The Texas attorney general is cracking down on Democrats in a supposed crusade to root out “voter fraud.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against supposed voter fraud appears to be targeting the state’s Democrats.
Last week, Paxton’s office announced raids and undercover actions against organizations in Texas it accuses of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. In practice, though, the raids have taken place against members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., as well as several prominent Democrats in south Texas.
According to LULAC officials, the group’s members had their cell phones and laptops confiscated by law enforcement officials carrying out search warrants.
CBS News - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for CBS News:
MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceNew Republic - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)
Information for New Republic:
MBFC: Left - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this sourceFucking with LULAC is a bold strategy. Let’s see how that pans out for the state.
Oh just wasted millions of dollars in obvious civil rights violations?
Great…
They confiscated their license to register voters as part of the evidence. This is to stop them from signing people up to vote.
I’m sorry their what? You need a licence to hand someone a printed form or sit them down in front of a website? And this is supposed to be the state of freedom and small government?
Freedom to do what they tell you to and a government small enough to fit into woman’s vagina. There is a reason the state is only rated one lone star.
The goal is probably to prevent those voters from being re-added to the list before the registration deadline expires. If that happens then they’ve succeeded even if they ultimately lost in court sometime next year.
Will that trouble result in consequences for his actions? One can only hope. But, probably not.
Lol no he isn’t. He’s already made what appeared to be a slam dunk case against him disappear, and the GOP is well known for doing everything it can to protect it’s members from the consequences of their actions.
Things I will bet money on
- They will produce no evidence of any wrongdoing uncovered from any of these raids
- They will give some cryptic statement that tries to make it sound like they did find something
- Texas lawmakers will continue to not hold Paxton accountable for anything
Also highly likely, wrongdoing is uncovered eventually and it’s like this guy’s uncle or something
$1500 on deathbed confession accompanied with blaming a bunch of already dead people.
The whole point is to prevent registrations and it is working.
They that afraid that Texas might go purple?
Deathly Afraid, and for good reason. Texas is very close to going blue.
Yes. The electoral college is nearly unwinnable with Texas, NY, and California stacked against you. The GOP would have to actually run on policies that people want, so…
Lol never. The party will die before they ever do that.
Amen.
I think internal polling is showing it’s gonna flip.
Time to send the Brute Squad in to scare the population into not voting!
That would be wonderful but I definitely wouldn’t count on it.
TX is already purple, they are afraid of it turning blue.
In 2020, Biden received more votes in TX than NY.
In 2016, Hillary only lost by about 800,000 votes (5% of the registered voters that year). Biden was only behind by about 630,000 votes (3.7% of the registered voters that year).
Edit: forgot to add “behind by” in last sentence
I’ll believe Texas is purple when a Democrat wins there. Until then, it is red.
I’ve been heading for years that Texas was going to be a swing state because people from California were moving there. My theory is that most of the people that are moving there are doing so cause they like the politics. My state is very similar. Lots of California transplants. All the ones I talk to are small business owners that are very much in favor of a republican economy.
I don’t like the defeatist attitude that TX is red until it’s blue because of Democrat victory. We have enough issues getting people to the polls, even though TX was the first state to have early voting (since 1980) with polls open at least 9 hours the first week and at least 12 hours the second week and final day. People use the inconvenience excuse all the time and it really brings down voter turnout.
The people moving in from California are conservatives and according to an exit poll in 2018, when Beto was challenging Cruz, the non-native Texans supported Cruz more while the native Texans were voting more for Beto.
I think hour news story just proves what I was saying. Many people are moving to Texas and making the state more red.
Texans, are likely more purple than anything. Transplants are more red. I dont know if there was ever verification of data but an example is that in 2018 native Texans voted for O’Rourke by like 2%? I think while transplants voted for Cruz by like 5%? Or something. Enough to tilt the race in his direction.
Yep. It’s happening in my state. Californians move to red states to escape the “blue tyranny”. Outside of one purple area they’re basically democrats. 😆
Yeah Californians in Ohio are redder than Ohio rednecks. I assume texas is similar.
The entrenched and gerrymandered Republican legislature and local governance is a huge issue in terms of suppressing the impact of blue voters in Texas.
It is absolutely. However if something goes wrong in a gerrymandered system, it could immediately all tilt to the other side.
Suppressing non-loyalist voters is what these guys do as a hobby
DOJ certainly will be gunning for his ayass
So they’ll investigate for two years before announcing they don’t feel like doing anything.
Like they did with Gaetz.
And they’ll keep this up because liberals won’t arm themselves and shoot back.
Last Tuesday, she said nine officers in tactical gear knocked on her door, presented a warrant, and questioned her for more than three hours.
Don’t give a fuck. Break in if you have a legit warrant, not willingly opening the door and I sure as FUCK ain’t talking. And Jesus himself help you if you try some no-knock bullshit at this home.
That’s neither machismo nor false bravery. I’m armed and practiced and prepared, not some fat fuck with a few guns to feel tough. I’d be scared absolutely shitless, but I can shoot while shaking life a leaf. I practice that.
Ask yourself this, if Americans are so wildly overarmed, why does the government get away with this? Ask yourself this, who stumps for disarming civilians and who is targeted?
Shooting at the cops will only get you killed. Don’t do that. You should feel free to not cooperate and get a lawyer ASAP though.
The person in this story is 87 years old and had NINE COPS in full gear show up with a warrant. I don’t care how prepared you are, you aren’t walking away if you open fire on 9 cops.
He is not. He is a literal criminal successfully shielded from justice by Repubs.
The GOP is literal organized crime. I wish Putin would just release the RNC emails they stole back in 2015 or whatever. RICO these motherfuckers.
It’s like these guys sit down around a big table and ask, “What did the Naxis/Taliban” do next before deciding their next move.
Nonsense article. What indication is there that Paxton is or will be in any trouble?
"Big trouble" 🙄, like give me a break. He’s a Republican asshole in a red state, he’s not in any real trouble for doing this.
Check your TX voter registration at:
But I’m not a citizen. Are you trying to run voter fraud?
Oh no, you caught me! Lol
I’m glad at least you correctly took it as a joke, seems it wasn’t otherwise very well received 😅
You’ll find you aren’t registered then.
Check your TX voter registration at:
Nothing was mentioned about registering to vote. Only checking if you are registered. If you are not a citizen, and you are registered to vote, that is cause for concern.
Are you 10 years old or just stupid?
He’s constantly in “big trouble” but nothing ever happens to him.
he’s causing a lot of trouble so technically isn’t he in big trouble?
The only reason why this ghoul isn’t in jail for corruption right now is that the ones tasked with prosecuting him were his own employees who were more worried about him or his cronies retaliating than seeing justice done.
Thus, the headline is a lie: he’s immune from consequences in Texas and there’s no way that the Garland DOJ will have the courage to mount a federal case against him. Least of all during a presidential election year.
“BiG trOuBLe” though!
I now know why the GOP didn’t follow through when they told Obama “you’d never pick a good moderate like Garland for scotus.” He did pick him and they continued with their bullshit “it’s an election year wait for the election.”
They knew he’s too much of a coward to do anything whatsoever so he’d be as useless to them as he would be to anyone.
I’m doing my part!
