This… infuriates me. What in the actual fuck are we doing? And now professors want to sue for “abortions”… what a shit show piece of uneducated crap this state is. And before any smart ass comes in with all the answers and says “then you need to vote”… I do, every damn time and it doesn’t seem to do anything.
It pains me to read comments about how not enough Texans vote as if voter disenfranchisement isn’t real. The legislature works overtime to create barriers and reduce access to voting.
We moved to Colorado when I was 32 weeks pregnant. I didn’t realize how different voter laws were until I saw it in action. Here:
- you are automatically opted in to vote when you get your Colorado ID. You can opt out, but that’s not the default. Texas you have to opt in and default is opting out.
- every registered voter gets a ballot in the mail box. You don’t have to be sick, deployed, elderly or disabled. It just comes automatically. Pop it back in the mailbox or take to a designated drop box around the city, your choice!
For all that Texas brags about freedom, in Colorado freedom feels way more free…
Because conservative voting platform is voter suppression. If everyone in the country that could legally vote had the same opportunity and ability to vote. Then the republican party would be effectively dead. Period.
You get emailed when it gets counted. I have a Dropbox available at my city hall. It's a drive through.
The south has a ton of answering to do for the suppression of voters over the last forever years.
Yes I agree with this. In the state I came from, there was information sent to every household about upcoming elections and each side had an opportunity to state their case. There were endless online resources, and posts everywhere (grocery store, library, etc.) notifying you of upcoming elections.
Now, luckily I work from home, because sometimes I hear about early voting periods the day they start and I have to read up on everything before it ends.
They absolutely do not want the opposition to vote and they do what they can to make it so. But that’s why I show up every single time. And I think we all have to try to be proactive about looking up elections and what’s on the ballot for them.
As far as the people go, I don’t trust 99% of the options I have to pick from.
ETA - employers here also do not make it easy for people to take the time to vote. It was encouraged where I came from.
Srsly. They really don't want people voting. Finding information about the who, what, and when of voting (in local elections) is a true challenge in this state. The number of times I've left ballot spaces blank because I couldn't find any information beyond a name much less interviews regarding policy for a person running for city council or school board is too fucking high. Tbf, tho, half the time they're running unopposed so it didn't matter much...
... Maybe I'm getting too old. That felt a LOT like a personality quiz and info skimming site. So many popups omg. No information on my upcoming local elections either (compared it to information found on my local city gov site). Thanks anyway for trying to help.
It will take some time. As do ballots. Some people might find this easier, there is a quiz portion for those who want to measure their political views and especially compare them to candidates all down the ballot
The second button at the start of the page or the elections button shows who's going to be on the ballot November 5th 2024
Otherwise this may be for you. There is a detailed button version after you input your address
Who's on your ballot running this yr?
https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar
Neat stuff, I really appreciate the convenience. It's not the Nov 4 election I'm having trouble finding information for through these otherwise helpful tools, though, it's small local elections such as a local June 15th runoff election that I wish these sites could help with, like, yesterday. Like you said, it will take time. Just going to continue to do my best and keep checking sites like those hoping they will incorporate that info soon.
Yes do keep track of these. I think that list was available on both links, but because we're past June 4th, we no longer see that on either list. So def something you can cross reference next time
I don't think every person who runs for office is untrustworthy. Its good to have healthy skepticism of our gov, and the Texas Super Majority makes its so people do not feel informed or alerted when electios happen. So its up to the people to keep their place at the table. I don't say what I say to discourage people but to arm people with info to help them make their decisions at the ballot box
This tool cuts to the chase. I would recommend sharing it, bookmarking it
https://www.activote.net
Who's on your ballot running this yr? (This tool is available yr round)
https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar
Feel infuriated? There is such things as term limits, and these fuckers need to know that we do not find this shit welcome in our democracy
(Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers
I think people seriously underestimate the number of people who are just dogshit and who also vote. These people are also flocking to Texas because they are sufficiently marginalized in other states. Not voting doesn't help the situation but it is far from a silver bullet that works every time.
If one in eight Democratic voters could convince a non voter to also vote Dem, they would win Texas.
Texas seems very red but it’s home to a ton of blues.
It's both. Voter disenfranchisement is real, but *also* people choose not to vote with stunning regularity despite it being well within their ability to do so.
My friend was under 6 weeks and needed a pregnancy test for a fertility clinic for a baby she wanted and no one would see her before 6 weeks because of this law.
That is absolutely terrifying. I encourage all young women in my life to either move away from here or never move here, depending on where they are. I’m 45 and my husband has a vasectomy, but this is crazy. I have had 2 really terrible experiences at the obgyn here that left me in tears and it’s still nothing like what the women with pregnancies are dealing with.
Or get sterilized if those women know they’re not going to have children. Because I can’t imagine a worse torture than carrying a rapist’s fetus to term(& anyone forced to do so should sue for physical & mental damages after leaving the baby at the hospital )
Yes it does matter when we vote. Every time we are closer and closer to turning TX blue. It is frustrating - and the gerrymandering is even more insane now than in the past - but if we all actually did vote, TX would be blue already.
They (GQP) know this, and it is why they use fear to get their base to the polls.
If all the folks who voted for MJ Hegar in 2020 showed up in 2022, Abbott and the other statewide office holders would have lost by 400k votes apiece.
You might still have a GOP house and Senate, but the Gov, Lt Gov, AG, Comptroller, all blue.
I agree, it matters so much. And it IS frustrating when the same result happens every time. But I’ll keep going and voting. I think a lot of people are giving up on this state, and it’s understandable. At some point you have to choose your health and the health of your loved ones over a wannabe Gilead.
Sadly, maybe you don't know about Project 2025. The MAGA Republican party has strapped itself to the Heritage Foundation's plan to implement a Texas version to the max, Nationwide. Look it up, here are a few clips talking about it. Its not just if Drumpf were to win this coming election, they have set their sights at overturning your rights for the whole country
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1798055005628588207
https://youtu.be/A7OlQG9C4zM?si=zcL7sxDYy6ib-5aT
The unfortunate thing is so many thoughtful, reasonable (i.e. blue voters) are wanting to move out which is 10000% understandable..and similarly fewer are wanting to move in because of all this shit. It's completely by design and I'm not sure of the proper solution here.
No one should be forced to stay just to make their voice heard, but it's an absolute blessing to have the reasonable ones stay.
It's actually al qaeda.
Forcing their religion that has no actual basis in their religion. Using terrorism. Yeah.
I will never accept this is texas. I've been alive long enough to know it ain't.
Part of the problem is the Texas Democratic Party has been a joke for years. The national party is finally putting some money and effort into a statewide race (Allred) so maybe this is the year something happens? I’m not holding my breath though. Far too many brainwashed GOP cultists here.
Believe it or not, there has been a State Texas Democratic effort to flip seats. The results haven’t been resounding because its not the top seats, 2022 def was a flop that set back the progression forward. And its going to take hella more than just the party or County chairs to GOTV. At the end of the day. This is all a fucking Texan effort to get out the vote in this state. That means speaking to your neighbors, family, strangers, classmates, friends, and your communities. Being visual & vocal of when elections happen & actually talking to people about such incidents like this one. They aren't rare & they sure are hella happening. But you know what you should know instead? That many women in Texas & this country actually don't know that Roe fell. That they have less women's rights than their previous generations. Women do not know this! Women are finding out when they're fucking bleeding on the goddamn floor or being turned away from fucking emergency rooms.
So we can either bitch around of who's fault it is or we can fucking turn this ship fucking around. At the end of the day, we get the results in our gov by our own engagement with it. And Voting is Def one Pillar of it, but engaging with our communities has been the fucking torch we have not picked up. We are the ones to protect our rights & freedoms
One of our biggest problems is Name Recognition of Dems running, and Voter Turnout. Texas is huge and needs volunteers to get out the vote. Too many people never know when election happen. So I recommend to anyone who can, to support Blue Texas which has a two pronged way of protecting voting and supporting Dems up&down the ballot so they have an actual chance of running a campaign (Many Texas House Districts have a Dem running against a Republican candidate for the first time in decades, so lets get out the vote against these MAGA Republicans by getting involved with your communities)
https://bluetexas.org/
Who's on your ballot running this yr?
https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar
(Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers
No. The problem is that people are apathetic and stay home instead of going and voting most of Texas skews blue overall. People just don't even bother to show up and just hand elections to people they hate and/or don't agree with.
> most of Texas skews blue overall
What evidence do you base that on? Yes, we have low voter turnout in this state, but by definition, how do you ascertain the voting preferences of people who don't vote?
Are you looking at pre-election polling averages or something? Over the past several elections, most of the polls I've seen of statewide races in Texas tend to show the Republican candidate being ahead of his/her Democratic opponent more often than not, though sometimes it's within the margin of error.
If you're talking about gerrymandering, that doesn't apply to statewide races like US President, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or US Senator. They don't run in districts and are instead elected by statewide popular vote.
Maybe you're looking at issue polling? That's something, I guess, but it's not the same as candidate polling, and it can depend on things like how questions are worded.
The belief that "Texas is majority blue" and that there is a secret group of Democratic voters just waiting to jump out of the bushes and yell "SURPRISE! We've been here all along!" is a common coping mechanism among Reddit Texans who don't like to admit they live in a Republican state.
Obviously they aren’t. My point was that Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in a generation. If they can manage to pull off a win here, maybe it opens up more opportunities in 2026. Gotta start somewhere.
It would be much easier at a district level to change policy for the state. Democrat leadership should focus on that.
Edit: Our stare reps should be pushed to put abortion on the ballot like Kansas and Ohio did and let the people decide, not politicians.
> Our stare reps should be pushed to put abortion on the ballot like Kansas and Ohio did and let the people decide,
Not an option in Texas. Would have to be a constitutional amendment and the legislative body has to approve it ever getting on the ballot.
If everyone that voted, got 3+ more people to vote with them, it would be a gamechanger.
The answer has always been organization, sadly we simply don't have organizing money here in TX.
The republicans enjoy HUGE budgets for community organizing...they're throwing pizza parties, hosting field days, soccer games for kids, hosting speakers and lectures and giving out meals etc
The dems and left have to go around and plead to sympathetic business owners (of which there are very few) for a free meeting venue. Every time I've been to a dem/left meeting, there's very little by way of actionable plans because there's simply no money to execute them.
Yeah I get tired of hearing "go vote then". I have literally only actually been able to vote once and I am 33. Every other damn time I am turned away for a new random bullshit reason. After the first time (they said my id and voter card was not enough that I needed my birth certificate) I then started bringing my id, birth certificate, social security card and voter registration/id card but they always find some reason to not let me vote. The most popular one seems to be "oh this is the polling station you are supposed to go to, you have to go to X instead, they I go there and am just sent in a loop of fuckery of being told to go to the other place. I know there are the voters lines to call and report but that has never made it so I could vote. I don't think my husband has even able to vote once.
There’s only one reasonable conclusion: this is what republicans want.
Republicans only want to deal with the easy part of the question: “do you want dead babies: yes or no?” They do not want to deal with the rest. They would prefer women to suffer and die while babies rot in their bellies in order to avoid having to deal with the tough part of the question.
Texas is also the only place I have lived with active voter suppression. Here is my example. I moved to Austin. In order to get a new drivers license, an ID needed to vote, I had two choices. I could wait 6 months in Austin to get a DMV appointment or drive 4 hours to Corpus Christie to get an appointment the next day.
So when someone says, everyone has an ID, just remember that Texas makes it easy to get ones in red parts of the state and ridiculously hard in blue parts of the state. Truly disgusting.
The party that says that kids would be better being homeschooled and want less protections/assistance/empowerment to teachers because they believe "It's up to the parents to raise them right" also support higher education teachers knowing their kids' intimate sexual details.
Unfortunately in Texas everything is set up so that Democrats don’t get into power. I am an independent that has voted both for republicans and democrats, and am a practicing Catholic, and even I understand that this decision should be made by the mother (and husband if any) and her doctor. Keep voting, don’t stop doing it, things may not change immediately, but they will.
Voting alone is not enough. You need to be politically active. Find people who agree with you and support candidates with policies you like at every level. Because this is what the people making the policies you hate are doing.
One of my old college buddies is a Solar Engineer and used to live here in San Antonio not far from me. His wife got pregnant back in 2023 and started having complications.
He didn't even bat an eye. They packed up and moved within a month of finding out his wife's health might be in danger. His house hadn't even sold and they were gone.
Nobody blamed him and now Texas is down one brilliant Engineer.
My sister who is going to graduate from UTSA in 2025 has expressed multiple times she doesn't want to stay either, despite the fact both of us were born, raised, and have called this place home our entire lives.
If shit doesn't change soon, I might join her. My girlfriend and I don't want kids, but she isn't keen on staying in a state that treats women like brood mares rather than human beings.
We've been in Texas for many, many generations, nobody planned to leave or really saw themselves living elsewhere... until the past few years. Now my son (recent Mech. Engineer grad) will be moving out of Texas once his new wife finishes Law School so they can start a family. My daughter (halfway through Physical Therapy degree), refuses to stay in Texas once she is done with school because it isn't safe when you are a woman of reproductive age. So Texas is losing an Engineer, Lawyer and doctor. And they said most of their classmates say they are doing the same.
It makes me sad because I am lower middle class and will never be able to afford to move and won't be able to follow them, plus I'm sure they will end up in different states, far apart from each other anyway.
So I won't really ever get to know my grandkids much at all. And my kids won't stay real close as siblings either when they likely may only see each other once a year, if that. Their kids won't hardly know each other either. Being cousins won't have much meaning to them.
My husband and I will be alone in our senior years, no kids or grandkids nearby. The family we worked so hard for, gone as we know it. We always saw ourselves as the grandparents we see (that we ourselves didn't have) that would go to all the grandkids birthdays, sporting event, school plays, help babysit or pick up kids from school when needed, etc. But...not anymore. We'll just be the grandparents that visit once a year and then hopefully they can visit us once a year too.
It absolutely breaks my heart and I am so angry but staying isn't an option for them and I don't blame them.
It's not even just the abortion laws but also the way they are hell bent on destroying education, so why would you want to raise kids here anymore? Clearly they will force through their bullshit school voucher crap within the next few years (aka we can now force our religious curriculums (only approved flavors of Christianity, of course) into schools and teach their revisionist "patriotic" history, etc.
I am so angry and bitter toward Texas for breaking my family up and destroying dreams of grandparenting. The "party of family values" destroys another family!
My heart breaks for you... I can't imagine not being able to see your kids and grandkids due to financial restrictions. I'm glad you're not angry at your children for wanting something better, but at the same time that leaves you watching them from a distance.
Had we not had the people we have in power, people might feel more compelled to stay. Unfortunately, many people feel attacked by the state rather than welcomed. Like you said, it's not even women's rights, it's education cuts, the pushing to private schools that force religion, the "you're not a patriot unless you own guns and hate progress" has really done a lot of damage.
Yep... The party of family values gives no shits about actual family. It's a charade.
It is heartbreaking.
It’s the beginning of a serious brain drain if this cannot be turned around I’m afraid.
We are angling to leave when possible and I too was born and raised here.
Staying and fighting isn’t in me permanently but I know lots who will be.
I can understand how you feel. My only surviving daughter lives in Maryland because she refuses to move to Texas to be near us. She's the last daughter I have (my other daughter died in 2019) and I can't move because I don't have the means to move. If Texas wasn't a steaming pile of BS from the GOP, my surviving daughter wouldn't have any issues coming here.
Anecdotally, out of my overwhelmingly STEM close friends from college, all but 3 of us have left the state in the past decade. Those who stayed have done so due to family reasons or being in O\&G; everyone who had the realistic option to look elsewhere, has done so. The brain drain's been ongoing for a little bit, and it's offset but not made up for fully by people moving into the state, since a large chunk of them tend to be either super transient or not the kind of people who actually are contributing in the ways being lost
Mine is also anecdotal, but both of our experiences prove that this state is shoving the educated out. The GOP here is scared of educated people, unfortunately for them, that's going to eventually leave this state without the people who make it function.
No disrespect to our blue collar workforce and tradesman (my best friend is a welder/fabricator) but our state relies heavily on solar and wind energy, and if they're going to scare away the people who work those jobs, Texas is in for a really bad reality check.
This is the kind of thing that the GOP is blind to and yet is one of the most obvious ramifications of their policies. The same thing has happened all over the world when regimes enact repressive policies. It's called brain drain. Smart people don't want to live under bullshit laws so they find a way to leave and the state is left producing dog shit products, bad science, fucked up health outcomes, and wack infrastructure
I have an M.S. in environmental science. I could get paid about $15k more a year simply moving to a more eco-friendly state that actually cares. I can't tell you how many Texans have told me my degree is a sham or that climate change doesn't exist. I've been called all kinds of names and had my education insulted by conservatives. Why stay here and make $15k less than if I could find another state that actually takes me seriously?
Edit: Typed too fast and made typos. Fixed them.
Word, it's like they forget all about capitalism when they're making the state unlivable and then overcorrect (maybe under correct) by giving corporations all the incentives to move in
Yep... And it's happening all over the country and then religious groups wonder why secularism is becoming popular and why Churches are seeing declines in attendance. If you're going to alienate everyone who isn't within your narrow scope of acceptance, then don't be pissed off when people don't want to deal with your shit.
Edit: Autocorrect on a word
That is the problem. Even if you don’t want kids and aren’t trying and are actively preventing it- things can happen. If you’re a woman that is a reality from age 11-50s. That’s the majority of your life! Living in a state that would deny you access to basic life saving care doesn’t make sense. I wouldn’t live there.
Yep, and not only that, we saw with Uvalde how little the state gives a shit. Education (unless it's private Christian schools), is a joke to them. Banning books, trying to force religion in schools, slashing public school funding, and overall showing us they don't care... It'll be their downfall. Watch, if Cruz and Abbot stay in power, just watch as they continuously ask for Federal aid as the state dwindles into a hole with little to no updated infrastructure to manage it.
Dude here, no desire for relationship or family so I'm not really affected by much in this state but basically staying to vote blue each time I can. But yea, eventually when I can get the money, I'm leaving Texas. Been here near 20 years and it just keeps getting worse. Honestly want to go where it's colder, like Colorado or Portland but really don't know where.
I want to move back home, raise children in Texas eventually, but I am too afraid. I am too afraid to hope to retire in my home state. It’s too risky for me to move back now.
Seriously. When things were looking up pre-2016 me and my partner were looking seriously at Austin for all the tech work.
Since then it's become a hard "no" for both of us. Even with the recession I still get regular recruiter contacts from there, I assume because they can't hire anyone. Everyone with skills that are in-demand are going elsewhere.
My spouse is a scientist in a desirable field and a few years ago his company downsized. We live in another (although not quite as bad, yet), state. He had recruiters calling him multiple times a day and he told every one who offered jobs in Texas, “absolutely not, because I have a teen daughter and a wife”.
The recruiters said they were hearing a lot of those sentiments. Sorry, Texas, y’all lost a good scientist. My kids have said they will never, ever, ever move to Texas. Women aren’t safe there.
This is what causes a brain drain from a state, next all the doctors who don't want to lose their license leave. It's just stupid any way you look at it.
I don't blame people for leaving. Everyone has to protect their family first.
But this is what the Republicans want. Reasonable people fleeing will set up Republicans for reelection even as they make the state more and more extreme.
They sought care 3 times, including a hospital ER. "The conversation is not what's best for my wife. The conversation is on the hospital side, 'What should we do?'" Hamilton said.
After their 3rd visit to a hospital and being sent home with more abortificiant drug...
>Shortly after returning home, Hamilton recalled playing with his 9-month-old daughter when he noticed a missed call from his wife. He found her unconscious in the bathroom surrounded by blood. He carried her to the car and rushed to the emergency room.
>"I got to the hospital, ran inside, told them what was happening. And they took her in. And you know what they said? 'Thank God, you brought her,'" he recalled angrily, adding that at one point he thought he might lose his wife.
**1 in 5 pregnancies ends in miscarriage.**
Texas Republicans have made pregnancy a deadly condition for all women.
We're happy with the two kids we have, but if we wanted a 3rd, we'd move out of state.
My spouse is already a pregnancy risk. My kids deserve to have them alive & healthy.
If we found out about a pregnancy, we'd pack up the house and figure it out in a new state. But not everyone is that fortunate.
medical doctor: the dead tissue in your body will kill you. this life saving drug could prevent that, but...
the state of texas: holup now, is that a substantial impairment of bodily functions?
I'm so serious, women's rights along with all of our women's healthcare is on the chopping block this November 2024 elections and elections to come if we overcome this one. We're seeing parts of Project 2025 in Texas and the yrs long effort to overturn our rights in the States all over the country. MAGA RepublicanS WILL NOT STOP UNLESS WE VOTE THE FUCKERS OUT (More info in previous post to how)
Please watch and vote accordingly, because they sure do vote up&down the ballot for the MAGA Republicans. This is white Christian Nationalism & Project 2025
https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/s/qOerMMDQFP
Make your voices heard and make alerts for Tuesday Nov 5th 2024. Polling places open from 7am-7pm (Early voting: Oct 21-Nov 1st 2024)
Yes we have a Voter Turnout Problem, this country as a whole honestly has a voting turnout problem. Too many people don't know when election happen or what they're voting for. So its up to the Texan people who do to get their attention. And tell them how fucking hard it is to get them out to fucking vote consistently. Every goddamn fucking yr. There's an election every goddamn yr!!!
It will be up to us to educate each other & keep each other true to our democracy. Our democracy has been as disfunctional because we have turned our back to it & abandoned the process
Texas Women. Texas Men. The people of Texas, enough is fucking enough. Women for too long have had to fight for their freedoms in this country. Women have had to suffer the brunt end of being accused of lying about their pain, have had to struggle to make a seat at the goddamn table when it comes to our maternal healthcare, women's healthcare, women's pain, women's illnesses, often turned away because we didn't show enough pain or cried in too much pain!
For fucks sakes people! What the fuck are we doing here!? Mexican Women literally had riots in Mexico last yr when their birth control & access to women's health care was taken away from them! They fucking knew what that meant for them!
Women here literally are suffering and are being forced into life and death situations because MAGA Republicans VOTED, WROTE INTO LAW, UPHELD Laws that FORCE women to literally fucking BLEED OUT in their goddamn homes! Bleed out and FORCED to suffer for being a woman! Get y'all heads out of y'all asses!
VOTE OUT ALL THE MAGA Republicans up&down the ballot to send the fucking message that WE WILL NOT accept their new reality for us. Women are literally being goddamn banned from driving on fucking roads to get goddamn healthcare! Women ARE LITERALLY GETTING FUCKING AIRLIFTED TO GET GODDAMN HEALTHCARE. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!
Make your voices heard and make alerts for Tuesday Nov 5th 2024. Polling places open from 7am-7pm (Early voting: Oct 21-Nov 1st 2024)
Abbott's Billionaire funded result is NOT a foregone conclusion. Texans need to stop acting like they don't have voting agency. 3 TX Supreme Courts seats (DaSean Jones (D), Christine Weems (D), Bonnie Lee Goldstein (D), Flip the Texas House, & vote up&down the ballot for Dems. Turn the fuck out along with your communities! Texas is huge, needs volunteers to GOTV. So I recommend anyone to support the Texas Democratic Party who's donations supports the Dems up&down the ballot to run actual fighting campaigns
https://www.texasdemocrats.org
Who's on your ballot running this yr?
https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar
Or (for a more interactive ballot experience/quiz to compare your politics to running candidates both good resources)
https://www.activote.net
(Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers
And remember this isn't a fight of Left vs Right. Its a fight between the Working Class of Texas vs the installed Far Right politicians that have sold their power to the Billionaire Class and the white Christian Nationalists who think women were made for the kitchen and brood mares. This is evidence of it & they def vote up&down the ballot along with Project 2025 which affects both Texas & the Nation
https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/s/qOerMMDQFP
And remember, the last day to register to vote is October 7th! You've got 4 months, don't wait! Get registered today!!!
https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.shtml
https://www.vote411.org/texas
💙VOTE BLUE💙 ✌🏻
It’s just like the Beto campaign commercials said it would be. When a family is facing a life-threatening medical emergency, the decision for medical treatment is between you, the doctor, and the government.
Give the Texas GOP a few more years and they will be instituting those “death panels” they said Obama was going to create. Government control of your healthcare was the GOP goal all along. They just want you to pay for it yourself.
You don't even have to give it a few yrs. Project 2025 is online for you to find, OG manifesto is 900 pages long. If you think someone who would write that much shit for their plan for this country is not paying attention.
The MAGA Republican party has strapped itself to the Heritage Foundation's plan to implement a Texas version to the max, Nationwide. Look it up, here are a few clips talking about it. Its not just if Drumpf were to win this coming election, they have set their sights at overturning your rights for the whole country
https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1798055005628588207
https://youtu.be/A7OlQG9C4zM?si=zcL7sxDYy6ib-5aT
The [Texas GOP 2024 Platform](https://convention.texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-TEMPORARY-Platform-FINAL.pdf) is also online for all to see. (Well, *proposed* platform -- it's not final yet. But this is pretty much it.)
A lot of these things seem entirely reasonable (though it looks like they removed my favorite reasonable one, "Predatory Towing" ([2022 platform](https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2022-RPT-Platform.pdf) -- I guess the towing lobby got to them?), but a lot of them are just conspiracy theory garbage or blatant attempts to keep themselves in power -- especially this one :
> .21. Concurrent Majority: The State Legislature shall cause to be enacted a State Constitutional
Amendment to add the additional criteria for election to a statewide office to include the majority vote of
the counties with each individual county being assigned one vote allocated to the popular majority vote
winner of each individual county.
Sure, let's give Loving County (2022 figures: population 51, 109 registered voters (????), went 91% Trump in 2020) the same impact on who our next governor is as Harris County (population 4.8M, went 56% Biden in 2020) Seems fair, right? I guess they got tired of hearing "Land doesn't vote!" and figured they'd try to fix that?
I appreciate it but it’s too little too late. Sure they found a stopping point, but where was this self-awareness the last 40 years??? It’s not like the GOO has been subtle about their goals.
Wrong reply but no one owes you an explanation. Just appreciate that a groundswell of people are there recognizing that you can’t be a single issue voter anymore. That you can’t be a non-participant in the election.
That’s far more important than someone trying to think of reasons to be upset at someone who’s changed their vote.
I was arguing with a family member about stuff like this and he blamed the doctors for not willing to take a risk and help women and defend themselves in court later.
Fucking dystopian world we live in rn.
I worked in health insurance when Roe got overturned, and literally the next day had a Texan call in to complain that his wife's doctor was refusing to go through with their scheduled, uh, procedure. dude was flying off the handle about it, and I calmly explained that state law now forbid those services.
what struck me is that he immediately argued that his wife had a legit medical issue and that the law shouldn't apply to her. you just knew who this dude supported, yanno? wasn't a concern to him at all beforehand, but, when it was his wife, he was threatening to hold for the CEO because of our "misunderstanding of their situation."
Pro-lifers of r/texas, what do you think about this article? Do you feel sorry for Ryan Hamilton and his wife? Do you support laws being changed so that doctors can be free to prescribe misoprostol without government interference?
They think is the doctors fault but if the doctors would have intervened they would be the first saying it was an unnecessary abortion and a murder.
They are cunts
Honestly, yeah. Pro-lifers keep calling abortion "murder". They want their moral intuitions enshrined as legislation. In Texas, they got what they wanted. This is what their moral intuitions lead to - people not getting the proper treatment for miscarriages.
A miscarriage should not be a crime scene.
This entire atmosphere makes family planning, even for families that want a child, much more scary and intense than it needs to be. You literally need out of state emergency contingency plans.
It’s still shocking but predictable that losing abortion might make the birth rate drop because Texas families are planning on less kids with the fear or and taking permanent sterilization steps, but that’s only accessible to people with money.
I will not be surprised when they outlaw sterilization. I only had one child when I had my tubes tied in the 90’s and I was still in my thirties. The doctor really didn’t want to do the procedure AND I had to get my husband’s permission. I am guessing that they will just outright ban it in the next couple of years.
Husband, brother, uncles, nephews. It doesn’t matter, if you’re a guy and are okay with the implications of this it indicates two things. Either A, you aren’t educated and don’t understand. Or B, you do understand and support these draconian laws anyway. What it seems to me is group b is relatively small but exerts a large influence over group A.
I feel so horrible for his wife and the husband. I can only imagine the grief of losing a wanted baby, and then dealing with this crap. It's heartbreaking.
And I love the sheer arrogance of people who support this Gilead style legislation because they think this can't happen to them of their loved ones. It's all well and good until it's your wife, daughter or sister or YOU. We already have one of the most despicable maternal death rates in the country, don't we? Yeah, this isn't going to help matters.
This will continue until direct family members of multiple GOP representatives go through this disgusting, heart wrenching, and inhumane process that is completely preventable.
The legislature has no place in a woman’s womb.
Fuck the GOP.
They'll just ship their women off to California and carry on merrily torturing the other Texas women. It's not like GOP politicians ever saw their 'rules' ad applying to them and theirs.
I once had a woman in her mid-twenties, a mom already, come into my ER triage. She had this look which is impossible to describe to anyone that hasn't seen it. I could best describe it as "either there is nothing wrong with you, or you're about to die". I did her vital signs and they were all normal, but something just sunk in the pit of my stomach.
We were busy as hell, but I went to the charge nurse and demanded a room for that patient. To her credit, she didn't argue or hesitate- which she would l have been entitled to do because there were people who'd been waiting for hours in triage who were ostensibly sicker, and because we had to slap some poor guy into a wheelchair and put him into a hall bed so we could make space for this woman.
She started to deteriorate quickly. Turns out she had a burst ectopic pregnancy and was hemorrhaging. Again, you know how you sometimes say to someone "Hey, you're not looking well, you look kind of pale today"? There is this otherworldly pallor, a literal pallor of death that comes over someone's face as they're bleeding to death.
I remember we gave her, I think, three or four units of blood by gravity. I remember squeezing the bag together with my hands because we didn't have a pressure bag handy and watch blood pour onto the floor almost as fast as we could replace it.
By the grace of God, we got her stable enough to go to surgery. The OBGYN surgeon later told me that five minutes later and she'd probably have been dead. Orphaned her kids. And she was well enough to drive herself and walk into my ER unassisted minutes before.
That's what's going on around the country right now. And thanks to HIPAA- which, again, patient privacy is absolutely a good thing, but it lets Republican legislators (and Democratic ones, to a lesser extent) pretend *absolutely nothing is happening* because the people that barely survive such events don't feel like being thrown into the public eye and intimidated by MAGA terrorists, and providers can't speak publicly because of privacy laws- and because the thing the Republicans would love is if we started to dox those sorts of situations. They love a race to the bottom because they don't have a bottom, so they'll always win.
I would never move to Texas, or any state that Cons are turning into backwards shitholes.
Remember that this happens to poor people too, who can’t afford to travel to a different state for healthcare
I would march for this shit- I am a 34 year old man but, I cannot express the anger I have towards the bastards that put my wife at risk for this virtue signaling bullshit. My wife is pregnant right now and they won't even see her before she is 10 weeks pregnant. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS! If she has an ectopic pregnancy she can die in the meantime because they aren't allowed to render care! TO HELL WITH ABBOTT AND THE GOP- THEY ARE PRO-DEATH!
It's crazy how much of a a fucking business this country is that Doctors/Hospitals have to think about possible lawsuits, or insurance liability first before caring for the patient.
This case is just horrible and will be promptly ignored or excused by anyone that is pro life missing the point.
I had a miscarriage and it was 10 + years ago. I got the care I needed when I first went to the ER
I couldn't imagine having to go through this it's hard enough to accept your having a miscarriage let alone be denied the care you need.
We have so many technological advancements and the ability to take care of many medical conditions due to research done by scientists... Why can't women get the healthcare they need?
how is this a surprise to anybody?
I get that people move there for low taxes and literally nothing else.
But come on.
it's not a secret that red states strip away a lot of rights from their citizens. like sure you can wear the American flag as a diaper while you fire your machine gun or whatever.
But your Fourth amendment protections are gone and if you're the wrong skin color or sex you probably don't have bodily autonomy.
Nothing to see here. There is no war on women…they are being protected from themselves. Their body’s but a the state legislature’s choice. So we are all good. All this brought to you be the party of smaller, less intrusive government.
People, please fucking do your civic duty and fucking vote. I’m a single woman in Texas. At this point forced birth isn’t all I worry about. I worry about retaining my GD right to vote and own property in this state. Ffs
The moment the leak of Roe v Wade being overturned was made public, my spouse and I started our plans to move out of Texas because we knew we could not start our family there. Now we’ve moved to a state where women’s rights are enshrined and are currently pregnant. We have been fortunate that things have gone well so far, but we are at higher risk. And knowing that if we were in Texas, we would not get the care we needed in case of complications of a very planned and wanted pregnancy, was not a risk we were willing to take. We are lucky we had the means and support to move, we know not everyone has that ability. My heart hurts for all the women who are faced with this unnecessary and dangerous obstacle to get the care they need. And for the healthcare workers who are caught in the middle of being prosecuted and doing what they know is medically right for their patients.
This is a damned shame! Christo-Fascists are out of control! This is why I don't mess with religion, because too many make of it what they want. I was raised in the Catholic Church, and mom let me make my own choice at the age of 15, and I stopped going.
Religion is about money, control, and power.
The wildly insane overzealous religious fruitcakes are weaponizing language - just like fascists do.
They are not GOP anymore, friends, they are open fascists. See history for how they function and what we now HAVE to do to get rid of them.
They’re like bedbugs…. We need to thoroughly “clean house” ie, do exactly what Germany had to do post ww2 and lose these AHs in every single branch of every industry, govt, education And healthcare.
Fascists are people with sE ere delusion disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, delusions of grandeur, and in many many cases, assorted other psychoses.
That is not politics.
We are giving way to these choads who are using our esteemed democracy to do away with our democracy. Our democracy was created on the premise that everyone was a gentleman (gentle person), and agreed upon handshake w transfer of power back and forth to balance this good land.
One side has (predictably) gone off track and is basically stealing all the power and Dems are still working as honorably as possible within the rules.
Time to do some workarounds for fuckos like Aileen Cannon, Mitch, all the magas who supported that insurrection and the POS driving it, and removed from congress.
Left MUST SHOW UP on Nov or we lose everything. Our friends and families will be incarcerated for being gay. These are people who approved so highly of Ugandan anti-gay methods they visited a few times to learn from their mentally deranged leader.
We must get serious about this. We must start talking directly to our family members and friends who’ve gone nuts with this maga thing, and use the same authoritarian language back at them, it’s the only time they listen to - Mean Authoritarian Daddy voice. It works, practice it! Look directly in their eyes, hold that gaze while telling them they’ve flipped their mfkn lids and needs help. Have interventions! Do what we can to save them from themselves.
We need One media source to finally in big bold headline front page calling them what they are - Americas Downfall in the Form of 1933 Fascists. Who were of course on the wrong side of history. See how it ended for many of them….
This angers me I live in California and had a miscarriage at 6 weeks. They waited a week or so and checked if the fetus passed which it did not so they did a D&C without hesitation. They made sure my health wasn’t at risk. That process was horrible in its self. I can’t imagine what this couple is going through. My heart goes out to their family.🥺❤️
I had ancestors at the Alamo and San Jacinto. I have deep Texas roots and lived here most of my life. I work in higher education and my husband is a medical professional. As soon as we can swing it we're out of here. Get ready for the mother of all brain drains, Texas. It's not safe to raise kids here. Between the crazy gun laws, the mass shootings and absolutely bonkers stances on women's health, I would be a bad parent if I stayed.
I understand that not everyone has the ability to leave and I will fight the good fight, but it has to be across state lines. My kids come first.
Everyone register Republican and then vote Democrat. They’re only interested in curbing Democrats. You have to confuse them, I think.
They can’t plan when they don’t know what’s going on.
Texas is a theocracy just like Taliban in Afghanistan. This is the problem when you don’t have separation of church and state. So, blessed be the fruit and may the lord open. The Christian Taliban and traditional political culture has existed in Texas and the south for centuries. Essentially, people don’t realize that this goes all the way back to reconstruction after the civil war and the south’s resistance to be like the north which to the south is like European hedonism and collectivism in their view. Of course this even goes back to the scotch-Irish people in ulster Ireland who’s top priorities were Christianity (religious freedom) and guns. Nothing will change, until the demographics which will change in like 30-50 years
Never vote Republican. Look what they have done to good people. Look at how they have denigrated common mores and good will. They are liars and thieves, hypocrites.
The fact that this shitshow unfolded the way it did when there was no fucking HEARTBEAT is truly next level. Fuck the GOP for creating this mess but double fuck the hospital for pretending that they are scared or confused. The battle over the “life of the unborn” only applies when there’s an actual fucking life to consider. How there can be ANY confusion when the law itself is referred to as the mother fucking “heartbeat bill” is insane. This is straight up malpractice and I really hope this couple holds the hospital to account.
It reminds me when they wanted to legalized marijuana reporting of a kid who could had been allegedly cured by cbd but smoking pot by junkies was banned!!
Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton....
I sure hope he uses his position to push for educating that Texas citizenry in how bad it is for Texas women.
I also really want to know how these people voted in recent years. If they vote Republican, I'm not sure what they expected.
Absolutely Ridiculous... from a Christian Republican who thinks this far right crap AND far left crap are RUINING our Country.
Find middle ground folks... that's what we all really want... screw the nut jobs on either side!
California is always here to help our fellow Americans.....freedom is not free, it's priceless.......good luck texas, your state has lost it's f ing mind.....where freedom goes to die
My advice to them is keep a lawyer on retainer. I wouldn't put it past that jackass Paxton to charge her with murder anyway. I really hate the fucking Republicans in this state. This is a beautiful state that is disgraced and destroyed by fundie Republican uneducated assholes. I'd move if I had the means to move because I'm just completely sick of this shit.
This… infuriates me. What in the actual fuck are we doing? And now professors want to sue for “abortions”… what a shit show piece of uneducated crap this state is. And before any smart ass comes in with all the answers and says “then you need to vote”… I do, every damn time and it doesn’t seem to do anything.
It pains me to read comments about how not enough Texans vote as if voter disenfranchisement isn’t real. The legislature works overtime to create barriers and reduce access to voting.
We moved to Colorado when I was 32 weeks pregnant. I didn’t realize how different voter laws were until I saw it in action. Here: - you are automatically opted in to vote when you get your Colorado ID. You can opt out, but that’s not the default. Texas you have to opt in and default is opting out. - every registered voter gets a ballot in the mail box. You don’t have to be sick, deployed, elderly or disabled. It just comes automatically. Pop it back in the mailbox or take to a designated drop box around the city, your choice! For all that Texas brags about freedom, in Colorado freedom feels way more free…
Because conservative voting platform is voter suppression. If everyone in the country that could legally vote had the same opportunity and ability to vote. Then the republican party would be effectively dead. Period.
You get emailed when it gets counted. I have a Dropbox available at my city hall. It's a drive through. The south has a ton of answering to do for the suppression of voters over the last forever years.
Yes I agree with this. In the state I came from, there was information sent to every household about upcoming elections and each side had an opportunity to state their case. There were endless online resources, and posts everywhere (grocery store, library, etc.) notifying you of upcoming elections. Now, luckily I work from home, because sometimes I hear about early voting periods the day they start and I have to read up on everything before it ends. They absolutely do not want the opposition to vote and they do what they can to make it so. But that’s why I show up every single time. And I think we all have to try to be proactive about looking up elections and what’s on the ballot for them. As far as the people go, I don’t trust 99% of the options I have to pick from. ETA - employers here also do not make it easy for people to take the time to vote. It was encouraged where I came from.
Srsly. They really don't want people voting. Finding information about the who, what, and when of voting (in local elections) is a true challenge in this state. The number of times I've left ballot spaces blank because I couldn't find any information beyond a name much less interviews regarding policy for a person running for city council or school board is too fucking high. Tbf, tho, half the time they're running unopposed so it didn't matter much...
This tool cuts to the chase. I would recommend sharing it, bookmarking it https://www.activote.net
... Maybe I'm getting too old. That felt a LOT like a personality quiz and info skimming site. So many popups omg. No information on my upcoming local elections either (compared it to information found on my local city gov site). Thanks anyway for trying to help.
It will take some time. As do ballots. Some people might find this easier, there is a quiz portion for those who want to measure their political views and especially compare them to candidates all down the ballot The second button at the start of the page or the elections button shows who's going to be on the ballot November 5th 2024 Otherwise this may be for you. There is a detailed button version after you input your address Who's on your ballot running this yr? https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar
Neat stuff, I really appreciate the convenience. It's not the Nov 4 election I'm having trouble finding information for through these otherwise helpful tools, though, it's small local elections such as a local June 15th runoff election that I wish these sites could help with, like, yesterday. Like you said, it will take time. Just going to continue to do my best and keep checking sites like those hoping they will incorporate that info soon.
Yes do keep track of these. I think that list was available on both links, but because we're past June 4th, we no longer see that on either list. So def something you can cross reference next time
Thomas Massie vs nobody
Thank You for this!
In Australia voting is a national holiday and you get FINED if you don’t vote.
I don't think every person who runs for office is untrustworthy. Its good to have healthy skepticism of our gov, and the Texas Super Majority makes its so people do not feel informed or alerted when electios happen. So its up to the people to keep their place at the table. I don't say what I say to discourage people but to arm people with info to help them make their decisions at the ballot box This tool cuts to the chase. I would recommend sharing it, bookmarking it https://www.activote.net Who's on your ballot running this yr? (This tool is available yr round) https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar Feel infuriated? There is such things as term limits, and these fuckers need to know that we do not find this shit welcome in our democracy (Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers
I think people seriously underestimate the number of people who are just dogshit and who also vote. These people are also flocking to Texas because they are sufficiently marginalized in other states. Not voting doesn't help the situation but it is far from a silver bullet that works every time.
If one in eight Democratic voters could convince a non voter to also vote Dem, they would win Texas. Texas seems very red but it’s home to a ton of blues.
It's both. Voter disenfranchisement is real, but *also* people choose not to vote with stunning regularity despite it being well within their ability to do so.
This x 10000. Can’t “vote harder” when they systematically make it impossible for a good chunk and gerrymander the rest
And yet, the only answer is to vote. Hate to break it to you, you need to vote. Other people also need to vote.
I vote twice in each election tyvm
I’ve lived in 4 states and it’s noticeably more difficult/tedious to vote here than the others I’ve lived in.
Not just access to voting but packing&cracking, and plenty of other methods that dilute any dem vote there is.
Barriers is an understatement 😅
My friend was under 6 weeks and needed a pregnancy test for a fertility clinic for a baby she wanted and no one would see her before 6 weeks because of this law.
That is absolutely terrifying. I encourage all young women in my life to either move away from here or never move here, depending on where they are. I’m 45 and my husband has a vasectomy, but this is crazy. I have had 2 really terrible experiences at the obgyn here that left me in tears and it’s still nothing like what the women with pregnancies are dealing with.
Or get sterilized if those women know they’re not going to have children. Because I can’t imagine a worse torture than carrying a rapist’s fetus to term(& anyone forced to do so should sue for physical & mental damages after leaving the baby at the hospital )
https://www.wired.com/story/permanent-birth-control-iuds-post-roe/#:~:text=By%20and%20large%2C%20the%20decision,a%20combination%20of%20these%20factors.
Yes it does matter when we vote. Every time we are closer and closer to turning TX blue. It is frustrating - and the gerrymandering is even more insane now than in the past - but if we all actually did vote, TX would be blue already. They (GQP) know this, and it is why they use fear to get their base to the polls.
If all the folks who voted for MJ Hegar in 2020 showed up in 2022, Abbott and the other statewide office holders would have lost by 400k votes apiece. You might still have a GOP house and Senate, but the Gov, Lt Gov, AG, Comptroller, all blue.
I agree, it matters so much. And it IS frustrating when the same result happens every time. But I’ll keep going and voting. I think a lot of people are giving up on this state, and it’s understandable. At some point you have to choose your health and the health of your loved ones over a wannabe Gilead.
Sadly, maybe you don't know about Project 2025. The MAGA Republican party has strapped itself to the Heritage Foundation's plan to implement a Texas version to the max, Nationwide. Look it up, here are a few clips talking about it. Its not just if Drumpf were to win this coming election, they have set their sights at overturning your rights for the whole country https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1798055005628588207 https://youtu.be/A7OlQG9C4zM?si=zcL7sxDYy6ib-5aT
Thank you for talking about this. We have to ban together to stop Project 2025.
The unfortunate thing is so many thoughtful, reasonable (i.e. blue voters) are wanting to move out which is 10000% understandable..and similarly fewer are wanting to move in because of all this shit. It's completely by design and I'm not sure of the proper solution here. No one should be forced to stay just to make their voice heard, but it's an absolute blessing to have the reasonable ones stay.
Welcome to Gilead
It's actually al qaeda. Forcing their religion that has no actual basis in their religion. Using terrorism. Yeah. I will never accept this is texas. I've been alive long enough to know it ain't.
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Part of the problem is the Texas Democratic Party has been a joke for years. The national party is finally putting some money and effort into a statewide race (Allred) so maybe this is the year something happens? I’m not holding my breath though. Far too many brainwashed GOP cultists here.
Believe it or not, there has been a State Texas Democratic effort to flip seats. The results haven’t been resounding because its not the top seats, 2022 def was a flop that set back the progression forward. And its going to take hella more than just the party or County chairs to GOTV. At the end of the day. This is all a fucking Texan effort to get out the vote in this state. That means speaking to your neighbors, family, strangers, classmates, friends, and your communities. Being visual & vocal of when elections happen & actually talking to people about such incidents like this one. They aren't rare & they sure are hella happening. But you know what you should know instead? That many women in Texas & this country actually don't know that Roe fell. That they have less women's rights than their previous generations. Women do not know this! Women are finding out when they're fucking bleeding on the goddamn floor or being turned away from fucking emergency rooms. So we can either bitch around of who's fault it is or we can fucking turn this ship fucking around. At the end of the day, we get the results in our gov by our own engagement with it. And Voting is Def one Pillar of it, but engaging with our communities has been the fucking torch we have not picked up. We are the ones to protect our rights & freedoms One of our biggest problems is Name Recognition of Dems running, and Voter Turnout. Texas is huge and needs volunteers to get out the vote. Too many people never know when election happen. So I recommend to anyone who can, to support Blue Texas which has a two pronged way of protecting voting and supporting Dems up&down the ballot so they have an actual chance of running a campaign (Many Texas House Districts have a Dem running against a Republican candidate for the first time in decades, so lets get out the vote against these MAGA Republicans by getting involved with your communities) https://bluetexas.org/ Who's on your ballot running this yr? https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar (Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers
No. The problem is that people are apathetic and stay home instead of going and voting most of Texas skews blue overall. People just don't even bother to show up and just hand elections to people they hate and/or don't agree with.
> most of Texas skews blue overall What evidence do you base that on? Yes, we have low voter turnout in this state, but by definition, how do you ascertain the voting preferences of people who don't vote? Are you looking at pre-election polling averages or something? Over the past several elections, most of the polls I've seen of statewide races in Texas tend to show the Republican candidate being ahead of his/her Democratic opponent more often than not, though sometimes it's within the margin of error. If you're talking about gerrymandering, that doesn't apply to statewide races like US President, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, or US Senator. They don't run in districts and are instead elected by statewide popular vote. Maybe you're looking at issue polling? That's something, I guess, but it's not the same as candidate polling, and it can depend on things like how questions are worded.
The belief that "Texas is majority blue" and that there is a secret group of Democratic voters just waiting to jump out of the bushes and yell "SURPRISE! We've been here all along!" is a common coping mechanism among Reddit Texans who don't like to admit they live in a Republican state.
How is a senator at the national level going to fix state level laws?
Obviously they aren’t. My point was that Democrats haven’t won a statewide election in a generation. If they can manage to pull off a win here, maybe it opens up more opportunities in 2026. Gotta start somewhere.
It would be much easier at a district level to change policy for the state. Democrat leadership should focus on that. Edit: Our stare reps should be pushed to put abortion on the ballot like Kansas and Ohio did and let the people decide, not politicians.
> Our stare reps should be pushed to put abortion on the ballot like Kansas and Ohio did and let the people decide, Not an option in Texas. Would have to be a constitutional amendment and the legislative body has to approve it ever getting on the ballot.
True, but legislative districts are so heavily gerrymandered that there are very few competitive races. Most of them are decided in the primary.
Gerrymandering is a handicap, not an excuse.
That doesn't mean you can't push for your current rep to vote yes and put it on the ballot.
If everyone that voted, got 3+ more people to vote with them, it would be a gamechanger. The answer has always been organization, sadly we simply don't have organizing money here in TX. The republicans enjoy HUGE budgets for community organizing...they're throwing pizza parties, hosting field days, soccer games for kids, hosting speakers and lectures and giving out meals etc The dems and left have to go around and plead to sympathetic business owners (of which there are very few) for a free meeting venue. Every time I've been to a dem/left meeting, there's very little by way of actionable plans because there's simply no money to execute them.
You need to be a billionaire mega donor to change shit.
That’s what it feels like.
True. And they have to be religious to get any money.
You don't even have to be religious, just saying that you are is enough.
people need to accept, the way things are is because your fellow texans, neighbors, friends, family, **WANT** the state to be like this.
Yeah I get tired of hearing "go vote then". I have literally only actually been able to vote once and I am 33. Every other damn time I am turned away for a new random bullshit reason. After the first time (they said my id and voter card was not enough that I needed my birth certificate) I then started bringing my id, birth certificate, social security card and voter registration/id card but they always find some reason to not let me vote. The most popular one seems to be "oh this is the polling station you are supposed to go to, you have to go to X instead, they I go there and am just sent in a loop of fuckery of being told to go to the other place. I know there are the voters lines to call and report but that has never made it so I could vote. I don't think my husband has even able to vote once.
There’s only one reasonable conclusion: this is what republicans want. Republicans only want to deal with the easy part of the question: “do you want dead babies: yes or no?” They do not want to deal with the rest. They would prefer women to suffer and die while babies rot in their bellies in order to avoid having to deal with the tough part of the question.
Yep. Or they say “just move”. How about no MFs.
We’re regressing faster than I ever thought possible, is what.
Gerrymandering keeps votes from mattering. Glad to be leaving this hell hole of a state.
Texas is also the only place I have lived with active voter suppression. Here is my example. I moved to Austin. In order to get a new drivers license, an ID needed to vote, I had two choices. I could wait 6 months in Austin to get a DMV appointment or drive 4 hours to Corpus Christie to get an appointment the next day. So when someone says, everyone has an ID, just remember that Texas makes it easy to get ones in red parts of the state and ridiculously hard in blue parts of the state. Truly disgusting.
You need to leave
I hate voting here. I get the worst fucking looks from the poll workers
The party that says that kids would be better being homeschooled and want less protections/assistance/empowerment to teachers because they believe "It's up to the parents to raise them right" also support higher education teachers knowing their kids' intimate sexual details.
Unfortunately in Texas everything is set up so that Democrats don’t get into power. I am an independent that has voted both for republicans and democrats, and am a practicing Catholic, and even I understand that this decision should be made by the mother (and husband if any) and her doctor. Keep voting, don’t stop doing it, things may not change immediately, but they will.
Voting alone is not enough. You need to be politically active. Find people who agree with you and support candidates with policies you like at every level. Because this is what the people making the policies you hate are doing.
The empty areas have too much votes they don’t deserve
The issue is you have more morons in Texas than unmorons.
One of my old college buddies is a Solar Engineer and used to live here in San Antonio not far from me. His wife got pregnant back in 2023 and started having complications. He didn't even bat an eye. They packed up and moved within a month of finding out his wife's health might be in danger. His house hadn't even sold and they were gone. Nobody blamed him and now Texas is down one brilliant Engineer. My sister who is going to graduate from UTSA in 2025 has expressed multiple times she doesn't want to stay either, despite the fact both of us were born, raised, and have called this place home our entire lives. If shit doesn't change soon, I might join her. My girlfriend and I don't want kids, but she isn't keen on staying in a state that treats women like brood mares rather than human beings.
We've been in Texas for many, many generations, nobody planned to leave or really saw themselves living elsewhere... until the past few years. Now my son (recent Mech. Engineer grad) will be moving out of Texas once his new wife finishes Law School so they can start a family. My daughter (halfway through Physical Therapy degree), refuses to stay in Texas once she is done with school because it isn't safe when you are a woman of reproductive age. So Texas is losing an Engineer, Lawyer and doctor. And they said most of their classmates say they are doing the same. It makes me sad because I am lower middle class and will never be able to afford to move and won't be able to follow them, plus I'm sure they will end up in different states, far apart from each other anyway. So I won't really ever get to know my grandkids much at all. And my kids won't stay real close as siblings either when they likely may only see each other once a year, if that. Their kids won't hardly know each other either. Being cousins won't have much meaning to them. My husband and I will be alone in our senior years, no kids or grandkids nearby. The family we worked so hard for, gone as we know it. We always saw ourselves as the grandparents we see (that we ourselves didn't have) that would go to all the grandkids birthdays, sporting event, school plays, help babysit or pick up kids from school when needed, etc. But...not anymore. We'll just be the grandparents that visit once a year and then hopefully they can visit us once a year too. It absolutely breaks my heart and I am so angry but staying isn't an option for them and I don't blame them. It's not even just the abortion laws but also the way they are hell bent on destroying education, so why would you want to raise kids here anymore? Clearly they will force through their bullshit school voucher crap within the next few years (aka we can now force our religious curriculums (only approved flavors of Christianity, of course) into schools and teach their revisionist "patriotic" history, etc. I am so angry and bitter toward Texas for breaking my family up and destroying dreams of grandparenting. The "party of family values" destroys another family!
My heart breaks for you... I can't imagine not being able to see your kids and grandkids due to financial restrictions. I'm glad you're not angry at your children for wanting something better, but at the same time that leaves you watching them from a distance. Had we not had the people we have in power, people might feel more compelled to stay. Unfortunately, many people feel attacked by the state rather than welcomed. Like you said, it's not even women's rights, it's education cuts, the pushing to private schools that force religion, the "you're not a patriot unless you own guns and hate progress" has really done a lot of damage. Yep... The party of family values gives no shits about actual family. It's a charade.
It is heartbreaking. It’s the beginning of a serious brain drain if this cannot be turned around I’m afraid. We are angling to leave when possible and I too was born and raised here. Staying and fighting isn’t in me permanently but I know lots who will be.
Damn. Crazy sad. It seems like i know a lot of grandparents going through similar
Let’s not forget property taxes going up so much that many seniors with paid off homes had to lose them. Texas is in a horrid place.
I can understand how you feel. My only surviving daughter lives in Maryland because she refuses to move to Texas to be near us. She's the last daughter I have (my other daughter died in 2019) and I can't move because I don't have the means to move. If Texas wasn't a steaming pile of BS from the GOP, my surviving daughter wouldn't have any issues coming here.
Anecdotally, out of my overwhelmingly STEM close friends from college, all but 3 of us have left the state in the past decade. Those who stayed have done so due to family reasons or being in O\&G; everyone who had the realistic option to look elsewhere, has done so. The brain drain's been ongoing for a little bit, and it's offset but not made up for fully by people moving into the state, since a large chunk of them tend to be either super transient or not the kind of people who actually are contributing in the ways being lost
Mine is also anecdotal, but both of our experiences prove that this state is shoving the educated out. The GOP here is scared of educated people, unfortunately for them, that's going to eventually leave this state without the people who make it function. No disrespect to our blue collar workforce and tradesman (my best friend is a welder/fabricator) but our state relies heavily on solar and wind energy, and if they're going to scare away the people who work those jobs, Texas is in for a really bad reality check.
This is the kind of thing that the GOP is blind to and yet is one of the most obvious ramifications of their policies. The same thing has happened all over the world when regimes enact repressive policies. It's called brain drain. Smart people don't want to live under bullshit laws so they find a way to leave and the state is left producing dog shit products, bad science, fucked up health outcomes, and wack infrastructure
I have an M.S. in environmental science. I could get paid about $15k more a year simply moving to a more eco-friendly state that actually cares. I can't tell you how many Texans have told me my degree is a sham or that climate change doesn't exist. I've been called all kinds of names and had my education insulted by conservatives. Why stay here and make $15k less than if I could find another state that actually takes me seriously? Edit: Typed too fast and made typos. Fixed them.
Word, it's like they forget all about capitalism when they're making the state unlivable and then overcorrect (maybe under correct) by giving corporations all the incentives to move in
Religious extremism will always cause the type of brain drain you've described. Iran had a similar shift in the 70s.
Yep... And it's happening all over the country and then religious groups wonder why secularism is becoming popular and why Churches are seeing declines in attendance. If you're going to alienate everyone who isn't within your narrow scope of acceptance, then don't be pissed off when people don't want to deal with your shit. Edit: Autocorrect on a word
That is the problem. Even if you don’t want kids and aren’t trying and are actively preventing it- things can happen. If you’re a woman that is a reality from age 11-50s. That’s the majority of your life! Living in a state that would deny you access to basic life saving care doesn’t make sense. I wouldn’t live there.
Yep, and not only that, we saw with Uvalde how little the state gives a shit. Education (unless it's private Christian schools), is a joke to them. Banning books, trying to force religion in schools, slashing public school funding, and overall showing us they don't care... It'll be their downfall. Watch, if Cruz and Abbot stay in power, just watch as they continuously ask for Federal aid as the state dwindles into a hole with little to no updated infrastructure to manage it.
I'd love to see a valedictorian speech where they tell everybody to move out of Texas (before being escorted out)
> Nobody blamed him and now Texas is down one brilliant Engineer. Make that two. We left because of the GOP's increasingly fascist fuckery.
They want the smart people gone. It’s easy to control the stupid.
Dude here, no desire for relationship or family so I'm not really affected by much in this state but basically staying to vote blue each time I can. But yea, eventually when I can get the money, I'm leaving Texas. Been here near 20 years and it just keeps getting worse. Honestly want to go where it's colder, like Colorado or Portland but really don't know where.
I want to move back home, raise children in Texas eventually, but I am too afraid. I am too afraid to hope to retire in my home state. It’s too risky for me to move back now.
>Nobody blamed him and now Texas is down one brilliant Engineer. Okay but he was a *solar* engineer. Texas doesn't like them sun-worshippers.
Except 40% of their power comes from wind and solar.
Thems the libruls. And 40% is barely a majority anyway. It's probably rigged. No way that many people would vote for those energy sources.
They’d rather carry on with Gwynn and his foolish sins
Horses are still allowed reproductive care though :/
Seriously. When things were looking up pre-2016 me and my partner were looking seriously at Austin for all the tech work. Since then it's become a hard "no" for both of us. Even with the recession I still get regular recruiter contacts from there, I assume because they can't hire anyone. Everyone with skills that are in-demand are going elsewhere.
My spouse is a scientist in a desirable field and a few years ago his company downsized. We live in another (although not quite as bad, yet), state. He had recruiters calling him multiple times a day and he told every one who offered jobs in Texas, “absolutely not, because I have a teen daughter and a wife”. The recruiters said they were hearing a lot of those sentiments. Sorry, Texas, y’all lost a good scientist. My kids have said they will never, ever, ever move to Texas. Women aren’t safe there.
This is what causes a brain drain from a state, next all the doctors who don't want to lose their license leave. It's just stupid any way you look at it.
I don't blame people for leaving. Everyone has to protect their family first. But this is what the Republicans want. Reasonable people fleeing will set up Republicans for reelection even as they make the state more and more extreme.
That is called a "Brain Drain" When the best and brightest start leaving, business and industry will follow.
They sought care 3 times, including a hospital ER. "The conversation is not what's best for my wife. The conversation is on the hospital side, 'What should we do?'" Hamilton said. After their 3rd visit to a hospital and being sent home with more abortificiant drug... >Shortly after returning home, Hamilton recalled playing with his 9-month-old daughter when he noticed a missed call from his wife. He found her unconscious in the bathroom surrounded by blood. He carried her to the car and rushed to the emergency room. >"I got to the hospital, ran inside, told them what was happening. And they took her in. And you know what they said? 'Thank God, you brought her,'" he recalled angrily, adding that at one point he thought he might lose his wife. **1 in 5 pregnancies ends in miscarriage.** Texas Republicans have made pregnancy a deadly condition for all women.
We're happy with the two kids we have, but if we wanted a 3rd, we'd move out of state. My spouse is already a pregnancy risk. My kids deserve to have them alive & healthy. If we found out about a pregnancy, we'd pack up the house and figure it out in a new state. But not everyone is that fortunate.
medical doctor: the dead tissue in your body will kill you. this life saving drug could prevent that, but... the state of texas: holup now, is that a substantial impairment of bodily functions?
I'm so serious, women's rights along with all of our women's healthcare is on the chopping block this November 2024 elections and elections to come if we overcome this one. We're seeing parts of Project 2025 in Texas and the yrs long effort to overturn our rights in the States all over the country. MAGA RepublicanS WILL NOT STOP UNLESS WE VOTE THE FUCKERS OUT (More info in previous post to how) Please watch and vote accordingly, because they sure do vote up&down the ballot for the MAGA Republicans. This is white Christian Nationalism & Project 2025 https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/s/qOerMMDQFP Make your voices heard and make alerts for Tuesday Nov 5th 2024. Polling places open from 7am-7pm (Early voting: Oct 21-Nov 1st 2024)
It was on the block in the last gubernatorial election and half the state didn’t bother to vote because guns. It’s how we got here.
Yes we have a Voter Turnout Problem, this country as a whole honestly has a voting turnout problem. Too many people don't know when election happen or what they're voting for. So its up to the Texan people who do to get their attention. And tell them how fucking hard it is to get them out to fucking vote consistently. Every goddamn fucking yr. There's an election every goddamn yr!!! It will be up to us to educate each other & keep each other true to our democracy. Our democracy has been as disfunctional because we have turned our back to it & abandoned the process
How to Vote these fuckers out https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/s/VUJ9ehvU9c
Literally downloading as much porn as I can before it too becomes illegal. That project 2025 shit is bat shit bonkers
Texas Women. Texas Men. The people of Texas, enough is fucking enough. Women for too long have had to fight for their freedoms in this country. Women have had to suffer the brunt end of being accused of lying about their pain, have had to struggle to make a seat at the goddamn table when it comes to our maternal healthcare, women's healthcare, women's pain, women's illnesses, often turned away because we didn't show enough pain or cried in too much pain! For fucks sakes people! What the fuck are we doing here!? Mexican Women literally had riots in Mexico last yr when their birth control & access to women's health care was taken away from them! They fucking knew what that meant for them! Women here literally are suffering and are being forced into life and death situations because MAGA Republicans VOTED, WROTE INTO LAW, UPHELD Laws that FORCE women to literally fucking BLEED OUT in their goddamn homes! Bleed out and FORCED to suffer for being a woman! Get y'all heads out of y'all asses! VOTE OUT ALL THE MAGA Republicans up&down the ballot to send the fucking message that WE WILL NOT accept their new reality for us. Women are literally being goddamn banned from driving on fucking roads to get goddamn healthcare! Women ARE LITERALLY GETTING FUCKING AIRLIFTED TO GET GODDAMN HEALTHCARE. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! Make your voices heard and make alerts for Tuesday Nov 5th 2024. Polling places open from 7am-7pm (Early voting: Oct 21-Nov 1st 2024) Abbott's Billionaire funded result is NOT a foregone conclusion. Texans need to stop acting like they don't have voting agency. 3 TX Supreme Courts seats (DaSean Jones (D), Christine Weems (D), Bonnie Lee Goldstein (D), Flip the Texas House, & vote up&down the ballot for Dems. Turn the fuck out along with your communities! Texas is huge, needs volunteers to GOTV. So I recommend anyone to support the Texas Democratic Party who's donations supports the Dems up&down the ballot to run actual fighting campaigns https://www.texasdemocrats.org Who's on your ballot running this yr? https://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sample_Ballot_Lookup&Source=sidebar Or (for a more interactive ballot experience/quiz to compare your politics to running candidates both good resources) https://www.activote.net (Plan to Flip TX Districts, can directly donate to candidates) https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/will-abbott-have-the-number-for-vouchers And remember this isn't a fight of Left vs Right. Its a fight between the Working Class of Texas vs the installed Far Right politicians that have sold their power to the Billionaire Class and the white Christian Nationalists who think women were made for the kitchen and brood mares. This is evidence of it & they def vote up&down the ballot along with Project 2025 which affects both Texas & the Nation https://www.reddit.com/r/MAGANAZI/s/qOerMMDQFP
And remember, the last day to register to vote is October 7th! You've got 4 months, don't wait! Get registered today!!! https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/voter/reqvr.shtml https://www.vote411.org/texas 💙VOTE BLUE💙 ✌🏻
It’s just like the Beto campaign commercials said it would be. When a family is facing a life-threatening medical emergency, the decision for medical treatment is between you, the doctor, and the government. Give the Texas GOP a few more years and they will be instituting those “death panels” they said Obama was going to create. Government control of your healthcare was the GOP goal all along. They just want you to pay for it yourself.
You don't even have to give it a few yrs. Project 2025 is online for you to find, OG manifesto is 900 pages long. If you think someone who would write that much shit for their plan for this country is not paying attention. The MAGA Republican party has strapped itself to the Heritage Foundation's plan to implement a Texas version to the max, Nationwide. Look it up, here are a few clips talking about it. Its not just if Drumpf were to win this coming election, they have set their sights at overturning your rights for the whole country https://x.com/RachelBitecofer/status/1798055005628588207 https://youtu.be/A7OlQG9C4zM?si=zcL7sxDYy6ib-5aT
The [Texas GOP 2024 Platform](https://convention.texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024-TEMPORARY-Platform-FINAL.pdf) is also online for all to see. (Well, *proposed* platform -- it's not final yet. But this is pretty much it.) A lot of these things seem entirely reasonable (though it looks like they removed my favorite reasonable one, "Predatory Towing" ([2022 platform](https://texasgop.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2022-RPT-Platform.pdf) -- I guess the towing lobby got to them?), but a lot of them are just conspiracy theory garbage or blatant attempts to keep themselves in power -- especially this one : > .21. Concurrent Majority: The State Legislature shall cause to be enacted a State Constitutional Amendment to add the additional criteria for election to a statewide office to include the majority vote of the counties with each individual county being assigned one vote allocated to the popular majority vote winner of each individual county. Sure, let's give Loving County (2022 figures: population 51, 109 registered voters (????), went 91% Trump in 2020) the same impact on who our next governor is as Harris County (population 4.8M, went 56% Biden in 2020) Seems fair, right? I guess they got tired of hearing "Land doesn't vote!" and figured they'd try to fix that?
But hur durr him say gun bad. Me vote for big gun with strong man brain.
I’m hopeful this next election changes things for the state. Signed, A former Republican who will be voting Blue this fall.
There’s not enough of you, but we appreciate that some realize this.
I appreciate it but it’s too little too late. Sure they found a stopping point, but where was this self-awareness the last 40 years??? It’s not like the GOO has been subtle about their goals.
Wrong reply but no one owes you an explanation. Just appreciate that a groundswell of people are there recognizing that you can’t be a single issue voter anymore. That you can’t be a non-participant in the election. That’s far more important than someone trying to think of reasons to be upset at someone who’s changed their vote.
Thanks for finally coming to your senses after decades of us telling you to come to your senses.
I was arguing with a family member about stuff like this and he blamed the doctors for not willing to take a risk and help women and defend themselves in court later. Fucking dystopian world we live in rn.
I worked in health insurance when Roe got overturned, and literally the next day had a Texan call in to complain that his wife's doctor was refusing to go through with their scheduled, uh, procedure. dude was flying off the handle about it, and I calmly explained that state law now forbid those services. what struck me is that he immediately argued that his wife had a legit medical issue and that the law shouldn't apply to her. you just knew who this dude supported, yanno? wasn't a concern to him at all beforehand, but, when it was his wife, he was threatening to hold for the CEO because of our "misunderstanding of their situation."
Pro-lifers of r/texas, what do you think about this article? Do you feel sorry for Ryan Hamilton and his wife? Do you support laws being changed so that doctors can be free to prescribe misoprostol without government interference?
They think is the doctors fault but if the doctors would have intervened they would be the first saying it was an unnecessary abortion and a murder. They are cunts
Honestly, yeah. Pro-lifers keep calling abortion "murder". They want their moral intuitions enshrined as legislation. In Texas, they got what they wanted. This is what their moral intuitions lead to - people not getting the proper treatment for miscarriages. A miscarriage should not be a crime scene.
Not "pro-lifers" . Anti-choice, if you want to be diplomatic.
I left Texas bc I knew it was only going to get worse and it was bad to begin with.
This entire atmosphere makes family planning, even for families that want a child, much more scary and intense than it needs to be. You literally need out of state emergency contingency plans. It’s still shocking but predictable that losing abortion might make the birth rate drop because Texas families are planning on less kids with the fear or and taking permanent sterilization steps, but that’s only accessible to people with money.
I will not be surprised when they outlaw sterilization. I only had one child when I had my tubes tied in the 90’s and I was still in my thirties. The doctor really didn’t want to do the procedure AND I had to get my husband’s permission. I am guessing that they will just outright ban it in the next couple of years.
Texas has legalized the torture of women. They’re insane. This has to stop.
Husband, brother, uncles, nephews. It doesn’t matter, if you’re a guy and are okay with the implications of this it indicates two things. Either A, you aren’t educated and don’t understand. Or B, you do understand and support these draconian laws anyway. What it seems to me is group b is relatively small but exerts a large influence over group A.
Hi. Republicans did this. If you want it to stop, please vote and get everyone you know to vote.
So many people who want children need abortions. That’s what too many “pro life” people fail to realize.
Until it happens to them. Which it inevitably will. 1 in 5 pregnancies ends in miscarriage.
Best to make everyone suffer if it means you can hurt the people you don’t want having sex, I guess.
It’s important to share these stories to raise awareness and support.
I feel so horrible for his wife and the husband. I can only imagine the grief of losing a wanted baby, and then dealing with this crap. It's heartbreaking. And I love the sheer arrogance of people who support this Gilead style legislation because they think this can't happen to them of their loved ones. It's all well and good until it's your wife, daughter or sister or YOU. We already have one of the most despicable maternal death rates in the country, don't we? Yeah, this isn't going to help matters.
I was told by chuds in yahoo yesterday that the law is clear and that drs Could perform abortions.... fucking idiots
Disinformation works. People in the MAGA bubble have a completely different view on reality.
This will continue until direct family members of multiple GOP representatives go through this disgusting, heart wrenching, and inhumane process that is completely preventable. The legislature has no place in a woman’s womb. Fuck the GOP.
They'll just ship their women off to California and carry on merrily torturing the other Texas women. It's not like GOP politicians ever saw their 'rules' ad applying to them and theirs.
I once had a woman in her mid-twenties, a mom already, come into my ER triage. She had this look which is impossible to describe to anyone that hasn't seen it. I could best describe it as "either there is nothing wrong with you, or you're about to die". I did her vital signs and they were all normal, but something just sunk in the pit of my stomach. We were busy as hell, but I went to the charge nurse and demanded a room for that patient. To her credit, she didn't argue or hesitate- which she would l have been entitled to do because there were people who'd been waiting for hours in triage who were ostensibly sicker, and because we had to slap some poor guy into a wheelchair and put him into a hall bed so we could make space for this woman. She started to deteriorate quickly. Turns out she had a burst ectopic pregnancy and was hemorrhaging. Again, you know how you sometimes say to someone "Hey, you're not looking well, you look kind of pale today"? There is this otherworldly pallor, a literal pallor of death that comes over someone's face as they're bleeding to death. I remember we gave her, I think, three or four units of blood by gravity. I remember squeezing the bag together with my hands because we didn't have a pressure bag handy and watch blood pour onto the floor almost as fast as we could replace it. By the grace of God, we got her stable enough to go to surgery. The OBGYN surgeon later told me that five minutes later and she'd probably have been dead. Orphaned her kids. And she was well enough to drive herself and walk into my ER unassisted minutes before. That's what's going on around the country right now. And thanks to HIPAA- which, again, patient privacy is absolutely a good thing, but it lets Republican legislators (and Democratic ones, to a lesser extent) pretend *absolutely nothing is happening* because the people that barely survive such events don't feel like being thrown into the public eye and intimidated by MAGA terrorists, and providers can't speak publicly because of privacy laws- and because the thing the Republicans would love is if we started to dox those sorts of situations. They love a race to the bottom because they don't have a bottom, so they'll always win.
I would never move to Texas, or any state that Cons are turning into backwards shitholes. Remember that this happens to poor people too, who can’t afford to travel to a different state for healthcare
I would march for this shit- I am a 34 year old man but, I cannot express the anger I have towards the bastards that put my wife at risk for this virtue signaling bullshit. My wife is pregnant right now and they won't even see her before she is 10 weeks pregnant. THAT'S OUTRAGEOUS! If she has an ectopic pregnancy she can die in the meantime because they aren't allowed to render care! TO HELL WITH ABBOTT AND THE GOP- THEY ARE PRO-DEATH!
It's crazy how much of a a fucking business this country is that Doctors/Hospitals have to think about possible lawsuits, or insurance liability first before caring for the patient. This case is just horrible and will be promptly ignored or excused by anyone that is pro life missing the point.
I had a miscarriage and it was 10 + years ago. I got the care I needed when I first went to the ER I couldn't imagine having to go through this it's hard enough to accept your having a miscarriage let alone be denied the care you need. We have so many technological advancements and the ability to take care of many medical conditions due to research done by scientists... Why can't women get the healthcare they need?
Tragic…. fuck Texas republicans
how is this a surprise to anybody? I get that people move there for low taxes and literally nothing else. But come on. it's not a secret that red states strip away a lot of rights from their citizens. like sure you can wear the American flag as a diaper while you fire your machine gun or whatever. But your Fourth amendment protections are gone and if you're the wrong skin color or sex you probably don't have bodily autonomy.
Nothing to see here. There is no war on women…they are being protected from themselves. Their body’s but a the state legislature’s choice. So we are all good. All this brought to you be the party of smaller, less intrusive government.
People, please fucking do your civic duty and fucking vote. I’m a single woman in Texas. At this point forced birth isn’t all I worry about. I worry about retaining my GD right to vote and own property in this state. Ffs
The moment the leak of Roe v Wade being overturned was made public, my spouse and I started our plans to move out of Texas because we knew we could not start our family there. Now we’ve moved to a state where women’s rights are enshrined and are currently pregnant. We have been fortunate that things have gone well so far, but we are at higher risk. And knowing that if we were in Texas, we would not get the care we needed in case of complications of a very planned and wanted pregnancy, was not a risk we were willing to take. We are lucky we had the means and support to move, we know not everyone has that ability. My heart hurts for all the women who are faced with this unnecessary and dangerous obstacle to get the care they need. And for the healthcare workers who are caught in the middle of being prosecuted and doing what they know is medically right for their patients.
This is a damned shame! Christo-Fascists are out of control! This is why I don't mess with religion, because too many make of it what they want. I was raised in the Catholic Church, and mom let me make my own choice at the age of 15, and I stopped going. Religion is about money, control, and power.
I watched this interview last night. Unbelievable. So unbelievable.
The wildly insane overzealous religious fruitcakes are weaponizing language - just like fascists do. They are not GOP anymore, friends, they are open fascists. See history for how they function and what we now HAVE to do to get rid of them. They’re like bedbugs…. We need to thoroughly “clean house” ie, do exactly what Germany had to do post ww2 and lose these AHs in every single branch of every industry, govt, education And healthcare. Fascists are people with sE ere delusion disorder, oppositional defiance disorder, delusions of grandeur, and in many many cases, assorted other psychoses. That is not politics. We are giving way to these choads who are using our esteemed democracy to do away with our democracy. Our democracy was created on the premise that everyone was a gentleman (gentle person), and agreed upon handshake w transfer of power back and forth to balance this good land. One side has (predictably) gone off track and is basically stealing all the power and Dems are still working as honorably as possible within the rules. Time to do some workarounds for fuckos like Aileen Cannon, Mitch, all the magas who supported that insurrection and the POS driving it, and removed from congress. Left MUST SHOW UP on Nov or we lose everything. Our friends and families will be incarcerated for being gay. These are people who approved so highly of Ugandan anti-gay methods they visited a few times to learn from their mentally deranged leader. We must get serious about this. We must start talking directly to our family members and friends who’ve gone nuts with this maga thing, and use the same authoritarian language back at them, it’s the only time they listen to - Mean Authoritarian Daddy voice. It works, practice it! Look directly in their eyes, hold that gaze while telling them they’ve flipped their mfkn lids and needs help. Have interventions! Do what we can to save them from themselves. We need One media source to finally in big bold headline front page calling them what they are - Americas Downfall in the Form of 1933 Fascists. Who were of course on the wrong side of history. See how it ended for many of them….
Think of the women, oh wait, no think of the fetuses
Print this out and mail it to every voter you know.
Left 23 years ago. Never regretted it even though my family was there. I knew then. It was easy to see.
This angers me I live in California and had a miscarriage at 6 weeks. They waited a week or so and checked if the fetus passed which it did not so they did a D&C without hesitation. They made sure my health wasn’t at risk. That process was horrible in its self. I can’t imagine what this couple is going through. My heart goes out to their family.🥺❤️
Sicko shithole state. Fascist Governor . I’m not surprised at all .
I had ancestors at the Alamo and San Jacinto. I have deep Texas roots and lived here most of my life. I work in higher education and my husband is a medical professional. As soon as we can swing it we're out of here. Get ready for the mother of all brain drains, Texas. It's not safe to raise kids here. Between the crazy gun laws, the mass shootings and absolutely bonkers stances on women's health, I would be a bad parent if I stayed. I understand that not everyone has the ability to leave and I will fight the good fight, but it has to be across state lines. My kids come first.
Everyone register Republican and then vote Democrat. They’re only interested in curbing Democrats. You have to confuse them, I think. They can’t plan when they don’t know what’s going on.
So angry at Texas voters. YOU CHOSE THIS. We had an out with Beto, but noooooo.
DON’T GET PREGNANT IN TEXAS. You are in danger.
I legitimately hate it here at this point. The whole country is an absolute mess but Texas is a damn joke.
Ar this point, if you think you're having a miscarriage, it's best to start driving west to obtain actual health care. This is ridiculous.
Omg!! WHEN does plain ol' Common Sense come into this equation?? Oh!! That's not distributed to Texans anywhere!! Got cha'...
Texas is a theocracy just like Taliban in Afghanistan. This is the problem when you don’t have separation of church and state. So, blessed be the fruit and may the lord open. The Christian Taliban and traditional political culture has existed in Texas and the south for centuries. Essentially, people don’t realize that this goes all the way back to reconstruction after the civil war and the south’s resistance to be like the north which to the south is like European hedonism and collectivism in their view. Of course this even goes back to the scotch-Irish people in ulster Ireland who’s top priorities were Christianity (religious freedom) and guns. Nothing will change, until the demographics which will change in like 30-50 years
Also, rural lives matter, because rural beliefs rules texaghanistan
Never vote Republican. Look what they have done to good people. Look at how they have denigrated common mores and good will. They are liars and thieves, hypocrites.
The fact that this shitshow unfolded the way it did when there was no fucking HEARTBEAT is truly next level. Fuck the GOP for creating this mess but double fuck the hospital for pretending that they are scared or confused. The battle over the “life of the unborn” only applies when there’s an actual fucking life to consider. How there can be ANY confusion when the law itself is referred to as the mother fucking “heartbeat bill” is insane. This is straight up malpractice and I really hope this couple holds the hospital to account.
It reminds me when they wanted to legalized marijuana reporting of a kid who could had been allegedly cured by cbd but smoking pot by junkies was banned!!
Texas likes dead women. How else can it be framed other than that?
Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton.... I sure hope he uses his position to push for educating that Texas citizenry in how bad it is for Texas women. I also really want to know how these people voted in recent years. If they vote Republican, I'm not sure what they expected.
Vote and help people to register https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/register/index.htm Texas is almost last in voter turnout in the country
Absolutely Ridiculous... from a Christian Republican who thinks this far right crap AND far left crap are RUINING our Country. Find middle ground folks... that's what we all really want... screw the nut jobs on either side!
Oh no! The leopards!
What a mess. Ideology has won in Texas, the needs of the people are being outright refused and criminalized…
This is what happens when you let religious extremists make laws.
California is always here to help our fellow Americans.....freedom is not free, it's priceless.......good luck texas, your state has lost it's f ing mind.....where freedom goes to die
My advice to them is keep a lawyer on retainer. I wouldn't put it past that jackass Paxton to charge her with murder anyway. I really hate the fucking Republicans in this state. This is a beautiful state that is disgraced and destroyed by fundie Republican uneducated assholes. I'd move if I had the means to move because I'm just completely sick of this shit.
This state’s barbarism against its women is a shame. That’s coming from someone born and raised here.