Despite mounting public protest, Texas lawmakers are fast-tracking two anti-trans and anti-abortion bills. Both measures are being advanced during a special legislative session convened by Governor Greg Abbott ®, who has made restricting transgender rights and reproductive freedom central to his agenda.
Fun fact about Texas special sessions.
The governor exclusively gets to determine the agenda, so they can only do shit he wants them to do.
And since the legislature only meets every 2 years for a regular session, he has sole.power over what can be legislated more than 3/4 of the time.
What in the fuck?
Finely somedat freeeedum* fer Texas!
*Your experience may differ.
Whomst the fuck thought that was a good idea?! Wait the Texas revolutionaries were all fucking stupid.
That would probably change if Texas elected a democrat as governor.
That rule existed through many, many Democratic governors. Texas’s famous redness is a recent phenomenon.
2003 was the first time that the GOP EVER had control of the Texas legislature. And in 2003, they changed voting requirements and gerrymandered the shit out of the state mid-cycle, leading the Democrats to flee the state (sound familiar).
Texas had never had a majority Republican delegation to the US House before the 2003 redistricting. In the 2004 mid-terms, the GOP won over 2/3rds of the seats.
Texas isn’t very red. It’s just that the GOP legitimately won a single election in 2002 and rigged the game ever since. That’s why you must ALWAYS vote against the GOP in the general election, no matter how mediocre the Democratic candidate is.
But what if the democratic nominee is progressive like Mamdani? Should we still vote blue no matter who? And could you tell the DNC that.
Yes and yes.
Also, you tell the Dems how to act by changing out its leadership through more and more primaries.
Real question:
If the goal is to change out the Dem leadership through more and more primaries -
Then why not do the same with the GOP?
If that is the work that needs to be done, why should it be aimed at the Democrats instead of the GOP who are the real problem?
Why should we spend so much effort slowly reforming the good guys to do better instead of the same effort to just reform the bad guys?
The GOP is such a mess of Swiss Cheese that the second Trump isn’t holding it together, anyone progressive could likely succeed there by just giving them what Trump lied about: better wages, inflation control, rent control, universal Healthcare. You know, actual progressive policies.
The entire conservative media system would eat itself without a political party to support, and it would be far better to split the GOP than the DNC with these candidates. (As the DNC already know how to do that themselves, clearly)
Honestly, if Dems are only effective once their leadership is changed, then maybe that effort would be better spent on changing it for the GOP as they are the real problem. Better Democrats means the same problems with the GOP. Better GOP means no more problems.
It really depends on where you live. Your primary vote is meaningless if that party can’t win in the general election.
I’m in Texas where they do everything they can, legally and otherwise, to supress the Democratic vote. So I do vote in Republican primaries against MAGA Republicans.
If you live somewhere the Democrats win elections, then you need to vote in Democratic primaries.