According to the National Network to End Domestic Violence, there is virtually a 1:1 correlation between domestic abuse and financial abuse. Survivors often name financial constraints as the one of top reasons for their decision as to whether to leave an abusive partner. What’s more, financial abuse is often the first sign of domestic abuse and is used as a …
Bring Back Postal Banking
By Jeff Williams, MBA PROGRESSIVES WANT TO BRING BACK POSTAL BANKING. HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT IT TOO In today’s digital economy, the working poor, in both urban and rural areas alike, is finding our banking system less and less accessible. As of 2019, according to an FDIC survey, approximately 7 million households had no bank accounts. Roughly 25% of …
Texas Republicans Enact Nation’s Strictest Anti-Abortion Law
By Sarah Mitchell, President, Women Organizing Women Democrats. In May, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law one of the nation’s strictest abortion measures, SB8, banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy with the law effective September 1, 2021. His Facebook Livestream said the Legislature “worked together on a bipartisan basis to pass a bill that I’m about …
I’m Asking You to Care About Me
Hi, my name is Katie. I am your neighbor in Celina. I’m asking you to wear a mask for me. It’s 2021, and at forty years old I am reviewing my will because I don’t know if I will make it to forty-one. I am one of the immunocompromised. I spend many nights wondering if tomorrow will be the day …
Stand in Solidarity
In June 2020, faculty at Collin College were informed that we were expected to continue teaching primarily in-person through the rest of the year. Traditionally in higher ed, faculty are considered a body worthy of consultation in important matters, but not so at Collin. The college president and his allies have cemented a culture of fear, mutual mistrust, and depressed …
Are Collin County, Dallas suburbs spawning ‘domestic extremists’?
A Washington Post story says yes, citing 19 people who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January after former President Donald Trump’s allegations of election fraud. Hopes that former President Donald Trump will one day return to power are still running high north of Dallas in Collin County, where the the population continues to increase and grow more diverse, according to …
Raise Up
Raise Up Collin County Voices of Democracy Read the heartwarming story told by –Noah Skocilich a Resident of Plano —- A week or so ago, when the extreme weather down here was just subsiding, I posted something on NextDoor asking if anyone just needed help with anything at all. A few days after I posted it, a woman named Lisa …
County Chair’s Statement on Collin County 2020 Election Results
November 4, 2020 Mike Rawlins, County Chair As I write this Wednesday morning, I suspect a lot of you are feeling what I do – an odd mix of exhaustion, sleep deprivation, anxiety over the uncertainty of the Presidential outcome, disgust, disbelief (“not again?” for Texas, “WTF?” for Collin County) and gratitude where we can find positive things. So what …
Your health care is at stake in the Texas U.S. Senate race — make sure to vote accordingly
Your health care is at stake in the Texas U.S. Senate race — make sure to vote accordingly ABBY SPRINGS John Cornyn wants to end the Affordable Care Act, MJ Hegar is fighting like hell to save it. It’s been 230 days since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, thousands of Texans have lost their jobs …
Vote Blue 2020 Because we are the cavalry!
It’s the beginning of the end of four long years of Republican failures, corruption, and greed. 😢 Our very lives have been put at risk, including those of our children and grandchildren, because the President decided that ignoring the truth about COVID-19 boosted his election chances. 😢 Our healthcare is at risk, including pre-existing conditions and women’s rights to …
Throw Shade Then Vote
Pete Souza “I photographed Obama and Reagan. Here’s why Trump’s White House is a national disgrace. First and foremost, I am an American citizen. I have the absolute right to speak out. To paraphrase the late Rep. John Lewis, if you see something wrong, say something, do something.”
Press Release: AG Paxton’s Legal Woes have Collin County Roots
For Immediate Release Collin County Democratic Party Contact: John Shanks AG Paxton’s Legal Woes have Collin County Roots Local GOP Leadership Facing Scrutiny Again Plano, TX – October 5, 2020 – The latest in a string of indictments and allegations besetting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton couldn’t come at a worse time for four Collin County Republican candidates seeking reelection …
Forward Together
21 July 2020 by Lulu Seikaly On July 14th, Collin County Democrats made history. We refused to be silenced in the face of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and a complete lack of leadership from our state’s highest officials. We made our voices heard, setting an impressive new record for voter turnout. I greatly appreciate every volunteer, election worker, staffer, party …
Democracy is Something You Do
Date: June 25th, 2020 Author: Misty Hook For many, the 2016 election was a wake-up call. It certainly was for me! Sure, I voted in every election but I didn’t know who my local elected officials were or what some of my local governmental entities did. I’d lived in Texas for 16 years and had never heard of a Commissioner’s …
United We Stand
by Sam Johnson and Penny Robe Democratic Nominees for 366th and 380th District Court of Collin County June 18, 2020 There are Looney Tunes cartoons featuring Sam Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf, where the two battle ferociously after they punch in to start their workday, and when the five o’clock whistle blows, the two work adversaries are friends again. In the …
Bill Baumbach Remembrance
June 16, 2020 Written by Deborah Angell Smith, County Chair 2003-2007 Friends, I am incredibly sad to report that we’ve lost a true leader in the Collin County Democratic Party and the progressive community in North Texas. Our dear friend, Bill Baumbach, died suddenly of natural causes (unrelated to COVID19) Wednesday night, 6/10/20, in Dallas. An evening of remembrance is …
New Rule in Memory of George Floyd
New Rule: A white person cannot be hired as a police officer, sheriff, or constable for the next five years. Inspired by Bill Maher’s New Rules segment on the HBO show Real Time with Bill Maher. This is meant more to provoke conversation rather than be a serious proposal 4 June 2020 Please note, the opinions are my own and do …
What’s the Message
20 May 2020 by Mike Rawlins, County Chair The question that new Democratic activists almost always ask is “What’s our message?” It isn’t “not Trump” or “not Republican”. We always tell candidates to talk about what they’re for before they talk about their opponents, if they talk about them at all. And with the media covering Trump’s mishandling of the …
Sue Me
May 5, 2020 by Woot Lervisit Last week, I applied for a mail-in ballot on the grounds of the COVID-19 pandemic. Also last week, Attorney General Ken Paxton released publicly a deceptive letter about COVID-19 mail-in ballots threatening criminal charges of election fraud. In his letter, Mr. Paxton ignored the pertinent legal issue of physical immunity from COVID-19. Instead, Mr. …
This Pandemic is a Political Problem
by Mike Rawlins, Collin County Democratic Party Chair April 9, 2020 There’s no doubt that some people will read this title and be upset about this situation being politicized. But this is the same as complaining that it’s too soon to talk about common sense gun control after a mass shooting. If we don’t address this now we are just …