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Dear John,

I recently joined our Powered by People volunteers in Austin as they moved
us a little closer to victory in 2026.

We met up at Austin Community College at 8:30am, the coffee just kicking
in, the smiles still a little weak and cold from the chilly, rainy,
overcast morning.

But as we warmed up, and started smiling for real, and began introducing
ourselves to the people rushing by, we began to connect with the Texans
who will decide the outcome of the most important elections of our lives.

Nursing students on their way to their exams… animation students working
on their end-of-year projects… transfer students just back from certifying
their credits… a veteran from El Paso who moved to Austin last year for a
new start in life… we asked them each if we could check their voter
registration for them, get them registered if they weren’t already, answer
questions about elections and politics and then—critically—add them to our
network of voters who we will personally stay in touch with over the
course of the 2026 election cycle.

[ [link removed] ]Powered by People volunteer registering a voter.

We ended up registering or updating registrations for 21 people and adding
a total of 74 new, young voters to our network.

We then drove to the UT campus and, with the partnership of the amazing
University Democrats, set up on Speedway where we did the same
thing—introduce ourselves to students and offer them the opportunity to
change the world by choosing to vote in our country’s elections.

For nearly five hours on this unusually cold, wet winter day, our
volunteers did the tough work that we know makes it more likely that
Democrats can win in Texas. I don’t know how effective TV ads are, or
social media campaigns, or whether people even look at the slick mailers
they get from candidates. But I do know that the young voters who we met
and registered and stayed in touch with in 2024 turned out at a rate of
79.5% (versus 42% nationally and 37% in Texas).

And I know that at UT, we registered or updated registrations for 218
people and added a total of 417 new, young voters to our network.

[ [link removed] ]Powered by People volunteer registering a voter.

[ [link removed] ]Beto with students

This is the work that works. And it’s not just ACC and UT, it’s happening
on college campuses across the state. And it’s not just what we did on
Monday, it’s what we’re doing every day until we win in November 2026.

[ [link removed] ]I hope you will contribute to our ability to continue this work, and
more importantly, to expand our efforts to be on more college campuses,
find more young voters who we can bring into this election, do more of the
work that makes it more likely we win in Texas so that we can save this
country.



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Thank you,

Beto




 




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