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Another Notable Texas loss this week: Rep. Candy Noble, who carried the Ten Commandments bill (SB 10) through the Texas House, lost in the Democrat sweep in Texas. See the questioning that @jamestalarico did of her on her bill.
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“We”??? Yall didn’t do jack shit. Yall had maybe a one or two noteworthy things, but your candidates lagged behind the normie dems that had huge, blowout, surprise wins. The audacity to think you’re in a position to call the shots lmaoooooo.
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“We went through all that in the midterms” and it’s just them focusing on a handful of candidates they like while calling all the other candidates awful and then all the other candidates did way better than the candidates they like
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McCarthy had to negotiate because he only had a 221 member caucus. He could only lose 3 votes.
Jeffries will have a 260 member caucus. He'll be able to lose 42 votes.
This discussion is a joke.
Elections do have consequences
The newly minted 15th Court of Appeals here in TX was created to remove state business related cases from increasingly Democratic controlled Appeals courts around the state. Sadly, the 3 GOP Abbott appointed justices all lost to Democrats in their first election. The new Dem Justices will hear the case challenging Patrick's draconian weed ban.
texastribune.org/2026/11/06/…
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I'm so glad Haley Stevens self immolated. There's long been a feeling on the left that dems would rather lose than win with a leftist. Seeing the entire institutional democratic party circle the wagons around Abdul should be a good reminder that dems really really do want to win.
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Thing is, Cruz, Abbott, Patrick, Paxton. These boys been sucking up all the oxygen in Austin for 20 years and have allowed little else to grow. Rs in the Lege and House delegation cannibalized each other. They chased out everyone with any respectability. That will be a problem.
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You have my word.
This is why so many Republicans i know and moderates like me voted for you. You seem to actually be a Mississippian, not a DC person. The most hard-core Republican i know (my business partner at our law firm) changed his vote from a wrote in to you because you came to talk to people at the Trump Rally. You treated people who disagreed with you as humans that just should be talked to. Do that in DC for us and you'll stay in tge Senate forever in my book.
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This is why so many Republicans i know and moderates like me voted for you. You seem to actually be a Mississippian, not a DC person. The most hard-core Republican i know (my business partner at our law firm) changed his vote from a wrote in to you because you came to talk to people at the Trump Rally. You treated people who disagreed with you as humans that just should be talked to. Do that in DC for us and you'll stay in tge Senate forever in my book.
