Fund the third places and the voter guides — both at once.

Our organizing and fundraising CRM — it's where our field events get published, where donations get collected on the ground, and how we track people along the whole civic pipeline, from event attendee to donor to volunteer to advocate.

Every guide we publish has to be bilingual from the jump. This lets voters compare candidates by policy position, not party, so they can vote their values — in the language they think in.

Yesenia has been the lighthouse guiding this project through some troubled seas — and she's been working all summer without pay while I rebuilt everything. She deserves so much more than I've been able to give her. I owe her.

The reason you haven't heard from me in months: the joke about being a solo executive director is you get to pick two of three — comms, programming, fundraising. I need help. Once Yesenia's paid back, comms is the next hire — before I take a paycheck myself.

A statistically rigorous voter-turnout experiment I've dreamed of running since I started TVP — the kind of research we can publish with real scrutiny, so other organizations can learn what works and use their resources wisely.

Fundraising is about who knows you, and people get to know you by seeing you show up. I've left Texas every month since April for a conference, a retreat, or a workshop — and it's been burning a hole.