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- texas@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- texas@lemmy.world
The Texas attorney general is cracking down on Democrats in a supposed crusade to root out “voter fraud.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against supposed voter fraud appears to be targeting the state’s Democrats.
Last week, Paxton’s office announced raids and undercover actions against organizations in Texas it accuses of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. In practice, though, the raids have taken place against members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., as well as several prominent Democrats in south Texas.
According to LULAC officials, the group’s members had their cell phones and laptops confiscated by law enforcement officials carrying out search warrants.
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Things I will bet money on
- They will produce no evidence of any wrongdoing uncovered from any of these raids
- They will give some cryptic statement that tries to make it sound like they did find something
- Texas lawmakers will continue to not hold Paxton accountable for anything
Also highly likely, wrongdoing is uncovered eventually and it’s like this guy’s uncle or something
$1500 on deathbed confession accompanied with blaming a bunch of already dead people.
The whole point is to prevent registrations and it is working.
Big Trouble my ass.
Look at what this asshole has already gotten away with, he’s as bulletproof as Trump.
Too bad our courts are a fucking joke.
They that afraid that Texas might go purple?
Yes. The electoral college is nearly unwinnable with Texas, NY, and California stacked against you. The GOP would have to actually run on policies that people want, so…
Lol never. The party will die before they ever do that.
Amen.
I think internal polling is showing it’s gonna flip.
Time to send the Brute Squad in to scare the population into not voting!
That would be wonderful but I definitely wouldn’t count on it.
Suppressing non-loyalist voters is what these guys do as a hobby
TX is already purple, they are afraid of it turning blue.
In 2020, Biden received more votes in TX than NY.
In 2016, Hillary only lost by about 800,000 votes (5% of the registered voters that year). Biden was only behind by about 630,000 votes (3.7% of the registered voters that year).
Edit: forgot to add “behind by” in last sentence
I’ll believe Texas is purple when a Democrat wins there. Until then, it is red.
I’ve been heading for years that Texas was going to be a swing state because people from California were moving there. My theory is that most of the people that are moving there are doing so cause they like the politics. My state is very similar. Lots of California transplants. All the ones I talk to are small business owners that are very much in favor of a republican economy.
The entrenched and gerrymandered Republican legislature and local governance is a huge issue in terms of suppressing the impact of blue voters in Texas.
It is absolutely. However if something goes wrong in a gerrymandered system, it could immediately all tilt to the other side.
Yeah Californians in Ohio are redder than Ohio rednecks. I assume texas is similar.
I don’t like the defeatist attitude that TX is red until it’s blue because of Democrat victory. We have enough issues getting people to the polls, even though TX was the first state to have early voting (since 1980) with polls open at least 9 hours the first week and at least 12 hours the second week and final day. People use the inconvenience excuse all the time and it really brings down voter turnout.
The people moving in from California are conservatives and according to an exit poll in 2018, when Beto was challenging Cruz, the non-native Texans supported Cruz more while the native Texans were voting more for Beto.
I think hour news story just proves what I was saying. Many people are moving to Texas and making the state more red.
Texans, are likely more purple than anything. Transplants are more red. I dont know if there was ever verification of data but an example is that in 2018 native Texans voted for O’Rourke by like 2%? I think while transplants voted for Cruz by like 5%? Or something. Enough to tilt the race in his direction.
Yep. It’s happening in my state. Californians move to red states to escape the “blue tyranny”. Outside of one purple area they’re basically democrats. 😆
Deathly Afraid, and for good reason. Texas is very close to going blue.
He is not. He is a literal criminal successfully shielded from justice by Repubs.
The GOP is literal organized crime. I wish Putin would just release the RNC emails they stole back in 2015 or whatever. RICO these motherfuckers.
Nonsense article. What indication is there that Paxton is or will be in any trouble?
"Big trouble" 🙄, like give me a break. He’s a Republican asshole in a red state, he’s not in any real trouble for doing this.
And there are STILL Latinos who will vote for Trump, somehow…
They think of themselves as different from the more modern wave of immigrants coming through Mexico.
Makes no sense, but you see it with every demographic. Black Americans for Republicans. Women for Republicans. Voting against themselves because they don’t think they’re part of the target group.
A lot of people around here didn’t think of themselves as Jewish until the soldiers showed up.
Now there are little plaques in the street in front of the houses they were dragged out of.
As a Jew, I appreciate this. It might be presumptuous, but I assume you’re somewhere in Europe, maybe Germany? Europe endured incredible generational trauma, and it would probably be easier to ignore all of it and not put up plaques, but some countries put in serious work to try to make things right and make sure something like that doesn’t happen again. Hell, I was recently offered an application for citizenship to the European country my grandparents escaped from, as part of their reparations program. What I’m saying is, there will be trauma and long term pain, but it’s also possible to heal and grow. Since there are other genocides going on in the world right now, it’s important to remember that these atrocities continue to happen in the modern world, but that it’s possible for us to stop them and move on.
In Germany, they’re called Stolpersteine, or stumbling blocks (a metaphorical hurdle that prevents or inhibits you from reaching your goal). It feels like a warning that humanity must reckon with our susceptibility towards fascism if we want to achieve lasting peace.
They look like this:
It really makes you think seeing those.We have them in Torino in Italy where I now live. There are a lot more than I would have expected.
Amazing. It’s such a great combination of symbolism, memory, and warning.
I spent some time in Berlin, and I was genuinely moved at how present the history is. There is no attempt to hide anything, and I respect and appreciate that immensely.
That’s our future if things don’t go just right.
There were “Jews for Hitler” in the 1930’s.
Didn’t save them from the camps though. At best they bought themselves some time.
Imagine the “shocked Pikachu” face when they realized that they just aided in their own demise. Whoops!
Latino vote isn’t a monolith.
Source: See all the Cubans going “Yeah! Fuck Mexico!”
We are not a monolith, but the GOP is racist against all of us for our skin color, they are the monolith, and we should all be united against their bigoted politics.
I agree! Unfortunately, too many people don’t feel the same way. You could extend this to immigration in general, all the descendants of Ireland, Italy and Germany are all too willing to pull up the ladder behind them. “Venezuela? Fuck those guys!”
The thing people don’t get is human life didn’t evolve in the Americas, we are ALL immigrants or the desendants of immigrants. The only difference is were you naturalized this year, like my daughter in law, 200 years ago like my family or 10,000 years ago like the First Nations.
The maddening part is that a lot of those same people will pride themselves on their immigrant heritage, and proudly call America a nation of immigrants. Just, not those immigrants, I guess. 😒
As for the last bit about origins: In my case, it’s all three! 😅 My family contains indigenous people, early Spanish explorers, and Irish immigrants.
I’m sure we’ll punish him this time!
The only reason why this ghoul isn’t in jail for corruption right now is that the ones tasked with prosecuting him were his own employees who were more worried about him or his cronies retaliating than seeing justice done.
Thus, the headline is a lie: he’s immune from consequences in Texas and there’s no way that the Garland DOJ will have the courage to mount a federal case against him. Least of all during a presidential election year.
I now know why the GOP didn’t follow through when they told Obama “you’d never pick a good moderate like Garland for scotus.” He did pick him and they continued with their bullshit “it’s an election year wait for the election.”
They knew he’s too much of a coward to do anything whatsoever so he’d be as useless to them as he would be to anyone.
“BiG trOuBLe” though!
so… what’s the big trouble Ken Paxton is in?
He does another disgusting thing and people are mad… that is par for course for him
And he seems to end up getting away with it.
Lol no he isn’t. He’s already made what appeared to be a slam dunk case against him disappear, and the GOP is well known for doing everything it can to protect it’s members from the consequences of their actions.
Let’s see if Texas’ Attorney General will charge him now
He’s constantly in “big trouble” but nothing ever happens to him.
he’s causing a lot of trouble so technically isn’t he in big trouble?
This slime has gotten away with every crime he’s committed so far, so I’m very skeptical that he’s in trouble.
I think he’s going to continue to get away with pretty much whatever he wants until and unless he catches some high-velocity lead poisoning, or is exposed to an energetic exothermic reaction in close proximity. There is no way in hell any element of the TX state government will hold him accountable.
Funny that he’s targeting Democrats when just about every investigation/recount/whatever into voter fraud always turns out to be Republicans.
Fucking with LULAC is a bold strategy. Let’s see how that pans out for the state.
Oh just wasted millions of dollars in obvious civil rights violations?
Great…
They confiscated their license to register voters as part of the evidence. This is to stop them from signing people up to vote.
I’m sorry their what? You need a licence to hand someone a printed form or sit them down in front of a website? And this is supposed to be the state of freedom and small government?
Freedom to do what they tell you to and a government small enough to fit into woman’s vagina. There is a reason the state is only rated one lone star.
The goal is probably to prevent those voters from being re-added to the list before the registration deadline expires. If that happens then they’ve succeeded even if they ultimately lost in court sometime next year.
