Liverpool born, San Anto raised; RGV roots; Starr County 9th Gen Tejana. Mother of 2. Nana to Willa, Bexar Dem. TexasEx.🤘🏽
#Kindness
#Respect
#CivicEngagement
My father was born & raised in Roma-Los Saenz. I am a child of the Border, 8th Gen Tejana.
#UvaldeMassacre
is a dark reflection of S. TX Border communities overrun w a toxic, oppressive presence of law enforcement for decades: They ACT with IMPUNITY & operate w little oversight.
Long-standing gubernatorial tradition is for American Governors (regardless of political party) to greet U.S. Presidents when Air Force One is wheels down in their state. RESPECT. CIVILITY.
📌 Texas
@GovAbbott
could not be bothered. Stop voting for Texas Republicans.
#txlege
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This is Wheeler, Texas in the Panhandle,
@GovAbbott
@GregAbbott_TX
— they don’t give a damn about your playtime with Trump today in Eagle Pass. They are struggling to survive a RAGING INFERNO and you can’t even hold a priority press conference for Rural Texas. SHAMEFUL!
#txlege
Today TEXAS could be celebrating the inauguration of this guy as Governor. When only 44% of eligible Texans make the effort to vote in our gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, MAGA-choked Lone Star State — we’ll never get there. We gotta do better in ‘24 and vote out Ted Cruz.✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
@travisakers
@Acyn
@BetoORourke
This is “Jesus who flips over all tables in righteous fury and indignation” moment. More, please. TEXAS DESPERATELY NEED THIS AUTHENTICITY NOW. I am here for all of it. In Texas — if you want to run with the big dogs, you can’t piss like a puppy! ¡ÓRALE, BETO — HASTA LA VICTORIA!
If you are enjoying a 3-day Texas weekend and have today off for Labor Day, thank the Democratic Party and Unions. Then make your plan to VOTE!
#txlege
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UT President and Administration denied Early Voting on the 40 Acres at Flawn Academic Center this year bc of ‘construction’ — do they think that’s gonna stop BETO on National Voter Registration Day? HA. LOL. They have no idea —
#txlege
#HookEm
for
@utdems
&
@BetoORourke
! 🤘🏽🗳️🤘🏽
THIS. IS. OUTRAGEOUS.
8 weeks before Early Voting, Gov Greg Abbott and State of Texas removed *1 Million* people from Texas voter rolls since 2021.
📌People need to check voter register immediately — NOT AT SECRETARY OF STATE. I recommend contacting your County Elections Office.
The once “Energy Capital of the World” the 3rd largest American City, HOUSTON — remained DARK last night! But hey, we have the Ten Commandments in our classrooms! TEXAS PRIORITIES — had enough? Thank a Texas Republican by ‘EARLY VOTING’ them out, Oct. 21-Nov. 1
#txlege
My San Antonio mom turns 91 years next month. She fractured her femur 3 months ago, surgery, then Rehab for 3 weeks and has been home 7 weeks with physical therapy 3x/week. YESTERDAY SHE WALKED IN TO VOTE STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC at Memorial Library! Go Vote, Everyone!
#txlege
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“It doesn’t make sense to get rid of your best and brightest. He was just 2023 principal of the year... He’s here for his students, he’s here for his teachers. This community loves him.”
Meyerland MS community rallied for their
#HISD
principal
📺
@KPRC2
MAGA REPUBLICAN U.S. Senator Ted Cruz REFUSED to meet with
@ExpressNews
Editorial Board. SAN ANTONIO & BEXAR COUNTY deserves more respect from our Senator. We are the 7th largest American city and the 3rd largest Texas County. HE IS SCARED. TIME TO VOTE.
#txlege
Meghan Markle with Irma & Joe Garcia’s daughters in UVALDE, Texas today. Irma Garcia was one of two teachers AR15-pulverized in her Robb Elementary 4th grade classroom in the
#UvaldeMassacre
almost 2 years ago. Her last moments of life were protecting her students.
#txlege
#GUNS
@shannonrwatts
@BetoORourke
This is the “Jesus who flips over all the tables in righteous fury and indignation.” More, please. Texas needs this authenticity.
President Joe Biden spoke up with respect and compassion on the 5th anniversary of the horrific El Paso Mass Shooting.
@GovAbbott
@GregAbbott_TX
could not be bothered to say one word.
#txlege
***BREAKING*** — Federal Judge orders Texas to remove the buoys from the Rio Grande River, and gives the State of Texas 10 days to comply, while the U.S. Government lawsuit against Texas works its way through the federal Courts.
#OperationLonestar
#txlege
#Immigration
Imagine having $33 Billion in surplus state savings while your ISDs all over the state - in cities, suburbs and rural areas - struggle with deep deficit budgets. And as Governor you do NOTHNG to help. You don’t even visit a single public school… WE ARE BROKEN.
#txlege
“There’s no need to sugarcoat it, Abbott is sitting on a pile of money because he’s mad that school vouchers didn’t pass.”
Legislator call for special session to address education funding has been rebuffed by Gov. Abbott, despite a record $32B surplus.
Over breakfast I asked my 11-year old San Antonio, TX 6th grade
@NISD
public school nephew —
“Do you know why the Civil War happened?”
***His answer: “Yep, the South didn’t want to give up keeping slaves to do all the work on plantations, you know, like picking cotton.”
#txlege
As a TEXAN, this is utterly PAINFUL to read and absorb how deadly deep of an outlier we remain in TEXAS under the toxic, gerrymandered, voter-suppressed control of Texas Republicans.
#BloodyTexasCarnage
As a veteran, gun-owner, hunter, and dad, I just signed a red flag law and universal background checks into law.
Basic gun safety isn’t a threat to the Second Amendment – it’s about keeping our kids safe.
That’s exactly what we’re doing in Minnesota.
Do you feel it, TEXAS? The ground is rumbling in the BIGGEST BADDEST BATTLEGROUND STATE. Ya’ll start making plans NOW to be ready to EARLY VOTE October 21 - November 1. Calendar It. Take Family, Friends, Neighbors.
📌EVERYONE VOTES. No One Sits Out.
#WhenWeVoteWeWin
#txlege
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BREAKING in Bexar County:
ALL 5 BEST CANDIDATES WON tonight in Northeast ISD. Let that send clear message to True Texas PAC & Bexar MAGA Republicans:
📌your divisive red meat culture war politics is not welcome in Blue Bexar County. We love our public schools & teachers.
#txlege
STANDING ROOM ONLY here today at NE Bexar County DEMOCRATS Labor Day Event. Snagged a pic with the legend himself, today’s VIP Guest Speaker who came to SA from Pflugerville on Labor Day to FIRE UP
@Bexar_Democrats
🔥🗳️💪🏽—
@jamestalarico
#LFG
#WhenWeAllVoteWEWIN
A lot of Texas Mexican-Americans are thinking — THIS IS TOXIC, RACIST DISRESPECT WE HAVE LIVED W FOR DECADES IN TEXAS. We’ve learned how to wait, line up, be ignored, make do, hang on, push on — but THIS treatment of 21 forever shattered
#UvaldeMassacre
families is B.S.
#txlege
.
Uvalde families have been sitting here at the Texas Capitol since early this morning waiting to testify before house members in a committee. The members areon the house floor voting on dozens of bills with no end in sight. They have not been told when the committee would resume.
When a Republican Governor wants to RULE like a Tyrant, instead of LEAD like a Governor —
#txlege
Texas Gov. Abbott signs "Death Star" bill that severely limits city governments
@therecount
On Brand for ‘the most despised man in Texas.’ GenZ, ‘slacker baristas’ in TEXAS — if this smug, condescending attitude from YOUR TEXAS UNITED STATES SENATOR doesn’t motivate you to VOTE for TEXAS DEMOCRATS, I’m not sure what could.
WHAT THE HELL, Texas???
Texas State $$$ fund the massive DPS operation all over Texas and the
#1
Top Cop in Texas hand-picked by
@GovAbbott
today calls immigrants COCKROACHES? VOTE THEM ALL OUT. Texas is better than this. WHEN WE VOTE WE WIN. Cuando Luchamos Ganamos.
#txlege
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Nothing says Happy Hispanic Heritage month like Immigrants being called cockroaches. 🤬 Immigrants are human beings and they do a lot of the labor around Texas. The real cockroaches are McCraw and Greg Abbott!
ELECTIONS. Have. CONSEQUENCES.
Remember next time you hold out for “perfect” candidate.
***Hillary Clinton Could Have Been Elected POTUS appointing 3 SCOTUS Justices.
***Beto O’Rourke Could Have Been Elected TX Governor.
***Rochelle Garza Could Have Been Elected TX Atty General.
Thank God for SA DEMOCRAT STATE SENATOR
@RolandForTexas
— a relentless champion for voting rights in Texas, where voter suppression, intimidation, gerrymandering has thrived under Texas Republicans 28 years. ¡YA BASTA!
📌WE ARE NOT GOING BACK — Be Ready To VOTE, Texas!
#txlege
I joined
@sarasidnerCNN
this morning to speak out against
@KenPaxtonTX
terrorizing abuelitas in Texas.
This was a targeted operation against Latino voters. We won’t stand for it. We aren’t going back.
CNN VIDEOS tonite should have been released to public months ago. But
@GregAbbott_TX
needed to be re-elected and his ‘top cops’ at
@TxDPS
helped suppress this ‘public information’ during campaign. It is TEXAS SHAME! DPS CHIEF Steve McCraw is CORRUPT. He needs to be FIRED. NOW.
“Democrats could pick up 4 seats in TX if the GOP is held accountable and forced to redraw fair maps, changing the Texas Congressional delegation to 17D/21R.”
—
@jmontforttx
Where Texas redistricting lawsuits stand after U.S. Supreme Court ruling
Republican controlled
#txlege
didn't pass teacher pay raises. Now San Antonio public school districts are forced to make cuts and run deficit budgets. “Good Times” with
@GovAbbott
here in TEXAS — where 91% of kids get educated in a public school.
Breaking *NOW* — TEXAS REPUBLICAN Attorney General KEN PAXTON IMPEACHMENT VOTE in Texas House of Representatives scheduled for TOMORROW, 1pm Saturday. It’s Happening —✊🏽💯
Always proud of SAN ANTONIO State Senator
@RolandForTexas
— one of the smartest, fiercest advocates for INJUSTICE of any kind in Texas, here re voter-intimidation tactics by Texas AG’s office against elderly Latino registered voters in his Senate District. Join Us Monday!
Happy Saturday,
@GovAbbott
@GregAbbott_TX
— remember this day in 2021 when you invited your buddy, Wayne LaPierre, to sit at your signing table as you happily signed 7 of the most extreme and dangerous Gun Laws in Texas? Now he’s in big trouble. Corruption! We Remember —
#txlege
Prop 9 passing with 83% should tell
@GovAbbott
and
#txlege
something:
Texans care about our public school teachers. Why? Because they educate 91% of our Texas kids all over this state from PreK-12th grade — in public schools where
@GovAbbott
NEVER VISITS! SHAMEFUL.
#NoVouchers
What happens in gerrymandered, voter-suppressed, non-voting state like Texas, controlled by REPUBLICANS for 30 years.
📌HAD ENOUGH, TEXAS? Be Ready To EARLY VOTE, w friends & family, starting Monday, October 21st. WE DON’T HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS — WHEN WE VOTE, WE WIN!
#txlege
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Powerful Community Push-Back HERE IN San Antonio this morning. Huge media presence: Washington Post, NPR, TPR, Telemundo, Univisión.
📌IF YOU DONT RESPECT US, YOU NEED TO EXOECT US.
#WeAreNotGoingBack
#TexasVoterSuppression
@LULAC
State Rep. Roland Gutierrez (
@RolandForTexas
), D-San Antonio, speaking now.
“What Texas rangers couldn’t do in Uvalde, Texas, they stood in front of these people’s houses in the middle of the night and the morning, threatening all kinds of action if they didn’t comply.”
@RepSwalwell
He is ‘the most despised man in Texas.’ People walk out of stores and restaurants when they see him. Ground up carcasses on the detritus of the earth.
THIS IS A LIE. Spoken in San Antonio WHERE I PROTESTED by an increasingly desperate-sounding Republican Governor of Texas “WHO NEVER VISITS PUBLIC SCHOOLS” — where 90% of Texas Kids Receive Their Education!
#txlege
#AbbottNeverGoesToPublicSchools
Speaking before parents at a Catholic school in San Antonio, Abbott claimed that the pledge of allegiance was not being performed in a Dallas school. Thus, pub schools were not patriotic. Wrong. Every pub school must say the Pledge each school day. TX Ed Code §25.082.
@Texans4E
@B52Malmet
The MAGA “America First” Extreme Republican from our great State of Texas. Showing respect for the institution in which he serves. Denigrating the “service” in public service. Petulant bc he has to work on Sunday without regard for the scores of Texans who always work Sundays.
@gromerjeffers
@BudKennedy
@GregAbbott_TX
For the *TEXAS MAGA REPUBLICAN* back rows in the
@GregAbbott_TX
CAMPAIGN:
Today is 3-year anniversary of mass shooting in Midland-Odessa. Try showing some GD respect for the mounds of massacred Texans who were murdered on your NRA watch. WE WILL VOTE YOU OUT.✊🏽🗣
@GregAbbott_TX
You pushed it too far w this political stunt. CRUELTY is always first card you play in your game of chaos. As a Roman Catholic Texan who paternal ancestry goes back 9 generations to Starr County on Borderlands once claimed by the CROWN of SPAIN - you embarrass me and my family.
@GregAbbott_TX
A resident of Martha’s Vineyard has some words for the CRUELTY on display today — DAY 1 of Hispanic Heritage Month! — by MAGA REPUBLICAN Florida & Texas GOVERNORS Ron DeSantis and Greg Abbott.
🗣WHO RAISED THESE MEN?
@KenPaxtonTX
Every time you promote HORROR like this you motivate TEXAS WOMEN — and those who love us — to VOTE YOU OUT. Keep Posting, son! You are helping to usher out your twice-felony indicted AG reign with a Brownsville native, people-centered Attorney General candidate
@RochelleMGarza
!
Astros took a DOUBLE-CURSE gut punch last night — as if Ted Cruz once again at Minute Maid weren’t bad enough, Ken Paxton’s presence sealed the toxic Texas MAGA Republican JINX for Houston.
#MuyMalaSuerte
#HoustonAstros
28 North Texas Chambers of Commerce TOGETHER PUBLICLY declare Vouchers Are Bad for Business In Texas. Pay attention
#txlege
— now we need to hear similar courageous leadership from all the other Chambers of Commerce.
If you love Texas Public Schools, where 90% of Texas kids receive their PreK-12th grade educations all over this state — VOTE on “Election Day Tuesday” for candidates who STAND UP for PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
#txlege
#txed
📌 Remember, our Texas Governor NEVER VISITS PUBLIC SCHOOLS!
@tplohetski
Nope. It is the choking ANGLO ‘traditional order’ that marginalizes, mistreats, ignores and suppresses MEXICAN AMERICANS who have been the dominant demographic for decades — you have the largest brown voting bloc who are beaten down and give up on voting. THAT IS THE TRUTH.
❓Where is the
@GregAbbott_TX
who promised small "g" Govt?
❓When is last time TEXAS had a Governor who seized so much power? This “BIG CONTROL BIG GOVT” Governor is determined to control ALL WHO ARE NOT “him.”
📣BUCKLE UP, TX. Don't blame me, I voted for
@BetoORourke
-
#txlege
If only TEXAS had this kind of gubernatorial leadership like our neighbors in New Mexico enjoy with DEM Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. November 2026 is coming.
***The only way this TEXAS horror changes is at the BALLOT BOX.
#txlege
#GetLoud
#StepUp
#DemandChange
#VOTE
Today, I signed an executive order declaring gun violence a public health emergency. To my fellow citizens: get loud. Step up. Demand change: from your neighbors, from your friends, from your communities, from your elected leaders. Enough is enough. More coming from me tomorrow.
As TFG prepares to cross in to Texas airspace and head to WACO — a reminder Ann Richards was born and raised in WACO. Trust she is conjuring up some excellent ‘brujería’ for tonight. Bring it on, Baby!
#txlege
@texasdemocrats
The quality, intellect and hustle & grit campaign work ethic of the Texas House Democratic candidates is unparalleled. Bravo,
@Perla4TX
— taking the facts right to them! Keep Pushing!
#txlege
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Most people don’t realize public and private high schools must given age-eligible students and opportunity to register to vote. It’s been required under state law since 1983!
This is T E X A S:
MEGA churches.
MEGA christians.
MEGA millionaires.
MEGA politics.
MEGA profits.
MEGA hypocrisy.
MEGA scams.
MEGA men.
MEGA misogyny.
MEGA chaplains.
MEGA abuses.
MEGA hurt children.
MEGA TAX EXEMPT STATUS.
#txlege
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