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Lying in the grass in ATX
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Garden Variety Woman retweeted
Going into the election, Texas Republicans held a 11-4 supermajority on the State Board of Education, which sets standards for what more than 5.4 million school children should learn in the state.
There are nine seats up for election. Only one race has been called by @AP so far.
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It took me a while to remember to check: All Democratic candidates for the Texas Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, and the 15th Court of Appeals are currently winning by at least 15 points.
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Democratic sacrificial lambs in Trump +69 districts getting the call at 2 am on Wednesday that they’re going to be county groundwater commissioner.
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I predict Hinojosa will actually back off of a large portion of this promise, but that the winners, who will ultimately be allowed to build and operate, will be aligned business/people to the Dems as the Dems are unfortunately the best in class at establishing patronage networks.
Roughly 1/4 of U.S. data-center capacity projected to come online by 2030 is in Texas. If the state's next governor is Democrat Gina Hinojosa, who supports a moratorium, some 13.3 gigawatts of announced projects would be at risk, Jefferies projects. wsj.com/finance/stocks/the-r…
Garden Variety Woman retweeted
You can show up to work drunk tomorrow if you're in Texas. They just said it on the news
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I'm not sure people are really grasping yet the scale of what is happening in Texas tonight
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Insanely, horribly bad night for Elon Musk, who not only wasted half a billion but will have a Congress who hates him and an entire texas state government who loathes him
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There are 17 statewide offices on the ballot in Texas today - Sen, Gov, LG, AG, Ag Commish, Comptroller, Land Commish, Railroad Commish, 4 Sup Court seats, 3 appeals court seats, 3 criminal appeals court seats.
With 66% in, Dems are leading all 17 with at least 55% of the vote
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Dem consultant on what's unfolding in Texas:
"I don't think Democrats have enough staff for all the seats they’re flipping." #txlege
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Random fallout from tonight: Leadership at Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, et al, will have totally different bosses in Austin. That will rock the Tower.
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I have gone beyond optimism. I am becoming militantly anti-pessimism. Pessimism, cynicism, and grumbling fills me with disgust. Moses talks about this.
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For the midterm elections 40 years ago (November 4, 1986), the political data experts wore lab coats ...
