What We Do

Powered by People is composed of thousands of volunteers across the country who register, stay in touch with and help turn out the voters who will help decide the most consequential elections of our lifetime. Since launching in late 2019, our volunteers have enabled us to run the largest progressive voter mobilization effort in the history of Texas.

In addition to partnering with exciting Democratic candidates to help win competitive Texas battleground districts, we are focused on creating long-term changes to the Texas electorate that will outlast any one candidate or campaign cycle.

Our volunteers live and work in every part of the state, allowing us to meet voters where they are. No neighborhood is too small, too big, too red, or too blue to receive the in-person, human-to-human contact that we know is essential to registering and turning out voters.

Because Texas Republicans have made our state the hardest in the nation to register to vote and cast a ballot, we are putting in the work to reach those most targeted by GOP voter suppression and bring them into our elections.

Thanks to this work, we’ve registered hundreds of thousands of Texans to vote. We’ve called, texted, and most importantly, met voters — at their doorsteps and in their communities — to make sure they understand that their vote is key to turning the tide of extremism in Texas and ensuring our state lives up to its truest, fullest potential. 

We do what we can to meet the moment, politically or otherwise. When the pandemic and accompanying recession first hit Texas in early 2020, Powered by People volunteers staffed more than 17,000 volunteer hours at Texas food banks and raised more than $320,000 in direct donations to those same food banks.

When the winter storm hit the next year and — due to the incompetence and corruption of our state leaders — millions lost power, heat and water, Powered by People volunteers made more than a million phone calls to senior citizens across the state to connect them with help, transportation, food and water. We also raised and distributed more than $1.4 million dollars to shelters, food banks, and organizations that helped Texans rebuild after their homes were damaged in this government-made disaster.

In 2024, our volunteers led a bold experiment in voter registration, seeking out eligible, unregistered, likely Democrats across the state. Person to person, face to face, we helped get them on the voter rolls and then used relational organizing practices to personally stay in touch with each voter ahead of the election. Overall turnout rate for these voters was 82%. We are now building on this program in the 2025-2026 election cycle while also initiating other innovative programs.

There is no state more important than Texas for the future of this country. Traditional “Blue Wall” states are losing population and electoral college voting power, while sun belt states are gaining both. None more so than Texas, which will have 44 electoral college votes by 2032. Soon, there will be no path to the White House that does not run through the Lone Star state. The steps we take today and over the coming years will allow us to register and mobilize the necessary voters to ultimately deliver on that potential and promise.

We can’t do this without you. I hope you will contribute and volunteer to keep this work going. No matter where you live, in Texas or out of state, you have a place on this team.