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Few states in this country have undermined democracy as severely as Texas.
In 2013, mere hours after the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act
with its Shelby County v. Holder ruling, Texas moved to implement SB 14,
the strictest voter ID law in the nation. A federal court eventually
stopped SB 14 in 2015 for discriminating against minority voters, and the
GOP-led legislature responded by passing a new restrictive voter ID law in
2017. That law, SB 5, remains in effect today as does Texas’s other attack
on democracy: its racially gerrymandered electoral map.

These anti-democracy practices are why the Texas House is one of the most
important chambers to flip in 2020. Texas has the third-most congressional
seats in the nation, and it’s expected to add up to three more during
apportionment following the census.* Redistricting, which begins in 2021,
will determine who votes in each of these districts. But instead of
establishing guardrails for fair elections and maps, the Supreme Court’s
rulings in Shelby and Rucho v. Common Cause have made it easier for the
GOP to suppress the vote and gerrymander maps. Flipping the state House
will ensure that Democrats play an important role in the drawing of
Texas’s new congressional districts.

We no longer have to wait until 2020 to make inroads in Texas. Last month,
the popular GOP state representative for House District 28 vacated his
seat and triggered a special election, which is set for November 5.

[1]Dr. Eliz Markowitz at an event with supportersDr. Eliz Markowitz
(center, holding sign) at an event

[ Flip ]We’re proud to support Dr. Eliz Markowitz as she runs to represent
Texas House District 28 and bring the Texas House one seat closer to
flipping blue. As a state representative, Dr. Eliz will fight to remove
Texas’s notorious barriers to voting and push the Texas legislature to
adopt an independent redistricting commission. Dr. Eliz is also committed
to strengthening public schools, expanding access to health care—an urgent
need given that Texas has the nation’s largest uninsured population**—and
bolstering the state’s disaster management efforts.

Although HD 28 has voted Republican historically, the GOP’s margin of
victory in federal races has diminished significantly over the last seven
years: in 2012, President Obama lost the district by 29%; in 2016, Hillary
Clinton lost by 10%, and in 2018, Beto O’Rourke lost by 3%. These
decreasing margins indicate that HD 28 has significant potential to flip
blue, and a successful flip here would give Democrats invaluable momentum
for flipping the entire state House in 2020.

[ Flip ]Help Dr. Eliz flip Texas HD 28. Your contribution can help Dr. Eliz win
this highly competitive race and move Texas one seat closer to fair maps
and elections.

[ [link removed] ]FLIP HD 28

*[ Flip ]Source, Brennan Center for Justice

**[ Flip ]Source, Texas Tribune

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