Hi John,
If you’re like me, this has been a hard 48 hours.
I know that so many of you are feeling the same range of emotions that I am, from deep sadness and disappointment for our state all the way through seething outrage that Abbott can continue his war on women, kids, and everyone else.
It would be all too easy to let those feelings overwhelm or paralyze us. A much harder option is to keep up the hope.
And yet. It is hope that I have landed on, and I hope you will join me.
When I took my Mothers Against Greg Abbott sign to the State House, I thought I was standing alone. Just one mother.
Oh how you all have proved me wrong.
I was never alone.
First it was hundreds of you, then thousands.
Not just mothers, but fathers, sisters, brothers, kids, women, men, aunts, uncles, grandmothers, grandfathers and everyone in between–all united against truly awful policies, and all fighting for the families of Texas. We have become so powerful, so strong, so remarkable that mothers and others has become the only way to avoid a paragraph-long list every time I describe who we are.
So how do you truly measure our success as a movement?
Together, we shifted the entire narrative in Texas politics.
Our positions on gun safety, the right to choose, protections for teachers and our kids–all of it became the dominant narrative of the midterm election here in Texas. And with so many of us spreading our message throughout the state, it became impossible to ignore us.
I saw time and again how strong and committed our community of supporters is.
We joined together in cities and towns across Texas (and all across the U.S.) to get voters to the polls and to share our message. We created a vibrant online community of 65,000 and growing to support each other, plan how to reach voters, and share what we’d been doing. We fought every day, in growing numbers, to protect our children, our families, our friends, our neighbors, our state.
That’s not going away just because Greg Abbott weaseled his way into another term. We are going to keep spreading our message to more and more Texans, and to more and more Americans, so that every election, every candidate is shaped by what really matters to Texas moms and their allies.
Our movement is just getting started.
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