From the desk of The 134

Rural Democrats must change their way of thinking about success.

I want to tell y'all a story about a lady named Elaine MItchell. She lives in Concho County (popl 3,000) out on the Edwards Plateau. It...

Early voting has started today, and I know what many of our rural Democrats are asking themselves. My Republican state representative...

HAPPY NEW YEAR! 2024 is upon us. It is the year for primary and general elections. If you live in an 80/20, 70/30 or even a 60/40...

Never vote in a Republican Primary Well, that is not exactly what he said, but I will get to the point in a minute. First, as many of...

Barbara Kingsolver, the award winning novelist of Demon Copperhead once said, "We [rural people] are the last demographic that...

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...

We often hear about challenges to redistricting and gerrymandering of congressional and state house and senate districts. We never hear...

Because of how I am, the path I have chosen, and what I believe is best for Texas, and the Texas Democratic Party I catch a little flack,...

It is up to rural Democrats to solve it. As with most rural issues, Texas Democrats ceded the border to the GOP long ago. With the...

Love has no fear, because perfect love casts out fear. 1 John 4: 18 One of the consistent themes we at THE 134 PAC hear traveling and...

For several years now the growing Democratic vote in Texas urban and suburban areas gave 134 Democrats like myself hope. When Beto...

Charlie Stenholm, the pride of Stamford, Texas, former congressman, rural advocate, and good friend of The 134 PAC, passed away...

2018 offered some hope that the Democratic Party was gaining ground in Texas. 2020, still looked fairly bright, although it was not as...

The familiar drumbeats to ignore rural and focus only on urban Democratic strongholds in 2024 have already begun. The first response I...

There is a lot of hang-wringing and debate going on among Democrats all over the state right now in the wake of the 2022 election results....

I am going to say the quiet part out loud. Nobody knows how to win an election as a Democrat in rural Texas, at least not in deep red...

Driving back from our successful organizing meeting in Gaines County late last night I started thinking about the huge needs for...

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...