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👻Awooooo werewolves of pumpkin 🎃 @loganws.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My position would be that either trans rights are salient / important to voters or not; but certainly consultants will say trans attacks worked if Talarico loses (others will say it was Talarico's walkback). A case perfectly constructed to validate priors on trans rights if T loses

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While it is an understandable concern that Talarico winning would create a permission structure for transphobia within the Democratic Party, a Paxton win would do that even more. If Paxton wins after making attacks on trans rights and trans lives the centerpiece of his campaign—if Talarico loses after being subjected to swarms of right-wing transphobic attacks, from attacks on his policy record to name-calling like “Talafreako” to depictions of Talarico himself as a trans woman—if, after all of that, Paxton wins—nothing could do more to convince centrist Democrats that they need to throw us trans people under the bus.

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