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Jan 7 • 5 tweets • 6 min read
At the Extremism’s Impact On Public Education forum, hosted by @indivisibletx24, I talked about the money, ideology, cannonballs into the deep end, and ripples that come from it. (1.1) #WhiteChrisitanNationalism #publiceducation #bannedbooks
At the Extremism’s Impact On Public Education forum, hosted by @indivisibletx24, this clip is where I delved into the cannonball and specific ripples. (1.2) #WhiteChrisitanNationalism #publiceducation #bannedbooks
At the Extremism’s Impact On Public Education forum, hosted by @indivisibletx24, it’s Patriot Mobile time. With a lot of money. Going after school boards. (2.1) #WhiteChrisitanNationalism #publiceducation #bannedbooks
At the Extremism’s Impact On Public Education forum, hosted by @indivisibletx24, it’s Patriot Mobile time. With a lot of money. Going after school boards. (2.2) #WhiteChrisitanNationalism #publiceducation #bannedbooks
At the Extremism’s Impact On Public Education forum, hosted by @indivisibletx24, in this last clip I focus on what’s coming in May. (2.3) #WhiteChrisitanNationalism #publiceducation #bannedbooks

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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social Profile picture
Nov 23, 2022
Here is a hot take. Yes, Texas voting restrictions made it more challenging to vote, but certainly not insurmountable (8 million figured it out). I think the more people talked about how hard it was to vote, it probably did more harm to Dems chances than good.
For someone who aligned with Dems but wasn’t crazy passionate to vote (as the crazy passionate likely did get to the polls), when the broad dialogue keeps with the negative “it’s going to be so hard”, I think that almost instantly pushes that maybe voter to a non-voter.
Yes, it was made harder to vote in Texas. But by hammering that point over and over, I believe it demotivated maybe voters who decided to stay home.

Instead, we should have been messaging “here is the easy way to vote” and actually established infrastructure to make that true.
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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social Profile picture
Nov 22, 2022
Three main things that led to the outcomes in the TX Statewide races for Dems.

1. "There were 754,890 voters with previous Democratic Primary history who did not vote in this election [in Texas]." (731k R's didn't show, but R #'s are ⬆️)
2. [In Texas,] "923,023 individuals aged 18 to 29 voted, yet there were 3,656,849 registered voters in that age range. That means 75% of 18- to 29-year-olds stayed home this year."

"Registered voters aged 18 to 29 made up only 11% of all votes cast."
(all 🧵data @longhornderek)
3. "In Texas, there were 549,812 people with a registration date after the Dobbs opinion’s official release (June 24th)."

"Only 47.7% of the 549,812 post-Dobbs registrants ended up voting this year."
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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social Profile picture
Nov 20, 2022
When something bad happens and people immediately rush forward and say “they are a good person”, “I know the family”, and “facts matter”, but you haven’t actually seen the story, read the article, heard the facts, you are merely rallying around your sameness.
The “good person” / “I know the family” stance is purely anecdotal, as in your personal interactions with them, they may have been positive, but you have no inside knowledge of anything else about the individual, how they interact with others, the decisions they make.
When you chime in with “Don’t know the story”, that means you don’t know those facts. When reporting is done by real news organizations, there are facts, there are receipts, there are interviews. After the reporting, you either see accountability or sweeping things under the rug.
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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social Profile picture
Nov 10, 2022
Texas in 2022 v 2018
Top 10 Counties turnout⬇️9%
11-20⬇️6.11%
21-50⬇️5.73%
51-100 ⬇️3.57%
101-254⬇️2.10%

Top 10 Counties votes ⬇️317,207
11-20🔺22,842
21-50🔺3,413
51-100🔺3,635
101-254⬇️7,735

2022 Top 10 Counties - Beto 55.4%
11-20 39.9%
21-50 26.8%
51-100 21.9%
101-254 18.9%
The numbers above show that yes, turnout in Texas was down everywhere: urban, suburban, rural. But in 2022 vs 2018, the biggest counties lost more in turnout %, and a lot more voters, ceding ground to the rural spaces that vote ever more red, who actually gained votes overall.
Look at the difference in Registered Voters from 2018 to 2022, and then at the Votes Casts from 2018 to 2022 across the 10 largest counties. ImageImage
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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social Profile picture
Oct 21, 2022
The Texas Politics Project released new polling that has Abbott up by 11.

How did things change so fast? They changed they way they asked questions, forcing people to pick, removing undecided.

18 days until November 8. This had better be a wake-up call.
texaspolitics.utexas.edu/set/2022-guber… Image
What is driving Republican voters? It ain't the economy / inflation / gas prices.
60% of Republicans peg Immigration / Border as their most important issue.

It's the xenophobic fear driven rhetoric about the brown people coming. The racism shines through as the clarion call. Image
Who can we turn to?
From the write up: "the October poll shows that the likely voter pool contains very few Republicans who appear open to voting for Democrats" and "there aren’t very many persuadable GOP voters"

So quit tilting at GOP windmills and get the young people to vote!
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Oct 20, 2022
According to The Federalist, enough with “conservatives”, it’s time for full blown fascism.

The article is terrifying. It is the scorched earth future the 7 Mountains / white Christian nationalism adherents are striving for.

You better show up and VOTE!
thefederalist.com/2022/10/20/we-…
“The government will have to become, in the hands of conservatives, an instrument of renewal in American life — and in some cases, a blunt instrument indeed.”
“To stop universities from spreading poisonous ideologies will require state legislatures to starve them of public funds”
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