Talarico received more early votes than Paxton received in total That race was over before the polls opened yesterday
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talk is cheap and baby, time's expensive
Land doesn’t vote. How it differs when we add population variable into visualization
among other things, and yes i realize how important it was nationally, last night was basically a straight up/down vote on whether the state of texas would continue to have a secular public education system and WE FUCKING WON
people texting me asking what politics look like in texas for the coming term like I seriously could imagine the possiblity space for this outcome before last night. come on. i have no idea. its a whole new world. but mike morath's ass is fucking GONE
There is no Senator Talarico without Beto kicking that door in repeatedly and refusing to die. Shoutout to him.
This is huge: for the first time this century, Democrats will hold a majority in the Texas House.
y'all means all you transphobic pieces of shit
Lotta fun Woke 3 jokes out there but in some seriousness: can we make people ashamed to use the R-slur again
we're coming for you next, motherfucker
Come January Ted Cruz will be the only Republican to hold statewide office in Texas.
Every. Single. County. Overall, a 20.78 point shift from 2024. State-wide race margins of 500K to 1.1M votes. A Blue Texas in my lifetime.
Ken Paxton ran for national office once and every Texas statewide office flipped Democratic. Insane.
As I wake up, it is now clear that SCOTX has gone from 9-0 Republican to 5-4 Republican. The 15th Court of Appeals, a court created to channel appeals to a Republican court, is now 3 democrats. We have the first female chief justice in Texas history. It's as shocking as Hinojosa.
not only was this the first truly decisive election in 15 years, not only was it the first real repudiation the MAGA Republican Party has experienced, but it is an earthquake in the South. with investment — and with laws protecting the right to vote — the whole region could be blue.
watching Talarico immediately threaten Musk
Oh my god the Texas state librarian is retiring and now Abbott doesn't pick her replacement, Hinojosa does
"we just took back texas. we just proved that all the money in the world is no match for the people of texas. we just showed that a politics of division is no match for a politics of love. we just sent a message to every billionaire—trillionaire—megadonor—that in texas, power belongs to the people."
"the days of treating our public schools like they're for sale are over" - our new governor, gina hinojosa 🙌🙌🙌🙌
price is right style “come on down” but you’re being subpoenaed by congress
this makes me SO happy, fuck off forever Huffines
Texas comptroller Sarah Eckhardt wins Huffines concedes
I have lived in Texas my whole life and I love this state with everything I have. Thank you thank you everyone who worked so hard for this for so many years when so many people thought it wasn't possible. Texas forever. This place is my heart.
okay so while we're all up and chatting: DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood DC statehood
Jon Rosenthal, Texas's new Railroad Commissioner: “The dude that posted the online poll last summer asking who’s a bigger threat to America, and the only two choices were Muslims and Jews, tonight this Jewish engineer sends that motherfucker home.” (Texas Tribune)
Texas State Sen. Nathan Johnson, who composed music for the English dub of Dragon Ball Z, is now the Democratic Texas Attorney General www.texastribune.org/2026/11/03/t...