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I have long agrued that Tarrant County was a fulcrum on this teetter tooter to the right.....left as the populous is, money and power and voters who vote are to the right......

unfortunately there is no organized Dems or libs to mount an opposition....not a peep out of any office holder or candidate or org about our MAGA veer. Did anyone notice that Beto gave us a miss in 2022......R's are bringing in MTG this month....she will get national airplay.

I had an actual candidate say , we will get em after 2024. Some say Texas willl definately vote Hispanic by 2040 .....okay and those H's are starting to lean right ......cause,...dare i say it...we hold no appeal to them because they have no idea what we do for them....we don't tell them....not a peep out of any Dem about Med Exp in half a decade even as OK passed it 2 years ago.....WTF.......show me somewhere in any D's primary literature where they talk about insuring 600k Texans. Not word on DACA. Not a word abou R wingers gunning for Hispanics.....Texas SB4 allows your local school safety officers to arrest any brown skinned person dropping off their kids if they don't have docs.... so Doctors with out Docs , literally any brown skinned physican who doesn't carry anything other than a DL can be detained by a MAGA inspired security guard .....not a single white or african american could be so targeted....and yet not a word from any Tarrant D .................so why the hell would any Hispanic vote D?

the stupid dumbed down simple plain messaging of the GOOPers is "Border bad!!!!" I have yet to hear one Dem office holder explain our border policy....even MSNBC can't spin a message...R's can.....all day long , upside down , inside out.

we should run to the right on immigration.....heh kids ...grow up...these are not families fleeing castro's firing squadas. Thery 6 are broke human beings that KNOW if they get to USA they can stay. We cannot hold ever one who wants to escape uncontrolled birth control and climate change and failed poor govt. That's 6 billion people , people . Hell i don;'t even think shipping em to east coast cities is wrong...why exactly do Texas border towns have to house all the world's immigrants...Dems are stupid on the issue and extremely stupid on the messaging

Our only hope is abortion......we need alot more horror stories. Here's hoping!

as for organizing ourselves to success.......don't count on TCDP or TDP. As tempted as you are to believe in the white night, Beto, Wendy, even at their best they didn't get er done. Michelle is A -#1 el correcto here.....we are going to have to organize ourselves.

On of my candidates to replace Kay Granger has not uttered a peep* about R's plan to turn Ukraine over to Putin, even when his constiuency is Lockeed and Bell and JNAS/Carswell. The other is retired AF and has commented but so far he has not shown he has a campaign team...

Tarrant is inextricably drifting towards the New Jim Crow with a mean twist to absolutely control women and their bodies with punishing cruelty.

I did get an email from TCDP today wherein Crystal Gayden patted herself on the back for some successful handling of some arcane campaign stuff....oh and don't forget the Madi Gras fundraiser...Not a peep on issues that matter to anybody. That ship has left the dock.....

If we are to gain any ground in 2024 it is because of the self inflicted gunshots wounds the MAGA nitwits inflict on themselves.....Its no way to run a party!

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i posted this at https://www.facebook.com/gehrigforcongress/ to see if i could prod Gehrig campaign to well, campaign. So far all he has done is let the world know his deep thougths on FB with 68 followers. I invited him to or Xmas block party ....he could have met 50 affluent constituents . He couldn't even bother to reply. Trey on the Hunt looks slightly less amateurish at this point.

Meanwhile Goldman and other signs are up at Hulen and Bellaire.....

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your week in white nationalism from Texas Observer

'the Texas Observer and Bellingcat have identified the leader of a white nationalist group that distributed antisemitic and racist flyers in Weatherford, Mineral Wells, and Eagle Pass over the last year. In an online conversation with the Observer, Rhett Murry Loftis, a 23-year-old resident of Weatherford, admits he leads the Parker County Active Club. "

“I’m a fascist, there’s no denying that,” Loftis said in a series of direct messages. "

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heh u got posted at SWDems........i went to a meeting , signed up, and even got a call from the chair thanking me for attending... I posted a few times.....I was a critic of Alison and so, i guess , my posts never got ....well .....posted.....no one to complain to . The Chair professed no interest in SW Dems FB.....kinda like Paul Fryer saying he didn't know anything about TCDP social media.....even I am not as big a luddite as these guys

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So, not exactly inviting SWDems! ....if your purpose was to NOT expand your membership , you succeeded . I think at 68 i might have been one of the younger attendees

1/2 the guys were TCU profs or emeritus.......quite a few said they didn't bother with Tarrant Dems

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