Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In case you missed it, Powered by People volunteers did something incredible yesterday. After raising our original goal of making one million calls (twice!), our volunteers still went above and beyond and called 2,942,597 voters – one-sixth of all…
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New Polling Shows Texas Democrats On The Verge Of Flipping The State House Blue
From Reform Austin: x Not many details, but this survey, continuing pattern, shows consistent D gains in TX suburbs, w/Trump trailing in many state House seats he won in 16 & Ds leading in 11 GOP held seats (they need 9 for majority) https://t.co/ccMFPxpaJU via @ReformAustin— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) October 13, 2020 RA News polling…
Don't Forget To Sign Up For Beto O'Rourke's Million Voter Phone Bank To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered By People: Texas is the biggest battleground state in the country, with elections for the State House that will determine the future of redistricting and a Presidential contest that might come down to the Lone Star State’s 38…
Beto O'Rourke Keeps Up The Momentum To Boost Early Voting On Tuesday To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: I’m not going to ask you for money in this email. In fact, you won’t find a fundraising link anywhere in this email. This is because I don’t want you to get distracted from where the real help…
Beto O'Rourke Brings In Some Big Names To Help Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: x Texas-sized voter phone bank with (get this!!!) @WillieNelson, @Oprah, @BernieSanders, @JulianCastro, @StaceyAbrams, @AndrewYang & MORE! We’ll call over 1 million Texas voters on the eve of Early Voting – sign up for a shift here: https://t.co/1nFumgj6tC— Beto…
TX-Sen: Houston Chronicle, “How down-ballot candidates could help Democrats flip Texas”
The Houston Chronicle has a must read piece out right now about Texas: Texas remained the country’s largest red state in 2018. Republicans have won every statewide race in Texas since 1998, and a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976. But for 18 months, statewide polls showed 2020 Democratic presidential…
Texas House Democrats Raise Over $3.6 Million In Three Months To Flip The Texas State House Blue
From The Houston Chronicle: The Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee has raised over $3.6 million in just under three months, a massive cash infusion as the party pushes to take control of the lower chamber for the first time since 2002. The $3.6 million haul, which came between July 1 and Sept. 24, is more…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Calling Texas: The Millionth Voter Phone Bank On October 12th
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: I’m excited to invite you to one of the biggest voter turnout efforts ever. On October 12th, the last day before Early Voting begins in Texas, we will attempt to call more than one million Texas…
TX-Sen: Cornyn (R), “Getting rid of health care for preexisting conditions is not that big a deal”
From Emily Singer at The American Independent: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) said Thursday that preexisting health conditions are not as big a deal as Democrats are making them seem, using one of the most popular provisions in the Affordable Care Act to attack Democrats. “The left, including Joe Biden in Tuesday's debate, overstates the problem…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Two New Virtual GOTV Phone Bank Events To Flip The Texas House Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) Powered By People: If you’ve signed up to a phone bank with us before, you know that we have a little secret surprise at the end of each shift. After Beto and our Powered by People volunteers are finished calling thousands of…
Beto O'Rourke, “Texas is Joe Biden’s to lose”
From The Houston Chronicle: “This is a state that perhaps better than any other understands the costs and consequences of Donald Trump,” O’Rourke said during a pre-debate press call hosted by the Texas Democratic Party. “And it’s a state by the way — not unrelated to that — that is Joe Biden’s to lose.” No…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Two New Virtual GOTV Phone Banks To Flip The Texas State House Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) organization, Powered By People: In a moment, I'm going to ask you to phone bank. Let me explain why it’s so important for us to do this work: In 2018, we watched as amazing Texas State House candidates lost their races by…
Houston Chronicle Reports Texas Adds More Than 1.5 Million Voters Going Into 2020 Election
From The Houston Chronicle: Texas has once again shattered vote registration records, adding more than 1.5 million voters since the last presidential election. Texas now surpassed 16.6 million voters, according to the latest numbers announced Tuesday by Texas Secretary of State Ruth R. Hughs. And there are still almost two more weeks to add more….
Beto O'Rourke Launches Two More GOTV Virtual Phone Banks To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX): We are about to enter the most critical stretch in the most important year of our lives. There are only 25 days until early voting begins in Texas and 46 days until Election Day. The most defining election for this country is…
Beto O'Rourke Launches “Beers With Beto” Virtual Fundraiser To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rouke (D. TX) and his organization, Powered By People: With Election Day just weeks away, our volunteers have been working harder than ever. And the work is paying off. Just last night, 480 volunteers made over 176,000 calls to register voters across Texas – increasing…
Forbes, “Texas Democrats Claim ‘Unprecedented’ 1 Million Voter Registration Blitz”
The Hill reported this on August 31st: The Texas Democratic Party (TDP) on Monday rolled out its “Texas Voter Registration Week,” a push to get 1 million Texans registered to vote, the latest effort by the party to turn Texas at least partially blue in November. Based on internal modeling, Texas Democrats hope to reach…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Two More Virtual GOTV Phone Banks (Sept. 10th &14th) To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), and his organization, Powered By People: Exciting news! We’re teaming up with more awesome Democratic Texas State House candidates who are ready to fight for ALL of us in Austin! Like Beto said, we have two important tasks to complete this November: Win…
TX-Sen: Beto O'Rourke, “Cornyn (R) is the single greatest enabler of Donald Trump in the Senate”
Loving this: Joining forces with MJ Hegar, Beto O’Rourke blasted Sen. John Cornyn Thursday night as “the single greatest enabler of Donald Trump in the U.S. Senate”— urging Texans to oust the three-term Republican to save the nation from a lawless and dangerous president. “If you want to end not only Donald Trump but Trumpism…
Sen. Cory Booker (D. NJ) Helps Beto O'Rourke Launch Virtual GOTV Event On 9/8/20 To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke’s (D. TX) group, Powered By People: You won't want to miss this, You’re invited to join special guest Sen. Cory Booker and Beto for a special phone bank next Tuesday! Sen. Booker is kicking off our phone bank next Tuesday because he knows what…
Beto O'Rourke Launches Virtual GOTV Phone Bank On September 2nd To Flip Texas Blue
Received this e-mail today from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his organization, Powered By People: We’re trying to do two big things that haven’t been done in a long time. 1. Win a Democratic majority in the Texas House (last time that happened was in 2000). 2. Win Texas’…
