Local officials control property taxes. School boards are the main cause of skyrocketing property taxes in Texas. Leftists have this one ability to hurt conservatives badly even though the state government is republiclan.

Voting out school boards in May hurts that ability. They are trying to make people hurt. Since they can't use the state government, they use the city councils and school boards. They didn't expect parents to knock them out of so many school boards and council positions. Usually conservatives don't bother with small, local elections so the Left installs its people there in even the reddest of states.

Go to Oklahoma. At the state level it's all red. Go to the school board and it's full of leftists. This is a fundamental weakness. They've never had to worry about the local races because they never got challenged in local elections.

May 7th they got a taste of doom.

The baby formula panic. The push to scare parents. They're trying everything they can to change the narrative and get the pressure off local races.

Tarrant and Brownsville are just examples of how badly they got voted out of school boards in early May. This is why they needed a drastic change in tactics. They got beat out it in even south "blue" counties in Texas that turned red in 2020.

Their flip to red prevented the cheat in Harris from being enough to steal the state for Biden (and rural vote showed up in historic numbers). They thought it was a blip, but even the local elections in those hispanic areas are flipping to conservatives. it scares the hell out of democrats.

They got driven out at the state level, but they've NEVER been pushed out at the local level.