and the lack of civic engagement. Our TX Constitution requires high schools to register seniors to vote, but the TX GOP discourages this type of voting activity. Let's hope these problems can be overcome soon.