Beto O’Rourke Instagram – 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. | Posted on 16/Feb/2024 02:16:16
