My vote has never mattered in the glorious Republic of Texas, since we're a red state and I was a liberal. Even now I'd say I'm a liberal leaning moderate. We passed on expanded Medicaid, just to spite Obama as far as I can tell, cut school lunch funding for low income families, protected shitty doctors from getting sued (now we're a haven for them), thumbed our nose at potential billions in not only marijuana but cbd too! Just off the top of my head.

We have some of the friendliest people I've ever met but our legislators seem rather uncaring towards the common man.

edit: I was rereading this and wanted to clarify that while cbd is legal in Texas to sell, it is illegal to grow. That's huge money right now and Texas is a very fertile state with a lot of farm land.