Texas is a non-voting state

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In the last presidential election around 7.2 million registered voters in Texas didn’t vote.

I don’t doubt there’s Republican suppression, however if more Democrats voted, things could be different in Texas.

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1. Texas is not a red state or a blue state but a non-voting state

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2. If more Texans understood when they don't vote

They’re giving two votes to the person they don’t agree with, and giving away their power.

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3. We need more local Democrats and Boots on the Ground

Encouraging and engaging voters wherever you encounter potential voters. Hold fundraisers for local candidates, bake-offs/cook-offs are great ways to make our voices heard. Candidates forums and introductions to help people to

Find out how to register voters. Target voters where they shop, go to school or church. We should continue having registration booths and signing people up. Also teach them how to check their voter registration to make sure they haven’t been kicked off the voting rolls. Plus making sure voting locations haven’t been closed down or moved without publicly informing the public. This is another tactic that is used in suppressing the election process. The voters need to know where to call if there is an issue.

In Tarrant County sometimes there is no opposition to the gop. That is starting to change somewhat, which I see as very encouraging. Tarrant County is one of the districts Abbott is working on eliminating. I have met some of the Democratic Representatives that are in jeopardy of the illegal regerrymandering. DFW’s voices will be silenced. No more representative government, only white people will be represented.

But back to How to effectively educate people.

Use the candidate Barack Obama model, which is basically what I mentioned. Ground troops that engage and encourage them to vote and to become a Team Capital, to register and recruit their friends and family. I still have my Obama work book that teaches how to be a community organizer, which he was extremely successful at.

Make sure we keep visible everywhere we go, and help educate voters. Because when I worked the election in 2016, I really couldn’t believe how many people showed up to vote for the hellbeast and didn’t even know how to cast a ballot. I had to help them and it was the saddest thing I encountered, until DU got hacked, and when I got home from working the election, I was first excited and my excitement quickly deteriorated.

Texans need to know why things are going to continue to get worse if they don’t vote the gop out of office. Abbott has done more harm to Texans than any other governor Texas has ever had that I can remember.

And I do blame Karl Rove with his whisper campaign against Gov. Ann Richards. That really put a downward spiraling out of control negative effect on our state and of course spread faster than std’s when W and TurdBlossom Rove went national.


Sorry if I’m being scatterbrained. Free flow thought of consciousness for the win.

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4. Thanks for sharing a lot if really good ideas

There is much work to be done.