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My Other Job is Traveling Salesman
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,...

Jon Mark Hogg
Apr 21, 20222 min read
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Start Planning Now!
At The 134 PAC we have been unconventional since our beginning. One thing that makes us different is we are focused on building party...

Jon Mark Hogg
Apr 10, 20222 min read
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Don't Let Anybody Turn You Around
Last Tuesday evening I attended the San Angelo Chapter of the NAACP Celebrating Women dinner in support of the L.A. Raibon Scholarship...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 31, 20222 min read
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Support Grant Criteria Now Online
As mentioned in the last post, the criteria for support grants are now posted on our website. From the home page click on APPLY FOR A...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 29, 20221 min read
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2022 Grant Season Coming
We have been working hard to raise funds over the past several months and will be doing so for the next six months for one purpose. That...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 27, 20222 min read
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Throwing Money Away
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...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 23, 20222 min read
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How to Rebuild the Bench
Texas Monthly recently highlighted one of the Texas Democratic Party's biggest problems, the lack of candidates with elected experience...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 15, 20223 min read
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Many Hands Make Light work
One problem rural Democratic candidates have is raising enough money to fund their races. This is the result of problems unique to rural...

Jon Mark Hogg
Mar 6, 20222 min read
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Introducing The Joshua Fund
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...

Jon Mark Hogg
Feb 13, 20222 min read
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What to expect from "A Conversation About Rural Texas"
The 134 PAC does things different. We don't have meetings, conferences or panel discussions. We have conversations. We don't look for...

Jon Mark Hogg
Jan 24, 20222 min read
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A 134 New Year's Resolution
As we are about to start the New Year, one of our goals as an organization is to bring a lot of the resources we have been working on and...

Jon Mark Hogg
Dec 31, 20212 min read
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The 134 PAC Endorses Kim Olson for Chair of the Texas Democratic Party
For far too long, politicians and parties, Democrats and Republicans both, have ignored rural Texans west of I-35 and our communities...

Jon Mark Hogg
Dec 22, 20211 min read
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It Starts With You
Part of The 134's purpose is to build and maintain political knowledge and infrastructure across the entire 134. We are about to embark...

Jon Mark Hogg
Dec 17, 20212 min read
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Time for a Barn-Raising
The primary filing period is over and many of the counties in The 134, even larger ones like Tom Green and Lubbock, had no one file to...

Jon Mark Hogg
Dec 14, 20212 min read
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Money isn't everything
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...

Jon Mark Hogg
Dec 3, 20213 min read
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How do we reach ________ voters?
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...

Jon Mark Hogg
Oct 30, 20212 min read
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Some Good News for 134 Democrats!
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....

Jon Mark Hogg
Oct 7, 20212 min read
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Rural Texas Democrats Can Expand Early Voting - Here's How.
Hey y'all, Stuart here. Most days time seems to stand still (or move glacially) in the rural places of the world. It is as infinite as...

Stuart Williams
Sep 10, 20213 min read
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There is a silver lining: We can get 12 hours of early voting in all 134 Counties
As bad as S.B. 1 is, it did do one thing that can help Democrats in rural Texas--it expanded extended voting hours for rural counties....

Jon Mark Hogg
Sep 4, 20211 min read
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Introducing The 134 - Baylor County
Not to be confused with Baylor University in McClennan County, or Baylor Medical Center in Houston, Baylor County is in Northwest Texas,...

Jon Mark Hogg
Aug 31, 20211 min read
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