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Texas Democrat James Talarico May Be on Track to Turn the Lone Star State Blue
(www.vanityfair.com)
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2026
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It's not turning anything until we get rid of Abbott, Patrick, and Paxton. Best Talarico can do is one of those three. This state is so fucked up. Our elections are fucked.
State wide elections go first, and you get a situation like Georgia where the at large elections can go either way but the state legislature and congressional delegation are still gerrymandered to hell for Republicans.
Then you get a tipping point like Virginia when the state legislature goes blue and then it's a blue state, and you can finally work to get some problems resolved.
I moved from Austin to Jackson Hole, Wyoming after 23 years there. Wyoming is still red, but at least they leave me the fuck alone. Texas is always all up in your shit.
Especially for a state that's supposed to be all about rugged individualism, they can't stay out of your pants
There is next to 0 public land in Texas too, people like to compare it to the western states and its just wrong. The state of small government (for corporations and civil protections)
Near 0 federal public land. Texas has a lot of state land, and the Land Commissioner is a powerful statewide elected office.
This situation is a result of the terms of the 1845 accession when the Republic of Texas entered the Union.
And we're supposed to be fervent conservationists with respect for our parks and wildlife, but you can't eat a fish you catch here without getting poisoned by 20 kinds of chemicals
Username checks out.
There is a great line in the book "The Right Stuff" that says basically that. Houston was a hellhole in the 50s and all that which made ot that way has gotten worse or not gone away since then. All the mercury and dioxins are still in the silt in the San Jascinto river or Galveston Bay, or in your fresh gulf shrimp (sponsored by BP and TransOcean)
And they have made further repeals of environmental protective laws here in recent years, courting the likes of SpaceX and AI data centers
Wyoming has the money to leave it's people alone.
Talarico is running against Paxton for which is going to replace Cornyn.
Gina Hinojosa is running against Abbott, the limited polling so far has her losing by 3-8%. Which is within striking distance depending on what else goes on. I would assume that if Hinojosa wins, Vikki Goodwin will beat Patrick.
This is nice. We have to win harder than they can cheat.
https://texaspublicopinionresearch.substack.com/p/new-poll-james-talarico-leads-ken