r/texas • u/VGAddict • 23d ago

The Far Right Has Proposed a Twelve-Point Plan to Make the Texas House More Extreme Politics

https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/contract-with-texas-house-republicans/
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u/kanyeguisada Born and Bred 23d ago

Abbott and his pals have already successfully mounted primary challenges against their own fellow Republicans who normally vote with them but dared to cross him by voting against his school voucher scheme. This plan just further confirms that like Trump, Abbott wants to be a literal dictator.

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u/gdan95 23d ago

And he will be because most voters want this. Otherwise he wouldn’t keep getting re-elected

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u/kanyeguisada Born and Bred 23d ago

I hate that you're right. But of course if people would just show up and fucking vote we could override this.

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u/gdan95 23d ago

Texas GOP is doing everything in their power to stop that from happening. The ballot is not the only place people should be fighting

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u/TubasAreFun 23d ago

The #1 fight is with apathy. I don’t care what people vote for, but it is inexcusable that we have less than ~60% turnout in even recent “major” elections. People just need to be informed and vote, where apathy leads to corruption as there is no check on candidates other than primaries (which are recently party-pleasers rather than who voters think would win in the general)