Republicans waking up this morning:

Republicans waking up this morning:

Elections in the US aren't about if people like one candidate over the other as much as they are about attendance. Dems outnumber republicans. But republicans show up, Dems don’t.
If the Dems turn out, republicans loose.
So the rule of GOP evil for years has been keep their misdeeds subtle and dismissible. Crank up the heat gradually. Then trump came along and blew that up since he’s about as subtle as a tornado in a trailer park.
Now everyone understands the GOP tactics, the Dems have enough power to fight back, and many of the red voters won’t fall for the same tricks anymore.
The GOP just died.
A Democratic woman won in Texas yoohoooo I can't believe so many good news this year!
This is the good news people could have consistently and all over, when enough people show up to vote for the platform that has most policies people want when polled. Don't fall for propaganda against healthcare for example, or fall for the fear about minorities and vote against healthcare. Stop doing that every other time or ever ideally, and stay the course for long-term stability with proven policies people want.
Do it again in two years. Call your new representatives. Regularly. This is only the beginning. The work starts now.
The only thing Republicans know how to do is blame trans people and immigrants. They never answer for their own failures. Their platform starts and ends at hate.
First thing Gina should do is end the declared state of emergency that Abbott still had in effect at the border. You know the border he bragged about "fixing" so often? So why the state of emergency you ask? Oh because with that in effect it allowed him and his allies to hand out no bid contracts.
Yeah we didn't talk about thst enough.
Lt. Gov. Vikki Goodwin will oversee the Senate, a role Dan Patrick has wielded with an iron fist. But Republicans are expected to maintain a majority of that chamber, and already, there’s talk of finding ways to curb her authority on crucial roles like deciding what legislation to bring to the floor of the chamber.
Don’t try and govern or make things better for your constituents. Instead use parliamentary bullshit to ignore the voters and continue down the path that got you here today.
If you turn politics into a team sport its more important that your team wins then actually doing the job. Its repulsive.
Say what you will but Texas turned blue because diesel was too expensive.
Exactly, and that's the reason the entire country flipped. Not wars, not support for Israel, not abortion rights, nor even all those Nazis dragging brown people into busses without cause. It was because of the price of diesel and all the cost increases stemming from that.
Hating Ken Paxton is pretty non-partisan. Fuel prices weren't even mentioned in like 90% of campaign ads here.
Corruption is a MUCH bigger issue than this race acknowledged. We will NEVER get our country under control until this out-of-control corruption is ended, and that will only happen with the end of MAGA. One of the reasons Ken Paxton lost is because he's a Great Value version of Trump, so voting against him felt a lot like voting against Trump. It didn't help that Talarico was the kind of candidate that people WANT to vote for.
The new congressional map Republicans drew yielded them no gains — in fact, they lost one seat overall.
It still allowed them to minimize the loss to only one member of the House; of their five attempts, they successfully flipped the 32nd district Republican.
what do you mean by "flipped the 32nd district"? district numbers have no consistency after each redistricting. they just numbered a completely different district that happened to be Republican the 32nd.

'Flip' wasn't the right word for it, but they ultimately still succeeded in replacing what would have been a Democratic member of the House with a Republican one.
Size power implies the opposite of what happened. The people chose.
That's the part about American politics that always sounds wrong to me.
The news are all Democrats this, Democrats that, blablabla like the party leads and staff did something extraordinary, but they really didn't.
People didn't vote Dem because they like the Democratic party, they did it because even the most brainwashed inbred idiot sees that their life is getting worse and worse, and it needs to change.
If the "establishment Dems" miss this AGAIN and think people love them again, we'll be back to square 1 in a few years.
That's true, but look at the source. The texas tribune always implys bullshit to manipulate the dumb fuck gullible old people there.
what do you mean by this? Texas Tribune is considered one of the most reliable Texas outlets. it is non-profit, has no paywall, and thought to lean liberal
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