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Then: Co-Founder Togga | All right, we did not die today! I call that an unqualified success.

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My buddy in Japan has informed me that, since Blue Wave and Tsunami have entirely different cultural contexts, the Japanese press is referring to last night's US Election as the "National Scolding".

Related story: Tim O'Hare, the Tarrant County judge who closed 30% of the battleground county's polling locations, including spots on college campuses and Black and brown-majority neighborhoods, has been unseated by Alisa Simmons, a county commissioner he tried to gerrymander out of her seat.

Democrat Simmons declares victory over Republican O’Hare in Tarrant judge race

A Democrat has not won the seat in 40 years.

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Joe Katz@joekatz45.bsky.social · 3d ago

Blexas is real, and not just in our hearts

I'll be writing more about this later, but the fact that there are no ICE (or other armed) federal agents at the polls and no federal takeover of elections is not because we are "lucky" or our system is "strong:" it took a ton of hard work from lawyers, election administrators and civil society.

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