Gah, they really need to smack this crap down at the federal level (along with a lot of Texas' recent decisions, to be honest). Grow some balls. Get rid of the filibuster. Make sure people can exercise their basic right to vote.
I'm just exhausted. We need to vote these idiots out of office, but the way they keep trying to reduce hours, reduce polling locations (leading to the long lines where pizza and water start to become kinda necessary!), add extra hoops to jump through before you can vote (especially by mail, which is fine and not the problem!) and the like—they don't want us to vote. At all.
All this horsecrap does is embolden the idiots who don't think the last election was fair and secure when there is zero evidence that that was the case. I'm tired of living in a place that even hears those fools out, much less one that tries to ram through a piece of legislation so toxic and so targeting of certain groups (Texas trying to limit Sunday voting hours when black churches tend to vote on Sundays) that the sane chunk of our legislature walks out.
Absolutely. Exhausting.
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