John, The 2025 Texas legislative session just wrapped up — and what we saw was a government that continues to put extreme politics ahead of the people they’re supposed to serve. Greg Abbott and his allies rammed through a far-right agenda. More money for border walls, new laws targeting imm…

Instead of prioritizing real solutions like better resources or higher teacher pay, Republican leaders are focused on pushing an agenda that imposes their own worldview onto students. John, The Texas Legislature just passed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public scho…

John, Thursday night in Houston, folks packed the room for our town hall: I met John, who told me at age 15, he doctored his birth certificate to pass for 17, his mom signed his enlistment papers and he was off to Korea. He told me that he wants to make sure we protect the Constitution he …

John, Beto has been hitting the road with Ziggy, and he made his way to Houston for a town hall tonight! These town halls are critical for bringing folks together, sharing stories, answering questions and building the deep community organizing that is needed here in Texas to fight voter su…

Dear John, I gave the commencement speech at the USC Gould School of Law last week in which I challenged the graduates, and all of us with them, to squarely face the challenges before us — the incitement to political violence, the abnegation of alliances around the world, the rollback of vot…

Over the last few months, we’ve organized town halls all across Texas, bringing thousands of people together. Amarillo, Denton, Wichita Falls, Houston, Mansfield, Garland, Dallas… John, over the last few months, we’ve organized town halls all across Texas, bringing thousands of people togeth…

Powered by People is an extraordinary organization, comprised of volunteers all throughout the state. I'm an unpaid volunteer myself. We train our volunteers to become Volunteer Deputy Registrars in Texas. After the 2013 Shelby v. Holder decision which gutted the Voting Rights Act, no state…

John, We recently held 7 town halls in Congressional Districts represented by Republicans – from Amarillo and Wichita Falls to Garland and Fort Bend County. Nobody at those meetings stood up and asked for their representative to take food away from kids, kick millions of families off their …

John, By the presidential election in 2032—which will be upon us before we know it—a Democrat could win every single one of the so-called blue wall states and they’d still lose the White House if they can't pick up Texas and the Sun Belt. And you cannot pick up Texas and the Sun Belt if you…