In case you needed a reminder about “pro-life” presidents:
Reagan made 3 SCOTUS appointments…2 of them voted to uphold Roe.
Bush 41 made two appointments, one of them voted to uphold Roe.
Bush 43 made two appointments, one of them voted to uphold Roe (it would’ve been two
America owes
@KenPaxtonTX
a debt of gratitude for ending the Bush political dynasty.
Bushism represents everything that was wrong with the pre-Trump GOP, everything that I got into politics to fight against: globalism, establishment elitism, open borders.
#txlege
After watching these self-styled whistleblowers reduced to incoherent fools the first time they’re questioned by a competent attorney, I’ve concluded Paxton’s real crime was hiring these people in the first place. 1/2
#txlege
#PaxtonImpeachment
.
@CoveyTX
accomplished more in losing than most candidates do by winning.
1) He forced the Austin swamp to exhaust a fortune in HD21, diverting resources from other races.
2) He made it extremely difficult for Phelan to hold on as speaker
3) Phelan relying on Dems for
The Texas House just gave the Democrats their biggest political win in Texas in three decades and voted to nullify the votes of nearly 4.3 million Texans.
#txlege
Anyone can look bad while being cross-examined, but Paxton haters pitched Mateer as the most brilliant and principled conservative legal mind of our generation…his testimony was pretty underwhelming, even shifty & evasive.
#txlege
The Paxton-haters have a HUGE credibility gap:
There’s always been a small but influential faction in the GOP (esp among the Austin political class) for whom hating
@KenPaxtonTX
is their reason for living
1/7
#txlege
#PaxtonImpeachment
Never forget: the folks who lecture us about “party unity” and “not eating our own” spent the last 5 months trying to overthrow Texas’ elected GOP attorney general…all because he wasn’t “their kind” of Republican
#txlege
For Republicans to win 3/5 of the Houston At-Large City Council seats (elected citywide) in a city that is at least 60-40 Democrat is a political earthquake.
Congratulations to Julian Ramirez, Willie Davis and Twila Carter!
Together with Mary Nan Huffman( District G), Amy
With all precincts in,
@HarrisCountyRP
endorsed Julian Ramirez won the Houston City Council At-Large 1 race by 338 votes.
In a 60-40 Democrat city, Republicans won 3 of the 4 at-large (i.e. citywide) runoffs last night.
Huge wins for Houston conservatives!
So we’ll endure another couple weeks of this melodrama and Paxton will be acquitted. Not that it will discourage one bit those who have invested a decade’s worth of mental and emotional energy hating Paxton.
7/7
Early vote indicates the three conservatives endorsed by
@TexasGOP
and
@HarrisCountyRP
swept the school board races in Katy ISD, the 5th largest school district in Texas.
Congratulations to Amy Thieme, Morgan Calhoun, & Mary Ellen Cuzela!
#LocalElectionsMatter
One of Trump’s greatest achievements is exposing the extent to which the professional GOP apparatus - staff, consultants, lobbyists, etc. - is infested with people who fundamentally hate their own voters.
Many of them privately see GOP voters as contemptible people to be mocked
It’s amazing how many high-ranking staffers to the former Republican president and nominees are on this list. Reveals how hostile they always were toward actually implementing conservative policy instead of just using it for campaign talking points.
The
@KenPaxtonTX
impeachment is the revenge of the Never Trumpers - supported by same tiny faction that supported Trump’s impeachment, and for largely the same reasons.
Republicans will reject the Never Trump impeachers just as they rejected Cheney, Kinzinger, etc
#txlege
On Bastille Day, a reminder that the French Revolution was a wicked, godless, blood-soaked catastrophe for Christian civilization.
It unleashed a whirlwind of totalitarianism, secularism, radical egalitarianism, and other destructive ideologies that still plague the West. 1/2
Okay, the Paxton-haters told us, the indictments are coming and then you’ll see! The evidence will be undeniable! Their bloodlust was comparable to lefties who fantasize about Trump in jail. During the 2022 primary & runoff, we were REPEATEDLY told by the Paxton-haters
4/7
Murphy Nasica’s biggest clients are taking a beating tonight.
Jill Dutton lost. Glenn Rogers lost. Steve Allison lost.
Dade Phelan, Justin Holland and Frederick Frazier all headed to runoffs.
Voters just aren’t buying what those overpriced Austin swamp consultants are
My favorite change to the 2024
@TexasGOP
Platform - it now includes an immigration moratorium.
Hats off to the Platform Committee - they finally achieved what I first attempted (unsuccessfully) in 2018.
The Platform also calls for reevaluating our membership in NATO and for
@JohnCornyn
@SenTedCruz
Why didn’t you block Ukraine $$ until Schumer agrees to a vote for HR 2? Your words are meaningless when you give Ukraine a blank check and give up any bargaining leverage you might have had.
No matter how they spin it, this week didn’t go the way impeachment supporters thought it would.
Not surprisingly, a case put together by politicians who “practice law” by getting hired by
#txlege
special interests is falling apart when subjected to scrutiny.
For those not following the
@KenPaxtonTX
impeachment trial and want to know how it’s going, the main talking points from impeachment supporters are:
1. They don’t need to prove Paxton committed a crime, and
2. You don’t need evidence of a crime to report one.
Conservatives endorsed by the
@TexasGOP
&
@HarrisCountyRP
won both seats up in Spring Branch ISD.
Congratulations to Courtney Anderson & Shannon Mahan!
Spring Branch ISD is a model of parents organizing to take back their schools!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then they call a special session to address your priorities and claim that was their plan all along.
#txlege
Watching elected officials who killed border security, medical freedom, and school choice bills last session brag about passing them in special session… is… just glorious.
Texans, never believe your voice doesn’t matter.
Get louder!
#winning
#txlege
@MichaelBerrySho
That SJL wants to leave her cozy life in Congress (where’s she’s not actually responsible for doing anything) to become mayor of Houston (CEO of America’s 4th largest city) tells you one thing:
The graft potential at City Hall is massive. This is SJL’s retirement package - she
The developer of America’s largest illegal alien settlement is a 7-figure donor to Abbott.
Dick Weekly & TLR donors, BY FAR the biggest $$ players in Texas politics, built their fortunes on cheap illegal alien labor.
This is why we get toy buoys instead of E-Verify
#txlege
But what about Trey Harris, the developer behind Colony Ridge?
Harris is a big political donor, giving $1.4 million to Gov. Abbott's campaign while his wife gave another $100k.
For a Republican legislature to give committee chairmanships to Democrats is so impossible to defend on any conservative policy or political grounds that
#txlege
Phelanistas have to twist themselves into the most ridiculous contortions, contradictions and deflections.
1) The
I hope everyone sees
@sbwnhtx
’s presentation of the
@TexasGOP
censure of
@DadePhelan
at today’s SREC meeting - it was thorough, convincing, unassailable, perfect.
It erases any doubt about the case against Phelan.
Censuring a GOP elected official under Rule 44 is a very
The following members of the
@TexasGOP
SREC (constituting a majority of the body) have signed the statement below demanding the immediate resignation (or removal) of
@BryanforHD2
#txlege
finally scrutinizes the “whistleblower” allegations, there’s less there than meets the eye. Another overhyped allegation.
But Paxton-haters have spent the last decade hysterically pursuing Paxton, they’re all in and admit defeat now.
6/7
.
@JusticeLehrmann
is a disgrace.
She’s the only
@SupremeCourt_TX
justice who dissented from the decision upholding the Texas ban child gender modification.
Presumably she’s not running for re-election, because she’ll never get elected to anything ever again.
FYI - she was
that the Biden DOJ had all the goods on Paxton was waiting for the general election to drop the indictment. We were told if we renominated Paxton we would hand Dems the AG race. The 2022 general came & went and no indictment.
So not surprisingly, when the impeachment trial
5/7
.
@DadePhelan
protects the Democrats in Austin and they protect him in the district. If I had to rely on Democrats to win a Republican Primary, I wouldn’t run. Having to count on Democrats to win a Republican Primary is selling out the GOP, just like he does in Austin every day.
It’s been that way since he dared to defeat the establishment pick in the 2014 AG primary. Fine, every GOP faction has its own favorites & villains. But this clique (along with with Dems) seized on the securities fraud case to scream “felon” and “criminal” at every turn.
2/7
Jay Saad & Cathie Alexander - both endorsed by the
@CollinGOP
- won their runoffs for Collin College trustee.
Congrats to both and to the awesome conservative grassroots warriors in Collin who understand there’s no such as a “nonpartisan” election.
#LocalElectionsMatter
Keep on eye on
@JaceYarbrough
, he might one day be the JD Vance of Texas.
State senate districts are bigger than congressional districts, and despite a massive disadvantage in money and endorsements, Jace’s grassroots primary campaign gave the Austin swamp critters the fight of
“whistleblower” story broke. ‘This time we’ve got him!’ the Paxton haters thought. They assured us that, unlike the trumped up securities case, THIS was real corruption! But Paxton denied the “whistleblower” allegations, he didn’t resign, voters yawned and nothing happened.
3/7
Upon closer inspection, the case was a TOTAL NOTHINGBURGER, yet even as voters largely ignored it this faction doubled down and became ever more hysterical in their Paxton hatred - all because he wasn’t THEIR kind of Republican.
Fast forward to fall 2020 when the
2/7
@RepDanCrenshaw
Thank you making an unassailable case for the border wall and demolishing open border arguments! Proud to be represented by Rep. Crenshaw!
Tony Buzbee outspent
@marynanhuffman
nearly 4-1 in the first round of the Houston City Council District G election and spent about $40 per vote.
Considering the $15 million Buzbee spent on his unsuccessful 2019 mayoral campaign and the notoriety he gained from the impeachment
Kevin McCarthy to Mike Johnson is a massive upgrade for conservatives - pretty much the best-case Speaker scenario we could’ve hoped for.
@mattgaetz
’s move was a master stroke. All the haters and naysayers were wrong.
.
@justinaholland
’s biggest problem is self-inflicted: the asshole factor.
It seems Murphy Masica consultants forgot to tell their client to at least try to hide his sneering contempt for grassroots volunteers.
Not being an asshole to your precinct chairs and activists goes a
NEW: Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
endorses
@KatrinaPierson
for House District 33
“I am proud to support Katrina, who stands with the majority of Texans in supporting education freedom for every Texas family,” – Gov. Abbott
More here:
.
@TonyBuzbee2
I may not be rich, but in the 2019 mayoral runoff, I printed (at my own expense) another batch of my Dear Neighbor endorsement letter and hit Republican and Republican-leaning doors in my precinct on your behalf.
I even mailed (also at my own expense) the letter
@rdgarcia03
@marynanhuffman
You are a loser and a liar. I didn’t spend $15 million. Don’t be jealous because you are poor. You claim to be a Republican. Work harder.
Lamest damage control ever - not even an explanation/apology for inviting Nick Fuentes.
@RepStickland
has to go. He hosted a notorious anti-Semite whose views are abhorrent both to Stickland’s benefactors and his clients. And if he doesn’t go he should be shoved out.
#txlege
On the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision, worth remembering:
Samuel Alito, who authored the opinion overturning Roe, was the SECOND choice of Bush 43 to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.
Bush initially nominated the moderate Harriet Miers, who withdrew from consideration
I strongly supported
@KenPaxtonTX
against P in the runoff, but…Paxton is not the best arbiter of politicians’ moral probity.
I can’t believe I’m defending Phelan, but it’s SICKENING watching those who were silent on Slaton suddenly clutch their pearls and feign outrage
.
@DavidWLuther
- president of the Texas Republican County Chairs Association
@TXRepCoChairs
- is now trying to backtrack from his appalling and shocking defense of child gender transitioning.
Don’t let him get away with such a monstrous lie.
1)
@JusticeLehrmann
was the only
Well I guess I started a firestorm. Oh well. First, I never said I disagreed with the ruling. I commented that Justice Lehrmann had the guts to dissent. She could have safely joined the majority But she chose to speak her mind. I respect that considering the politics.
The Vegas casino mafia is are one of the most vile and pernicious forces in Texas politics.
Don’t be fooled - what they call “destination resorts” are just slot machine emporiums that bring crime, human trafficking, addiction, prostitution, thuggery and political corruption
Now that
@BryanforHD2
has resigned, several
@TexasGOP
leaders who explicitly REFUSED to sign a statement of condemnation yesterday will now claim they were on board all along.
No. They vociferously argued against RPT issuing a statement until AFTER the House voted to expel.
Politics is full of third-rate people who want to be appreciated as first rate people, and Paxton packed the upper echelon of his office with them.
Foolish, but not an impeachable offense.
The
@TexasGOP
Legislative Priority vote totals show ax the property tax, school choice and abolish abortion just narrowly missed the cut, all receiving at least 77% support.
The 8 legislative priorities are a starting point - not the sum total of the party’s policy agenda.
If the
#txlege
tried to avoid a recorded vote on a hotly debated issue, SRECs would scream bloody murder - and they’d be right.
Yet a few SRECs lost their shit over having to go on record with this vote.
But it was a recorded vote, and like all SREC recorded votes will be
Early vote totals put all three candidates in Pasadena ISD endorsed by the
@TexasGOP
and
@HarrisCountyRP
comfortably ahead.
Congratulations to Kenny Fernandez, Marshall Kendrick & Vickie Morgan!
#LocalElectionsMatter
Following the
@TexasGOP
censure of
@DadePhelan
, all the usual suspects (swampy
#txlege
political operatives) took to Twitter to scorn grassroots activists as crazy, stupid, irrelevant, unthinking dupes of
@TexasScorecard
, etc.
Keep in mind - a Rule 44 censure has to originate
There’s so many amazing patriots from across the state that I only see at the
@TexasGOP
convention, and there’s never enough time to visit.
But just seeing these folks in person is a powerful reminder there are so many grassroots activists fighting for our principles and making
A friend brought me this sign from the national GOP convention.
Seeing delegates wave these was one of the most inspiring moments of the convention. You would never have seen these signs at a national GOP convention under Bush, McCain, Romney, etc.
One of the reasons I got
@TFRW
TFRW should support the
@TexasGOP
Legislative Priorities & Platform - which were developed in a transparent, bottom-up process and approved by thousands of grassroots convention delegates - and not a watered-down version cooked up by a few lobbyists behind closed doors.
Crow, Nau, et al…the same establishment donors that fund the
@TLRPAC
/
@ARTxPAC
/
@DadePhelan
Austin blob are supporting Nikki Haley.
Haley has no chance of beating Trump, but perhaps the Austin blob knows that she will draw Democrats to the GOP primary to help their
#txlege
NEW —
@NikkiHaley
is returning to Texas to raise money next month, per invites seen by
@PuckNews
.
Houston and Dallas on February 15.
San Antonio on February 16.
Early vote shows
@kanthonyscott
and
@EMccrutche90037
- both endorsed by the
@HarrisCountyRP
and
@TexasGOP
- with decisive leads in their races for Harris County Appraisal District board.
Congratulations to both - they rolled up their sleeves and earned this win!
There’s no
72% of Texas GOP primary voters have never heard of Dade Phelan or don’t know enough to have an opinion.
Good reminder: Twitter isn’t real life. Talk to real voters.
#txlege
Following yesterday's
#txlege
events,
@CWS_Research
/
@DefendTXLiberty
out with new polling on Paxton/Phelan/impeachment.
Paxton:
Fav-49%
Unfav-33%
No opin/never heard-18% (lowest of those polled)
Phelan:
Fav-10%
Unfav-18%
No opin/never heard-72% (highest of those polled)
Greg Abbott is 💯 right.
See the text of his remarks below. He doesn’t even suggest banning anyone from teaching, just not allowing them to play dress up in the classroom.
It’s astonishing that this is even considered controversial.
“Just up the street from where we are
Here's the audio of when Texas Governor Greg Abbott suggested he wants to ban trans and gender nonconforming people from being public school teachers in Texas.
In a city that probably 60-40 Democrat, three
@HarrisCountyRP
endorsed Republican Houston city candidates - Mary Nan Huffman in District G, Willie Davis in At-Large
#2
and Twila Carter in At-Large
#3
- have won.
Another HCRP endorsed candidate - Julian Ramirez in At-Large 1 -
Republicans - not Democrats - should choose Republican nominees.
This is such an obvious proposition that the only people who would oppose this are those who BENEFIT from Democrats infiltrating GOP primaries.
So watch carefully who opposes closed primaries.
#txlege
In 2022, Texas Dems tried so hard to create a “Republicans for Beto” buzz.
We were inundated with “I’m a lifelong Republican but I’m voting for Beto” anecdotes and social media posts.
Abbott beat Beto by 11 points.
“Republicans for Harris” is even faker than “Republicans
There’s a certain type of establishment R that lives to hate
@KenPaxtonTX
and is giddy about impeachment.
And there’s a certain type of establishment R that loves to lecture conservatives about not “eating our own”…the Venn diagram of these two groups is a circle.
#txlege
In less than 2 minutes you will see what's wrong with the Texas House.
Andrew Murr says he wouldn't do anything differently, then turns the microphone over to one of the most radical D's in his chamber to lambast Republicans.
#txlege
I’m honored to be endorsed by the
@LIBREinitiative
an organization dedicated to empowering the Hispanic community and advancing freedom-minded policies. Thank you for your support!
#txlege
#HD133
The campaign managers for GOP presidential nominees of 2004, ‘08 and ‘12 all became pro-Biden Never Trumpers.
It can’t be overstated the extent to which the professional GOP apparatus - staff, consultants, lobbyists, etc. - is riddled with people who hate their own voters. 1/4
Closed primaries will be on the
@TexasGOP
primary ballot in March.
The % that vote against it will give us an idea of just how many Democrats are voting in our primaries.
#txlege
“BuT ToM!!! wE dOnT nEeD cLoSeD pRiMaRiEs iN TeXaS!!” - Purple Haired Progressive Liberals & fake Republicans scream this exact phrase in unison any time Closed Primaries is mentioned.
Time to make Closed Primaries a TOP 8
@TexasGOP
Priority!
Register by party 1 year prior💥
We’re NEVER going back to the Bush/Romney/McCain GOP of open borders globalism, endless wars abroad, and cultural surrender at home.
The GOP is now the America First party 🇺🇸🇺🇸
It was an astounding act of hubris,
@DadePhelan
thought impeachment would not only be the ultimate political flex, but that the process itself would destroy
@KenPaxtonTX
even if he wasn’t convicted.
But Paxton emerged politically stronger than ever.
And Phelan - master of all
Inbox:
@ShelbySlawson
with an op-ed on the 1-year anniversary of
@KenPaxtonTX
’s impeachment in the
#txlege
House.
“Whatever the House has learned from impeachment it should, at a minimum, be this: The architects of impeachment lit the House on fire, and regardless of what
.
@brentmoney
is the first
#txlege
candidate I’ve seen to make this obvious but overlooked point - for this alone he should be elected.
Per-student public school spending (adjusted for inflation) in Texas has increased 160% during the past 50 years. Has the quality of education
When will our schools be “fully funded”? Is there an objective measure for this that we can strive for? The inflation-adjusted cost to educate a Texas student has increased 160% since 1970, without improved educational outcomes. What is the end game for the “fully funders”?
I saw it happen in Texas’s House District 70, where public employees and other interests on the left’s backed Jamee Jolly for the GOP nomination and encouraged their people to vote in our primary, then backed Mihaela Plesa in the general election.
#txlege
#ClosedPrimaries
Non-binding policy propositions on the March 1
@TexasGOP
primary ballot…Prop 1 was essentially
@DonHuffines
border security proposal and got 92%…another Huffines proposal, eliminating property taxes, got 75%…Huffines’ bold ideas won big
.
@DanPatrick
is an old man in a hurry.
He made a rushed, ill-considered endorsement in SD30 after the Pat Fallon deal fell through. It happens - poor vetting, bad advice from a consultant, etc.
But Dan Patrick can’t just admit endorsing Brent Hagenbuch was a mistake. His
I have a better idea -
@DanPatrick
can explain to the thousands of
@TexasGOP
delegates who supported the elimination of M&O property taxes why he thinks our party platform is a fantasy
#txlege
I propose a new
@TexasGOP
rule: phone numbers not included when people request a convention delegate list.
I get that candidates for party office need a way to communicate with delegates, and email doesn’t bother me as much.
But texting for this convention has gotten way out
I wonder if Phelan & Co. are counting on Nikki Haley to draw Democrats into the GOP primary?
This must be the last cycle we allow non-Republicans to vote in the Republican primary.
#txlege
Based on the early vote, 3 of the 4 conservatives endorsed by the
@HarrisCountyRP
&
@TexasGOP
in Cy-Fair ISD (3rd largest school district in Texas) are leading.
The 4th - George Edwards - had to contend with a spoiler candidate siphoning conservative votes. We’ll see if he can
Orange Co. comprises 45% of the district (38% in Jefferson, 17% in Jasper).
For 14 of 20 Orange PCs to censure
@DadePhelan
is big. Speaking from personal experience, it’s NOT easy to get local PCs to censure *their* state rep. 1/2
Block walked today in west Houston with
@sbwnhtx
and an awesome team of grassroots warriors for
@Perez4Texas
One thing was loud and clear at the doors - Republicans want a strong conservative, NOT a mushy moderate who empowers Democrats.
#HD133
is a key battleground in
This is where the magic starts every weekend -
@PecanCreekHou
! It was great to meet SREC members and supporters
@rdgarcia03
and Scott Bowen in person! Their support and the support of all Team Perez volunteers are humbling and absolute jet fuel to my engine! Everyone keeps asking
"Hi - I'm a Republican running in a Biden +40 district, and if the GOP doesn't fully fund and support my vanity campaign it's because they're corrupt establishment RINOs who want Democrats to win."
I see this attitude way too much. I really appreciate candidates who run in deep
Some of those who excuse their RINO tendencies with the "local representation" line lost on Tuesday.
As it turns out, they were not actually representing their
#txlege
districts.
Representing a few superintendents and mayors is not representing your district. Voters don't
With early and absentee vote in,
@marynanhuffman
leads Buzbee 56-44 in the Houston City Council District G race.
Buzbee spent $1 million (outspending Huffman 3-1). Buzbee spent $15 million in 2019 to get blown away by Sylvester Turner.
@TexasGOP
and
@HarrisCountyRP
endorsed
Republican voters overwhelmingly want mandatory E-Verify.
Will
#txlege
Republicans finally deliver on the single, fastest, most effective step we can do at the state level to turn off the biggest magnet of illegal immigration?
Or will they continue to do the bidding of the TLR
While a few of the bitter-enders are still in the bunker muttering “most conservative session ever” others are making a separate peace and accommodating themselves to a new order in the Texas House.
In 2025 we’re going to see the governor, Senate, House and
@TexasGOP
more
Everyone in Austin knows Nate is coming back with a lot of friends and that Dade and his top cardinals will not be able to shut down the conservative voices in their caucus.
Dade is done, and it’s just a matter of whether he will replaced by a carbon copy or a reformer.
#txlege
Want to know why Texas hasn’t secured its border? THIS is why.
Dick Weekley/TLR is the nexus of the corporate cheap labor lobby and BY FAR the biggest $$ player in Texas GOP politics.
Their business models depend on an endless supply of cheap foreign labor.
#txlege
.
@TLRPAC
sitting on $33M after latest TEC report — $10M more cash on hand than even Abbott has. (Yes, Abbott's replenishing after his reelect, but it still goes to show how there are few parallels)
#txlege
Censuring
@RepTonyGonzales
was one of the best things
@TexasGOP
did this term.
Tony G has built a whole brand around going on liberal media outlets to call other Republicans racist. Despicable.
This is such BS and so pathetic, especially from a fellow veteran. To insinuate that other members are klansmen because they call you out for being a complete and total Rhino. Wasn’t one of our core values Honor
@TonyGonzales4TX
? Hey Brandon, add me to your list of endorsements.
There are political operatives in this state who earn a paycheck every week to convince you that killing school choice, killing the border protection force, appointing Democrat committee chairs and impeaching Ken Paxton makes Dade Phelan the most conservative speaker ever and