Tarrant County Needs You

The Commissioner's Court is currently considering a redistricting proposal that, if adopted, will help secure Tarrant County's conservative leadership for years to come. It is, after the 2024 election, the most consequential thing that will occur before November of 2026.

You must assist in this effort if you want to keep Tarrant red. We will provide several ways to assist us based on your ability. We will list them starting from the easiest and quickest ways, ending with the ones requiring more commitment.

You can see the proposed maps for yourself by clicking HERE and selecting the "Redistricting 2025" tab on the home page.

Map Option 1 is the map recommended by Republicans.

1) Call and email your county commissioner and express your support for Map 1. In addition, submit a public comment online for the Commissioners' Court meetings. We will provide guidance and examples below.

• You can email your thoughts on redistricting to [email protected]

2) Show up at the Precinct Town Halls to express support for the redistricting effort. There will be multiple, and you can show up to any of them regardless of where you live. Precinct 2 is particularly important if you can attend those. There will be 4 of these meetings. The dates and addresses are below:

May 13th at 6:00pm

Location: Azle ISD Administration Building

300 Roe Street, Azle, Texas 76020

May 14th at 6:00pm

Location: Como Community Center

4660 Horne Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76107

May 17th at 10:00am

Location: Arlington Sub Courthouse

700 East Abram Street, Arlington, Texas 76010

May 21st at 6:00pm

Location: 645 Grapevine Hwy, Hurst, Texas 76054

3) Show up at the Commissioners' Court and voice your support for redistricting. This requires the most commitment, but it is vitally important for our Commissioners and the public to know that we support the effort. At the last meeting, 25 people spoke on redistricting. It was 25-0 against. This is because democrat activists have nothing better to do. We understand that it's more difficult for tax-paying, contributing members of society such as yourself, but please make the effort if you are at all able. We are happy to provide information to assist with your remarks. The relevant Commissioners' Court meetings are as follows:

May 20th at 10am

June 3rd at 10am

To sign up to speak at the Court, you must do so by 5pm the day before the meeting. You can submit online comments once the meeting agenda is posted online, which will be no later than 72 hours before the meeting.

Once the online comment period has opened, you can submit comments by clicking HERE.

The links above will help you accomplish whichever option you would like to do. We need every Republican to do at least one of them. In the next section, we will provide helpful information for forming your remarks. Feel free to use as much or as little as you find helpful.

Useful Redistricting Information

Redistricting is necessary because Tarrant County is an outlier compared to every other Commissioners' Court around the State.

Here is a breakdown of comparable urban and suburban Courts compared to Tarrant County. Average partisan margins are for the presidential election (avg. from 2012-2024) to show relative party strength in the county. These are provided for counties comparable to Tarrant to show the discrepancy:

As you can see from the chart above, Tarrant County fits the pattern consistent with a 3-1 Commissioners' Court, based on the average presidential margin.

You will notice that there are only three counties in the state, which are split 2R-2D: Tarrant, Fort Bend, and Hays. Already you can see that Tarrant doesn't fit the presidential margin consistent with other 2-2 counties. Now, we will take a look at the Commissioners' Court pattern based on control of partisan offices.

The other two even-split counties (Fort Bend and Hays) have a split county government. This means that, among the partisan elected county officials (County Judge, District Attorney, District Clerk, County Clerk, Sheriff, Tax Assessor-Collector), neither party controls all of these offices.

• In Fort Bend County, the County Clerk and County Treasurer are Republicans.
• In Hays County, the Sheriff and the Tax Assessor-Collector are Republicans.

How does Tarrant County compare? Republicans control 100% of these positions, and have for over a decade.

Now, let's take a look at partisan offices in Tarrant County to show that Republicans have strong control and that the Commissioners' Court is an outlier. This will demonstrate that the Court should be redistricted to better fit with county norms.

The Commissioners' Court stands out as an obvious outlier. Redistricting makes sense not only to ensure that Tarrant County complies with statewide norms, but to ensure that it complies with the trend of every other partisan elected office in Tarrant County. It is wrong for Republicans to control 84% of all partisan offices in Tarrant County, yet have a Commissioners' Court that resembles the two "swing counties" in the state, where neither party fully controls the county government.

Background

Tarrant County has not redistricted since the 2010 census. In 2020, other populous Texas counties redistricted to adjust their maps to fit population changes. Tarrant County, as part of DFW, is one of the most popular areas for out-of-state moves to Texas. Our county should have been redistricted to match our changing population, yet it wasn't. Here's some information on how much the population has changed since the 2010 census:

In 2010, the county population was 1,809,034. In 2024, the Census estimate was 2,230,708. This is a change of 23.31% without redistricting.

Along with the overall change in population, the ethnic makeup has changed dramatically since the 2010 census. For example, the white share of the population changed by -8.93%. The black population increased by nearly 100,000, and the Hispanic population increased by almost 150,000, while the white population decreased.

Considering that the ethnic makeup and the overall size of the population have changed so dramatically since the 2010 census, it only makes sense that we redistrict to better serve the population. Since the court was not redistricted in 2020, it is legal and necessary to perform the redistricting now.

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