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Feb 25

That’s a real American
He loves Jesus, hates his wife
Golfs on the weekends

He loves a tax break
But it’s hand outs he can’t stand
He worked hard for his dad’s Homestead Act land

Hobbies include:
Picketing Abortion clinics
Praying his gay daughter might meet a good man
Debating his grandkids coming to visit
Thanking God that he’s American

Thank God I was born and raised in
The land of cancer trains
Getting rich buying out lunch debts at the middle school

The land of qualified immunity
And equal opportunity, for rich folks and the chosen few

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Feb 8

There are four types pushing “school choice”

1. For the Catholic Church and billionaire Evangelical Christians like Betsy DeVos, publicly funded vouchers for private religious schools opens a path to taxpayer support for their religious orgs.

Make money + indoctrination

There are four types pushing “school choice”

2. For billionaires like the Walton family, John Arnold and Charles Koch, school choice grants a path to undermining public education and lowering taxes.

Keep tax money, make more money, indoctrination if it helps them out.

There are four types pushing “school choice”

3. For billionaires like Bill Gates, Reed Hastings and Michael Dell, school choice prepares a path for creating an education technology industry that has the promise of huge future profits.

All about the money

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Feb 8

In 2006, Milton Friedman, economist and school choice advocate since 1955, right after Brown v Board desegregated schools, spelled out what the goals really are: abolish the public school system. And if they can’t do that, vouchers. Feel familiar? #publicschools

Here is Milton Friedman in 1955 on why we shouldn’t have free public schools.

“The advantage of imposing the costs on the parents is that it would tend to equalize the social and private costs of having children and so promote a better distribution of families by size.”

Friedman discussing lower birth rates among the wealthy (and why schools shouldn’t be free):
“children are relatively more expensive to [high socioeconomic folks], thanks in considerable measure to the higher standards of education they maintain and the costs of which they bear.”

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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social

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Feb 7

I’ve spent the last week counting down the Top 25 Donors to Texas Politics in the 2022 Cycle on TikTok. Here is a thread of all 25, who they are, and where they gave.

Kel Seliger called the Texas system a Russian style oligarchy. He’s not wrong. #FollowTheMoney #txlege

Counting down the top 25 individual donors to Texas politics in the 2022 cycle.

25 is Kelcy Warren, Energy Trading Partners CEO.
$1,705,000
Greg Abbott - $1.25m
George P Bush - $300k
Glenn Hegar - $100k

#FollowTheMoney #TexasPolitics #txlegeq

Counting down the top 25 individual donors to Texas politics in the 2022 cycle.

24 is Alan Hassenflu, Fidelis Realty Partners CEO.
$1,761,000
Greg Abbott - $1.35m
Texans for Lawsuit Reform - $500k
Eva Guzman - $400k
#FollowTheMoney #TexasPolitics #txlege

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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social

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Jan 7

@indivisibletx24

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

@indivisibletx24

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

@indivisibletx24

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

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Christopher Tackett @cjtackett@mastodon.social

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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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