What Ground Game Texas does

Ground Game Texas is a private, nonprofit progressive political organization founded in 2021 and headquartered in Manchaca, Texas. The organization runs a grassroots community-organizing model focused on year-round voter engagement, with a specific emphasis on constituencies historically underrepresented in civic participation — young voters, voters of color, and residents of rural and exurban Texas. Its underlying infrastructure includes a digital organizing platform and voter data analytics systems used to identify, target, and engage these demographics through door-to-door field campaigns, email outreach, and partnerships with local organizers.

The organization's primary "products" are four named ballot initiative campaigns: the Houston Freedom Act (marijuana enforcement deprioritization and no-knock warrant ban), Brownsville First (charter amendment for local hiring and contractor accountability), the McAllen Anti-Corruption Act, and Dallas Marijuana Decriminalization. In 2024, Ground Game Texas and its partners won 15 progressive ballot initiatives across various Texas municipalities, establishing a track record in labor, criminal-justice, anti-corruption, and democracy-reform policy domains. Leadership includes Executive Director Catina Voellinger, Data Director Matt Krausse, and dedicated regional campaign managers across Houston, Dallas, Brownsville, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Ground Game Texas is funded entirely through individual donations processed via ActBlue and similar platforms; it does not generate revenue from fees or product sales, has no disclosed funding rounds, no parent company, and no venture or private-equity backing. The organization is governed by a board of directors and operates as a membership-style nonprofit entity, with revenue and headcount figures not publicly disclosed.

Name

Ground Game Texas

Legal name

Ground Game Texas

Website

https://groundgametexas.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Ground Game Texas is a nonprofit progressive political organization founded in 2021 that runs grassroots ballot-initiative campaigns and year-round voter engagement across Texas municipalities, including Houston, Dallas, Brownsville, and the Rio Grande Valley, funded by individual donations.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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Services

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Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Non-profit organization funded through individual donations and fundraising campaigns, utilizing platforms like ActBlue for donation processing

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Core offering

Ground Game Texas is a nonprofit political organization that conducts grassroots organizing and ballot initiative campaigns in Texas. It engages voters year-round through deep conversations, supports local organizers, and runs signature-gathering campaigns for progressive policy measures including marijuana decriminalization, local hiring requirements, and anti-corruption reforms. The organization's work centers on building progressive power in municipalities across Houston, Dallas, Brownsville, and the Rio Grande Valley.

Product overview

Ground Game Texas is a progressive political organization focused on grassroots organizing and ballot initiative campaigns rather than a traditional product company. The organization runs distinct campaign initiatives including the Houston Freedom Act (marijuana decriminalization and no-knock warrant ban), Brownsville First (local hiring and contractor accountability), McAllen Anti-Corruption Act, and Dallas Marijuana Decriminalization. These campaigns focus on social justice issues, democracy strengthening, and progressive policy change through voter engagement and ballot measure organizing.

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Products and services

• Houston Freedom Act A ballot initiative campaign to deprioritize marijuana enforcement and ban no-knock warrants in Houston, Texas, requiring over 20,000 signatures to place on the ballot.
• Brownsville First A ballot initiative campaign to amend the Brownsville City Charter to ensure taxpayer-funded contracts support local hiring and safe working conditions, requiring over 6,000 signatures.
• McAllen Anti-Corruption Act A ground-breaking anti-corruption, pro-democracy ballot proposition campaign in McAllen, Texas led by the Rio Grande Valley Campaign Manager.
• Dallas Marijuana Decriminalization A city ballot initiative to decriminalize marijuana in Dallas, described as Ground Game Texas's largest campaign to date.

Quantifiable outcome

• 15 progressive ballot initiatives won in 2024

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Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Local Organizations and ActivistscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGround Game Texas works in partnership with local organizations and activists who share commitment to transformative policy. The organization seeks to support work already being done by local organizers rather than duplicating efforts. Decisions about which communities to work with or campaigns to take on are made in collaboration with existing local stakeholders.

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Broad incumbents

• Working Families Party: Multi-state progressive organization that builds progressive infrastructure and supports ballot initiatives; Ground Game Texas's Dallas Campaign Manager previously worked at WFP, indicating an organizational lineage and overlapping progressive infrastructure-building mission.
• Indivisible: National progressive grassroots organizing network with local chapters across many states; competes for donor dollars and volunteer attention in the same progressive organizing space, though broader in scope.
• MoveOn: Large national progressive advocacy organization with significant digital organizing capacity and small-dollar donor base that overlaps with Ground Game Texas's ActBlue fundraising model.

Direct peers

• Battleground Texas: Texas-focused progressive voter engagement and turnout organization with similar year-round organizing model and overlapping target demographics in the same geography. The most directly comparable peer in mission and operating region.
• Texas Organizing Project (TOP): Progressive grassroots community organizing nonprofit operating in Texas with similar year-round voter engagement focus on underrepresented communities, including people of color and low-turnout voters.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

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Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GroundGameTX
• Facebookfacebook.com/groundgametx
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/ggtx

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