DAY THIRTY-FOUR - RIDESHARE2VOTE

Day Thirty-four | Rideshare2Vote | TEXAS
747  Sawbuck Patriots | $7903 pledged today | $291,076 donated overall

Team:

I am sure that you, like me, wish the first family and the RNC chair and infected staffers a speedy recovery from COVID-19. And that's all I'm going to say about that.

THE SITUATION: I'm looking at Texas right now, and well, folks, all I'll say about this is that it is just some BULLSHIT.

Less than two days after the President stirs up his Proud Boys and tells his supporters to go watch the polls, behaving in an unprecedentedly hostile fashion towards our elections, Texas Governor Greg Abbott proclaims that his counties must each have only ONE ballot drop-off location. Not the right number to deal with their population - but ONE.

One drop-off location. Per county. In TEXAS. This is some arbitrary, suppressive BULLSHIT.

Here's the problem, folks: Texas is kind of large, as you may have heard. One of their counties is bigger than Connecticut plus Rhode Island. Another of their counties has a quarter of the state's Black population, and one in five Texas Latinos - and includes Houston, and totals nearly five million people. (It was slated for eleven dropoff locations, which seems supremely insufficient to me - but ONE?)

Don't take my word for it: here's the far-left, socialist, NBC News report on it. (Am assuming that all Sawbuck Patriots are able to see sarcasm - but that was indeed scarcasm. NBC News is reliably, almost boringly centrist.)

This is outrageous voter suppression. Just absurd, steal-the-victory, keep-the-libruls-away-from-the-polls bullshit. I'm heated, and I hope you are too.

So today we're steering our sawbucks (or more!) to Rideshare2Vote. This organization is working to drive Texas Democrats to the polls on Election Day. Specifically, they're finding, reaching out to, and planning ahead with youth ages 18-27, people in disenfranchised communities, first-time voters, infrequent voters, disabled people, people living in poverty, the elderly, and VBM voters.

This naked political play that Gov. Abbott is utilizing to make voting harder in Texas? Let's pull on our cowboy boots and kick it right in the ass. They're estimating costs of about $15/ride, so today would be a swell day to give $15 or $30 or some other fun multiple of that cost to help make sure this undemocratic bullshit is repudiated by the good people of the Lone Star State. (Let me know if you do something other than $10, please.)

(Sorry. I'm mouthy today. But voter suppression does indeed wreck my profanity filter, damnit.) 

Sawbuck Patriots, it’s go time: click HERE and send $10 (or more) to Rideshare2Vote. Our collective effort will invest $7903 today.

Thank you.

-       Alex

PS - was there anything else in the news today?

Day thirty-four: Rideshare2Vote | Texas | 747 Sawbuck Patriots | $7903 | DONATE
Day thirty-three: Ammar Campa-Najjar | CA-50 | 738 Sawbuck Patriots | $8403 | DONATE
Day thirty-two: Gary Peters | Michigan Senate | 723 Sawbuck Patriots | $8423 | DONATE
Day thirty-one: Kate Schroder | OH-01 | 710 Sawbuck Patriots | $8144 | DONATE
Day thirty: Cal Cunningham | North Carolina Senate | 695 Sawbuck Patriots | $7853 | DONATE
Day twenty-nine: Rafael Warnock | Georgia Senate | 686 Sawbuck Patriots | $11,063 | DONATE
Day twenty-eight: Al Gross | Alaska Senate | 678 Sawbuck Patriots | $8543 | DONATE
Day twenty-seven: the FRRC | Welcoming Citizens Home | 662 Sawbuck Patriots | $11,193 | DONATE
Day twenty-six: Mike Espy | Mississippi Senate | 648 Sawbuck Patriots | $12,184 | DONATE
Day twenty-five: John Hickenlooper | Colorado Senate | 632 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,173 | DONATE
Day twenty-four: Eugene DePasquale | PA-10 | 611 Sawbuck Patriots | $7009 | DONATE
Day twenty-three: Jon Ossoff  | Georgia Senate | 598 Sawbuck Patriots | $10,545 | DONATE
Day twenty-two: Christy Smith | CA-25 | 565 Sawbuck Patriots | $6383 | DONATE
Day twenty-one: Jaime Harrison | South Carolina Senate | 511 Sawbuck Patriots | $12,926 | DONATE
Evening of RBG's passing: Amy McGrath | Kentucky Senate | 465 Sawbuck Patriots | $32,683 | DONATE
Day twenty: Josh Harder | CA-10 | 465 Sawbuck Patriots | $6308 | DONATE
Day nineteen: Theresa Greenfield | Iowa Senate | 452 Sawbuck Patriots | $7831 | DONATE
Day eighteen: Hiral Tipirneni | AZ-06 | 441 Sawbuck Patriots | $5113 | DONATE
Day seventeen: Ricky Hurtado | NC Statehouse | 430 Sawbuck Patriots | $5640 |  DONATE
Day sixteen: Kara Eastman | NE-02 | 420 Sawbuck Patriots | $4848 | DONATE
Day fifteen: Abby Finkenauer | IA-01 | 410 Sawbuck Patriots | $4828 | DONATE
Day fourteen: Carolyn Bourdeaux | GA-07 | 404 Sawbuck Patriots | $5283 | DONATE
Day thirteen: Biden/Harris | the Presidency | 401 Sawbuck Patriots | $35,760 | DONATE
Day twelve: Joe Cunningham | SC-01 | 390 Sawbuck Patriots | $4618 | DONATE
Day eleven: Doug Jones | Alabama Senate | 363 Sawbuck Patriots | $5603 | DONATE
Day ten: Kendra Horn | OK-05 | 348 Sawbuck Patriots | $4068 | DONATE
Day nine: Princess Bride Reunion | Wisconsin | 334 Sawbuck Patriots | $4854 |  DONATE
Day eight: Cristina Hale | IN-05 | 324 Sawbuck Patriots | $3823 | DONATE
Day seven: Wendy Davis | TX-21 | 311 Sawbuck Patriots | $4328 | DONATE
Day six: Xochitl Torres Small | NM-02 | 293 Sawbuck Patriots | $3658 | DONATE
Day five: Mark Kelly | Arizona Senate | 268 Sawbuck Patriots | $6655 | DONATE 
Day four: Brynne Kennedy | CA-4 | 239 Sawbuck Patriots | $3323 | DONATE
Day three: Max Rose | NY-11 | 208 Sawbuck Patriots | $2973 | DONATE
Day two: Sara Gideon | Maine Senate | 161 Sawbuck Patriots | $5336 | DONATE
Day one: Candace Valenzuela | TX-24 | 109 Sawbuck Patriots | $2788 | DONATE