How to keep Texas Red.
Texas incumbent Republicans must think outside the box......First, legalize pot and use the tax funds for property tax relief. This snatches up the younger vote and helps property owners. Spring that on the liberals and you'll rock them. No, I'm not advocating its use, I'm recognizing reality, Mexico is talking about legalizing it and if that happens, tourist money will flow south. Consider; Colorado has tax revenue of a billion dollars from this and they have a population of less than 6 million...we have over 28.7 million. Will there be problems....of course, but we have other states to learn from and the bottom line is you don't take the freedoms of responsible, law abiding citizens to make it easier to catch irresponsible ones. Further, we could sell permits to tourist to consume it while visiting and the tax money would be immense, our social services well funded, and biggest of all....property tax relief.
Second, strongly plan for and enforce deportation, voter ID and E Verify while prosecuting sanctuary city officials.....birthrates and sanctuary cities don't matter anymore if we lost the buffet style enforcement of our laws.
Third, require 10 years residency to vote in this state's elections so the liberals fleeing liberal bastions can't screw with our success story. They must vote absentee from their former states in national and then wait to vote in local elections.... till then...and this will be challenged in the courts but, there is nothing about where you must vote or terms of residency....just that you have the vote in the constitution, you come here voluntarily so you play by our state's rules....I voted absentee for many years when I was in the military and if it's good enough for military, then it's likely too good for liberals fleeing the mess they voted in.
Next, tax all money transfers out of this country by wire/mail. Change asylum rules so asylum seekers must apply at consulates and not at the border and the numbers are then limited to what that facility can handle.....otherwise they get turned away in another country. No more catch, release and disperse....an insane policy. Put in place a moratorium on all immigration till the millions here illegally are deported or whatever.
Last, support a constitutional convention of the states to repeal the 17th Amendment, close the anchor baby loop hole in the 14th and a few other things. Is there a risk in doing that?....of course but, when the enemy is within your gates....all options have risk.
Do those things and then don't ever allow any Republican to run EVER in violation of a party plank....like Bush. Look at voting records for folks like Will Hurd and refuse to allow candidates like him to put an R next to his name in any election....or even now. Vet all Republican Candidates and never let a political slot go unchallenged......Show some backbone or sit back and relax.
G.Gobel.

Sanctuary Cities in Virginia-----GOOD
Sanctuary Cities in Texas ------BAD

Great, big difference.
Sanctuary Cities for Illegals anywhere------Bad

Well, I do not live in Texas, so although this is the United STATES of America, and I am an American, I guess, by this logic, should just shut up and not have an opinion be counted for anything. I do have a couple general questions though. Would all those 'passing through' and not living there 10 years, still be PAYING state taxes and property taxes TO Texas?

And would politicians have to be robots who agree with EVERY detail of a party
plank' to win? And if so, how would there be a way to ascertain any difference amongst candidates who are running?

Legalize pot? You're kidding, right?

California did that.
Less than 25% of the pot sold in
California, is taxed, and sold through
a regulated market place.

An estimated 73% of the pot sold in
California is sold UNTAXED, on the
"black market".


Not quite the boon to the taxbase,
one might have hoped for.

I think it's in the implementation more so than simply the legalization...


From https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753791322/california-says-its-cannabis-revenue-has-fallen-short-of-estimates-despite-gains




The result was a departure from the spikes seen in states such as Colorado, Washington and Oregon after those states legalized recreational markets.

"What had happened was that those markets typically doubled in the first year," says Tom Adams, of the cannabis industry research firm BDS Analytics. In those three states, he adds, they "posted 50 to 90 percent compound annual growth for three years straight."



Confronted with high taxes in the legal market and new requirements for getting an annual medical marijuana card, many cannabis users in California have turned to the illegal market. The number of medicinal customers has shrunk drastically in the past year, Adams notes. And he says the state's rules about keeping inventories separate for recreational and medicinal sales have either increased costs or prompted some retailers to abandon the medical market altogether.

Good luck getting the current Republican Party to initiate anything other than your idea about rigging local elections.

Above all else, the current party believes in doing nothing, as a governing policy.