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#ALERT 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

#Racist #PollTax, #VoterSuppression

#DemocracyNOW

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/3/voting_rights_tarrant_county_texas

#TarrantCounty #TX #Texas

#VotingRights #Midterms #FIGHTBACK 🧯

Tarrant County Polling Cuts Come Months After County Flipped Blue

https://thedemocracyadvocate.com/elections/tarrant-county-polling-cuts/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@houstonpublicmedia/117201550949791293

When the party in power knows they can't win fairly... 🗳️ ❌️

Historically a Republican stronghold, Tarrant County has emerged as a key battleground as voters narrowly supported Democratic candidates at the top of the statewide ballot in recent elections.

#USPol #Texas #GOP #Polls #TarrantCounty #FortWorth #Election #MidTerms #TimOHare

Tarrant County removes 92 polling sites

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#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #TarrantCounty #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Voting #WellCHomepage
https://www.newsbeep.com/715464/

Plan to cut #polling sites in major #Texas county draws #protests

A plan in one of Texas' largest counties to use dozens fewer polling locations than in previous years is drawing protests from Democrats who say the reductions could create confusion [& limit #access] in the #midterms.

The proposal, set for a vote Tuesday, would reduce the number of polling locations across booming #TarrantCounty, which borders #Dallas & includes #FortWorth.

#law #ElectionInterference
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/plan-to-cut-polling-sites-in-major-texas-county-draws-protests-as-senate-battle-looms

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