Kopser for Texas Campaign Contacts 18,000 Unregistered Voters in Travis County

The Kopser for Texas campaign announced it has contacted more than 18,000 unregistered, likely voters who recently moved to Travis County. This proactive effort aims to strengthen civic participation and expand access to the democratic process by focusing on Texans who are eligible to vote but had not yet registered. The campaign's sole purpose is increasing participation in local and state elections, challenging what candidate Joseph Kopser describes as the normalization of low political engagement.

Joseph Kopser, candidate for Texas House District 47, stated that democracy works best when more people are engaged rather than fewer. For the past seven years, Kopser has led USTomorrow, an organization dedicated to reinvigorating disengaged and disenfranchised voters through education, dialogue, and civic awareness. In a recent USTomorrow piece available at https://www.ustomorrow.org/articles/march-matters, Kopser highlighted March Matters, a non-partisan initiative focused on educating voters about the outsized impact of primary elections.

The campaign points to recent electoral outcomes as evidence of what happens when voter participation increases. Kopser cited the upset victory of political outsider and Democrat Taylor Rehmet as demonstrating what becomes possible when voters register, show up, and motivate their friends. This approach represents what Kopser calls an unconventional strategy in modern politics: expanding the voter base without partisan considerations.

Beyond voter registration outreach, Kopser for Texas is deploying relational organizing strategies using the Reach App, a tool pioneered in Texas by Blue Action Democrats. This approach empowers supporters to engage friends, family members, and neighbors through trusted relationships rather than impersonal political messaging. The campaign believes combining voter registration efforts with relational organizing and tools like the Reach App alongside traditional campaign strategies will increase voter turnout.

Kopser emphasized that expanding participation represents a civic goal rather than a partisan one, aimed at ensuring Texas elections reflect the voices of the communities they serve. The campaign maintains that registering more voters and turning them out through relational organizing represents a positive development for democracy regardless of political affiliation. This effort comes as part of a broader movement to address what many see as systemic issues with voter engagement and participation in the political process.