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1. Wendy Davis gave a voice to folks who have been shut out of the political process for too long.
2. Leticia Van de Putte raised the point of order heard ‘round the world.
3. They tried to end the filibuster and force a vote — but the voices of hundreds of people standing shoulder to shoulder in the rotunda shook the Capitol to its foundation and stopped the bill in the “people’s filibuster.”
4. They tried to cheat in plain sight—changing the official record to say that the bill had passed just in time—to try to ignore our voices…
5. ...instead, they got fact-checked by thousands of people watching and tweeting online.
6. Orange really was the new black.
7. And meanwhile, in the rest of the country, thousands more folks rose up in places like North Carolina and Missouri to make their voices heard by their legislators.
8. Every day since, folks in Texas have shown what it means to be “in for the long run.”
9. We met a new generation of activists – including plenty of folks who weren’t even old enough to vote yet, like then-9-year-old Beau Guidry who not only watched every minute of the filibuster, he live-tweeted it.
10. Today Texans are still standing, organizing, and fighting for women’s health — and we’re stronger than ever!
11. And the best thing to come out of the filibuster hasn’t happened yet – it’s when we make Wendy Davis and Leticia Van de Putte the next governor and lieutenant governor of Texas!
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