Another mass shooting, another community of students, teachers and parents traumatized for life, with 20 families suffering loss and injury.
I have children in pre-school and like every other school in America, my kids have active shooter drills. Imagine, Pre-K kids huddling in a closet with their teacher handing out lollipops if they stay quiet, all across America.
There is nothing more that needs to be said about this shameful state of affairs.
Except that we need to defeat the politicians who are enthralled by the NRA and have turned our schools and streets and homes into killing fields.
It’s time to send them packing, and that means doing the work necessary today, to defeat these NRA-loving Republicans in November.
This shooting happened in Texas. If Beto O’Rourke retires Ted Cruz from the Senate that will go a long way towards making a difference. But this is not going to possible without a massive GotV effort. And sadly, the data required for such an effort has simply not been there. The O’Rourke campaign is dealing with a messy voter file that has not been tended to because state-wide efforts in Texas have appeared Quixotic for so long.
It will require millions of voter contacts. Literally millions, and a massive turn-out effort to win this Senate seat.
I am confident the O’Rourke campaign will do that come November.
How do I know? Because right now, six months prior to the election, the campaign is making well over a million voter contacts a month, via a single mechanism, texts.
For the past several cycles, I’ve been part of GotV texting efforts. I have never seen the level of energy and effort this far out from a state-level election. The activity I see is more like what you’d see in a presidential campaign. I’m super busy with work and family, but I’ve been making the time to volunteer for an hour or two a day for several weeks. That has meant tens of thousands of additional voter contacts.
Please, make a difference, find a campaign that is meaningful to you, and volunteer. Volunteering is more important than giving money, person to person contact is how we will bring real change, not through ad-buys (though those too are important).
If Beto’s campaign is meaningful to you, please join the texting team for Beto’s campaign or sign-up to volunteer in other ways (calls, canvassing, research, etc).
— @subirgrewal