DoomsdayRabbit

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Hey uncappers! I'm proud to announce that... it's finally finished! The Uncap The House Discord server is (after a lot of delays due to that insane ice storm that hit us here in Texas) finally ready to open! Just follow this link and you'll be able to join the server, and we can get some discussions started. The link will only be valid for the first seven days or first 100 people who click it, so if it says you have an invalid link, please be patient for a little bit longer - we're go

One of the biggest arguments I see for them keeping the size at 435 is that there's "not enough room". Indeed, that was the excuse given by Congress itself in 1912 for not expanding further than 433 plus one additional seat each for New Mexico and Arizona when they were granted statehood later that year.

Little do they remember, that was the same excuse given in 1843, when Congress approached the limit for the building. What did they do then? Why they made plans to expand the building.

This is the Capitol in 1846. Notice something different about it? It's a lot wider now, for one, and where's the iconic Capitol do

Today's Texas's dodransbicentennial, the day 175 years ago it officially joined the Union as the 28th state. While for most other states their statehood could be considered a birthday, with the day the preceding territory was established being the equivalent of a date of conception, Texas existed as a polity for nearly a decade prior as an independent nation, and as one of the provinces of New Spain and a colonial territory and later part of the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas until its independence for longer than some of the original 13 states of the United States existed as polities of their own. So today for Texas is closer to an adoption date than a birth date... and even though Texas

All hail.