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Texas House Democrats offer a brief response to Gov. Greg Abbott's threat of arrest and expulsion: "Come and take it."

In a vehicle driven by his wife—during happier times, I assume.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.

Abbott cites an opinion from AG Ken Paxton claiming that lawmakers who leave the state can be expelled.

So, chaser:

They love Trump because they also want to rule like kings.

Their fealty to Trump and abetting his corruption knows no bounds

It's not like they give a fuck about the choices voters made or democracy

Luis Alfonso Juarez, 90, lived the American Dream, his family said. “He immigrated to the United States, got his citizenship, bought a home and made a career as an iron worker.” Javier Rodriguez, 15, was the youngest victim. He was honored at what should have been his graduation ceremony in 2022.

Six years ago, a gunman in El Paso murdered 23 innocent people and wounded 22 others in the worst targeted attack against Latinos in U.S. history.

El Paso honors, remembers 23 victims of Aug. 3 Walmart shooting EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Sunday, Aug. 3 marked six years since the mass shooting that took place at an El Paso Walmart, taking the lives of 23 people and injuring more than 20 others in a targeted r…

“Each of the victims’ names was read aloud and followed by a ceremonial bell toll. There was a moment of silence held shortly after 10 a.m., when speakers said the first 911 call came in on Aug. 3, 2019.” www.ktsm.com/news/el-paso...

The white supremacist mass shooter’s defense attorney “explicitly stated that his client believed he was ‘doing Trump’s work’ by stopping the so-called ‘Hispanic invasion’”: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/o...

“In custody, he told police he’d come to kill Mexicans. Some writings he’d posted online said his attack was ‘a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas …’”

USA Today: “Trump used words like 'invasion' and 'killer' to discuss immigrants at rallies 500 times”: www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

How Trump's campaign of hatred against migrant "invaders" is fueling potential violence "There's nothing normal about any of this."

Reminder: Six years ago today, a gunman motivated by hatred of immigrants carried out a horrific massacre in Texas. The demagoguery and ideology he cited had been pushed heavily by Donald Trump. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Crockett: Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of shit—we know that. But in a functioning democracy, he still wouldn’t be able to get away with this. He’s been able to get away with it because Republicans are complicit and—most importantly—the Supreme Court is complicit.

Crockett: My former colleagues from the Texas House—decided to get the hell out of Texas… breaking quorum is where they’re at right now. And they didn’t just do it by themselves—they went to Illinois, where there is a governor that gives a damn. This fight is going to take all of us.

BREAKING: Texas Democratic legislators are preventing a Trump-led rigging of congressional elections by leaving the state and breaking quorum — the necessary number of present members to do business.

Biden was asked to stand down from office for much less.

He straight up, deliberately lies about demonstrable facts (the jobs revision happened before not after the election and Trump called it out at the time!) and no reporter challenges him on it. No
Sunday show host challenged his officials about his lies. He gets away with it.

A Mask For Me, But None For Thee: The Rank Hypocrisy of the Trump Administration From faith to Big Government to face masks, the Trump administration and its allies truly stand for nothing.

Remember how they railed against "Big Government” back in the day? Now Trump's IRS is even digging through confidential tax records in order to hunt down workers as part of its mass deportations. Small government was always a lie—this is fascism with a tax cut 👇🏽 open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Some Republicans try to tone down Trump's mass deportation threats Members of the GOP in immigrant-heavy states tried to reassure constituents that Trump is focused on dangerous criminals and not on "hardworking" immigrants.

Immediately following Trump’s reelection, Salazar tried to tone down his mass deportation threats, claiming he “is not going to be targeting those people who have been here for more than five years that have American kids, that don’t have criminal records …”

HOW’S THAT GOING, MARÍA

Latino House GOP Members: Oops, You Can’t Be Against Indiscriminate Mass Deportation, Then Vote for It You’ve got some explaining to do with your constituents.

You have to remember so-called moderates like María Elvira Salazar are giant phonies. She got her headlines signing a letter politely pushing back on some ICE arrests. Then what did she do? Vote to turbocharge them. In the end she serves only her king and rich pals: open.substack.com/pub/americas...

Then maybe they shouldn’t have voted to make ICE the highest funded law enforcement agency in our history?

“Job listings from the local paper at the time encouraged college students to apply. Trump’s human-resources manager said Trump wanted ‘young, attractive people.’”

Trump's Mar-a-Lago Spa Was Tailor-Made for Epstein The Trump Spa sought "young, attractive" college students to wear mini-skirts and "skin-tight" tops

NEW FROM ME: How come no one's asked Trump WHY Epstein and Maxwell chose his upscale resort to hunt for vulnerable girls?

It turns out that court records and even help-wanted ads from the time offer plenty of answers...

‘You will be seeds of hope,’ Pope Leo tells young people at Jubilee Mass At a Mass for the Jubilee of Youth outside Rome, Pope Leo exhorted over a million young people to be "seeds of hope" and a "sign that a different world is possible."

“We are with the young people of Gaza,” Pope Leo said, “we are with the young people of Ukraine, with those of every land bloodied by war.” www.americamagazine.org/faith/2025/0...

“As we sing, we know the folks who are held in detention can hear us,” said Rabbi Susan Goldberg.

“DHS agents and National Guardsmen watched as the group continued singing and as the pile of purple, white, red and yellow flowers grew on the concrete federal grounds.”

These women faith leaders protest mass deportations through prayer outside LA’s detention center ‘Godmothers of the Disappeared’ sing and pray for those taken by federal immigration agents, hoping the vigils will help educate the public.

“We come to pray, to sing, to testify. We come to demand the release of those being disappeared by our government.” www.pressenterprise.com/2025/07/30/t...

“The admission from a convicted murderer that he felt he was doing the president’s work in carrying out the El Paso massacre should be a reminder about the dangerous consequences of immigration rhetoric that dehumanizes, inflames, and misinforms.”

The white supremacist mass shooter’s defense attorney “explicitly stated that his client believed he was ‘doing Trump’s work’ by stopping the so-called ‘Hispanic invasion,’” @mariocarrillo.bsky.social wrote earlier this year: elpasomatters.org/2025/04/16/o...

Six years ago, a white supremacist used racist “invasion” rhetoric to justify a mass shooting. Yet, many politicians still push the same dangerous lies.

This language fuels violence and it must end. We must demand accountability.

#ElPasoStrong

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

Too much "we're cooked" & not enough "we're not gonna take this shit"