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There's Something Suspicious About The Texas Midterm "Blue Wave"

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There's Something Suspicious About The Texas Midterm "Blue Wave"
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There's Something Suspicious About The Texas Midterm "Blue Wave" On the night of the 2020 Presidential Elections most Americans recall going to bed feeling certain that Donald…

On the night of the 2020 Presidential Elections most Americans recall going to bed feeling certain that Donald Trump had pulled off another solid victory. With Joe Biden drawing mostly small crowds on the campaign trail and spending most of the cycle rarely engaging with the public, it seemed as if Trump was a lock.

When everyone awoke the next morning, they were shocked to discover that Biden was awash in votes from an overnight spike, largely due to mail-in ballots and absentee ballots (at least, that was the narrative). Some called it unprecedented, and the shift completely bucked the vote counts that had been trending throughout election day.

Millions of Americans cried foul; suspicions over the results led to the January 6th protests (which turned into riots after Capitol Police fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the otherwise peaceful crowd). It felt like a coup, and when the Democrat crackdown over the pandemic escalated, it felt like the end of the country was near.

The same feeling is thick in the air after the 2026 Midterms. The most common retort is that this is now the go-to response for any election loss. Democrats claimed the 2016 election was stolen, Republicans claimed the 2020 election was stolen, the accusations arose again in 2024 and today everything is circling back. But does this mean the suspicions are wrong?

Trump recently ignited media outrage when he suggested that some midterms results were fraudulent. In the case of Texas, he might have a point. Something's not quite right about these Midterm numbers. Let's examine the facts for a moment...

First, no voting shift of this magnitude has happened in Texas for at least the past 50 years. Texas, like much of the south, was largely Democrat controlled in the 1970s, but it's important to keep in mind that southern Democrats at that time were anti-immigration, pro states rights and definitely not the woke creatures we know today.

It wasn't until the 1990s after a slow process that Texas began to…

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