We have various umbrella groups as well. I counted 24 groups.
https://tarrantdemocrats.org/club-directory/
Perhaps Democrats need to engage themselves as well. In Tarrant County there was a group of Democrats who were motivated by Barack Obama’s speech at the 2004 Democratic Convention that they formed Tarrant for Obama long before Obama’s decision to run.
Barack encouraged boots on the ground. They held meetings (manuals on how to engage voters), which was mostly talking a bit about their self their life experiences and then engaging the voters to relay their life stories. Make a connection. Barack’s experience with organizing paid off.
Tarrant Democrats still hold meetings, they cannot be expected to always be the ones to reach out, we all should be taking an active role within the party. I was encouraged enough in 2007 to become a precinct chair which I loved working the elections. However, after 2016 I just couldn’t do it anymore. Something that happened while I was working the election that day, I was checking in to DU at the very moment DU got hacked, my mate also checked in, he got to see the fascist video before DU went dark. I knew at that very moment this was bad, my whole body knew. When I got home there was a small ever so small a sliver of hope. But as the night wore on I feared what I felt at the polling station.
The voters that day made me never want to work the elections again. It was devastating to say the least. My mate worked early voting and well the dumbest of the dumbest turned out to vote. They had no idea what they were doing. There was an older man who threw a tantrum because the polling place ran out of I voted stickers.
Sorry for the long response, but apparently I needed to get it out!
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