# Texas Organizing Project A community-organizing group that describes itself as the largest community-based organization in Texas, working in **Dallas, Harris, Bexar and Fort Bend counties** — Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and the suburban county between them — with a stated plan to deepen its presence there and in **Tarrant County**. Its leadership transitioned in January 2026: **Brianna Brown** became sole executive director, having been co-executive director since 2020 alongside co-founder **Michelle Tremillo**. Brown joined the organization in 2013 as a healthcare organizer, later served as deputy director, and co-founded **BlackTOP**, its Black organizing arm, which the organization says reached more than 1.4 million Texans in 2023. ## The model The organization runs **year-round campaigns** on criminal justice, housing, healthcare and voting rights, with electoral work as one instrument rather than the purpose. Its explicit project is to unite Black and Latino Texans around shared material interests — a coalition that Texas politics has historically kept separate, and whose separation is one of the assumptions the state's electoral map is built on. It also develops candidates and local leaders from its own membership base, which is why the group recurs here at municipal and county level as well as statewide. ## Why it matters Texas is the largest state where the dominant party's position depends on turnout patterns among Black and Latino voters rather than on persuasion. Four urban counties contain a substantial share of the state's non-white electorate, and an organization operating in all four continuously — not seasonally — is a structural factor in any statewide race. It appeared in the 2026 Senate cycle pushing voters toward Texas's early-voting period. See [[TX-Sen-2026]]. ## See Also - [[TX-Sen-2026]] — the 2026 Senate race - [[Voter Suppression]] — the rules environment it organizes against - [[No Kings Coalition]] — the national mobilization it has worked alongside