If you’re tempted to turn MTG into a hero over her falling out with Trump, please check yourself. She may be at odds with him on the heinous Epstein debacle, but she’s still MTG with the same hateful values she’s always had. Please don’t rationalize levels of Republican awful.

Imagine having a Tarrant County Commissioner in Precinct 4 who can break down big ideas into manageable pieces and can then focus on problem solving and solutions for regular every day people. Enter Nydia Cardenas. This is from the 8/4/25 episode of the 817 Podcast #wakeup #tarrantcounty

People across Tarrant County need to get to know Nydia Cardenas. This is her Fort Worth Story from the 817 Pod on 8/4/2025. @mentack.bsky.social and I are so excited she intends to run for Tarrant County Commissioner Precinct 4!

Did you know DFW airport is jointly owned and governed by the City of Fort Worth and the City of Dallas? Workers from the airport came to Fort Worth City Council on 11/4 asking for a livable wage. Pay starts as low as $10 an hour. We can and should do better. #wakeup #fortworth

At Fort Worth City Council on 11/4/2025, citizens of the City continue to show up to hold our leaders accountable. 🤥🤥🤥 Ernie Moran called out Mayor Mattie Parker for lying about the ⚰️ #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

At Fort Worth City Council on 11/4/2025, citizens of the City continue to show up to hold our leaders accountable. 🔥🔥🔥 Mindia: “I have slides” 🙏🏻 💩 did she have slides! #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

At Fort Worth City Council on 11/4/2025, citizens of the City continue to show up to hold our leaders accountable. ✏️✏️✏️ Sabrina Ball spoke about the impact of the state takeover of Fort Worth ISD and that we know members of the council stand to profit from it 🤬 #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

At Fort Worth City Council on 11/4/2025, citizens of the City continue to show up to hold our leaders accountable. 📚📚📚 EJ hits Performative Outrage, Fahrenheit 451, Patriot Mobile, Chili Cook-Offs, and People Power, all in under 3 minutes! #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

Last week I put up a graphic I had created, an Authoritarian Venn. The image is pretty simple, but there was a lot in my head as put it together, and I’ve written something to share how it all ties together. You can read it at open.substack.com/pub/christac...

The stakes couldn’t be higher. And Texas (and even more so Tarrant County) is the center of it all. @ginafortexas.bsky.social laid it out on the 817 Pod. We have to find our voices, our community, and get out there to connect with those who have felt their voice didn’t matter.

Another outstanding piece by @bwd.bsky.social! www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

Happy Halloween, friends 🎃 👻 ~ Mendi, Chris, and Skelly

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Spot on! A must read. www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

Election Day is 11/4. Early voting is open through 10/31. Billionaires are buying the Texas State Senate. For Wambsganss, it’s Dunn, Weekley, Perot (and others) For Huffman, it’s Miriam Adelson. (She really wants a Texas casino) And then there is Rehmet VOTE! Let’s win. #txlege

@thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social will be screening at The Modern in Fort Worth on 11/12 at 6:30pm! Following the screening there will be a Q&A featuring: ⭐️ Audrey Wilson-Youngblood ⭐️ Chris Tackett ⭐️ Laney Hawes Can’t wait to see you there! Details via the link www.themodern.org/film/librari...

Folks, THIS ARTICLE gets right to the heart of it. If any of what we’ve been posting resonated or intrigued you, please take a moment to read this (and if you hit the paywall, open it in a new browser and hit the “reader” view button if your phone supports it 😀) www.star-telegram.com/opinion/brad...

72 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches. Alex Montalvo brought gratitude, solutions, and a push for change. The things Alex is focused on are all possible if we do this together. We need your voices to add to our chorus. 🙌🙌🙌🙌

72 registered to speak at Ft Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14 I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers (+Karen) So many voices spoke up at City Council. I’ve compiled nifty little edited clips of the comments to share on social media, in case you missed it live 😏😏😏😏 Part 1 of 2

72 registered to speak at Ft Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14 I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. I brought a solution with my comments. You want more time in community and not overburden staff? We want to speak to our Council and be heard. Here is how to do all of it 🤔📊🧠💡

72 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. You know it’s getting bad when City Employees are afraid to raise their own voices. Wesley Kirk read a letter from a City employee. It’s heartbreaking. 💔 💔💔💔

Today seems like an auspicious day to remind folks that next week I'll be at Penn State delivering a De Jong Lecture on the contemporary pronatalist movement. Demographers Shelley Clark & Nancy Luke will also give lectures on pronatalism. Zoom option is available! Just use the QR code to register.

71 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. Mendi Tackett went right at the Mayor, using her words, her history, to challenge her to see the moment and where she is failing. It was 🔥🔥🔥🔥 from jump. #wakeup #fortworth

71 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers Former City Council member Ann Zadeh focused on a need for boldness, for leaders to listen, learn, and act, even when it’s hard. 👏👏👏👏 #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

72 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14 I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. Sabrina Ball shined the light on those Mayor Mattie Parker is choosing to align with and what that tells us about her leadership Sabrina is always on 🎯🎯🎯🎯 #wakeup #fortworth

72 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. Mindia Whittier called out the Mayor for having the audacity to play victim when the community seeks accountability, following the same old white woman playbook 📖 📕 📚📓

72 registered to speak at Ft Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. Bishop Kirkland told council that if they don’t want to hear from citizens, they should resign, take their ball and go home, and then let ‘er rip from there 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️

72 registered to speak at Fort Worth City Council Public Comments on 10/14. I’m highlighting incredible speeches and speakers. EJ Carrion was in full riff mode, taking swings, landing punches, and calling it ALL out. Our voices matter. And when we raise them together we are 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼 #wakeup #fortworth

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Anyone trying to tell you Mattie Parker was a “moderate”, they were wrong. Mattie Parker telling you she wasn’t like the extreme in her party, well… Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker is working with Mercy Culture Church, aligning with White Christian Nationalism.

Atatiana Jefferson was shot and killed in her own home by a Fort Worth police officer on October 12, 2019. On October 11, 2025, the annual Pull Up For Tay parade was held, walking through Atatiana’s neighborhood. As Patrice Jones tells us “Let’s get us some real change” #wakeup #fortworth

If you just happen to be in NYC TONIGHT (10/11), get tickets to see @thelibrariansfilm.bsky.social at Film Forum at 6:45pm. There will be a film intro from awesome person and producer Janique Robillard and yes, the one, the only, Kennedy Tackett! Great film. Incredible people. Not to be missed!

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…” Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

On 9/30, Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker said “Patrice, I still have your casket”. On the 10/6 episode of the 817 Podcast, Patrice Jones laid out what it was about and why it was so 😱 🔥 “White women tears have ended civilizations” 🔥 When will the Fort Worth Mayor apologize? #wakeup #fortworth

The Johnson County Sheriff and his deputies hunted a woman in need of abortion care and safety from an abusive relationship. The Sheriff, Adam King, is himself facing sexual harassment, retaliation, and perjury charges. I’ll link an article about it in a thread below.

GREAT NEWS from Leander ISD. To Kill a Mockingbird, House on Mango St, and Narrative of Life of Frederick Douglass will be returned to classrooms after a massive outcry. Thanks to everyone who spoke up!!! From an email to teachers today:

Everyone who said “it’s just abt the economy”, played ball with Republicans trying to find “common ground”, didn’t draw a deep line in the sand, and didn’t recognize the hard-line Christian nationalism…have f’d the country. Project 2025 will demolish us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The new episode of the 817 Pod features Patrice Jones. Toward the end, they dive into where we are and what it will take to make change. The answer: YOU The call to action is get involved, however you can. Leverage your network. Help people get educated on what is happening youtu.be/irmT7ni4WZA?...

SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

In Israel, families get monthly child allowances and a birth grant. Healthcare is universal, and college is subsidized. And yet America is sending Israel $billions to help fund a genocide, while people here go bankrupt over healthcare costs and can’t afford kids or college.

When citizens show up to Fort Worth City Council and tell Council they are taking away our opportunities to raise our voice, it’s happening, year after year. 2021 - 29 chances for Public Comment (Mattie was elected in May 2021) 2022 - 21 2023 - 17 2024 - 16 2025 - 15 2026 - 10 #wakeup #fortworth

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

The obscene face of Christian Nationalism: outlandish untaxed wealth in defiance of Jesus. Oh, and this time, slave laborers, too! Glory! Just remember, for any money you give to Heaven, there is always a 100% handling fee here on Earth.

We had a great time at the first annual Pride Kel-So event! @cjtackett.bsky.social

Don’t forget about the Pride Kel-So (Keller / Southlake) event happening tomorrow (10/04) from 2-6. (223 S Pearson Ln, Keller TX 76248) Tim O’Hare and Matt Krause don’t want you to go. Which means @mentack.bsky.social and I are definitely going. You should too.

Patrice Jones spoke to the Fort Worth City Council and got under Mayor Mattie Parker’s seemingly very thin skin. The ask was simple. Keep public comments. It’s a place any citizen can come and address the full council. We need more of it, not less. #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

There are some on the Fort Worth City Council who value input from the public, and others who are very willing to limit the channels, forcing the public into off the record spaces. At City Council on 9/30, 7 voted to reduce the number of public comment meetings in 2026. #wakeup #fortworth

There are leaders in Fort Worth city government who don’t want to hear from the people they purport to represent. As our voices are rising, they want to shut them down. EJ Carrion called them out on it. 🔥🔥 #wakeup #fortworth #seeitnameitfightit

It’s amazing how quickly this administration has shattered trust in our government institutions and our democratic guardrails, this time around.

Commissioner Alisa Simmons was on the 817 Podcast on 9/22 and exposes what the culture is like in Tarrant County government due to our current County Judge, Tim O’Hare She doesn’t pull punches 👏🔥 You can check out the episode in podcast places or watch it on YouTube. Here is my cut of key moments.

Extremism is being enabled in Fort Worth. Mayor Mattie Parker, with both her silence and those moments she chooses to speak, is allowing it to happen. 📕📕 Alex Montalvo spoke at City Council on 9/23. “We are in one of those moments in the history books right now.” What will you do? 📚📚 #fortworth