r/ActuallyTexas • • Jul 05 '26

Politics Mega Thread (MOD ONLY) POLITICS MEGA THREAD

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Welcome to week # of the politics mega-thread! Once again, this will be a free-for-all without censorship. The thread, and our sub, are open to all walks of life. Everyone participating needs to remember that not everyone shares the same opinion, and cussing someone out, censoring different opinions, or being downright disrespectful only weakens your own argument.

While national politics often affect Texans, politics in the mega thread MUST be related to Texas in some way, shape, or form. Unnecessarily bringing up national politics in our state sub without direction creates disagreements, and detracts from the nature of the sub. You must make the relation to Texas CLEAR, or your posting will be removed! Here’s an example; “Federal immigration policy impacts Texas by influencing border security, state resources, and the economy due to its long border with Mexico.”

As a reminder, I am once again stating that POLITICAL POSTS AND COMMENTS DO NOT LEAVE THIS THREAD. The sub rules still apply here.

By posting rule-breaking content, you are disrespecting both the sub, your fellow members, and moderators, and WE, as moderators, reserve the right to take down your content when it violates our rules.

Mega threads will be locked when the next is posted.


r/ActuallyTexas • • 3d ago

Moving to Texas Texas Travel Thread

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Howdy y'all, welcome to the Texas Travel Thread! We get lots of posts related to this topic so to help keep the sub focused, we've created this localized thread where you can discuss living in, or moving to Texas, locale recommendations, travel plans, etc. Posts relating to these topics outside of this thread will be removed and redirected here, thanks y'all!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 18h ago

Travel Visiting texas from turkey give us your best tips

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Hi everyone! My family and I are visiting Texas from November 23 to December 4. We’re thinking of going to San Antonio, Houston, and Dallas.

What would you recommend seeing or doing in each city? We’d also love advice on getting around, how many days to spend in each place, and any good stops along the way. My mom loves Western movies, so a fun cowboy or Western-themed experience would be a bonus, but we’re looking for general trip tips too.

Thanks!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 1d ago

Culture Just 10 days remain until the 35th Annual Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering returns to the Fort Worth Stockyards, October 23–25. 🤠

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 1d ago

Moving to Texas — would love some advice

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 1d ago

Events Free lunch & class on Women in Islam at the North Austin mosque, Sat Oct 17. All are welcome!

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Hi all! I help with community outreach at NAMCC (Masjid Aisha) on N. Lamar, and we’re hosting a free Lunch & Learn this Saturday on Women in Islam.

It’s open to everyone. You don’t need to be Muslim or know anything about Islam, and questions are welcome, including the tough ones. It’s a relaxed setting, and lunch is on us.

📅 Saturday, October 17
🕚 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
📍 North Austin Muslim Community Center, 11900 N. Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX 78753

Walk-ins are welcome, but registering helps us plan lunch: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccydW_yXD-DuG_zlWSbLY1QZkTchDYEo7wwbiIXcoJFSrL0A/viewform

Feel free to bring a friend, coworker, or neighbor. Happy to answer any questions in the comments!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 2d ago

Living in Texas TSAHC Questions / Suggestions

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My boyfriend and I are first time homebuyers and we have been looking into different programs and this particular program keeps coming up - Texas state affordable housing corporation.

Our combined gross income is around 101,000. Our credit scores revolve around 700-750. Not sure about our DTI but our monthly credit card, loan and car payments add up to $620.

We aren’t looking for anything big or expensive for a home but looking for assistance for down payments. Has anyone used this program and if so, do you recommend or have other recommendations of where else to look for?

note: we are at homes around Mercedes or Harlingen, TX, if that makes any difference on the programs we should be looking into


r/ActuallyTexas • • 5d ago

Outdoors Texas Angler Measures a Lifetime of Fishing in 218 Bass Weighing Over 10 Pounds

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 4d ago

News Con-artist CON-servatives are closing voting locations across Texas to prevent the poor and handicapped from voting. We can and we must help these people.

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 7d ago

Sunrise @ our spot

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 6d ago

Why this Texas city's Great Pumpkin caused a Halloween uproar

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 10d ago

Living in Texas Just moved here

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 11d ago

Sunset South Texas

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 10d ago

Moving to Texas Texas Travel Thread

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Howdy y'all, welcome to the Texas Travel Thread! We get lots of posts related to this topic so to help keep the sub focused, we've created this localized thread where you can discuss living in, or moving to Texas, locale recommendations, travel plans, etc. Posts relating to these topics outside of this thread will be removed and redirected here, thanks y'all!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 13d ago

Events Hope to see you amazing people

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 14d ago

Living in Texas Texas ranks 1st (along with NM and GA) for the highest percentage of people earning money through app work (31%). Looks like the percentage is overall higher in the south. Is this out of necessity or is there more to it than that?

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 15d ago

Other 84F on Galveston Island at 9:20pm. If you don't love the weather in Texas you're crazy. 😵‍💫

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 17d ago

Art County art questions and stuff

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hey y'all :]
i'm attempting to draw all the texas counties(done 4/254+texas) as a daily project, so far i've been mostly winging it on what they look like(except travis, i go out and half the people i see are wearing hoodies), i'd appreciate some insight from people in counties i haven't gotten to

Counties I've got: Travis, Harris, Dallas(design based on a cousin who lives there), Bexar(borrowed the dress from someone else's design)
next up is orange county, which i already have a design for
then everyone else

i'm one of those weird kids who likes to draw people based of flags, so instead of cities, since there are WAY too many of those in texas, i went for our counties :] in my world they're mostly treated as normal people(which they kinda are minus the different colors and functional invincibility, which ofc adds to a discrimination factor that makes dificulty in job hunting), so they don't get special treatment and they do have to earn money if they don't want to end up on the streets, so local business uniforms work as well as casual or cultural clothing

some designs are based around animals too(Travis is a bat because thats something its known for a long with Austin) so suggestions for that are welcome too

no, i have nothing better to do :]


r/ActuallyTexas • • 17d ago

Moving to Texas Texas Travel Thread

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Howdy y'all, welcome to the Texas Travel Thread! We get lots of posts related to this topic so to help keep the sub focused, we've created this localized thread where you can discuss living in, or moving to Texas, locale recommendations, travel plans, etc. Posts relating to these topics outside of this thread will be removed and redirected here, thanks y'all!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 18d ago

Events Brookshire, would anyone be interested in a free community karaoke afternoon?

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I’d like to help build a little community around here. Get to know our neighbors, make a few friends, and have something we can look forward to doing together. In my pursuit of putting my heart on my sleeve I'm finding a beautiful community

It can be awkward showing up somewhere when you don’t know anyone. I like the idea of having something simple to join in with, where a song or a laugh gives you an easy way to start a conversation.

So I’m thinking about a casual karaoke afternoon. Depending on the response, I could put it together and host it for free.

Everyone would be welcome. Come alone, bring a friend, sing a duet, request your favorite song, or just hang out and listen. I’d be happy to help introduce people.

Nothing’s scheduled yet. If you’re in Brookshire or nearby, would you be interested? What day or time would work for you?


r/ActuallyTexas • • 20d ago

West Texas West Texas Storms

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 22d ago

Texas Pride A beautiful day in Little Elm

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r/ActuallyTexas • • 24d ago

Moving to Texas Texas Travel Thread

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Howdy y'all, welcome to the Texas Travel Thread! We get lots of posts related to this topic so to help keep the sub focused, we've created this localized thread where you can discuss living in, or moving to Texas, locale recommendations, travel plans, etc. Posts relating to these topics outside of this thread will be removed and redirected here, thanks y'all!


r/ActuallyTexas • • 24d ago

Businesses Aren’t these illegal?

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I always thought that these were only legal if they were giving out store credit or something other than cash. I looked it up and the law does stipulate that you can’t give out anything that can be exchanged for cash. These are using vouchers that you exchange for cash so what’s going on here? This bar / restaurant has been around for years and is very popular so surely it’s legal if they haven’t had any issues. Just wondering how. This is in Allen


r/ActuallyTexas • • 25d ago

Texas

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What is texas life like ? On the border of Arkansas. Any Cna opinions welcome .are jobs good or bad ?