AT A GLANCE
Local Progress Texas (LPTX) drives progressive change through collaborative governance with local partners and communities. Since becoming an official state chapter in 2019, we have mobilized elected officials from five cities to coordinate a legal strategy to fight back against SB4, connected elected officials from Austin, San Antonio and Dallas to coordinate strategies with community and labor partners to pass paid sick days policies, and organized elected officials from more than a dozen municipalities to work together on raising wages for municipal workers. See our Statement of Principles here.
LPTX currently has more than 90 members across the state, representing nearly 50 jurisdictions.
We are proud to work closely with the Texas AFL-CIO, Workers Defense Project, Texas Organizing Project, and other movement allies.
Our Work & Priorities
In Texas, our work is driven by community needs – both long-standing ones driven by historically harmful policies and exacerbated by climate change and emerging ones driven by our state’s conservative agenda.
Right now, our statewide policy work is heavily focused on decarceral policies and protecting abortion access.
Organizing Committee
As a member-led network, our state work is led by an incredible state organizing committee – a group of LPTX members that meet regularly to weigh in on policy priorities, propose statewide campaigns, and drive the strategic vision for our work.
VANESSA FUENTES
Austin City Councilmember
LPTX Organizing Committee Co-Chair
ADAM BAZALDUA
Dallas City Councilmember
LPTX Organizing Committee Co-Chair
ALEXSANDRA ANNELLO
El Paso City Representative and Mayor Pro Tempore
DAVID STOUT
El Paso County Commissioner
STEPHANIE GHARAKHANIAN
Austin Community College Board Trustee
BRIAN ROWLAND
Former Prairie View Mayor
TARTISHA HILL
Former Balch Springs Councilmember
DEB ARMINTOR
Former Denton City Councilmember
TARSHA JACKSON
Houston City Councilmember
CRYSTAL DAVILA
Pasadena Independent School District Trustee
TERI CASTILLO
San Antonio City Councilmember
ALYSSA GARZA
San Marcos City Councilmember
ALYSSA CIGARROA
Laredo City Councilmember
Our State work
REFORM / TRANSFORM TEXAS
Texas relies heavily on incarceration and policing. Across the state, we are working to prioritize community needs and end mass criminalization and mass incarceration.
ABORTION & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
In deep collaboration with local advocates, we are working at the local level to protect bodily autonomy and support abortion access – including creating practical support funds and implementing decriminalization policies.
LOCAL CONTROL
No matter the issue, local electeds are a critical voice on protecting local control and against abusive state preemption that negatively impacts communities. We develop and implement statewide campaigns to fight abusive state interference.
CLIMATE RESILIENCY
We need action at all levels of government to build resilient communities in the face of our climate crisis. In Texas, that means decentralizing our state’s power grid, creating public ownership of our energy industry, and supporting the growth of our green energy sectors.
Messaging Guide, Messaging Research
From House to Home: A Rent Stabilization Messaging Guide
FEATURED NEWS & Stories
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LPTX Chapter Manager Witnesses Dehumanizing ‘Operation Lone Star’ at Texas-Mexico Border
Last week, Local Progress Texas Chapter Manager, Kara Sheehan, spent two days at the Texas-Mexico border to witness Operation Lone Star (OLS) firsthand. Here are her reflections.
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LPTX State Download ❄️ | Organizing to defend reproductive rights & local control, plus upcoming events! | February 2024
Our Texas chapter has been hitting the ground running this year on several issues already! Check out what they are up to!
- Home Rule
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Texas local electeds are not giving up their fight for local democracy
Yesterday, nearly 60 local electeds from across the state of Texas banded together to once again tell the courts that they will NOT stand for the Death Star Law or any of the Texas Legislature’s efforts to undermine local democracy.
- Abortion & Reproductive Rights
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Dozens of Local Electeds in Texas Sign Amicus Brief in Support of Reproductive Rights
LPTX members are speaking out in support of patients and physicians in Texas to demand clarity around the state's "medical emergency" exception to the abortion ban.
