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I think it is behind a paywall (I live in Dallas so I have a subscription. DMN is notoriously left wing, so really surprised that the posted an Opinion piece by someone from the right)

Don't let closed primaries destroy the Texas Republican Party
Learn from my state's mistakes.

By Joe Kirby


Nov. 6, 2025
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Updated 1:30 a.m. CST

I'm a fourth-generation South Dakotan and lifelong conservative Republican. I support the principles of limited government, reduced taxation and individual liberty.
I love South Dakota. My great-grandfather was present at the state's constitutional convention in 1889. But I hate our state's system of closed, partisan primaries. That system isn't in our constitution but instead was created over time by misguided politicians who wanted to control our state's politics. We've learned the hard way that when you limit competition, limit participation and silo voters, you disconnect voters from their representatives and stifle innovation.
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So when I read that the Texas GOP had filed a lawsuit to enact closed primaries in the Lone Star State, I wanted to scream, "Don't do it!"
Let me offer a warning from experience: Closed systems weaken state government.
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Why sacrifice the growth, dynamism and freedom that is attracting people to Texas from all over the country by enacting a political system that will put a damper on all that makes Texas great?
No conservative, no Republican, should ever want a system that limits competition and participation.
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In South Dakota, over 90% of the time the Republican primary is the only election that matters. Only registered Republicans can participate, yet all taxpayers Republicans, Democrats and independents alike pay for these elections. Half of South Dakotans are Republicans, but that group alone decides who governs everyone else. The result is predictable: complacency, stagnation and growing dysfunction.
Now, our Republican Party has imploded. It is run by a recently converted Obama Democrat. It shows little to no support for Republican members of our congressional delegation, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune. Supporters have stopped contributing to the party. The party fights among itself because of lack of competition.
Once you eliminate competition in politics, the same thing happens as happens in business: Monopolies take over. Quality declines. Innovation stops. The "winners" stop listening to their customers, which, in this case, are the voters.
That's why it baffles me that Texas Republicans, who are a national beacon for pro-growth, free enterprise policies and solutions, want to eliminate competition in the political marketplace.
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Closing primaries tells Texans that their voices are not welcome unless they pass some ideological purity test. It shrinks the tent rather than growing it. It is a system that has failed voters in other states, most especially liberal New York.
Texas is thriving. And the Republican Party should be confident enough to welcome all voters into the success story. Competition makes us better; it's the principle our party is supposed to stand for. When we close primaries, we shut the door on the very spirit of democracy and free enterprise we claim to defend.
I urge Texas Republicans to reconsider. Don't make the same mistake we did in South Dakota. Keep your primaries open, your elections competitive and your party strong.
Joe Kirby is a national spokesperson for Open Primaries.
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5:30p, 11/7/25
Houston, what the hell?

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5:58p, 11/7/25
Houston is controlled by dems.
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In reply to VaeBear • 6:15p, 11/7/25
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Houston is controlled by dems.

Or Muslims
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4:48p, 11/8/25
Looking at the old Texas right here…God bless them


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In reply to Assassin • 8:14p, 11/18/25
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That 8% growth for California is highly optimistic

Or its means they plan on bringing in a lot of immigrants.

[recent data for 2022-2023 indicates that over 690,100 people left California]

They are losing 2 to 3 entire Waco metro area populations each and every single year.
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  • Federal judges block Texas from using its new US House map in the 2026 midterms (John Hanna, Associated Press) A panel of three federal judges ruled on Tuesday that Texas cannot use a new congressional map drawn by Republicans. "In a 2-1 ruling, a panel of federal judges in El Paso sided with opponents [of the map] who argued that Texas' unusual summer redrawing of congressional districts would harm Black and Hispanic residents," according to the Associated Press. "Texas filed an appeal Tuesday evening with the U.S. Supreme Court after Gov. Greg Abbott and other Republicans publicly defended the map, which was engineered to give Republicans five additional House seats."
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In reply to Assassin • 3:19p, 11/21/25
I thought SCOTUS had ruled that racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional. It seems these judges did not get the memo and are trying to require it.
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In reply to historian • 3:20p, 11/21/25
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I thought SCOTUS had ruled that racial gerrymandering was unconstitutional. It seems these judges did not get the memo and are trying to require it.

Didnt I read a memo a few months ago that four of the five new districts would be predominantly Hispanic?
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In reply to Assassin • 9:07p, 11/21/25
I think so. The problem with the Dem judges is that all that matters to them is that a red state did what blue states have been doing for decades and drawing the lines to the advantage of the party in power.

I wonder if Texas will appeal higher.
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In reply to historian • 10:05p, 11/21/25
historian said:
I think so. The problem with the Dem judges is that all that matters to them is that a red state did what blue states have been doing for decades and drawing the lines to the advantage of the party in power.

I wonder if Texas will appeal higher.

Saw on another thread that Alito nixed the Democrat

Here it is

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-texas-redistricting-trump-republicans-discrimination-c1bbf88e2a1f7d49cda512b8ef165750
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10:17a, 11/23/25
Disgusting

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10:25a, 11/23/25
The new Aggie (you hired these guys, not anyone else)

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8:30a, 11/24/25
Brainwashed children

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This is sick!

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