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"significant" or "meaningful" would be better.

"Impactful" isn't a word

There's been some fraud uncovered, usually Trump voters

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The Republicans have gone mad: quite mad. All of them. Despiting the endless, artful "bothsidesing" and normalization from the Beltway press, it's just simply the case that the whole bloomin' GOP has gone over the cliff. Unfortunately, the rest of us are chained to them, and the chains are padlocked, so it will take superpowers to save us.

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In 2018

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You have to understand that the state government here spends an awful lot of time trying to undo whatever Texas city governments do, because Texas Republicans mostly hate the majority of Texans. Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso all get this treatment. So while this seems crazy, it’s absolutely unsurprising to those of us who live here.

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Good news is, nobody in the trump administration read that letter. Too long. Also, footnotes.

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I disavow any relation

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If you live in a liberal city and it hasn't been demonized and punished by petty republican state officials, congrats, your state isn't broken - yet.

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She was one of THE most incredible women to have ever been born.

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Well.....yes.

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Linda!!!

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By now he'd be nothing but asshole. Oh, wait....

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If you sent them to the state capital, they aren't living next door.

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RICK! My alternative husband!

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And every political ad this cycle for GOP candidates featured "They want to end the energy economy!"

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Two years after his first indictment.

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Texas being Texas, this will probably propel him into the governor’s mansion.

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