From the desk of The 134

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...

Last Saturday The 134 PAC held its first kick off event in Granbury, Texas. It was an intimate invitation only event with Democrats from...

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...

An independent redistricting commission is essential to the preservation of our democracy. After signing the United States Constitution...

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

Archer County lies in the Northeast corner of The 134. It consists of 900 sq miles of the Rolling Red plains and Cross Timbers region of...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” Those of us who grew up in rural areas, towns,...

The area where Andrews County is located has been inhabited since at least 6,000 B.C. Originally home to the Anasazi/Athapascan peoples...

I have lived in rural Texas for the better part of my life and all of that within the 134 counties that comprise West Texas. For the...

There is a crisis in the trucking industry in Texas. In 2019, there were over 39,000 commercial vehicle crashes that resulted in 619...

It is time for a non-partisan redistricting commission instructed to use MATHEMATICS to draw electoral districts!

Redistricting is the most important part of our democracy that no one ever participates in. Let's change that. There are three...

The 134 is big. From Perryton on the Oklahoma border to Eagle Pass on the Rio Grande is 600 miles. To drive it takes 9-10 hours. From...

“I hate ‘isms.” Someone said this to me the other day and it really stuck. There are a bunch of ‘isms — conservatism, liberalism,...

I have been critical here of the decades long neglect of rural areas by the Texas Democratic Party. Now it is time to leave criticism...

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.” — Julius Caesar Act 1 Sc. 2 I understand why TDP...

During my run for Congress in 2020 the first thing I did was try to connect with every county chair in the 29 counties of TX-11. I spoke...

The Texas Democratic Party does not know rural voters. Even worse, it does not know how to get to know them. If TDP wants to make ground...

It has long been said in Democratic politics in Texas that Hispanics don’t vote. Maybe that is because we don’t give them anything to...