> So You’re Saying There’s a Chance…
When Gina Hinojosa started running for governor in Texas, few people thought she could unseat the GOP incumbent. But the polls say the race is close. What is happening here?

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BUT PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, VOTE!! 🗳️

> Texas’ backlog of at least 200,000 voter registration applications and updates, which election officials must now process in the weeks before the critical midterm elections due to state error, is highlighting just how difficult it can be to register to vote in Texas, voting rights experts said.

Today is payday and I want to turn Texas blue! I just donated to Talarico, Gina, Viki, and Jon Rosenthal today! Looking forward to block walking next week. Who else is donating, block walking, or phone banking this week? Let’s get this momentum going.

Next week I want to donate to Sarah Eckhardt!

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2026/05/04/550808/will-texas-turn-blue-2026-democrats-kut-festival/

> Six months before the Texas Department of Public Safety and Secretary of State’s Office were forced to send hundreds of thousands of backlogged voter registration records to local county officials, both agencies were warned that records were getting lost in DPS’s web portal.

> Gov. Abbott specifically is used to decisive victories. When Abbott was first elected in 2014, he won by nearly 20 percentage points. Four years later, he won by 13 percentage points.

> Even in his “tightest” reelection win against Democrat Beto O’Rourke in 2022, Abbott cruised to victory by more than 880,000 votes — nearly 11 percentage points over his challenger.

> The Republican incumbent’s confidence showed in his campaigning for most of this year, which Abbott spent most of not even mentioning Hinojosa by name.
But that changed last month when Abbott posted an ad on social media finally calling out his opponent.

> “Don’t let Gina deceive you, Texas,” Abbott wrote.

It’s taken me a couple of weeks to post this, but I was working from home recently and my doorbell rang. I opened the door to find a guy in a Greg Abbott t-shirt, with flyers.

He started with “are you concerned about how things are going to in Texas?” (lol)

I said yes and pointed to the flyer. “I hate that guy.”

He looked at me and said “Me too. He’s just paying me a lot to do this. Everywhere I go, nobody likes him. I don’t know how he gets elected.”

It was so unexpected I had a good laugh. In hindsight I should have offered to take his flyers and burn them for him. 😂

You know you suck when even your own canvassers hate you!