Ahem ahem...Stacey's bringing Fair Fight to Texas

[onetexan]

https://www.texasdemocrats.org/media/release-the-texas-democratic-party-announces-partnership-with-fair-fight-action-to-build-the-largest-voter-protection-program-in-texas-history/

RELEASE: The Texas Democratic Party Announces Partnership with Fair Fight Action to Build the Largest Voter Protection Program in Texas History

"Austin, TX — Today, the Texas Democratic Party announced the details of our new innovative Voter Protection program in partnership with Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action. The program will be the largest in Texas history and make it easier—not harder—for Texans to vote.

Texas Republicans have made it harder to vote at every turn, by implementing restrictive voting policies such as voter ID restrictions, shortening the days of early voting, closing polling locations, and attempting to purge lawful Texans from the voting rolls. Texas Democrats are already fighting back. In addition to filing three separate lawsuits fighting back against various Republican attempts to make it harder for Texans to vote, this month the Texas Democratic Party launched our voter assistance hotline 1-844-TX-VOTES.

Now, with the help of Stacey Abrams’ Fair Fight Action, the Texas Democratic Party is taking our voter protection efforts even further. In partnership with Fair Fight Action, the Texas Democratic Party’s new, groundbreaking voter protection program will include:..."

More detail on the article. This was released on Jan 6 so not sure if this has already been posted.
Great news for Texan Dems nonetheless

[Wounded Bear]

1. Texas Repubs better watch out...

If she can flip Texas, we won't have to worry about Repubs for decades.

[onetexan]

6. Precisely! If Dems win TX in general elections, we win the election... easily.

[blue neen]

2. Awesome.

Stacey is amazing.

[sheshe2]

3. She is one amazing woman.

Few can hold a candle to her. She is not all talk, she is action!

[R B Garr]

5. ++++, she is a force! She's going to mess with Texas.

[sheshe2]

16. And Molly Ivins is smiling down from above.

[yellowdogintexas]

47. Molly, Anne, Barbara Jordan are all up there together

cheering until they are hoarse!

Damn they would have raised hell from the beginning.

[electric_blue68]

63. 👍 Great Women of Texas!

[Dream Girl]

4. Here we go,

[MagickMuffin]

7. Yes, this Texan welcomes Stacey Abram's Fair Fight Action to our state

We are so tired of the voter suppression tactics here.

I look forward to helping in any way I can.


FIRED UP & READY TO GO!

[Wounded Bear]

8. Never met her, of course, but she looks like the kind of woman...

who will work your ass off.

[yellowdogintexas]

49. Hi Muffin! One good thing here: we didn't close polling places

instead we made it possible to vote at over 300 locations on Election Day. All of the big Metro counties in Texas have this now and it is awesome. I think about half of our counties are doing this now.

One of the conditions when the County Commissioners voted to do it was that no changes were to be made regarding voting centers until at least 2021, in order to study turnout at each location.
If a location has very low turnout and a nearby one has heavier turnout, those 2 might be combined and set up in the building with the best layout.
Since we can vote anywhere, merging low turnout locations is not on the same level as what has been done in other states. Also our voting locations for Election Day are very widely distributed and accessible.

There are 10 locations within 10 minutes of my house.

I want to get drop boxes at the Courthouses at least, and no excuse absentee voting.

[7wo7rees]

9. OMG!! YES!!!! We are with her. Texas can use her lots!!!!!

She working with Beto, oh my goodness!!

Gov. Abbott be afraid. Cruz, run! Paxton, well maybe someday you'll face justice! Dan Patrick, get a bad case of Covid. (sorry, i don't mean to be evil)

And well all the rest of the Republicans, Gohmert comes 1st to mind, but there are so many more.
It us going to be a very tough fight. But I still hold hope that good will overcome.

Just like in Georgia, we can do it. The extremists must be crushed. We've been dealing with them and letting it go for far too long. In 2003-4 they called themselves the "Protest Warriors".

Ms 7wo7rees

[onetexan]

11. Cruz & Paxton - 2 of slimiest snakes in the swamp. I hope the corruption case against Paxton sticks

this time. He's managed to slither away scot-free a couple times already.

[7wo7rees]

25. All he has done is delay because of his position.

Anyone else hsving done what he did would have already been charged, gone to jail, faced huge fines and been ruined.
He violated SEC rules.

[7wo7rees]

27. All he has done is delay because of his position.

Anyone else having done what he did would have already been charged, gone to jail, faced huge fines and been ruined. The Texas landscape is littered with people who did what he did and are in jail, lost licenses, can't do anything but clerk in stores or be criminals. Oil and gas don't you know.....
He violated SEC rules. He broke them.

[Tarc]

10. Flip (and hold) Texas? The GOP will never even sniff the White House again.

[onetexan]

22. That is the swell idea

[Lisa0825]

12. Awesome!!! I am in Texas and had not heard it, so thanks for posting!!! nt

[CatWoman]

13. Kentucky should be next

[yellowdogintexas]

50. I would do North Carolina next. More electoral votes, close to blue

definitely flippable
KY, Tennesse, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas and Louisiana are going to be harder. Not sure about South Carolina. Florida is always an outlier

[brer cat]

14. Good news for TX.

She is a powerful force. Just understand that she is merely on loan. We expect her to be our next Governor.

[onetexan]

31. Absitively Posilutely! We Texans too want Stacey to be GA's next governor & will support her as well

Thanks for loaning your Queen to help turn TX blue!!

[brer cat]

57. Turning TX blue is a dream we all share.

We haven't forgotten all the volunteers from TX who came to GA to work on the campaigns of Ossoff and Warnock.

[crickets]

15. Thank you, Stacey Abrams! Great news.

Georgia says, "Come join the party in the blue tent, Texas!"

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. I'll be sending her more money. My old age activism. nt

[ananda]

54. Same

!!!

[SunSeeker]

18. That is great news for our country's--and the world's--future! nt

[onetexan]

23. Couldn't agree more!!

[superpatriotman]

19. Please come to FL!

We need help!

[Lonestarblue]

20. Oh hallelujah! Thank you for posting.

What a day for good things: Trump’s last night in the White House, that wonderful DC ceremony honoring those who have died from Covid, and Fight Fair coming to Texas. Oh happy day! This is truly exciting news.

[onetexan]

24. In deed! I've been hoping & praying for this. So glad Tx Dems have made this happen. We now can HELP

to turn TX Blue!

[Demovictory9]

21. k&r

[Mr. Sparkle]

26. Damn!

If she can do in Texas what she did in Georgia, that would be a game changer.

[hurl]

28. This Texan is excited

Unfortunately we are still almost completely dominated by the GOP at the state level, and there will be more election cycles than we hoped before Texas will turn reliably blue, but organizations like this can accelerate the process.

If you want to donate directly to Stacey's organization:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/fair-fight-1

[Turin_C3PO]

36. I'm thinking 2028

will be the year Texas turns blue.

[hurl]

37. I definitely could see that happening

Texas has disappointed me more times than I care to relate, but we are trending in the right direction, just so much more slowly than I hoped.

[dlk]

29. Woo Hoo!

Stacy & Beto should coordinate. Together, they would be unstoppable!

[Lucky Luciano]

30. The article says Feb 6, 2020.

[onetexan]

33. That's correct, apparently the TX Dem Party has been in discussion w/ Stacey for a while now

i think the focus was on getting the other states (GA, PA, WI & several others) flipping to ensure wins in the general. BUT the collaboration with Tx Dems is still in place. Hope we can win the governor's seat in 2022.

[Honest Hypocrisy]

32. Good

Over 25 years of single party rule, is neither free nor fair.

[Liberal In Texas]

34. Ya-hoooo .!

Can't wait!

[appmanga]

35. I have no doubt...

...she was offered to head the DNC, but made the choice to go this way. Something people need to take into account is although black voters were the big story in Georgia, Latinos and Asian-American/Pacific Islanders voted in Georgia in bigger numbers than they ever have, and they voted Democratic. If Latinos turn out for Democrats in Texas as they did in Georgia a Republican stands no chance of winning a statewide race in Texas.


The other part of it is the money needed is going to make the Georgia campaign money look like spare change in the piggy bank.

[Blue_true]

42. I believe that Stacey Abrams loves her home state and wants to be it's

Governor. And an excellent one I believe she would be. The woman has an impressive political resume and is still young. People know about her 2018 Governor race and the work that she has done on voting rights in Georgia, but she was a very young and influential Georgia House Minority Leader, the leader of all Democrats in the Georgia House.

[GopherGal]

53. At this rate,

the Texas R's may decide to buy her a GA governorship to get her out of their hair.

[Blue_true]

56. .....

Remember those post someone here drug in from freeperville? After Abrams had helped Democrats there win the Presidency and two US Senate seats, one freeper said something like “maybe we should have let her win Governor, then she would have been so busy with Covid that she could not help Democrats win”.

I am sure that Texas republicans are having major digestive problems now that she will be working that state, she is so much smarter than they are.

[SergeStorms]

38. As she did in Georgia...

may she do in Texas.

[Blue_true]

39. Should also expand it to Florida and North Carolina.

But Texas is a biggie, the GOP needs that state to stay alive in Presidential races and be of significance in the House and Senate.

[Takket]

40. this combined with path to citizenship could forever flip Texas blue........

[Blue_true]

44. I also love what Biden plans to do with Venezuelan immigrant status.

One reason why Florida Cubans are so hard republican is because of the Bay of Pigs, republicans took advantage of that debacle and painted Democrats as the bad guys. If Biden does a good job resolving Venezuelan immigration issue, we pick up that group, which in Florida can help us develop a counter-weight to Cubans (although very young Cubans are voting more democratic).

[barbtries]

41. that is great.

so much to do but it's getting done!

[iluvtennis]

43. Awesome news. Now we can fight to get Beto elected senator. nt

[onetexan]

45. Hear hear!! But first i hope Biden will appoint him to a plum position in his administration

Will be another few years before the 2 senatorial seats come up for reelection unfortunately. I also hope Beto will consider running for TX governorship.

[lunatica]

46. They'll never know what hit them.

[peggysue2]

48. LOL!!

The General is on her way to Texas. Abbott and his cronies only know that Stacey Abrams worked a near miracle in Georgia (they'd likely describe the flip a disaster). Can't wait to hear the GOP's reaction to the news that Abrams is bringing her Fair Fight organization to their own neighborhood.

Better watch out, boys. This is a woman who takes no prisoners.

[Cha]

51. TY Stacey Abrams!!

Hallelujah, onetexan!

[SheltieLover]

52. Yaaaaaay!

[Vivienne235729]

55. She is a total badass. I absolutely adore her!!

Truly, a hero and an icon in the making.

[7wo7rees]

58. Introduce Stacey to Dana

https://www.wired.com/story/dana-debeauvoir-texas-county-clerk-voting-tech-revolution/

Long read but so good. Excerpted below.

Onstage, DeBeauvoir found her bearings and then turned up the heat. She wanted the computer scientists to know what the past decade had been like for her. She was tired of seeing clerks “vilified by electronic voting critics who made broad sweeping statements”—attacks that denigrated not just machines but “the people who administered them.” Every year the broadsides continued, “without any advice to those of us who are in the field.” She accused the academics of doing little to quell the conspiracy theories their research tended to spawn, meaning that “academic papers and internet rumors were often given equal weight in the public discourse.” All this while she toiled endlessly just to convince citizens and politicians that elections were fair.

DeBeauvoir was practically seething, and the audience shifted nervously. Then, out of nowhere, she changed tack. Lately, DeBeauvoir confessed, she'd begun to see things from their perspective. Once upon a time, the specter of malware and advanced persistent threats felt “like science fiction.” Now she'd come to understand that the scientists had felt ignored as much as she had. For the first time, a room of computer experts heard sounds of real sympathy from the mouth of an elections official. “For you, I imagine it felt—as we would say in Texas—like hollerin' down a well,” DeBeauvoir said. Today, she wanted the scientists to know “how much this country needs your wisdom, your knowledge of science”—and help.

She had come to the conference with one purpose: to invite the computer scientists to design a new voting system entirely from scratch. It would have a paper trail, an easy-to-use interface, and the greatest security conceivable. And, she declared, “The. Source. Code. Must. Be. Open.”

[treestar]

59. Blue Texas

[uponit7771]

60. Awwwwwww SHIT !!! 😁😁😁

[onetexan]

61. awww shucks, exactly what the TX GOP must be saying

[iscooterliberally]

62. Florida needs Stacey Abrams too!

Pretty please!

[electric_blue68]

64. I know my liberal friends in TX will be happy!

[marble falls]

65. Tracy Abrams has come to the right state. We can do with some first hand witnessing of ...

... someone with the "vision thing" and the backbone and tenacity to get it done. Too many of out Texas Democrats seem to disappear if they lose an election.

Stacy demonstrates that the victory after the loss is pretty important, too. I hope Beto is already getting his next run ready. And/or joins in with Stacy Abrams and Fair Fight Action.

[lillypaddle]

66. That woman is a GEM, a national treasure

Stacey rocks, yes she does.

[LaMouffette]

67. "Don't Mess With Texas"?! Texas Republicans, don't mess with Stacey Abrams!

This is wonderful news! Thank you for posting, onetexan!

[onetexan]

68. It won't happen overnight, will be years; but it will happen. My county (Williamson) turned blue

[uponit7771]

69. +1, so did some counties north of dallas proper

[anamnua]

70. This lady is a class act.

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Hats off to her, an African-American woman, for delivering 16 electoral college votes and two senators (one an African-American) in Gone-With-The-Windland.

[samsingh]

71. She should also bring North Carolina into focus - i think it can be turned blue