Tennessee’s not much better. We’ve got some folks with momentum behind them (Jones, Johnson) but the party machine has been asleep at the wheel for as long as I can remember.
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When we get a rising star, they manage to shoot themselves in the foot. Or hand the GOP a gun to shoot them in the foot. My god, I miss Ann Richards.
sep 3, 2025, 10:20 pm • 2 0 • view
Texas' single good governor in its entire sordid history
sep 3, 2025, 10:21 pm • 2 0 • view
Probably not wrong there. I mean, she was followed by Dubya, then Rick "Gov. Goodhair" Perry. They don't make 'em like her anymore.
sep 3, 2025, 10:26 pm • 1 0 • view
and before her it was old school (derogatory) southern democrats all the way down.
sep 3, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Derogatory is an understatement there!!!
sep 3, 2025, 10:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Mark White wasn't terrible, but he might have been the first Southern Democrat that wasn't, and paved the way for Richards.
sep 3, 2025, 10:32 pm • 1 0 • view
the history of this state is a bunch of anglos co-opting a wider mexican anti-tyranny movement to slaver and settler-colonial ends, and then backstabbing the tejano genuine revolutionaries with second-class citizenship. and even worse to black people, of course.
sep 3, 2025, 10:36 pm • 1 0 • view
Texas history was one of my autistic hyperfixations when i was younger, so intimately familiar with subject. What you say is 100% accurate without getting into the awful details!
sep 3, 2025, 10:48 pm • 1 0 • view