The Texas attorney general is cracking down on Democrats in a supposed crusade to root out “voter fraud.”
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s crusade against supposed voter fraud appears to be targeting the state’s Democrats.
Last week, Paxton’s office announced raids and undercover actions against organizations in Texas it accuses of illegally registering noncitizens to vote. In practice, though, the raids have taken place against members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, the oldest Latino civil rights organization in the U.S., as well as several prominent Democrats in south Texas.
According to LULAC officials, the group’s members had their cell phones and laptops confiscated by law enforcement officials carrying out search warrants.
And there are STILL Latinos who will vote for Trump, somehow…
They think of themselves as different from the more modern wave of immigrants coming through Mexico.
Makes no sense, but you see it with every demographic. Black Americans for Republicans. Women for Republicans. Voting against themselves because they don’t think they’re part of the target group.
A lot of people around here didn’t think of themselves as Jewish until the soldiers showed up.
Now there are little plaques in the street in front of the houses they were dragged out of.
As a Jew, I appreciate this. It might be presumptuous, but I assume you’re somewhere in Europe, maybe Germany? Europe endured incredible generational trauma, and it would probably be easier to ignore all of it and not put up plaques, but some countries put in serious work to try to make things right and make sure something like that doesn’t happen again. Hell, I was recently offered an application for citizenship to the European country my grandparents escaped from, as part of their reparations program. What I’m saying is, there will be trauma and long term pain, but it’s also possible to heal and grow. Since there are other genocides going on in the world right now, it’s important to remember that these atrocities continue to happen in the modern world, but that it’s possible for us to stop them and move on.
In Germany, they’re called Stolpersteine, or stumbling blocks (a metaphorical hurdle that prevents or inhibits you from reaching your goal). It feels like a warning that humanity must reckon with our susceptibility towards fascism if we want to achieve lasting peace.
They look like this:
It really makes you think seeing those.
We have them in Torino in Italy where I now live. There are a lot more than I would have expected.
Amazing. It’s such a great combination of symbolism, memory, and warning.
I spent some time in Berlin, and I was genuinely moved at how present the history is. There is no attempt to hide anything, and I respect and appreciate that immensely.
That’s our future if things don’t go just right.
There were “Jews for Hitler” in the 1930’s.
Didn’t save them from the camps though. At best they bought themselves some time.
Imagine the “shocked Pikachu” face when they realized that they just aided in their own demise. Whoops!
Latino vote isn’t a monolith.
Source: See all the Cubans going “Yeah! Fuck Mexico!”
We are not a monolith, but the GOP is racist against all of us for our skin color, they are the monolith, and we should all be united against their bigoted politics.
I agree! Unfortunately, too many people don’t feel the same way. You could extend this to immigration in general, all the descendants of Ireland, Italy and Germany are all too willing to pull up the ladder behind them. “Venezuela? Fuck those guys!”
The thing people don’t get is human life didn’t evolve in the Americas, we are ALL immigrants or the desendants of immigrants. The only difference is were you naturalized this year, like my daughter in law, 200 years ago like my family or 10,000 years ago like the First Nations.
The maddening part is that a lot of those same people will pride themselves on their immigrant heritage, and proudly call America a nation of immigrants. Just, not those immigrants, I guess. 😒
As for the last bit about origins: In my case, it’s all three! 😅 My family contains indigenous people, early Spanish explorers, and Irish immigrants.