Whether Democrats or Republicans won Texas, the state has remained one of the most culturally Conservative and economically Conservative states in American history

Republicans have dominated Texas ever since 1952, when Eisenhower won it twice in a row, even when it was considered a part of the solid South (the old Confederate states that voted Democrat). Since 1952, Texas has only voted for a Democrat four times: JFK 1960, LBJ 1964, Hubert Humphrey 1968, Jimmy Carter 1976.

No Democrat has represented Texas in the Senate since 1994 (Bob Krueger).

For so many decades, Texas has remained the crown jewel for Republicans. It is the California for the GOP.

But with a huge increase in Latin American immigration, Democratic immigration (from states like California and NY etc.), and a growing hostility towards social and economic Conservatism (both neoconservatism, paleoconservatism etc.), Texas has slowly become more liberal and it's now being contested as a swing state.

Even a lot of native Texans are beginning to dislike the Republican party. Surburban voters are becoming more liberal and the cities in Texas are reliably Democratic strongholds (Austin, Houston, San Antonio, Dallas)

In the House, 23 Republicans and 13 Democrats reprsent Texas

Republicans still control both the House and Senate in the Texas legislature

Senate:

-19 Republicans

-12 Democrats

House:

-83 Republicans

-67 Democrats

However, Democrats dominate the Mayoral offices in Texas and city councils.

In 2018, Beto O'Rourke was just 214,922 (2.6%) votes away from unseating Ted Cruz

Unfortunately in the recent election, Mj Hegar was 1,094,220 votes away from unseating John Cornyn.

In the 2020 exit polls;

59% of Texans viewed climate change as a threat

Trump only won Texan veterans by 4%

Biden won the black vote by 81%, the Latino vote by 17%, and the Asian vote by 33%

Biden won the moderate vote by 34%

Biden won the independent vote by 6%

Biden won voters aged 18-24 by 20%, voters aged 25-29 by 13% and voters aged 30-39 by 3%

48% of Texans think abortion should be legal compared to the 45% who want it banned. (This is big since Texas is extremely Conservative with a large Christian population)

Trump only won voters who made $100k+ by 6%

51% of Texans don't think Trump is fit enough to be President compared to the 47% that do

49% of Texans view Trump as "unfavorable" compared to the 48% who view him as "favorable"

56% of Texans approve of Trump compared to 42% who dissaprove of Trump

Biden won amongst voters making $200k+ by 8%

40% of Texans have the economy as their priority with racial inequality, COVID, and healthcare trailing as crime and safety finishes last (This is also huge since crime and safety tends to be a huge priority for Conservatives)

Texans are split on whether to prioritize the economy or COVID (47%-47%)

60% of Texans think racism is an important issue

Biden was the first Democrat to win Tarrant County since 1964

Trump only won Dan Crenshaw's Gerrymandered District (TX-2) by 1%

Biden won all the cities by a minimum of 14%

11,317,911 out of 17,000,000 Texans voted in the 2020 Presidential Election

We're nearly there guys but how can we win? What should our strategy be? How can we push Demcorats over the edge and break the red wall in Texas?

Just look at how the Republican vote margin is slowly decreasing

Get out and vote early!

Early voting starts tomorrow, October 13th in Texas.

List of early voting locations https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/MVP.do

If you live in one of the four major counties, here are maps showing early voting locations.

Dallas www.dallascountyvotes.org/wp-content/uploads/201103-EVLocations.pdf Or https://goo.gl/maps/ACt7rsXxdPAeqGRt8

Houston www.harrisvotes.com/WaitTimes

Austin https://countyclerk.traviscountytx.gov/elections/current-election/polling-locations.html

San Antonio www.bexar.org/2237/Early-Vote-Information

If you requested a mail-in ballot and end up wanting to vote in-person instead for whatever reason, you MUST bring your mail-in ballot and surrender it upon voting in person.

What you need to bring https://www.votetexas.gov/register-to-vote/need-id.html

Note that an expired ID is acceptable, so long as it's no more than 4 years expired. If you are over 70, it can be expired for any length of time. That said, the ID needs to be valid other than the expiration.

Hi y'all!

Thank you to everyone in the primary that helped us knock more doors than we did in all of 2018 combined!! With your help, more Democrats came out to vote for the Democratic Candidates in TX25th district than Republicans turned out for their candidate for the first time in history!

With candidates like Bernie in the Senate and Julie in the House, we can get Congress to pass legislation that will help working people all across the country!

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Thank you for your support and we look forward to sending our used car dealer Republican opponent back to his used car dealership!!

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1281235285745991686

Happy Juneteenth, family! Today we commemorate the end of slavery across all states, the final state being Texas, on June 19th, 1865 -- two and a half years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. We celebrate our history, our ancestors, our legacy and our culture today! https://4ormypeople.com/whatsreallygood/2020/6/19/happy-juneteenth-family

The TDP party platform that's up for election now seems to be a pretty good deal for Texans, and includes some things in it that appeal to me as a Sanders delegate, including:

• Student debt cancellation and tuition/fee rollbacks
• Supporting the GND and more restrictions on Oil/Gas companies
• Increased funding for our state parks
• "Appreciate and teach Asian American contributions to American society such as knitting the country together

with the transcontinental railroad and pioneering Universal Basic Income"

• "Provide reparations for the descendants of slaves who were brought to America through the Atlantic slave trade"
• Calling for the passage of the Equality Act
• Prohibiting discrimination against trans, intersex, and nonbinary individuals on the basis of gender
• Adding a clause for gender-related hate crimes in the Texas James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Act (which would also make the "trans panic" defense improper)
• Supporting Universal Basic Income for all adults
• Implementing single-payer healthcare, including drugs, vision, hearing, dental, and mental healthcare (supporting the Medicare For All Act of 2019)
• Expanded access to contraception and abortion
• And a lot of other great things

I think that this has a lot of potential and has very important things in it. What do you all think?

Hey fellow Texas Bernie delegates.

We are now into our third round of voting for the Texas Democratic Convention, with still more to come. This period of voting is a little more complex, and it can be a little more confusing than the others, so let me try to break it down. Right now, we are holding caucus elections, but not all caucuses are the same. Some are recommending members to the Democratic National Committee, some are directly electing members to the State Democratic Executive Committee, and some are electing their officer boards (which, to make even more confusing, can include people that go on to serve on the SDEC). Also, our elections for At-Large Democratic National Committee members are part of this wave, as well.

Not everyone will have the same ballots, since they are based on the caucuses you're in. Some of us will have only a few votes to cast, others will have over a dozen. These elections go until May 30th at 5 p.m., Central time.

By now, you should have received your ballot from conventionchair@txdemocrats.org in your inbox. If you haven't, contact the Texas Democratic Party’s help desk at https://txdem.co/Convention-Help.

To vote, all you’ll need is your Convention ID, which can also be found in emails from conventionchair@txdemocrats.org – once again, if you’ve got Convention ID issues, please go to https://txdem.co/Convention-Help.

The ballot will be ranked choice voting, where you select your first, second, and third choice. The ballot might look a little weird, since it looks like the same race is repeated three times in a row, but that’s just the way the Party is implementing ranked choice voting. If you turn in multiple ballots for the same race, only your final ballot will be counted.

Here is a list of Bernie delegates running. In some places, there are none, in some places, there are multiple. Hopefully, you've recevied correspondence from candidates in the running (I know my inbox certainly has).

Here is a list of Our Revolution members running.

If you have any questions, fire away.

To anyone here that is a Texas State Delegate for Bernie, just wanted to make sure that you were aware we were in the middle of the first round of voting this convention. First up, we're voting on Permanent Committees, until 5/19 at 5 p.m. central. I'm the Vice Chair of Rules for the Texas Democratic Party, and also was appointed to serve on the Convention Working Group, so I want to make sure everyone is up to speed. (And also might have some bias here as a Bernie delegate!)

Here's a list of Bernie Delegates running.

Here's a list of Our Revolution members running.

Here's a quick video I recorded explaining this first ballot for delegates. (Facebook link warning if that bothers you)

If y'all have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

How do we organize to keep pushing a progressive agenda on the local level? Federal and statewide elections are lost, but they weren’t realistically attainable anyway. Those that defend the status quo won’t let anything but an overwhelming majority cause any hope of the status quo changing.

So what are we going to do to keep pushing for change on the local level? How can we mitigate the harm that the Trump will cause in his second term?