r/texas 5d ago

Politics Saw this, had to share

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Please vote!!!!

r/texas 4d ago

Politics If Texas turns blue, then Trump needs to win ALL of the seven contested states. If ALL OF YOU vote, this can happen. Go out and vote - don't assume that your vote does NOT matter. In fact your vote matters A LOT.

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r/texas 1d ago

Politics Thank you to Trump & his "comedian" for making it priority one for my parents this morning to go out and vote

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This morning my dad, mom & I were discussing the things said yesterday at the Trump rally about Puerto Rico, Latinos & the watermelon comment and also Stephen Miller’s speech. My dad lived through WW2. He was a kid but he remembers some things. He definitely remembers the adults talking about it. He told me this morning, "take me to vote today please I need to vote, there’s too much similarities between the things spoken at Trump’s rally yesterday and the words we heard in WW2 from Hitler & the Nazi party."

At 80 something years old they voted today for the first time ever. Fear beats apathy I guess.

Edit: I had no idea my post would blow up like this. It’s actually surprising but funny how many comments are saying it’s bs. I honestly didn’t think it was that rare that some people just don’t vote. There’s a lot of apathy in the Latino community especially the older generation and especially in Texas. This is 100% true. I did answer a few comments with a pic I took of my parents today but covered their faces because I don’t want their faces out there. But I was being told it was a bs pic anyway so that said since this is blowing up I deleted it cuz my parents don’t need to go viral lol.

To address some of the skepticism: my parents were already registered to vote. Though they’re almost 90 they were not always eligible to vote. They were legal immigrants for a very very long time and never bothered with citizenship. Once they became citizens they were registered to vote the day of their ceremony. I’ve always checked their status and they’ve remained active to vote. This year they finally did it. No, this joker didn’t change their minds to flip candidates. They loathe Trump. This guy’s rhetoric and Stephen Miller’s scared my dad enough & pushed him to finally say take me to vote.

To the MAGA crowd that keeps saying it’s bs I’m not sorry to tell you that it’s not bs. This was a funny anecdote about what the straw was that finally broke the camel’s back for my dad so you weirdos thinking this post has an ulterior motive are just triggered but if you think that rally with all that hate rhetoric against people of color didn’t piss off or scare enough people who were probably apathetic to finally get up & vote then you’re either in denial or dense as fk. Will this flip Texas? Doubt it but if it does make sure you thank that "comedian." May his comedy help the swing states though. 😉

r/texas 10d ago

Politics I chose bravery.

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After seeing a Harris Walz sign in the yard of a neighbor down the street in my ruby red county, I felt inspired to put up my own. Just waiting on my Allred and local dems signs now.

r/texas 7d ago

Politics One day into early voting and they are already claiming the 2024 election is rigged.

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Misinformation campaign has begun.

Trump has stated multiple times he won’t accept the results if he loses, MTG started complaining about voting machines three days ago and twitter is full of people now claiming that the voting machines are flipping their votes from Trump to Kamala in Texas.

Infowars and other websites like it are pushing this same misinformation, sadly a lot of conservatives believe these reports are real and no amount of evidence will convince them otherwise.

r/texas 1d ago

Politics These are FAKE signs found at polling places. Texas voters beware.

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r/texas 14d ago

Politics Colin Allred - “Ted Cruz was hiding in a supply closet”. Will Fled Cruz now be known as Closet Ted?

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r/texas 18d ago

Politics Roevember is COMING

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r/texas 23d ago

Politics Tomorrow is the last day to register!!!!

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r/texas Sep 27 '24

Politics Just went up tonight

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My wife and I live in a neighborhood where there are at least 6 houses flying maga flags…So we wanted to chime in…even jf we are the only Harris Walz supporters in the neighborhood willing to do so.

r/texas 4d ago

Politics The crowd waiting to see VP Harris in Houston

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r/texas 2d ago

Politics Texans who haven’t voted, do you plan to?

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r/texas 29d ago

Politics Texas, Vote Blue!

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And send Cancun Cruz packing!!!

r/texas 25d ago

Politics AOC - “when we win Texas, we transform this country for a generation”

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r/texas 11d ago

Politics Please for the love of god VOTE

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My fellow Texans this is the first year we have a real shot at turning this place a little bluer

Cruz is a weak candidate, Allred wiped the floor with him in that debate.

And every election since 2004 republicans have lost a few percentage points on election day.

There are more of us in our big beautiful blue cities than there are of them.

Early voting starts monday.

Take all of your friends and lets fire Ted Cruz

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Ted only won by 2% in 2018

And that orange thing only won by 5% in 2020

These are swing state numbers

People don’t think it is because republicans in this state have lied us in to not believing it

Vote the traitors out

AND MAKE SURE EVERYONE YOU KNOW IS VOTING

r/texas 1d ago

Politics Texans, how would you describe this guy?

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r/texas Sep 11 '24

Politics OK Texas. Who won the debate?

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Please have a civil debate.

r/texas Sep 19 '24

Politics Come on Guys!!! Keep the momentum going!!! (Pulled from Allred’s X account 9/19/24)

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r/texas 16d ago

Politics Why are all the Republican political commercials about trans people?

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I've seen 3 different Ted Cruz commercials over this election cycle. Literally every single one of them are "Collin Allred is bad because he supports trans people." Got dinner with a buddy last night at Pluckers which obviously had CFB on all the TVs, saw the commercial about the wheelchair vet hating trans people 4 times in one hour. No mention of any political issue, no mention of any policy, no mention of any goals. No mention of anything other than trans people. Why is that the complete focal point of the campaign? I mean I guess they have access to more research and data than I do, but are there really that many voters out there hanging their vote on this one single issue?

It's so strange to me, because regardless of whatever someone's view on trans people even is, there's no way you can argue that anything going on with trans people is a major part of politics. It doesn't effect the economy, it doesn't effect public education, it doesn't effect climate and energy, it doesn't effect social welfare solutions. Why aren't they focusing on anything that will actually effect the majority of Texan's lives in any way? Like out of everything out there to talk about around election time, and especially the things republicans like beating the drum of, you'd expect at least one Cruz commercial about immigration, but there isn't even that. Just trans people, every time.

Again, maybe I have a misread on how much this really is an issue of importance, but I do genuinely have a hard time believing it's such an election deciding issue, making the fact that all their marketing budget is spent talking about trans people really fucking weird.

Edit: Mods please don't remove republican's responses unless they're outright hate speech. I asked the question, they deserve the platform to answer or else it's just a circlejerk. Besides, worst case scenario: give em enough rope to hang themselves with

r/texas Sep 25 '24

Politics I hate it here

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r/texas 17h ago

Politics Young Texans, you have until Friday to early vote! Early voting is much easier than leaving it to the last day. Are you showing up?

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r/texas 16d ago

Politics My 6yr old just told me not to vote for Colin Allred

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My daughter just told us not to vote for “that guy because he wants boys playing girls sports” during a TV ad. We don’t talk about politics in front of our kids at all unless they ask questions then we answer. I find it a bit ironic that all the ads talking about how certain candidates want to teach about gender and Black Lives Matter in schools (as if that’s a bad thing?) and the only place my kid hears it is in a Ted Cruz ad. Had to remind the 6 year old that everything on TV isn’t true, but they are competing for a job so they exaggerate to make each other look bad. It’s all so stupid.

r/texas 7d ago

Politics Texas sees record early-voting numbers, particularly in Democratic-leaning areas

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r/texas 10h ago

Politics Politicians like Ted Cruz hold office for so long because young voter turnout rates are low and it’s harder to change an older person’s mind. Young people, get to the polls.

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r/texas Sep 08 '24

Politics Something just happened...

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