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Texas Democrats flipped 2 U.S. House Districts with the election of Lizzie Fletcher and Colin Allred -- with 1 race too close to call.
Texas Democrats made history by sending the first two Latinas to Congress with the election of Sylvia Garcia and Veronica Escobar.
Texas Democrats flipped 2 seats in the Texas Senate.
Texas Democrats picked up 12 seats in the Texas House -- with 3 races that are too close to call.
Texas Democrats swept Bexar, Fort Bend, and Harris, while holding Democratic strongholds along the Rio Grande Valley, and in El Paso, Dallas, and Travis counties.
Texas Democrats made huge gains in suburban Tarrant, Hays and Williamson Counties.
Texas Democrats flipped the DA races in Fort Bend, Bexar, and Dallas Counties.
Texas Democrats swept the 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 13th, and 14th Court of Appeals. We flipped the 3rd and 14th Courts. Ushering a new era of fairness and justice in Texas.
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manor321
(3,344 posts)Anyone with me?
libdem4life
(13,877 posts)dlk
(11,566 posts)Thank you Beto!
LeftInTX
(25,335 posts)TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)If Biden decides to run.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Sadly it'll go back go status quo without Beto's enthusiasm. People will go back to non voter status because they'll be less enthused to vote for someone without that kind of charismatic charm.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)Last night in Dallas county, every single seat went blue. Every single Judge in Dallas county is a Democrat. The DA is a Democrat who I heard with my own ears pledge to restore fairness.
The changing demographics.
Some of those old racist fuckers will die to be replaced by incoming professionals for the jobs that are here.
I dont buy the negativity.
Texas Democrats are on fire and we are not backing down.
vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)We need thousands to either start. But we need someone to carry that message. Idk I'm skeptical.
dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Yosemito
(648 posts)I would vote for him nationally.
Wintryjade
(814 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)If I had the ability, Id look at the votes in montgomerybcounty and some of the outlying areas as to their validity.
If they cheated, it isnt going to be in the larger areas.