Friend: 

Texas is what happens when the new MAGA party can work unchecked. 

From not connecting their power grid (leaving too many to freeze to death earlier this year) to their assault on voting rights to now one of the most draconian anti-woman bills ever passed, this is the sum total of “GOP” governance now.

The Texas legislature and Greg Abbott and Dan Patrick are perfectly willing to do everything they can to appease their Trumpist base because they have to win their primaries. If they do anything other than the most Trump-y thing possible, they’re going to get primaried by someone even crazier. Abbott already is, and he couldn’t go farther off the deep end if he tried (and he is trying.) And Texas is gerrymandered so thoroughly that there is no choice for these people but to stay on this path.

All of this has real life effects for Texans. Young people, people of color, senior citizens, and now women. It’s harder to vote, lifesaving utilities are a crapshoot, and now there’s a $10k bounty out on everyone even remotely involved with a woman’s right to choose complete with an anonymous digital tip line. And those vigilantes are going to be armed, thanks to a new permitless open carry law Abbott rammed through. No training required!

The Supreme Court is content to let the abortion ban stand for now. This is the sum of a decades-long series of actions we can get into on another day, and we will -- it’s because conservatives have long cared about the Court and Democrats have not. The Supreme Court hadn’t really had a chance to prove just how far off the deep end Trump took it. Well, they did now.

What this all comes down to is we have to beat them at the ballot box next year. 

We can’t count on Washington to fix the Court or end the filibuster. It’s going to be on us. But for now, we have to stand with women in Texas. If you are part of this anti-woman, anti-vaccination, anti-democracy mob, we are going to take you on and we are going to win.

The first step: Take action and add your name. Tell us you’re willing to step up and call out a corporation or a legislator or Greg Abbott or anyone when we need you to.

And if you know someone in Texas, please forward this email and ask them to join us, too. It is going to take all of us.

-Reed and the Lincoln Project team