Clean Elections Texas

As of 2025, they are an active participant in redistricting litigation as a member of the Fair Maps Texas coalition. ³

Background

Founded in 2009, Clean Elections Texas is a lobbying and advocacy organization that advocates against privately funded campaigns in the state of Texas. ⁴ It advocates that Texas adopt policies that exist in other states that create government funding of political campaigns. ⁵

Clean Elections Texas has previously advocated for  Democratic Party-aligned federal legislation to reorganize election administration from the federal level. ^{6 7}

As of 2025, they are an active participant in redistricting litigation as a member of the Fair Maps Texas coalition. ³

Coalitions

Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

Clean Elections Texas is a member of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights (LCCHR). Composed of over 200 left-of-center organizations, ⁸ it writes policy letters and advocates for left-of-center policy, including LGBT issues, race issues, and legal protections for illegal immigrants. ⁹

Fair Maps Texas

Clean Elections Texas is also a member of Fair Maps Texas, alongside the ACLU, League of Women Voters of Texas, and Common Cause. Fair Maps Texas advocates for changes to redistricting procedures including redistricting commissions, counting incarcerated individuals as residents of their pre-incarceration communities, including illegal immigrants in the census, and “outreach to communities” for consideration of redistricting maps. ^{10 11}

Activities

In April 2020, Clean Elections Texas cosigned a letter demanding that Congress give each state $4 billion to spend on increasing voter turnout in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ¹²

In August 2021, Clean Elections Texas cosigned a letter supporting the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The letter argues that people of colors are discriminated against through restricted access to voting and that the government has disregarded discrimination laws, justifying the support for the bill. ⁶ Critics of the bill have described it as a “federal power grab” to manipulate laws and allow partisan litigators to control elections. ⁷

In 2024, Clean Elections Texas advocated for campaign contribution limits of $3,300 per campaign per individual as a core priority. ²

In 2025, under an ACLU coalition, Clean Elections Texas opposed a suite of three bills relating to voter requirements in the state: ² “Relating to requiring a person to submit proof of citizenship to register to vote;”  ¹³ “Relating to elimination of the countywide polling place program,” which also mandates certain requirements for electronic voting devices, namely electronic lists of voters, signature display, and timestamping; ¹⁴ and “Relating to confirmation of a voter’s residence by a voter registrar,” which further clarifies the circumstances under which a voter registrar must confirm a voter’s residence. ¹⁵

Leadership

David Jones is the president of Clean Elections Texas as of 2025. ¹⁶ Jones is an injury lawyer from Dallas and an activist for left-of-center causes, focusing on consumer law and campaign finance. ¹⁷