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We keep growing in Texas, it's almost like Democrats want to win here [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
As Warford noted, Texas’
Senate, gubernatorial and presidential races have been steadily trending toward Democrats since 2012, in line with trends in Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina, raising hopes that Texas could soon tip into swing-state territory. But a strong performance by Republicans in 2024, in line with a national swing to the right, showed Democrats that there is more work to be done to flip the state.
Hope Springs returned to Texas because the groups that thought we might dilute their financial base (which we didn’t) failed to incorporate our Issues Survey approach to voter contact. They just weren’t that interested in canvassing throughout the cycle — and i am sure they understood their volunteer base when they made that decision. But the fact is, we have volunteers who believe in this voter contact approach and share Warford’s belief that
If Democrats don’t invest in Texas now and begin reengaging with voters we lost, we risk missing the chance to build a lasting victory when national conditions shift and new presidential tickets scramble voting coalitions again.
I know there are readers elsewhere who think the same thing about where they live.
On Saturday, 404 volunteers showed up on Saturday and knocked on 29,047 doors. We talked to 2,352 voters and had in-depth conversations with 1,498 of them, guided by our Issues Questionnaire.
We thing we’ve added to our questionnaire: we are asking voters whether they approve of the administration’s cuts to federal programs and agencies. Given that we are talking to more unaffiliated voters this year, we are offering that as a way to screen MAGA-leaning voters that we talk to.
Other than that, the Issues Surveys aren’t really changing. We may modify it again, if necessary. Voters like to tell us what is important to them!
On Saturday, the Economy was the Number 1 issue for the Texans we talked on Saturday. Housing and Insurance Issues (ie, Rent, Single Home Availability and affordability of both Housing and Insurance) was the #2 issue voters raised on Saturday. Border Access, was third with most voters complaining about long lines getting into Mexico.
Hope Springs from Field PAC began knocking on doors again on March 1st. We target Democrats and unaffiliated voters with a systematic approach that reminds them not only that Democrats care, but Democrats are determined to deliver the best government possible to all Americans. The voters we talk to continue to tell us they come away more invested in governance and feel more favorably towards Democrats in general because of our approach.
Obviously, we rely on grassroots support, so if you support field/grassroots organizing, voter registration (and follow-up) and our efforts to protect our voters, we would certainly appreciate your support:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/hopemobilization Hope Springs from Field understands that volunteer to voter personal interactions are critical. Knocking on doors has repeatedly been found to be the most successful tactic to get voters to cast a ballot and that is the goal of what we do. As i mentioned above, we are asking voters if they approve of the sudden and deep cuts in federal programs and agencies led by Elon Musk. We did have voters actually mention Musk in the survey (in the what is the most urgent issue facing our country query). That was different. On Saturday, 13% approved of the DOGE reductions while 38% said they disapproved. 18% of the voters we talked to had a favorable impression of the job Trump was doing while 41% disapproved). We won’t know for awhile (given the newness of the question) whether these two questions are correlated.
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