• @Good_morning
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    Can we title these as Paxton instead of Texas? Texas is a big place and he’s hated near universally.

      • @Good_morning
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        I think apathh is a huge part of how so many of our politicians get elected. Everyone knows who the top 2 candidates are for president but don’t have a clue when it comes to the local politicians who are directly impacting where they live. So much easier to vote down party lines.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 hours ago

    Surprising restraint from Paxton. I half expected him to just pick everyone with a “Mexican sounding” name then assume they’re illegal.

    • @[email protected]
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      35 hours ago

      He’ll still do that, but now he wants to courts to publicly say that it’s ok for him to do it.

  • @[email protected]
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    8117 hours ago

    They must be panicking because they’ve found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won’t buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as “these are the ones we found, there’s probably tens of thousands we haven’t!”, but I bet they’ve only been able to find less than a hundred so now they’re looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 hours ago

      They’re just in the phase of making bullshit requests and lawsuits without evidence so they can rile up the base about Biden being a party to voter fraud.

    • @[email protected]
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      I can’t imagine why an illegal immigrant would want to vote. The whole thing is ludicrous.

      • FenrirIII
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        I know many citizens who think voting is ludicrous. The system is broken and it’s definitely not the fault of illegal immigrants.

      • lurch (he/him)
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        it just endangers them to be found. it’s ridiculous. illegals want to lay low. they are not the trouble makers right wingers paint them to be

          • @[email protected]
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            24 hours ago

            Voters are convinced they’re “stealing” benefits and politicians know the score. Yet another reason we’ll never meaningfully deal with immigration.

          • @[email protected]
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            911 hours ago

            “No taxation without representation” exception list (updated 2024):

            • Non-Citizen Residents
            • Ex-Cons
            • Blacks
            • Children
            • Women
            • Non-Landowners
              • @[email protected]
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                Do our territories pay tax? It looks like they do… and they definitely have no representation (non-voting delegates, non-autonomy, the only thing they get is the ability to raise issues and vote on committees, and frankly that’s nothing.)

            • @[email protected]
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              Right? Like, that’s your thing right? Stealing money from people? How does this part not excite you? Do you even realize that this is happening?

    • @[email protected]
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      2015 hours ago

      I’ll bet they can’t find one illegally cast vote that was counted. People talk like it’s really uncommon. No, it’s so uncommon it never happens. I read some research that was done over a ten year period and they found less that 40 cases of vote fraud, almost none of which were for national office, and none of which had ever affected an outcome.

      Vote fraud in the US it’s effectively zero.

      • FuglyDuck
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        with all this projection, some one should check Ted Cruz’s immigration status.

        Just saying. maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

        • @[email protected]
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          maybe we can deport him back to Canada.

          Nope, fuck that, shoot him into the sun, we’ve got enough rightwing nutjobs in Canada.

          • @[email protected]
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            610 hours ago

            Strand him in an airport. Never to be released into either country. Always waiting for a flight to Cancun that keeps getting delayed forever.

          • @[email protected]
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            210 hours ago

            Aww, don’t you think PP needs a friend?

            Seriously, we don’t want him back. Totally agree, “One of these days Teddy, one of these days.To the sun.”

            • @[email protected]
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              28 hours ago

              I think we should pull a Simpsons and load both of em and all their little intolerant friends on a rocket and straight into the sun with em!

          • @[email protected]
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            311 hours ago

            You sure? We could make it an “art” exhibit if we sent him there directly from Texas. We could even make it a symbol of peace like the statue of Liberty. Call it “the big splat” or something.

    • Hegar
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      They won’t be panicking. They made up the lie that non citizens are voting, they know it’s not true.

        • skulblaka
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          I, for one, welcome the Republican scrutiny on voter fraud so that we can finally find and address the cases of Republican voter fraud.

          • @[email protected]
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            15 hours ago

            That would be funny to watch them realise in real time that they are the baddies they fear. Sadly I doubt it would last more than .0000000000001 of a second, team politics

  • @[email protected]
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    (my bold)

    The lawsuit escalates Paxton’s hunt for noncitizen voters just two weeks before the election and a day after early voting began in Texas. He has pressed Texas Secretary of State Janet Nelson to request that the federal government hand over data the state could use to cross-check its voter rolls.

    His timing is impeccable.

  • don
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    2916 hours ago

    Texas needs to be sued for being Texas.