Just a week after Texas voters approved billions of dollars to build new gas-fired power plants, the state’s education board will decide if it wants schools using science textbooks that acknowledge that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. The Texas Board of Education could vote as early as next Tuesday on whether it will recommend […]
Plus, ballots are being thrown out in Harris County + strict mail-in voting.
On the topic of gerrymandering, it’s important to note that a chunk of blue states do it too. It sucks that most of the country can’t get fair representation in their elections.
It’s more than just voter turnout. The deck is stacked. Like many red states, most of the blue voters in Texas are gerrymandered into a small handful of districts. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas’s_35th_congressional_district for an example.
Plus, ballots are being thrown out in Harris County + strict mail-in voting.
On the topic of gerrymandering, it’s important to note that a chunk of blue states do it too. It sucks that most of the country can’t get fair representation in their elections.
Can’t gerrymander senate elections or elections for governor of the state.
Are these supposed blue Texans in the room with us right now?