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TexasTowelie

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Mon Nov 12, 2018, 05:58 AM Nov 2018

Texas Tea-Partiers Panic After Blue Wave: 'Dems Are Moving In Across The Border'

In the run-up to Election Day, an influential Tea Party group seemed skeptical that a blue wave would wash over the state.

But after the votes were tallied Tuesday, the NE Tarrant Tea Party found that some of its favored candidates had nearly been swept away.

“Slaughtered … slaughtered … lost … lost … barely held on, but at least they won,” the group’s president, Julie McCarty, wrote to supporters Wednesday, ticking down a list of races. “We are rapidly becoming outnumbered. I don’t know what tomorrow holds, but I don’t like the pattern.”

Though the GOP maintained its dominance of the Legislature and control of every statewide office, it was by almost all counts a tough night for her wing of the party. With the Democrats’ star senatorial candidate, Beto O’Rourke, at the top of the ticket, challengers running to the left of far-right — and often well-financed — candidates made nail-biters of races that had once been safe Republican wins.

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2018/11/texas-tea-partiers-panic-after-blue-wave-dems-are-moving-in-across-the-border/

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Texas Tea-Partiers Panic After Blue Wave: 'Dems Are Moving In Across The Border' (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2018 OP
The final gasps of white nationalism and white majority. redstatebluegirl Nov 2018 #1

redstatebluegirl

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1. The final gasps of white nationalism and white majority.
Mon Nov 12, 2018, 02:00 PM
Nov 2018

They can't handle it one single bit. It will be ugly before it gets better.

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