Posted from Uvalde: "We are not a red state. We are a oppressed state."

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40. OK, here we are again, another whole thread of comiserating about why we can't get anything done

but what are we doing?

We should have been inspired earlier this week when the Democratic candidate for governor of Texas, Beto O'Rourke, got right in the face of the governor, mayor and all of the law enforcement people fawning all over them, and told them off. They tossed him out and he went, respectfully, but he was given a media platform to keep calling them out. And it has gotten results.

After muttering, grumbling and complaining, Abbott crawled off in a corner, decided not to go to the NRA meeting after all and is now playing the damage control game big time.

There was an admission of a botched response by the law enforcement officials.

There's talk in Congress of getting a background check bill passed. By Mitch McConnell, believe it or not.

This shook them big time. They watch those poll numbers. But let's not quit, let's keep up the pressure.

The very last thing Republicans want in Texas is a "woke" Latino community. Here's the opportunity for the Democratic party to give one to them.

You folks that live in Texas, especially in South Texas in places like Uvalde, where three fourths of the population is Latino but only a fourth of the Latinos are registered to vote, if it takes pounding the pavement to get people to register and go vote, do it!