Texas County GOP Convention Passes Resolutions, Sends Delegate to State Meeting

Texas County Republican delegates passed resolutions supporting Mike Shirley and Tina Peters at their county convention, while local leader Ed Catterson, who chaired the county's Legislative Priorities committee, was selected to carry those priorities to the Texas GOP State Convention in Houston this June.

Peters, the former Mesa County, Colorado clerk, was convicted in 2024 on felony charges stemming from an unauthorized breach of voting equipment and was sentenced to nine years in prison. Her name appearing in a Texas County GOP resolution signals how her case has resonated among Republican activists well beyond Colorado. No resolution text or vote totals were made available.

Catterson's delegate status puts Texas County directly in the room when the state party convenes June 8 through 13 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston. The True Texas Project, a conservative political organization that trains and coordinates Texas Republican activists through the convention system, describes what that room demands: delegates at the county level nominate state convention participants and vote on which resolutions advance, while at the state level, those resolutions go before standing committees that meet Monday through Thursday before the full convention floor acts.

The process builds from the ground up. At the precinct convention, participants elect temporary officers, nominate delegates to the county or Senate District convention, and vote on resolutions that are then documented and forwarded to county GOP headquarters. True Texas Project has urged activists to submit resolutions at each tier on a ban on Sharia law in Texas, abolishing the Texas Lottery with expanded language on platform plank 65, TURF resolutions, and a TFVC medical resolution. The organization separately called on members to vote yes on Proposition 10, which would ban Sharia law in Texas, at the primary election.

At the state convention, True Texas Project recommends delegates attend committee sessions, vote for what it calls "the most conservative SREC member," and weigh in on the party platform, rules, legislative priorities, and the election of the State Republican Executive Committee chair and vice-chair.

First-time participants can find training through local Republican groups and county GOP chapters ahead of the June gathering.