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Myra Flores presented a bill to take the money from the IRS for the 87k agents to use for school security and mental health. Do you agree or disagree?
Abbutt's aid to schools after kids have been shot to pieces is to
provide DNA records to the parents so they can accurately pick up the pieces
Myra Flores presented a bill to take the money from the IRS for the 87k agents to use for school security and mental health. Do you agree or disagree?
Minority Rule: How 3 Percent of Texans Call the Shots for the Rest of Us
Statewide officials and legislators are far to the right of most Texans. Why? Low primary-election turnout and an anemic Democratic party.
Between 2010 and 2020, Texas grew by nearly four million residents, with people of color responsible for 95 percent of that growth.
The state is now
40 percent non-Hispanic white,
40 percent Hispanic,
13 percent Black, and
6 percent Asian—with the latter the fastest-growing demographic.
In 2012 Mitt Romney won the state by sixteen points. In 2020 Trump won by less than six.
Republican party has lurched to the right, enacting some of the country’s most reactionary policies and
helping make Texas an international byword for extremism.
polls show that most Texans hold moderate positions on abortion, gun rights, and many other key issues.
But state lawmakers have made sure that doesn’t matter.
“It’s the Republican primary that creates the mandates under which our officeholders operate.”
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-po...hots-for-texas
hole Texas, the American model for minority rule by oligarchy-financed fascists.
Inside the Secret Plan to Bring Private School Vouchers to Texas
Political operatives descended on the Hill Country town of Wimberley with a scheme to send taxpayer dollars to private schools.
Now they’re shopping the same blueprint elsewhere.
Wimberley would partner with Harris and Bennett’s Texans for Education Rights Ins ute
to create a charter school tentatively dubbed the Texas Achievement Campus.
But “campus” was a misnomer, because there would be none.
The school would exist only on paper.
Texans for Education Rights would then work with ResponsiveEd, Whitehurst’s group, to
place K–12 students from around the state into private schools of their choice at “no cost to their families.”
a simple goal:
turning taxpayer dollars intended for public education into funds for private schools.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/inside-the-secret-plan-to-bring-private-school-vouchers-to-texas/
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Where did Biden’s pardon of marijuana charges leave the hundreds of Texans imprisoned?
Texas ranks No. 1 in the U.S. for most marijuana possession arrests.
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crim...ans-imprisoned
TX bags allowing guns everywhere for everyone all the time, so ...
Texas grand jury declines to indict man accused of
killing 9-year-old girl while shooting at armed robber
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/20/us/ar...ing/index.html
‘I hurt’:
Texas special education students face interventions that can be deadly
Tens of thousands of students are restrained each year in Texas schools.
Some say laws and regulations are lacking
https://www.expressnews.com/news/article/Texas-special-education-students-restraint-17534439.php
subtext, corollary of American White Christian Male Supremacy:
"If one isn't 100% healthy, normal, one is excluded from the Master Race"
Texas Republican writes Anne Frank fan fiction in which she converts to Christianity
https://www.rawstory.com/texas-repub...ianity-report/
TX bags can't leave even dead Jewish ashes in peace
Greg Abbott Is Still Prosecuting Migrants Under a Bogus Disaster Declaration
Operation Lone Star, Abbott’s coordinated $4 billion effort to deter and prosecute migrants in south Texas.
Since the program began in 2021, thousands of migrants have been prosecuted for enhanced crimes under a bogus disaster declaration.
Abbott is once again attempting to seize authority over immigration via the state criminal system.
Yet to date, the Biden administration has failed to intervene.
https://truthout.org/articles/greg-abbott-is-still-prosecuting-migrants-under-a-bogus-disaster-declaration/
bag Hot Wheels Abbutt abusing, extending emergency powers to criminalize asylum seekers, as his bag voters want.
If the Democrats were to offer a viable alternative to Abbott they might have a chance. My wife and I are a mixed race couple and generally moderate in our political views. We are the people the Dems should be targeting.
All the Dems needed to do was pick an appealing moderate who wasn't constantly grandstanding by taking extreme leftist positions. So what do they do? They pick a polarizing trust fund jackass like "Beto" O'Rourke. "Beto" is perfect for Massachusetts or New York. But his far left BS doesn't fly in Texas.
We went out and voted yesterday (we didn't vote for Abbott or "Beto"). Then we went to the range and spent a couple of relaxing hours at the range with the guns "Beto" wants to take away from us (note to Dems: This is Texas, not San Francisco. If you want to attract new, independent voters, try picking someone who doesn't make " yes, we're going to take your AR-15s!" the center piece of his campaign).
So Abbott will win again. Another unforced error by the Dems.
And frankly, I'm okay with that, given the awful alternative the Dems offered.
Do better next time, and you might get our vote.
There’s no unforced error there, tbh. There’s nothing ‘moderate’ about gun loving ‘libertarians’. Texas will slowly slide into blue if people like Abbott keep begging companies from richer states like California to relocate to Texas and continue to grow urban places, overtaking rural voters (as seen in Austin, for example).
I can't ever seen TX going Blue,
with bag Repugs having a solid lock on the non-metro counties,
and bag Repugs' voter suppression, gerrymandering, corruption, and election counting fraud.
ISL will probably be made Cons utional in this SCOTUS session. SCOTUS arguments for ISL in early December.
Cons utional ISL will mean Dems will never again hold Federal power, as citizens' votes will be even more inconsequential.
Gerrymandering works when you can counter big city districts with large rural areas.
Once the urban areas grow large enough (see New York, California), it’s usefulness dwindles.
That said, voter suppression is a thing and will likely slow down the inevitable assimilation.
Maybe the GOP will stop being the party of weirdos by then, so who knows, tbh…
"Jim Crow" suppression in GA resulted in record voting.
Democrat angst is palpable
If labeling anyone who disagrees with your current political choice an irrational "right winger" helps you to cope with the thunderous butt kicking the Dems are about to receive both in Texas and nationally, you go right ahead. Cry into your beer and don't learn anything from the experience. Repeat it again in 2-years. Just don't be surprised when you get similar results.
Your labeling anyone who disagrees with you on anything as an "enemy" unworthy of intelligent conversation is part of the problem with extremists from both parties. But the inconvenient truth is, extremists don't win elections, it's convincing those of us in the center to support your party that wins elections.
We are far from the extreme right wingers you instinctively label us as simply because I had the temerity to suggest that "Beto" was a poor choice of candidate. We are both professionals with advanced degrees educated on the east and west coasts. Though we are doing well now, we both grew up poor and are give our time and money to a number of charities in SA. My wife is an immigrant who originally emigrated to California. We are pro choice, Tesla driving environmentalists. The last major party candidate we voted for in a Presidential race was a DEMOCRAT (Obama)- we found Hillary, Trump, and Biden all not worthy of our votes. We are pro immigration, we support marijuana/drug legalization and ending the insane "War on Drugs," we are atheists. We oppose militarization of the police and military interventionism overseas.
Not exactly "extreme right wingers," eh?
But we are also choose to own guns and enjoy the freedom of being allowed to go to the range on a nice afternoon, so of course you must ignore all that, and label us "extreme right wingers" in order to cope with the fact that we did not vote for Beto.
You, and extremists from both parties like you, are what is wrong with politics in America today. You are so wrapped up in your partisan "it's us or them!" BS, you just stopped thinking rationally. Like I said, our votes were available, and had the Dems not chosen a decent moderate instead of an extremist trust fund blow hard like "Beto," you would have had our votes.
Perhaps if Dems tried to earn the votes of people like us, rather than pushing us away, they'd be more successful?
Just because your wife is an immigrant and you are a libertarian it means you believe in a real US democracy?
Absolute BULL
Earn your vote… gtfoh.
This goes deeper than party affiliation.
What are you babbling about? Are you drunk?
libertarianism is BULL
Texas is indeed the hardest State to cast a vote in. This was never in dispute.
The GOP being terrified of democracy isn’t a new thing either.
Angry at what, Darrin?
I didn’t call anybody an ‘irrational right winger’ or ‘enemy’.
I’m just letting you know that there’s no unforced error here. Dems should not cater to a dwindling minority. Especially libertarians, an even smaller minority that couldn’t even get a nomination in the GOP (remember when that loser Ron Paul ran?).
Better come to grips with this now than live in anger like the rest of the GOP is nowadays…
BTW, the GOP winning control of Congress is the expected outcome on a first term midterm election (happened to almost every president, including Obama and Trump, to name a few popular presidents). What would be embarrassing is if they don’t win.
I think you are missing some key points. If the Dems are going to win in TX in the near future, they are going to need every vote they can get, because any win they get will be razor thin, not a landslide. Hence, they should appeal to those in the middle. It's far easier to pick off votes from independents, moderates, and libertarians than to try and win over established Republicans. The far left is already going to vote Dem, so why bother pandering to them? They aren't going to be the difference maker.
They needed to run a candidate that doesn't take extreme views- one that won't alienate those in the middle. They failed to do so. Hence an "unforced error" and another Abbott victory.
I agree, it would be a surprise if they didn't take control of the House, at least. I'm about 99% sure that's going to happen. The real question this point is whether the Republicans will just barely win the House and hold a slim majority, or if it's going to be a blood bath for the Dems.
Thank you for your in depth and well thought out analysis. You are truly a political genius. Now go back to the sandbox and let the adults talk.
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