Texas Democrats' Precinct Chair and Volunteer Leader VAN Training & Texas Dems News
June is the start of Pride Month and it is a month dedicated to recognizing and celebrating the LGBTQIA+ community. This community has endured centuries of torment, targeting and rejection by society and sadly the hatred and abuse continue today. I along with fellow Texas Democrats stand in solidarity with everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community. Very thankful that the Texas House LGBTQ Caucus was able to defend against anti-LGBTQ+ legislation.
Summer canvassing for municipal elections in Fort Worth for Labor endorsed candidates
2021 Municipal and Runoff Elections & County Party News
City elections were held across the state in May with runoff elections in June. Congratulations to the Dem leaning and progressives re-elected and newly elected in the Senate District 9 Footprint. Congratulations to the following elected officials: Barbara Odom-Wesley in Arlington, Tika Paudel in Euless, Junior Ezeonu and Kurt Johnson in Grand Prairie, Dennis Webb in Irving, Gyna Bivens and Chris Nettles in Fort Worth. Also I want to give a huge congratulations to Tarrant County Central Labor Council endorsed candidates Elizabeth Beck and Dr Jared Williams for Fort Worth City Council. I spent a lot of time knocking on doors from North Fort Worth to South Fort Worth and all the way in Grand Prairie for local elections. Though we came up short in the Fort Worth mayor's race, I appreciate the leadership of Deborah Peoples in taking the courage to run. I also want to congratulate Kristy Noble for her election as the new Dallas County Democratic Party Chair.
VAN Training for Precinct Chairs and Volunteer Leaders
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 7pm CT/6pm MT
Via Zoom
This training is for you if you are: A Precinct Chair or Volunteer Leader who might set up/lead a block walk
In this training you will learn how to use VAN to:
Create a list using existing targets
Cut turf
Create a canvass (including selecting a pre-created script) in MiniVAN
To make this training most effective, you should have some experience with VAN, including:
You have a VAN account currently and can log in
You have used VAN before and are familiar with the interface and basic anatomy of a voter’s record
You have used MiniVAN before to block walk (even if it was 5 years ago)
Sign Up Now - txdem.co/VAN-June-9-Zoom
Or if you're interested in learning more about VAN but this training doesn't seem quite right for you, we have on-demand VAN training available anytime, anywhere.
New to our on-demand trainings? Go to txdem.co/training and Select the VAN Learning Pathway, then follow the prompts to create your account (you'll have to "check out" but it's all free!)
If you've done on-demand training with the Texas Democrats before: Go to mytexaslearns.com, log in, and then find the VAN Learning Pathway in the Course Library to get started.
Project Texas: The Texas Democratic Party 2022 Voter Registration Priorities Plan
It is clear based upon 2020 results that Texas Democrats have prioritized registering voters. There are about 2 million Democrats NOT registered in Texas and we are going to register them. A little more than half are Latino. This plan will be tailored to Latino communities and weaving a strong Spanish-language component throughout our outreach.
The numbers also show that within our target group of unregistered likely Democrats, ⅕ are Black and ¼ are 25 years of age or younger -- so outreach to Black communities and young people will be a key part of the Project Texas programming.
This plan will include: digital ads, apartment voter registration, direct mail, site based voter registration in high traffic areas, RegisterTexas door to door canvassing tool, and relational voter registration. Want to learn more about the plan to register more Texas Democratic voters? Find more information at txdem.co/ProjectTexas.
The resurrection of SB7 in a Special Session
The close of the regular legislative session of the 87th legislature does not mean this fight is not over. SB7, the so-called Election Integrity bill "is part of a much larger national Republican effort through the state legislatures to make it harder for citizens (particularly Democrats) to vote" per SD10 Committeewoman Libby Willis' email sent out on June 3rd. We need to be prepared to contact our constituents to educate our voters and to contact their legislators to oppose this bill. If you are interested in organizing this effort in SD9, please contact me at stevethelaborguy@gmail.com or contact SD9 Committeewoman Vickie Moore at vicki.moore@gmail.com
That's it for this month's newsletter. If you have a special request or would like more information about the Texas Democratic Party's Senate District Executive Committee. You can read my previous emails at my website: stevethelaborguy.com
A few reminders, the Tarrant County Democratic Party will be electing a new chair at their CEC Meeting on July 17th at 9 am.
Contact me at stevethelaborguy@gmail.com or 469-774-3904 if you have any questions
Sincerely,
Steve Ruiz
SD9 Committeeman
Steve "The Labor" Guy!
