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Date: 2025-09-12
“Astounding!” That was the reaction of my old boss who has been keeping tabs on our Quorum Break Efforts in Texas. “How are you keeping it going?,” he asked.
Even people who have benefitted from grassroots (or self-organized) organizing can find it hard to believe. That’s not how it’s usually done.
On Fridays, i like to highlight the state where the most volunteers showed up in the previous Saturday’s Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [dated website] canvasses. Like the prior month, Texas has been that state.
We can no longer say that Texas is the biggest state we are in. California now fills that role. In fact, we go into the Fall more determined to thrawt president felon’s plans to rig the midterms. We continue to canvass in Arizona, Georgia, Iowa and Pennsylvania — until the weather falls outside our range. Arizona may go until Thanksgiving. Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas are all part of our special Voter Registration project conducted mostly by Divine Nines (we have had a couple of HBCU alumini groups that were organized around their school, not greek groups). We continue to canvass in Ohio in anticipation of new Congressional District maps. And we just started to canvass in Northern California in support of Prop 50. So we aren’t letting up.
New Rigged MAGA Map
Our grassroots volunteers in Texas chose to continue on with our Quorum Break project. This is remarkable, since a majority of those volunteers in the last month came from outside our normal set of volunteers. They didn’t necessarily have our culture or commitment to Early Organizing before hooking up with Hope Springs. But they persisted anyway. Because it was important.
We’ve now shifted from trying to stop Gov. Abbott’s rigged districting to how to win these rigged seats. We have a different theory than Republicans, and it’s based on what voters are telling us rather than the whims of a felon. There’s lots of data out there to confirm our theory, as well. We are not giving up these districts, and that’s a key step in this battle.
And there is good reason why. “Even some of Mr. Trump’s staunchest supporters in South Texas said they were queasy over his immigration enforcement tactics.” Which is exactly what we have been hearing at their doors.
2,106 volunteers showed up on Saturday and knocked on 157,318 doors. Prior to the Quorum Break, we would see ~750 volunteers show up. So the increase in volunteer turnout is notable. Volunteers talked to 12,585 voters and had in-depth conversations with 8,016 of them, guided by our Issues Questionnaire.
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