07/26/2026
100 days, folks.
In just 100 days, Americans will make decisions that will shape the future of our families, our communities, and our country.
People are all aware of the same things:
It's harder to make ends meet.
They are worried about paying for groceries, gas, housing, and health care.
Seniors wonder what the future holds for the programs they've spent a lifetime paying into.
Small businesses struggling and going out of business.
Politics are dividing us more than uniting us.
Regardless of your religion, family dynamics, financial standing, nationality, ethnicity, or whether you are far right, far left or moderate, one thing is certain:
Elections have consequences.
In America, our Constitution provides guardrails through checks and balances. Those guardrails only work when the people choose leaders who are uncompromised, and unafraid to do their jobs, and are fully committed to holding every branch of government accountable to the people. We, the people. Us!
That is why these midterm elections matter.
If you believe new leadership is needed, don't stop at the top of the ballot. Vote all the way down the ballot.
✅ U.S. Senate
✅ U.S. House of Representatives
✅ Texas State Senate
✅ Texas House of Representatives
✅ State Board of Education
✅ Judges
✅ Justices of the Peace
✅ County and local offices
Every office matters. Every vote matters.
Your action plan starts today:
You have exactly 100 days to make a plan.
- Check that you're registered to vote. Today. VoteTexas.org
- Locate your valid photo ID now. Don't wait until the night before.
- Make a plan to vote during Early Voting, which begins October 17, 2026 in Texas.
- Don't assume your registration is still active—verify it today.
- Talk with your family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers.
- Encourage first-time voters to participate.
- Help seniors and anyone with transportation challenges make a voting plan. You know they don't have a ride, so help them get there.
Young people deserve the same opportunity to buy a home, and build a future without crippling student loan debt looming over their heads for decades.
Working families deserve the chance to get ahead without having to work two, and three jobs only to slowly starve and work themselves into an early grave.
Seniors deserve security after a lifetime of hard work. Social Security IS their retirement plan. They were promised this and shouldn't be told in the 11th hour that the rules are changing.
Small businesses deserve the opportunity to succeed. This country is great not because of billionaires and trillionaires, but because of small businesses.
And every American deserves a government that listens. We have to get back to remembering that these people work for us- not the other way around.
If they don't do what we want, they are unable to change the rules to stay in office because they know they will lose.
100 days.
100 days to save our democracy.
Tonya Dangerfield
Texas Coalition of Black Democrats
Collin - Denton County Chapter
