The facts I’ve started sharing with people to illustrate how this complacency and negativity are actively harming us is some election data from Texas in 2020. In that year’s Presidential election, over 5 million Texans who were registered to vote didn’t. Another almost 5 million who were eligible to vote didn’t register. That’s about 10 million people who could have voted but didn’t. Texas is considered one of the reddest of the red states. A lot of Democratic voters and left leaning voters there have expressed ideas like “What’s the point? My vote doesn’t count here.” Trump beat Biden in Texas in 2020 by less than a million votes. If just 10% of those who could have voted but didn’t, actually voted, Texas could have gone blue in 2020. And the demographics have only improved for Democrats in the four years since. Texas could be flipped. Just like Georgia flipped in 2020. It can happen. But not if people are constantly "what’s the point"ing the idea of voting.
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