Republican members of the Texas state legislature introduced a slate of bills Thursday designed to subvert election processes and curb voting rights in the state. One of them would even allow the Texas Secretary of State to overturn election results in the state’s largest Democratic-leaning county, with very little rationale for doing so.
On Thursday, Republican state senators introduced Senate Bill 1993, a bill targeting Harris County, a diverse region that includes Houston and is also the most populous county in Texas, to a Senate committee for debate.
SB 1993 would grant Secretary of State Jane Nelson ® the authority to order a new election in Harris County “if the secretary has good cause to believe that at least two percent of the total number of polling places in the county did not receive supplemental ballots,” according to the bill text. Secretary Nelson would have the same authority granted to a district court.
This is what Hitler and the Nazis did in the early 1930s when they eliminated all the political parties, and assumed total control of Germany’s political system.
Look at every autocracy in history, but pay particular attention to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, and you’ll see terrifying parallels to what Trump and the Fascist Republicans are doing all over America.
Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here already and getting stronger.
(via wilwheaton)