Axios reported that over the last 20 years, an average of 13.8% of registered Harris County voters participated in odd-numbered elections. Last Tuesday it was 16.4%.
I was so impressed that Newsom was sticking it to Abbott so quickly after the election. I also love that people are not falling for the Republican division tactic of setting off Californians against Texans. Sure, we gripe about Californians moving here. But we gripe about everyone who moves here. It just takes a while to adjust. We're all Americans, not a bunch of prehistoric Europeans engaging in tribal warfare.
If Texas goes Blue, it's lights out for Republicans in the Electoral College. And they know it. It's about time Democrats knew it too.
I'm a total newb, trying to learn. Can you tell me more about these "House District Coordinator" positions that recruit precinct chair? Who do they report to?
Don't quote me on this, but I think it's just a way to divide up territory as a practical matter for getting the work done here in the county. They're just using an existing map for territory rather than creating a new one.
I just signed up as precinct chair in Tarrant County. It is a little difficult to get a handle on the fire hose of information. The House District Coordinator is our guide to doing our job. I also don't have a good handle on it yet either. Tarrant County Democrats have training modules on their websites which I am slowly trying to work through. Bug your Democratic Party for help. They're mostly volunteers and probably new too.
I look at this as a sales job. We want to find and shepard Democrats to the voting booth, not a generalized "get out the vote" of everyone in the hopes more of them will vote Democrat.
But, it's a lot! I just figured out what "my HD" is. Now I need to figure out who it is. A problem I'm having is a lot of acronyms and jargon that only they understand and too many emails coming from various directions. My intent is to get proficient at the process and how to motivate my little patch of Democrats to get to the polls for Taylor Rehmet in the runoff in January.
Now that I have a job to do, I already feel better about things. Just going to work does a lot to dispel the online doldrums.
My Democratic county chair is disappointing; secretive, office doesn't return emails. There are people and groups working in the right direction despite our poor Dem party mgmt. So there is room for some guarded optimism.
I'd love a publicly available database of all Texas precinct chairs, active and vacant. Somewhere locals can easily see if a chair needs filling, and for strategists to use for pinpointing resources.
I wish every large county Democratic Party had HD coordinators like ya’ll do on Tarrant. We don’t have it in Dallas and for a county with 1.4MM registered voters and an incredibly diverse city and huge suburbs that are mid cities themselves, it just makes things hard. So I just had to start doing it myself, which is what Beltline is, coordinating NW Dallas County together as a region. That makes it easier to focus on, easier to recruit and is a larger community of interest. How we organize and recruit up here is different than in East Dallas. It just is. We can’t practice purity politics cause we are in the suburbs. We don’t have the history of democratic candidates in our congressional or house races, and certainly not in municipal, so expecting us to have perfect democratic primary records for the last 12 years is not realistic.
I love that you are bullish on Harris. I am all for it. But as I always tell you, we will not win state wide until we focus on North Texas as a whole. The Dallas Fort Worth Metro area is the 4th largest in the country. We are gaining more and more gettable voters in Kaufman, Ellis, and Johnson, and don’t discount that Waco is almost part of DFW. And we are organizing down the I 35 corridor. You know that is my happy spot. It is happening. More and more precinct chairs every single day !
Axios reported that over the last 20 years, an average of 13.8% of registered Harris County voters participated in odd-numbered elections. Last Tuesday it was 16.4%.
Got that link?
https://www.axios.com/local/houston/2025/11/06/stat-du-jour-november-2025-voter-turnout
I was so impressed that Newsom was sticking it to Abbott so quickly after the election. I also love that people are not falling for the Republican division tactic of setting off Californians against Texans. Sure, we gripe about Californians moving here. But we gripe about everyone who moves here. It just takes a while to adjust. We're all Americans, not a bunch of prehistoric Europeans engaging in tribal warfare.
If Texas goes Blue, it's lights out for Republicans in the Electoral College. And they know it. It's about time Democrats knew it too.
I'm a total newb, trying to learn. Can you tell me more about these "House District Coordinator" positions that recruit precinct chair? Who do they report to?
Not every county has them, but if they do, they would be within the county party structure and report to the county chair
The "house" portion of the title implies that these persons also coordinate with the Dem Texas House reps in that particular county. Correct?
I don’t know all the specifics, I’m sorry, but I would assume so.
Don't quote me on this, but I think it's just a way to divide up territory as a practical matter for getting the work done here in the county. They're just using an existing map for territory rather than creating a new one.
I just signed up as precinct chair in Tarrant County. It is a little difficult to get a handle on the fire hose of information. The House District Coordinator is our guide to doing our job. I also don't have a good handle on it yet either. Tarrant County Democrats have training modules on their websites which I am slowly trying to work through. Bug your Democratic Party for help. They're mostly volunteers and probably new too.
I look at this as a sales job. We want to find and shepard Democrats to the voting booth, not a generalized "get out the vote" of everyone in the hopes more of them will vote Democrat.
But, it's a lot! I just figured out what "my HD" is. Now I need to figure out who it is. A problem I'm having is a lot of acronyms and jargon that only they understand and too many emails coming from various directions. My intent is to get proficient at the process and how to motivate my little patch of Democrats to get to the polls for Taylor Rehmet in the runoff in January.
Now that I have a job to do, I already feel better about things. Just going to work does a lot to dispel the online doldrums.
My Democratic county chair is disappointing; secretive, office doesn't return emails. There are people and groups working in the right direction despite our poor Dem party mgmt. So there is room for some guarded optimism.
What county are you in?
Hidalgo
Oh, that's interesting. I've heard this before.
I'd love a publicly available database of all Texas precinct chairs, active and vacant. Somewhere locals can easily see if a chair needs filling, and for strategists to use for pinpointing resources.
I wish every large county Democratic Party had HD coordinators like ya’ll do on Tarrant. We don’t have it in Dallas and for a county with 1.4MM registered voters and an incredibly diverse city and huge suburbs that are mid cities themselves, it just makes things hard. So I just had to start doing it myself, which is what Beltline is, coordinating NW Dallas County together as a region. That makes it easier to focus on, easier to recruit and is a larger community of interest. How we organize and recruit up here is different than in East Dallas. It just is. We can’t practice purity politics cause we are in the suburbs. We don’t have the history of democratic candidates in our congressional or house races, and certainly not in municipal, so expecting us to have perfect democratic primary records for the last 12 years is not realistic.
I love that you are bullish on Harris. I am all for it. But as I always tell you, we will not win state wide until we focus on North Texas as a whole. The Dallas Fort Worth Metro area is the 4th largest in the country. We are gaining more and more gettable voters in Kaufman, Ellis, and Johnson, and don’t discount that Waco is almost part of DFW. And we are organizing down the I 35 corridor. You know that is my happy spot. It is happening. More and more precinct chairs every single day !