Campaign Canvassers — Houston's Ground Game
40+ Years
Grassroots Campaigns
30+ Years
Serving as Precinct Judge
Council → Congress → Bench
Range of Races Won
Houston-Rooted
Harris · Galveston · Fort Bend

Two doors. One mission.

Whether you're running for office or running with a team that does, this is your front door.

For Candidates & Campaigns

Hire the team that knows Houston by block.

From a lit drop on Tuesday to a full campaign manager engagement through Election Day — we scope what you need, map out the exact doors and voters that win your race, and execute the ground game that turns conversations into votes.

  • Door-to-door canvassing & voter education
  • Paid poll workers — early voting & election day
  • Church & community outreach
  • Phone banking & text outreach
  • Sign placement & full campaign management
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For Canvassers

Join the ground game. Get paid to talk to your neighbors.

We're hiring people who can show up, knock the door, and have a real conversation. If you care about your community and you can walk a block, you can earn with us — every cycle.

  • Apply online — quick form, 90 seconds
  • Get screened & trained on the campaign
  • Deploy with a team, never alone
  • Reliable pay each cycle
  • Build a track record across Houston races
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What we run, end to end.

Pick the piece you need or hire us to run the whole campaign. Either way, the same standard applies.

01

Door-to-Door Canvassing

Direct voter outreach throughout your district — we share your background and qualifications, hand out your literature, respectfully ask for the vote, and coordinate yard sign placement at the door.

02

Literature Distribution

Targeted lit drops at homes, churches, events, and high-traffic locations across the district — the right piece in the right hands.

03

Poll Worker Staffing

Trained, paid poll workers for Early Voting and Election Day — greeting voters, distributing literature, and speaking on your behalf right where the votes are cast.

04

Church & Community Outreach

Church tagging done right — literature placed on vehicles in approved church and community lots, always respectful and always in compliance with location guidelines.

05

Phone Banking & Text Outreach

Targeted calls and texts that share your story, confirm support, and remind voters about Early Voting and Election Day.

06

Campaign Sign Placement

4x4 and 4x8 signs placed throughout the district in approved and permitted locations — name recognition on every corner that matters.

07

Advance Team & Event Support

Signs up before the event, voters greeted, literature in hands — and everything monitored and retrieved after.

08

Voter Education

Clear, accurate information about your platform so voters can make an informed, confident decision — that's the mission.

09

Full Campaign Management

The whole ground game run as one program — strategy, field operations, outreach, and reporting, from filing day through Election Day.

Houston knows our walk.

A sample of the candidates Thyra and her ground teams have helped elect — from the Mayor's office and Houston City Council to the United States Congress, the Harris County bench, constables, and Justices of the Peace. Listed in order, 1989 to today — just a slice of four decades of wins.

1989 → 1994
U.S. Congress · Houston City Council
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Houston City Council, 1989 → United States House of Representatives, 1994.
2004
Justice of the Peace
Judge Zennetta Burney
Justice of the Peace, Precinct 7, Place 2.
2004
Harris County Constable
Constable May Walker
Constable, Precinct 7.
2008
Civil District Court
Judge Mike Engelhart
151st State Civil District Court.
2008
Civil District Court
Judge Alfred H. Bennett
61st Civil District Court.
2008
Civil District Court
Judge Robert Schaffer
152nd Civil District Court.
2008
Criminal District Court
Judge Randy Roll
179th District Court.
2011
Houston City Council
Council Member Andrew C. Burks, Jr.
Houston City Council, At-Large Position 2.
2013
Houston City Council
Council Member Dwight Boykins
Houston City Council, District D.
2015
Houston City Council
Council Member Mike Knox
Houston City Council, At-Large Position 1.
2015
Mayor · City of Houston
Mayor Sylvester Turner
Mayor of the City of Houston — elected December 12, 2015.
2018
Civil District Court
Judge Donna Roth
295th Civil District Court.
2022
Criminal District Court
Judge Catherine Thomas
184th District Court, Harris County.
2023
Houston City Council
Council Member Julian Ramirez
Houston City Council, At-Large Position 1.
2024
Harris County Constable
Constable James “Smokie” Phillips
Harris County Constable, Precinct 7 — elected March Primary.
2026
Harris County Democratic Party
Chair Tracie Goodwin
Harris County Democratic Party Chair — elected March.

Every door, tracked. Every number, provable.

Most ground operations hand you a spreadsheet somebody typed up after the fact. We built a field system that captures every contact the moment it happens — so what you get is a record, not an estimate.

01

Tap-to-Capture

Every canvasser wears a tap-enabled wristband. A voter touches their phone to it and your sign-up opens instantly on their screen — name, ZIP, and the issues they care about. Fifteen seconds, no clipboard, nothing lost.

02

Canvasser Accountability

Each wristband is assigned to a specific team member, so every contact is traced to the person who made it. You know who is knocking and who isn't — without taking anyone's word for it.

03

Verified Weekly Reporting

Touch counts by channel — doors, churches, businesses, events — reported every week and backed by timestamped records. No month-end guesswork.

04

Instant Voter Follow-Up

The moment someone is contacted, they receive a text or email with your information and how to reach your office. The conversation at the door keeps going after we walk away.

05

Request & Concern Routing

When a voter raises a problem or asks for help, it's logged with a time stamp and routed to your staff the same day — so nothing said at a door gets lost on the walk back to the car.

06

Your List, Your Database

Every voter, church, business, and community organization we contact is built into a clean, exportable database — and it belongs to you when the cycle ends.

Forty years of relationships is what gets the door opened. The system is what proves it happened — and hands you a list you still own after Election Day.

It's not just who. It's what.

Campaigns are how we keep score. But the work is about policy — the things the city actually does, and how they're funded, regulated, and reformed. Ballot measures and policy fights Thyra has worked on the ground for:

Houston Ballot Measure

Red Light Cameras

Ground operation supporting Houston's red light camera ballot measure. Doors knocked, churches engaged, voters moved.

Houston, TX
Thyra Burks Founder, Campaign Canvassers · Houston, TX
Founder

Built block by block.

Thyra Burks is a seasoned grassroots campaign professional with more than four decades of experience in political outreach, voter engagement, and field operations — and a former Precinct Judge who faithfully served her community for over 30 years.

Throughout her career, Thyra and her team have helped elect candidates at every level of government — a Mayor of Houston, City Council members, State Representatives, Harris County Judges, Constables, School Board members, and Justices of the Peace — with field operations that now reach Court of Appeals races across multiple counties.

The mission is simple: her team informs voters that you're running, shares clear and accurate information about your platform, and respectfully asks for their support — so voters decide informed and confident. When Houston's leaders need votes, they call Campaign Canvassers.

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Your race is closer than the polls say.

30 minutes on a strategy call. We'll tell you what the ground actually looks like, what your number needs to be, and whether we're the right team to bring it home.

Campaign Canvassers

Houston's full-spectrum grassroots campaign firm. Boots on the ground, brain at the table — four decades of wins.

Houston · Harris · Galveston · Fort Bend Counties
Houston-area surrounding communities
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