Lone Star Left Endorses Delia Parker-Mims for First Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party
The job requires someone who actually shows up. Delia shows up.
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The Texas Democratic Party State Convention convenes in Corpus Christi on June 25th, and delegates will elect the party’s executive officers, including the First Vice Chair. That position matters more than most people realize. The First Vice Chair presides over the SDEC when the State Chair is absent, holds a vote on statutory matters alongside the Chair, sits automatically on the Democratic National Committee, and serves as the second-in-command of the entire state party apparatus.
Lone Star Left is endorsing Delia Parker-Mims to fill this role.
Her record is the argument.
Delia Parker-Mims has served as Chair of the Denton County Democratic Party since 2021. Denton County is the seventh most populous county in Texas. Winning there, or even holding ground there, requires strategy, discipline, and a willingness to do the unglamorous work of building a party from the precinct level up.
She has done exactly that, and the numbers back it up.
In the 2024 general election, Denton County was the only county among the seven most populous counties in Texas to increase its Democratic voter turnout. Harris went down. Dallas went down. Tarrant, Bexar, Travis, and Collin, all down. Denton went up. That happened because Delia Parker-Mims built a turnout operation.
Volunteer contacts nearly tripled under her leadership. In 2024, the Denton County Democratic Party made more than 130,000 voter contacts for the presidential election alone, an unprecedented number compared to previous DCDP leadership. Within her first 90 days in office, she launched the “Fight Back Register 50” initiative, a targeted voter registration program that the DCDP describes as the largest and most-targeted voter registration program among county Democratic parties in Texas, reaching 27,000 potential new Democratic voters in 2022.
In 2022, Denton County stood out as the only major county in Texas to increase Democratic votes between the 2018 and 2022 midterms, and it did so again in 2024. That’s what you get when leadership is consistent.
She also put resources where they counted at the municipal level. In 2022, under her direction, the DCDP helped flip the mayoral seat in Flower Mound and helped avert a MAGA takeover of the Lewisville ISD school board.
And in 2024, every single state legislative race in Denton County featured a Democratic candidate, the first time in decades. Delia Parker-Mims helped recruit candidates, inspired them, coached them, and made sure voters across Denton County had an actual choice on their ballots.
Who she is.
Delia Parker-Mims is an SMU-trained attorney with a background in economics. She has spent 25 years practicing family law in Denton County, representing battered women, advocating for mentally ill juveniles, and assisting seniors. She has operated for a quarter century at the intersection of law, poverty, disability, and domestic violence.
Her community involvement runs deep. Board President of Denton County Child Protective Services, board member for Denton County Friends of the Family, board member for North Texas Legal Services, Diversity Committee member for Lewisville ISD, surrogate parent volunteer for special education students, and founder of the Community Connect COVID-19 Response information network. She has run free legal education clinics, a Pro Se Divorce Clinic, sexual harassment awareness training, grandparents’ legal rights workshops, and a program called “In Search of Wonder Woman.”
Delia is someone who has been embedded in this community’s most vulnerable corners for decades.
The job description.
Per the party bylaws, the First Vice Chair must be of a different gender than the State Chair, currently Kendall Scudder. They preside over the SDEC in the Chair’s absence. They are one of only two officers who can vote on statutory matters. They fill automatic positions created for party Vice Chairs, including membership on the DNC. When there’s a vacancy in a party office, they give notice and manage the process. When there’s a petition to remove the State Chair, they give notice of that petition to the SDEC.
This person needs to know how a party organization actually works. They need to understand the mechanics of voter contact, volunteer mobilization, candidate recruitment, and county-level infrastructure, because those are the things the state party needs to be building right now if we’re going to capitalize on the wave opportunity in front of us in 2026 and beyond.
Delia Parker-Mims has done all of it in a county that wasn’t supposed to be moving our way.
An honest assessment of what we need.
A Vice Chair who nobody has heard from outside of the party and makes no impact on the ground is a wasted seat at a moment when Texas Democrats cannot afford wasted seats.
The 2026 cycle is arguably the best opportunity Texas Democrats have had in a generation. Gina Hinojosa is running for Governor. James Talarico is running for US Senate. Down-ballot legislative races across the state are genuinely competitive. The wave is building. What the Texas Democratic Party does right now will determine whether that wave lands or breaks.
The First Vice Chair has to be someone with a track record of doing the actual work.
Delia Parker-Mims has spent five years proving that a Democratic county party in a tough county can grow, can recruit, can mobilize, and can win, even when the odds aren’t friendly.
This is why Lone Star Left is endorsing Delia Parker-Mims for First Vice Chair of the Texas Democratic Party.
If you’re a delegate heading to Corpus Christi on June 25th, we are asking you to vote for Delia Parker-Mims. Because she has the receipts. Denton County went up when every comparable county went down. Volunteers tripled. Candidates ran in every race. A MAGA school board takeover got stopped cold.
That’s the kind of Vice Chair the Texas Democratic Party needs right now. Someone who has already proven she can build what we need to build statewide.
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