Texas Democrats hailed as returning heroes... By cheering crowds... As they return back to Texas...
Replies
bsky.app/profile/murd...
aug 21, 2025, 2:02 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't know I'd use the word "heros", they ran away to delay an inevitable REP ploy....thumb claps at best
aug 19, 2025, 1:36 am • 3 0 • view
Democrats must learn to stop coming to a gun fight with a PowerPoint presentation and fast.
aug 20, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, this is really meek stuff. What is this accomplishing? Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are touring the country, calling for rallies and protests, and these guys take a little vacation from work "in protest". We need a third party fast. Maybe we should call it "Bernie's". And join their rallies
aug 19, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
When you’re a Dem in a state where a Dem hasn’t won statewide since Ann Richards your options are limited.
aug 19, 2025, 10:37 am • 0 0 • view
I am deeply confused as to how returning to participate in the gerrymandering vote is an act of heroism. Does Texas not understand how words work? Or are their standards really just that low?
aug 19, 2025, 12:12 am • 2 0 • view
They won the battle by getting California to redistricting also and gain five Blue seats.
aug 19, 2025, 12:35 am • 3 0 • view
How does disenfranchising different people in California help the people being disenfranchised in Texas?
aug 19, 2025, 12:48 am • 2 0 • view
It prevents Republicans from taking permanent control of the US House. No one thinks this is an ideal solution but we can't fix it if we lose control of the House.
aug 19, 2025, 2:07 am • 3 0 • view
Do I really have to explain why you can't 'save democracy' by disenfranchising people? This is normalization.
aug 19, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
No it's fighting fire with fire. We can't win playing by the rule book if the other side isn't playing by the rules.
aug 19, 2025, 3:12 am • 6 0 • view
Did they??? Not a done deal yet unfortunately. calmatters.org/politics/202...
aug 19, 2025, 12:38 am • 0 0 • view
Bet it will be now that Greg Abbott has a TX Dem Rep from Fort Worth held hostage in the TX Statehouse! Would Californians put up with this kind of crap in THEIR STATEHOUSE? Hope Gavin has a strong answer to help us Texans that are having their VOTES STOLEN! www.youtube.com/live/eqDl84r...
aug 19, 2025, 1:38 am • 0 0 • view
Did people think they were going to be able to like leave forever years? Did you think that if they like held out another month the republicans would quit? The point of the move was to delay and gain national attentional.
aug 19, 2025, 4:17 am • 1 0 • view
Texas Democrats hailed as returning heroes... By cheering crowds... As they return back to Texas...
aug 19, 2025, 5:05 pm • 19 5 • view
Rep. Nicole Collier is the real hero of this story!!!
aug 19, 2025, 3:22 pm • 1 0 • view
They’re not heroes. Returning allowed the corrupt gerrymandering to occur
aug 19, 2025, 12:05 am • 12 1 • view
Texas Dems walkout allowed California to start to redistricting process that will offset any gains from Texas. That's a win.
aug 19, 2025, 12:11 am • 21 0 • view
lol not really no
aug 19, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
The walkout encouraged California, certainly, but why return? You could’ve had California and heavily delayed the Texas gerrymandering efforts. Returning is just snatching defeat from the jaws of victory!
aug 19, 2025, 1:39 am • 14 1 • view
They have lives! Also state legislature is a part-time gig in Texas and the pay sucks. You can’t make a living on that salary so they’ve also got careers and families to provide for.
aug 19, 2025, 10:30 am • 1 0 • view
then don't run for the state legislature. Ffs its not a jobs program.
aug 19, 2025, 7:32 pm • 0 0 • view
There are something like six red states that can redistrict and only two blue. So if this battle continues to the end, we will lose it.
aug 20, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
So you're saying the Texas democrats started something they had no intention of sticking with in the hopes the someone else would come in and bale their asses out. And you think that is a "win"?
aug 19, 2025, 4:52 am • 1 0 • view
These maps were always going to pass. Breaking quorum was a delay tactic that focused attention on the issue and now you have Democratic states responding. They weren’t looking for someone to “bale” 🙄 their asses out. So yeah in a state Repubs have unified govt it is a win.
aug 19, 2025, 10:27 am • 1 0 • view
I didn't realize that in Texas, losing is considered a "win". "We're drowning under a sea of Republican rule & we're losing ground, but we expected to... so let's celebrate!" Y'all must be dancing in the streets at redistricting!
aug 19, 2025, 10:42 am • 2 0 • view
last time they flew to DC and begged the feds to do something, anything but got the Manchin/Sinema treatment. This time they went to the states, and got California and NY to take the gloves off. It's fugly but yeah, it's kind of a win.
aug 19, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 1 • view
It’s not a win. If this continues to its logical conclusion, more red states will redistrict and we will lose the house. I do not understand why the Texas Democrats returned while the legislature was still in session. They knew that if they did that the gerrymandering would pass
aug 20, 2025, 7:44 pm • 2 1 • view
They aren’t heroes. They are performers. They surrendered.
aug 19, 2025, 1:42 pm • 0 0 • view
When in reality, they are desperate fools.
aug 19, 2025, 12:13 pm • 0 0 • view
And then immediately let Texas pass its democracy-destroying redistricting law. They should have stayed gone.
aug 19, 2025, 4:36 am • 1 0 • view
YTF did they come back? That means they lost.
aug 19, 2025, 6:24 am • 2 0 • view
They’re all crooks and corrupt. They need to be removed immediately!
aug 18, 2025, 10:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes- The Gerrymandering republicans need to be removed immediately.
aug 18, 2025, 11:06 pm • 17 0 • view
Except the the gerrymandering will occur.
aug 19, 2025, 1:56 am • 7 0 • view
Plus California will also redistrict now so Trump and Texas Republicans gain nothing but bad PR.
aug 19, 2025, 4:11 am • 1 0 • view
But Black Texans will loose representation but apparently that doesn’t matter. I will down the road and it will be too late.
aug 19, 2025, 12:18 pm • 3 0 • view
California should redistrict regardless. Every democratic state should do so. The republicans do whatever they can to gain any advantage, and the dems just write strong letters in response Fight fascism
aug 19, 2025, 4:24 am • 3 0 • view
I was very disappointed when I saw they were only cutting out 5 Republican seats. Should’ve gone with 9.
aug 19, 2025, 7:17 am • 0 0 • view
They are the Columbia University of politics. They caved. They will participate in a tainted vote. They literally signed their names to allow their own freedoms to be curtailed. Shame on them.
aug 19, 2025, 10:39 am • 0 0 • view
So, Texans, your magat leaders are holding a woman hostage. Your tax dollars are paying for cops to follow DEM leaders around the state. Does this sound like authoritarian actions to you. I think you all need to storm the capital. Call your magat leader, and tell them you will vote them out.
aug 19, 2025, 2:08 pm • 0 0 • view
💙
aug 19, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
...as they heroically capitulate. Way to go, Dems.
aug 19, 2025, 9:56 pm • 0 0 • view
UNTIL THIS BULLSHIT HAPPENED! My TX State Rep Nicole Collier(D) from Fort Worth is being held HOSTAGE in the Texas State House! She is STILL THERE BEING WRONGFULLY IMPRISONED by Greg Abbott & TX DPS! THIS SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN ANYWHERE!! She has committed NO CRIME!🤬🤬 www.youtube.com/live/eqDl84r...
aug 19, 2025, 1:31 am • 13 5 • view
Crazy.
aug 19, 2025, 4:10 am • 5 0 • view
But was return a surrender & capitulation? Maybe I'm missing something, but Texas Dems' folding of their cards & accepting permission slips to accept law enforcement supervision of their movements do not seem to be acts of returning heroes. Prove to me I'm wrong. PLEASE! 👇 shorturl.at/cBtwW
aug 20, 2025, 10:27 pm • 2 1 • view
And then kidnapped and locked in their office building.
aug 19, 2025, 12:59 am • 3 0 • view
Why are they hero’s? They abdicated their responsibilities with a stunt. Now get back to work. No legislator was held hostage or abducted. She chose to stay in the state house overnight.
aug 19, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Why cheer for their behavior ? Texas and most States allow midterm Reapportionment between census years.
aug 18, 2025, 9:46 pm • 1 0 • view
You know that's BS.🙄
aug 19, 2025, 2:02 am • 5 0 • view
No they don’t, Nazi.
aug 19, 2025, 4:48 am • 1 0 • view
lol why are you even here? Your platforms are over there.
aug 19, 2025, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
Way to kick their ass Texas democrats!!! 👍👍
aug 19, 2025, 4:57 am • 1 0 • view
And they will lose wake up
aug 19, 2025, 11:48 am • 0 0 • view
They are heroes!
aug 19, 2025, 2:49 am • 3 0 • view
For what? What did they accomplish?
aug 19, 2025, 2:36 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 18, 2025, 8:44 pm • 3 0 • view
heros would have stayed out longer and now the republicans are holding a democrat hostage on the floor and will not allow her to leave
aug 19, 2025, 12:43 am • 14 0 • view
Can you afford to be away from your home, your full-time job (Tx leg meets every other year) and your family indefinitely? And Abbott can just keep calling special sessions as many times as he wants. The hostage taking of Collier is appalling.
aug 19, 2025, 10:35 am • 1 1 • view
Yes? They could literally have crowd funded this. Instead they took a two week vacation and achieved nothing.
aug 19, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok so what outcome would you have wanted to see? They flee the state and don’t comeback until…what? I’m genuinely asking.
aug 19, 2025, 10:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Actually yes, if democracy is hanging on the line then as an elected official it would have been my job to do whatever I could to stop it, regardless of what it cost me Jesus fuck does anyone believe in standing on business anymore?
aug 19, 2025, 1:23 pm • 15 0 • view
Sure keyboard warrior. They could just flee their lives indefinitely because one day we’ll all wake up and find the Tx lege magically flipped blue. Live in the real world, and fuck off with your goddamn purity tests.
aug 19, 2025, 10:09 pm • 2 0 • view
Actually yes I would hold up the process as long as I possibly could, and if I'm able to fundraise for fucking political office then I'm sure I can manage a GoFundMe to keep me in a hotel while doing it. Texas definitely won't ever flip blue if you're only ever supporting politicians who won't fight
aug 20, 2025, 2:38 pm • 5 1 • view
Is weaponized cowardice a thing? I've never had to defend the concept of selflessness in civic duty so hard before.
aug 21, 2025, 3:33 am • 1 0 • view
*I* can't. *They* can. Hope that helps 👍
aug 19, 2025, 5:21 pm • 3 0 • view
🙄
aug 19, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
They aren't heroes. They're pathetic and gave in.
aug 19, 2025, 12:49 am • 16 1 • view
Typical loser Texans.
aug 19, 2025, 2:07 am • 1 0 • view