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Posted On: August 13th 2026, 10:34 pm

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Read the list slowly, because every plank on it is a vote, a quote, or a speech, and Talarico cannot scrub any of them. He voted against banning a state income tax, and told a town hall he did not care what taxes had to be raised. He supports an assault weapons ban in a state that owns more guns than any other. He promises broad access to reproductive healthcare, which is the polite phrase for an abortion law Texas just spent a decade writing. He called the border a welcome mat, called immigration agents a secret police force, and proposed redirecting the state’s entire border-security budget to education. He promised a pathway to citizenship for the people who crossed illegally. That is five planks, and the record is barely warm.

Then the children. He voted against the bill that banned transition procedures for minors, keeping the procedures legal, and he discovered his opposition to the surgeries only when the Senate campaign required it. He voted against keeping males out of girls’ school sports, then told a hidden camera his policy was the most inclusive of any candidate running. He told inmates at a Texas prison that he wanted a world without prisons, that prison is violence, that half the money spent on wars, prisons, and policing could make prisons obsolete. And when a reporter asked about the Supreme Court, he said he was open to expanding it. The list is long because the record is long, and the record is long because he spent eight years voting like Austin was America.

The campaign scrubbed the website. Progressive, gone. Trans kids, gone. Bold progressive ideas, gone. The votes stayed. The speeches stayed. The prison speech is on video, the welcome mat is on video, the drag queen answer is on video, and no amount of rebranding as a border security Democrat erases a record made when he thought no statewide electorate was listening. Texas is listening now. Eleven planks, one candidate, and a ballot on Tuesday. Read the list again, and then read the name at the bottom of it. The name is the warning.

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Florida is the proof that showing up works, and the warning that showing up is not optional. Republicans hold a real lead in the early and mail vote, about a hundred and fifty thousand ballots, built the way Florida always builds it: in-person voting, day after day, while Democrats banked their mail ballots early. That lead is real, and it is also thinner than the leads of 2022 and 2024 at this same point, which is exactly why today matters more, not less. The Election Day surge is the Republican Party’s traditional closing argument in Florida, and it has to arrive, because the other side’s voters are not staying home either.

The man in the picture beside the president is Byron Donalds, running for governor, and he knows what Florida is: the state that stopped apologizing, stopped waiting, and started winning. The lesson of Florida is not that Republicans outnumber Democrats everywhere. It is that the side that shows up wins, and the side that assumes it has already won loses. Florida’s early numbers are encouraging, but no early lead has ever sworn anybody into office. Ballots cast today are the ones that finish the job.

So the message to the rest of the country is the one Florida already learned. There are more voters on our side than the polls admit, but they only count if they vote. Get to your polling place before seven tonight. Bring someone with you. Florida proved the model. Today the whole country gets to copy it, one ballot at a time, until the surge the other side fears becomes the result they cannot deny.

Happy November 1st to all who celebrate!🎄♥️

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