“The lesson Paxton and Trump want us to absorb is that resistance is futile, that fear works, and that silence will keep us safe. Our answer is to show up, speak up, and organize anyway.”
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“The lesson Paxton and Trump want us to absorb is that resistance is futile, that fear works, and that silence will keep us safe. Our answer is to show up, speak up, and organize anyway.”
LOL, once Talarico announces, Allred is toast.
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Christian Menefee, TX18
The path to turnout in Texas runs through progressive ideology.
Raised in TX18, he knows healthcare is a human right, and he’s the only candidate taking on Republicans, polluters, and billionaires with a record of real justice.
Always worth a read. This is inside baseball for Texas politics. Always pithy and grittily hopeful. I hope you’re reading the equivalent for your state.
Excellent #lege reporting. #TX #Texas
From Handmaid cosplay to Darwin Awards, it’s all downhill in Austin.
Yes, they do.
Beto is the target but the real fight is over whether votes still matter.
El Paso delegation divided as support withheld from Moody, Morales, and Gonzalez.
Ah yes, ad hominems, that’ll convince me.
I feel there’s no nuance in that argument.
"On Tuesday, November 4, 2025, Texans will head to the polls for the Uniform Election Date to decide on 17 proposed constitutional amendments. " #Texas #Vote #Election Here's our guide.
Well, some Democrats. Not all.
Defend Water, Schools, and Democracy: A progressive guide through 17 ballot measures
The maps were always going to pass, did you not know that? They never had the manpower to kill them. It was completely about bringing attention to the issue and gaining other states to retaliate.
That’s not exactly what happened
Economic populism is the antidote to three decades of lies.
“Democrats” who vote with the GOP are not Democrats. Their constituents know it, and they stay home rather than vote for people who don’t fight for them. These are not voters who are turning Red. They are protesting by not voting.
I’m from Texas, I don’t know what you’re talking about
Trump is weak. Abbott is weak. Republicans are weak.
What happened to the first amendment?
The roadmap from Austin to authoritarian rule.
I’m right there with you. He should have gone for Nehls seat
"...we can fix gerrymandering, raise wages, invest in public schools, protect libraries, tackle the water crisis, improve infrastructure, and take real steps to lower Texas’s disgraceful maternal mortality rate. They’re life-and-death for..." ~ @lonestarleft.com Time for #HELLNoRememberTheAlamo
Uh, Texas, that’s us.
for real
A Blueprint For A Blue Wave: Targets, turnout, and why challengers matter.
"...no room left in #Texas for the oil-grubbing, billionaire-sucking Republicans, & the so-called Democrats who enable them. However...some people like to call themselves Democrats, but when it comes to hurting working people & giving handouts to the wealthy, they vote lockstep with Republicans."
From safe blue seats to GOP handouts.
Oklahoma? Say no more.
Inflation. My favorite coffee at Dutch Bros cost $8 during the Spring semester. The fall semester just started, stopped and got my favorite Dutch Bros coffee this morning. $10. Some people don’t even make that in an hour of work. Obviously, I blame Trump.
lol Mr. carpetbagging Virginia cannot win a statewide race in Texas. 🤣 Chip Roy, Paxton aide turned foe, to run for Texas attorney general It will be the first test of whether Roy’s at times frosty relationship with Trump — and turn against Paxton — can withstand scrutiny in a statewide primary
It is late, I'm tired, making a lot of typos and C/P errors. I have run out of steam. It is very clear that you have well developed thoughts, beliefs and logic. I really feel you are missing the Texas essence in your analysis. For background on that @lonestarleft.com has covered it the best...
Eight hours of debate, zero conscience from the GOP.
There's that - and it's not just gonna be you alone. @democracymoms.bsky.social needs to get involved, as well as @votersoftomorrow.org, @nextgenamerica.bsky.social, @moveon.org, @runforsomething.net, @indivisible.org, @50501movement.bsky.social including Texas local groups... I could go on and on.
If we get organized enough
Great insight into what is going on in the RGV and with our Texas House Democrats. Consider supporting Michelle’s work. No one else gives the same insight on Texas politics.
Hahahahha
If they want November, they must earn March.
It IS going to work in Texas... "Because Republicans did something very, very stupid. They based the maps on a year when 7.2 million registered voters sat home. And if we want to fuck them back, all we have to do is make sure those voters don’t stay home again. " ~ @lonestarleft.com
Well, that’s interesting.
"Republicans did something very, very stupid. They based the maps on a year when 7.2 million registered voters sat home. And if we want to fuck them back, all we have to do is make sure those voters don’t stay home again."
It’s not gerrymandering that’s beating us. It’s turnout.
It’s not gerrymandering that’s beating us. It’s turnout.
What?
He's right. These people are cowards.
Republicans are unpopular in Texas.
Um
Yes 😭
Mic drop.
She's past her best-by date–the point when a senator begins to think she's entitled to vote/act as she pleases, not as we will. She's not the only one. Her justifications amount to "not worth the effort" but look more like a power habit she can't kick. Given a choice, I'll never vote for her again.
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Michelle exposes state senator Zaffirini’s voting record. A record of voting with Abbott 60% of the time and against her constituents. We need to start holding our people accountable. Getting rid of the Regime means nothing otherwise.
Record setting attendance means nothing if the bills hurt your community.
You are incorrigible. I’m going to bed. I’ll talk to you tomorrow if you want. Good night.
I’m just trying to help.
I’m okay with you being mad at me today, but be aware there are a lot of people that are not me who are angry with Zaffirini and I hope you plan to go at them with the same vigor you gave me tonight.
Abbott can release flood money at any time.
🤦🏻♀️ Facts not hate. It’s okay that you like centrist Dems, it’s even okay that if you identify as one. I don’t.
Yes. Cope.
Well, I don’t like your state senator, so now you want to mutual combat me?
I’m over 30, I don’t hate. You hate. I work for progress.
I said the first 2 were bad votes. Obviously no one has 100% bad votes that’s not a Republican, but we should be honest about when out side votes unfavorable too.
Right now I’m using all my energy fighting with a Zaffirini Stan, lol. Like of all the luck.
Abbott’s private business courts, enabling massive corruption in Texas.
Two terrible votes right here 1. The state is out of water 2. Interferes with the first amendment
Oh no, no, no. I’ve been mad at Zaffirini since the regular season. Specifically for her votes. I’m going to look them back up tomorrow, not tonight. I’ll list every single one of them that pissed me off during the regular session. Sorry I don’t remember off the top of my head, I’m over 30.
I’m tired because it’s 10 pm and I’m over 30.
Do you know what’s happening in America? Do you know what’s happening in immigrants communities? In LA? In DC? These are not normal times. Republicans are no longer the opposition. We’re in a Cold Civil War. It’s a serious time and should be treated seriously, not politics as usual.
She represents the Progressive Caucus, not just Dallas. And I say, wait until the second session is over, more is coming. Like I said, a lot of people are pissed.
And she does have a history of voting for bad Republican bills that hurt regular folks. justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/ke...
Is her son not her family? What’s that say that her son is donating so much money to his mom’s enemies? I can back up what I say, with her journal votes, which I was planning to comb through tomorrow anyway, but I’m not tonight because I’m about to go to sleep.
You’re funny.
I didn’t lie out mischaracterize anything. You just got your feelings hurt because the progressives don’t like the was Zaffirini votes and you apparently are the only Zaffirini Stan in Texas, because read the room, look on every other platform. People are pissed at her.
So disabled people have many rights in Texas? Because I’ve attended several meetings at the Dem disability caucus and I’ve heard otherwise. It still doesn’t erase her bad votes.
Why did she vote for bitcoin reserves while our state is running out of water? How could you be okay with that?
LOL ok, little girl then.
So you think it’s okay that her family gave Abbott $700,000? And what for?
I’m not a boy. Bankrolling Abbott, as in big time donors. Why haven’t you looked it up yet?
Now who’s speaking in codes?
It was possible in the Senate if Zaffirini and Hinojosa would have left too. Hancock is out. The count is 30. They only have 19 Republicans. So, there’s that.
Oh honey, you aren’t the first man whose feelings I’ve hurt. But you’re very adorable with big emotions.
Her husband and her son are major donor to Governor Greg Abbott. Carlos Zaffirini. Look it up. Over $1 million over the last decade. Please don’t take my word for it. Look it up yourself.
I don’t use coded language, honey. I mean what I say, and I say what I mean. Her color has nothing to do with her family bankrolling Abbott, or her voting to ban THC, or voting to pollute communities of color, or militarize the border, or handouts to billionaires.
Again. I didn’t call her lazy. If I were to call her anything, it would be an ineffective Democratic. She passes Republican bills. She votes the exact same way as Hinojosa and Lucio did. Journals prove it.
“Stupid” is calling people names when you disagree with them, instead of trying to have an honest conversation.
Her family has been bankrolling Abbott for years.
Because someone doesn’t miss floor votes doesn’t mean she gets things done for the people. Using ad hominems is what’s actually lazy, I never said “lazy.” If you want to know my opinion why she chose not to break quorum, all you have to do is look up her husband and son’s campaign finance records
Lastly, you like her for whatever reason, fine cool. I disagree with you. I have seen the journals, I have watched the sessions, I know how she votes. She votes for favors for the oil industry and billionaires, just like Hinojosa, just like Lucio. Same birds of a feather.
Trust me, there’s no money it.
First of all. She didn’t do any work. She said she had a 13 page letter but she’ll save it for the next session. Secondly, I’ve been writing about the lege for over five years having “sat” through plenty sessions. And I’ve always been clear that this was about turning Texas blue
Zaffirini should be primaried by a Hispanic progressive. 😁 And I have no doubt she will be. Just wait and see. I’m not the only one talking about this, far from it. People in her district are pissed.
Why do you think the border is voting less and less blue every year? Could it be because their Democrats vote like Republicans? Could it be because their Democrats are focused on billionaire handouts instead of kitchen table issues?
lol, no worries. There’s probably going to be a quorum. The Black Caucus and Progressive Caucus won’t be the ones giving it to them, but the others are a problem.
Oh, I’m sure there’s something in there about capitulating to fascism.