Texas State Rep (
#HD10
). Native Texan. Aggie. Husband. Father of 4. Former small biz owner, HHS Chief of Staff, Trump and Bush Admins. Believer in freedom.
🚨BREAKING: CMS just EXEMPTED officials hired to enforce their vaccine mandate...from the vaccine mandate! My office obtained the memo. Stunning hypocrisy. These mandates must end.
#txlege
I have now called for an immediate
#Txlege
House investigation of federal officials who are harassing whistleblowers and potentially aiding and abetting the child abuse they so bravely exposed.
This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine."
🚨Senate finds Paxton NOT GUILTY🚨
Speaker Phelan must step down now for empowering this Democrat effort while killing Republican priorities.
I am also demanding the State Auditor investigate how much tax money this wasted.
Full statement👇
#txlege
#PaxtonImpeachmentTrial
🚨Breaking: Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
just demanded legislation to ban all
#COVID
vaccine mandates next session. The Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act is the boldest bill in America. Statement from Senator-Elect
@Mayes_Middleton
and me.
#txlege
#HB81
🚨BREAKING: Odessa becomes first Texas city to BAN ALL COVID VACCINE MANDATES!
@CityofOdessa
did what
#Txlege
House failed to do and PROTECTED MEDICAL FREEDOM for every resident by passing the Texas
#COVID
Vaccine Freedom Act.
Proud to partner w/them. What city will be next?
🚨Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
and I exposed how DEMOCRATS really control the GOP-dominated TEXAS House of Representatives...
And why we need more bold conservatives like
@AndyHopperTX
in
#txlege
.
Watch👇
(Warning: if you're a Texas Republican, prepare to get angry.)
🚨Speaker Dade Phelan and his Democrat parliamentarian just decided to KEEP
#COVID
VACCINE MANDATES in Texas… for college students, nursing students, and medical students. Unbelievable!
Why does he want to force COVID vaccines on students?
Watch!👇
#txlege
This morning I stood up for Texas and America by suing the Biden Administration for ILLEGALLY disregarding the Title 42 Order we created when I was Trump's Chief of Staff at HHS. They turned the most secure border in history into the
#BidenBorderCrisis
. Time to fight back!
🚨BREAKING:
#Txlege
Senate Committee PASSES a ban on COVID vaccine mandates!
Thank you
@mayes_middleton
and
@LoisKolkhorst
.
(Note: despite bold bills already being written and filed in the House, not a single bill has even been referred to a committee.)
Trump was shot last night.
Three months ago these people tried to take away his Secret Service protection.
They should resign.
Every single one of them.
(Including
@JasmineForUS
, a perpetual embarrassment to the state of Texas.)
#txlege
@HouseGOP
Special Session
#3
of the Texas Legislature will begin Monday, October 9th at 1:00 PM.
Now is the time for Texas to deliver school choice for every family, protect Texans and Americans against Biden’s border crisis, and ban all COVID vaccine mandates.
Let's get to work.
🚨Rep. Jasmine Crockett Should Resign.
Three months before President Trump was shot and almost killed,
@JasmineForUS
pushed legislation to take away his Secret Service protection.
Proud to stand with my fellow
#Txlege
members in demanding she step down.
Letter👇
Post-Constitutional America.
Unelected bureaucrats now both write and enforce law; by edict.
Congress has made itself irrelevant… except to occasionally vote to spend more money we don’t have.
Every elected Republican not fighting this is complicit.
#txlege
@HouseGOP
Major update: I can now verify that
@KenPaxtonTX
's office has begun an investigation.
Fantastic.
Texas must fight Biden's outrageous actions with every tool available.
#txlege
@EithanHaim
@TXAG
🚨🚨 It gets worse: Biden’s DOJ sent FBI agents to the home of a 2nd whistleblower for exposing potential MEDICAID FRAUD and procedures
@TXAG
determined were CHILD ABUSE.
The
#Txlege
House should immediately convene hearings, launch investigations, and issue subpoenas.
If you’re more outraged it’s taking a few days to elect a
#speaker
than you are that we’re 31 TRILLION in debt, you’re priorities are wrong.
#txlege
@HouseGOP
BREAKING: Texas Children’s Hospital’s pediatric sex-change clinic is back open, but the two doctors at the center of the scandal have not returned to the office, per a source. I’ve reached out to the hospital to ask if the doctors have been suspended, given the AG investigation.
🚨Proud to announce I just filed the TEXAS COVID VACCINE FREEDOM FOR STUDENTS ACT to ban
#covid
vaccine mandates in colleges, nursing, and medical schools!
This is necessary because Speaker Phelan and his DEMOCRAT PARLIAMENTARIAN indefensibly protected those mandates.
#txlege
Texans can never own their homes and are being taxed out of them. Property taxes are unethical and should be eliminated. Until then, property tax hikes should require an election. Proud to file
#HB2220
&
#HB2221
to put taxpayers back in charge.
#txlege
(1/x)
ICYMI: Excerpt from my floor speech opposing the impeachment of Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
.
"Not a shred of anything even closely approximating new and sufficient evidence has been presented to this body."
Watch 👇
#txlege
#paxton
#PaxtonImpeachment
🚨Speaker
@DadePhelan
caught lying at the polls... claiming he did NOT kill
#HB20
(the Border Protection Unit Act).
Well, he did... and it's on camera.
Watch him keep us from even debating the bill because a DEMOCRAT objected to it.👇
#txlege
#BidenBorderInvasion
Texans are shocked to learn that Speaker
@DadePhelan
lets an OBAMA staffer control the Texas House of Representatives.
This is Texas.
We must do better.
Watch👇
#txlege
@DentonCountyGOP
🚨BREAKING: Texas State Library & Archives Commission just informed me they will leave the American Library Association!
I asked them last month to cut ties after electing a radical socialist and self-described "Marxist lesbian" as President.
Huge win! Full Statement👇
#txlege
🚨🚨 It gets worse: Biden’s DOJ sent FBI agents to the home of a 2nd whistleblower for exposing potential MEDICAID FRAUD and procedures
@TXAG
determined were CHILD ABUSE.
The
#Txlege
House should immediately convene hearings, launch investigations, and issue subpoenas.
EXCLUSIVE: A nurse at Texas Children's Hospital claims that doctors in the hospital’s child sex-change program committed Medicaid fraud. "The largest children's hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures."
A massive scandal. 🧵
🚨 CONTRACT WITH TEXAS
For years Texas House Speakers have betrayed Republican voters by putting radical Democrats in charge and colluding with them to destroy liberty.
That insanity must end.
Voters repudiated
@DadePhelan
's failed, liberal leadership team in last month’s
I oppose the impeachment of AG
#Paxton
; not because I am convinced of his innocence, but because
#txlege
House leadership made no attempt to adequately document his guilt nor to demonstrate that this is anything other than a sham railroading of a political enemy. Full Statement👇
I hope the Democrats enjoyed their reign of the Texas House… because 2024 is the last year they’ll be committee chairs or parliamentarians.
#MakeTheTexasHouseRepublicanAgain
#Txlege
The biggest frauds in Texas are elected “Republicans” who tell voters they’re fighting for conservative priorities… then vote to put liberal Democrats in charge and collude with them to destroy liberty.
It’s primary season.
Do your research.
Vote them out.
#txlege
Biden's COVID mandates are not about public health, but about federal government control of our lives. They must end, and it's why I filed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act in
#txlege
.
The Speaker of the United States House of Representatives has spoken out about the scandal at Texas Children's Hospital. BUT...
The Texas House Speaker, leadership team, and
@TXGOPCaucus
have not said a word.
I continue to call for an immediate
#Txlege
House investigation!
🚨UPDATE: After discussions with
@TAMU
leadership, they just confirmed that Texas A&M is spending state resources to assert that "gender and sexuality are socially constructed," that "transphobia" has a "relationship to racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism," and that
Texas A&M is offering a MINOR in this??
What. The. Hell.
I will be demanding answers from
@tamu
on why they think my constituents should be forced to subsidize this.
#txlege
#txed
🚨Tomorrow
#txlege
House will vote on impeaching
#Paxton
We have not yet voted on:
- securing the border
- eliminating property taxes
- education freedom
- banning COVID mandates
- ending taxpayer funded lobbying
- cutting spending
- reining in executive powers
PRIORITIES
Worse: in Texas (thanks to crushing and never-ending property taxes) no one is even allowed to own property.
Every Texas “homeowner” is really just a tenant, and government is their landlord.
Hey,
#Txlege
, can we please make private property rights great again next session!?
I was Trump's Chief of Staff at
@HHSGov
, and we used our public health authority to finally secure the border from illegal immigration and COVID with our Title 42 Order. Biden's illegal disregard for that order is causing the
#BidenBorderCrisis
. He must be stopped!
#TX06
Finally, if interested, here’s a photo of us briefing President Trump on “the plan” – along with Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, Dr. Slaoui, General Perna, Dr. Collins, and others. We had to start from scratch – your team didn’t!
#plandenier
@VP
@axios
@mikeallen
Probably the most under-reported SCANDAL in Texas politics. The equivalent of a Republican winning the presidency and appointing Merrick Garland to be White House Counsel. 👇
---
Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Waxahachie) quipped Monday on social media that “a Democrat Obama lawyer…
The U.S. House of Representatives has a (far) more conservative Speaker… than the Texas House of Representatives.
Let that sink in.
Texans deserve better.
#txlege
🚨BREAKING: the bipartisan Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act (
#HB81
) just passed
#Txlege
House Public Health Committee 10-1!
Thank you to Chair
@StephanieKlick
and the committee for voting to protect
#InformedConsent
by banning COVID vaccine mandates in Texas!
"Wait, so you're saying that the Republican Speaker in Texas is chosen by the Democrats!? -
@TuckerCarlson
"Yea" -
@KenPaxtonTX
"Wait, so you can have a big [Republican] majority in the Texas House, but still not control the Texas House!?... That's crazy!" -Tucker
#txlege
I filed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act almost exactly TWO YEARS AGO… just hours after being sworn in to
#txlege
.
Worked every day since then to protect medical freedom for all Texans.
It’s taken (way) too long, but Texans are finally going to be free from COVID tyranny!
Sworn in this morning; filed boldest, broadest, and most legally defensible bill banning COVID vax mandates in Texas this afternoon. Busy first day!
#HD10
#txlege
🚨Shocking: While Republicans flipped Congress and won huge in Texas, Republican leaders here plan to voluntarily give power back to Democrats and let them chair powerful committees where they can advance their liberal agenda and stop ours. My statement.
#txlege
Property taxes in Texas are out of control.
Texas "homeowners" are mere tenants, and the government is their landlord.
#TXlege
must end this insanity by abolishing property taxes.
States should be able to RECALL THEIR U.S. SENATORS when they go rogue, and I’ll discuss my bill to do that in Texas on
@KSEV700
with
@CSalcedoShow
at 8am.
Tune in or listen online 👉
Read the bill! 👇
#txlege
Today’s action by the University of Texas at Austin is a direct result of the law the House passed last year to prohibit DEI initiatives at our higher education institutions—legislation I was proud to pass in the Texas House.
Under the guise of “diversity, equity, and
Shocking, but true:
@DadePhelan
hired a Democrat Obama White House lawyer as House Parliamentarian… to help his “Republican” leadership team kill conservative bills.
Texans deserve better.
#txlege
In May, I called on liberal Speaker Dade Phelan to resign after he was recorded numerous times presiding over the Texas House in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication. Despite this embarrassing conduct, & his continuing erratic behavior, Phelan has refused to resign. He
Hard working, over-taxed Texans deserve to know how much of their money was WASTED by the
#Txlege
House on the
#PaxtonImpeachmentTrial
.
As promised, I am formally requesting an immediate audit from the Texas State Auditor's Office.
Letter 👇
Love or hate
#Trump
, the precedent this sets should terrify every American.
In America, we don’t criminalize political opponents. Third world countries do.
With 87,000 IRS agents enforcing a 67,000 page tax code exactly zero Americans understand, YOU could be next.
#txlege
🚨 Texas must not sit idly by while Biden wages LAWFARE against brave whistleblowers who have exposed credible claims of CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Sen
@mayes_middleton
and I are now demanding
@TexasHHSC
immediately investigate.
#txlege
Historic border crisis continues. What new response did the Texas Legislature provide?
Texas Senate passed:
-Cartel Invasion declaration
-Felony criminal trespass at border
Texas House killed them both.
Those are the facts.
#txlege
Texas should be leading the nation in freedom and liberty.
We aren't... because of the failed "Republican" "leadership" team in the
#Txlege
House.
It wasn't just Dade Phelan. His "leadership" team delivered the MOST LIBERAL SESSION in Texas history.
Time for new leadership.
🚨 I just filed
#HR103
to REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE CHAIR in the Texas House of Representatives.
Texans stand with Israel, but the Texas Democrat Party recently issued a statement making it clear they side with Hamas. Democrats should never have been appointed Chairs of
It gets worse... Texas A&M is using tax dollars to teach that there are "alternative genders," and Texans, who are being taxed out of their homes, are being forced to pay for it.
The Regents should end it now. If they don't,
#Txlege
must rein them in.
@TAMU
#txed
🚨Breaking: I've independently confirmed the Texas House has withheld information and is STONEWALLING the audit being conducted by the State Auditor's Office into the funds wasted on
@KenPaxtonTX
's impeachment... likely violating state law.
Outrageous.
Texans deserve answers.
@JDVance
As someone who has flown on AFII more times than I can remember… I’ve never seen anything like this.
This.
Is.
Awesome.
Kamala has gone almost 3 weeks without facing real questions from the press...
Go JD!
#txlege
#Election2024
Democrats are literally arresting Republicans across the country, yet in the (Republican dominated) Texas House… liberal Democrats are given powerful committee chairmanships.
Insanity.
What good is election integrity if
#txlege
Republicans just give their jobs to Democrats?
This insanity must end!
Medical and nursing students deserve freedom from
#covid
tyranny too.
#Txlege
must (finally) ban ALL covid vaccine mandates in Texas.
The border INVASION risks the future of our republic.
Biden is responsible, but Texas must do all we can to fight the
#BidenBorderCrisis
.
Rep
@RepMattSchaefer
and I respectfully ask Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
to call an IMMEDIATE special session on border security.
Full Statement 👇
There were only EIGHT
@TexasGOP
legislative priorities last session.
Texas House “leadership” failed to pass all of them. Instead…
The House Calendars Committee prioritized over 500 DEMOCRAT bills.
Texans deserve better.
#MakeTheTexasHouseRepublicanAgain
#txlege
Speaker
@DadePhelan
(AND his liberal lieutenants) killed the bill to stop CCP from buying Texas farmland last session.
Now they’re doing what they do best… pretending to care by holding show hearings on a problem they’re responsible for.
Time for new
#Txlege
House leadership.
There’s zero reason to allow Chinese companies to buy our farmland. They would never allow us to buy theirs because they aren’t stupid.
@ColeHefnerTX
Please explain yourself quickly.
"Texas is a red state with a majority of Republican House Representatives, why in the world can we not have a conservative House Speaker?" -
@MarkDavis
just now.
Great question!
🚨Texas A&M just confirmed that this is real.
Absolutely outrageous abuse of Texan's hard earned tax dollars.
What the hell is happening at
@TAMU
!?
#txlege
Update: my office has connected with
@TAMU
and demanded an official response.
A&M better not be forcing taxpayers to fund this.
"Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse"
"A Theory of Gendered Organizations"
"Women in Hip-Hop Push Back Against the Male Gaze"
#txlege
#txed
David Covey is a hero, and I’m proud to have supported him.
If not for Covey’s campaign, many liberal incumbents almost certainly would’ve been re-elected. Instead of spending his massive war chest to protect his deputies in the House, Dade Phelan was forced to spend over $13
🚨Outrageous!
The Biden Administration is likely impeding the ability of
#Txlege
to operate by stifling whistleblowers' willingness to petition the government via the media.
There should be hearings and potentially a state investigation into any federal officials involved.
After 1st full day of
#Paxton
impeachment, a reminder that
#txlege
still has NOT:
- banned COVID mandates
- passed a serious border security bill
- fixed our grid/energy market
- passed education freedom
- reined in executive emergency powers
- banned taxpayer funded lobbying
From
@nypost
: While Paxton is pressing the issue, Texas state Rep. Brian Harrison is calling for the state legislature to hold hearings to investigate the whistleblowers’ claims and the Biden administration’s “unconstitutional tyranny.”
“We need Republicans to be courageous in
🚨The
#Txlege
House must not allow the Biden Administration to aid and abet CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD by prosecuting whistleblowers.
I'm asking Speaker
@DadePhelan
to immediately hold hearings to investigate federal officials & hospital leadership.
Inaction is complicity.
Last session in the Texas House was the most liberal ever.
Next session should be the MOST CONSERVATIVE ever.
Texas must lead in the defense of LIBERTY.
#txlege
🚨Breaking: the Texas House Republican Caucus is pressuring House Republicans to sign a statement attacking a political opponent of Speaker Phelan based on allegations from a liberal media outlet. This is even less serious than their handling of
@KenPaxtonTX
’s impeachment, and
🚨🚨BREAKING: SCOTUS Overruled Chevron Deference 6-3!!
This is one of the biggest blows to the administrative state, which has become the greatest threat to our constitutional system of divided government.
Another MAJOR win for liberty!
#SCOTUS
#Chevron
Never-ending property taxes are unethical, confusing, unfair, incompatible with private property rights, and must be abolished. Today, I filed HB3455 & HJR145 so the next generation of Texans can truly be homeowners and throw off the shackles of government landlords.
#txlege
Property taxes are being RAISED all across Texas.
That must end.
I will refile my bills to require all proposed property tax hikes to go the voters for approval!
#txlege
Texans can never own their homes and are being taxed out of them. Property taxes are unethical and should be eliminated. Until then, property tax hikes should require an election. Proud to file
#HB2220
&
#HB2221
to put taxpayers back in charge.
#txlege
(1/x)
🔥🔥🔥 Michelle Evans just stood up to Austin City Council as they work to encourage illegal mutilation of children.
Thank you
@ThinkerMichelle
for courageously reading my statement and putting them on notice!
Watch👇
#txlege
#atxcouncil
#sb14
A genuine
#txlege
scandal for the ages:
Speaker
@DadePhelan
hired liberal Democrat HUGH BRADY, a former OBAMA WHITE HOUSE LAWYER, to be the Texas House Parlimentarian.
Let that sink in: a Democrat Obama lawyer... is currently controlling... the GOP-dominated Texas House.
🚨Biden's
#TitleIX
rule is a public education emergency that endangers women, teachers, and all Texas students.
I am asking Speaker
@DadePhelan
to immediately issue an interim charge for Texas to reject federal education money and the dangerous strings attached to it.
Texas is
🚨Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
is right to call
#txlege
back for
#schoolchoice
, but that is not enough.
I am asking he also demand action on other urgent items including border security, medical freedom, "emergency power" reform, and banning the CCP from buying Texas land.
Full letter👇