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Why is Texas political leadership entirely composed of mouldering corpses??

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Because democratic Texans have been convinced that their vote doesn’t matter. However that couldn’t be further from the truth. Ted Cruz would have lost his last election if something like 6% of registered Dems who did not vote, had voted. Also Greg Abbott would have lost if around a quarter of those registered, non-voting Dems had voted. The propaganda in TX is deeply ingrained in its residents. The state would have voted blue in the last presidential election. Trump won by 8% while over 20 million registered voters did not vote.

IF YOU LIVE IN TEXAS AND YOU ARE READING THIS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS LIVING, VOTE.

here is a link to verify that you are registered (many residents believe they are registered but are in fact not)

https://www.texas.gov/living-in-texas/texas-voter-registration/

If you are not registered, register here:

https://vrapp.sos.state.tx.us/index.asp

Print out your registration and mail that fucker in today so you’ll be ready for early voting in October

YES TEXAS HAS EARLY VOTING AND TIME OFF LAWS. THAT MEANS WORK CANNOT PREVENT YOU FROM TAKING TIME OFF TO GET TO THE VOTING BOOTHS.

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There is also the voter suppression.

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Don’t forget gerrymandering!

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Voter suppression also includes telling people that voting doesn’t matter, and that “both sides are exactly the same”.

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The biggest hurdle for voters is registration in Texas. It is the most effective form of voter suppression followed by the “your vote doesn’t matter” propaganda. You cannot register to vote online. You register to vote through a few obscure avenues. The way I linked above is a mail in form. You mail your registration and they mail you back a confirmation and vote location based on your address. God forbid you move or misspelled something on your registration form or get your registration by snail mail sent out too late. If it’s time to vote and you end up realizing you’re one of the many people not ACTUALLY registered, well now you really do not have enough time to get registered for this voting cycle because the USPS can take 5 business days to deliver, the state of Texas can take 5 business days from receipt to process your registration and then 5 more business days for USPS to deliver your information. 3 weeks… If it’s time to vote and you aren’t registered, you are not voting.

It becomes significantly easier to renew your registration once you are registered but you have to register first.

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And the state party that is utterly incompetent at anything other than shutting out progressives.

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Not enough people show up to vote. Biden got more votes than Greg “Piss Baby” Abbott yet he’s still our governor.

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Is this piece of shit STILL not in jail?

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Good ol boy network in action…

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Republicans in action.

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Felons helping felons.

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I know. That dude needs to go away and not come back.

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Texas: We want more teen births! We want more abortions! Especially unsafe illegal ones! This is the Christian way!

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“We want more low income unwanted children to grind up in the military industrial complex.” Ftfy

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Ft hood ain’t getting recruits otherwise.

Killeen is a fucking rough place.

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Fort Cavazos ain’t getting recruits otherwise.

We struck that traitor’s name off that installation last year. Eighty years later is better than never.

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Biden should prescribe birth control to all female teens in Texans in an official act and tell them to suck it

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If they’re sucking it, they don’t need birth control.

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The stomach is where the baby is, and you want to put it right there. Checkmate, oral sex hating feminists.

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Texas should be put in the naughty corner.

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If pornhub statistics from before they pulled out of Texas (pun intended) are any indication, they’re statistically likely to like the naughty corner.

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PornHub statistics: showing the true people.

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