Texas Democrats and the National Democratic Training Committee announced Tuesday the arrival of a new candidate training program. The four-week training program will teach candidates about campaign finance, messaging, and managing grassroots support in preparation for...
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back to archiveTexas Democrats shake up top staff
The Texas Democratic Party announced that two top staffers are stepping down, Executive Director Manny Garcia and Deputy Executive Director Cliff Walker. Both officials have helped lead the party since 2019. The party announced Thursday that they would be stepping...
Joe Moody on abolishing the death penalty, legalizing weed, and Thanksgiving
On Wednesday, the Signal spoke with state Rep. Joe Moody of El Paso, who serves as speaker pro tempore of the Texas House. Now entering his sixth term, Moody has filed 11 bills for the upcoming session, mostly relating to his focus on criminal justice. They...
Ten Reasons We’re Grateful Donald Trump is Fired
We’ve waited so very long to say that — not just for the four years in which you didn’t even try to represent all of America, nor the past year in which you did nothing to save more than 230,000 Americans who died of COVID-19, but also during the long ballot-counting...
Texas 2020: Election Day live updates
-- End of live updates -- 2:30 a.m. Despite record-breaking turnout in Texas, the Democratic offensive in the state appears to have fallen far short of its expected goal. To what degree depends on the votes that remain to be counted in major metro counties, but...
North Texas Democrats look to galvanize Latinos
Turning Texas blue is not going to be easy, and it’s going to be nearly impossible without the support of Latinos. As part of its ongoing virtual programming, the Dallas County Democratic Party held a discussion last Friday with former state Senator Leticia Van de...
DNC CEO Seema Nanda steps down
On Friday, Democratic National Committee CEO Seema Nanda announced that she was stepping down after two years on the job. “I couldn’t be prouder of the infrastructure we have built, the primary process we have run, and the team we have built,” she wrote on...