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Politics : View from the Center and Left Texas Annex

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From: S. maltophilia9/21/2025 12:29:47 AM
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...This matters because when you live on the front lines of authoritarian creep, you either learn how to win ugly or you lose everything. Texas Democrats learned. They know how to jam a bad bill at the mic. How to grind a rigged map through discovery. How to organize rural counties with no paid media. How to put corporate fiefdoms on defense. That’s muscle memory built over years of playing away games, with referees who work for the other team.

Meanwhile, too many Democrats in DC treat “governing” like it’s a press release followed by a fundraiser. They negotiate themselves down, praise “norms,” and then rubber-stamp Republican frames in the name of bipartisanship, only to watch those same Republicans torch the place five minutes later. Texas Democrats don’t have that luxury. When the state aims at trans kids, immigrants, teachers, librarians, or Black voters, there’s only time to fight.

So if you’ve been sitting out because you think “Democrats are all the same,” I’m....

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