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ACLU @aclu.org

NEW: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed into law a new, deeply gerrymandered congressional map that disenfranchises voters of color for political gain. All voters deserve to be heard. This is an affront to our democracy.

aug 29, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2,157 693

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Dave @carlsbaddave.bsky.social

Are you filing a lawsuit?

aug 29, 2025, 11:03 pm • 4 0 • view
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grandpa9.bsky.social @grandpa9.bsky.social

Republicans DO NOT CARE about Democracy

aug 30, 2025, 12:43 am • 1 0 • view
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Fuck Krasnov Trump, Nazi Musk and white nationalist JD Vance @darth-insipidus.bsky.social

Republicans don’t care about anything other than their money power and opression its time to overthrow this tyrannical government constitutioncenter.org/the-constitu...

aug 30, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view
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orangedeflector @orangedeflector.bsky.social

Adolph Abbott a proud America White/Christian Nationalist homophobe Just like his leader of the organized criminal cult and Gestapo Texans next year, although difficult, we ALL need to vote Turn Tex Ass back to Texas

aug 30, 2025, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
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𝔍𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔯𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔫𝔷𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔷𝔞𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔢 @kingofcatastrophy.bsky.social

Nuke Austin

aug 30, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
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Texasippi Hippie @texasippihippie.bsky.social

They made several GOP vulnerable. They have lost Independents. I still think if they have anyone running against them they will lose.

aug 30, 2025, 1:17 am • 3 0 • view
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Moderate Texan @moderatetexan.bsky.social

God, we can only hope

aug 30, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Texasippi Hippie @texasippihippie.bsky.social

They kicked a hornets nest no addressing the Flood Victim needs first. People are pissed. Even GOP got nothin nice to say about Abbott.

aug 30, 2025, 2:06 am • 5 0 • view
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Moderate Texan @moderatetexan.bsky.social

Spot on.

aug 30, 2025, 2:57 am • 2 0 • view
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Marfy ❌👑 @mojobaby.bsky.social

🤞🤞🤞

aug 30, 2025, 8:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Digital footprints @theyregreen.bsky.social

They were so thorough that they drew Jasmine Crockett's house into a District she doesn't live in. They're just sleazy AF.

aug 30, 2025, 5:35 am • 1 0 • view
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Orry K @msbak.bsky.social

Please sue him into oblivion.

aug 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 23 0 • view
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joedirtinthehole.bsky.social @joedirtinthehole.bsky.social

He’d never “stand up” for democracy…

aug 29, 2025, 10:49 pm • 2 0 • view
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Bruce F. Singer @drawnandquartered.bsky.social

As I saw it back in July.

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aug 29, 2025, 11:50 pm • 0 0 • view
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bluesky_user @suumcuuique.bsky.social

man i wish that oak tree had finished the job

aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 0 0 • view
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Dr. Penguin @roachmotel6.bsky.social

Yep but uh they screwed themselves over cause apparently, they put republican districts into play for democrats 😂

aug 30, 2025, 2:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Brett Little @brettlittle.bsky.social

😡

aug 30, 2025, 1:20 am • 1 0 • view
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Richard @richpr.bsky.social

I’m just hoping that this will bite them in the ass in the next election. Creating more (nominal) red seats unavoidably made previously safe red seats more competitive. Even a small blue wave could result in a net loss of GOP seats in Congress,

aug 30, 2025, 1:21 am • 1 0 • view
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Foxxita @foxxita.bsky.social

Are you suing?

aug 29, 2025, 11:05 pm • 1 0 • view
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TXDede & MinkaTXDoggess @txdede.bsky.social

There are at least 2 lawsuits so far. Mark Elias’ group and the NAACP.

aug 30, 2025, 1:42 am • 4 0 • view
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Emshecampaign❌👑 @emshecampaign.bsky.social

Hands Off!

aug 31, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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KG @kathygilbertnet.bsky.social

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aug 30, 2025, 12:35 pm • 0 0 • view
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🔥 The Gulf of Mexico @grb-01.bsky.social

An clearer explanation: 1 white vote = 3 latino votes 1 white vote = 5 black votes

aug 30, 2025, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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WILLIAMSTLUCIA @williamstlucia.bsky.social

Greg abbott deserves nothing less than to be wheeled down south of the rio grande into sinaloa cartel country and left there🤔🤬

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aug 30, 2025, 10:10 am • 2 0 • view
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T Antony 🏳‍🌈 @t-antony.bsky.social

This is an affront? This is a attack on our nation and dishonors the millions of folks who fought and died for our rights.

aug 31, 2025, 2:40 am • 1 1 • view
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emoontxwriter @emoontxwriter.bsky.social

Absolutely. Abbott and Paxton are a vile team willing to harm anyone to stay in power. Paxton has personally bragged about tossing out "millions" of votes from Harris county on spurious grounds.

aug 30, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
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Selena in TN @selenawrites.bsky.social

Interested to see how this turns out.

aug 30, 2025, 2:51 am • 0 0 • view
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Zesty @zestychinchilla.bsky.social

hopefully there is legal recourse for this

aug 29, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
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oligarchssuck.bsky.social @oligarchssuck.bsky.social

Fight this!!!!

aug 30, 2025, 3:53 am • 0 0 • view
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Dave King @kingdavidk01.bsky.social

Pleas do everything possible to stop these viscous ghouls. I know you all and others will try.

aug 29, 2025, 10:46 pm • 1 0 • view
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Natasha @nastynatasha--1.bsky.social

He should be wheeled off to prison where traitors belong.

aug 30, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 2 • view
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JimCaligiuri @jimcaligiuri.bsky.social

Abbott is an affront to humanity

aug 30, 2025, 6:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Brent @brentsilveria.bsky.social

Texans need to revolt in mass!

aug 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Marcus Aurelias 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 💙 @marcusaurelias.bsky.social

Wouldn’t expect anything else from a deeply corrupted state

aug 30, 2025, 9:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Michael @michaelismad.bsky.social

That disgusting disability.

aug 30, 2025, 11:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Steve Jensson @norsemn.bsky.social

And a blatant violation of the Voting Rights Act by disenfranchising black voters.

aug 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
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101us.bsky.social @101us.bsky.social

. REPUBLICAN PARTY - work for the Rich. (no rich taxes, no social programs, no regulation...) DEMOCRAT PARTY - work for the People. (tax rich, smart social programs, smart regulations...) "Vote Left Super Majority & Stop the Rich Far-Right"

aug 30, 2025, 11:22 am • 1 0 • view
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Wayne @wango3.bsky.social

Split Texas in two./

aug 30, 2025, 9:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pope John Paul “Be not afraid” @gottaluvamerica.bsky.social

Are you suing Texas under voting rights laws?

aug 29, 2025, 11:42 pm • 0 0 • view
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Kat Moon @katmoon68.bsky.social

Completely unsurprising. If Abbott thinks there’s any chance of any kind of gain for himself - political currency, campaign contributions, etc, he’s going to sellout Texas. Got $$$ from TX oil tycoons for the anti abortion law. Got $$$ from a billionaire in PA for school vouchers.

aug 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 3 1 • view
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Feels Like ‘98 @feelslike98.bsky.social

I hope he falls on the pen and leaks

aug 30, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
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Cvillegrrrl @cvillegrrrl.bsky.social

And a heinous bathroom bill.

aug 30, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Shoshie Rules @shoshierules.bsky.social

With luck, those diluted red seats in Hispanic areas...when Trump screws over more and more Hispanics...the Hispanic voters that switched over to Trump, will now vote Blue and this can blow up in their faces. Nov 2026 is a long time away and the Dems can work hard to win them back. I have a dream

aug 29, 2025, 11:03 pm • 10 0 • view
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ch5555-z.bsky.social @ch5555-z.bsky.social

Yep. What you going to do about it? You know the supreme Court will side with Texas.

aug 29, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
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Disturbed Sunshine ☀️ @disturbedsunshine.bsky.social

Reminder to Texans: There are 17 state constitutional amendments up for vote in Nov 2025.

aug 30, 2025, 4:39 am • 0 0 • view
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Apexx @apexxus.bsky.social

It disenfranchises white voters too. I'm losing my congressman whom i respect.

aug 30, 2025, 5:47 am • 1 0 • view
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Elizabeth @invisiblebetty.bsky.social

What a pathetic excuse for a human being Abbott has shown himself to be. Burning in hell will be too good for him.

aug 29, 2025, 11:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jef…when the walls fell 🇺🇦 @spiderlegsmusic.bsky.social

Ok California, do your thing to offset that bullshit

aug 30, 2025, 12:47 am • 3 0 • view
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Blackbelt010 @blackbelt010.bsky.social

What happens if 99% of the voters decide to vote democrat, independent or don't cast a vote for a republican candidate at a all, Then What?

aug 30, 2025, 4:52 am • 0 0 • view
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sjh65.bsky.social @sjh65.bsky.social

So sue them! But it won’t be enough. Hope there are more folks in TX that see this as an affront to democracy and vote as such. But I am not holding my breath.

aug 30, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
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Auspicious Scapegoat @auspiciousgoat.bsky.social

Why the hell did we have a civil war if they just want to revert to what we already settled with blood?

aug 29, 2025, 11:20 pm • 0 0 • view
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Bruce Herbert @drbruceherbert.bsky.social

Texan here. I will not vote for any candidate from a party that thinks it is their right to choose their voters instead of the voters choosing their representatives. So straight blue until the map changes. Sorry @GOP

aug 29, 2025, 11:01 pm • 31 2 • view
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Wayne @wango3.bsky.social

Welcome

aug 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fuck Krasnov Trump, Nazi Musk and white nationalist JD Vance @darth-insipidus.bsky.social

Tue GOP are the scum of america

aug 30, 2025, 3:06 am • 6 1 • view
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pamballard3.bsky.social @pamballard3.bsky.social

Texans should be as mad as hell, vote him out, he is becoming a dictator of Texas.

aug 30, 2025, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
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That Swiftie Witch🔮🪩🧡💚 @thatswiftiewitch.swifties.social

Someone needs to give that fucker a good push down the steps of the capitol.

aug 30, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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Joel @unsalted-south.bsky.social

California incoming. And hopefully a tree with better aim

aug 30, 2025, 1:13 am • 0 0 • view
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sandycortez.bsky.social @sandycortez.bsky.social

Using this map, tell us more of the effects of “gerrymandering” plz.

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aug 30, 2025, 11:18 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeri Westerson @jeriwesterson.bsky.social

California will respond. Calling all blue states governors to do the same

aug 29, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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Teach @armstrnd.bsky.social

Time for the Texas flag to fly below Because Texas is no longer bold She has become a Lying King state It’s sad to she her, shriveled up with hate Purging rolls and gerrymandering to win Texas my Texas has come to an end!

aug 30, 2025, 11:11 pm • 1 1 • view
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Barb (Brekken) Langfeld @barbbrekken.bsky.social

In my opinion, this could backfire on him big time. That would be true justice.

aug 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 2 1 • view
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Barb (Brekken) Langfeld @barbbrekken.bsky.social

Those who voted to do this at this time are pure evil. Democracy is for all of us not just some of us.

aug 30, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 1 • view
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thecat854.bsky.social @thecat854.bsky.social

Nothing will change until enough Red Hat Fck Around Society members get mad enough over something to start voting blue. It’s literally the only way to break a gerrymander.

aug 30, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
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UpDownLeftRight @newsky99.bsky.social

✅Kamala won ❌Cheato cheated 🚫He rigged the 2024 election Just like in TEXAS BECAUSE HES IN THE FILES EPSTEIN! RIGGING! NEW ELECTIONS NOW! ✅NO CITIZENS UNITED ✅A PAID HOLIDAY 🚩NEW ELECTIONS NOW! 🚩NEW ELECTIONS NOW! AMERICA WILL LIVE

aug 30, 2025, 5:55 am • 0 0 • view
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BluesterB @bluesterb.bsky.social

Texas, get organized! go.bsky.app/VcoYkZK

aug 29, 2025, 11:23 pm • 2 2 • view
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Matthew Bennell @matthewbennell.bsky.social

Waitress in
aug 30, 2025, 7:59 pm • 1 0 • view
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randyc25.bsky.social @randyc25.bsky.social

No one could believe Beta lost in Texas… something really bad happened there

aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 2 0 • view
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Kreggly 🇨🇦 @kreggly.bsky.social

If I was a person of color in Texas, I'd be going door-to-door showcasing why this is bad for democracy and racial harmony and that real Americans stand up to tyrany.

aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 1 • view
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tess-mac.bsky.social @tess-mac.bsky.social

The Missouri Governor has ordered a Special Session for redistricting today as he received notice from the White House to do so!!

aug 30, 2025, 1:26 am • 1 0 • view
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MIMS @am1ms.bsky.social

Fellow Texans, don't allow this move discourage you from voting. It's intentional. Let this motivate us all to come out in forces and show Abbott we fucking tired of him and his criminal friends. If the winter storm, power surges, or old infrastructure doesn't make you vote, let this be a reason.

aug 30, 2025, 1:21 am • 7 1 • view
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Wayne @wango3.bsky.social

Organize buses 🚌. Make it a national night out.

aug 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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Marfy ❌👑 @mojobaby.bsky.social

☝️☝️🎯🎯☝️☝️

aug 30, 2025, 8:25 am • 1 0 • view
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Escarietson @escarietson.bsky.social

Voting Rights Act violated. Unleash the lawsuits!

aug 30, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social

Have you sued?

aug 30, 2025, 12:46 am • 0 0 • view
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Marfy ❌👑 @mojobaby.bsky.social

Came to ask same. Nothing on thier website yet, but I’m sure it’ll happen.

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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social

I donate monthly. Do you? We need to.

aug 30, 2025, 8:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Marfy ❌👑 @mojobaby.bsky.social

Yes I do! action.aclu.org/give/now

aug 30, 2025, 8:27 am • 1 0 • view
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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social

Me too. 😎

aug 30, 2025, 8:34 am • 1 0 • view
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Marfy ❌👑 @mojobaby.bsky.social

I like you, Citizen! 🩵💙🩵

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🌲🌀🐾Colorado Citizen♻️🐾🌲🌲 @coloradocitizen.bsky.social

Ditto. Twofold.

aug 30, 2025, 8:44 am • 1 0 • view
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cuznede.bsky.social @cuznede.bsky.social

Greg Abbott is the biggest welfare recipient in the state of Texas

aug 30, 2025, 1:52 am • 4 0 • view
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J.B. Lyle @jblyle.bsky.social

And Republicans care deeply about affronts to our democracy.

aug 29, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 1 • view
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Beth Messler @swanee61.bsky.social

And perhaps we can reach out to those voters in texas who are saying “we didn’t vote for this” AND MAKE THE WHOLE THING BACKFIRE!!!!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

aug 30, 2025, 2:18 am • 1 0 • view
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Social Entropy @energycheckup.bsky.social

The Texas GOP was wrong to initiate this race-to-the-bottom with mid-decade gerrymandering. For Gavin Newsom and the CA legislature to follow them down into the craven muck proves that NEITHER PARTY can now be trusted with our support. New Leadership Now!!

aug 30, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
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Josh A. @slappyj5.bsky.social

My dream -based on the hatred of the gop, these awful policies and the horrendous future our kids will get..that the 5 seats GO THE WRONG WAY - OUR WAY! And in all the other bootlicker states Then Gavy gets the Cali seats and there you go-huge advantage to finish this on the correct side of history

aug 30, 2025, 7:20 am • 0 0 • view
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Al Brown @animus45.bsky.social

LAWSUITS!!!

aug 30, 2025, 8:00 pm • 1 0 • view
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petrachor.bsky.social @petrachor.bsky.social

Everything about this dictatorship and painfully insipid regime is an affront. What can we do???

aug 30, 2025, 1:39 am • 2 0 • view
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🏳️‍⚧️Loki Calcifer Black, PLMSW, CCSS,CPSW @lokicalciferblack.bsky.social

aug 30, 2025, 2:25 am • 5 2 • view
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Hermie @hermietseal.bsky.social

Abbott is a metastatic cancer

aug 29, 2025, 11:53 pm • 0 0 • view
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Gerald “Gee” Jones @gripit702.bsky.social

Taxation without representation

aug 30, 2025, 12:54 am • 0 0 • view
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Becky Browder Neustadt @browder2neustadt.bsky.social

Abbott is a 🐖. No offense to pigs.

aug 30, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 0 • view
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michaelb1397 @michaelb1397.bsky.social

TX is weak.

aug 29, 2025, 10:52 pm • 0 0 • view
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Matt-Man69 @matt-man69.bsky.social

Absolutely! Let all those voices be heard! 💙🇺🇸🌊🙋🏻💯🏳️‍🌈🤞💙

aug 30, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Witness @geometricrazor.bsky.social

A rumor is spreading... The gerrymandering will not work in favor of the GOP. Trump has alienated his party. The redistricting will backfire and will actually elect MORE democrats.

aug 30, 2025, 12:01 am • 1 0 • view
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Marsha the Musician 🎸🐕🌮🦋 @wtfpeople76.bsky.social

Sue Sue Sue

aug 30, 2025, 1:33 am • 1 0 • view
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risefromtheashes.bsky.social @risefromtheashes.bsky.social

Greg Abbott is an affront to democracy.

aug 29, 2025, 10:54 pm • 18 2 • view
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Citizen Jones @citizenjones123.bsky.social

This was a declaration of war. White supremacy vs. constitutional democracy. And white supremacy has been crushing it. Just ask Jeffries and Schumer if they have ANY plans to stop the Trump Dictatorship. Nothing. The US has already fallen. We killed it ourselves. Stay safe ACLU. You will be raided.

aug 30, 2025, 10:25 am • 2 0 • view
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kindlesnclowders.bsky.social @kindlesnclowders.bsky.social

Abbott and Paxton need to be arrested. These are crimes against individuals

aug 30, 2025, 9:44 am • 1 0 • view
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kkrapek.bsky.social @kkrapek.bsky.social

Called get out and VOTE no matter how they change the law to cheat PEOPLE IN TEXAS JOIN TOGETHER TO VOTE THEM ALL OUT POWER TO THE PEOPLE not the so called MEGA GARBAGE.

aug 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
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ptarmigan64.bsky.social @ptarmigan64.bsky.social

Dear Texans , your vote and your voice have been silenced.

aug 29, 2025, 10:48 pm • 6 0 • view
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𝔍𝔞𝔲𝔣𝔣𝔯𝔢 𝔅𝔢𝔫𝔷𝔬𝔡𝔦𝔞𝔷𝔞𝔭𝔦𝔫𝔢 @kingofcatastrophy.bsky.social

Always was

aug 30, 2025, 12:14 am • 4 0 • view
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Keeper Of Light @fierceglow.bsky.social

Yep :(

aug 30, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
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Substantion_THEE_Igra @substantion-igra.bsky.social

I look at him & think “do you even have any self awareness? You really need to get therapy for that anger you’ve got”.

aug 30, 2025, 1:42 pm • 1 1 • view
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Pam in NC @pbnc.bsky.social

Sue! Protest! Sue!

aug 30, 2025, 1:28 am • 2 0 • view
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RedXRum @redxrum.bsky.social

Thecus should just be a fuggin grid. And popular vote wins. That's the intention and purpose of an election by definition. Everything else is just corrupt fluff.

aug 30, 2025, 12:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Fuck Krasnov Trump, Nazi Musk and white nationalist JD Vance @darth-insipidus.bsky.social

The republicans are traitors to the American people

aug 30, 2025, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view
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nccanesfsn.bsky.social @nccanesfsn.bsky.social

No kidding, it Texas and he is a Republican.

aug 29, 2025, 11:56 pm • 2 0 • view
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Don't you reco-nize me? @scobos.bsky.social

~30% of registered voters stayed HOME for the last election. Since they did not find a way to vote, tRump's NAZI Regime and MAGATS are now exercising these repressions and unconstitutional acts.

aug 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 0 2 • view
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northofhome.bsky.social @northofhome.bsky.social

I wish the Pope would show up in TX and let them know God doesn't bless evil.

aug 30, 2025, 3:40 am • 0 0 • view
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LukaFan77 @mavsfa.bsky.social

It's going to be hilarious when voters are fed up and vote blue in red areas.

aug 29, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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Ed Hirsch @edhirsch.bsky.social

#Kompromat Texas Governor Greg Abbott Is Named In The Epstein Files

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