Every two years at the state convention, the Texas Democratic Party adopts a new platform that articulates the core ideas and beliefs that govern the party. Planks in the platform — from healthcare to education to criminal justice reform — form the foundation of what...
2020 Elections
back to archiveKoch-backed super PAC pumps another quarter of a million into ads for Cornyn
Americans for Prosperity Action, the latest astroturf super PAC created by right-wing oil billionaire and dark money curator Charles Koch, is burning through cash to help Sen. John Cornyn. On Tuesday, the group released a 60-second digital ad urging Texans to vote for...
Democrats have a plan to turn Texas blue: Latino voters
For the past few decades, Texas Latinos have been frequently referred to as the “sleeping giant” — a group so large that once awakened to vote, Latinos would deliver a seismic shift in political power. An influence so powerful that it would keep Democrats in office...
Texas Democrats raked in $1.5 million from grassroots donors during convention
The Texas Democratic Party announced Monday that the party brought home $1.5 million in grassroots donations from the convention last week, breaking previous digital fundraising records. The Texas Democrats’ convention went exclusively online this year as a way to...
Questions over police reform, COVID-19 dominate Texas U.S. Senate debate
Texas’ two Democratic U.S. Senate candidates faced off Saturday evening, discussing hot-button issues like police reform and the federal response to the COVID-19 pandemic. State Sen. Royce West and Air Force helicopter pilot MJ Hegar, the two runoff candidates...
Abbott starts phase three to open Texas economy during coronavirus
Governor Greg Abbott announced on Wednesday that all businesses can open at 50 percent capacity “with very limited exceptions,” as part of the third phase of reopening the Texas economy. In his executive order, effective immediately, Abbott also stated that bars and...
An Update on the Texas Senate Race
If the Democrats want to achieve anything after taking back the White House they’ll need to take back the Senate as well. A Democratic presidency facing a GOP-controlled Senate would lead to a repeat of what happened after 2014, when Mitch McConnell repeatedly blocked...
A note to our readers
George Floyd, a proud son of Third Ward in Houston, Texas, was murdered in broad daylight and on camera by a police officer seven days ago. We, like you, were mortified to see yet another Black man have their life senselessly deprived of them. We, like you, were...
How Bernie changed Texas
Stories of struggle Believing in Bernie Sanders in Texas was once — and still can sometimes feel like — a lonely pursuit. Republicans called him radical — too extreme. Democrats argued that he couldn’t win — too far left. Texas, the long-standing bastion of...