You're invited!  Join us Thursday for our monthly Democratic Neighbors Luncheon—a welcoming opportunity to meet new people, connect with others in the community, and learn more about the civic process.

We are excited to host the luncheon at Edna's Kitchenette, a new location and venue in Fayette County.

During the luncheon, we’ll have members of League of Women Voters (LWV) discuss voter registration, answer questions, and share helpful information about how to participate in upcoming elections. Whether you’re new to the community or simply interested in getting more involved, everyone is welcome.

Date:  Thursday, September 17th
Time:  11:30 a.m.
Location: Edna's Kitchenette, 115 E North Main St, Flatonia, TX

We have special menu curated for us to help expedite the food service. 

Please email or text us your order(s)
mail@fayettetxdemocrats.org or 979-484-7926

Come enjoy good conversation, meet your neighbors, and learn how your voice can make a difference.

We hope to see you there!

Excerpt from CODA Newsletter

A Room Full of Blue: What Tri-County Democrats Sounded Like on Sunday

If you’d walked into the Bastrop Convention Center for the Tri-County Get Out the Vote Rally, you might have wondered what happened to that old label “Republican stronghold.”

Somebody joked about it from the stage. And looking around that packed room, it landed. Because it sure didn’t feel true.

Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette Counties showed up together on Sunday a big, loud, hopeful crowd, dozens of candidates and organizers, and one date on everybody’s mind: November 3.

Three video messages opened the afternoon, from Clayton Tucker (Agriculture Commissioner), Gina Hinojosa (Governor), and James Talarico (U.S. Senate). They set the tone early: this wasn’t a day for speeches so much as a day for lighting a fire. Get people ready to vote. Get them ready to bring their neighbors too.

That message never let up. Speaker after speaker reminded the room to vote the whole ballot, top to bottom, not just the names you already know from TV. The local races, the ones that shape our daily lives right here at home, matter just as much.

Why We’re Doing This

Speaker after speaker talked about what three decades of one-party rule in Texas has cost us. Public schools stretched thin. Health care out of reach for too many. Maternal health and reproductive rights under siege. The everyday weight Texas families carry.

This wasn’t an abstract conversation about Austin or Washington. It was about what happens in our own kitchens and clinics and classrooms when those policies come home to roost.

And the message kept coming back around to the same simple truth: if you want something different, you have to show up for it.

Register voters. Talk to your neighbors. Knock on doors. Make the calls. Help people understand exactly what’s waiting for them on the ballot. And when they get there, vote all of it, not just the top line.

The official Texas ballot certification confirms this November’s races stretch from U.S. Senate all the way down to the precinct level. Every single one counts.

And Then, We Danced

For all the heavy truths in that room, the afternoon itself was pure joy.

There was laughter everywhere you looked. Old friends hugging like they hadn’t seen each other in years. People trading phone numbers with candidates, already planning where they’d show up next to help.

At the end, every candidate and organizer gathered back on stage together. We sang, we danced, and we celebrated to none other than YMCA, yes, that YMCA.

Candidates and volunteers and organizers, all up there arm in arm, just being silly and human and glad to be in the same room. It was the perfect way to close out the day.

Because here’s the thing: democracy is serious work. The stakes are as real as it gets. But the people doing this work don’t have to be miserable while they do it.

We can work hard and still laugh until it hurts. We can knock doors all day and still dance our hearts out that night. We can be tired and frustrated and occasionally downright pissed off and still wake up the next morning ready to do it again.

Sunday felt festive, determined, hopeful, and ready. Now the rally’s over, the music’s faded, and the candidates have headed home. But the work? That’s only just beginning.

We’re taking everything from that room and bringing it out to Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette Counties door to door, neighbor to neighbor, vote by vote.