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Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
Abdul El-Sayed hasn’t even been sworn in yet, and he’s already shaking shit up in Washington.
He told CNN he’d back Chris Van Hollen to replace Chuck Schumer if he runs.
THAT is the kind of change we voted for. We didn’t vote for business as usual, we voted to shake the damn table.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
If we had high speed rail, it would take a 2 day train ride to see my mom down to approx 7 hours. Please. Please, we deserve nice things. This country is too big.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
The Republicans are terrified of 2028 being an extinction-level event for them. Not only should we push for a national gerrymandering ban *right now*, we also should push for an end to all big money in politics. The collective force of the American people will make it worse for them if they don’t.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
There’s something happening.
I have honestly never seen literally EVERYONE agree and united on a single issue: NO to Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
It’s like every single American has woken up and decided: fuck. this. shit.
- it’s ENOUGH.
Absolutely beautiful.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
imagine seeing this & thinking voters want democrats to find common ground with the unprecedented corruption & fascism of the right. we want accountability & bold action protecting our democracy from any of it ever happening again.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
“We as Christians are called to do more than charity. We are called to challenge the systems that make charity necessary.”
-James Talarico
Nonbelievers and believers alike should appreciate this.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
JUST IN: 🇮🇱 Nobel Peace Prize winner Navi Pillay calls for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be prosecuted over Gaza war.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
I don’t want retribution.
I don’t want to get even.
I want a reckoning.
For everything they stole.
For everyone they murdered.
For betraying our allies.
For trampling on our values.
For protecting the Epstein class.
For placing oligarchs and mega corporations above the law.
For gaslighting the country every day.
A dispassionate, merciless reckoning.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
hadn't really hit me that some of the voters who just sent a Black man to the Senate from Mississippi remember having to pay poll taxes. American history is so short. Historic. So so so so so happy for them.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
Scott Colom appears set to win Forrest County, named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, who founded the Ku Klux Klan
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
The Arkansas House will now include an educator who has first-hand experience with the absurdities of Gov. Sanders' school vouchers scheme.
#arpx #arnews #arleg
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Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
She’s 100% right and I didn’t even realize how much that 2008-forged version of me had died in November 2016 until she came back to life last night. Ten fucking years. And we are so back.
AOC: A note for Gen Z. If you want to understand millennial cringe, what you all call millennial cringe, this earnestness, imagine all the seats we flipped last night. That feeling, plus, on top of it, electing the first Black president ever. And on top of that, you did it the first time you ever voted. That hits generationally. You’ve been chasing that feeling ever since.
And because you did it the first time you ever voted, you’re like, ‘Yeah, we can change the world. Why not? We did it the first time. Let’s just do it again.’
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
"Without action, Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a DICTATOR."
So y'all are just admitting that Abbott has been a dictator while he was in office?
"We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers"
And admitting that you need to "restore" separation of powers, as in you destroyed them earlier and want them back?
Shameless traitors to liberal democracy.
🚨 BREAKING: Texas State Rep. Brian Harrison IMMEDIATELY calls on Gov. Greg Abbott to call a Special Session while they still have control to strip the governor's emergency powers before Gina Hinojosa (D) assumes office
"Without action, Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a DICTATOR."
- Ban the governor from suspending or changing state laws
- End emergency orders after 30 days unless the Legislature ratifies them
- Stop the governor from reissuing orders that expired or that lawmakers rejected
- Require emergency orders to be narrowly tailored
- Fast-track court challenges to emergency orders
"We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat."
He says he supports doing this for ANY governor, Republican or Democrat, but this makes it particularly pressing.
Honestly — Texas got wiped out. The clock is ticking!
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Rep. Brian Harrison filed HB911 in 2022 to restrict these same emergency powers for any governor, stating they undermine separation of powers and should be opposed irrespective of party. Abbott has repeatedly issued/renewed disaster declarations exercising them.
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Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
The MAGA party took 10 years from you. Now is not the time to meet them halfway.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
The entire world was rooting for us: all around the world people are in tears over Americans saving their democracy from the authoritarian tyranny of Trump and Republicans.
Categorically Kate ✨ retweeted
1 million views. Before I published this video, I spoke with multiple production studios about a potential documentary. They all passed because it was "too niche" or wouldn't get wide viewership.
So I bought a $700 camera and filmed it in my apartment.
So you admit that you've had dictative power for a generation and The People have voted you out of office....?
🚨 I call on Gov. Abbott to IMMEDIATELY convene a special session to REIN IN EXECUTIVE EMERGENCY POWERS… before Gina Hinojosa is sworn in!
Republicans lost last night, but Democrats were not sworn in.
We still have total power in Texas, and we must act like it by using the remaining ten weeks to restore separation of powers and limit the emergency powers that Governor-Elect Hinojosa is set to inherit, which would allow her to destroy liberty in Texas by executive fiat.
I’ve warned since I was first elected that NO governor, Republican or Democrat, should have unchecked emergency powers!
Now that Texas has elected a Democrat Governor, the urgency is undeniable… and inaction is intolerable.
Without action, Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a DICTATOR.
Due to the absurd (and almost certainly unconstitutional) Texas emergency powers laws, Gov. Hinojosa will literally have the power to modify laws, ignore laws, or create and enforce laws – including criminal laws – on a whim!
Today is a day for ACTION, and bold leadership.
The Texas Legislature must immediately pass, and Governor Abbott must sign, legislation like HB911, which I filed in 2022 and warned at the time, that “Never ending emergency powers are antithetical to representative government and render people powerless. Legislative bodies allowing a single executive branch official to both write and enforce laws is the biggest threat to our constitutional system of divided government and should be opposed irrespective of which political party runs the executive branch.”
My legislation would protect liberty from executive fiat by, among other things, taking the following actions:
1. Prohibit the Governor from suspending or modifying statutes
2. Sunset emergency orders in 30 days if the legislature does not ratify the order
3. Prohibit the governor from reissuing emergency orders that expired or the legislature rejected
4. Require emergency orders to be narrowly tailored
5. Subject emergency orders to expedited judicial review
We have TEN WEEKS LEFT to protect Texas from near total Democrat rule.
I encourage every elected Republican in Texas to join my demand for Gov. Abbott to call a special session.
The future of liberty in America is literally on the line in Texas, and Texans deserve leadership that acts accordingly.
@GregAbbott_TX
