"[Democratic Lieutenant Governor candidate Mike Collier] contends that the door-to-door campaigning of House and Senate candidates does at least as much to drive voters to the polls as a noisy top-of ballot affair between well-financed political stars."
Check it out yall: we have until December 11 to file a Democrat in each and every single Texas House race.
https://demprecincts.org/tx-house-2018/
Most of the heavy hitters have jumped into the federal races already, and the swing districts identified by the TDP have folks filing or exploring... But it's these large pockets of unchallenged Red where the grassroots need to step it up, otherwise these rubberstamp GOP landmonster incumbents will cruise to reelection without breaking a sweat.
HD54, HD55, HD58 and HD59 are otherwise already in the column for Roger Williams' reelection in the sprawling TX25. Will the independents in that region have no choice? Will viable statewide rockstars like Beto O'Rourke, Mike Collier and Col. Kim Olson have no go-to surrogate to promote the Dem ticket?
https://docs.google.com/…/1VWlrVdhf4_e0svlJqlgzBS5qRc…/edit…
If Virginia showed us anything it was that otherwise ho-hum statewide candidates can cruise to victory when there are Dems raising hell in the more sleepy districts around the state. Many in the GOP acknowledge that their candidates throughout the country are woefully unprepared for the Blue Wave that's building for 2018. Trump is toxic everywhere; Oklahoma and Georgia Dems have seen some big victories, I think we'll add Alabama to that list soon enough.
But nowhere will the GOP brand suck like it does in Texas. It's been two decades since the Democrats had any real say in Texas policymaking, and as a result we have the highest rate of uninsured children and the worst maternal mortality rate in the developed world. Dan Patrick would distract from our real problems by singling out transgender people in bathrooms, but I think this year we're smarter than that. We see that unfettered development has come back to haunt the coastal regions devastated by Harvey, that rural hospitals and clinics close for lack of funding and that so-called school choice has left rural education in a dire state.
Now is the time for activists, artists, teachers, ministers and retirees to step up and take our state government back. There are donors willing to help with the filing fees and activists ready with paperwork. Someone's got to help change the world starting right here in Texas. Why not you?