From the desk of The 134

It is Time for Some Serious Talk

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

Why Texas Democrats Need Rural

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

All Politics is Local

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....

Nobody Knows What They Are Doing

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...

A Guy Can Dream Can't He?

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

A Tale of Three Horses

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...