Man is getting bills voted on, how influential does one have to be to be an influencer?

Before he was a right to repair activist, he was a complaining-about-Apple-making-life-difficult-for-independent-repairmen Youtuber, and before that, he was a showing people how he repairs computers Youtuber. He didn't just appear overnight to be an influencer.

The word you are looking for is "activist".

He’s an activist. Influencers don’t actually accomplish anything or provide value, like the ceo of Reddit