House Team Purple is a chance to lend support to rural Democrats running for Texas House of Representatives in 2018. Each is a self-starter candidate without a primary challenge, so they can start building their general election campaigns in earnest. Despite the large amounts of money being raised by statewide and congressional candidates, these far-flung regional candidates are in need of basic resources to purchase signs and campaign literature.
We’re promoting a Democrat for each of Texas’ seven geographic regions. This is a great chance at seeing an ActBlue donation $$ equally split seven ways to folks that need it. This is tandem fundraising, we are not a PAC, 100% of your contribution goes to the candidates, and it goes a long way. Donate HERE
House Team Purple Part 1
House Team Purple Part 2
Midland, TX:
The Blue Wave is building on the courage and enthusiasm of young Democrats statewide, including the relentless 24-year old Spencer Ryan Bounds. Spencer is a whip-smart rural organizer with a fresh voice, ready to fight for public education and healthcare if elected to the Texas House of Representatives for District 82.
Nacogdoches, TX:
Over in HD11, which covers TX1 and a lil' of TX5, economist, software engineer and lifelong environmental activist Alec Johnson is carrying the progressive banner as a Democrat running for state house!
Carmine, TX:
Over in the sprawling TX10, between hwy 290 and I-10, Retired engineer and former US Army Colonel Cecil R Webster Sr is running for change in the vacant HD13.
Hart, TX:
Out among the chinquapin oaks and desert willows of Texas House District 88, Hart city councilman and AFL-CIO endorsed Ezekiel Barron is proudly carrying the Democratic banner for a sprawling rural area long overlooked by the Texas Democratic establishment.
San Antonio, TX:
In the northern reaches of Bexar County, educator and healthcare advocate Claire Barnett is running a gutsy campaign for the Texas House of Representatives as a Democrat in HD122. She is unopposed in the primary race.
Rosenburg, TX:
Born in Laredo, Dr. Jennifer Cantu worked as lead physician at a women’s clinic in Jalisco before becoming an Early Childhood Interventionist near Texas’ Gulf Coast. She has waited patiently to be joined by her husband Fernando- also a physician- who applied for a work visa in 2012. Because of SB4, Jennifer and her daughters carry around their passports and birth certificates every single day, even when going to the local store.
Arlington, TX:
In Arlington's HD94 my friend Finnigan Jones is running an amazing and articulate campaign to bring Democratic values to a district currently represented by a GOP extremist who authored a bill to jail women for having an abortion, even in the case of rape and incest. The Texas State House of Representatives deserves courageous voices that focus on the everyday needs of its people, not spiteful partisans polishing their far-right credentials.
Finnigan has served his country as a member of the US Coast Guard as well as at the front lines of health care and rescue as an Emergency Medical Technician. He is unopposed in his Democratic primary.