From the desk of The 134

HOT TAKE ALERT: RURAL DEMOCRATS ARE DOING IT WRONG I do a lot of thinking and writing about the challenges of rural Democrats and rural...

By Jon Mark Hogg, Co-Founder of The 134 PAC There were 85 people who voted in the 2022 Democratic Primary in Dawson County (Lamesa) Texas....

I know a large coalition of rural Democrats and women were counting on a sea change in the direction of the Texas Democratic Party after...

So, most recently I have begun a quest to visit as many rural county chairs as I possibly can in person. Places like Gillespie, Mason,...

Last Tuesday evening I attended the San Angelo Chapter of the NAACP Celebrating Women dinner in support of the L.A. Raibon Scholarship...

I was once asked by a rural County Chair what I thought about their party or club making a donation to TDP for something or other--voter...

Texas Monthly recently highlighted one of the Texas Democratic Party's biggest problems, the lack of candidates with elected experience...

The purpose of The 134 PAC is to chip away, brick by brick, at the red Republican wall in rural Texas that every election stops...

The 134 PAC does things different. We don't have meetings, conferences or panel discussions. We have conversations. We don't look for...

Whoever heard of a PAC that is not all that interested in money? Sure, we have to ask for money because we have expenses to pay our...

I get this question all the time. You can fill the blank with any group or class. How do we reach rural voters? How do we reach...

I want to share something that has been happening very quietly in The 134 over the last decade--so quietly it has largely gone unnoticed....

As Stuart and I travel and talk to people around The 134, I often encounter the same questions in county after county. As we enter the...

Periodically someone asks how much money we have raised. I guess that is the measure of success in politics today. If you don't rake in...

The 134 PAC is in its infancy. My hope is that it will live to a ripe old age and that one day, perhaps far into the future, it will...

The greatest obstacle to electing Democrats in The 134 is getting people to run in the first place. If there is no Democratic candidate...

I am convinced that our obsession with state-wide races and big picture politics are what is killing the Democratic Party in rural Texas....