Saying “Mission Accomplished,” Democracy For Texas Suspends Active Operations–For Now

Democracy for Texas, a state-level group of the Howard Dean founded Democracy For America, has announced it is temporarily spending its statewide operations.

From an email sent to DFT supporters this morning:

Like many affiliated groups around the country, Democracy for Texas has spent some time since the election evaluating “where we go from here.” After exploring a variety of options, we’ve decided we are going to suspend active operations, including our meetups in Austin, for the time being. We will remain a skeletal infrastructure until our mission is renewed out of a statewide need for grassroots training.

We have met many wonderful new friends these past six years, trained thousands of new community leaders and plunged headfirst into taking back our country and state. As individuals, we will always remain intertwined with the flourishing grassroots network. The entire DFT movement has worked devotedly and watched with pride knowing that we were part of turning Texas back to blue.

Many of us awoke to our passion for political involvement before we even knew what organizing was-much less how to build a statewide infrastructure. Yet we did it. We gained an entire Democratic delegation from Austin, turned Dallas County blue, turned Harris County indigo and unearthed fragments of cobalt blue in the most unlikely places. We gained enough seats in the state legislature to oust a power-entrenched speaker and maintained Congressional seats after partisan redistricting.

We hope you will continue to remain involved just as we plan to do. Even though we are suspending our traditional operations doesn’t mean we’ve quit working. It simply means our involvement will take on new forms.

With best regards and much luck in your future endeavors,

The Democracy for Texas Steering Committee -
Erik Azulay, Rich Bailey, Laura Kolstad, Glen Maxey,
Mark McCulloch, Karl-Thomas Musselman, and Fran Vincent

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