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Dear John,

I spent yesterday at Lone Star college in Houston. It's one of our great
community colleges, a place where young -- and older -- Texans get their
start or get to start again. And it's also full of voters and future
voters. More than 20,000 students attend classes at the CyFair campus
where we set up.

Towards the end of the day I met a young woman named Alexandra who said
"the reason I like you guys, is you're not for the system. You're for the
people." I liked that. For so many young people who are turned off not
only by Trump but also by the entire status quo political system --
including at times the Democratic party -- Powered by People offers a
chance to work with everyday people to change a system that has so badly
failed us.

We don't do it through technology, we don't do it through money. We do it
by meeting, listening to and then working with people to use their full
political power.

Like Ilya, Rafael and Elizabeth of Lone Star MASA (Mexican American
Student Association), who interviewed me for their student publication and
talked to me about building student voting power. Right away, I loved the
energy and intensity and their focus on working to make things better.

I also met Oscar who, with his brother and dad started an HVAC business in
Houston. He’s now at Lone Star learning the fundamentals of business
management. With pride he told me that his dad is an immigrant who has
worked hard to make a life for himself and his family here and to make
this a better country. His mom works in oil and gas and wants her sons to
build the business big enough that they can afford to give back to the
community.

Kellen, the Lone Star student body president introduced himself, told me
what he’s working on and asked how he could get involved in politics and I
said you’re already doing it! Expecting great things from him down the
road.

I talked Patricia who, in addition to attending school, provides foster
care for unaccompanied refugee children through the local Catholic
charities.

Special education teacher Candance came over to say hello and introduced
me to one of her students, Damien, a wonderful young man. I also met
Marianne the bus driver who brought them to Lone Star today.

An aspiring filmmaker, Matteo, showed me his copy of Dear America: letters
home from Vietnam which he's reading for history class. We talked about
war, the war in Iran and how we somehow never seem to learn… well, maybe
some of us do, but not the guy in the White House. We need to remember
that when we vote.

Raul, history teacher from El Paso (went to Coronado AND Andress!) came
out with a stack of vintage senate stickers he’d had in his desk for the
last 8 years. I guess just waiting for us to show up!

Here's the thing -- I met at least a hundred more people over the course
of the day, a hundred more conversations and stories, and that's just me.
Our other volunteers at Lone Star and other campuses across the state we
were on met many more, adding to the tens of thousands of voters that
we've personally met, registered and stayed in touch with to help them
vote.

That's what's so special about Powered by People. For the people, not the
system. We do the work of meeting people where they are, listening to
them, getting to know them and then helping them use their power to vote
to change what is possible in this country.

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