HeyJaredMission: Texas
Texas is growing faster than anywhere else — and that growth means more electoral power. As blue strongholds lose seats, the road to protecting the White House must run through the Lone Star State.
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Ep. 51: Beto (opens the original)
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To mark our one-year anniversary, Mission: Texas sits down with Beto O'Rourke — founder of Powered by People and the Democrat who's come closest to flipping a statewide race in a generation. Beto lays out exactly what has to happen between now and 2030 for Texas Democrats to hold the state Senate, the Speaker's gavel, and the governor's mansion: winning big in 2026, not waiting on national money to arrive, and doing the unglamorous relational-organizing work year-round rather than just during el
Ep. 50: What Winning Looks Like (Cora Black & Tsion Amare, Dallas County Young Dems) (opens the original)
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This week Mission: Texas sits down with two leaders of Dallas County Young Democrats: Cora Black, community advocate, HR professional, and the club's first Black female president, and Tsion Amare, DCYD's current co-president, former Texas House staffer and 2024 candidate, and political affairs leader at Environmental Defense Fund. We trace DCYD's rebuild out of the pandemic, the club's early and controversial call for Biden to step aside, and what actually makes a youth political organization ef
Ep. 49: Flipping Rural Texas (Chelsey Hockett, congressional candidate) (opens the original)
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This week Mission: Texas sits down with Chelsey Hockett, the Democratic nominee challenging Congressman Lance Gooden in a district that Decision Desk HQ still rates as a 12-to-14-point Republican lean — even in a good year for Democrats. Chelsey makes the case for why TX-5 isn't as out of reach as it looks: explosive population growth in Kauffman County the 2020-census maps didn't account for, a swelling Democratic primary turnout, and a data center and land-use backlash pulling in voters who've
Ep. 48: Is West Texas Actually Red or Turning Blue? (Kyle Rable) (opens the original)
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This week Mission: Texas heads to West Texas for the first time, sitting down with Kyle Rable — Army Reserve civil affairs officer, PhD candidate at Texas Tech, union member, and Democratic candidate for Congress in one of the reddest districts in the country (Trump +52 in 2024). Kyle traces his path from accidentally getting pulled into local politics over Section 8 housing without AC, to becoming the first candidate in Texas to file for ballot access by signature this cycle. We dig into what m
Ep. 47: Courier Texas - How Independent Media Is Reaching Voters Fox News Can't (opens the original)
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This week on Mission: Texas, we're joined by Katie Serrano, DFW political correspondent for Courier Texas, a digital-first, values-driven newsroom covering progressive politics across battleground states. Katie walks us through her path from a University of Arkansas journalism program to covering the 2024 Dallas debate watch parties to breaking major accountability stories on Ken Paxton's finances. We talk about how Courier is building trust with younger, less news-engaged Texans through social-
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