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fujiyamasan

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14. Then please enlighten us with another strategy

Reply to everyonematters (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 05:05 PM

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Independents almost always have a partisan preference. There are very few truly unaffiliated voters out there in a hyper partisan environment.

I’m not sure what your complaint is. As I said, if you have a problem with what’s going on take it up with the Texas republicans party to start. They had several chances to not proceed.

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