By Dave Andrusko

A few opening quotes to remind us all that not only does your vote matter crucially to electing pro-life candidates, it also is a fundamental contribution to our civic culture.

“Ignore the polls. Ignore the pundits. Ignore the betting markets. Ignore early voting numbers… Just vote. If you already voted, go find three people who haven’t. If we show up, we win. It’s that simple.” Charlie Kirk

You should vote because you can — and because that is an immense privilege, earned by the blood of others and still denied to most of humanity today as we speak. And you should vote because you should: because your vote will certainly matter.” Ben Shapiro

“Even when elections aren’t that close, your ballot counts, because in voting, you’re accepting your part in the greatest decision-making body the world has ever known—the American electorate. And as someone who’s stayed up late on many election nights waiting to hear how the American people had decided, I can tell you that from where I sit—whether elections are close or not—every vote is important.”  President Ronald Reagan

And this!

The reality: Life-or-death policies in Minnesota often hinge on a single legislative race decided by a small number of votes.

In the 2022 election, abortion supporters secured a single-seat majority in the Minnesota state Senate after winning one race by just 321 votes. They used that narrow margin to pass an abortion-up-to-birth law, repeal the guarantee of lifesaving care for born-alive infants, and abolish the Positive Alternatives grant program that supported pregnant women. More than 14,000 unborn babies now die from abortion each year, a 42 percent increase since 2021. From “Does Your Vote really matter?”

It’s show time where pro-lifers prove their mettle by ignoring the endless barrage of negative news spewed by the Legacy Media and vote anyway. If you give in, if you allow the discouragement thrown our way, the Legacy Media and pro-abortion Democrats (for all practical purposes, one and the same) win by default.

Do you want discouragement rather than hope and determination to carry the day? I know you don’t and won’t.

We know that Democrats celebrate the deaths of unborn babies. Nothing, but nothing, can compare in importance to ever increasing “access to reproductive care,” four words that ought to chill you to the bone.

By contrast, pro-lifers believe in lovingly assisting women with unplanned pregnancies choose a better way. Rather than ending their unborn child’s life, they need to know that that “choice” so often brings nothing but heartbreak.

I, for one, chose to follow the proverb “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”

David Strom wrote this about the pro-abortion Senate candidate in Michigan:

But in the case of Abdul El-Sayed, the people crossing the party line are genuine about it, and really are lifelong Democrats who would never consider voting for a Republican unless they felt driven to under extraordinary circumstances. They see Abdul El-Sayed’s election as just such a circumstance.

This election cycle is loaded with genuinely radical pro-abortion Democrats. If not coming out of left field, they, like the Senate candidate in Alaska, will resort to gaming the system in order to fool the electorate.

The question is will the electorate choose them, even if in their heart of hearts, they know that if they win the Senate, Democrats–the party of abortion–aim to fundamentally change our country?

President Reagan once said, “No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.”

Prove the Gipper right!