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Stop telling our kids to be plumbers, welders, and hvac techs. Let them have all the choices we had.
Texas and America are being plundered.
The University of Texas reserves 90% of freshman admissions for Texas residents. But “Texas resident” does NOT mean American citizen.
Under current rules, children of foreign workers on certain temporary visas can qualify for those same seats after their parents establish just 12 months of Texas residency.
As Texans, we fund our public universities. The children of Texas parents who have spent their adult lives paying Texas taxes should receive first priority for admission.
Our children’s futures should come first.
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This is far beyond what a police action can tackle, and there is no national will to shoot them.
The #1 mistake that governments make in low intensity conflict, by far, it’s not even close, is waiting too long to act.
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Texas Railroad Commission Candidate's Social Media Activity Raises Questions.
A Dallas Express review found that Democratic candidate Jon Rosenthal follows accounts featuring “transgender”-related content and links to adult subscription platforms, including one X account that posts sexually explicit videos.
Rosenthal did not respond to a request for comment.
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Yes, I contacted law enforcement. If Fran or I turn up dead, here's the 1st suspect. Let's make him famous.
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I made a list of 63 of U.S. Senate candidate James Talafreako's most insane and deranged statements.
Sourced and referenced.
1. "Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six" 2021-04-20, Texas House Public Education Committee
2. "God is non-binary." 2021-10-14, Texas House
3. "Our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign." 2022-02, Texas Humane Legislation Network fundraiser
4. "I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?" 2021-03-04, Activist Theology
5. "In context of abortion … God asks for Mary's consent … So, to me that is a an affirmation in one of our most central stories, that creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force someone to create." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
6. "Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X
7. "#AhmaudArbery is the latest American killed by the virus of racism. The virus kills our black neighbors if they’re jogging, playing music, sitting in church, selling CDs, or carrying a bag of Skittles... White skin gives me and every white American immunity from the virus. But we spread it wherever we go" 2020-05-08, Twitter
8. "Young activists have really drawn the link between climate change and white supremacy and capitalism in our country and I think only by understanding the ways that all three of those oppressive systems work together, are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum
9. "Restoration, repairing past harms, is part of my faith tradition. … it's exactly why we need … to invest in black communities, to invest in black Texans" 2026-07-20, DeSoto town hall
10. "I think the Confederate flag is a symbol of treason and terrorism, but the American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
11. "Defund the police is considered off limits in our political debate when defunding health services, defunding public education has been the stated policy of our state government for decades now." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
12. "Governor Abbott has filled this special session agenda with far right conspiracy theories about trans children causing problems on sports teams, which we know does not occur in the state of Texas" 2021-07-19, FOX 7 Austin
13. "Are districts getting, you know, almost hopefully near unanimous consent for students to learn about [sex education,] maybe the most important topic that they'll learn about in school?" 2022-07, Texas House Public Education Committee
14. "Every one of our neighbors with a uterus became the property of the state." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
15. "God is not a Christian." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
16. "So, this idea that to be a Christian means you have to be anti-gay and anti-abortion, there really is no historical, theological, biblical basis for that opinion." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
17. "Jesus is the prophetic voice in my own life, but it could be for you a different prophetic voice from a different faith tradition." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
18. "I oppose voter ID." 2021-07-13, Fox News Primetime
19. "Leasing federal property to abortion clinics on federal lands or in federal offices" 2022-06-24, Letter to President Biden
20. "Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist?" 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
21. "I don't want you in my school doing discipline." 2019-02, The Trey Blocker Show
22. "For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity, my own certainty, my own ego." 2019-09, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
23. "That [oil and gas] industry is not gonna last." 2020-09-01, Austin Sierra Club climate forum
24. "Our system of policing is deeply broken. We must replace it with something new and something better." 2020-09-02, Honest Austin
25. "The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage" 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
26. "I'm not an expert on this particular case, but I know that there were no Black members of the jury [in Anthony’s case]." 2026-08-05, The Breakfast Club
27. "Our office is the first in the history of the Capitol to add pronouns to our official business cards." 2021-03-31, Twitter/X
28. "If we took just half of what we spend on wars, prisons, and policing, and spent it on education, healthcare, and jobs, we could make prisons obsolete." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation
29. "Jesus came to transform the world. Christian nationalism is here to maintain the status quo. They have co-opted the son of God. They've turned this humble rabbi into a gun-toting, gay-bashing, science-denying, money-loving, fear-mongering fascist." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
30. "In Genesis, God creates life by breathing life into the first human being, which we later call Adam. That life starts when you take your first breath." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
31. "ICE executed a man in broad daylight on our streets just this morning. It's time to tear down this secret police force and replace it with an agency that actually is going to focus on public safety." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown
32. "I'm Season 2 [of Judaism, Christianity and Islam]—the most violent season. My religion has done more damage to both of those religions than they've done to each other." 2026-02-23, The New Yorker
33. "I think there are some folks … that would think that if you deny your child's gender identity that that's incredibly harmful. And whether or not we can—we label it with the term abuse, I mean, it's abusive for sure." 2019-04-03, Texas House Juvenile Justice & Family Issues Committee
34. "Our system, our public education system, particularly here in Texas is not built for poor students. It's not built for students of color." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
35. "I felt like I didn't have the time or space or training or resources to have the really important conversations with my students … I was trapped in a system that was focused purely on academics, reading, writing, arithmetic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
36. "Prison is violence." 2022-04-11, Ferguson prison graduation
37. "But inevitably we're going to spend hours hearing bills that are just kind of conspiracy theory, right, driven, and kind of kooky stuff." 2022-07-26, Texas House Public Education Committee
38. "I know personally that I've learned as much about my faith from Salman's tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers." 2023-09-16, The State of Belief
39. "God is a verb." 2023-10-22, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
40. "And again, I haven't studied this enough to say this definitively, but there are interpretations of certain passages from the Torah where some folks will even say that there is a, there is some subtle instructions for how to perform an abortion in the ancient world." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
41. "People who're like, "You're in seminary, you're studying to become a minister. Why wouldn't you want the Ten Commandments in every classroom?" … I said I thought the bill was un-Christian." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
42. "Incarnation, by the way, is not just limited to Jesus, it's everybody." 2025-07-18, The Joe Rogan Experience
43. "The Apostle Paul, in his letter to the Galatians, said that in Christ there is neither male nor female. And so, if someone's got a problem with that statement, they shouldn't take it up with me. They should take it up with the Apostle Paul." 2026-04-22, CNN The Lead
44. "An assault weapon ban, a large capacity magazine ban" 2020, Virtual voter meet-and-greet
45. "I don't care what taxes you have to raise, but you're not going to make our students and our teachers, you're not going to make the sick and the elderly pay for this pandemic." 2020-08-02, Texas Rising
46. "Platforms like YouTube, 4chan, and Parlor are radicalizing an entire generation of white boys." 2021-03-18, Twitter/X
47. "Trans children are God's children, made in God's own image. There's nothing wrong with them. Nothing at all. They are perfect. They are beautiful, and they are sacred." 2021-10-14, Texas House
48. "The only person to teach Jesus something was a woman. Even the son of God had something to learn from one of God's daughters." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
49. "We only have Jesus because a woman consented to creating him." 2022-10-02, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
50. "Resurrection is when we see Christ in everyone and everything." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
51. "Billions of people across the globe celebrate Passover, Easter, and Ramadan. We may use different lyrics, but we are singing the same hymn." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
52. "The current administration has grown the size of ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, except it's not people doing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. It is a secret police force that is terrorizing communities." 2025-12-14, Jubilee: Surrounded
53. "I will use every bit of financial and diplomatic leverage that this country has to end the atrocities in Palestine. … I will not use your tax dollars to fund these war crimes." 2025-12-19, Houston campaign town hall
54. "I would not vote to send any offensive weapons to Benjamin Netanyahu that he is currently using to slaughter children in Gaza." 2026-01-24, Texas AFL-CIO debate, Georgetown
55. "And I taught a lot of undocumented students. And those students tended to be my most patriotic students." 2026-03-19, The Bulwark Podcast, Dallas
56. "I think the Supreme Court needs to be overhauled. … I am open to a discussion about expanding the number of justices." 2026-09-09, Fox Special Report, Dallas
57. "The first thing is to elect candidates who recognize institutional racism and are committed to dismantling it." 2018, Reddit AMA
58. "As a Texas legislator, they’re also my constituents. Like so many immigrants throughout our history, undocumented Americans came to this country for the same simple reasons: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." 2019-07-12, Twitter
59. "This bill [SB 14, restricting gender-transition care for minors,] I think is the most dangerous bill that's being heard on this floor this session." 2023-05-12, Texas House
60. "Meet Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks—two billionaires from West Texas. … Their ultimate goal is even more ambitious: transforming Texas into an authoritarian, Christian Nationalist state." 2023-10-05, Twitter/X
61. "Jesus lost, and Trump is obsessed with winning. … And on Good Friday, Jesus lost his reputation, lost his ministry, lost his friends, lost his life." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
62. "Matthew 25 tells us how we will be judged and saved: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner. Nothing about being a Christian. Nothing about going to church. Nothing about reading the Bible." 2025-04-20, St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Austin
63. "It was a new state curriculum that would teach Christian Bible stories as historical fact, as the only truth to our youngest students, … And to push propaganda, to push indoctrination on those youngest students is deeply immoral and should trouble all of us." 2025-08-05, Faithfully (CAP Action / Interfaith Alliance)
True Texas Project retweeted
One of my all time favorite bar debates was discussing with @ChrisSacia how much damage we personally could have caused in the shortest amount of time at some point in our lives.
As a Navy vet, Chris surmised he could have caused tens of millions of dollars in damage by unharnessing the planes on a flight deck and letting them jostle against each other and into the ocean. That took the cake for those of us who were sitting around a table having a beer.
But I’m thinking now that @DadePhelan and his staff may take the all time prize, and it’s not just a hypothetical! This guy decided to impeach his own party’s sitting AG in four hours on Memorial Day weekend. With that four hours of incompetence, he has literally set hundreds of millions of dollars on fire!
Pure chaos. Literally more destruction of wealth than a bomb. It’s an historic achievement when you stop and think about it.
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Wanting your government to defend the existence of your people and protect them from hostile foreigners shouldn't be considered an extreme position.
Instead they've forced foreigners who don't like us and don't want to be like us into our neighborhoods, schools and work places.
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🚨 BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Ohio mental hospital CONFIRMS James Talarico was discharged from the facility earlier this week
The “flu” thing was a BIG FAT LIE
Following reporting by @SaraGonzalesTX and @CarolineWren, a hospital employee told @RheinAmacher and I that Talarico had in fact been a patient at the Lindner Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around-the-clock mental health treatment.
While I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises, this man is CLEARLY not suited to become a US Senator representing over 30 MILLION TEXANS.
The job doesn’t get easier after being elected — it only gets MORE stressful.
And Talarico clearly can’t handle it.
I pray he gets the help he needs, but Texans need a real representative they can rely on.
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Lindner Healing Center has refuted this
They have made a statement that James Talarico has never received treatment at Lindner Healing Center x.com/lindnerctrhope…
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What are the chances that a private plane took off from Austin and flew to tiny Hamilton airport in Ohio which is 20 mins from the Lindner Center, a private inpatient mental health treatment facility, and then turned around and flew back to Austin landing yesterday morning at 10:24am right before James Talarico magically reappears at the Austin City Limits music festival that afternoon? Lindner Center also happens to be the same facility that Talarico’s good friend and Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo spent 7 weeks in when she had a mental breakdown 3 years ago…
So many coincidences!
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Foreigners don’t have a right of access to the US
Both visitation and immigration are a privilege the people of the US can extend or deny for any reason
None of those reasons need justification, even if they offend your delicate sensibilities
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Back in 2017, I read a book called How Democracies Die. Despite being authored by two left wing professors, it's a very, very good book.
The book is about how (mostly) populist movements kill democratic systems. The overwhelming majority of the book covers how right wing movements topple democracies.
It's very well researched and cited, and I enjoyed reading it immensely.
But as I read through all the examples, I couldn't help but wonder: why in the world did these right wing movements wake up one day and decide to destroy these supposedly perfectly stable societies?
It just didn't make sense.
So after I finished the book, I made a list of ten examples in the book to research.
The first thing I found is that these right wing movements were reacting to something. That's why they're called reactionary movements. And what were they reacting to? Socialist or communist movements.
In EVERY SINGLE CASE*, the right wing movement arose in direct response to the rise of a violent socialist or communist movement.
It's an immune reaction.
In EVERY SINGLE CASE*, the socialist or communist movement had either already taken power or was threatening to and, in the latter cases, the right wing movements that took power simply beat the communists to the punch.
The Right took power before the communists did. That's it. That's literally all you need to know about why and how right wing movements take power.
That's how your vaunted democracies die. Not because right wingers wake up one day and, for no reason at all, decide to take power, but because the Far Left threatened to do it first.
What Joel Berry and James Lindsay and all the others should understand (if they don't already), is that if you want to stop the so-called "Woke Right" then the real enemy is the Woke Left.
There is no right wing immune response if there's no cancerous Far Left movement threatening to destroy their country.
There is no reactionary movement if there's nothing to react to.
Why, then, do they spend SO MUCH TIME antagonizing the populist right wing?
And why does Joel Berry keep posting these absolute dog shit takes that actually illustrate the point of his opposition? Is his IQ actually 300 instead of 30? Inquiring minds want to know.
(*One claimed exception is right-wing Imperial Japan, which did not start as an outgrowth of opposition to communism, but a reaction to the coercive influence of Western imperialism. Once the right-wing imperial system was adopted, Japan did suppress socialist and communist movement, and passed laws that effectively banned both. I don't believe Japan is an exception, but some ACKSHUALLY reply guy might bring it up, and here's your sign.)
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8.7 million.
In 9 years.
Straight up treason.
8.7 million non-immigrant visas were issued to Indian nationals from March 2017 to Feb 2026.
A non-immigrant visa is temporary permission to come to America for a limited time- to work, study, or visit - and then return home.
8,704,481 of those visas were issued, according to the State Department.
How many do you think actually returned home?
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UNEARTHED AUDIO: Democrat Railroad Commission candidate Jon Rosenthal said he would be “pretty cool” getting naked at an LGBT parade if he were in better shape.
Rosenthal later served as an "Ally Grand Marshal" at a Pride event featuring children’s programming.
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The violence in France will happen in Britain because nobody has the balls to acknowledge the truth that we are already at war and do what’s needed.
Shoot the rioters dead. Ignore the judges, tear up all ‘human rights’ legislation and treaties, and start mass deportations at gunpoint back to their native shitholes, whether they were born here or not.
If any country refuses to take them, put them in concentration camps on bread and water until they choose to leave. Cancel all foreign aid and all visas from those countries forever, and confiscate all their assets.
This is the moderate position.
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To the forgotten young men of Texas and America, you are forgotten no longer. The winds are changing in the Republican Party and I’m fighting to restore your birthright. Vote and get involved in your local party. I will fight like hell to restore the vision of America taken from you by Communists and their establishment R enablers.
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I'm always astounded by how successful someone can be as a political commentator while understanding nothing of politics. I'm going to flesh this out into a full article about why this is so wrong because so few do understand what "The GOP" even is, but you do not understand that The Republican party pretty much across the board has factored in that White men under the age of 35 will not be voting for them in all their calculations and understanding of how to win elections.
You know why Brad was made? They thought that was the safest target for them to offend, because they already determined that young white men will not turn out in substantial numbers. And they're correct too. Last midterm, it was 23% of those aged 18-29 who were eligible to vote actually bothered voting. For those 65+, it was 68%.
So your big grand strategy to get the GOP on your side and to appeal to young men, is to threaten to do take actions that every single GOP strategist has already factored in and determined. It's hilarious, because you're constantly saying "if we just do the same thing we've always done, we are going to lose everything!"
In this case, the thing the group your purporting to represent has always done is not vote. So you're threatening to continue to do the thing you've always done to make a change. If you want the GOP to appeal to you, you need to do something of value and would need to demonstrate effectively that you are an actual voting block to appeal to. Because right now no one believes that.
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This is the future of America without mass deportations
We need 20 million people out of the country or the future is lost
The issue is existential, we don’t have time for fake and gay wars in the Middle East
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I DON’T THINK MOST AMERICANS KNOW THIS EXISTS.
The University of North Texas, a taxpayer-funded public university, had a contract with an international recruiting company that paid a commission for every student it successfully enrolled.
$3,000 for an overseas student enrolling full-time.
$1,500 for an international transfer already in the U.S.
The $3,000 was explicitly tied to enrollment: $1,500 after the first semester and another $1,500 after the second.
And this wasn’t necessarily illegal. The federal rules restricting enrollment-based recruiting commissions contain an exception covering certain foreign students abroad who aren’t eligible for federal student aid.
UNT’s contract was written specifically around that category.
By Fall 2024, UNT reported 7,509 international students. 73% were from India.
UNT receives hundreds of millions of dollars in public funding while also paying commissions to recruit international students.
The question now is:
How widespread is commission-based international student recruiting across American universities, and how much money is being paid to these recruiters?
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WATCH: James Talarico mocks Texas parents’ concerns about explicit materials in their kids’ schools by calling them “kooky” conspiracy theories.
He owes every Texas parent an apology.
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🚨BREAKING🚨John Aselton who leads the McKinney Texas recall has turned in its petition to OUST the mayor and 3 council members after collecting 6,500 signatures. The recall launched after the council approved an Islamic center.
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