Republicans Have Broken Everything In Texas

This week has been a non-stop flood of news of all the things the GOP has broken. It's a good time to remind everyone that we outnumber them, all we have to do is vote.

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In case you missed it, last night around 8 p.m., ERCOT called a Level 2 Emergency, stating our reserves were at a critical level. They said we were at imminent risk for rolling blackouts, and our power levels were roughly at the same levels that they were during Winter Storm Uri, when half of the state was without electricity for an entire week.


Thankfully, the emergency was resolved, and our entire state didn’t lose power, but we came very close last night. Today, once again, ERCOT is asking everyone to conserve energy. Over this wretchedly hot summer, the powers that be have continuously asked us to save our power but have failed to give us any discounts on our electric bills to deal with their mishandling of our power grid.

Republicans did this to us. Their stupid need for states’ rights and the avoidance of federal regulation has put us in the position so that their oil buddies can bend us over, screw us, and then go sit on their mountains of cash. The GOP “free market” is a complete failure and hasn’t freed us from worry about whether we’ll have electricity from one day to the next.

On top of that, Texas’ childhood hunger rate is six points higher than the national average, and the State of Texas paid cryptocurrency mining company Riot more than $31 million to cut its energy use in August.