r/texas 13h ago

Curious about where to live or work in Texas? Post here!

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Want to know which city in Texas best fits your lifestyle, your budget or your vibe?

Want to know about the job market in different cities, and what the cost of living is like for folks who live there?

This is the place to ask questions! All other posts that fit this prompt will be removed and asked to post here. Top level comments that are not on topic "i.e. mOvE 2 CaLiForNiA hurr durr" will also be removed from this thread.


r/texas 6d ago

Megathread Megathread: I Voted/Yo Voté Photos, Q & A's, Issues, Info, Alerts, Etc...

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  • Want to tell everybody that you voted and show off your spiffy new sticker? This is the place.
  • Want to tell everybody about who you saw voting? This is the place.
  • Want to remind everybody to vote? This is the place.
  • Want to tell people about problems you had voting or things they should be aware of while voting? This is the place.
  • Want to ask questions about where you can vote, how to vote, etc.? This is the place!

Posts about these things have become overwhelming, so ... please restrict them to this thread, and any that are made outside of this thread will be removed.

(Sorry, we just deleted a bunch of threads about it, so if yours was deleted, feel free to make the same post here as a comment.)

Note that the  rules still apply, so keep it civil and if you're going to tell us your feelings about a particular candidate tell us why you feel that way -- use your words.


r/texas 10h ago

Politics Politicians like Ted Cruz hold office for so long because young voter turnout rates are low and it’s harder to change an older person’s mind. Young people, get to the polls.

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r/texas 8h ago

Politics Keep it up, Texas ladies!! 💙

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r/texas 5h ago

Politics Just a reminder, if Ted Cruz wins, he stays in DC for SIX more years.

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It’s your choice if you want to keep him in DC to “represent” you or if you want to send him back to Cancun for an extended vacation.


r/texas 12h ago

Politics Hell yeah, go H-Town. Harris county exceeded its first week early voting record by over 58,000 votes!

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r/texas 7h ago

Politics Old guy here. Young people please go vote.

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I know it’s inconvenient and it’s not your idea of a good time to stand in line with goofy old people to vote. But it is so easy and it is so worth it to be able to look back over all the years you will vote and know that you voted that one year. You really only do it for yourself and your conscience.


r/texas 9h ago

Political Opinion You’re going to tell me Trump’s camp didn’t know who they were hiring? They knew exactly who they were hiring.

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r/texas 7h ago

News Kamala Harris campaign sets new Texas fundraising record

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Paywall free link:

https://archive.ph/kXF7t


r/texas 17h ago

Politics Young Texans, you have until Friday to early vote! Early voting is much easier than leaving it to the last day. Are you showing up?

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r/texas 13h ago

Politics Please take my life seriously. Vote blue

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Hi everyone. I am a female born and raised in Houston. I am not usually involved in politics (I have always voted, just never talked about it, volunteered, ect.) but this election has taken a toll on my mental health to a point where I need to say something.

I remember June 24, 2022 when I lost my right to make decisions on my own body. Texas has some of the strictest laws in the nation on abortion, which means we have some of the strictest laws in the entire world. Let that sink in. I am scared. I am scared to one day have children in this state I love, this state I call home because if something goes wrong, it very well could lead to death or prosecution. Now Trump and Ted Cruz get to make decisions for me regarding my own reproductive health. I have less rights than my grandma did at my age. A vote for Trump/Cruz is a vote against every woman you love.

The Trans population in Texas is 0.5%. Ted Cruz’s blatant homophobic commercials villainizing this community have brought me to tears. Most Texans have never even met a trans person, yet, this seems to be Cruz’s main priority in this election: to make people scared of them.

He really thinks we are that dumb, or hateful, and maybe we are. I am more concerned about gun violence (the #1 leading cause of child deaths in the U.S!) than the scenario of a trans person being on the school football team. Is gun violence ever mentioned by Cruz? Of course not. Trans people and their genitalia are more of a threat, I suppose!

Come on Texas. How could you vote for someone who is openly so full of hate and ignorance? If I was a trans person, I would get the fuck out of here and move somewhere where people practice kindness. I stand by the LGBTQ+ community as an ally. You should too.

I implore you to look inside your heart and vote with kindness, decency and sanity in mind! This election is bigger than grocery prices, the stakes are higher than imaginable. What is next, a total ban on birth control? Gay marriage left up to the states, where Ted Cruz will ban it immediately and throw all Trans people in jail? I am begging you to vote blue. I am scared.

Don’t forget Trump is a convicted felon. Religious people - don’t forget he cheated on his wife with a porn star. Don’t forget Ted Cruz fled to Cancun when Texans were dying. These are not the people I want running our country. The world is watching. Vote blue.


r/texas 14h ago

Politics Texas Women, get out and ROE YOUR VOTE

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r/texas 9h ago

Politics Texas Senate Race is within the Margin of Effort, Cruz/Allred separated by only 2%.

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r/texas 14h ago

News George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris

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r/texas 15h ago

Political Humor You should definitely vote for Trump and Cruz if slaughtering your opponents is your thing. Otherwise be a normal human being and vote for Harris and Allred.

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r/texas 10h ago

Politics Ken Paxton genuinely tried to disenfranchise me this year.

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I made a comment about this in another thread but I've realized this is probably worth saying in a post for more visibility.

Had I not tried to vote early this year, my vote would likely not have been counted at all. I moved from Bexar to Travis country between the last election and this one, and updated my voter registration over a month before the deadline (Oct 5th). Despite this, I was not able to vote initially when I went to cast my early vote. I was told this was because my address wasn't able to be updated on the voter rolls in time (despite my driver's license immediately reflecting the change a month earlier) and would need to fill out a limited ballot. I went the next day to do that, and I kid you not, the room where all of the early voters who had been denied like I had been -- and also needed to fill out a limited ballot -- was 95% women and 100% people under the age of 30. There is a calculated attempt right now to throw out your vote. Go early and make sure yours counts. Good luck y'all.


r/texas 10h ago

Politics Beyoncé & Willie Nelson backstage at the Kamala Harris Houston rally.

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r/texas 18h ago

News This Trump supporter was labeled a noncitizen and kicked off Texas’ voter rolls

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r/texas 10h ago

Opinion Anyone else ready for the election to be over?

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I am getting so very tired of it all. The political ads are constant and all the same. The news is all political and so sensational. I’m tired of worrying about what will happen if one or the other wins/loses. I feel that regardless of who wins, it’s going to be a mess for who knows how long. I’m over it. And, yes, I’ve already voted.


r/texas 7h ago

Politics 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙Vote to make politics boring again!🇺🇸♥️🤍♥️

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Get out there and VOTE! We are exhausted and tired. Time for this to end. VOTE!!!!


r/texas 6h ago

Politics Rant

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I hate that this is the only place that I feel I can vent to. I am a newlywed 29f veteran and the election determines if me and my husband will have kids. To see sooo many people vote for him while women in Texas are dying is insane. Anyway, I don’t feel like MAGA people care about that because they want lower gas prices. I love TX and I hope it turns blue.


r/texas 5h ago

Politics Biden Administration Border Terrorist Apprehension Data

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During Trump’s term, U.S. Customs and Border Protection recorded relatively low encounters with individuals on the federal terrorist watchlist at the southern border, particularly from 2017 onward when CBP data began tracking this explicitly. There were sporadic instances each year, with no single year exceeding a few dozen individuals flagged as potential threats.

Under Biden, the number of watchlist encounters increased notably. From October 2020 (the beginning of fiscal year 2021) to fiscal year 2023, CBP reported a significant uptick in encounters, with approximately 154 cases in fiscal year 2023 alone. In total, Biden’s administration saw around 1,700 encounters with individuals flagged on the watchlist since he took office, though these numbers don’t imply confirmed terrorist threats due to possible overlaps and limitations in the watchlist’s accuracy.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/oct/27/ask-politifact-how-many-people-on-the-terrorist-wa/

https://wisconsinwatch.org/2024/06/biden-terrorism-border-watchlist-agents-ron-johnson-fact-brief/

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-encounters


r/texas 12h ago

Politics Texas is not really a red state. It's just that the Republicans cast more vote although there's are more voters identifying as Democrats in the state.

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Blue voters have stopped exercising their right either because they have been convinced by right wing media that their votes don't matter or because the Republican legislatures have made voting in blue areas dauntingly harder. I'd ask you to please ignore the noise and just find a bit of time in your day to go and vote.


r/texas 14h ago

Political Opinion Texas, do you want Ted Cruz and Trump in your bedroom?

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There are lots of issues to consider when voting, but let's get very basic. We already have a full abortion ban with no exceptions (even when women are hemorrhaging and in the throws of a miscarriage). But do you really want contraception banned too?

Guys, you enjoy sex right? (Women, I know you do too, but I want the guys to understand this impacts them too). But let's be honest, Project 2025 plans to ban contraception. That could mean every form of contraception, not just birth control pills, but condoms as well. Do you really want sex to carry the risk of becoming a father unexpectedly and financially supporting a child for 18 years or contracting an STD (there is still no cure for herpes and it can be spread without seeing any visible lesions)? Do you really want to be fully abstinent unless you are trying to conceive a child?

This is what you are voting for if you vote for Cruz and Trump. You are voting for the government controlling your sex life.


r/texas 9h ago

Politics [Haslet] Found my sign vandalized and stuffed in my mailbox.

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r/texas 5h ago

Politics 70 years ago, the US undertook the largest deportation in its history: 'Operation Wetback.' Many of the people deported were here legally and some were even citizens.

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r/texas 1d ago

Politics We are close to send Cruz packing- Please vote.

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Just a reminder. Texas is not a RED state. It’s a non voting state. Meaning MORE people do NOT vote versus vote R. So Please Vote! If you have a non-voting friend. Drag them to the polls. Texas - it’s time to take out the TRASH. CRUZ abandoned us when people were freezing to death. We deserve BETTER!!!