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The antidote to anxiety is ACTION.
Join us for the final week of the election where we will have all day phonebanks and text banks into swing states. You can see some of our initial “Cross the Finish Line!” event ⬇️
Mobilize voters w/ us!
The women who have been sued by Texas Republican
@BriscoeCain
, for allegedly helping a friend get an abortion, have countersued. The facts of this case are HORRIFYING.
The level of abuse aimed at women OK’ed by a Texas Republicans in leadership is staggering.
#txlege
LMAO rare Forbes W
“The Dunning-Kruger Effect, it should be noted, refers to an idea in psychology that the people with the lowest cognitive abilities are the most likely to overestimate their knowledge.”
#txlege
Honestly, this feels pretty historic. A Vice President having a live, televised discussion around the overturning of Roe v Wade, extreme abortion bans and the harm they cause.
We are honestly lucky to have
@KamalaHarris
in the second highest office in this moment.
Tonight I join
@TheReidOut
to discuss the fight to restore reproductive rights as we approach one year since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Tune in at 7 PM ET.
The countersuit clearly shows a pattern of abuse from Marcus Silva, the man who brought forth a lawsuit using Senate Bill 8. In no way is he motivated by "protecting life." He is using the legal tools provided to him by the state Texas to continue abusive behavior.
Breaking News: Five women are suing Texas over its ban on abortion. They say they were denied the procedure despite grave risks to themselves and their fetuses.
It is my hope that come November, the energy we see today will continue to grow.
The
#SupremeCourt
Justices may have their say.
But, come November, Texans will have their say on who will lead our state.
#RoeVWade
#Texas
#txlege
Just to recap today in Texas:
⏺️ A Republican lawmaker w/
@tedcruz
ties is up for expulsion after an inappropriate sexual relationship w/ a staffer and giving the 19 yo alcohol..
⏺️ Another deadly mass shooting.
We don’t have to live like this. We deserve better.
#txlege
#2024
If you are on the wrong side of this family you should ask yourself what that says about you and your values.
Greg Abbott has done nothing to keep our kids safe. Vote him out.
#txlege
#AbbottFailedTexas
#BetoForGovernor
#Uvalde
I will vote for a tuna sandwich before I vote for Ted Cruz.
@ColinAllredTX
or
@RolandForTexas
would be a huge improvement. Will both candidates agree to keep this primary clean?
Taking a momentary break from tweeting about how terrible Greg Abbott is to let you know my niece placed third in a statewide pre-juvenile level competition! 😤😤😤😤
Anyone thinking
@DadePhelan
is any better than Paxton must have missed when he banned abortion with no exceptions for rape and incest, attacked trans kids, and made it against the rules to say racism on the floor when discussing voter suppression. Also border vigilantes.
#txlege
Midterms are hard. Dems held a lot of ground in what was a tough year. Loved this team and what we brought. Grateful to the
@BetoORourke
who fought so hard for our state to hold on the way to progress.
Let’s continue to build a better Texas for Uvalde!
#BetoforTexas
Lawmakers think they can play chicken with anti-trans bills & as long as they don't pass, no one gets hurt. But families tell a different story: anxiety, depression, even self-harm because of the constant question mark of whether an anti-trans bill will pass THIS time.
#txlege
New Biden-Harris campaign ad in response to the
#GOPDebate
.
“These Guys," hits Republicans for their extreme anti abortion stances. There’s only one option if you believe in access to healthcare: re-election
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
#txlege
#txsen
The 18 GOP attorneys general who joined MS Attorney General Lynn Fitch's letter calling for access to private health information on abortions their residents received in other states include those in AL, AK, AR, GA, ID, IN, KY, LA, MO, MT, NE, ND, OH, SC, SD, TN, TX and UT.
Trans Texans are loved by their family, friends, and neighbors.
We will win eventually in creating the Texas they deserve.
In the meantime, we all need to work to get us there. Our family doesn’t deserve this treatment.
#txlege
Anyone using south Texas as an example of Latinos in Texas (let alone the country) is a dummy who has never been to south Texas.
@NateSilver538
is the dummy here.
Also again for the millionth time: there’s more Latinos in Harris county than all of the RGV!
#txlege
With the citation issue out of the way, some issues with this piece:
1) As evidence of Biden’s potential further slippage among Latinos, he cherry picks Starr County, TX (in the Lower RGV), which is not close to representative of working class Latinos in TX (let alone the U.S.
Texans: why do you feel terrible today?
A) Allergies
B) Covid/ covid anxiety
C) the come down from the adrenaline rush we all endured during this traumatic week
D) the state legislature is promising to do harm to me/my community in the midst of all of this
E) all above
#txlege
More and more medical experts and practitioners testifying in favor of SB 14 by
@DonnaCampbellTX
to ban child gender transition procedures and mutilation. They all keep highlighting the harm to kids by these methods.
#txlege
#DoNoHarm
I met
@thechicks
when I was staffing
@BetoORourke
in 22.
They got me through my grief from the Pulse shooting (my first gay club) as I was in NYC for their concert.
They are the soundtrack for the most important years of my life.
I love them. Godbless them and viva Kamala!
The Chicks are doing their sound check here at the United Center ahead of tonight’s National Anthem performance opening the fourth and final night of the DNC in Chicago.
✨ Personal news as they say ✨
Next month I’ll moving out of Texas to start some new adventures. After a decade of Texas exclusive work, I’m ready to keep continuing to fight but in different capacities.
Will always hold my txlege frenemies near to my ❤️.
It’s LinkedIn official and I cannot be MORE excited. I am thrilled to be part of this phenomenal team and so grateful to be here in this critical time.
No wasting time. We are going to build, win, and do the hard stuff to restore our rights.
#LFG
#reprovoter
#Elections2024
Incredibly disappointing behavior from
@RoyceWestTX
and
@whitmire_john
in the senate yesterday. Both of them have asked Democrats to consider them for other office. That request should be denied.
As
#txlege
session gears up, I wanted to provide some thoughts.
This cycle, Texas Dems held ground and made gains in what should have been a midterm where we saw huge R gains.
Red wave never came. All while being outspent by a Republicans bottom to top ticket.
#tx2024
And with that —
@juliejohnsonTX
is going to be the first out LGBTQ Member of Congress from Texas.
THIS IS HISTORY. And this is the real Texas.
So proud of you my friend.
#txlege
#tx32
If the Paxton impeachment has showed us anything it’s that it’s a great time to not be a Texas Republican.
Go support the state party, or a local party, or a candidate, or a grassroots org and let’s get to work changing the state.
#txlege
#txsen
🧵An out-of-state lawyer served abortion funds demanding they turn over the private info of thousands of people. Below are some of the requests.
This guy worked w/
@BriscoeCain
@DadePhelan
on the abortion ban that allows bounty hunters to harass Texans — mostly women.
#txlege
“The Texas man who tried to get his wife’s friends for murder ended up turning the lens on his own bizarre illegal activity.”
@BriscoeCain
is representing this abuser and is lying to the court to do it. And it’s A-OK by
@DadePhelan
#txlege
If the Republican Shutdown is successful, women and children who count on WIC would soon start being turned away at grocery store counters.
In Texas, 786,686 total recipients at risk including 215,305 women, 382,817 children and 188,564 infants.
#txlege
#shutdown
.
@RepThierry146
is a safe dem in Houston. She voted for the book banning bill using anti LGBTQ rhetoric.
Now, she won’t meet with actual LGBTQ Texas advocates but will meet with anti trans people from out of state.
Seems worthy primarying folks.
@Harrisyds
@HLGBTQCaucus
#tx2024
Millions of people are without power, not sure when they cook or turn on their heat again but this is the “message” the Texas GOP thinks folks need to hear today.
#txlege
Oppenheimer definitely got a bump from
#Barbie
which has blown out every marvel movie this year.
About a month ago r/boxoffice speculated it was going to bomb.
It figures that
@tedcruz
and other conservatives hitched their ride to that idea in their very online groupthink.
“Barbie” has the biggest opening day of 2023 and is on track to hit at least $155m in its opening weekend, more than twice as much as what “Oppenheimer” is expected to make.
So much for “go woke, go broke.”
#txlege
Reporters: If
@GregAbbott_TX
is not answering your questions maybe you should stop printing everything he says as if it’s newsworthy without that context?
Ask him about eliminating rape. Your readers deserve to know what he thinks and his progress.
#AbbottFailedTexas
There’s no other way to look at it:
If you are voting for Abbott, Patrick, or Paxton this year you too are directly ensuring harm to the LGBTQ community, women, and communities of color.
Simple. No excuses.
#txlege
#AbbottFailedTexas
Steve Hotze says the quiet part of what Texas Republicans really think of transgender people and the
#LGBTQ
community at large. Nothing about these bills are to make our state better or safer. They’re full of discrimination by a hateful group of Republicans.
#txlege
Austin turned out on this beautiful day. We are stronger together and we will prove it.
Get ready to vote as early as possible and then get your friends and family to vote.
#BetoForGovernor
#BetoForTexas
#txlege
@eramshaw
My two nieces are so bad. One during a Christmas play for a fun fact said she saw “grandma hitting mommy” and another likes to ask random men in the grocery store if they’re her dad. I told my sister this is payback for something she must have done...
.
@chiproytx
is an anti-LGBTQ extremist who is out of touch with the values of
#TX21
. Time for him to go.
We can have a real champion in
@wendydavis
!
J.T. Martinez, a fourth-grade student in Uvalde, Texas, lost three cousins in the elementary school shooting. One of them was also his best friend. "I’m not going to see him for a long time," J.T. said.
Join me in welcoming
@MAAlcala
as the new Executive Director for the
@texasdemocrats
!
She is going to do the hard work needed to win elections in Texas. Let’s build a
#txlege
that supports women instead of passing cruel abortion bans.
Sign up here:
“. We need Democrats with a fighting spirit and a moral compass who will pick the big fights not because they’re easy, but because they matter.
Both Allred and Gutierrez are that kind of Democrat.”
Great read by
@JoeBowen11
#txlege
#2024