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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

User manuals. People get involved and they don’t learn about what they’re getting involved in. They’re over focused on finding the exact right magical policy, or dunking on DC folks, paranoid about GOP spies, and completely ignore the infrastructure. Reactive, or passive, not proactive.

I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

They just don't know how social media works. The TDP even sends a coms toolkit every month but almost no one uses it. I had to argue with my county party about it and convince them to let me do it if they weren't. Almost all of them have email overwhelm and most of them don't read their own

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Part of this is because (at least in Texas) the county parties are supposed to do stuff like pump out information on social media and do letter to the editors etc, but the do not. Some because they’re afraid of being harassed and really don’t want people to know they exist, others because

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

One of the other things I’ve noticed is that I’m not sure if I’ve seen many ads from campaigns, just from the MAGA inc superpac, but I don’t watch much in the way of broadcast TV. Most commercials I see are on YouTube.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Do you mean quality of rhetoric per candidate or unity of party communications on a local, state, and national level? I’ve asked multiple people irl and they’ve all given me different answers.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

^sigh^ the media situation is part of it. The other part is a specific lack of team building and outreach at the county level. I talk to some of these folks about team building and I get looked at like I’m crazy. Communications have to come from the county. They need to own their role.

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 05/10/2026

"Fukuyama, properly understood, was not saying that events would cease after 1989, nor that there would be no further world-historical struggle. What he argued was that liberal democracy had become the only real game in town. Therefore, future battles would necessarily be fought in its defence…"

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The End of History and the Final Girl

Anton Jäger’s "Hyperpolitics" is, at its best, late marginalia for "The End of History and the Last Man." At its worst, Jäger, like Fukuyama, is a prisoner of his political pieties.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

And sniping that way. Or organizing popup events for candidate clubs, or any number of things. Instead we’re yapping online.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I agree, although I think in a different way. Social media has pulled the “political folks” and the naturally “partisan folk” online. Almost all of these people are social creatures in some way (including me and you). In the past they’d be doing letters to the editor

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Know how to use it. AND there is a very serious problem in that many of them don’t know or understand how to team build or delegate or ask for help or that it’s about leadership with small groups.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But also I would like people to very much understand that there is a functional technology gap between Party folk, which are frequently the underpinnings to many campaigns and groups and social media operations, especially in rural areas, and everyone else. They may be on facebook, but they don’t

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hi! I only read a little bit of that (I’ll try to finish it later, or tomorrow; I’m doing politics in Texas and have gotten in to a couple different groups and these people are yappers!), but to add to it, here’s a link to Bob Altemeyer’s The Authoritarians. theauthoritarians.org

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The Authoritarians

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sarah Eckhardt, in case anyone is curious, was in this 80s D movie called Student Bodies. It used to air late night on USA. I’m not kidding when I say I’ve been ^busy^.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Say like “hey, do you have the time to go to x, y, z” or do this thing? Or “can you visit” and tell me when your good times are. Why do I have to play 20 questions?

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FOR the public record the way to see if I want to do something or can do something is ask me directly. There’s been waaay too many people that ask me without actually asking me then get disappointed that I don’t do the thing. Or respond accordingly. Be direct! Ask! Don’t hint around.

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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 25/09/2026

900 Flock cameras down. Thousands more to go. Texans should be able to drive down the road without Big Tech tracking where we go and building a database of our movements. Communities across Texas are starting to pull the plug. Let’s de-flock Texas.

Texas Tribune graphic with the headline, “At least 900 Flock cameras have been unplugged in Texas since state funding was cut.” The graphic says at least 14 cities and counties have shut off Flock cameras since state funding was rescinded in late August. Houston and Dallas shut down grant-funded cameras while keeping much of their networks operating, while Plano, Robinson, and Kendall County ended their Flock contracts entirely. Dated September 24, 2026.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s…probably better. They have more precinct chairs than they did, but are really missing the team building aspect on that level. Even the campaigns.All the protest things have really gotten people comfortable with each other, which has kinda helped.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also I’ve been yapping hard specifically to the more connected Dems about how this is the big one. But they are all facebook people.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Low key I think it’s partly because the TDP chair did a county party tour last year and has been a really visible presence. The locals have a long way to go though. They gotta learn team building better. ^sigh^

Me w Kendall Scudder the TDP state party chair.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It’s just REALLY annoying that it seams like ALL Texas Dems are on facebook.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Even Paul, the very wordy minister that’s running for SD-5 might just make it.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Logged back on hoping to see this lol. The Texas Dems are trying really really hard this time.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I didn’t delve into the Kushner thing but sometimes you gotta meet with the enemy to figure shit out.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

So they want you to both credit and not credit the artist? What?

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Do…do people realize that the party participants are not monolithic? I guarantee they’re all going further left.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

But. I haven’t been rebuffed. I have the capacity for research, they don’t. I know my lack of boundaries is a pretty big risk, but I think I need to try.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

So after the cruise I resolved to, I don’t know, be better. Visit more. It gets out of sight/out of mind. They’re literally more important to me than any politics happening right now. But they don’t know how to ask, and probably won’t because of whatever shame.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Her husband has been listening to me at least. Little things I noticed. Like, between the cruise we went on in March and a few weeks ago in Los Alamos he stopped using the “r word” if you know. A few other things. Her, less so.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ve sent them resources, because that’s all that I can do. Find information and push it. And be more radically open with her and give her connection. All the ways I know how to intentionally communicate with people.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Her husband sees it, but I don’t think he knows how to intercede. She’s EXHAUSTED. I can see it in her eyes every picture. I spend time with 80 year olds that don’t look as exhausted. Like, I don’t live near her and I can’t easily get there.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wish I knew what to do when someone you love and care for is clearly in a burnout situation and has clearly over scheduled herself into it. I’m massively worried that the chronic stress will put her into an early grave.

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Mayor Defiant @eminence.fun · 28/08/2026

Milo Yiannopoulos has been detained by ICE in an excellent reminder of how regimes repay the provocateurs that were their biggest cheerleaders.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My kid had to retake an animation class this summer and I really hope the pass the final. Like just give it to them! Everything’s been booked! Loans processed! But we won’t find out till Thursday.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Update to this. So she did it like weekly at first, but she doesn’t and has never had diabetes, then her husband got her to scale back to monthly. But on top of that she has pretty severe and obvious chronic stress and her digestive problems seem worse. She should never have been given GLP1.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

So like a friend of mine started doing Ozempic I over the past couple of years and every time I see her face I get depressed because it’s drastically changed it. She looks permanently stressed.

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Texas Democratic Party @texasdemocrats.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

End citizens united.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This stuff just shows on my feed. These nerds

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Stop making group chats challenge: impossible.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Do you think it can be tied to a handful of specific writers or political folks? It’s mostly seemed like something that lives and dies on the internet.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

I saw this. Goobers. But yeah, I’m at TDP Con and people were very confused. On Thursday there was also a random group of pro Paxton demonstrators on shoreline. It was weird. Like who is this for?

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

People get fired because they’re bad at their jobs, then they make up stories and try to get the very online body politic ginned up. There’s a lot of shit that has to do with friend groups.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

So after spending a year and a half with these (political) people I’ve noticed that some people literally just make stuff up out of whole cloth. Like, no weed needed even. It’s so silly. One lady has this whole weird narrative around me just because I’m not super intimidated and go to meetings

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

People are stressed. Politics is breaking containment and getting to people that normally wouldn’t be interested in the slightest, or have it affect them negatively.

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violiav.bsky.social @violiav.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I lowkey kinda just want to be pursued. Like, I want to be wanted. Or maybe I have been but I’m just so completely oblivious that I haven’t noticed it. Idk. It’s always “what are your plans” or “what do you want”, never (or rarely) “I’d like you to do this with me”, or “I want you specifically”

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