As a Texan I feel like the Republican Party deserves to lose this election with these same old tired arguments and policies. The Republicans need to put down the Bible and evolve into the party that brings in LGBTQ+, Minorities, and immigrants. There’s not 1 bill that Republicans have authored/created to specifically help the LGBTQ+, Poor, Minorities, or immigrants.
It’s crazy they have been in power in Texas for something like 30 years to the point they’ve Gerrymandered Texas so they don’t lose for that many years.
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I cannot wait to see the mental gymnastics employed to justify ignoring Bernie and his call to vote strategically for progress.
_mort1_ on
Sanders is right, Texas senate race is crucial, it will likely be the decider between dems controlling the senate or not, Ohio needs to hold too though.
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/01/bernie-sanders-texas-colin-allred-kamala-harris/) reduced by 85%. (I’m a bot)
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> Sanders, asked why he did not team up with Allred and other candidates on his trip, said he did not want to "Get involved in internal Texas politics." He added that the main goal of his visit was to turn out young voters, especially those who have never voted before, and encourage his supporters to set aside whatever objections they might have to Harris' support for Israel's war in Gaza.
> In his Senate bid, Allred has courted moderate and independent voters, adopting a platform that includes protecting oil and gas jobs and taking a more incremental approach to expanding health care access than Sanders advocates through his push for a single-payer system.
> What can I do if I have questions about voting? You can contact your county elections official or call the Texas Secretary of State's helpline at 1-800-252-VOTE. A coalition of voting rights groups is also helping voters navigate election concerns through the 866-OUR-VOTE voter-protection helpline.
> Joining Sanders as he campaigns up and down the I-35 corridor…
The I-35 corridor that connects San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas has become known as the *Texas Blue Spine*. This is a great place for Bernie to be getting out the vote. It will be interesting to see how much bluer these counties have become since the last election.
“And as the I-35 corridor grows in political influence, the Chronicle notes, voter registration numbers in East Texas and the Panhandle have dropped.”
“Texas Democrats are excited about the political balance of power shifting to the I-35 corridor. They envision a ‘blue spine’ that would help them, eventually, carry statewide races.”
“Over the last four years, Texas has added more voters in the 22 counties along Interstate 35 than in the state’s 232 other counties combined.
Since 2016, Texas voter rolls have grown by almost 2 million voters. More than 1 million of those voters live in communities along the I-35 corridor, sometimes likened to a ‘blue spine.’”
“Population growth in Spine counties was robust between 2010 and 2020. According to the Census, those 21 counties added 2.18 million people, nearly half the total population growth of the entire state.”
“In 2014, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn won these counties by almost 350,000 total votes. But in 2018, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz lost the same counties by 440,000 votes.
Then in 2020, it got even worse for Republicans when President Trump lost those counties by 493,000 votes. That’s about an 800,000-vote swing in the electorate in just six years. If that margin continues to grow, Republicans have a real problem on their hands.”
“’This is a major structural problem for the GOP going forward,’ said Jay Aiyer, a political science professor at Texas Southern University in Houston. “
“Texas’s population growth has been dramatic in the urban and suburban communities along I-35, while areas that the GOP has long relied on in West Texas and East Texas are losing both population and voters. In other words, the Democratic base is expanding significantly, while the GOP’s base is growing less or even shrinking, Aiyer said.”
“What’s changing I-35 is what’s changing the state, said Aiyer. The state is growing more diverse and more urban. As major cities become more crowded and more expensive, people are moving to surrounding counties for cheaper housing and taking their political views with them, he said.”
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Texas republicans have been raving about immigrants for decades but the situation has only gotten worse under their watch. They don’t want to solve any problems, they just want problems to complain about and people to point fingers at. Please vote Ted Cruz out of office, for the love of God, Texas, America, and all humanity, get that pubic hair looking beard in the shape of a man out of Congress
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It would be nice for Democrats to stop treating Texas as a lost cause.
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It means we can kill the filibuster and start enacting some real change that Manchin and Sinema + 50 republicans were blocking
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As a Texan I feel like the Republican Party deserves to lose this election with these same old tired arguments and policies. The Republicans need to put down the Bible and evolve into the party that brings in LGBTQ+, Minorities, and immigrants. There’s not 1 bill that Republicans have authored/created to specifically help the LGBTQ+, Poor, Minorities, or immigrants.
It’s crazy they have been in power in Texas for something like 30 years to the point they’ve Gerrymandered Texas so they don’t lose for that many years.
I cannot wait to see the mental gymnastics employed to justify ignoring Bernie and his call to vote strategically for progress.
Sanders is right, Texas senate race is crucial, it will likely be the decider between dems controlling the senate or not, Ohio needs to hold too though.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/01/bernie-sanders-texas-colin-allred-kamala-harris/) reduced by 85%. (I’m a bot)
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> Sanders, asked why he did not team up with Allred and other candidates on his trip, said he did not want to "Get involved in internal Texas politics." He added that the main goal of his visit was to turn out young voters, especially those who have never voted before, and encourage his supporters to set aside whatever objections they might have to Harris' support for Israel's war in Gaza.
> In his Senate bid, Allred has courted moderate and independent voters, adopting a platform that includes protecting oil and gas jobs and taking a more incremental approach to expanding health care access than Sanders advocates through his push for a single-payer system.
> What can I do if I have questions about voting? You can contact your county elections official or call the Texas Secretary of State's helpline at 1-800-252-VOTE. A coalition of voting rights groups is also helping voters navigate election concerns through the 866-OUR-VOTE voter-protection helpline.
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> Joining Sanders as he campaigns up and down the I-35 corridor…
The I-35 corridor that connects San Antonio, Austin, and Dallas has become known as the *Texas Blue Spine*. This is a great place for Bernie to be getting out the vote. It will be interesting to see how much bluer these counties have become since the last election.
Texas Monthly – [The Balance of Power in Texas Politics Runs Along I-35 (2020)](https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/balance-power-texas-politics-interstate-35/)
“And as the I-35 corridor grows in political influence, the Chronicle notes, voter registration numbers in East Texas and the Panhandle have dropped.”
“Texas Democrats are excited about the political balance of power shifting to the I-35 corridor. They envision a ‘blue spine’ that would help them, eventually, carry statewide races.”
Houston Chronicle- [Voter registrations growing at faster rate along I-35 than rest of the state combined](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Voter-registrations-growing-at-faster-rate-along-15029581.php) (2020)
“Over the last four years, Texas has added more voters in the 22 counties along Interstate 35 than in the state’s 232 other counties combined.
Since 2016, Texas voter rolls have grown by almost 2 million voters. More than 1 million of those voters live in communities along the I-35 corridor, sometimes likened to a ‘blue spine.’”
Houston Chronicle – [What is the Texas blue spine, and why is it so important this election?](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/election/2022/article/What-is-the-Texas-blue-spine-and-why-is-it-so-17566289.php) (2022)
“Population growth in Spine counties was robust between 2010 and 2020. According to the Census, those 21 counties added 2.18 million people, nearly half the total population growth of the entire state.”
“In 2014, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn won these counties by almost 350,000 total votes. But in 2018, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz lost the same counties by 440,000 votes.
Then in 2020, it got even worse for Republicans when President Trump lost those counties by 493,000 votes. That’s about an 800,000-vote swing in the electorate in just six years. If that margin continues to grow, Republicans have a real problem on their hands.”
Houston Chronicle – [Democrat Beto O’Rourke exposed a blue spine across the middle of red Texas](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Beto-O-Rourke-exposed-a-blue-spine-across-the-13399110.php) (2018)
“’This is a major structural problem for the GOP going forward,’ said Jay Aiyer, a political science professor at Texas Southern University in Houston. “
“Texas’s population growth has been dramatic in the urban and suburban communities along I-35, while areas that the GOP has long relied on in West Texas and East Texas are losing both population and voters. In other words, the Democratic base is expanding significantly, while the GOP’s base is growing less or even shrinking, Aiyer said.”
“What’s changing I-35 is what’s changing the state, said Aiyer. The state is growing more diverse and more urban. As major cities become more crowded and more expensive, people are moving to surrounding counties for cheaper housing and taking their political views with them, he said.”
Texas republicans have been raving about immigrants for decades but the situation has only gotten worse under their watch. They don’t want to solve any problems, they just want problems to complain about and people to point fingers at. Please vote Ted Cruz out of office, for the love of God, Texas, America, and all humanity, get that pubic hair looking beard in the shape of a man out of Congress
It would be nice for Democrats to stop treating Texas as a lost cause.
It means we can kill the filibuster and start enacting some real change that Manchin and Sinema + 50 republicans were blocking
Is he pure enough, though? 🙄