Did this really happen?! Yes! I met with Vice President
@KamalaHarris
this past weekend..in honor of my many years of service and work in the party and our community. Also I was finally able to thank her for writing a letter to my dying friend CJ in 2019. Love our VP!
The synagogue of which my father was bar mitzvahed and I'm a member of was desecrated this week. The Torah harmed.
@PeterHotez
just last yr spoke on the same bema. We have to mobilize more than ever against antisemitism. I'm heartbroken.
#fighthate
I sat next to Sen Cruz on 10.9 days after the pogrom at Beth Yeshurun in Houston. I and others asked him to vote for aide to Israel. He told me of course. Today he didn't. This is not right especially to commit in a congregation and then not? I'm voting for
@ColinAllredTX
Ukraine & Israel aid package creeps along. U.S. Senate votes 80-19 on a procedural move to debate it.
US Sen. John Cornyn was a YES
US Sen. Ted Cruz was a NAY
Here are all the other NAYs
My longtime friend
@JaworskiForTX
was in Meyerland here in Houston today! He has great ideas incl bringing young people into state government like JFK did. Just awesome! He is running for atty gen here and we need Paxton out. Joe can do it.
I've known
@BetoORourke
for many years. He is a compassionate man who cares about ordinary people. I'm ready to have him as our new Governor! When I flooded in Harvey he came from El Paso to Houston to help me with my home. Do all you can can for this man. (Pic 17)
@BetteMidler
Hey
@BetteMidler
-Im in Tx and we are Gen Z turning out Gen Z women who registered to vote but never voted or did once! Help
@UnitedSua
w/ a rt -we need to finish raising dollars to put our program in place-bc women will change history-again!
@PeterHotez
spoke tonight about his family..how a relative survived the Shoah at age 11 and more. Talked about antisemitic emails he gets for simply speaking about science. Very courageous life! Video of speech here
A moving moment tonight as
@ABREG_1
comes to Meyerland
@bethyeshurun
in Houston..largest Jewish community in Tx to speak. He denounced antisemitism and hate in all forms. We are blessed to have him here in
@astros
#astros
#hannukah
@MarkHamill
Yes
@MarkHamill
- Beto is gaining steam in Texas, congress passed sweeping green energy/rx bill, and justice is coming to light in many ways :)
Well
@JoaquinCastrotx
if Tx Dems have the courage to walk out on racist anti voter bills and gerrymandering-we must press for our friends in the US Senate to do the same-and end the filibuster to protect the country from this extremism.
The last significant breaking of quorum by Texas Democratic Reps to prevent Republicans voter suppression occurred in 2003. It was my first session in the legislature and we left the state for four days to stop Tom Delay’s “re-redistricting” (gerrymandering).
Thanks
@GloriaSteinem
for your faith in
@UnitedSua
! We are turning out Tx women registered to vote but never voted! Half are latina in all the key races! and help us here:
Only a turn-out at the polls can bring back democracy – and
@UnitedSua
is working to ensure that happens in TX. Join them at the Texas State House District Forums Series to meet the candidates that will flip TX blue.
Abbott says he handed the President five solutions for the border. He also says he wants the Federal Government to reimburse Texas for the money that they spent
Wow. Thanks
@HillaryClinton
4 reading my article in
@TexasSignal
! I'm beyond moved to receive a personal letter from her today on my story .. my life ..and family! Read the piece here:
@SRuhle
@BetoORourke
Ive known Beto many years-Uvalde is in his soul every day. He has been heckled by Abbott supporters for a while now-but this one went too far.
For 20 years I've worked campaigns and for 20 years nothing has changed. Dems don't know how to talk about race with key voting groups. Rarely do we have a message besides "boo the other guy is bad." Too much infighting..and this time the Republic is hanging by a thread.
@costareports
Well Texas. It feels like 18 here with beto but even more so. The crowds to hear him are huge. Young women especially interested in voting
I think
@jheil
is right. Path to power in Tx runs through sense of embarrassment for our state and to beat GOP and save our republic we will have pres race intensity here in 22 esp if
@BetoORourke
etc run.
"The question... has been for a long time, what was gonna make this state competitive, what was gonna make this state blue... This onslaught of far right legislation has created this perception outside the state that Texas has gone bonkers" -
@jheil
w/
@NicolleDWallace
I think
@matthewjdowd
is right
@SRuhle
- everytime Trump is front and center-like he is again-GOP loses big. This week showed Trump nightmare not over-its live and real. 2018-Dems won House. 2020-Dems won senate, kept House. 2022...!
I'm in Houston suburbs. My Tx House district went by 30 for
@POTUS
. It was Gop held for a decade. We flipped it. Same Tx 7. This is why voters stay home. I think
@RepJayapal
is right. Hold the line.
@JoyAnnReid
@BetoORourke
is a amazing talent-and caring-he came to my house after we flooded in Harvey! So
@JoyAnnReid
believe what u read on him on the trail..
Texas could win this for Biden and end the nightmare on election night. Texans are doing their part. We’d sure like to see
@JoeBiden
visit us and spend more resources here.
Meanwhile, we are gonna have to walk and chew gum at the same time, folks. At this hour, voting rights in the U.S. are still hanging by a thread. Gerrymandering is about to disenfranchise millions of Americans of color who the Census show should be gaining more power, not less.
I agree with
@JoaquinCastrotx
! GOP bill is doa 4 most working people. Also if 1k not enough-think of how SSI gives 550 a mo to millions of disabled -and our govt still has not addressed this crushing issue
I just want to say thank YOU to the precinct chairs and club leaders . Dont forget labor! They made a huge impact in 2022. Such sacrifices. I wish more electeds and party leadership understood. People go without for a better nation.
Dear God stop the Democratic infighting in Houston. You’re all adults. Go sit in a room and work through your problems and stop acting like we’re in a middle school theatre class.
You want to represent millions of people, toughen up buttercup and stop whining.
This is scary and wrong. No matter who you support in politics no candidate or supporter should be threatened. Much less carry a gun! I'm sure the GOP will condemn this?!
.
@matthewjdowd
explains why the messaging around the pandemic has contributed to our trauma:
"All of us, especially leaders, need to start saying we're going to be in a new normal. And those days we thought existed before... are gone as we knew them." w/
@NicolleDWallace
This week our hero Speaker Emertia Nancy Pelosi came to Houston. I organized a select meeting with her and our all-star volunteer Democratic activists. She saved our country and we expressed our gratitude. Thrilled she is running again! Thx
@TeamPelosi
!
My late grandfather Dr Arthur Pronin died in '64 of hepatitis..which swept Houston. It's one reason I'm so appreciative of
@PeterHotez
at
@WACHouston
tonight. Medicine is a profession of great heroics. Grandfather himself targeted for being a jew and being a md back THEN!
Its Veterans Day. Thinking of my late grandmother Evelyn who served in WWII as a army librarian. She had a team who selected books requested by soldiers before deployment. Rode a small boat off the coast of Maine to get books in the hands of these brave men.
#VeteransDay2021
I went to the citywide Houston Yom Hashoah service. Survivors were there who I've been privileged to know 4 many yrs. They spoke of the 90th anniversary of the book burnings in Germany. Its the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising! Lest we forget. Thx
@HMHou
.
I applaud
@SylvesterTurner
and Houston city council 4 eliminating all library fines! We know people more likely to use our library system without fines. It's a bfd !
JUST IN: The Texas Senate passed a bill today that'd let sheriffs investigate themselves for deaths under their custody.
It would roll back key provisions of the Sandra Bland Act, which brought more transparency into jails.
Bolts covered it last month:
In my speech tonight I spoke about it all being on the line in 2022. Will we remain a Republic? Democracy and accountability is our message. We must finally codify reproductive freedom. Right to vote. Right to marry who we choose. Vote
@BetoORourke
and every Dem downballot!
Thank you
@fred_guttenberg
4 coming to Rice &
@erjcchouston
to share your story. We wont forget your daughter. We will vote and change this country..and our other scourges. Thx 4 ur voice also in antisemitism. Hope we meet again soon friend .
Thank you
@MeyerDems
for electing me your president for a 11th term! Tonight I announced the largest treasury in our history. Set forward our message to stand up for
@POTUS
and what we have achieved. 2 million lives saved. Largest infrastructure deal in generations! We will win.
I’d like
@KamalaHarris
and the other Dem candidates to make a real effort to include disabled Americans as a visible part of their teams. I know many disabled Americans who volunteer tirelessly for Democrats, and can work at least part-time, but never get hired by the campaigns.
My dear friend and mentor Sissy Farenthold has died. She was one of the greats in liberal politics. The lone woman in Tx House in the 60s she lead reform. Ran 2x statewide against the good old boys and 1st women nominated for VP from floor 72 Dem conv. by
@GloriaSteinem
Swoon..Luci Baines Johnson told me today "Art you are doing daddy's (LBJ) work and know that our family appreciates all you have done as a key change maker in Texas. I'm proud of your efforts in
@MeyerDems
@harrisdemocrats
and role in
@SylvesterTurner
campaign. Keep going!"