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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...

Pass a resolution at your County Convention on March 23, 2024 calling for the creation of regional party offices across the state. The...

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

I live in San Angelo, Texas. It is not the reddest place in Texas, but it runs a good race. Most of my friends are not Democrats. They...

Dear Candidates for the Democratic Nomination for U.S. Senate, We are watching, we are judging, and we will be scoring every candidate...

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...

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,...

Run Your Own Primary Survey How many times has this happened? Someone comes into the primary polling place and asks for a Democratic...

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

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...

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...

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...