John,

Earlier this week, we shared why surveillance in Texas is becoming permanent infrastructure — tied to data centers, resource extraction, and a deepening water crisis.

Here’s the part that matters most right now:

These decisions are being made quickly, often through procurement contracts and administrative votes, before communities realize what’s happening or have the chance to intervene.

Once cities are locked into surveillance and data infrastructure, it’s incredibly difficult to unwind. The contracts are long. The impacts are permanent.

That’s why Ground Game Texas is focusing on early intervention and coalition-building and why we’re raising $60,000 to hire a full-time organizer dedicated exclusively to this work.

This organizer’s job will be:

• Bringing environmental justice, digital rights, water, labor, and local groups into alignment

• Showing up early, before contracts are finalized

• Making sure communities are not shut out of decisions that will shape their cities for decades

• Essentially connecting national resources directly to Ground Game and executing a plan to give communities the tools and resources they need to fight fair.

These systems are advancing full-time. We cannot keep responding part-time.

If you understand how high the stakes are — and how fast this is moving — I’m asking you to help fund this role.

Contribute to the $60,000 organizing goal

If you’re able, monthly gifts are especially powerful right now.

This is one of those moments where capacity determines outcomes.

In solidarity,
Ground Game Texas

P.S. Texas has become the testing ground for policies that don’t ask for public consent. Stopping that here matters far beyond our state.

PO Box 383 Manchaca, TX 78652-9998 | [email protected]

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