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Politics : View from the Center and Left Texas Annex

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From: S. maltophilia5/31/2025 10:01:47 PM
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You’re More Powerful Than You Think In TexasTexas has the largest untapped electorate in the country.

Michelle H. Davis

May 31, 2025

It’s been a long, hard legislative session in Texas, and in just a few days, it’ll finally be over. That alone is enough to make you want to exhale. After months of watching extremist bills, performative cruelty, and billionaire-backed power grabs dominate the agenda, no one would blame you for feeling burned out. Add to that the chaos coming out of DC, and it’s easy to understand why people feel disillusioned.

But I haven’t given up on Texas. And I don’t think you should either.

Texas isn’t a red state. It’s a state full of people who have been discouraged, disenfranchised, and deliberately ignored. The problem has never been that Texas is too conservative. It’s that too many Texans are being kept from the ballot box.

According to an article from the Texas Tribune, voter turnout in the 2024 election......





Data source: Texas Secretary of State; Chart: made by me (in Google Sheets)
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