HEY MAGA!
The 2026 Democratic Party Convention experienced record attendance as well as record excitement!
The Texas Democratic Convention has finished with a record of nearly three thousand in attendance, that was just the registered attendees. Hundreds more walk-ins, invited guests candidates, staffers and vendors added to the excitement and the crowd. The general Session Friday featured ‘Top of the Ticket’ candidates:
Gina Hinojosa - Texas Governor
Clayton Tucker - Ag Commissioner
James Talarico - Atty General
Vikki Goodwin - Lt Governor
Sarah Eckhardt - Comptroller
But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was who the crowd was waiting to hear, and he did not disappoint. Start at 20 minutes and be inspired.
The main Party platform was “Affordability.” But plenty of attention was given to Rural Counties and their needs and demands. In fact “Rural Texas” was given an entire new section in the platform where the subsections include:
Restoring and Replacing Our Aging Rural Infrastructure
Moratoriums on Data Centers
Ensuring Rural Students Equal Access to a Quality Education
Accessible and Affordable Healthcare for Rural Texans
Comparable Quality High-Speed Internet and Cell Phone Service
Empowering Local Governments and Maintaining Local Control
Introducing
Wise County’s Congressional District 13 and District 26 Representatives:
DC26 - Laura Vola and David Varsham DC13 - Chelsea Streeter and Jordan Villarreal
Wise County democratic Party needs to submit a list of Alternate Presiding Judges for the November 3 Mid-Term election. And because you are an interested voter, you are qualified. The deadline is July 31.
THESE MAPS ARE THE FINAL OFFICIAL POST-REDISTRICTING BY DISTRICT
The Supreme Court Messes with Texas’s Voting Map
The 2026 midterms could see an unprecedented loss of representation for Black and Latino communities in Texas.
An increasingly familiar story played out earlier this month when the Supreme Court issued yet another after-hours “shadow docket” order undermining voting rights. This time, the order put a hold on a 160-page lower court ruling that had struck down Texas’s congressional map, which was controversially gerrymandered last summer in a bid to secure new Republican House seats through racially discriminatory means. The high court’s decision means that Texans will vote in the 2026 midterms using a map that the trial court found had been aggressively redrawn to target the seats of five Black and Latino members of Congress.
The 2026 midterms could see an unprecedented loss of representation for Black and Latino communities in Texas. With the new discriminatory map in place for 2026, Black and Latino communities in Texas are on track to see the first legislatively enacted reduction in their electoral power since the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, though the magnitude of losses could be tempered somewhat by midterm dynamics. Over the years, voters of color in Texas have not always been victorious when bringing litigation seeking new congressional districts where their communities can elect their preferred representatives. Last decade, for example, courts rejected claims seeking a new Latino-majority district in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. But never in the state’s history has a federal court allowed Texas to dismantle existing districts where Black and Latino voters have been successful in electing candidates — in some cases, for decades.
Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law© 2025 Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law
Michael Li December 16, 2025
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FACTS ABOUT VOTER REGISTRATION IN TEXAS
Texas Makes it extremely difficult to register to vote so it is critical to check that you are still registered. Gov. Greg Abbott claims to have purged over One Million Voters based on often inaccurate or outdated information.
Since Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 1 into law in 2021, Texas has removed over 1 million people from the voter rolls.
Check here to find if you are still registered: https://teamrv-mvp.sos.texas.gov/MVP/mvp.do
You CANNOT register to vote online in Texas, you can only complete a mail-in application to receive a voter application which must be filled out and returned to your County Elections Administration office or a Wise County VOLUNTEER DEPUITY REGISTRAR.
If you have NOT VOTED in the last two elections you can be dropped from voter rolls. Check here.
If you have changed your name, address or county of residence you need to update your VR certificate information.