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.

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.

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.

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