“…ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande…” Abbott is a thug. A murderer. A ghoul. People are dying while he plays war-games against defenseless mothers and children. Pro life my ass!! But there is someone who has the power to stop Abbott. Stop him from deploying razor wire & medieval drowning devices designed to ensnare & mutilate. Stop every illegal thing he’s doing on the border that ends up killing human beings. President Biden @potus , we need you to act.
Thank you @paramore and @yelyahwilliams ! Only way to change things for the better in Texas is to register, vote and volunteer to help others register and vote. Travis County has a self-directed video and exam to become a Volunteer Deputy Registrar (so you can register people to vote). You can live anywhere in Texas, get your Travis VDR and then apply for reciprocity in your home county. https://campsite.bio/tcvdr
Greg Abbott has blood on his hands. We have the chance to stop him. More than 30,000 people have signed this letter to President Biden urging him to remove the death traps on the border. Add your name now by clicking the link in bio.
I’m traveling the next few weeks to talk about “We’ve Got to Try” — how the right to vote was won and what it will take to keep it. (Dates/cities at link in bio) Given the attacks on voting rights in places like Texas… the level of political violence and terrorism across our country (El Paso in 2019)… the attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election… it hasn’t always been clear to me that we are going to make it. But after writing this book, I feel a lot better about our chances. It helped me understand that the people who made our democracy possible — who overcame the white primary in Texas, who gave LBJ the power to pass the Voting Rights Act, who won the victories big and small all across this country that brought more Americans into what “we the people” means — have proved that we can overcome the challenges before us today. We’ve overcome them before, against much greater odds. They give us heart and hope… confidence in the work ahead. They remind us that ACTION is the antidote to despair… that we’ve got to stay in the fight, because no victory — whether the VRA in ’65 or Roe in ’73 or those that guarantee the rights and freedoms we take for granted today — is ever final. They teach us that no matter what, we’ve got to try. See you out there.
I’m traveling the next few weeks to talk about “We’ve Got to Try” — how the right to vote was won and what it will take to keep it. (Dates/cities at link in bio) Given the attacks on voting rights in places like Texas… the level of political violence and terrorism across our country (El Paso in 2019)… the attempt to overturn the 2020 Presidential election… it hasn’t always been clear to me that we are going to make it. But after writing this book, I feel a lot better about our chances. It helped me understand that the people who made our democracy possible — who overcame the white primary in Texas, who gave LBJ the power to pass the Voting Rights Act, who won the victories big and small all across this country that brought more Americans into what “we the people” means — have proved that we can overcome the challenges before us today. We’ve overcome them before, against much greater odds. They give us heart and hope… confidence in the work ahead. They remind us that ACTION is the antidote to despair… that we’ve got to stay in the fight, because no victory — whether the VRA in ’65 or Roe in ’73 or those that guarantee the rights and freedoms we take for granted today — is ever final. They teach us that no matter what, we’ve got to try. See you out there.
From the frontlines of the fight for democracy: Christian Menefee leads the response to GOP attacks on voting rights in Texas.
Just renewed my Volunteer Deputy Registrar (VDR) certification in El Paso. In a state with no online or automatic voter registration, we need more VDRs to help register Texas voters. Join us by signing up for a virtual VDR training (it takes only 45 mins!) at poweredxpeople.org/trainings/
These are my heroes. They put in the work, they struggle through the pain, and they do it all knowing that even though they can’t bring back the children they’ve lost to gun violence, their effort, courage and persistence may be able to save ours. Thank you Manuel and Patricia (Guac’s parents), Rhonda (Kim’s mom), Brett (Uzi’s dad) and Sam and Cameron from Parkland for showing up!! Thanks to Las Americas for hosting and to the good people of El Paso for coming out!
These are my heroes. They put in the work, they struggle through the pain, and they do it all knowing that even though they can’t bring back the children they’ve lost to gun violence, their effort, courage and persistence may be able to save ours. Thank you Manuel and Patricia (Guac’s parents), Rhonda (Kim’s mom), Brett (Uzi’s dad) and Sam and Cameron from Parkland for showing up!! Thanks to Las Americas for hosting and to the good people of El Paso for coming out!
These are my heroes. They put in the work, they struggle through the pain, and they do it all knowing that even though they can’t bring back the children they’ve lost to gun violence, their effort, courage and persistence may be able to save ours. Thank you Manuel and Patricia (Guac’s parents), Rhonda (Kim’s mom), Brett (Uzi’s dad) and Sam and Cameron from Parkland for showing up!! Thanks to Las Americas for hosting and to the good people of El Paso for coming out!
These are my heroes. They put in the work, they struggle through the pain, and they do it all knowing that even though they can’t bring back the children they’ve lost to gun violence, their effort, courage and persistence may be able to save ours. Thank you Manuel and Patricia (Guac’s parents), Rhonda (Kim’s mom), Brett (Uzi’s dad) and Sam and Cameron from Parkland for showing up!! Thanks to Las Americas for hosting and to the good people of El Paso for coming out!
We can stop Abbott’s cruelty.
Pauline first volunteered with me at Dream Park. She wasn’t a VDR back then but was eager to do her part in registering voters. She wore a shirt with a photo of a Poll Tax Receipt. When I asked her about it, she said, “It was my father’s. He died 13 years ago. I have the same for my mother, who died 2 years ago at age 93. Regardless of how little finances they had, they always paid [their Poll Tax] to vote.” Yesterday, Pauline registered her first voters as a newly certified VDR at the community college. — Rocio, Powered by People volunteer in Tarrant County You can join Pauline, Rocio and the many other Powered by People volunteers who are registering Democrats to vote and personally staying in touch with them to make sure they turn out in November. Link in bio!
Interview with John Bryant, Texas state rep from Dallas where he lays out how Democrats can fight back and lead.
Houston and Harris County are getting after it! Thanks to all who came out today and got signed up to register and turn out their neighbors to vote. We need everyone involved in this effort. Join us by signing up here: poweredxpeople.org/volunteer
Upper Valley
BIG thanks to the 13,000 people who signed up to help us launch the biggest voter registration program in Texas last night. Now it’s time to get to work. Sign up for an upcoming volunteer training at the link in my bio (lots of opportunities — including tonight)!
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. In Texas, we are registering Democratic voters across the state and staying in touch with them through the election to make sure they vote. Join us, link in bio.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. In Texas, we are registering Democratic voters across the state and staying in touch with them through the election to make sure they vote. Join us, link in bio.
After the shootings in El Paso, Santa Fe, Midland-Odessa, Sutherland Springs and Uvalde our elected leaders did nothing except make it easier for killers and criminals to get their hands on a gun. Nothing’s going to change unless we do something about it. Join us Wednesday in El Paso.
