For more than 30 years, our state Democratic Party has relied on high-dollar donors and high-dollar consultants to “win Texas.”

It’s time to face up to the obvious: We haven’t. In fact, we’ve lost whole areas and communities that we grassroots Democrats used to win again and again. So here’s a thought: Let’s take our Party back to the grassroots!

· REFOCUS on year-round outreach to local people and community networks that are our natural strength.

· REINVEST in grassroots organizing and party-building all across Texas, including in long-abandoned rural areas.

· REINVIGORATE and REACTIVATE “little-d” democrats by delivering a clear “on your side” message of progressive populism, taking on the GOP plutocrats and billionaire oligarchs.

The time to start reempowering a winning grassroots party is now—by choosing Kendall Scudder to be our Chair of the Texas Democratic Party. He has the know-how, the working-class passion, and even the money-raising ability to rally and organize us at the ground level (the human level of politics) to restore democratic values and policies in our state.

I hope you’ll join in this effort so we Democrats can really start to “win Texas” for the workaday people of our state.

Find out more about Kendall at www.kendallscudder.com.

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