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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: January 25, 2022, 12:05 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0FV8qBavsM
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 2, 2022, 12:34 am
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvBODr3Mh40
Here is what Abbott spends his time doing instead:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGaFOLIC-Y
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 8, 2022, 10:22 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-might-red-state-now-100131136.html
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> Texas might be a red state now, but the Lone Star State is
turning blue right before our eyes
> ...
> Republicans who hold all statewide offices and both U.S.
Senate seats are now trying to slam the door shut, lock it and
throw away the key. Through gerrymandering, they reduced the
number of majority-Black and Latino congressional districts and
split up Asian communities – significantly diluting political
power for the Texans of color who have driven population growth.
>
> There is, however, reason to be hopeful. Reason to keep
organizing, knocking doors, making phone calls, sending texts
and persuading Texans from every corner of the state to vote.
Reason to act now, else risk losing generations of progress made
in enfranchising Black and brown communities.
> ...
> While Texas Democrats still face daunting historical odds –
having not carried the state in a presidential election since
1976 or won statewide since 1994 – parallels can be drawn to
Arizona, another border state where Republicans’ hold has
eroded.
>
> Before 2020, Arizona had voted Democratic only once in a
presidential election since 1948 and Democrats had not occupied
both U.S. Senate seats since 1952. These changes were catalyzed
by a diversifying electorate similar to Texas and aggressive
investment in organizing to reach young voters and voters of
color.
> ...
> Moreover, the stakes are too high to lose faith. Texas’ 40
electoral votes are on the table. To put the state’s seismic
political weight into perspective, based on the current
electoral map, Democrats could lose Arizona, Florida, Michigan,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – and still take the White
House if they won Texas.
>
> America’s future is Texas. The state’s rapid diversification
and leftward lurch in politics are emblematic of broader trends
across the nation, which could end up looking like Texas sooner
rather than later. The people in power, however, would rather
not have you know that.
>
> But the Texas I know is Black and brown, with more than 50% of
the state’s population being Black, Latino or Asian.
>
> The Texas I know is young, with nearly half of the state being
younger than 35.
>
> The Texas I know is worth fighting for.
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See also:
HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/demographic-blueshift/
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 13, 2022, 9:09 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rallies-215008245.html
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> SAN ANTONIO ― Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
spoke in support of progressive House candidates Jessica
Cisneros and Greg Casar in Texas on Saturday, using her star
power to influence the first major intraparty contests of the
midterm election cycle.
> ...
> Ocasio-Cortez recounted how the years she spent as a community
organizer in South Texas when she was in her late teens and
early 20s convinced her that Democrats will eventually flip
Texas. She argued that electing Cisneros and Casar, who are
capable of exciting the state’s young and racially diverse
electorate, could hasten that process.
>
> “That’s why I’m here: for the long haul,” said Ocasio-Cortez,
vowing to return. “I don’t care how many cycles it takes, it is
going to happen.”
>
> “Texas turning blue is inevitable!” she added. “It will
happen. The only question is when, Texas!”
> ...
> Like Ocasio-Cortez, Cisneros and Casar are part of a younger
generation of progressive Latinos who are less patient with the
incremental change preferred by many Democratic politicians
elected during earlier eras. They both support “Medicare for
All,” a Green New Deal, canceling student debt, and an expansive
approach to immigrant rights.
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Not sure what they are like on foreign policy, but anyway:
HTML https://jessicacisnerosforcongress.com/
HTML https://www.casarforcongress.com/
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/aoc-says-texas-turning-blue-045436534.html
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> "Here’s what’s exciting about Jessica’s race and Greg’s race …
is that if we flip Texas, we flip the country."
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 15, 2022, 12:11 am
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Our enemies are terrified of Cisneros:
HTML https://vdare.com/articles/could-doj-fbi-raid-on-immigration-skeptic-rep-henry-cuellar-hand-open-borders-challenger-jennifer-cisneros-victory
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> On immigration, Blue Dog Cuellar and his opponent Cisneros are
night and day. While Cuellar has been a high-profile advocate
for action against the illegal aliens, drug traffickers and
human smugglers pouring into his district, Cisneros is an actual
immigration attorney backed by the “Squad” who advocates for
Open Borders
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[img]
HTML https://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/banner_image_1x_xl/public/headlines/cisneros_0.jpeg.webp?h=262c3309&itok=E11zjWMo[/img]
About her opponent:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cuellar#Political_positions
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> In 2011, Cuellar was the author and one of two main
co-sponsors of legislation seeking to honor slain ICE agent
Jaime Zapata.
> ...
> In 2014, Cuellar was the only House Democrat to vote for a
bill that would have made it easier to deport unaccompanied
minors to Central America.
> ...
> Cuellar was one of three Democrats to vote for Kate's Law,
which expands maximum sentences for immigrants who reenter the
U.S. after being deported.[3] He supported legislation to strip
federal funding for jurisdictions that have sanctuary policies
in place.[3]
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 16, 2022, 12:44 am
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And the dirty tactics commence:
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eYy6D-r-oc
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: February 27, 2022, 11:06 pm
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRKeYjIRdEc
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: March 22, 2022, 3:24 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-cant-risk-allowing-texas-125903908.html
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> Recently, I read a tweet from Governor Greg Abbott: “I’ve
asked the members of the Texas Restaurant Association, Texas
Package Stores Association & all Texas retailers to voluntarily
remove all Russian products from their shelves. Texas stands
with Ukraine.”
> ...
> I’ve spent the last four years fighting to preserve the right
to boycott for all Texans; a right which, ironically, Abbott has
been eroding. In 2017, Abbott signed into law House Bill 89,
which prohibits state agencies (such as public school districts)
from contracting with those who boycott Israel.
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: April 20, 2022, 2:30 am
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/abbotts-border-policy-cost-u-214650405.html
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> Abbott's border policy cost the U.S. almost $9 billion in just
10 days
>
> Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's short-lived policy of
requiring state troopers to conduct secondary inspections of
trucks crossing into Texas from Mexico cost the United States
almost $9 billion in just 10 days, Axios reported Tuesday.
>
> The policy, which Abbott enacted on April 6, snarled truck
traffic at the border and led to a protest by Mexican truckers
that stopped trade at some major crossings. On April 15, Abbott
ended the double inspections, for which he'd received withering
criticism from both sides of the border and the aisle, after
striking deals with the governors of the four Mexican states
that border Texas.
>
> Per Axios, Abbott implemented the policy "in response to the
Biden administration's announcement that it would lift Title
42," a Trump-era public health policy that denied migrants entry
into the United States.
>
> An analysis by the Perryman Group showed that the U.S. lost an
estimated $8.97 billion in GDP due to delays at the border,
while Texas alone lost $4.23 billion.
>
> Beto O'Rourke, the Democrat contesting Abbott's bid for a
third term as governor, slammed Abbott for his costly gambit.
"Abbott jacked up inflation, increased prices at our stores,
hurt Texas businesses, killed jobs, and shut down billions of
dollars in trade ... Abbott says this financial pain is
necessary. I say electoral consequences are necessary," he
tweeted Tuesday.
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Re: Texas elections
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: June 16, 2022, 9:58 pm
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/texas-showdown-democratic-challenger-beto-204639743.html
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> A new public opinion survey in Texas released on Wednesday
suggests that Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke has increased
his support and trails two-term Republican Gov. Greg Abbott by
single digits.
>
> O’Rourke, a former El Paso congressman who came close to
ousting Sen. Ted Cruz in the 2018 Senate election before
unsuccessfully running for the 2020 Democratic presidential
nomination, grabbed the support of 43% of registered voters in a
Quinnipiac University poll.
>
> Abbott, a former state attorney general who’s running for a
third four-year term steering Texas, stood at 48% support.
> ...
> The Quinnipiac poll indicated Abbott was up by double digits
among men, with O’Rourke holding a similar lead among women. The
governor led among White voters and those 35 and older, while
O’Rourke was up among Black and Hispanic voters, and those
18-34, according to the survey.
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Which is why we need:
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