In polling news that likely has the Republican Party up in arms, Texas has moved into battleground territory with a statistically tied race.
Texas Has Found A Way To Deny Women The Vote. Voter Suppression?
You have got to give it to Republicans, they are efficient. Why should they spend their time trying to adopt women centric and women friendly policies, when they can simply reduce their impact on elections? They simply institute another form of voter suppression. This year seem to be the year that America has taken several […]
Senator Wendy Davis Speaks To Battleground Texas Activists At TSU (VIDEO)
Wendy Davis Speech To Battleground Texas Activists Senator Wendy Davis visited Houston last Thursday, October 10th, 2013. She spoke to over 300 Battleground Texas activists. These Battleground Texas activists were excited all evening with the expectation of getting confirmation that Wendy Davis was in it to win it. It was clear from her speech that […]
Battleground Texas: Republicans forgot about you
Republicans have had their way in Texas for too long, and it shows. The GOP rejected the Medicaid expansion outright. Republican leaders willfully underfunded our public schools. And Greg Abbott and friends have certainly succeeded in yielding to right-wing extremists — last month, Abbott went so far as to thank a supporter who attacked Wendy […]
Texas Trooper That Cavity Searched Women Reinstated
No one will forget those poignant videos of Texas Department of Public Safety troopers stopping women in their cars, pulling them over, and using the excuse of smelling weed to conduct body searches. These tactics were supposedly not the department policies yet they occurred in two distinctly different parts of the state. The officers involved […]
This Is The Speech That Will Make Wendy Davis Texas Governor (VIDEO)
I knew Wendy Davis, the Texas State Senator that effected the filibuster on the anti-woman bill that was being rammed through by Republican men in the Texas Senate, was appearing at the National Press Club. I scoured the Internet in order to get information on what she said. Sadly, most of the headlines seemed solely […]
Battleground Texas Holds Neighborhood Team Convention In Houston
On Sunday July 28th, 2013 Battleground Texas held its first Battleground Texas Neighborhood Team Convention. The convention was led by Field Organizer Adrienne Bell who is leading the field team in Harris, Fort Bend, Brazoria, Chambers, Jefferson, Galveston, and Montgomery counties. More than 200 neighborhood team leaders and members attended the event. They came to […]
Empower The Vote Texas: New Texas Photo Voter ID Requirements
New Texas Photo Voter ID Requirements Background: During the 2011 legislative session, the Texas Legislature passed SB 14, a bill implementing a photo identification requirement for Texas voters. The Department of Justice denied preclearance, prohibiting the legislation from going into effect in 2012. The State of Texas then sued the Department of Justice in […]
Off the Kuff: BGTX and Anglo women voters
Off The Kuff blogger Charles Kuffner has a great analysis on what it will take to turn Texas blue by 2016. Mr. Kuffner’s analysis is spot on. I went to Battleground Texas Neighborhood Team Convention yesterday. There were several hundred people there from Harris and surrounding counties on a Sunday afternoon during a non-election period. […]
Kingwood Area Democrats, Battleground Texas, & Friends At Tejano Music Festival In Humble
Many members from Kingwood Area Democrats (KAD) participated in a Battleground Texas (BGTX) voter registration drive at the Tejano Music Festival in Humble, Texas. They were accompanied by Nell Coffee, a BGTX leader from Jersey Village and Amy Goodwin, a leader in the making. Amy Goodwin showed her resolve to ensure Texas will be a […]