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.
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!
“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
@shannonrwatts
@BetoORourke
This is the “Jesus who flips over all the tables in righteous fury and indignation.” More, please. Texas needs this authenticity.
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
***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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
@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.
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.
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 —✊🏽💯
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
@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
@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.✊🏽🗣
@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.
@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
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!
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.
@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
I guess
@GovAbbott
@GregAbbott_TX
MAGA REPUBLICANS decided if they’re gonna starve Texas Public School Teachers, they might as well Starve Public School Kids, too.
***EYES WIDE OPEN: 30 other states opted in on free federal funds to feed poor kids this summer. Not Texas.
#txlege
@B52Malmet
We are CHOKING in MAGA REPUBLICAN ROT here in TEXAS. So so many Texans are working so hard to break through this stranglehold on Nov. 8th. Please save good thoughts for us — we good use it!!!
None even bothered to show up in Uvalde today. ALL COWARDS.
This is MAGA REPUBLICAN TEXAS.
Do Not Look Away — Stop Voting for them. Thank God for
@RolandForTexas
.
#txlege
Remember, TEXAS: The most despised man born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and representing Texas in U.S. Senate is up for Re-Election in 2024.
#HumansAgainstTedCruz
While Texas schools struggle with a huge budget deficits,
@SpectrumNews1TX
has discovered that millions of Texas education tax dollars are being diverted out of state to the series of charter schools founded by
#HISD
’s state appointed Supt. Mike Miles.
Breaking —
@TxDPS
(
@GovAbbott
) LOSES in court today in effort to deny release of public information records re
#UvaldeMassacre
more than 18 months ago. Ask yourself WHY DPS fought so hard to prevent release of information — we will find out soon enough.
#RememberUVALDE
#txlege
Final judgement issued in the
#Uvalde
records lawsuit, ordering
@TxDPS
to release records related to the May 2022 shooting. Suit was brought by a group of media organizations who sued DPS after numerous FOIAs/PIRs about the shooting were denied due to an "ongoing investigation."
TEXAS PUBLIC EDUCATION needs to be a LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY. ISDs all over — rural, suburban, cities — are suffering with deficit budgets due to financial neglect, inflationary costs and population growth. 90% of Texas kids attend PreK-12th grades in a public school.
#txlege
39 Dem state reps, led by
@Jon_RosenthalTX
, sent a letter to
@GregAbbott_TX
urging him to “immediately call a special session to
pass an education funding package to address the school budget crisis unfolding statewide.”
#txlege
#txed
Our San Anto Protest Team of 25 were ‘Loud & Proud’ — Abbott saw & heard us bc gym had no AC so doors stayed open:
📣“ Public Dollars Stay in Public Schools!”
📣“PROTECT PUBLIC SCHOOLS!”
📣”Mothers Against Greg Abbott!”
📣”Why Does Governor Never Visit Public Schools?”
#txlege
✊🏽SAN ANTONIO. TODAY. 5:15-7:00pm.
✊🏽St. Mary Magdalen Catholic School.
1700 Clower St. SATX 78201
✊🏽Join us to peacefully protest Governor Abbott’s plan for Education Vouchers and ESA’s. Bring your signs to stand with Texas Public Education.
THERE ARE TOO MANY GUNS IN TEXAS. How does a small child in Seguin, TX get on a school bus with a gun and shoot the gun on the bus narrowly missing hitting another child? THIS. IS. MADNESS.
#RepublicanTexas
#txlege
The fact that our children's lives continue to be endangered within spaces that should be sanctuaries of learning is a travesty, perpetuated by Republicans who refuse to enact common sense gun safety solutions.
500 MEGAWATTS of TEXAS RENEWABLE ENERGY — literally saving our Lone Star Backsides from burning up in real time. I don’t ever want to see or hear another Texas Republican Elected marginalize the benefits of wind & solar. WE SEE YOU! November 2024 and 2026 is coming!
#txlege
Look at this picture.
@GovAbbott
surrounded by 95% MEN. Women are 51% of Majority/Minority Texas. But the chokehold of 28 years of Republican control due to gerrymandered districts, voter-suppression laws, actual vote-purges produces this image. November 2024 is coming, Ladies!🗳️
My God. He is a walking abject Dereliction of Duty. A Governor’s most Important Job is to KEEP YOUR PEOPLE SAFE.
@GovAbbott
and Republican Statewide Electeds ALL FAIL TEXANS EVERY SINGLE DAY!
He asks: “Is That Enough?”
DAMN RIGHT. Been enough a long time ago, Governor.
#txlege
@cwebbonline
The Afrikaner from San Francisco who brings BINOCULARS to glare at desperate, exhausted, starving migrants in Eagle Pass, Texas — with his polished, pointy boots wearing a cowboy hat backwards. ALL facilitated by South Texas Republican Congressman
@RepTonyGonzales
. DEPLORABLE.
@GregAbbott_TX
Of course, but no EXTERNAL comprehensive management investigation or emergency state audit of
@TxDPS
re
#UVALDEMASSACRE
. Having TEXAS RANGERS investigate
@TxDPS
is laughable. Why your top 2 Texas Rangers RESIGNED a few months ago. Republican Ridiculous. We see you.
SCRUTINY on Uvalde City Council needs to intensify for hiring an investigator “with no active shooter training” to investigate Robb Elem. AR15 Mass Shooting.
📌 The UVALDE ‘good ol’ boys’ system is now being exposed — impunity, deceit, cover-ups.
#txlege
The cities of Arlington, Denton, Plano, & Waco have filed an amicus letter in Houston's suit against the state over
#txlege
's field preemption bill
#HB2127
.
"[W] request that the Court grant Houston's motion for summary judgment and declare HB 2127 unconstitutional, void, and
Left to Right: in a single image, the embodiment of why TEXAS is in a REPUBLICAN hell hole mess right now — Dan Patrick, Greg Abbott, TFG,
@TxDPS
logo on wall, and the ‘Coup de Grâce’ Ken Paxton.
***STOP voting for TX Republicans!
***START VOTING AGAIN, if you stopped.
#txlege
UNACCEPTABLE and deeply OFFENSIVE. Why did he receive $45,000 raise when
@TxDPS
Motor Vehicle License offices across state have been in freefall closure & software failure, after “Abject Failure” w
#UvaldeMassacre
& “Operation Lonestar” debacle?
#txlege
@fuhknjo
The UVALDE Community needs to obtain the name of all members of law enforcement in Robb on May 24th. What law enforcement group are they with? What is their rank and seniority? PUSH FOR GETTING THIS!
Republican Texas is in a real life politically self-inflicted situation now… JESUS TAKE THE WHEEL.
*** $10 BILLION State💰💵 and counting for this vile nightmare without oversight or any measure of effectiveness.
#txlege
So Mexico is threatening to withhold water over Abbott's refusal to remove the floating barrier in the Rio Grande--now folks in Texas are freaking out. Remember that Abbott unflinchingly lost billions just to slow down commercial border traffic to simply send a message.
The Smokehouse Creek Fire in Texas expanded dramatically, ballooning from 300,000 acres to 500,000 acres in 2 days, now ranking as the second-largest wildfire in the state's history. Just awful, it looks like armageddon....