Blue Horizon Texas

🧵As we know you are, we are devastated by Tuesday’s results. While we continue to process those results and what comes next, two words surface for us right now--community and relationship.

To end a hard week on good news, we're thrilled to congratulate two Blue Horizon candidates on their wins on Tuesday! @Chuy4RRISD - re-elected!! @MaggieJEllis - elected to the 3rd Court of Appeals!! Congratulations to you both! We are grateful for your leadership & service.

Soon we will be scheduling an event for our candidates, volunteers, board, and donors to connect and share your reflections on what was effective and where we should focus our energy in the months and years to come. We hope you will join us.

We are also grateful to everyone who has donated and volunteered to make this work possible. We couldn’t do it without you.

We’re still mapping out what’s next for Blue Horizon in this new reality, but we know the next year will revolve around local races.

both where we have been absent AND where we have taken support for granted. It means being creative, and present, and steadfast.

🧵As we know you are, we are devastated by Tuesday’s results. While we continue to process those results and what comes next, two words surface for us right now--community and relationship.

That does not mean abandoning our principles or our commitment to the most vulnerable, but instead expanding our investment and outreach into communities—

The far-right has spent decades building and consolidating power. We must do and expect the same, and now an even greater level of investment will be required to stand up to rising authoritarianism.

But a single candidate working alone across 80+ counties cannot build Democratic infrastructure and support overnight. We have said from the beginning that our work at Blue Horizon won’t be accomplished in a single or even handful of election cycles.

We saw dozens of candidates step up where no Democrat had run in many cycles, and we assisted 25 candidates in getting on the ballot. This year, we supported nearly 100 candidates with training programs and peer support. We endorsed 55 and provided GOTV texting programs to 34.

Our tiny organization, with under $200,000 a year has had an outsized impact—last year we traveled the state to talk to rural communities about running for office.

We take no comfort in the results, but we do feel vindicated. This election proves our theory of change… there is no Democratic message, where there is no messenger. And we must do a better job everywhere hearing and responding to voters' priorities.

If nothing else, Tuesday’s results told us that a determinative portion of the electorate, not just in Texas but across the country, is rejecting what the Democratic party has offered, which is nothing at all in many communities.

At this moment, we see the need to refocus our collective energy into our relationships with one another and to build resilient community, so we can care for one another in the years ahead. We encourage you to do the same.