Elections Suspended: SF

It was that moment when elections were suspended that she knew things were really real, that the aliens were real, that the news reports--most of them--were real, and that they were all in danger. It was also the moment when she realized that she lived in precisely the wrong place to survive what was coming if it was all real. Texas was not the place to be. The aliens had only shown up in the really hot areas, everyone agreed on that. They were in the Republic of Chad, in the Sudan ... in Texas. She had to get out and now. The old couple next door had an RV. She'd chatted with them before, about their plans. They said they were done with traveling for the year, now that it was starting to get cold in the upper states. That cold would save her family, she thought. It would. It had to. She didn't

Inspiration: Reading a post by whatsername, writer with the purple fade, about the fear of suspending elections and what needs to go on.
Story potential: High, but tricky.
Notes: First, the main character HAS to be republican. Second, she's semi-privileged because she'll get the RV and go up North. But with elections suspended, the government itself becomes a major obstacle and ... yeah. Analogy but not analogy.