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IrelandTennessee Brando calls Tennessee a "non-voting state"
A Jerri Green interview prompts the commentator to revisit Tennessee's progressive history and make a case for showing up at the polls.
Tennessee Brando
Story of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 419,497 views a day, 6.9 times a normal first day on this channel (60,771).
I've NEVER Seen Tennessee Voters Like This!
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- 0:23Brando argues that low participation, rather than an unchangeable Republican identity, is Tennessee's central electoral problem.
- 2:52Jerri Green points to women's suffrage, civil rights and marriage equality as evidence of Tennessee's progressive history.
- 5:10Brando says political frustration had led him to overlook the historical progress Green describes.
- 7:35He recounts driving his father to early voting and casting his own votes for women candidates.
- 9:50He credits the Tennessee Three's activism against gun violence with helping build political momentum.
- 11:08He urges voters to remove Republican representatives and elect candidates supporting change.
He drove his father to vote. Tennessee Brando recounts that early-voting trip in a video that turns from frustration with Tennessee politics toward the candidates and history he thinks voters should remember.
His central argument challenges the familiar description of Tennessee as a red state. "I keep pointing this out, we're a non-voting state," he says, urging people not to treat Republican victories as inevitable.
The upload drew more than 180,000 views in seven hours, already roughly triple the channel's usual full-day audience for regular videos. Its title, "I've NEVER Seen Tennessee Voters Like This!", leads into a personal political appeal rather than a statewide turnout report.
At the center is an earlier interview with Jerri Green, the Democratic nominee for Tennessee governor. Green points to the state's role in women's suffrage, civil rights and marriage equality, arguing that Tennessee has an independent streak that its political shorthand misses. Brando says her account made him recognize how much his frustration with present-day politics had crowded out that history.
He names Green, congressional candidate Michaela Barnett and Democratic Senate nominee Marquita Bradshaw among the women he voted for. He also credits the activism of Justin Jones, Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson, known as the Tennessee Three, with helping spark political momentum against gun violence. His closing appeal is explicitly partisan: replace Republican representatives with candidates he believes will deliver change.
A Democratic city councilor and her party’s nominee for Tennessee governor in the November 2026 election.
More on Wikipedia ›An environmentalist and activist who is the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Tennessee in 2026. In 2020, she became the first Black woman to win a major party’s nomination for a statewide race in Tennessee.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic Tennessee state representative whose district includes parts of Nashville. He was expelled after leading a gun-control protest on the House floor in 2023, then reinstated and subsequently reelected.
More on Wikipedia ›An activist and Tennessee state representative whose 86th District includes parts of Memphis. He entered the legislature after winning a special election in January 2023.
More on Wikipedia ›A Democratic Tennessee state representative based in Knoxville. She faced an expulsion vote after protesting gun violence on the House floor in 2023 but was the only one of the three targeted lawmakers not expelled.
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- Channel
- Tennessee Brando
- Subscribers
- 944,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 2,527,053
- Channel views, pace per day
- 377,319 (on a normal day: 319,585)
- Video published
- October 26, 2026
- Video views so far
- 181,733 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 419,497
The numbers
The Tennessee-focused upload passed the channel's usual full-day audience well before its first day was over.
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Which office is Jerri Green seeking in the election discussed here?
Green is the Democratic nominee in Tennessee's 2026 gubernatorial election.