Beto O'Rourke

The highest forms of voter suppression, ironically, in the state that produced LBJ and the Voting Rights Act in 1965 in the first place.

So those targets are on black voters, they're on young voters, they're on census tracts in communities like Houston, Texas, the most diverse city in America.

where Republicans cynically believe that if they make it harder for people in these communities to vote, they can hold on to power.

And so far, that has proven true.

You see these restrictions getting more onerous with each passing election cycle.

I think this perfect storm that I just described is the best way to overcome that.

Not that it will be easy.

Despite all those conditions that I described earlier, you also have now a president

hell bent on retaining power because he understands the consequences of a potential loss.

There will no longer be impunity for his crimes and corruption.

There will be the very real prospect of free and fair elections in 2028.

And you will have Democratic chairs who have subpoena power to be able to disclose the full Epstein files, for example, or to lay bare

the connections between money and influence and outcomes in the White House.

He understands what's coming for him if he loses.

Hence, asking Greg Abbott and the Republican legislature to gerrymander five congressional districts in Texas, which they did last summer, his threat to cancel mail-in voting.

And I would not be surprised if he sent federal agents, Border Patrol, ICE, or otherwise to popular polling places in big cities in Texas.

But here's a glimmer of hope.

In addition to the monster turnout that we saw in Texas over our primary that concluded on March 3rd, shattered records across the state, in five of those newly gerrymandered seats, more Democrats voted in the primary in those congressional districts than did Republicans.

And that's with a hotly contested Republican primary for Senate and a hotly contested Democratic primary for Senate.

So