Welcome to Yahoo!Group Texas-Democrats - - for voters, precinct chairs, county chairs, office-holders, and other friends and supporters of Democrats in Texas.

To control spam, it is necessary that posts by new members are moderated so that spam and off-topic posts will NOT appear. Posts are on-topic when they are UNIQUE to Texas. They MUST specifically relate to TEXAS Democrats; off-topic posts may be deleted without comment. Due to the high interest in the 2008 presidential race, messages about presidential campaigns were considered on-topic DURING those campaigns but are now considered on-topic ONLY when they specifically relate to Texas.

Those interested in national issues should ALSO join Yahoo!Group Democrats http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Democrats where national messages are on-topic.

News releases and news stories specific to Texas and Texas Democrats are welcomed as messages. Please include a URL for the source of the individual news story.

Group Owner Mike Workman (Hewitt, near Waco, McLennan County) well remembers when we Democrats last won all statewide offices in 1982 and urges all to better organize so we will do so yet again!

Group Moderator Tom Blackwell (Dallas) offers research on Democratic issues and copies of previous and current Democratic Platforms, both state and national, on his web site. He has served on Platform Committees of Democratic National Conventions in 2008, 2004 and 2000. See: http://DemocraticResearch.org/texplat.htm for copies of the Platforms.

The official Texas Democratic Party website is at http://txdemocrats.org/ [clickable link below]