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Fuck this Judge Tim O'Hare asshole. 🚓 🚨

A speaker used profanity at a Tarrant Commissioners Court meeting. He was arrested a week later

"I think we have seen a much more hostile treatment towards citizens and residents showing up at public government meetings. That hostility definitely has been the strongest within the Tarrant County Commissioners Court."

https://www.keranews.org/news/2026-08-12/a-speaker-used-profanity-at-a-tarrant-commissioners-court-meeting-he-was-arrested-a-week-later

#KERA #FortWorth #TimOHare #FreeSpeech #TarrantCounty #Texas #TXPolitics #PenelopeRivera #EJCarrion #Vote

#Voter #suppression #disenfranchisement is very real in the #USA

What kind blows my mind is the reaction from some whiny cynical types: "that's why I'm not #voting"

😂

What?

Somebody malicious wants something from you, so you give it to them?

I also don't endorse this guy's response, but I give him points for attitude:

Don't get sad and resign

Get mad and act

(And by act, I mean many things, but you still #vote, dum dums)

https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/04/texas-tarrant-county-voting-polling-sites-closed-meeting/

#Texas #TarrantCounty #FortWorth #Dallas

Union president Taylor Rehmet, a Democrat, beat Republican Leigh Wambsganss in a state Senate special election in Texas on Saturday. @TexasMonthly takes a look at how significant that might be.

https://flip.it/SIHNSZ

#Texas #TarrantCounty #TaylorRehmet #USPolitics #TrumpAdministration

After His Democratic Victory in Texas, a New Working-Class Star Rises

Taylor Rehmet, a machinist and union leader, pulled off a stunning State Senate win in Fort Worth and its suburbs. He is among several political outsiders seeking office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/us/politics/taylor-rehmet-texas-working-class-democrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.JFA.CQIS.VkBiEJ_8_rZV&smid=url-share

#TXPol #USPol #TaylorRehmet #Texas #TarrantCounty

Nice to see these creeps scrambling. Separation of church and state much? 🌊

Texas AG Ken Paxton, GOP officials call on Republicans to ‘fight’ for Tarrant County

https://www.keranews.org/politics/2026-02-02/texas-ag-ken-paxton-gop-officials-call-on-republicans-to-fight-for-tarrant-county

#TXPol #Texas #TarrantCounty #GOP #USPol #NationalFaithAdvisoryBoard #TaylorRehmet #TimOHare #KERA #FortWorth

Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins a reliably Republican Texas state Senate seat, stunning GOP

Rehmet's victory allows him to serve only until early January, and he must win the November general election to keep the seat for a full four-year term. The Texas Legislature is not set to reconvene until 2027, and the GOP still will have a comfortable majority.

@npr @politics-npr

https://www.npr.org/2026/02/01/nx-s1-5695678/democrat-taylor-rehmet-wins-texas-state-senate-seat

#Texas #TXPol #USPol #TaylorRehmet #TarrantCounty

Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans

Mr. Rehmet, a machinist at a Lockheed Martin fighter jet plant in Fort Worth, said during the campaign that he did not like party labels & believed that voters were “really tired of the partisanship.” He made his support for public education, including vocational programs, central to his campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/us/democratic-upset-texas-district-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=1.I1A.2MdZ.wfgVyLK7cWQY&smid=url-share

#Texas #TXPol #USPol #FortWorth #TarrantCounty #TaylorRehmet

A Tarrant County resident who has worked as an election judge criticized the county’s move to cut more than 100 polling sites.

“You’re not saving money,” she said. “You’re sacrificing democracy to save a buck.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/tarrant-county-texas-polling-sites-early-voting-cuts?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Texas #TarrantCounty #Vote #Elections #Democracy #Voting

Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke and other Texas Democrats rallied in Fort Worth over the weekend in opposition to Republican efforts to redraw the state's congressional districts.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2025/08/11/528362/beto-orourke-texas-dems-rail-against-gop-redistricting-power-grab-at-fort-worth-rally/

#News #Politics #Texas #BetoORourke #Democrats #KenPaxton #REDISTRICTING #Republicans #TarrantCounty

#politics #texas #democracydocket #voters #votes #tarrantcounty #gerrymandering #alt

Democracy Docket
Gerrymandering Tarrant County Texas

The future of funding that supports family reading programs, digitization of local archives and other library programming across Texas is unclear following a recent executive order by President Donald Trump.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/books-libraries/2025/04/07/518011/texas-libraries-could-lose-12-5m-following-trump-executive-order/

#ArtsCulture #BooksLibraries #Education #News #Arlington #ArtsAccess #DallasPublicLibrary #FortWorthPublicLibrary #KERANews #TarrantCounty

Effective Friday, users of Elon Musk’s X — formerly known as Twitter — can only file lawsuits against the social media platform in a federal district that includes North Texas, where a federal judge owns stock in Tesla.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2024/11/15/506252/want-to-sue-x-youll-have-to-do-it-in-north-texas-according-to-new-terms-of-service/

#Business #Court #News #PopCulture #Technology #Texas #ElonMusk #NorthTexas #SocialMedia #TarrantCounty #TermsOfService #XPlatform

Inside the political rise of Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare

“They no longer feel like they have to compromise,” said Whitley, who recently endorsed Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris for president and U.S. Rep. Colin Allred of Texas in the U.S. Senate race. “You either vote with these people 100% of the time, or you’re their enemy.”

@texastribune @RobertDownen @ProPublica
@JeremySchwartz

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/10/11/texas-tarrant-county-tim-ohare-far-right/

#Texas #USPol #Politics #TimOHare #TarrantCounty #FortWorth #GOP

@Incognitim Don't wanna wait for Tarrant County to upload a map? Have no fear! I added the data to #OpenStreetMap #OSM and used #OverpassTurbo to plot it.

Query: https://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1R7e

#uspol #DFW #FortWorth #Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantCo #GIS

@Incognitim Want to know which location is closest? Too bad! The map is "coming soon":

https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/en/elections/current-election-information.html

https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/content/dam/main/elections/2024/1124/locations/1124_EV_Locations_Map.pdf

Incidentally, every TCC campus -- except its downtown location -- is on the early voting list:

https://www.tarrantcountytx.gov/content/dam/main/elections/2024/1124/locations/1124_EV_Sched.pdf

I'm sure that's an oversight though. Guess I gotta show up to Yet Another Meeting and give my rEprESenTAtiVeS a stern talkin' to.

#DFW #FortWorth #tx #Texas #Tarrant #TarrantCounty #TarrantCo

Thousands of Texans with intellectual disabilities live in group homes. The group home system is struggling to retain workers under the low base wage the state legislature set last year.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/healthcare/2024/03/27/481768/making-life-or-death-decisions-for-10-60-an-hour-texas-group-homes-suffer-from-staffing-crisis/

#HealthScience #Healthcare #News #GroupHomes #MHMROfTarrantCounty #SpecialNeedsGroupHomes #TarrantCounty