Briscoe Cain
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“an aggressive champion for conservative causes” - @houstonchron | “conservative provocateur” - @nytimes | Personal Account | Lawyer | TX State Rep | #TexasFirst
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Nothing says I hate Texas like a Beto sign in your yard.
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Pro-life activist Troy Newman was given a mailbox bomb yesterday. Troy was one of three people prosecuted in California for their roles in making the famous undercover fetal body parts videos.
How is this not in news?
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@egbd27
He should get checked out. That head bounce could have some yet to be realized issues.
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I hear
@TexasChildrens
Hospital is working fast to assemble a team of lobbyists ahead of the next session of the Texas Legislature.
Those child mutilators are scared and for good reason.
We are coming for them and there’s nothing they can do to stop it.
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#SignsYouAreRich
— you can send your children to the school of your choice, but you oppose giving other parents the ability to send their children to the school of their choice.
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Harris County Elections committed a crime when they released early voting numbers at 7:29pm last night. It’s a crime to release those numbers until polls close. Court order kept polls open until 8pm.
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I’m a Texan.
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Be like Jamal.
Houston guard Jamal Shead stayed to clean up after his team following a tough loss to Alabama.
Leading by example 🙌 (via
@AustinRader24
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People who have called us “Nazis” and are calling the attempted assassination of President Trump “staged” are now trying to lecture us on turning down the rhetoric.
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Makes you wonder why 46 people drove, parked, and then started trying to occupy a college campus.
#txlege
New: 46 of 77 people arrested at UT yesterday were not students, a UT official tells KXAN.
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Your zip code should not determine whether or not you have school choice.
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Governor Abbott beat Wendy Davis in 2014.
He beat Lupe Valdez in 2018.
The next woman he will beat is Francis O’Rourke.
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Statement on my “Aye” vote for House 2377, impeaching Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
#txlege
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Crickets from most of the media outlets.
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My office is looking into legislation that will prevent
@TxDOT
from doing this in the future.
Buying a toll road with taxpayer money and then charging tolls to those same taxpayers is ridiculous.
#txlege
Without any discussion, the
@TxDOT
commission voted to spent $1.7 BILLION to purchase highway 288 toll lanes and keep charging customers
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Texas must ban the practice of tax dollars being used to lobby the legislature.
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29 years ago today, the FBI murdered a bunch of people outside of Waco, Texas.
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The
#txlege
must empower parents with the ability to choose where, when, and by whom their children are educated.
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If Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
makes school choice an emergency item, I will fight tooth and nail to get it passed by the bill filing deadline.
Who is with me?
#txlege
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Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, & Tennessee have TERMINATED affiliation with
@NSBAPublicEd
.
When will Texas
@TASBnews
do the right thing and disassociate with the National School Boards Assoc?
#txlege
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Any discussion of making housing affordable for Texans *must* include a plan to reduce and then eliminate property taxes.
Property taxes are keeping Texans from owning homes!
#txlege
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“The reason gas prices are going up is because the oil's in Louisiana and Texas and the dipsticks are in Washington, D.C." —
@SenJohnKennedy
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Happy Halloween from Wanda, Vision, Rocket, Groot, Hulk, Captain America, and Iron Man.
#MarvelHalloween
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Republicans who oppose school choice oppose the Platform of the Republican Party of Texas.
#txlege
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Yes, I am angry at several republicans for voting against school choice funding. They should regret that vote.
I am absolutely furious at a republican whom I believe to be a sexual predator. I’ve never been so ticked off at another legislator. 🤬 He should resign now.
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A Democrat judge has ordered the Harris County polls to stay open until 8pm. The Democrats created the problem and now they will say they provided the solution. The arsonist and the fireman are one.
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•School Choice for All
•Ban Taxpayer Funded Lobbying
•Protect Children from Groomers
•Fair Play in Women’s Sports
•Declare an Invasion
•State Takeover of Harris County Elections
•Ban Vax Mandates
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So it turns out that the people calling things “disinformation” were the real insurrectionist. No one saw that coming. J/k we knew it all along.
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Today, I sent cease-and-desist letters to abortion funds and Citigroup informing them of current abortion laws in Texas. Abortion funds think they can flout the law because a local district attorney refuses to bring charges. We'll fix this problem next session.
#txlege
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All Texans should benefit from the $32.7B in over-collected taxpayer $$ known here in Texas as a budget surplus.
#txlege
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Texans should be able to shoot down drones that fly over their property.
Just spent time with a senior US Border official who shared a series of alarming stories. First, the Chinese and the Mexican cartels are flying drones from Mexico into the US to surveil US law enforcement. The FAA (overseen by
@PeteButtigieg
) doesn’t allow any kind of 🧵
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You don’t have a right to free healthcare because you don’t have a right to the product of another person’s labor.
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Being a school choice supporter does not mean you oppose traditional government schools.
What’s wrong with wanting to make something better?
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It’s cold in West Texas. Thankfully God put black gold in the ground to keep us warm.
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Today, I take no joy in casting my vote to expel Representative Bryan Slaton.
Doing the right thing is sometimes difficult. But right is right.
On April 7th, I became the first lawmaker to publicly call for his resignation, stating: “I am absolutely furious at a republican whom
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How can you tell you’re in Austin instead of Texas—a lot masks.
Half of the 😷 I’m seeing are on young people.
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You don’t have a “right” to healthcare because you don’t have a right to someone else’s labor.
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Virginia has since joined the other 14 states that have severed ties with NSBA.
Hey
@tasbnews
, the clock is ticking...
14 states have quit taxpayer funded lobbying group National School Boards Association over parents being targeted as domestic terrorists,but Texas Association of School Boards refused to sever ties. Outrageous that NSBA President is the past President of TASB. More to come…
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UT has changed the name of its DEI program to “Campus and Community Engagement.” Same people are running it.
What are the odds they are still pushing the same DEI garbage?
#txlege
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Some of y’all in the Texas Legislature need a reminder about an important rule.
“No bill … shall contain more than one subject.” Tex. Const. art. III, § 35(a).
Also, the House has rules.
#txlege
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90% of Twitter’s employees got cut and the platform is working great.
Let’s see how much better government would work with less bureaucrats.
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Brittney Griner is about to make millions selling books and giving woke speeches. They’ll probably name a school after her.
(Good moral character is no longer a prerequisite to becoming an American hero. So sad.)
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The circumstances of your conception should not determine the value of your life.
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@KeithOlbermann
@bethanyshondark
Read this tweet to my wife who is a homeschool mom of 5. Was hoping to get her riled up. Didn’t work. All she said was “I have no idea who he is.”
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Brought this cool kid to work with me at the Capitol today.
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I don’t own a pair of white shoes.
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Robert Francis won’t be taking anyone’s ARs, nor will he ever be moving into 1010 Colorado Street.
#txlege
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History tells me that Texas will either get universal school choice done this year or we never will. Don’t take the crumbs. Be better than Florida and Arizona or sit down.
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With Roe reversed, the Texas statutes the Court held unconstitutional in 1973 are back! They were never repealed by the legislature. Today, abortion is illegal in Texas except “for the purpose of saving the life of the mother.” (See Art. 4512.6)
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We must pray for Justices Alito, Thomas, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. Pray for their safety and pray that they remain steadfast.
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@POTUS
You gonna do some trust busting, break up some monopolies, or is this your way of announcing your plans to take over industries?
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I’m concerned Texas is going to try and pass a half-baked school choice bill.
Not good.
Texans deserve education freedom for all.
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I hear the City of
@AustinTexasGov
has a committee looking into renaming Barton Springs b/c William Barton owned slaves.
Are they going to look at renaming things named after Cesar Chavez who used the slur 'wetbacks'?
Would they like to change the name of Lady Bird Lake back
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The same people who refuse to let Texas lead this country to energy independence don’t need to be involved with ERCOT.
Greg Casar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will unveil legislation tomorrow that they said will require ERCOT to connect to the nation's other major electric grids.
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If any Texas university allows what happened at Columbia to happen here,
#txlege
needs to call for new leadership and cut any funding we can.
My office will be monitoring today’s events.
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By June 2, 2025, Texas should be on a path to eliminating property taxes.
We must take steps during the 89th Texas Legislature. A start would be eliminating M&O property taxes.
Property taxes are becoming unsustainable for Texans and the
#txlege
must act.
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Educational freedom is coming to Texas families. Soon all parents in Texas will be empowered to choose when, where, how, and by whom their children are educated. No excuses.
#txlege
Texas Republican primary voters voted on a school choice proposition in the ballot last year.
88% of Texas Republican primary voters supported it.
Rep. Glenn Rogers ("R") says "that is not valid data."
It's time for Republican primary voters to show him their votes matter.
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Teachers unions don’t care about students. They don’t even care about teachers. They only care about one thing—collecting dues.
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When high winds cause a tree to fall on a power line and the power goes out—that’s not a grid problem.
It’s a bad thing, but it has nothing do with the grid.
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REMINDER: the passage of a bond = increase in property taxes.
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