Texas is now considered one of the top five hardest states to cast a ballot in. “It is many, many more times harder for a student," said @BetoORourke.
The Barbed Wire
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The Barbed Wire
@thebarbedwiretx
For all Texans who love Texas.
Joined July 2024
- In 2023, @iamLeslieRangel's sister Victoria spent more than 24 hours hemorrhaging into three diapers when Dallas-area hospitals declined to help her. “I know you’re not supposed to have regrets, but I do,” she said, about supporting Trump.
- "The issue with Tony Hinchcliffe’s jokes (for starters) is that there aren’t any punchlines," writes longtime comedian @briangaar. "There are no funny observations, the punchline is just that he’s daring to say something racist."
- Vice President Kamala Harris brought Texas to its feet Friday night, delivering fiery words to Texas women: “I see you, and I am with you.” Standing before our state flag and quoting Psalm 30:5, Harris channeled both anger and hope. #TexasWomen #Vote
- In two years, there has been one murder and four other physical assaults in the state with the second-largest queer population in the country. "There’s a direct line between this rise in hate incidents and the state government’s 'crusade of cruelty.'"
- Nevaeh Crain, a pregnant 18-year-old East Texas resident, died after three separate emergency room visits. Crain is now one of at least two Texas women who have tragically passed due to complications exacerbated by our draconian abortion bans.
- There’s an old saying: “As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation.” And if Trump is indeed taking a page out of the Texas Republican playbook, there is real reason to be concerned that the rhetoric coming out of Trump’s world is no joke. By @stevanzetti:
- Dozens of violent social media threats against several North Texas school districts this week prompted some districts to cancel classes, and others were forced to change their football schedules.
- Texas can’t harass people trying to register voters. Sorry, Ken Paxton. l8r.it/ueL7
- AG Ken Paxton is suing Dallas to block a voter-approved cannabis decriminalization measure backed by 67% of voters. It’s his sixth lawsuit like this. The GOP once claimed to champion ‘local control’—but in Texas, that’s going up in smoke. #cannabis
- “We swore an oath to protect the Constitution and our country from threats,” said Army veteran Lakiesha Lloyd. “Just because we are not actively serving doesn’t mean our oath went away.” By @stevanzetti:
- For years, Texas sports fans have blamed Sen. Ted Cruz’s presence at games for their teams’ devastating losses. Now, after a defeat from the Georgia Bulldogs, his “sinister energy” online and in ads has come under fire.
- Replying to @thebarbedwiretxTen of the incidents logged by GLAAD include bomb threats that were lobbed at four Planet Fitness locations in Texas after Chaya Raichik, the notorious online hatemonger better known as Libs Of TikTok, highlighted their trans-inclusive locker room policies..
- We’ve compiled all of the weirdest and worst things Ted Cruz has ever done, from stockpiling cans of soup and blaming his failures on his children to helping plot to overthrow the 2020 election.
