Proud Southern Democrat

Austin, TX
NEW Least educated states in 2026. 19 out of 20 were Trump voting states. datapandas.org/ranking/least… 1📷West Virginia24.3 2📷Louisiana28.6 3📷Arkansas30.3 4📷Oklahoma32.5 5📷Nevada34.6 6📷Kentucky35.8 7📷Alabama36.5 8📷New Mexico37.8 9📷Texas40.2 10📷Indiana43 11📷Tennessee43.2 12📷Idaho44.5 13📷Arizona45.9 14📷Alaska47.3 15📷South Dakota47.5 15 (tie)📷South Carolina47.5 17📷Ohio47.6 18📷Missouri47.7 19📷Iowa48.2 20📷Georgia 48.8
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YESTERDAY I PRAISED TRUMP FOR HAVING A RECORD HIGH DISAPPROVAL. TODAY HE GOT THE HIGHEST RATING OF "STRONGLY DISAPPROVE." TRUMP COULD'VE SETTLED AT BEING DESPISED. BUT HE CONTINUED UNTIL HE WAS "STRONGLY" DESPISED. THAT'S WHAT SEPARATES PROFESSIONAL PARIAHS FROM AMATEURS. BRAVO.
Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing."
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Texas woman who received five year prison sentence over uncounted ballot has her acquittal upheld msn.com/en-us/news/other/tex… Crystal Mason’s nearly decade long legal battle over a provisional ballot that was never counted has reached its end after Texas’ highest criminal court declined to revive her illegal voting conviction. The Crystal Mason acquittal remains in place following a September 24 decision from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. According to the court’s ruling, the court dismissed the state’s petition seeking review of Mason’s case after concluding that its earlier decision to accept the appeal had been improvident. Four of the nine judges dissented, leaving a five-judge majority that allowed the lower court’s acquittal to stand.
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Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA): “One of the reasons I’m worried about who’s going to be elected governor is I don’t plan on dying in office, but if I did, I don’t want a Democrat governor choosing my replacement”
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California sheriff unlawfully seized over 650,000 ballots and must return them, state Supreme Court rules msn.com/en-us/news/other/cal… The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco violated the state's election law by ordering his deputies to seize more than 650,000 ballots tied to the Proposition 50 special election. The justices ruled unanimously in two cases against Bianco, stating that he violated the law when he seized the ballots and also ignored directives from Attorney General Rob Bonta. The court ordered Bianco to cease his investigation into election fraud claims and return the ballots to county officials. The court also said he must "refrain from further handling of the ballots except as necessary to comply with our order." "In short, Bianco's arguments fail to persuade us that we should interpret section 15551 in a manner inconsistent with its plain text, which mandates that voted ballots remain in the custody of elections officials," the court wrote in its ruling. Continue reading In an advertisement for his 2028 reelection campaign for Riverside County Sheriff, Bianco said the justices handed the Attorney General's Office "unchecked power over any investigation in the state of California."
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TexasBlue retweeted
It takes under a minute minute to check your voter registration status. The deadline to register in Texas is October 5th. Go to IWillVote.com/texas today!
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US.-Iran conflict is causing unexpected problems for Americans: 65% of employees want jobs that help them avoid paying higher gas prices msn.com/en-us/money/general/… A new study from recruitment platform Monster suggests that 65% of prospective job movers are changing their search priorities owing to gas prices; 23% said they are looking for roles closer to home; and 17% are focusing more on salary expectations to offset the higher cost of commuting. A further 20% said they are prioritizing fully remote roles, and 5% are applying for fully in-person roles. The study comes as gas prices edge closer to $4.50 a gallon, on average. At the time of writing, the current national average price for mid-grade gas is a little over $5, while diesel exceeds $6.50. A month ago, a gallon of regular gas in the U.S. was around $4.10, up from $3.15 a year ago.
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Nearly 200 people wrongly identified on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens State election officials said they reviewed 185 records homeland security sent them and confirmed they were US citizens- theguardian.com/us-news/2026… The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wrongly identified 185 people on Nevada’s voter rolls as non-citizens, state officials said this week, escalating concerns over the shoddy methodology the government is using to raise fear about non-citizen voting ahead of the midterm elections. In July, Donald Trump gave a speech saying DHS had found a combined 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls in Nevada, California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Follow-up letters to each of those states weakened the claim, saying there only could be as many as 278,000 non-citizens on the rolls, including up to 15,903 in Nevada. In August, DHS officials told staffers in the Nevada secretary of state’s office that they had reviewed the numbers and confirmed only 185 were non-citizens. DHS officials said they still needed to review more than 14,000 records. 📷US senators propose legislation to limit ICE arrests and indefinite detentionRead more But on Wednesday, Nevada election officials said they had reviewed the 185 records DHS sent them and confirmed they were US citizens. “As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens. You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise,” Greg Ott, a deputy attorney general, wrote to DHS this week in an email obtained by the Guardian through a public records request. The message was first reported by the New York Times and Nevada Independent.
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TexasBlue retweeted
I call Stephen Miller a Lunatic what do you call him?
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Texas Senate Race Swing Voter Panel uses these Adjectives to describe Ken Paxton. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 nytimes.com/interactive/2026…
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TexasBlue retweeted
George W. Bush even knew better than to inject himself in the 2006 midterms, and the Republicans STILL got massacred
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Mortgage rates creep toward new high of 7.5% msn.com/en-us/money/general/… The average 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit 7.49% on Friday, leaving rates a bruising 30 basis points higher than where they started the week, according to Mortgage News Daily. Rates remain some distance from late 2023's peak around 7.8%, but the latest rise is nonetheless jarring and could easily be enough to chill home sales ahead of the market's typical winter slowdown.
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TexasBlue retweeted
Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.
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TexasBlue retweeted
Farmers that voted for Trump are saying that they don’t think they can handle the cost of diesel for another few months at this point.
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TexasBlue retweeted
New - Who is better on cost of living: 🔵 Talarico: 48% 🔴 Paxton: 38% Texas Public Opinion Research #B
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nytimes.com/live/2026/09/25/… Jon Rosenthal, the Democrat running for a key place on Texas’ oil and gas regulatory body, said today that his Republican opponent had agreed to a debate. Bo French, the Republican in the race, recently made racist posts on social media about South Asian students at the University of Texas. No other debate has been scheduled in statewide Texas races so far, including for the Senate. While James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate, has challenged his opponent, Ken Paxton, Paxton has not agreed to any dates or details.
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Texas nytimes.com/live/2026/09/25/… Three agricultural associations in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma warned late Thursday that federal immigration raids on cattle businesses were disrupting their supply chain and “will lead to higher beef prices” for consumers. In a joint statement, the groups — the Texas Cattle Feeders Association, the Kansas Livestock Association and the Oklahoma Cattlemen’s Association — said the “these ICE operations are having a massive chilling effect on the legal, documented, skilled workers that put beef on the table,” calling the the disruptions “costly and unnecessary.”
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