Surveying Lobby Activity

The Lobbying menu lets you see who appeared before committee - whether in person or in writing - to advocate for or against a bill. So if you went to Austin, you can look for yourself at GrassrootsPriorities.com.

If you click into Filter Lobbying, you will be able to search by multiple criteria.

Because thousands of people and hundreds of organizations did this, you need to pre-search for the person or organization first.

You do this by typing in the last name of the person or the partial name of the organization.

We'll use Austin.

When you click Load Matches, it will load the people and organizations that match what you entered. Then you can choose from either the Person Lobbying dropdown or the Organization Lobbying dropdown. Then click Search.

When a person or a group lobbies for a bill and it passes, or they advocate against a bill and it fails, this factors into the desired outcome percentage we display.

When you look at desired outcome percentages, it's probably worth looking into why the Travis County Democratic Party outperforms our Republican Party of Texas in our Republican-controlled legislature.