Lone Star Democracy Builders Association

The Texas Democratic Party is organized as a hierarchy of county groups which are composed of individual precincts. One of my bits of homework from our recent DemBuilders face-to-face meeting was to find out in what precinct I live, determine who was the precinct chair, and get in touch with that person to find out what I can do to help.

Here in Travis County, you can find out your precinct by looking up your voter registration records online. When I did that, I found that I'm in precinct 259. The Travis County Democratic Party has a PDF file posted on their site that lets you look up the different chairs. In my case, my chair is Reuben Leslie, Jr.

In my case, I then found something very surprising. I did a Google search and I found that my chair has built a precinct 259 website.. This has information about the precinct and the Texas Democratic party, along with specific calls to participate and act. I love it!

I still need to email Reuben and see how I can help, but I'm really glad that rather than being frustrated that nothing was happening, I was able to find a local resource for democracy right in my backyard.