Republicans really are fucking idiots aren't they
No disrespect to any fucking idiots reading this
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2026
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I think I speak for all fucking idiots when I say this, thank you for not disrespecting us because WOW we are dumb but we aren't Texas dumb!
Spongebob and Patrick were right all along
Right now it will be used to cull "illegals."
Later it will be used to cull the "politically unreliable."
The definition of "illegals" will expand to more and more groups.
Ding ding ding.
The Trump regime has already floated the idea of suspending citizenship, and has already told those that don’t agree with them to ‘leave’.
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Republican Party right now: "they're the same picture!"
cull
OK that's bad, but they can do so much more with such data. Like, make sure they "win" the election.
Is that legal, that the federal government can demand this from states?
Honestly voter registration (with party affiliation) just feels illegal to me.
Texas doesn't have party affiliation in voter registration.
No, but they do track which primary we choose to vote in, which locks you in for any runoffs and serves as a defacto party registration until the next primary.
It does give historical context that "they" use in the "likely " polling forecasts, but the affiliation itself expires at the end of the calendar year of the primary. Not saying that the data can't be used maliciously, but it's legally different then what people mean when they talk about their voter registration having that information. States that have that on your voter registration are also likely to have closed primaries, which Texas does not.
Interesting.
Last election, Elon used his scam lottery to collect names and details of independent voters.
One of his dodge hires had written a full test software for voting machines, including a program to use names and data to generate votes for testing.
Those states then all had the increased single vote percentages move a significant margin to all vote red.
Now they are telling the states to give them the same data....
This doesn’t get mentioned nearly enough.
Last election, Elon used his scam lottery to collect names and details of ~~independent voters~~ members of the Trump cult pretending to be independent.
Fixed it for you.
The state that constantly wanted to secede is now getting as cozy as could be with the federal government.
texas is pretty much russia2.0, as far as how the govt is ran, its a template for the rest of the country.
This is exactly why I changed my registration to independent in 2016. I knew this shit was coming and I for one am not willingly putting myself on a registered "enemies list" for a fascist fuckwit to use against me. Unfortunately in NY that means I can't vote in primaries...
That may not help though, if you don't support them, you're a target. You don't have to be dem to be targeted you just have to be a problem.
I suppose, but if I'm ever questioned about it I can just make up some b.s about living in NY and was afraid that the evil leftist communist Venezuela loving Democrats would hurt me if I registered as Republican.
Hope you posted this on a VPN and have never logged into your account without it
at the end of the day we're all fucked anyway
We don't have party affiliation on the voter registration forms here though.
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When I lived in Texas I registered as a Republican so I could vote in the primary.
Might actually be a good idea if everyone registered as Republican. Then there's no way to tell who's really going to vote for them. Hah, sorry I forgot there probably won't be any more votes.
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The whole premise of "registering as a xxxxxx" is screwed up.
Sorry but registering as Independent doesn’t save you. If you still speak out you go on the list.
Treason.
For a state that loves to say "don't mess with [us]", they sure are a bunch of dumb little bitches.
The next time a democrat decides to take over Texas, or whatever the hell they thought Jade Helm was, they'll have this list now too.
Bet 'The don't tread on me' sovcit folks are knotted and contorted messes now. Where'd all yer flags go now, ya cunts.
Don't worry about them, they didn't hear about this news at all and wouldn't care even if they did. Everyone in that camp will fall in line with Daddy Trump.
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Aren't these already public? Whenever I canvas they give us a list with everyone registered and their party affiliation, and if people ask how we know we tell them that it's from the voter rolls.
Yeah, I'm kinda confused here as well. You've been able to request voter records for years now, and they already include basically all the information the article is talking about: https://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/forms/pi.pdf. There are several websites that submit these requests and then publish the results online for free. My voting history (including name, address, age, etc.) has been up on these sites for years. I do not like that at all, but I have no control over it. I'm not really sure what is different about what was handed over from Texas to the federal government...
Washington State refused the request because the feds wanted socials, license numbers, signatures, birthdates, and other information protected by state law. They happily shared the general info like name and address, but the feds are trying to sue to get the protected parts too.
Ah, yep, that's what it is. Thanks for the clarification. Found this in another article:
The state included identifiable information about voters, including dates of birth, driver’s license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, Pierce said.
I can’t tell if this is just for those currently registered or if it includes previous.
Glad i no longer live in texas
Experts and state officials around the country have raised concerns over the legality of the Justice Department’s effort to obtain states’ voter rolls and whether it could compromise voter privacy protections.
I always thought these were public record. TIL, I guess.
Nope as the rolls contain very sensitive information such as home addresses and legal names.
That's not exactly sensitive info. Property records are very public with that same info.
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With your driver's license info included?
Many states (including Texas) require voters to register as a member of a political party. Texas just handed the Feds a list of all the voting Democrats in Texas.
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Oops, accidentally purged the registration of 1,000,000 voters in the Democrat folder
Honest mistake, no cap frfr
Counting on TX being a POS state has never been a bad bet.
FUCK THIS STATE
Can anyone truly say they dont think voting is rigged?
I mean im certain it was rigged with paper ballets, just a little more difficult. But we have voting machines programmed by musks friends/fans. There's no way votes matter and probably haven't for 20 years.
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