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Nothing in America improves until people stop voting for today’s Republican Party. They’re in the business of hurting people.
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Just had folks come to my door wanting to evangelize. I politely declined and offered a cold water to take along.
We hear a lot about lgbtq ppl trying to indoctrinate everyone else. But I’ve never - not even once - had an lgbtq person come to my door to talk me into being lgbtq.
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It’s really hard to comprehend how law enforcement stood back doing nothing while a gunman slaughtered kids and teachers, but this is law enforcement’s response to students exercising their first amendment right.
We are in a bad place, y’all.
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👇🏻 This mother is 1000% against Gregg Abbott! My sign is here and I’m proudly displaying it.
#BetoForTexas
#CollierForTexas
@MomsAGAbbott
@cjtackett
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Just saw a commercial for Jesus. While I’m pro-Jesus, it really turns me off of Christianity. I never see other religions “selling” their faith - ads for Allah, Buddha, Shiva or Jewish Yahweh. Christianity has become a business constantly marketing to us whether we want it or not
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If America had high speed rail, lots of people could work around these airline travel snafus. I’ll never understand why so many folks are resistant to our country having it.
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This was the word-for-word comment from a student at Granbury ISD’s school board meeting last night. This is critical thinking as a result of public education. Teachers, librarians, and books are wonderful things!
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@tedcruz
I was Born and raised right here in rural Texas, on a farm and with guns in my home. I’m voting for
@BetoORourke
. It’s not Hollywood liberals
@tedcruz
, it’s regular Texans who want better for our state.
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I am normally apprehensive abt sharing video when I can’t confirm things abt it. But this is for sure the Torchy’s here in Fort Worth and was recorded by a woman dining there on Sunday. You can clearly see the man w/ the swastika armband had been dining with the other men. 1)
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Something on my mind after today’s public ed rally in Austin:
Issues like book bans, attacks on trans kids, and putting chaplains in classrooms are NOT separate from vouchers. They are all connected. Those issues are directly tied to destroying public confidence in public ed. 1)
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American racism is rooted in & was justified by Southern Christianity. In my lifetime the Bible has been used to try to justify racism to me. No matter how badly Dan Patrick wants to whitewash history, he can’t change it. I wish ppl would stop voting for Christian nationalists.
Lt. Gov. Patrick: We have racism in this country but it’s really an issue of love. It’s loving god. We need a culture change to address this racism.. for billions of us on the planet we believe you can’t do that unless you accept Jesus Christ or unless you accept god
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I was born & raised here in TX. It’s where I’ve spent most of my life. I have confidence the majority of us aren’t hateful, bigoted, Christian nationalists who support the policies in this lege session. But, I really need more of us to be determined enough to prove it w/ our vote
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Texas parents don’t want this. Anti-intellectual Christian nationalists who’ve made their way into office do.
🇺🇲HUGE WIN🇺🇲 Texas is leaving The American Library Association! 🇺🇲🦅
Don't Mess With Texas Parents!
#Texit
#Freedom
#ParentsMatter
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@hossehenad
@tedcruz
This was Ted Cruz’s event today in Granbury with Empower Texans’ candidate, Jon Francis. Not a mask in sight.
Jon Francis and Ted Cruz had a get out the vote event today in Granbury. Purportedly 250-300 people at the event. Based on this picture, not any visible masks and not really any social distancing, all at an indoor event.
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I’m going to say it again: TX Republicans passed a law to allow pastors into public schools with children.
The reporting on Association of Related Churches (ARC which has churches all over DFW) is like describing a pyramid scheme or the mob. And they’ve been repeatedly accused of covering up sexual abuse. 2/
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I’ve witnessed, and been exposed to, a lot of bigotry in my lifetime. But I can honestly say, I’ve never witnessed it to the raw, brazen magnitude I’ve witnessed in my town lately.
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A very dear friend pointed this out to Chris and I last night. This is posted on the Hood County Sheriff’s Office official Facebook page. This is blatant Christian nationalism. It’s also a deeply disturbing response to the Uvalde massacre.
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Hey, Texas, the Iowa State Auditor doesn’t mince words about the lack of financial transparency and/or accountability with vouchers.
#NoVouchers
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“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”
~ Susan B. Anthony
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Urban and suburban Texans can and must vote in record numbers to bring change to Texas on November 8th. Beto, Collier and all the down ballot races can be won if enough urban and suburban voters (and young people!) use their voices at the ballot box.
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At some point TX Republicans’ luck will run out and the weight of their mismanagement will cave in on our state. We already see it happening at the edges. TX is losing ground, even though people don’t totally see that yet and continue to move here. But the shine will wear off. 1/
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🧵 Beyond being unconstitutional, legislating Christian influence into TX public schools would create problematic situations. We already have some districts that push Christian influence onto their students. This would only make it worse. Granbury ISD is a perfect example. 1/
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I continue to see comments blaming our loss of reproductive rights solely on conservative men. White women are the underpinning of Christian patriarchy, friends. Please don’t forget that.
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Hate and bigotry are openly flaunted now. We see it directed towards all kinds of ppl - Jewish ppl, Black ppl, Latin and Hispanic ppl, LGBTQ ppl, non-Christian ppl, Muslim ppl…
It’s not ok under any circumstance. Whether a regular citizen or an elected official, it’s vile. 2)
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Texas Democratic Party, look closely at Wisconsin. Actively pursue young voters and lean into abortion rights. The majority of the public supports reproductive freedom and women’s bodily autonomy. Stop chasing conservative, rural votes. The future is Millennials and Gen Z.
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Make so mistake, Christian nationalism has completely devoured the Republican Party in Texas. And frankly, the efforts to defeat it in this state are too soft and too little too late.
Ppl better show up to vote for Biden come November or we are facing a bleak future.
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These are individuals who gave between $600,000 and $3.3 million JUST to
@GregAbbott_TX
. He alone has been bought by a lot more than he claims Soros has given for the whole state.
George Soros thinks he can buy Texas.
We aren’t for sale!
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The Roots Market on Magnolia here in Fort Worth reinforces they will not do business with ppl in the lgbtq community.
I am glad to know this. Now I’m fully aware it wasn’t a misunderstanding, and Chris and I will steer clear of their weekend market and bigotry.
‘A step backwards.’ Community rallies around LGBTQ vendor denied spot in Magnolia market
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I know it’s politically popular to ignore the enormous role Texas Dems have had in holding the line for public schools. But, as debate occurs and the votes are taken today, please remember, if Ds didn’t protect public schools and vote against vouchers, they’d already be reality.
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Handmaid’s Tale stuff, y’all. Christian patriarchy intends to control women.
Lubbock County Commissioners have passed an abortion travel ban that prohibits traveling on the roads to get an abortion in another state, making it the most populous county in Texas to pass such an ordinance. Story to come for
@TexasTribune
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I’ve yet to see a single TX Republican lawmaker admit this tragedy.
Several have posted Bible verses this morning.
They’ve all repeatedly conveyed support for Abbott’s border strategy.
But they’re silent about a dead mother and babies.
It’s not just Abbott, it’s the R Party.
A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass on Friday.
Border Patrol attempted to save them.
But Texas did not provide access to Border Patrol.
Their bodies were recovered by Mexican authorities.
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Melissa, sweetie, there are roads and parks in TX I’ve never once driven on or visited, but my tax dollars support them. I’ve never called the fire department, but my taxes continue to pay for them.
If your kids are not in school, you’re not choosing a school. Bless your heart.
@mentack
Our children go to school for 13 years, us homeowners pay Taxes for the rest of our lives, It's our money. We demand school choice
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If Christian nationalists totally devour Texas (and Texas public schools) it will be because people don’t understand the long game and try to compromise with Christian nationalists and dominionists. But please understand, there is no compromise. They won’t ever be satiated.
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Why are Republicans making it harder for college aged people to vote? Here’s why 👇🏻
This was at University of North Texas a few days ago. Young people have the power to change Texas. Please make sure the young people in your life vote! Early voting begins Monday.
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It is PRO-public education to speak out about the Christian nationalism taking over some TX districts. It is imperative that the few superintendents and school boards who’re opening the door and enabling Christian nationalism are held accountable.
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Rep Talarico is exactly right! Listen closely to what he’s saying. All of these issues have been crafted by far-right Christian nationalist oligarchs to make the public afraid of public ed. If ppl are afraid of public schools, it’s much easier to get them to on board w/ vouchers.
Two billionaire mega-donors are trying to dismantle public education in Texas.
Voucher scams, book bans, CRT scares — it’s all part of their plan to close our neighborhood schools.
I explained their strategy in a community meeting…
#txlege
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The next time you hear someone saying “moderate Republican House members” in TX…remember, they ALL just voted for HB4. They all agreed to marginalize and endanger other human beings. Not a single one of them is moderate. Being a moderate R is history from another time and place.
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Republican strategy: repeat a lie over and over again and expect the public to believe it.
We already have school choice. We just don’t use public dollars to pay for private, religious schools because doing so violates church state separation AND the Texas Constitution.
A majority of Texans agree: now is the time for school choice in Texas.
Parents must have the freedom to choose the education pathway that best fits their child and their family.
School choice makes that possible.
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The only way Ken Paxton can serve the community is to leave office and never come back.
We are expected to believe there are guardrails in America and there will be accountability, but, it’s proven over and over again that, isn’t true.
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Christian nationalism is a major threat to American democracy and our safety - even at the local level. Please understand what you’re witnessing. This isn’t normal; it is dangerous.
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As we continue to watch Houston ISD dismantled, I want to ask again…how many of the so-called “pro-public ed” Republicans have uttered even a whisper of concern about what’s happening down there?
Their silence speaks volumes.
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Torchy’s Tacos response:
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State Board of Education member, Julie Pickren, stating that the State of TX will now be partnering with, Wilks funded propaganda outlet, Prager U, to develop core curriculum.
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TX is being slow-walked into Christian nationalist rule.
If in the end, 📚 are banned, LGBTQ ppl are 2nd class, chaplains are voted in, reproductive rights are permanently lost etc, it doesn’t matter if it was done in a moderate, palatable fashion…CNs & dominionists still win.
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@KellyO
@repjohnlewis
Honestly, it might be best if Trump and his circle just kept quiet. There’s nothing he could say that any of would believe is genuine or true. The focus is John Lewis. We should keep it that way.
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Abbott obviously carries immense liability here. But he isn’t conducting this atrocity alone. Not a single TX Republican lawmaker has rebuked it. A company created and made $ on the contrivance. It takes a system of ppl to implement it. This is a heinous ideology many ppl embrace
Texas Gov Abbott has installed circular saws between the Rio Grande border buoys to maim or kill anyone who attempts to climb over. Two bodies have already been found trapped in the floating barrier.
He wants more migrants to die.
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I just listened to a ludicrous story that a TX lawmaker shared claiming a TX school district purposely and secretly transitioned a student from one gender identity to another. It is BEYOND comprehension the fabrication and fear-mongering these ppl will go to to destroy public ed.
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Listening to the debate on SB 1515 in the Texas Senate today is another reminder that the Texas Republican Party has been devoured by Christian nationalists. Senator Phil King said separation of church and state is not true. Please stop voting for Republicans.
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One more “just in case” tweet for y’all.
No one is coming to sue us out of this Christian nationalist mess. The courts aren’t in our favor in places like TX. The ONLY way we save our democracy is to vote these people out. There isn’t a cavalry coming to save us. It’s up to us.
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Seems to me churches that cover up crimes for their pastors and elders, at the very least, ought to lose their tax exempt status.
If they’re allowed to make their own rules abt who’s accountable under the eyes of the law, and harbor abusers, they shouldn’t get to do it tax free.
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All Texas House Republicans voted against a $10,000 pay raise - even though TX has a very large surplus.
They don’t broadly crusade for public ed in a way that would retain and attract educators. A handful of them have just kept it from going completely under. Bare minimum.
Teacher salaries in Texas are more than $7,700 lower than the national average, new data shows.
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The TX GOP knows this isn’t true. They don’t say this abt police, parks, or firefighting. But they’re counting on an uninformed public, and expecting a lack of critical thinking abt their claim. They’re using this as a way to rile up their base.
Pls stop voting for Republicans.
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@bradpritchett
No, it isn’t sad. She has enabled him. She has chosen to take up for him. She drove a get away car to help him avoid being served. She could be on the side of truth, but instead she posts Bible verses every day in hopes of gaslighting the public as to what kind of person she is.
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Evangelical purity culture making girls feel shamed and responsible for grown men’s sexual desires, child beauty pageants, kids menus at Hooters…and that’s just barely scraping the surface. That’s how kids have been sexualized in this country.
These ppl can f**k off.
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We’re tired of gun murders; we’re tired of lgbtq hate; we’re tired of having rights stolen; we’re tired of voter suppression; we’re tired of hypocritical morality police; we’re tired of Christian nationalism.
We’ve begged and pleaded for rational policy. Vote the GOP out.
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This video has a lot of value. I’ve had several millennials/Gen Zs tell me they don’t love party labels. But this very much describes why they align w/ the D Party and platform. They don’t care abt party labels, but they do care abt what makes the parties so vastly different.
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It’s genuinely sad that TX Republicans assume Texans are dumb and gullible. If they didn’t assume that, they wouldn’t make up this BS.
We quite literally just watched Texas Republicans, with billions in state surplus, take a hard pass on properly funding public education.
The out-of-touch
#Biden
administration wants to gut Texas education funding.
Oil & gas is far too important to our economy and our students.
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It’s been said many times, but we can finally see how Hitler’s Germany came to pass. My whole life, it was hard for me to understand how it could have happened…but not anymore. Too few people failed to act until it was too late, and too many people were willing to go along.
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@medenix
@BudKennedy
Totally acceptable expectation for the VP. It’s also a totally acceptable expectation not to have them in classrooms, movie theaters, grocery stores, churches, malls...etc. etc.
I want for my children what the Vice President wants for himself during his speech.
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These people have the most bizarre fixation with cosplay paintings/renderings of themselves.
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This is Dan McClellan, a religious scholar. If you’re not familiar w/ him, please look him up. What he’s communicating here is important. It was a tad too long, so I’ll add the last bit as a 🧵. 1/
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@hersheydenise1
@aschmitt0506
@tedcruz
@BetoORourke
Voting for Beto is a vote 2 reduce abortions. He is interested in being pro-active by implementing policy that will make circumstances better 4 women giving them alternatives to feeling that they have to end a pregnancy-but also protecting a woman’s right 2 govern her own body.2)
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Mexico just elected a woman who is progressive and a climate scientist as their president. And, in Mexico, abortion care is legal.
Looking at you, America.
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@hersheydenise1
@aschmitt0506
@tedcruz
@BetoORourke
Actually, no.
1. I’m voting person, not party.
2. Voting
@betooroark
is voting for the best interest for the future all of Texans. 1)
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The consequences of Christian nationalism are on full display in Texas law today.
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There’s never been anyone as preoccupied with what goes on in other people’s private lives/bedrooms than evangelical, Christian conservatives. They harass people and put them in danger because of their crass obsession. It’s honest to God creepy as all get out.
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Reminder: extremist Republican policy only gets passed when “moderate” Rs vote for it. And they have, over and over again. Until we start holding those folks’ feet to the fire, the Overton window keeps shifting further right.
Pay attention to and hold the right ppl accountable.
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Let’s be clear abt the “sexualizing kids” drag ban hysteria. It’s not abt protecting kids. It’s discrimination. Here’s a new eatery in Fort Worth in the bar district. Notice the website says “21+ after 9pm”. They offer a full menu. Families w kids can be there prior to 9pm. 1/
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Can we at least make *election day* a national holiday before football? 🙄
DEBATE: Should Super Bowl Sunday become a national holiday?
WFAA's sports reporter Jonah Javad says, "If football is the most popular sport in America, it's only right to make Super Bowl Sunday a holiday." And, fans should have Monday off!
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Vouchers: “Their choice since 1954”
It’s about money, religious indoctrination and racism, y’all.
.
@SenRoyceWest
: "What is in this bill to stop private schools from being racist within the voucher program and with taxpayer dollars?"
@CreightonForTX
: "Well, it's up to parents to decide whether or not they want their kid in an all-white school."
#txlege
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Granbury ISD students raised over $2,000 for the Freedom To Read Foundation. The kids are alright!
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1. Yes, we are moving. We are leaving Granbury and won’t ever look back. Besides Chris’s commute, this small-minded viciousness is a large reason why we are leaving. We’ve watched the hatefulness bubble in Hood County - homophobia, racism and Christian nationalism.
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@hersheydenise1
@aschmitt0506
@tedcruz
@BetoORourke
Voting for Beto means voting for a candidate who supports public education, as well as proper funding for our public schools. You know, actually caring about the futures of all those kids who are born. 3)
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It is a huge mistake to think that the public school voucher fight is separate from all the other authoritarian, democracy busting, far-right policies that Republicans are pushing (anti-LGBTQ, book banning, anti-immigrant, anti-woman etc). It all goes hand-in-hand. 1/
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Waking up this morning still gobsmacked that Texas House members voted to BAN BOOKS because they’re deemed too dangerous, yet they’ve not done a damn thing to protect kids from being slaughtered by guns. F’ing amazing.
#ChriatianNationism
#ReadBannedBooks
#GunSenseNow
#txlege
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Would you call it bribery or extortion?
.
@GovAbbott
: "Once ESAs are passed, I will put on the legislative call the full funding for public education, including teacher pay raises."
#txlege
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Greg Abbott just said he wants vouchers. A system that has failed time and again. It’s rooted in segregation and will take us right back there.
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Y’all, Republicans in Texas are hellbent on turning this state into a Christian nationalist theocracy. And it’s Republicans in both the Senate and House. Don’t think that because a House member votes for their rural public school they aren’t helping usher this in. They are.
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TX Republican leaders are fighting, and I know it’s easy to pick a team and get wrapped up in the drama of it, but I hope everyone keeps it top of mind that Republicans in both chambers spent this entire session passing extremely harmful laws, taking away rights and marginalizing
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Once again, Beto calls for abolishing the STAAR Test at his rally in Fort Worth. Yes, please!
#BetoForGovernor
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65,000 rape pregnancies nationally
26,000 + rape pregnancies in TX alone
Those numbers equate to violent men
Republicans never want to talk about that though
They’ve spent decades shaming, vilifying and telling their voters that women are monsters because of abortion care
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Public schools are indoctrinating kids? Well, Patriot Academy is opening a campus in Fredericksburg, TX, to do just that. They’ve also made promotional videos. Take a look at the tweet below.
#ChristianNationalism
#Texas
#txlege
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It’s pretty ironic to watch Republicans, who attack LGBTQ ppl, ban books, perpetuate CTR fearmonging etc, say there’s no place in the Republican Party for hate, as they’re responding to the story of Stickland et al. meeting w/ Fuentes.
Hoo boy, there’s some serious disconnect.
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Vouchers don’t shut down a district overnight. Vouchers slow-bleed public schools to death.
Fly-by-night private schools will come out of the woodwork. And, charter schools, like the one Sid’s wife started in Erath Co, could reincarnate to private to take advantage of public $.
22 states have passed school choice. Not a single public school has been closed down as a result. The anti-choice crowd lies because the facts are not on their side.
#SchoolChoice
#txlege
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Things I wish had happened in Texas…
Organize the shit out of urban areas and young people
Stop chasing a rural vote that is never going to turn
But MOST importantly…get damn serious about Christian nationalism
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Off to the first day of school Jr. year 2020.
#FirstDayOfSchool
#JuniorYear
#SchoolDuringCovid
#LearningOnline
#StrangeTimes
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Let me clarify…it’s not that I don’t understand the logistics/technicality for the rejection…it’s the anti-intellectual quality of the rejection. It’s the anti-common good mindset that enough Americans embrace - which is the real obstacle - that I’ll never understand.
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Regardless of how TX Republicans vote today, please remember, ALL Republican lawmakers in both chambers have repeatedly voted to strip rights from and harm countless Texans. They aren’t heroes or victims. I hope that people don’t get caught up in lionizing any of them.
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@hersheydenise1
@aschmitt0506
@tedcruz
@BetoORourke
Voting for Beto means voting for a candidate who embodies empathy, compassion and supports dreamers. Because he recognizes that dreamers are human beings and a vital part of the fabric and success of our state. 4)
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@Mike_Hixenbaugh
God didn’t stop the mass shooting at a private Christian school because the 10 commandments weren’t displayed in public school classrooms? 🤔
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Had to take K to get a final vaccine before college. Saw the doc she has seen for years. He asks about her college plans. When she says she’s going to NYC, he tells her not to come back a liberal. How is that appropriate? Can’t escape the right-wing bias in Granbury.
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Short🧵
School Boards across TX are beginning to debate and vote on whether to allow chaplains into their districts (SB763).
Before your board votes, be sure they consider the amendments that were rejected, and the goals of the chaplain group who pushed the bill. 1)
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It’s not ok to say you support public schools, but then marginalize and harm public school students by supporting anti-lgbtq policy, advancing false CRT hysteria, and banning books.
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Covenant Eyes, which Johnson mentions, was the software Josh Duggar used to be held “accountable”.
He went around the software and is now in prison.
Fact is, there is a culture of predatory behavior, concealment and shame deeply embedded in the evangelical Christian community.
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022
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