Excellent reporting........i would add a coupe of comments
in my own state house and senate races we simply have no candidates who campaign.
That is not my fault.
one reason for the cohesiveness of R's is that they hang in gangs, church in paticular, but there are few civic orgs that aren't MAGAtized...dissent and they kick u out....
i once belongeed to Fort Worth Fly Fishers*.....ur thinking fly fisherman,,,got a be a bunch of pinko enviros...nope the potentates were Tea Party..i was quickly shown the door..so i assume bowling teams.
sofball teams,etc are similarly dominated by MAGAites.........even in the n'hood Dems are afraid to put up signs cause their neigbors will ostracize them.
this is not a concession on my part........hit back.............so what if ur neighbors shun u.......did u really want to be their pals?
*kinda of a funny story.....FWFF organized an event on the Llano River.....a waterway owned and managed by the LCRA....and camped in Mason City Park.....another socialist org...........that night around the campfire they were all winging about governtment and Obama...the usual Tea Party claptrap....i chimed in: "I vote for Barach.....I was toast......the president went so far a to call me a communist.......i explained I actually owned one of Texas oldest business........mattered not...............do u think any who weren't Tea Party, and there were a few, came to my defense. Hell no! Lots of D's and I's are simply limp noodles.
At the begining of Trump's regime i sent a letter to my nearest neighbors.....'if u are a Trump supporter, we need never talk'...Cut in half the people i had to wave at doing yard work.
thing is ,everyone knew were i stood.....some surprising people thanked me, but because of their work they couldn't cop to being Dems.
That's how we have let MAGAites run over us....shear capitulation
We have alot of unions in FTW..Biden has energized Unions...I don't think TCDP has one Union Hall in its Roladex. Unions didn't vote MAGA cause they are racist wife beaters...au contraire.........Unions are quite demograhically diverse....They went MAGA cause R's sought out their support....
Hood County Dems: they know how to express themselves, thus engaging voters. Supreme Kudos folks.
i recieved this as email and don't know how to link to so will cut and paste the email.
"Hi tim, I’m Adrienne Quinn Martin, the Chair of the Democratic Party of Hood County.
Last week, I shared a truly chilling video of a meeting in Granbury -- attended by several Republican elected officials -- in which a spokesman from Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) called for the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. Many extremist Republican elected officials and candidates have already pledged to make this dark vision of the future for Texas women a reality. Rural Texas areas like Hood County are the frontlines in the fight against fundamentalist MAGA extremists like this, tim -- where they feel free and emboldened to share their dangerous views publicly:
Paul Brown (AATX Director of Policy) said that IVF is a form of abortion and that when a fertilized egg is destroyed it should be considered murder, saying “Their lives [women] don’t matter any more than the babies’ they are killing.”
Brown also said how the group is against basic contraception pointing to the emergency contraception pill Plan B, saying that it “terminates or kills a baby prior to implantation -- which is an abortion”
Brown went on to say that they will “never be okay with abortions in the instance of incest or rape” with several audience members suggesting that pregnant women and doctors who perform abortions should be “held accountable” to the highest extent of the law.
this may not be news to most but it is news is that a County Party in a very red county is engaged in the fight....................
In the biggest county in Texas that matters electorally, Tarrant, its crickets all the time.
This doesn't have to be how it is TCDP......fire ur Chair and all her enablers and engage Tarrant County voters.....we want you to engage and inspire us.
I'm no expert, but my research shows that Tarrant county is very diverse. How did the Rs seek out the unions and gain their support? I don't think Republicans when I think of union support.
its a long story but in the 80's Texas became a right to work state......Dems didn't stand up to the biz lobby and that turned every Journeyman carpenter into a 'contractor' and some began to identified as self made businessmen. If u didn't it didn't matter. Biz got rid o their Unions as quick as they could. Rank and file members felt D's didn't stick up for them becasue we didn't.......Texas D's in 70's, 80s and 90's were the Party of Trial Lawyers..Screw labor..who needs em!....Then comes Reagan, part racism, part old America, selling the faded dream , but again taking on labor and Dems didn't fight back....in fact Dems in Texas bought into the Reagan myth and went wholesale R..including rank and flie.
Excellent comments, Tim. All true 100%. Rs know intimidation works, like middle school bullies. Rs have spent God knows how much defaming, slandering, and demeaning Democrats and the values we hold dear. Like there's something wrong with us for caring about our neighbor, the poor, migrants. I do blame the Texas democratic party for not hitting back, for not overwhelming Rs with the messages of our values and what those value have done for their lives and their kid's lives.
Excellent reporting........i would add a coupe of comments
in my own state house and senate races we simply have no candidates who campaign.
That is not my fault.
one reason for the cohesiveness of R's is that they hang in gangs, church in paticular, but there are few civic orgs that aren't MAGAtized...dissent and they kick u out....
i once belongeed to Fort Worth Fly Fishers*.....ur thinking fly fisherman,,,got a be a bunch of pinko enviros...nope the potentates were Tea Party..i was quickly shown the door..so i assume bowling teams.
sofball teams,etc are similarly dominated by MAGAites.........even in the n'hood Dems are afraid to put up signs cause their neigbors will ostracize them.
this is not a concession on my part........hit back.............so what if ur neighbors shun u.......did u really want to be their pals?
*kinda of a funny story.....FWFF organized an event on the Llano River.....a waterway owned and managed by the LCRA....and camped in Mason City Park.....another socialist org...........that night around the campfire they were all winging about governtment and Obama...the usual Tea Party claptrap....i chimed in: "I vote for Barach.....I was toast......the president went so far a to call me a communist.......i explained I actually owned one of Texas oldest business........mattered not...............do u think any who weren't Tea Party, and there were a few, came to my defense. Hell no! Lots of D's and I's are simply limp noodles.
At the begining of Trump's regime i sent a letter to my nearest neighbors.....'if u are a Trump supporter, we need never talk'...Cut in half the people i had to wave at doing yard work.
thing is ,everyone knew were i stood.....some surprising people thanked me, but because of their work they couldn't cop to being Dems.
That's how we have let MAGAites run over us....shear capitulation
We have alot of unions in FTW..Biden has energized Unions...I don't think TCDP has one Union Hall in its Roladex. Unions didn't vote MAGA cause they are racist wife beaters...au contraire.........Unions are quite demograhically diverse....They went MAGA cause R's sought out their support....
Hood County Dems: they know how to express themselves, thus engaging voters. Supreme Kudos folks.
i recieved this as email and don't know how to link to so will cut and paste the email.
"Hi tim, I’m Adrienne Quinn Martin, the Chair of the Democratic Party of Hood County.
Last week, I shared a truly chilling video of a meeting in Granbury -- attended by several Republican elected officials -- in which a spokesman from Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) called for the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. Many extremist Republican elected officials and candidates have already pledged to make this dark vision of the future for Texas women a reality. Rural Texas areas like Hood County are the frontlines in the fight against fundamentalist MAGA extremists like this, tim -- where they feel free and emboldened to share their dangerous views publicly:
Paul Brown (AATX Director of Policy) said that IVF is a form of abortion and that when a fertilized egg is destroyed it should be considered murder, saying “Their lives [women] don’t matter any more than the babies’ they are killing.”
Brown also said how the group is against basic contraception pointing to the emergency contraception pill Plan B, saying that it “terminates or kills a baby prior to implantation -- which is an abortion”
Brown went on to say that they will “never be okay with abortions in the instance of incest or rape” with several audience members suggesting that pregnant women and doctors who perform abortions should be “held accountable” to the highest extent of the law.
this may not be news to most but it is news is that a County Party in a very red county is engaged in the fight....................
In the biggest county in Texas that matters electorally, Tarrant, its crickets all the time.
This doesn't have to be how it is TCDP......fire ur Chair and all her enablers and engage Tarrant County voters.....we want you to engage and inspire us.
That email came directly from the State Party, although Adrienne authorized it. I made sure to text her and ask as soon as I saw it.
Twice Texans have run the big show: heres a little ditty about one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55z2_y2lUYM
very instructive from Fla Dem kids
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/3/30/2232515/-The-Gen-Z-Dems-Renaissance-is-changing-the-game-in-Florida-It-s-been-a-long-time-coming?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web
I'm no expert, but my research shows that Tarrant county is very diverse. How did the Rs seek out the unions and gain their support? I don't think Republicans when I think of union support.
its a long story but in the 80's Texas became a right to work state......Dems didn't stand up to the biz lobby and that turned every Journeyman carpenter into a 'contractor' and some began to identified as self made businessmen. If u didn't it didn't matter. Biz got rid o their Unions as quick as they could. Rank and file members felt D's didn't stick up for them becasue we didn't.......Texas D's in 70's, 80s and 90's were the Party of Trial Lawyers..Screw labor..who needs em!....Then comes Reagan, part racism, part old America, selling the faded dream , but again taking on labor and Dems didn't fight back....in fact Dems in Texas bought into the Reagan myth and went wholesale R..including rank and flie.
Excellent comments, Tim. All true 100%. Rs know intimidation works, like middle school bullies. Rs have spent God knows how much defaming, slandering, and demeaning Democrats and the values we hold dear. Like there's something wrong with us for caring about our neighbor, the poor, migrants. I do blame the Texas democratic party for not hitting back, for not overwhelming Rs with the messages of our values and what those value have done for their lives and their kid's lives.
I just posted about it.