Tag: Texas

Turning Texas Blue Means Registering & Turning Out More Voters

Republicans in the Texas legislature rammed through a racist and ultra-partisan redistricting map that packs as many Democrats as they could into a new Austin district with th...

Meet Jessica Mason– She’s What Congress Should Be Like Going Into The 21st Century

The Dallas progressive activist is taking on a Democratic incumbent long overdue for retirement, too comfy corporate shill, Eddie Bernice Johnson. I implore you-- I beg you-- to...

New Endorsement Alert: Charles Thompson, TX-18

$15 an hour should be the floor, not the ceiling. 

I am prepared to fight for true equity for the 18th district so future generations are provided with the same opportunitie...

Julie And Mike– The Key To Flipping Texas

Many Texas voters-- particularly in the suburbs and exurbs around Dallas-Ft Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio-- are sick of Trump and giving up on his enablers. And wheth...

Google Removed Our Ad. Where Is The ‘Shocking Content’?

Blue America's IE Committee has begun purchasing ads for our candidates. The first batch went up as a YouTube pre-roll for Kara Eastman (NE-02), Liam O'Mara (CA-42), Mike Siegel...

Florida, Ultimate Swing State: Let’s Win It This Time!

Often, in politics victories are far and in between. Here at Blue America, we don't pick candidates because we assess them as having the best chance to win. We pick them becaus...

Racism? In Texas? Here’s Why Mike Siegel Will Never Stop Fighting It

Mike Siegel is a civil rights lawyer and former public school teacher, who nearly beat right-wing Republican Michael McCaul in 2018 in a gerrymandered district the DCCC never to...

A Texas Progressive On The Verge– Meet Julie Oliver

Last year Julie Oliver was in the midst of a primary battle with another worthy challenger eager to take on crooked conservative incumbent Roger Williams in the gerrymandered 25...

Running A People-Powered Campaign, While Sheltering In Place

Progressive challengers-- especially in races against well-heeled incumbents who can write themselves big checks or appeal to corporate SuperPACs-- have two new handicaps: grass...

Austin Can Create a National Model for the Green New Deal

On September 21 at Huston-Tillotson University, a historically-black college in Austin, progressive congressional candidate Mike Siegel convenes a conference on the Green New De...

Let’s pull on Beto’s bootstraps

Beto O’Rourke has proven to be a leader of the future, a progressive with a skilled way of preaching beyond the choir. We support him, but hope you’ll dig deep to help the down-ticket TX progressives who could really use some extra cash today.

Up To Bat In March — Progressives In Texas And Illinois

This week we’re asking you to consider helping our Texas and Illinois candidates and leave the others for another time. Let's make sure the progressives get into the Texas runoffs and into the Illinois general election.

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