Austin punk traditionally avoids overtly political content, expressing its inherently anti-establishment bent through sheer attitude. It prefers theatricality, humor (if not outright silliness), and f-u-n. Which makes Trump Card the most perfectly Austin political punk band. Use Your Collusion can’t offer the hilarious stage presentation – banners with logos forming the letter T into a swastika, a singer portraying Donald Trump, musicians clad as brownshirts – but tracks like “Idiocracy” and “Grab ‘Em by the Pussy” offer Bad Religion-meets-Dead Kennedys lefty punk of the first order.

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This article appears in April 5 • 2019.

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Tim Stegall contributed to The Austin Chronicle 1991-1995, and was a staff writer 1995-1997. He returned as a contributor in 2013. He has also freelanced for publications ranging from Flipside to Alternative Press to Guitar World. He plays punk rock guitar and sings in the Hormones.