LIV Zoom Forum @ 8 tonight -- opens up for nonmembers too! Friday the 13th deadlines: DHS/ICE funding and to file to run for local city election contests in May

Can you hear LIV, Texas independents?

In light of very recent events involving the DHS/ICE funding vote deadline on Friday the 13th by Congress, we are opening up the LIV forum online tonight at 8. Members and nonmembers are invited! Sign up HERE to join us. More below. This Friday, Congress faces a deadline to vote on funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS, including ICE) to avoid a partial shutdown. ICE actions in Minneapolis have shocked middle America after millions viewed viral videos with masked police caught brutalizing American citizens.

For now, most Congressional Republicans will not yield to the overwhelming support by the American people to even unmask ICE agents. The Democrats -- other than the progressives (to his credit, led by Bernie Sanders) -- stick to their 10 "demands" of reforms rather than to simply cut billions of public dollars from DHS or redirect the funds to prevent 700,000 people from losing healthcare coverage. The latter was a Sander's amendment that failed by only two votes in the U.S. Senate with two Republicans supporting it. All of this is happening as the $38T federal debt threatens the American economy.

Tonight we may also have a report from our budget nerd friends who are trying not to set their hair on fire about what appears to be dysfunction at the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office.

Join us tonight at 8. Feel free to invite others.

ALSO, don't miss another Friday the 13th deadline. If you live in a city that holds May elections, this Friday is the deadline for candidates to file to run in May.

In the City of Bastrop, no one has filed yet to run for Mayor other than the current Mayor, Ishmael Harris. No one has filed for Place 3, currently held by Kevin Plunkett. Remember, Place 3, does get to vote on council agenda items. But the Mayor does not have a vote unless there's a tie.

LIV will invite you soon to a meeting about the independent candidates lining up around the state. This will be a members only meeting.

If you want to grow the independent movement, please join the only membership association in the country (to our knowledge) for nonaligned, independent voters.

Become a member of LIV HERE. Dues range from $10 to $1000 per year.

Hope to see ya tonight!

LIV Team