Happy Sunday, True Texans!

This has been an exhausting week for me and Fran!  Why?  Because we interviewed 62 candidates for the Primary Election in March!  WOW! That includes:

• • 15 judicial candidates
  • 32 state legislature candidates
  • 7 statewide candidates
  • 1 SBOE candidate
  • 7 congressional candidates

And there will be more!  Plus, your local leadership teams are doing interviews as well.  It's a whole lotta work, but I gotta tell ya... it feels GREAT to personally know every single person I cast my ballot for.  We take our role very seriously when it comes to recommending candidates, so it's all in a day's work for us, and we are happy to serve Texas in this way.  We'll be announcing our picks in a few weeks, but before that...

Don't forget to vote in the GENERAL ELECTION on Tuesday!  

Yes, that's this week!  Our recommendations are on our website... just like they always are for every election!  Get in the habit of looking. The web address is easy:  

truetexasproject.com/elections

Let's Review
In last week's newsletter, I unloaded a ton of announcements on you.  I don't want you to miss a thing, so let's just review really quick...

1. Scholarship Essay Contest - Any Texas high school student can enter, and entries are due by 11:59pm on November 30. Details here.
2. Dueling Pianos Christmas Party - You'll eat, laugh, sing, and maybe even dance!  For sure you'll have a great time.  Come to the Christmas Capital of Texas where the fun doesn't end until you're ready for it to.  Get your tickets here.  Also, watch for local Thanksgiving and Christmas parties for your area satellite groups. 
3. Certified True Texan Youth Training - It's the last one we'll be doing for a long while.  Get the youth to Leander!  Parents & siblings welcome too.  RSVP here for Nov 22.  (Psst... it's free!) 
4. Conference 2026! - Don't be caught off-guard.  It's Jan 23/24 in Spring, Texas.  Get it on your calendar now. Details soon.

Are you just amazed at how much we have going on???  Me too!  Our mission statement says we educate, motivate, and engage. Can you see how we are actively doing all three, all the time.  Who else does as much as True Texas Project?  

NO JOKE.
This may surprise you, but our budget is about 25% of what similar "grassroots" political organizations have.  Read that again.  We work harder and do more, and...

we do it with 75% less funding. 

Wha???  75%???  YES!  That's not a typo.  All I can say is it's a God-thing.  We've got the best volunteers giving up time & talent, plus a skeleton staff that even all took pay cuts to help us make ends meet. And in everything we do, we work hard to keep our costs rock bottom (speaker fees, venues costs, etc).  Why?  All for the love of Texas, of course!  

Knowing all this...
Can you help?  We are trying to add 40 new monthly donors before the end of the year.  You'd think with the 1000s of Texans who utilize our voting recommendations, training opportunities, speakers, meetings, and social events, it wouldn't be hard to find 40 people willing to chip in $35/month.  (That's the average, but we'll take anything!).  Well...  think again! Fran and I are constantly having to beat the bushes, and it distracts from the real work of saving Texas that we are meant to do.  Come on, already!  What about you?  

Remember... everyone who sets up a recurring donation of at least $25/month gets a free t-shirt!

This week at a glance...
Kind of a slow week for events, so take this opportunity to work the polls on Tuesday, and then rest up for a jam-packed rest of the month!

• Tuesday:
  no Weekly Line Dancing in Tarrant county this week or next
• Friday:
  TTP@Home Podcast - NEW episode drops!
• Saturday: 
  TTP@Home Cross Timbers Meeting

Monthly TTP podcasts

All our episodes are available by clicking the blue bar below.  You can watch and subscribe on YouTube, Rumble, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify.  Share it with a friend!

For the love of Texas,
Julie McCarty, CEO

PS.  Watch the October announcements below because next week that link will be changed to November!

The Bottom Line:

CONTACTS:
Reach out to the directors listed below to get more info on a meeting near you, or with any other question or comment about True Texas Project, activism, or politics.  If they don't know the answer, they will help you find it!

• Bay Area (multiple counties in the S Harris area) - Phil Ratisseau
• Beaumont Area (multiple counties in Beaumont area) - Shilo Platts
• Bexar County - Greg Switzer
• Brazos Valley (multiple counties in Bryan/College Station) - Cathy Viens
• Cross Timbers (multiple counties in Granbury area) - Monica Brown
• Collin County - Tommy Reeves
• Dallas County - Roy Getting
• Denton County - Jennifer White
• Harris County NW - Jennifer Kratky or Cheila McKay
• Hill Country (multiple counties in Austin area) - Calvin Watson or Gerry Ward
• Katy Area (multiple counties in Katy area) - Art Hernandez or Lauren Heese
• Lubbock County - Amber Sanders or Jim Baxa
• RGV Sector (multiple counties in Rio Grande Valley) - Bonnie Brown
• Rockwall County - Randy Long
• Tarrant County - Shelia Franklin or Randy King
• Williamson County - Jim Steele
• TTP@Home groups (currently in Burleson, Cross Plains, Denison, Ennis, Lampasas, Lubbock, Kingwood, NRH) - Julie McCarty