DALLAS - The Dallas County Democratic Party joins the Texas Democratic Party in voicing our outrage over Ted Cruz’s illegal campaign fundraising tactics.
April 25, 2016
DALLAS - The Dallas County Democratic Party is overjoyed to announce that we’ve hired Carmen Ayala as our brand new Executive Director.
April 1, 2016
DALLAS - Justice of the Peace Bill Metzger is refusing LGBT Mesquite residents their constitutional right to marriage. Metzger is not only violating federal law, as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, but he is also violating his Oath of Office. Therefore, he must resign.
February 5, 2016
DALLAS - Abbott is playing Trump-style politics and does not reflect the demands of the American people, who have consistently asked our leaders to do more.
January 4, 2016
DALLAS - The Dallas County Democratic Party has fielded candidates for every State House district in Dallas County.
December 14, 2015
DALLAS - The Texas Legislature has consistently challenged women’s right to affordable and accessible healthcare.
November 24, 2015
Today Republican Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas will not accept any Syrian refugees and on his Facebook page “demanded that the U.S. act similarly”.
November 16, 2015
Yesterday, the Dallas City Council unanimously voted to clarify its 13-year-old equal rights ordinance.
November 11, 2015
Today Governor Greg Abbott threatened to withhold grant funds from Texas Sheriff Departments who refuse to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ("ICE".)
November 4, 2015
Today Governor Greg Abbott threatened Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez, demanding that she detain immigrants beyond their release dates.
October 26, 2015
Today it was revealed that during District Attorney Susan Hawk's lengthy absence from work, she was involuntarily committed at a Houston psychiatric hospital.
October 4, 2015
News broke this weekend of a seventh key employee fired or forced out of the Dallas County District Attorney’s office, as well as allegations of repeated attempts by DA Susan Hawk to misuse public money, and new allegations of Hawk’s paranoia over staff loyalty.
September 21, 2015
Governor Greg Abbott is coming to Dallas today to tout what he describes as his "accomplishments."
September 17, 2015
Instead of encouragement for his innovative creation, 14-year-old Irving high school student Ahmed Mohamed got handcuffs when he brought a clock to school to show his teachers.
September 16, 2015
Today Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is bringing his spectacle of sexism, racism, and hate speech to Dallas.
September 14, 2015
Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker has included Democratic Dallas County on his Texas campaign and fundraising tour.
September 2, 2015
After more than three weeks of being MIA, late this afternoon District Attorney Susan Hawk announced that she is battling depression and will take another four weeks off from work, and these additional weeks will be unpaid.
August 25, 2015
Just months after being sworn in, Dallas County District Attorney Susan Hawk has been inexplicably away from her job for three weeks, going on four.
August 24, 2015
Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Texas’ discriminatory photo Voter ID law violates the Voting Rights Act and sent the case back to a lower court for further review.
August 5, 2015
Today three felony indictments were unsealed against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
August 3, 2015
Today the executive committee of the Dallas County Democratic Party elected Carol Donovan as interim chair.
June 27, 2015
Today the Supreme Court once and for all affirmed same-sex marriage as a constitutional right.
June 26, 2015
Constable Cleo Steele died today after complications from heart surgery.
February 18, 2015
Dallas County Democrats nearly completed a historic fifth-straight sweep of countywide contests, winning all but one race.
November 5, 2014
Today the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated Greg Abbott's discriminatory photo Voter ID Law.
October 14, 2014
Today Greg Abbott dropped out of a long-planned Dallas gubernatorial debate, the day after he was defeated in court for protecting an unconstitutional education system that overcrowds students and understaffs schools, even closing many.
August 29, 2014
Judge Ken Molberg will be on the November 4, 2014, general election ballot as a candidate for the Fifth District Court of Appeals, Place 5.
August 25, 2014
At today’s Dallas County Commissioners Court meeting, Dallas County Elections Administrator Toni Pippins Poole reported more than 1,000 complaints from voters confused about returning their mail ballots for the May 10 joint municipal and school board elections and their May 27 Democratic and Republican Primary Runoff elections.
May 6, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of eligible and qualified Dallas County voters receive notices that their voter registration card and photo IDs do not match.
January 30, 2014