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Midtown Memphis · Shelby County

Uniting Democrats across Midtown Memphis.

We're your neighbors — from Cooper-Young to Crosstown — coming together to learn, organize, and show up for our community. Every meeting is open. Everyone is welcome.

Join the Club Come to a Meeting

Meetings and events post first on our Facebook page.

MonthlyOpen meetings, all welcome
MidtownBy neighbors, for neighbors
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November 3 · unofficial results

Thank you, Midtown.

Congratulations to all of the candidates — and thank you to every neighbor who knocked a door, made a call or cast a ballot. Midtown's Democrats won every state legislative race on its ballot. The statewide races and both congressional seats went the other way, under the new congressional map.

See all the results

Headed to Nashville

  • Raumesh AkbariSenate 29
  • Larry J. MillerHouse 88
  • Torrey C. HarrisHouse 91
  • Telisa FranklinHouse 96

Coming up

Come out with us.

The club's next chances to get involved. Any one of them is a good first step.

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Lately

What we've been up to.

Festival tables, clipboards and cold water. The unglamorous, good-humored work of actually showing up.

  1. 2026

    Cooper-Young Festival

    Our table was up before eight in the morning and still busy well into the afternoon — registering voters on the spot, handing out cold water and hand fans, and pointing neighbors toward whichever Shelby County Democratic club is closest to home.

    The club's festival table: Midtown Democrats flyers, tri-star stickers and hand fans printed with midtowndemocrats.org, beside a food-drive information sign.
    Flyers, stickers and fans
    A club volunteer in a cap and lanyard sits smiling behind a folding table marked "Register to vote here", spread with wristbands, literature and a voter-registration QR code.
    Register to vote, right here
    A club volunteer leans across the table in conversation with three festival-goers, the festival's white tents and crowd filling the street behind them.
    Talking with neighbors
    A club volunteer and a young man in a bright pink T-shirt stand arm in arm behind the voter-registration table, both smiling at the camera.
    At the registration table
    Three women greet each other with laughter in the middle of the festival street, two of them in campaign T-shirts, with tents and crowds behind.
    Greetings on the street
    A "Join and Unite — scan for club info" board with QR codes for six Shelby County Democratic clubs, propped beside a tub of iced water bottles.
    Six clubs, one QR board
    More photos on Facebook Come out with us next time

Out in the neighborhood

This is what showing up looks like.

Marches and postcard nights, Pride tents and skating rinks. Midtown Democrats is neighbors doing something about it — together, and usually with a decent amount of fun.

Club members standing together on a lawn holding hand-made pro-democracy protest signs.
A young child in a paper crown holds a hand-lettered sign reading "Empathy is Power".
Two volunteers in Free Mom Hugs shirts smiling at the club's tent at a community Pride event.
Two marchers with signs, one wearing a banana costume, holding a "Bananas 4 Democracy" placard.
Three members in campaign T-shirts on roller skates at a club social at the skating rink.

What we do

Old-fashioned neighborliness, well organized.

Midtown has always had heart and opinions. Now it has a Democratic club to match — a place to understand what's on the ballot, meet the people running, and turn good intentions into organized action.

01

Learn together

Monthly meetings with elected officials, candidates, and community leaders — so you always know what's happening in Memphis, Shelby County, and Nashville.

02

Organize Midtown

Voter registration, neighborhood outreach, and campaign support — practical work that turns Midtown's blue heart into blue results.

03

Show up for neighbors

Partnering with local organizations on service projects and community events, because Democratic values start with taking care of each other.

Meetings

Pull up a chair.

We meet monthly, and every meeting is open to everyone — longtime members, brand-new neighbors, and the Democrat-curious alike. No dues at the door, no litmus test. Just Midtowners talking about what matters.

  • Hear directly from candidates and elected officials
  • Get plain-English rundowns of what's on your ballot
  • Find your people — and your way to pitch in
What to expect at your first meeting
Next meeting
Last Thursday of every month

Every month, on the last Thursday. Gather from 5:30pm; the meeting starts at 6:00pm.

BBQ Shop

1782 Madison Ave, Memphis, TN 38104 · Open in maps

No meeting in November or December. See you at the first meeting of the new year.

Dates and venue can change — we post any change on Facebook first.

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Your vote

The next election is closer than you think.

State & Federal General Election

Every countdown ends at a ballot box. Be ready.

03Nov State & Federal GeneralGovernor, U.S. Senate & House, statehouse, three amendments
Democrats on your ballot Voter guide

Get involved

Three ways in.

No commitment

Attend a meeting

Come see what we're about. Bring a friend, ask questions, leave whenever. First-timers get a warm welcome, not a signup sheet.

What to expect Be counted

Become a member

Put your name on the roster and help build the club Midtown deserves. Everyone is welcome.

Join the club Roll up sleeves

Volunteer

Registration drives, canvasses, events, socials — whatever your superpower is, there's a job with your name on it.

Find your lane

Friends & family

We're part of something bigger.

Shelby County Democratic PartyOur county party — shelbydem.org Tennessee Democratic PartyThe state party — tndp.org Collierville Democrats ClubOur sister club in southeast Shelby County Shelby County Election CommissionOfficial election info & ballots