Htown | Voting Enthusiast | Texas Democrat 🌈
Houston, TX
Joined April 2009
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This is WILD.
Insane story about how the Texas voucher program is giving people $10k in taxpayer dollars to spend on $50 worth of tuition, and then letting them spend the rest on state-approved vendors of "school supplies."
Here is the waste, fraud and abuse.
kera.org/2026/10/27/texas-fa…
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Mike Rogers will be another rubber stamp for Donald Trump’s dangerous agenda. We can’t afford to give MAGA another Senate seat in November. #MISEN
Roxanne Werner retweeted
How the hell did this Administration allow a 28-year-old DOGE operative with zero government experience to take over USAID, fire thousands of federal employees, and shut down lifesaving aid programs around the world?
Not to mention that HR had zero record of him working there, he never completed his background paperwork to legally start working for the agency, and he didn’t even have an ID badge, because, officially, he didn’t exist as an employee.
And yet, all on his own, this man was given the go ahead to lock staff out of their own systems and use your taxpayer dollars to gut lifesaving programs with zero transparency.
The Trump Administration owes the American people and Congress answers. Who signed off on this? Why on earth was he given this kind of power?
This wasn’t an accident. Someone handed this man unchecked power, someone knew he wasn’t legally authorized to use it, and someone decided that there was nothing wrong with that.
Well, everything is wrong with that. Congress needs answers about this, and that is NOT optional.
wired.com/story/a-28-year-ol…
Roxanne Werner retweeted
Early voting locations in Austin are opened until 10pm tonight. Keep VOTING!
Okay today is the last day to vote early and it might rain on Election Day!
Polls are open until 7 PM.
Locations and wait times are here - harrisvotes.com/Vote-Centers
Tomorrow is the last day of early voting! To help you avoid a line, here are the least busy locations in Harris County:
- Gethsemane Missionary Baptist
- San Jacinto Community Centrr
- TSU
- Vera Brummet May Community Center
- Pep Mueller Park
Roxanne Werner retweeted
🚨 BREAKING from @politico >>>
Senior @GregAbbott_TX staff held secret closed door meeting with Big Tech to "remove roadblocks" for bringing more data centers to Texas.
Two days later, ERCOT announced plan to get them connected to state grid even faster.
politico.com/news/2026/10/27…
Roxanne Werner retweeted
🚨 U.S. Postal Service says to mail in your ballot by TOMORROW at the latest
ALT Adrienne Marshall, director of Election and Government Mail Services at the Postal Service added, “Our Postal Service employees are diligently working to process and deliver ballots on time, and we ask that voters do their part and mail early.” The organization’s long-standing recommendation is that domestic non-military voters mail their completed ballots BEFORE Election Day, and AT LEAST ONE WEEK before they must be received by their election office.
Roxanne Werner retweeted
A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.
Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. cbsn.ws/3Ude66r
Roxanne Werner retweeted
More than 5 million people have lost their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits since President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill passed last year.
That has meant many more people are turning to food banks for support. to.pbs.org/47Sb4rd
Friday is the last day to vote early in Texas!
🕰️ Polls are open from 7 AM to 7 PM
📄 Go to Vote411.org to see what’s on your ballot. Vote all the way down.
📬If you know someone who is voting by mail remind them to send their ballot in ASAP.
Roxanne Werner retweeted
Harris County EV, Day 3 of 12
327,691 ballots in. 58% ahead of the 2022 pace.
The number that matters: 24% of them didn't vote in 2022.
Hispanic voters are 23% of ballots so far, up from 17% at this point in '22. Under-25s have more than doubled their share.
Today in Houston:
10 AM voting with Gina Hinojosa @ West Gray
mobilize.us/ginahinojosafort…
3 PM voting with James Talarico, Leticia Plummer & Monaleo @ TSU
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6 PM voting with Abbie Kamin @ West Gray
mobilize.us/mobilize/event/1…
James Talarico making a stop at @UHouston today (and there’s a polling location on campus!)
mobilize.us/s/aXX19i
Okay, okay. Day 2 and we have 99,911 votes.
Some of the locations that had more voters today (even if was only a few!):
- UH
- TSU
- West Gray
- Lone Star North
- Octavia Feilds Library
Roxanne Werner retweeted
Texas was built by hope. By people who had no business believing — but believed anyway.
To every Texan who’s ever wondered if anyone in power is paying attention: We are taking our state back.
Because a little bit of hope is a dangerous thing.
Roxanne Werner retweeted
🗳️ Just in case anyone has to cast a provisional ballot in Texas in the coming days, we’ve put together an explainer on what you can expect and how that process works. #txlege
votebeat.org/texas/2026/10/1…
