Animate layer?

I have an image that consists of 5 layers:
background, locked
text 1
layer1
text 2
layer 2
I am trying to get text 1 to move back and forth across the rest of the image.
Thank you!

Im new at this. The way I went was trying to use puppet warp after duplicating the 2nd text layer but I get the error "could not transform because the initial bounding rectangle is empty". When I tried it with the 1st text layer (which I dont want to move) it tells me it must be rasterized first.

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