They Get the Clicks. We Get the Cleanup. Influencers sell certainty, prominent voices amplify it, and the rest of us are expected to defend the mess. What a fucking debacle. It started as a whisper. It ended with our party looking like a bunch of fucking idiots. Not because we lacked a legitimate argument. Not because Democrats outsmarted us. But because, once again, people speaking to a Republican audience turned speculation into a headline—and the rest of us got handed the bill. The Republican Party can be a great party. That is precisely why this shit is so frustrating. We should be able to demand better from the people speaking in our name. We should be able to distinguish a serious political argument from somebody chasing attention. And we should not have to spend every Monday defending whatever the loudest idiot posted on Sunday. But for too long, that has been the arrangement. They get the clicks. We get the cleanup. To continue reading follow the link: texastruth.substack.com/p/th… @slocumfortexas @nicksortor @RheinAmacher @CarolineWren @SaraGonzalesTX @Michellebbz @TickleTexts #TXlege #CommonSenseRepublicans #ClicksAndCleanup #TexansForTruth #TexasPolitics #FactsOverClicks #VerifyBeforeYouAmplify #RepublicanAccountability

Tommy, we had our weekly conference call this morning, and your role in this whole debacle came up—specifically, whether you’re getting paid. Someone in our group said, “Tommy must be getting paid. Look at how often he posts and reposts on social media. Who devotes that much time and effort to something without expecting anything in return?” After talking it through, we landed here: you may not be getting paid now, but we suspect you’re expecting something in return down the road. That leaves one question: if you’re not getting paid today, what do you expect the payoff to be later? If your answer is simply keeping Talarico out of the Senate, we’d be fine with that, too. We would be fine with redoing the vote and seeing where we come out this far down the road. We think Talarico's doctrine is way off base and would be at a detriment to the State. But we also can’t help wondering whether another run for office is what you really have in mind.

These guys bring the heat. Every.Single.Time. texasscorecard.exposed/almos… #txlege #followthemoney

This clown @HappyWarriorUS caught a typo on one of our posts talked trash and then blocked us. You want to throw rocks, but don’t want the heat? Clown. We can see why she’s single.

There is an old saying that comes to mind when we listen to @slocumfortexas @Michellebbz @KamVTV @_withashley @ScottPresler @ShiloPlatts @kaylee_ashlynn @LouisSCRE and whoever else peddles stupid shit all day for money. It's better to keep your mouth shut and let others think you're stupid, than to open it and confirm their suspicions. #txlege #USsenate #influencersinthewild

To out East Texas readers: Be careful who you vote for. You could be digging your own water grave. Bo French’s rise and Kyle Bass’s East Texas water ambitions intersect in ways that deserve far more scrutiny than they’re getting inside the Texas GOP. The public record doesn’t give you a smoking‑gun memo linking French’s campaign to Bass’s groundwater scheme, but it does give you a pattern: a billionaire investor with a stalled plan to pump and export billions of gallons from East Texas aquifers, and a longtime associate he’s now helping elevate into powerful statewide office, with donors and allies who specialize in capturing the state’s regulatory machinery. For more, follow the link: texastruth.substack.com/p/be… #txlege #followthemoney #researchwhoyouvotefor

We don’t know who these folks are, but they have to be inside the organization to get this type of insight! #txlege #followthemoney #lookinthemirror texasscorecard.exposed/the-e…

Texas Leaders Welcomed the Companies. Now They Must Put Its Workers First. Leadership in Texas has spent more than a decade recruiting companies with lower taxes, lighter regulation, affordable energy, land, infrastructure, workforce grants, and taxpayer-backed incentive packages. The strategy worked. Technology companies and Fortune 500 headquarters have moved to or expanded in Texas. Texas has become a preferred destination for companies leaving high-cost states or looking for room to grow. Texas should continue competing for investment and jobs. But the state should also ask a basic question before handing out public incentives: When companies receive Texas taxpayer support, what obligation do they have to hire, train, and retain Texans before relying on H‑1B visa workers? This is not an argument against legal immigration. It is not an attack on foreign-born workers, religion, ethnicity, or nationality. H‑1B workers are individuals who entered and worked under a federal legal process. The issue is whether companies receiving public benefits are using the H‑1B system as a narrow tool for genuinely hard-to-fill specialty jobs—or as a routine labor strategy that avoids local recruitment, competitive wages, and workforce training. Texas needs growth. It also needs accountability. To see the rest of the article, use the following link: texastruth.substack.com/p/te… #txlege

The Paid Political Influencer Transparency Act Texas Needs If you are paid to shape public opinion, Texans deserve to know who is paying you. Welcome back. A couple of weeks ago, we talked about the people who operate behind the scenes of political “movements”—the consultants, donor networks, operatives, and organizations that often have far more influence than the public realizes. This week, we need to talk about the people who work in front of the camera. They travel from town to town. They show up at school-board meetings, city-council meetings, county meetings, candidate forums, rallies, and community events. They bring a phone, a microphone, a camera, and a prepackaged message. Then, before the meeting is even over, they are posting clips, commentary, accusations, and outrage across social media. They tell Texans who the villains are. They tell Texans what they should fear. They tell Texans which elected officials, teachers, parents, pastors, business owners, or local volunteers should be targeted next. They want the audience to believe they are simply concerned citizens—ordinary people taking a stand for their community. But many are not ordinary, independent grassroots voices and most don’t even live in the area they are harassing. They are paid political “influencers.” And Texans deserve to know who is paying them. Lobbyists Must Disclose. Why Not “Influencers?” #txlege #whoispaying #followthemoney #PoliticalTransparency #PaidInfluencers #EthicsReform #Transparency #Disclosure #PaidPoliticalInfluencerAct Read more: texastruth.substack.com/p/th…

A few months ago, we wrote that Republicans have a choice to make. We can call out rotten behavior inside our own party, or we can surrender every claim we make about character, responsibility, faith, patriotism, and the moral high ground. There is no third option. You cannot demand that the other side police its radicals while giving your own a pass. You cannot lecture the country about decency and excuse indecency because the person committing it has an “R” beside his name. You cannot complain that public institutions have lost trust while insisting every Republican scandal, ugly statement, racial provocation, and obvious lie must be defended as “just politics.” That is not strength. It is cowardice with a campaign logo. And if Texas Republicans cannot figure that out, this party will hollow itself out from within—not because Democrats beat us, but because too many Republicans decided that winning a primary mattered more than having standards. Never has that needed to be shouted more loudly than it does now. Sunday morning, Texans woke up after a remarkable night in Austin. Even if you do not root for the Longhorns, it was a moment most people could appreciate: Texas had knocked off No. 1 Ohio State in a dramatic comeback before a packed crowd. Students, alumni, families, lifelong Texans, new Texans, white, Black, Hispanic, Asian—everybody was celebrating the same improbable win. Then Bo French woke up looking for something to hate. The University of Texas posted a video of students reacting to the tying touchdown and the extra point that put Texas ahead with 24 seconds left. It was exactly what you would expect after a game like that: college students jumping, yelling, hugging, and celebrating their team. French saw the video and decided the problem was the ethnicity of some of the students. At 7:52 a.m., he posted: “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.” There is no honest way to read that and pretend it was a sophisticated policy argument. French saw young people who did not look like him, wearing Texas colors and celebrating a Texas victory, and called them “the problem.” For anyone who remembers Chappelle’s Show, French’s performance had the unmistakable feel of Clayton Bigsby—the blind Black white supremacist whose hatred had become so complete that he mistook bigotry for conviction. “If you have hate in your heart, let it out! White Power!” was the absurd punchline of the skit. But this was not a skit. It was real life: a statewide Republican nominee looking at Texas students celebrating a Texas victory and seeing racial grievance instead of fellow Texans. - For more follow the link - #txlege #wehavetocalloutourown #accountability texastruth.substack.com/p/th…

Why is it when some in our party see something and always thinks it's a conspiracy? youtube.com/shorts/uUc-tYYEO…

Thank you Mr. speaker.

As communities, as a state, as a country and as a party we need to start asking who is lurking behind the scenes trying to benefit from political lawfare. #txlege texastruth.substack.com/p/po…

And another paid “influencer” bites the dust. Ole Edwin just couldn’t take being told the truth. The self proclaimed “born again Christian” has taken his faith to new levels of hypocrisy. @LouisSCRE @_withashley @EDGEOFTRUT34783 We are very happy than no one in our organization has to deal with y’all directly, but y’all have proven time and time again to be the worst money can buy. @kaylee_ashlynn @KamVTV We can’t wait to push for legislation to make it to where “paid political pawns” have to disclose where your money is coming from. #90thelege #txlege #followthemoney