This is one of the most competitive Texas Legislative races this year, and everyone will be watching. It's critical that we prove that our movement has the kind of power to bring real change back to the people of Dallas.
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Today is the very first day of Early Voting! This is the moment we've been working towards; all our hard work comes down to what happens over the next 15 days.
Polls will open today from 8 am - 5 pm. By voting today, you can be one of the very first to cast your vote to re-elect Senator Nathan Johnson to the Texas Senate.
Early Voting runs from today through March 1st. Vote early and cast your ballot at a Dallas Early Vote Center nearest you. Check the Early Voting schedule below or online at dallascountyvotes.org to make sure the polls are open when you arrive.
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Waiting to vote in-person on Election Day, March 5th? Find the list of all Dallas polling locations, here. Polls will be open from 7am - 7pm on Election Day.
The NRA released its report card on Texas senators. I got another ‘F’.
Whatever. The vast majority of Texans want to see a whole set of a simple, sensible gun-safety laws enacted in our state.
The gun lobby is unhappy that I’ve supported raising the minimum age to purchase an assault weapon to 21; requiring background checks for all firearm sales; requiring a “cooling off” period of 72 hours after the purchase of a firearm; and allowing for the temporary removal of firearms from those who are an imminent danger to themselves or others.
They’re unhappy that I’ve filed bills to increase the availability of safe storage locations and to create a mechanism for someone to place themselves on a temporary do-not-sell list.
They’re unhappy that I support permitting and gun-safety training requirements.
I’m not interested in making them happy. I was elected to represent the people, and the people overwhelmingly support meaningful gun safety laws.
I’m good with F’s on the NRA report card. My grades come from you — the Texans I represent.
Hi Friend,
The Dallas Morning News has just endorsed Nathan Johnson for reelection to the Texas Senate from District 16 and the message is clear: “We urge voters to look at Johnson’s record and return him to office.”
Senator Johnson has been delivering results for Dallas and the State of Texas since his first day in the Texas Senate. But you don’t have to take our word for it. Here’s what the Dallas Morning News had to say:
“Johnson has quietly become one of the most effective Democratic legislators in Texas. He has worked tirelessly, strategically and across the aisle to advance a swath of matters that help Texas be a better state.”
“In a Legislature that is hostile to Democrats, he actually gets bills passed.”
Johnson has “stood in the path of Republican overreach” and “worked to improve the grid, water availability, access to health care and any number of issues critical to our future.”
The Texas and Dallas AFL-CIO, Stonewall Democrats of Dallas, the Sierra Club, Dallas police and firefighters, top Dallas leaders like State Senator Royce West and Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, and many more … they’ve all recognized that Senator Johnson is the leader Dallas needs in the Texas Senate.
With early voting starting in just 16 days, we’re spreading Senator Johnson’s message across Dallas — and we won’t stop until we’ve reached everyone.
Senator Royce West and I have been a powerful force for the people of Dallas. Together, we've taken on the GOP extremists in the Texas State Senate time and time again, and scored major wins for working families.
Watch this and learn why leading Texas Democrats like my friend, Senator Royce West, have endorsed my re-election campaign ...
I'm running for re-election to continue fighting for working Texas families, and there's so much more that Senator West and I can get done together.
Instead of celebrating today’s 51st Anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are staring into the reality of a post-Roe world. The stories of Kate Cox, Dr. Austin Dennard, and thousands of other Texas women and their families are no longer hypothetical, they are real. The anti-woman agenda in Texas is cruel and frightening, causing women to leave our state or to simply not come here.
Having enacted a virtually total ban on abortion, what more damage could they do? Now various cities and counties are joining the Big Orwellian Government movement, deputizing citizens to persecute fellow citizens for helping women leave Texas to receive abortion care.
None of this is acceptable. I filed bills last year to block the abortion travel bans and to protect people who assist women in leaving the state for care. Meanwhile I support Congressional action to codify reproductive rights. The paradigm in Roe, as shaped by a half century of common law and cultural development, provides the most logical point of reference.
Despite all, today we should celebrate the compassion, scientific rigor, cultural respect, and political humility of Roe, as we reaffirm our commitment to protecting women’s autonomy and to keeping government out of matters of personal faith, conscience and philosophy.
On August 28, 1963, at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, civil rights leader and labor organizer Philip Randolph introduced the next speaker. Randolph kept it short:
At this time, I have the honor to present to you the moral leader of our nation, a great dedicated man, a philosopher of a nonviolent system of behavior and seeking to bring about social change for the advancement of justice, freedom and human dignity. I have the pleasure to present to you, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Then followed Dr. King’s most famous and influential speech, “I Have a Dream.”
Today we celebrate this moral leader of our nation not only as a federal holiday, but also as a Texas state holiday. That wasn’t always the case. Enacted as a federal holiday in 1983, Texas was one of a handful of states that didn’t initially recognize the holiday. Eight years later, in 1991, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 134, recognizing the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial holiday.
State Senator Eddie Bernice Johnson, the first black woman ever elected to public office from Dallas, was one of the initial voices of strength behind SB 134:
Eddie Bernice Johnson passed away on December 31, 2023 after a lifetime of service to our state and nation. She was a friend and mentor to many, and an inspiration to all. We shall miss her leadership and guidance.
Today, as we honor Dr. King’s legacy, I ask that we honor her legacy as well—a legacy that includes leading Texas to set aside the third Monday of January each year to recommit to the dream Dr. King shared with us all.
Brenda, our first video ad of this campaign is live! Click here to watch.
We recently completed and launched first campaign video, and we want to make sure you have a chance to see it.
A huge thanks to all the Team Johnson supporters who helped make this ad possible. It's thanks to folks like you that Nathan's campaign for a Texas that works for everyone has grown into the movement it is today.
Senator Johnson is leading in the Texas Senate on the critical issues of our time — defending abortion rights from extremists, promoting reliable and sustainable power, fighting to expand Medicaid, and protecting our public schools from efforts to strip them of our public dollars.
And he's never backing down.
But this fight is about all of us, together. While Republicans like Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick buy their own support, we need to build ours.
