🌆 Why Fort Worth Is the Most Important City in 2026Fort Worth isn’t just a city with stockyards, a zoo, and cowboy hats.It’s the 11th largest city in America and quietly becoming one of the most important political battlegrounds in the country.Here’s why this matters:Fort Worth just surpassed Austin in population. It’s a majority-minority city with rapidly changing demographics. For the first time this century, City Council is majority Democrat — even if the votes don’t always reflect it yet. And Fort Worth is led by the largest Republican-led city in the nation.But the real story doesn’t stop at city limits.Fort Worth sits inside Tarrant County, the largest swing county in the United States, bigger than 16 states. Political operatives have openly called it “the new Pennsylvania.” The same county where mid-cycle racial gerrymandering was used to silence Black and Brown voters. The same place where national extremist policy frameworks were incubated. The same county where the fight over democracy, representation, and power is being stress-tested in real time.Fort Worth makes up 47% of the county, yet consistently votes at lower rates than the suburbs. That’s not an accident. And that’s why Fort Worth isn’t just part of the battleground.👉 Fort Worth is the frontline of saving our democracy.If Tarrant County is the swing county, Fort Worth is the key. If Fort Worth organizes, participates, and votes, it sends a bat signal not just for Texas but for the entire country heading into 2028.This is bigger than one election.This is about understanding our power in 2026 and choosing to use it. Will you?My name is EJ. I host the @817pod where we break down local power, history, and what it means for the future of Fort Worth and Tarrant County.Follow. Subscribe. Get engaged.Because the future isn’t decided somewhere else it’s being decided in your own backyard.#FortWorth #TarrantCounty #seeitnameitfightit #wakeupfortworth #texaspolitics

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