Abbott Intends Far-Right Election-Denier For Secretary of State/Fighting For Plummer Is Fighting For Ourselves

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​NPR KUHF has a report of the far-right extremist likely to be appointed by Greg Abbott as Texas Secretary of State. His name is Nate Schatzline. 

From KUHF:

​"In Texas, the governor picks the secretary of state, and it’s unclear when Republican Gov. Greg Abbott will make a formal announcement. The current top elections official, Secretary of State Jane Nelson — who announced her resignation earlier this month — is expected to stay in office until July 17....For weeks though, signs have pointed to Nelson’s successor being state Rep. Nate Schatzline, a pastor at a Fort Worth megachurch with ties to Christian nationalism, who has repeated baseless claims about widespread fraud in American elections.....“It is believed that Schatzline would represent a disruptor model of [secretary of state] leadership: highly ideological, responsive to grassroots activist demands, and comfortable using the office as an active enforcement agency,"...he’s made it clear he is aligned with President Trump’s false views about elections......"It’s not even debatable the amount of election fraud we had through mail-in ballots. It’s not even debatable that the machines were screwed up and that we’ve seen unbelievable amounts of election fraud,” Schatzline said in an interview last year with John Herold, an election denial influencer who helped popularize a QAnon-adjacent election conspiracy theory after 2020......Schatzline is also an ally of the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in the state Ken Paxton."

Governor Abbott has said the state should take over 2026 elections in Harris County.

The Democratic nominee for Harris County Judge is Letitia Plummer who is a progressive Black Muslim woman. You see a campaign photo of her above. 

Recently, I walked into the Texas Republican convention in Houston and looked around. It was an anti-Muslim hatefest.

We know what is on the way. Attacks on our freedom and on our neighbors. There is no limit of what the right is capable of. Nothing is off the table. What kind of person still supports Donald Trump after 11 years of this?

I'm less interested in candidates than I am in our own power & our own self-protection. We need to elect Dr. Plummer for own sakes. The campaign Republicans will run against here can't be allowed to prevail. 

We need to be ready for not all our votes being counted. Fighting that will involve our leadership and willingness to show up however required. We've seen this necessity at work in the 2024 South Korean martial law crisis and in the resistance to ICE in Minnesota.

The next action is when you organize it. The 1st Amendment is your permit. The only credential needed is your presence. Voting won’t be enough. The work ahead is ours.

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