What are the candidate investment packages?

Texas Together will run the largest voter contact program in modern Texas history. Through our partnerships, we are investing $30 million into organizing, voter registration, polling, and research across the state. Of that, $20 million is already dedicated to voter contact, including volunteer programs and paid field organizers making calls, knocking doors, and sending texts.

That means a significant amount of work will be happening in every part of Texas — whether or not campaigns invest additional funds.

However, winning in 2026 means getting as big as possible. The point of a coordinated campaign is to allow Democratic candidates across Texas to pool resources to:

• Lower the cost of vendor services (like phones, texts, and mail)
• Expand voter contact programs efficiently
• Avoid creating tons ofexpensivefield programs that only contact a few thousand voters.
• Build one large, strategic operation instead of hundreds of disconnected ones

Instead of each campaign building its own field program from scratch–paying its own set of overhead, finding its own offices, hiring its own organizers, paying for its own tech setup fees–candidates can plug into an existing statewide infrastructure and help scale it. That’s what these investment packages are designed to do: grow the team that’s already in motion.

How to Use This Tool

This page is designed to help you:

1. Understand how much voter contact Texas Together will conduct in your district
2. See how additional investment could meaningfully increase that outreach
3. Decide what level of participation makes sense for your campaign

After reviewing the overview information, click on the drop-down menu under “Get Started” and select your specific race.

You will then see two boxes:

Blue Box — Existing Investment in Your District

This number reflects the estimated amount that will be spent in your district through Texas Together’s program without you putting a dollar in.

You are not being asked to pay this amount. This investment is already committed and will happen regardless of your participation.

Orange Box — Suggested Investment

This is your recommended buy-in amount to expand voter contact in your district.

This number is:

• A suggestion — not mandatory
• Fully adjustable
• Based on the amount of additional voter contact we think would help you win your race

The recommendation includes expanded phone calls and text messages, and investment into the voter turnout mail program. Voter turnout mail will be sent to voters who are likely Democrats, but unlikely to vote at all. 

• Phone calls
• Text messages
• Voter turnout mail

These increases are designed to meaningfully expand the number of voters contacted multiple times in your district.

The costs for phones and texts are fixed ($0.03/call and $0.01/text), the cost of mail is an estimate of $0.70/piece and is subject to change while we are still negotiating with mail vendors. The number of calls, texts, and mail pieces is adjustable. As you change quantities, the total suggested investment will increase or decrease accordingly.

The number on the far right of the orange box reflects the total suggested package amount, based on the services selected.

Once you review these numbers click on the “Connect with Us” button below to schedule a time to talk through this with a member of the Texas Together team.

Who is part of the Texas Together Coordinated Campaign?

Every Democratic candidate who actively directs volunteers into the coordinated campaign during the 2026 election cycle is considered a participant in the Texas Together Coordinated Campaign. Active direction means candidates are directing volunteers to sign up for direct voter contact opportunities on the Texas Together Mobilize page after their primary, rather than running their own direct voter contact programs, leaving the candidates with more time to meet their voters, focus on media, and spend more time fundraising. Active direction can include sending emails to your list asking volunteers to sign up for Texas Together events, posting about Texas Together on your social media, plugging the program at a meet-and-greet, and recruiting volunteers to a Texas Together organizing rally.

What participation includes

As a participant, your campaign benefits from a statewide organizing program designed to reach voters everywhere in Texas.

This includes:

• Paid programming deployed in key areas of the state to do specialized outreach to Black, Latino, and other high-priority voting blocs. 
• Volunteers recruited and trained to knock doors, make phone calls, and send texts to voters in every county of the state.
• Paid organizing staff who manage volunteer leaders through both in-person and virtual support.

Tools, access, and ongoing support

Participants will also receive:

• Regional updates may be held in person or via Zoom and will be determined by regional teams.
• Ability to post voter contact and candidate events on the Texas Together Mobilize page
  • Read about the process here
    
• Free access to VAN for some candidates
  Free access to VAN will be provided to certain candidates in challenging districts. Democratic incumbents, candidates running against Democratic incumbents, candidates in extremely competitive down-ballot races, and statewide candidates still need to pay for VAN. To apply for free VAN, fill out this form. If you have questions about VAN access, please contact kmcnaught@txdemocrats.org.
  • Regular coordinated campaign calls where coordinated campaign staff give updates to all candidates running about the coordinated program and organizing plans.
  • March–June: Monthly (via Zoom)
  • July–August: Biweekly
  • September–Election Day: Weekly (with increased frequency closer to Election Day)

Printing, data, and technical support

Texas Together will also provide:

Post-election analysis

• Statewide volunteer literature
  The coordinated campaign will cover the cost of literature used by Texas Together volunteers and staff.
• Data and reporting services, including:
  • Voter contact reporting
  • Early vote dashboard
  • VAN administration (targeting, list creation, scripts, and support)
  • Path to Victory documents
  • Election projections

Why this matters

Texas Together will invest at least $20 million into a statewide organizing program. This money is already raised. It will be the most well-funded coordinated campaign in Texas in over 30 years.Democratic candidates across the state are set to collectively raise more than $100 million, making Texas more competitive than we have been in years. By coordinating our efforts and working together, we can stretch those dollars further and reach more voters.

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