Can a pastor unseat Texas's coal Senator?

Vote again this week! This is for the primary runoffs. At the top of the ticket is: Lt Governor: Vicki Goodwin and Marcos Velez Attorney General: Joe Jaworski and Nathan Johnson. Vote early this week. Polls open M-F. There is NO weekend voting.

Yay!

Get up off your butt, you have to vote again.

"Plans" for a 17GW data center park using *billions* of gallons of water. Water the region Does. Not. Have. Would be a huge environmental disaster if it happened.

I grew up in Amarillo and still have a lot of family and friends there. And just because the wind is always blowing 700 mph and it smells like cow shit more than half the time doesn't mean I like it when the people who have called it home get shafted by what passes for elites in Texas.

lol, and the Republicans wanted to ban EVs. Fuck them.

Dafuq?

And no one knew about it locally. Why are these projects being kept from local entities that will eventually be harmed by them? This is your corrupt Texas Republican political machine hard at work. #MoneyforThem #ScrewTexans

The largest boondoggle data center in Texas.

Oh hi Chancellor Creighton, funny to see you here

Carson County, TX voted 90% for the Leopards-Will-Eat-Your-Face Party and are now shocked to learn that the leopards are actually eating their faces. Same throughout the Texas Panhandle. And I don't see any sign of that significantly changing in the foreseeable future. Hard to feel sorry for them.

Not sure how broadly this applies, but something I never realized until recently is how much of this problem stems from low voter turnout during primaries (e.g. in TX): bsky.app/profile/lone...

And the people of the Panhandle are going to pay for it.

Because fascists don't wait for us to get our act together.

Take a listen to everything Kendall Scudder has done in less than one year for Texas Democrats! @kendallscudder.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com @ginnylaugh.bsky.social substack.com/@lonestarlef...

@kendallscudder.bsky.social with the @texasdemocrats.bsky.social talks about unity among the party. #letsbefriends

She checked her box. He's trying to do the work.

Once again @lonestarleft.com gives a great analysis. This time it’s the dark line from post-Civil War TX to the present day GOP, in which the fight has never ended to take away rights from all non-White people’s, and all women. Where we are today is not an aberration, but instead a power leverage.

This guy wants to be my State Senator (the one in the middle), but something about this photo makes me uneasy. #txlege

I’m beating Laura Loomer in the top political Substack in America today. Honestly, I’m not sure if this is good or bad. 🤷🏻‍♀️

FFS

Want a quick history lesson of what the far-right has been planning here in #texas since the Civil War? Check out @lonestarleft.com's new post open.substack.com/pub/lonestar...

well this seems bad

A nuclear reactor is coming to Caldwell County. Nobody told the neighbors.

Repurposing Faulkner, we have been reminded by current events: The Confederacy is never dead. The Confederacy is not even past.

The wedge issues, such as abortion, busing, school prayer, and gay rights, were never the point in themselves. They were the mechanism for mobilizing a white Christian voting bloc large and reliable enough to deliver the presidency. And delivering the presidency meant delivering Supreme Court seats.

Hole Lee Sheet. I used to attend this church. My aunt and uncle attended Moral Majority gatherings. My uncle's well-connected SBC Republican family disowned him for marrying a Mexican (sister of 2 SBC pastors). It makes too much sense.

Here it is @ominousrabbit.com What we were discussing. The problem is, the Civil War never ended.

The blueprint ran through Dallas.

Another banger from Lone Star Left: Republicans have let energy companies pass any infrastructure improvement costs onto the Texan consumer, and now, the electricity infrastructure required for all these data centers getting tax exemptions will be funded, once again, by the Texan consumer.

How Republican governance turned your electric bill into a corporate subsidy.

Excellent article on what Texas Democrats need to do when we win. Think about this as you are voting in the primary runoff, because not every Democrat has what it takes.

Excellent game plan! We shouldn't have to fight to vote! “Government of the people, by the people, for the people" - Lincoln

Republicans spent 20 years breaking it. Here is how we fix it.

Anyone, remember when Greg Abbott was whining because gas (under Biden) was above 3USD? This a pic I took this AM in Georgetown, Texas. Regular unleaded (cash not credit) is $4.29 in the "low cost of living state of Texas".

Jesus Funko Christ

$4.29 in Texas. I’ve never seen anything like it in my life.

www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak... Sources: @drrobertbullard.bsky.social @latimes.com @time.com @clairehao.bsky.social @houstonchronicle.com @dallasobserver.com @tbtoro.bsky.social @gollnerfire.bsky.social @megankimble.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com @psskow.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org.

@lonestar is writes about #Texas but her take is true for every state. “when Democrats take control of the Legislature ..We build a system that works for voters, not just insiders. That’s the work. Not despair. Action.

A generational choice in Texas’s 18th Congressional District.

Mitch Little aka “because we can” recently endorsed a candidate for city council in Flower Mound, Susan Cox who was also endorsed by Brandon Gill and Ben Bumgarner. Well, she lost! Thanks to the hard work of @flowermoundareademocrats.org we also had a win on school board!

A community candidate versus a Washington ideologue.

Well, this is embarrassing 🤣

Lots going on in the farm bill and TX Dems have their predictable turncoats. But overall the bill is a mess @texasdemocrats.bsky.social @lonestarleft.com

We’re not powerless. We’re just not showing up where it matters most.

Texas Republicans expect to redraw all of the maps in the next Legislative session. Below, you will find a great article, a link to a Texas Together volunteer form, and some helpful voting dates.

Fuck you, Pete Hegseth!

"We are going to be okay! But only if we act as if it matters. Because it does. Every vote. Every race. Every district. They told you exactly what they plan to do. 'Because we can.' So now it’s our turn. Let’s show them we can too."

You’ve seen what happens when no one stops them.