Democrats Can’t Wait
Hon. Carroll G. Robinson, Esq.
If Texas Democrats are going to re-elect our State Legislative and Congressional incumbents as well as elect more new members to the Texas State House, State Senate and Congress, Black voter turnout will be the key to doing so.
Black voter turnout will also be essential for winning county, judicial, and statewide races including State Board of Education races.
Democratic incumbents and candidates need to start reaching out to-and engaging-Black voters now — from voter registration in the precincts in their district and listening to their residents’ concerns, to substantive public policy issue education and building grassroots, boots on the ground, voter turnout operations involving and utilizing County Parties and Precinct Chairs. It’s not too early to start getting ready for the 2022 general election.
Republicans are already hard at work, in Texas, engaged in outreach and engagement with Black, Hispanic and Asian voters. In preparation for the 2022 and 2024 election cycles, Republicans are reaching out and interacting with people of color through digital and cable ads, text messages, emails, mail and offices and operatives on the ground all across Texas. They are actively working to make greater inroads into the Democratic voter base to help re-elect Governor Abbott, in 2022, and Senator Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, in 2024.
If Republicans succeed in increasing their share of the Black, Hispanic and Asian vote across Texas, Democrats will not win statewide races or win back the legislature for decades. Do you want that to happen? You can help stop it.
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There is still room to grow Black voter turnout, in Texas, by at least one million votes if Black voter registration and engagement is made a top priority by the Texas Democratic Party, its allied groups, national Black political organizations and PACs as well as Democratic clubs, County Parties and Precinct Chairs throughout the State.
Finally, as we prepare to litigate the awful and discriminatory Republican redistricting maps, we need to start preparing right now for the 2030 Census. Yes, we do.
If we did not learn anything else over the past two years, hopefully, we have learned that we can’t get a complete census count by waiting to start getting organized one year, or even worse, just months before the census count begins.
It is in the best interest of Texas Democrats that we use every election cycle going forward this decade to help organize for the 2030 Census. Since we need to know where everyone lives and votes in the 9000 voting precincts in Texas, let’s build our VAN database so that it can be a resource to cities, counties and school boards as well as the Census Bureau to help make the 2030 Texas Census the most accurate in history so that Texans gets all the congressional seats we are entitled to, as a state, and have the best data to draw the fairest maps ever in Texas history.
Texas Democrats can, and must, use both technology and common sense to set new and higher standards of civic engagement and service as we work to win elections.
We can’t afford to do anything less or to not get started now. The people of Texas deserve the best.
Thank you.
