New Year, New #TXLege—Education, Taxes, and Gun Violence Prevention

It’s a New Year and a new Texas Legislature!

With so many extremists sent home in November, there’s opportunity for Texans to support good legislation to invest in our students and educators, to lessen high-stakes/high-cost testing, while reducing local property taxes when the legislature pays its fair share of public education. It’s also time to make our schools and communities safer by passing common sense gun laws like red flag laws and universal background checks. Unfortunately, HD 92’s current Texas State Representative is promoting his guns everywhere/for anyone bill again. Find out what you can do to defeat it.

At our January meeting our guest speakers are Mike Sexton, Legislative Advocacy Chair for the GCISD Council of PTAs, and Carolyn Daniel for Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. They’ll tell us which bills to support, which to oppose, and how.

Thursday, January 24, 2019
Los Jimadores Tex-Mex Tequila Factory
3314 Harwood Rd, Bedford, Texas 76021

6:30 p.m. to visit and eat
7:00 p.m. meeting

Here’s our Facebook event to share.

Join new and old friends for our annual holiday party celebrating what we’ve accomplished this year and looking ahead to the good work to come in 2019!

Your ticket includes your 2019 membership dues, two drinks, and a pizza dinner.

We have a lot to celebrate:

• Our members worked precincts to help elect Beverly Powell to SD 10 and narrow the gap in SD9
• Came VERY close to winning HD 92 by donating thousands of dollars, providing branding and digital support and advertising, dedicated phone banks, post card writing, lit preparation and more. Steve Riddell’s campaign manager said, “The Mid-Cities Democrats hit way above their weight.”
• Promoted five local candidates to HEB councils—three won
• Hosted the TX-24 Congressional Democratic Primary forum
• Kicked off Mike Collier for Lt. Governor’s statewide education and property tax reform tour
• Hosted the Gubernatorial Democratic forum and Chili Dinner
• And had a great time doing it!

What’s up next:
• Supporting good and stopping bad legislation coming from the next legislative session
• Helping Democrats run for local office for May 2019
• Filling vacant precincts; supporting current precinct chairs
• Fundraising for the 2020 campaign so that when candidates step forward, they can hit the ground running

Get your tickets today!

Wednesday, December 5
6:30-8:30 pm
Grapevine Craft Brewery
906 Jean Street
Grapevine, TX 76051

Here’s our Facebook event to share. 

Good morning!

Last night Democrats took back the U.S. House, won seven governorships, Beverly Powell sent Tarrant County Tea Party extremist State Senator Konni Burton packing, Democrats won another Texas Senate seat, won 12 Texas House seats (including our good friend Terry Meza in HD 105) and Beto turned Tarrant County Blue!

While we wished for other outcomes in the narrow loss in the U.S. Senate and State Representative 92, we are thrilled at the progress. In HEB, Steve Riddell narrowed the Democratic loss from 16.9 to 2.43%! Thank you, thank you to Steve and family for running, to all the local Democrats who stepped up to run, and to all of you who donated time and money.

We are excited about elections and party building to come.

Stay tuned for information about our final 2018 events.

Early voting is underway! Give an hour/two/whatever you can to poll greet and welcome voters to the polls!

October GOTV Meeting w/ #TeamRiddell & #TeamPowell

This is it! It’s our final meeting before Election Day! We can’t wait to vote!

After a brief business meeting, including officer nominations, we’ll get poll greeting training from the Beverly Powell campaign. Then, we will make get out the vote calls and texts with the Steve Riddell campaign. Poll greeting, poll watching, and lit drop opportunities are available for signup.

Don’t miss this meeting! As #TeamBeto says of person-to-person contact, let’s “sway hearts and minds, and swing elections!”

Thursday, October 25, 2018
Los Jimadores Tex-Mex Tequila Factory
3314 Harwood Rd, Bedford, Texas 76021

6:30 p.m. to visit and eat
7:00 p.m. meeting

Here’s our Facebook event to share.