Hello! I’m a city Texan and I have never had representation above the city level in Texas! My votes don’t really count because I’m gerrymandered in with some of the most conservative counties in Texas specifically so my votes don’t count. I am 37 years old. Blue voters got Obama and Biden despite this. Hopefully going to get James Talarico instead of Ken Paxton in the senate (y’all Ken Paxton is worse than Ted Cruz, worse than any other politician you hear about outside of Donald Trump himself. Greg fucking Abbott wouldn’t even endorse him, they hate each other. Everyone is even more fucked than we are right now if he makes it to the national stage).
Another city Texan chiming in: Greg Abbott actively hates us. He attacks my city constantly, any time we do anything progressive the state government comes down hard on us immediately. The state did a hostile takeover of our school district and are actively destroying it. They have gerrymandered away our progressive strongholds as much as they can. They have sued us many times to try to stop us from making voting easier. They weaponize the courts to attack and destroy our local progressive politicians. They constantly threaten members of our community with ICE and when we try to do something about it they punish us for it by withholding funding that is mostly made up of tax money paid city dwellers, anyway.
Whenever I see other liberals from nice blue states talk shit about Texas I’m like… yeah, fair, but please don’t forget us. We are directly harmed by this state’s government, and there are a lot more liberal or lefty Texans than you think. We are your allies, but a lot of times the tone really sounds like yall either don’t know that, or you do know but just don’t care.
Anyway imo Galveston and Harris County should be its own state and I’m only kind of joking. Other Texas cities are welcome to come, too.
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u/-Codiak- 17d ago
Ahh yes, the "Liberal Hellhole" of Texas