Haven’t seen anyone post about this yet, but last night I participated in Beto O’Rourke’s Powered by People campaign (poweredxpeople.org/) where the goal was to organize a massive phone bank and call 1 million Texas voters. Throughout the day most volunteers signed up in shifts, while some made calls all day. A number of celebrities also joined in, including Oprah, Julian Castro, Veronica Escobar, Stacey Abrams, Bernie Sanders, Andrew Yang and Willie Nelson.
Anyway, as I mentioned — the goal was to call 1 million Texas voters in one day and turn Texas blue. The goal was...exceeded. The final tally of the night was 2,942,000 calls made. To put that into context — there are 17 million registered voters in Texas. Beto and his campaign called 1/6 of the entire electorate. In ONE day. The energy and passion is real, folks.
If you want to surf this blue tsunami, go to the website and sign up for future phone banking events. Texas is within our reach. How bad do you want it?