What can we in Texas do aside from setting a bad example? The odds of getting a democrat elected to any statewide office still seems out of reach!

That's a big "if" that has never once worked out in all recorded history. Every time fascism comes, people think appeasement will work, and then they get murdered.

History has shown that once fascists take power, they are never removed without violence. It hasn't happened once. Look it up.