the person I picked to lead the fight
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I hired Aimee Prudhomme last year to run Powered by People because I knew that for us to make the biggest possible difference in the 2026 elections we needed the strongest leader we could find.
I got to know Aimee back in 2024 because she was one of the most exciting volunteers we had in Houston, maybe in the state. She created registration events at local universities, recruited and led other volunteers, and helped build a strong community around the work we were doing.
It’s one of the reasons that the Houston area consistently posted some of our strongest numbers on registrations, voter engagement and — most importantly — turnout.
Though she had a demanding day job and a career to which she’d devoted more than a decade of her life, she was committed to Powered by People, our organizing philosophy and our team.
When the position became available last fall, I began to talk with Aimee about joining us as our leader. The fact that she was a political outsider — not having run campaigns or become embedded in party politics — I saw as an asset. We need to find new ways to reach new voters, and that becomes possible with new perspectives.
Plus, she understood PXP as well as anyone — she believed in the organizing model, believed in taking chances, believed in person-to-person connections over those forged by money and tech.
In the nearly 6 months that she’s been at the helm, Aimee has begun to transform our organization, bringing a new level of professionalism, higher accountability, and greater focus on the volunteer experience. She’s also initiated new programs that supplement our core campus organizing effort.
And she’s laser focused on the thing that matters most: winning.
She has set an ambitious and achievable target of 100,000 new voters in our relational network — 100,000 Texans who might not otherwise vote but for the personal engagement of our PXP volunteers.
We’re all rallying around her to get it done and to win political power for Democrats in Texas. James Talarico. Gina Hinojosa. Democrats running at every place on the ballot.
Thank you,
Beto
