Houston Democracy Project Notes & Observations, 9/24-Journalists Must Ask GOP Councilmembers About Extremism

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Here are Houston Democracy Project Blog Notes & Observations for September 24. Election Day is in 41 days on November 5th & Early Voting begins in 27 days on October 21st. (Picture of the Day is a nice purple Houston flower. There are good things all around us.) 

* Below is a Tweet I sent today where I tagged a number of Houston political journalists and political commentators--

"Do the six Republicans on Hou. City Council support Trump? (Carter, Davis, Flickinger, Huffman, Peck, Ramirez) Views on mass deportations? Commit to accept election results nationally and locally? Part of enacting Project 2025 locally? Why not asked if part of the extremism? #Houston"

Will these efforts make a difference? You never know. We should always try. I'm going to stick with the push in the days ahead. It does not always occur to political journalists to do things differently. Maybe the stakes in this year's election will spark some imagination & also some self-preservation from the dangers of the political right.      
 
* I know Twitter is a sewer of Musk's anti-democratic terribleness. For the moment, I find it useful as part of what the Houston Democracy Project is working to accomplish. I wish it were otherwise. I'm also wary that closer to Election Day it'll somehow be made completely unusable to anything other than the right.

The social media enterprises owned by Meta--Facebook, Threads and Instagram--are employing algorithms that hinder political content. There is no reason to trust any large social media firm in an authoritarian situation. Be certain to know how to contact people you'd trust or care about in a political crisis outside of the big social media channels.       
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