accioharo:

siderealsandman:

somewhatm-azing:

Before y’all say, “I hate Texas for not electing Beto O’Rourke” please know these things:

1. Record numbers of Texan voters came out to the polls to vote because of Beto.

2. Because more Texan voters went to vote, more democratic votes were cast in other important areas.

3. Beto lost by the slimmest margin seen in Texas in 25 years meaning CHANGE IS COMING.

4. If you lived in Texas, you would know Beto was not expected to win and the fact that he got the large number of votes that he did is incredible.

Thank you Beto for all you’ve done to unite the people of Texas and across the country. Maybe this will get y’all to change y’alls minds about hating Texas.

Progress is not all or nothing. Sometimes it’s just a step or two (in this case, more than a few) in the right direction. 

Like also, voters managed to make it that close despite wide scale voter disenfranchisement that of course, disproportionately affected citizens likely to vote blue. 

It really can’t be said enough that this is an uphill battle for dem (usually minority) voters. They will resort to almost anything to stop those votes from coming in. Often it’s not about ‘just go out and vote’. There are active efforts to prevent that from happening.