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The time to stop authoritarian breakthrough is NOW. #MessWithTexas #FreeDC #HandsOff #NoKings This will be our first event at Todos Santos so please bring your flexibility along with your enthusiasm! There is ample free parking at two city-owned garages on Salvio Street.
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The Playbook Is Power Theft
This isn’t just Texas.
It’s the same damn playbook: voter suppression, racial gerrymanders, midnight redistricting.
And when good people resist, they’re smeared as “un-American.”
Screw that.
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Not Just a Walkout—A Warning
That walkout?
It was a flare in the sky.
A warning to every other state:
If you wait until after they rig it, you’ve already lost.
Texas Democrats stood up early.
Now it’s your move.
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Real Patriots Don’t Just Wave Flags
These lawmakers weren’t hiding—they were holding the damn line.
Patriotism isn’t waving a flag while cheating voters.
Patriotism is standing up when your state gets hijacked by a cult.
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Abbott’s Not the Hero
Greg Abbott called them cowards.
But cowards don’t put their lives on hold to fight the system from exile.
They left because the Capitol was compromised.
They stood between Trump and the ballot box.
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They walked out so democracy wouldn’t be erased behind closed doors.
While Republicans rigged maps with Trump on speed dial, these Texas lawmakers left the state to stop it.
That’s not obstruction. That’s f***ing bravery.
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Brilliant. More, please.
#MessWithTexas
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MUST WATCH! Jasmine Crockett takes DOWN Texas AG Ken Paxton, who vowed to "hunt down" Democratic lawmakers who fled the state. 🔥🔥🔥🔥LFG! #MessWithTexas
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Rep. Greg Casar is rallying the people right now outside Abbott’s mansion—because Texas Democrats are DONE playing nice. They’re risking everything to stop Trump’s racist, illegal power grab. This isn’t a protest. It’s a reckoning. We’re not letting them steal a damn thing. #MessWithTexas
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GOP lawmakers are so afraid of being held accountable that they're silencing critics like Isaiah Martin, who was arrested for refusing to yield the microphone during a redistricting hearing. #MessWithTexas
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Texas could flip 3–4 seats in one redraw.
In a House decided by three seats, that’s game over.
This isn’t a Texas problem. It’s a national crisis.
Don’t sleep on it—fight it.
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Texas Democrats broke quorum to stop a Trump-ordered gerrymander.
They left the state so Abbott couldn’t steal the vote.
That’s not obstruction—it’s protection.
The people blocking this map are the ones defending democracy.
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Texas Democrats broke quorum to stop a Trump-ordered gerrymander. They left the state so Abbott couldn’t steal the vote. That’s not obstruction—it’s protection. The people blocking this map are the ones defending democracy. #MessWithTexas
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Texas is in crisis—historic flooding, lives lost, homes destroyed.
So what’s Abbott doing?
Not disaster relief.
He’s calling a special session to redraw maps and rig the 2026 election.
This is Trump’s map now.
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Redistricting happens every 10 years.
But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting.
They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026.
This is a surgical strike on democracy.
Every voter should be pissed.
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Redistricting happens every 10 years. But Abbott & Trump aren’t waiting. They want to redraw the map now—mid-decade—because they’re afraid of 2026. This is a surgical strike on democracy. Every voter should be pissed. #MessWithTexas
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The excuse? “Fixing the map.”
The truth?
Texas Republicans told courts they didn’t use race to draw the current map.
Now they’re claiming they did—just to redraw it again.
That’s not legal strategy.
That’s perjury with a cowboy hat.
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BREAKING: Rep. Ann Johnson isn’t playing games. “Breaking quorum is a last resort,” she says—but when democracy’s under attack, Texas Democrats show up and risk everything to defend it. This isn’t theater. It’s sacrifice. And they’re doing it for all of us. Stand with them. #MessWithTexas
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#messwithtexas Republican lawmakers could have been helping flood victims but instead they are trying to steal seats that are currently Blue districts.
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Trump Ignites the Gerrymander Wars #ABlueView🧵1/2
I agree we have no choice to but fight fire with fire even though it's moving the Overton Window (making representatives choosing their voters more normal).
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Greg Abbott is throwing a tantrum so extreme, he’s now threatening to unilaterally remove nearly every Texas Democrat from office. But Rep Greg Casar isn’t backing down. He’s calling us to the streets. Join him TONIGHT at 5:30pm outside the governor’s mansion. #MessWithTexas
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Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu: "Texans deserve leaders who fight for them, not politicians chasing power." #MessWithTexas
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> #Texas Offers #DonaldTrump Huge Ranch for #MassDeportation Plan
They should call it Y'allschwitz
https://www.newsweek.com/texas-offers-donald-trump-huge-ranch-mass-deportation-plan-1988766
#uspol #deportation #auschwitz #concentrationCamp #immigration #immigrants #messWithTexas #trump
