The Texas attorney general is cracking down on Democrats in a supposed crusade to root out “voter fraud.”

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.

  • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
    7·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      4·
      3 months ago

      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.

      • Zombie-Mantis@lemmy.world
        3·
        3 months ago

        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.