As lawmakers prepare for the August recess, the DNC announced its “Organizing Summer” August recess programming to fight back against Republicans’ Big, Beautiful Betrayal of their constituents, which includes stripping health care from 17 million Americans, ripping away food assistance from 22 million families, and shuttering rural hospitals and medical centers. The organizing blitz will include events in dozens of states, paid digital ads targeting vulnerable Republican seats, and billboard trucks sent to state and county fairs. To kick off the organizing sprint, the DNC and our state party partners are hosting events in Alaska, Iowa, Colorado, Minnesota, and California this coming week.

• Nationwide: Associated Press: Democrats launching summer blitz to press Republicans on Trump spending plan 

This week, the DNC also launched a new national organizing program amidst Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering scheme. The DNC is deploying 30,000 grassroots organizers to contact Independent and Republican Texas voters, telling them exactly how Donald Trump and Greg Abbott plan to disenfranchise their vote. Instead of focusing on critical flood relief, Texas Republicans have prioritized rigging the Congressional maps in their favor at the behest of Donald Trump. In response, Democrats are stepping up to the plate and mobilizing volunteers to let persuadable Texas voters know the exact names behind efforts to sell them out. 

• Nationwide: ABC News: DNC ramps up anti-redistricting efforts in Texas with calls to ‘persuadable’ GOP voters
• In Texas: Star Telegram: Democrats reaching out to Texas Republicans over redistricting efforts
• In Texas: Houston Chronicle: ‘All hands on deck’: DNC fights Trump-backed Texas map rewrite
• In Texas: Straight Arrow News: Democrats to spend $20M, deploy 30k volunteers against Texas redistricting
• In Texas: The Texan: National Democrats Ramp Up Presence in Texas, Opposing Mid-Decade Redistricting
• Nationwide: The National News Desk: Texas Democrats create $20 million super PAC to combat GOP redistricting effort
• In Texas: SA Current: DNC deploys 30,000 volunteers to lobby moderate Republicans against Abbott’s redistricting scheme
• Nationwide: New York Times: Democrats Plan $20 Million Fund to Target Texas Republicans for Redistricting

On Wednesday, DNC Chair Ken Martin released a statement joining Texas Democrats in calling out Texas Republicans’ extreme power-grab at the behest of Donald Trump. Like fellow Democrats, Chair Martin condemned Republicans’ use of pain following a natural disaster as a political opportunity to dilute minority representation.

• In Texas: Texas Standard: These are the Texas districts targeted by Republicans’ congressional redistricting map
• In Texas: Courier Texas: A power grab in plain sight: Inside Texas Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting push
• In Texas: CW39: Democrat lawmakers, officials respond to the new Texas redistricting map
• Nationwide:  CBS News: Texas Democrats slam GOP redistricting plan as “grossly unfair” and “deeply undemocratic”
• Nationwide:  CBS News: Texas Republicans release redistricting proposal with five more winnable GOP seats
• Nationwide:  The Hill: Texas GOP unveils new planned congressional map
• Nationwide: Democracy Docket: Republicans Release Proposed New Texas Congressional Map, Could Add 5 GOP Seats

Finally, DNC Chair Ken Martin is sticking to his promise of getting the DNC out of D.C. by traveling across the country this past week. Some highlights include his stop with Democratic mayors from across the country in Cleveland at the Democratic Mayors Association 2025 Summit and in Portland, where he sat down with States Newsroom to talk about the new initiatives of the DNC under his watch. 

• In Ohio: Cleveland.com: Democrats look to mayors, not Washington, to lead party revival after 2024
• In Ohio: Clevesence: Bibb Welcomed Democratic Mayors Summit to Downtown Cleveland With a Party Rebirth Idea: Be Authentic
• In California: Daily News: Democratic National Committee chair hears about impacts of LA immigration raids
• In Oregon: States Newsroom: ‘A gun to a knife fight’: Democrats’ chief pledges a more pugnacious party in more states