We Can Use Existing Democratic Party Infrastructure For Our Own Organizing

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​I want to highlight three local events. Two upcoming and one just completed. The attached pictures have the specifics.

Tonight, 10/6, in Kingwood there is forum with three Democratic Judges hosted by Indivisible Kingwood and Humble Area Democrats. The moderator is Egberto Willies who hosts Politics Done Right. Egberto is a great source of independent information. We clearly are in a time where we need information we can trust.

Humble Area Democrats are a chartered club of the Harris County Democratic Party. Indivisible Kingwood is very much not a party space.

On Thursday, 10/9, there is a YouTube presentation about the impacts of Project 2025 so far hosted by Michelle Palmer and Diana Martinez Alexander. Michelle is running for State Board of Education in 2026. Diana and Michelle have teamed-up a number of times for informative broadcasts. They work in party spaces and also take the lead on efforts of their own doing. Be certain to tune in Thursday! Here is the link to take part.

Over the weekend, there was a successful At-Large 4 Council debate co-hosted by the Houston Progressive Caucus and the Spring Branch Democrats Club. Diana was one of the moderators. It was well-attended and made news. Here is my account of the debate.

Traditional party groups and spaces can be a partner and a platform for new and creative ways of organizing. We need our own channels of communication and our own infrastructure.

Voting is essential and working on elections is necessary. That work will continue.

At the same time, we must acquire the habit and practice of working together on our own projects and on our own terms. We can use and take advantage of existing spaces to help accomplish this. We can take the relationships we've made at standard party functions and do additional/different things than we were doing before. Business as usual will not get us out of this nightmare we are experiencing. We must look to one another and to innovative tactics. 

I'm on the Egberto Willies Politics Done Right Show every Thursday from 6 AM to 7 AM for the Houston Democracy Project segment. You can hear the show on the radio, stream it on KPFT or watch later Egberto's YouTube channel.​​​​

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