What is happening in Texas but really they’re asking is my guy going to win, please tell me my guy is going to win. It’s not always a guy, just usually.

There are people for whom politics has always been a question of life and making a living, a question of fundamental rights, a question of who gets to be a whole person and who’s only 3/5ths.

There are people for whom politics is a parlour trick, a dinner party conversation, a mere disagreement between friends.

What is happening in Texas is people are trying to vote, people are trying to count and be counted, people are trying desperately to prove that their lives matter, too.