House District 102 State Representative | La Diputada Estatal por
#HD102
| Chairwoman of Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus | Attorney | Mother of Two 🥥🌴
More Republicans are out today due to Covid, about 10. They will need to quarantine for 2 weeks…there will likely be no quorum in Abbott’s second suppression session.
What cowards we have on the other side of the aisle. They can’t even allow full and fair debate over their trash bills. They are silencing the voice of Texans across the state who chose US to represent them at the
#TXLege
. TEXAS CANNOT FORGET THIS DAY.
When signing the HB 1927 "guns galore" bill into law,
@GovAbbott
declared that the law "instilled freedom in the Lone Star State". YES! Freedom FROM safety in schools. Freedom FROM learning, worshipping, driving, walking, running, shopping, etc. WITHOUT the fear of getting shot.
This excessive force by DPS officers is alarming! Freedom of speech is our 1st Amendment & a cornerstone of our democracy. These officers must be held accountable, including the officer telling the person to stop recording. This is facism—-Texas style 🤬
DPS officers took down and handcuffed a few demonstrators after they were removed from the House Gallery. They were escorted out of the Texas Capitol. I was asked to leave too, but I identified as press.
@SpectrumNews1TX
@TXCapTonight
We did it! During a 14 hour day at the lege, we successfully stopped SB29 - an anti-trans sports bill that threatened to hurt our Texas trans youth. Today was a testament to the resilient spirit of the amazing trans community and all of the allies who stood by us all session.
They couldn’t even get 1 of the 3 POC in the TX Trump GOP to show up. This looks like Handmaid’s Tale meets the Klan Rally. Like I told them,“Don’t get mad at me bc your policies are racist & I’m letting the public know. That’s on you. That’s not on me.” This picture says it all.
Call your Reps NOW to vote YES to impeach
@KenPaxtonTX
. Texans deserve a full & fair trial for the many allegations made against him.
💻Tune in tomorrow at 1 pm here:
What a surprise! These assholes sit in the most compelling hearings of mothers who have had their kids murdered by our wild west gun policies & trans kids begging to just be able to live in this state and they say go fly a kite. They don’t care about anything but money & power.
We have failed Texans. After the El Paso mass shooting killing 23 and injuring 23 others
@GovAbbott
promised Texans we would do better...and here we are. Green votes supported final passage of Permitless Carry. Remember their names & what they allowed to come into your community.
It is wrong for our innocent Texans to be penalized for driving their abuela to the grocery store, when at the same time big businesses knowingly exploit undocumented labor for inhumane wages, and go unpunished.
🚨HB 4: Legalizing racial discrimination. Watch
@NicoleCollier95
@RepMorales145
and I explain how the Texas Republicans have again tried to silence us and cripple our democracy on the Texas House floor today.
#TXLege
Hola, I’m Ana-Maria Ramos.
I’m one of the Texas Democrats that broke quorum on a really bad voter suppression bill.
Now our Governor has targeted us. He has 613,000 followers. I have 4,700.
Will you help me stay in the fight by asking your friends to follow me?
#TXlege
#SB7
I am not surprised which is why I refused to endorse him as Mayor. He literally never went to work in Austin & was never on the House floor at the Capitol. Dallas deserves better than an absentee Mayor who had already proved to be an absentee legislator.🤷🏻♀️
Wow, it sure seems like you all are putting more effort into defending a turkey leg at the State Fair than you did before and after the massacre in Uvalde. Priorities, right?
#txlege
We’re using every tool in the toolbox to defend Texans’ 2A rights as we push back against the State Fair of Texas’ firearm ban:
“A letter to the (Attorney General) from state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), vice chair of the Senate Higher Education Subcommittee, and state
“If Texans were tough enough to fight at the Alamo, they should be tough enough to talk about why.”
Texas Republicans rush to guard the Alamo from the facts
Texas Democrats won’t stop fighting for your rights, especially when it comes to the vote.
I’m joining my colleagues and heading down to DC today to make it clear that we need comprehensive voting rights protections NOW!
HD102 — I’ve always got your back. 💪🏼
#txlege
Happening now…they are retaliating against Rep. Earnest Bailes and his community because he helped the fight against school vouchers. This type of retaliation is what authoritarians and dictators do…Putin, Erdogan, Xi Jinping…and Abbott. Disgusting! 🤬
Humbled & honored to be ranked most liberal in the
#TXLege
by the
@TexasTribune
. Embracing the values that truly define our state, I stood firm for progressive values, pushing back against regressive policies & fighting for the well-being of all Texans.
🚨HB 4: Legalizing racial discrimination. Watch
@NicoleCollier95
@RepMorales145
and I explain how the Texas Republicans have again tried to silence us and cripple our democracy on the Texas House floor today.
#TXLege
Honored to have met with
@VP
Harris today in DC.
She gave us guidance and inspiration on making history and fighting for voting rights. Texas is the biggest battleground state!
#txlege
When we fight, we win, but we only win when we fight together!
I’ve decided to enter the race for Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives to champion the rights and freedoms of all Texans.
#txlege
The least we can do is consider all solutions to this issue, not pick the bills we vote on that favor the GOP base. Call for a vote on HB 2744 by the Community Safety Committee to raise the age to purchase semi-automatic rifles to 21.
#TxLege
ends in 30 days! 🚨TY
@BCross052422
Where is the Catholic Church? Always present and vocal supporting school vouchers at the Lege but conspicuously silent regarding the TX mass shooting epidemic and migrant death traps..SHAMEFUL!! Body found stuck in Rio Grande TX buoys via
@TexasTribune
(1/3) The biggest corporate welfare scheme Texas has ever seen, during a year of record surplus that should have gone to families, just passed in the House. Disgraceful, corrupt. Take a moment to watch
@GeneforTexas
and
@GinaForAustin
explain the horror of this moment.
#txlege
It seems
@GregAbbott_TX
is punishing TX kiddos bc his voucher scam failed. 🤔 He freely threw away millions of taxpayer $$$ on FOUR special sessions trying to pass his voucher scam to “help” kids but now forces them go hungry this summer🤬 As a kid, my family depended on this.
Federal aid to Texas could have fed 3.7M children here this summer.
But the state turned the cash down, saying the timing, "current resource restraints" on agencies and the effort to implement the program made it impossible.
Story by
@beckyfogel
#txlege
Richardson Berkner HS student, 16, and an RISD teacher die from COVID-19 complications….and yet, AG Paxton under
@GovAbbott
’s direction is suing this school district for trying to protect their students and staff.
#SB7
, the awful voter suppression bill pushed by the Texas GOP was stopped thanks to this group of people. We made the hard, but necessary decision to break quorum.
You can view the press conference on my Facebook page now.
#GoodTrouble
Remember when
@GovAbbott
called a special session in 2017 for a nonexistent bathroom emergency...lawmakers were summoned to the Capitol to solve a fake bathroom crisis. In 2020, thousands of Texans are dying, no healthcare, forced to vote in person, forcing kids/teachers to
“In fact just to you give you numbers than I'll wrap up.… there are 154 prosecutions over fraud in the past 17 years in Texas.” Out of 94 millions votes cast. The likelihood of voter fraud in TX is less than anyone of us being stricken by lightning.” —
@DiegoBernalTX
@TexasHDC
The Texas GOP can keep crying. We are not in control, THEY ARE! Their immigration bills and ban on Covid-19 mandates bill do not deserve to make it into TX law.
#TXLege
@TXGOPCaucus
In 2018, I filed a red flag law to remove guns from abusers CHARGED with domestic violence. At that hearing in the TXCapitol, many witnesses showed up armed with guns and rifles at MY hearing to fight my bill. It was surreal. 🤯Republicans supported the armed abuser.
#VoteThemOut
It’s 11 pm on a Monday and we’re debating HB 3979 - revising public school social studies curriculum.
@jamestalarico
just asked the bill author if he would accept an amendment permitting educators to condemn white supremacy. The author says, “white supremacy in what context?” 🤦🏻♀️
GOP House members are cutting off amendments to HB4 which is one of the widest sweeping, xenophobic bills to hit the
#TXLege
. They are cutting off debate b/c they know they can’t defend such terrible legislation. They’re even lying on the motion signatures to limit debate.
There are no coincidences in Austin. Abbott and the TX GOP’s legislative priorities are dominated by racist, white supremacist extremists. A vote for SB 4 is a vote for white supremacist an racist ideology.
#TXLege
’Where is Greg Abbott?’ Anger grows at Texas governor in deadly storm’s wake.
@GregAbbott_TX
Texas - Over 40k Covid deaths, over 2 million infected, no insurance, no power, no water, KNOW..he’s a millionaire who doesn’t care
SB 1933 by Bettencourt allows an unelected appointee of
@GregAbbott_TX
to seize control of local elections w/ no ability for counties to appeal or challenge the decision. This bill allows the Secretary of State to impose “administrative oversight” while an election is underway.
A bipartisan majority in the Texas House just DEFEATED Greg Abbott’s voucher scam.
We stood up to Abbott and his billionaire mega-donors who want to defund our public schools to subsidize private schooling for the wealthy few.
I will never sell out our kids.
It just blows my mind how many Democrats voted to arm teachers in our schools. The bill clearly includes arming “a school district employee” i.e. a teacher to carry a gun on campus. Page 6 of the bill is clear and Democrats voted for it!
🚨Just now the
#TXSenate
sneakily held a hearing on school vouchers with no prior notice or any public input. These corrupt legislators shouldn't get to go home early while they pass terrible legislation to the detriment of 5.5 million TX students with no consequence!😡
Texas Senate education committee is meeting right now to discuss their school voucher bill. This meeting was scheduled minutes ago.
They just asked for public testimony but there’s none because this meeting was not previously announced.
#txlege
Pro-voucher Republican Angie Chen Button failed to stand up for public schools, and now schools in her district are closing.
Averie Bishop (
@AverieDanielle
), is committed to protecting public schools.
#txlege
BREAKING: Rep.
@RepAbelHerrero
’s amendment to prohibit the use of taxpayer dollars to be used on private school vouchers has passed and is adopted! Thank you for reminding the House that we should be funding our public schools, not defunding!
With help from Texas native
@EvaLongoria
, Cecile Richards, daughter of legendary Ann Richards, and the brave Kate Cox - TEXAS CASTS THEIR VOTES FOR
#HARRIS
at the
#DNC2024CHICAGO
!
Incredible. Speaker Phelan is making up new rules on the fly to stop any debate on amendments for schools, working families, and renters! He REFUSES to answer
@GeneforTexas
questions that exposes Republican hypocrisy! Don’t set rules you can’t follow.
#txlege
#hypocrite
#families
@BarackObama
@skorpyos
Thank you President Obama for your endorsement!! I’m now a new Texas State Representative, the first Latina in this district, and you helped make that happen! I’m honored and blessed that you sent blessings our way!! Mil gracias presidente!
For 10 years, I’ve flown an LGBTQ flag outside my home, right across from a high school. Every day, it’s a message to those kids: You are seen. You are supported.
It’s time we elect leaders who send that same signal—who fight for those unheard voices in
TY
@AnaHdzTx
for sharing your personal story in dealing with the fears of deportation & family separation. She is a golden example of the positive investments we make when we foster communities that are safe, welcoming, accepting, & humane for those seeking a better life.
#TXlege
More than 100 people, including members of American civil rights groups, gathered outside Frisco City Council (Texas) to protest against a local Hindutva group raising money to demolish in India.
#DallasAgainstHindutvaHate
The families of the victims whose lives were robbed in Uvalde bravely delivered their testimony to the Committee.
“Your thoughts & prayers did nothing to absolve our pain. They didn't stop an 18 year old from purchasing 2 semi automatic rifles.” - Father of Uziyah, Brett Cross
Total, unforgivable, censorship.
#TXGOP
once again voted to cut off debate. They’re losing the debate, so they vote to shut it off & ram through the worst immigration bill to ever pass the
#TXLege
. Here are the dictators’ names! Hold these undemocratic reps accountable.
I can’t make this up...HB 2974 by
@RafaelAnchia
is about issuing student IDs to high school students. Slaton (R) wants the student’s “sex” included. Slaton wrote “sex means the physical condition of being MAIL or female.”...🤦🏻♀️
Giving powers to individuals who’ve not witnessed ‘entry without authorization’ is synonymous to legalizing racial profiling. We’re moving TX back in time to the 50s & encouraging the mass deportation of legal Texans just like we did in the 1954“Operation Wetback.”
@GinaForAustin
Abbott’s ploy to hold teacher pay hostage for vouchers remains relentless. The House ended the session sitting on SB2, which would provide raises & increased school $$! Crucial support that we promised a whole year ago. TX, be furious!
#TXSchools
& students deserve better!
#TXLege
🚨Voter Fraud in the TX House🚨
We need to ensure all 30 million Texans are properly represented and that bad bills are not hastily passed through the process!
#TXLege
#VoterFraud
#TXGOP
#Quorum
🗳️🇨🇱
Shout out to
@GeneforTexas
for standing up for his constituents and highlighting how this bill is a target against ALL migrant communities, legal or not.
#StopAAPIHate
#TXLege
🚨Today TX teachers, renters & working families got robbed!🚨
THREAD (1/2)
With the largest ($33 billion) budget surplus TX has seen, the Republican deal still fails to prioritize TX families & public schools over corporate welfare schemes.
#TXLege
#TXTeachers
#TaxRelief
As a mother in DFW, today I am at a loss for words. More families & communities in mourning due to lack of action to prevent dangerous individuals from accessing guns. “Thoughts & prayers” do not prevent these massacres, the time for legislation is NOW! The problem is the guns!
HB 2960 by
@BriscoeCain
: Another bill to protect gun owners over those possibly in the line of fire. This bill protects those who “accidentally” carry handguns into prohibited areas. A pass on bringing a deadly weapon into spaces like schools, churches, hospitals, etc. Insanity!!
When will
@GovAbbott
learn?! Texas does NOT want voucher scams!
🚨Starting Now: Special Session 4 and another $1M down the drain... Call your leaders now to vote NO on vouchers, NO on border wall funding, and NO on racial profiling bills.
#TXLege
ALERT: GOVT SPONSORED GENITAL INSPECTION just voted into law by TX REPUBLICANS. Today, TX Republicans once again forced harmful legislation attacking vulnerable children.
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.
This is the warrant for my arrest issued today. Is protecting your freedom to vote worth getting arrested? Is protecting your children from hatred & white supremacy worth being arrested? Is protecting your daughters’ & sisters’ right to choose worth being arrested? Bring It✊🏽
Not a penny spent on our students as we conclude an almost 300 days in session. Today, we are leaving Austin with over $20B unspent in General Revenue including $4B specifically set aside for teachers & students in April. Huge
#TxGOP
failure in the 88th session & four specials!
Elizabeth Warren just called to congratulate us on flipping this Texas House seat! I just couldn’t stop crying! I’m so honored! Thank you Team for making this happen! This is Our Fight!!
#elizabethwarren
#estamosconramos
Thank you Texas Retired Teacher’s Association for your continued support! Democrats will continue to support a cost of living adjustment increase. TX GOP majority chose NOT to let the COLA bill pass during regular session. Let’s have a session exclusively on COLA and we’re in!
And yet,
@dallasnews
keeps endorsing the same Republicans who support these reckless gun bills. Year after year…you see what happens and you do the same!
@dallasnews
you and your editorial board are part of the problem. Shame on you!
You forced Texans to cross county lines just to deliver a baby by allowing rural hospitals to close. Mothers are dying under your statewide abortion ban. This isn’t “expanding access,” it’s abandoning Texans.
#txlege
Announcing $3.3 million in grants to improve maternal care at rural hospitals currently not providing labor and delivery services.
@TexasHHSC
Texas continues working to ensure new mothers and families have access to quality healthcare services.
More:
Advocates for transgender rights have filled the Capitol today in opposition to SB14. Banning gender affirming care will leave vulnerable children feeling isolated, excluded, and unwelcomed in our state. Thank you to all of those fighting for this community!
#TransKidsBelong
If you are too tired or too busy to go vote, REMEMBER Uvalde! Those families don’t have the luxury of being too tired to stop fighting for change or the luxury of being too busy to fight for your children. We owe these Uvalde families more than thoughts and prayers.
#Vote
#21por21
The TX GOP controls all three branches of our government. If they truly wanted to hastily pass their horrible bills, they would've showed up. 20+ Republicans were absent today.
#TXLege
#Accountability
#HoldtheLine
What a slap in the face to
#TXPublicSchools
& teachers. Abbott’s proclamation on what can be passed doesn’t even mention school funding, instead we get universal vouchers.🤬He isn’t even pretending to care about “fully funding” our schools. Embarrassing.
#NoDeal
#SaveTexasSchools
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.
With an illegitimate quorum achieved, we are one step closer to voter disenfranchisement.
I will not falter but will continue to fight for all Texans.
#txlege
If Texans wanted vouchers, a billionaire-funded political war chest wouldn't be needed to mislead the public, unseat republicans who vote against it, & push out misleading or inaccurate info. $$ doesn't change the fact that vouchers were spawned as a racist policy, fail students,
This means a TX GOP group &
@GovAbbott
engaged in human trafficking & smuggling according to recent TX legislation. It’s a felony for each person trafficked. CA investigation should help in identifying the
@GovAbbott
traffickers
🗣️After 28 days and $1M state dollars wasted, House Republicans filed another expanded $10,500 universal school voucher bill to ram through in special session
#4
! Vouchers failed this session and will continue to despite the Governor’s bullying.
#NODEAL
#TXLege
#SaveTexasSchools
I, and 51 of my colleagues, am calling on Governor Abbott to ensure full funding for Texas public schools - whether online or in person! Read the letter, drafted by
@GinaForAustin
, below.
Oh, school choice, you say? How convenient, after you have allowed public schools to close across Texas like they're going out of style.
Parents don't want a shell game—they just want decent public schools that aren't being defunded into oblivion.
Let's not pretend 'choice'
It’s back to school season in Texas, and parents are demanding school choice.
During the upcoming legislative session, we’re going to work to make school choice a reality.
Parents matter—and choosing where they send their children to school matters.
Our quorum break was an unquestionable success. Through our unity, we were able to stop Texas Republicans’ regressive, voter suppression bills and accelerate federal action on sweeping voter protection legislation.
#txlege
#ForThePeopleAct
#VotingRightsAct
They stand in solidarity supporting prayer in school including using the word “God”...which is already addressed by SCOTUS. Yet, most of these Rs just voted AGAINST protections for workers subjected to inhumane living conditions. What would Jesus do? This is so exhausting...
@jessicafortexas
was unwavering in her fight for voting rights. She and
@ForHD65
fought from the very beginning in the elections committee hearings. As vice-chair they took away her gavel to silence her....and yet SHE persisted!✊🏽
Texas Republicans passed Senate Bill 4, a racial profiling law that is racist and unconstitutional. Let’s vote against those who passed it!
Register to vote:
Read more:
#HB20
is defeated by a point of order by
@RafaelAnchia
!
We are now on to HB 800 which would establish a 10 year minimum sentence for “smuggling” undocumented migrants. We will not let these bills pass without a fight!
#txlege
Some factions of the Texas GOP once again trying to silence dissent. 🇺🇸Threatening to file an Ethics complaint bc the world is being informed about what they are doing in the public square 📜 is right out of a facist, authoritarian playbook. What are they afraid of?🗳️