Because Texans want to go backward, been talking about Texas flipping blue for more than a decade and a half now give it up it's not happening. Did you see what happened in South Texas in 2020? There was a huge swift to Trump among Latinos in that region, despite the racist rhetoric.

Voter oppression here is really bad, and it might look like apathy for someone on the outside looking in. I'm in school full-time right now, and the week before the election, I asked many of my classmates if they were going to vote. The most common answer was, "They didn't know how." Like they didn't know how even to get registered; by then, it was too late to register.

In the last election, 9.5 million people either didn't or couldn't vote. Over 5 million in 2020.

We've had bad Democratic leadership in Texas, but we still do, but I'm optimistic. All of our major cities are blue, and 83% of the state lives in urban counties. The demographics are blue. Biden and Beto won with every racial group except white people. And even though white people are a minority in Texas, they make up the majority of people who actually vote.

And there was not a huge shift to Trump, and that small shift did not move at all in 2022. But the takeaway from South Texas in 2020 should be how every down-ballot Democrat won. They only shifted the vote for Trump. It was an anomaly based on Trump/Biden.

Regardless, we have the numbers in our favor, and we just have to get people to the polls. I think most people now realize that's the issue.

She seems good, but to be clear she's had little involvement in Texas politics in her professional career, and Virginia's success was predicated on an Anglo suburban vote much different than ours. We've had several executive directors churning through that position. The leadership is the same leadership that's been in place for the last decade, and the strategy has been the same.

Hoping to see magic, but we're several steps away from winning a statewide office at this point.

I will say that the state party is better at doing their job, especially with Latino outreach, than the last state I lived in (Florida), but that's not saying much (C- to really low F).