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Texas Democrat James Talarico May Be on Track to Turn the Lone Star State Blue
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this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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Doubt it, I'm not convinced Texas has three brain cells to share amongst themselves. They've had stronger candidates than Talarico in the past and still re-elected Cancun Cruz.
He's getting a lot of support, though. Bro was on the legendary late show.
The. Late. Show.
It was canceled by Trump, that's how fuckin dangerous it was.
...Working as intended.
As a Californian who's only ever used paper ballots this confuses and disgusts me. I wish to do a march to the sea.
I first started complaining about this back in 2000, when it was said that all you needed to shift an election was 5 minutes alone with one of these machines and a USB drive. Of course everybody was calling me paranoid. You don't even need a USB drive now.
Like even that aside technology is inherently malfunction prone, even if they were unhackable there's always the chance something goes wrong. With a piece of paper the worst that can happen is that it gets destroyed and reduced to null.
Straight party voting was eliminated in Texas in 2020, at least
The point was 99% the vote counting fraud though.
Yes, though I'd really like to see some evidence besides this single image
That's very fair
Yes, that's right! I'd actually forgotten about that. I was never in the habit of voting straight party anyway, because once upon a time I would actually vote for Republicans if they were the only ones in their respective races. I figured the guy earned my vote for at least be the only person willing to do the job.
Not anymore. They can burn in hell.
Beto had a decent chance until he said he was coming for the AR-15s. I mean at least let your opponents say that, don't feed them the sound byte.
"I'd rather vote for a guy who skips a tenth of his votes, hikes the electric bill, and tried to overthrow a presidential election before I'd give up weapons used (repeatedly) to slaughter school children"
Mhmm yep. Very normal society.
The gun comment was during the 2020 presidential primaries, didn't affect his 2018 Senate run. Definitely affected the 2022 Governor race, but I honestly don't think he actually wanted to run and just did so for the state party to save face when there were literally zero serious candidates announced for the primaries before he announced (like seriously nobody with any political experience, and one candidate without even a web site).
That loss was mostly due to bad turnout. If the Democrats had their usual Presidential turnout he would've won.
The exit polls showed that Beto won the vote for the Senate race among native born Texans. So despite all the bad stuff people say about Texas, it's really all of those immigrants from other states that are ruining Texas.
And Ken Paxton is one of the most corrupt politicians in Texas. There's a good chance that if he leaves office, he'll be arrested by federal authorities soon afterwards, you know, if there's not a corrupt person in the White House. Paxton was impeached by the Texas legislature unanimously.
So, Paxton has kind of shot himself in the foot by being so openly corrupt. Hopefully it will be enough.
Timing also matters. When things are shitty people want change.
Things being shitty is not a new phenomenon. This state is a petri dish example of 30+ years of gop policies and mistakes. All that time, and the state literally re-elected the pos that went for vacation while their neighbors froze to death. I hope to see change but texas is entirely "wish I knew how to quit you" with them.
Texas is like ground zero for voter disenfranchisement though. They do it better than anyone.
Well an unfortunately large portion of the population doesn't have empathy and/or is subject to mis/disinformation all their waking hours. Their neighbor freezing should have paid or prayed more. The women and children dying from bad maternal-infant care same thing. Timing in this sense means things that actually affect what unempathetic and misinformed people care about and you can't hide from which are the price of gas and groceries because it hits them in the wallet every time they pay at the store.