Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D‑Texas, sounded off in a profanity‑filled rant after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block Texas’s new congressional redistricting maps. Crockett unloaded on the Court and accused President Donald Trump and the GOP of “rigging the system” ahead of the midterms.
As U.S. forces executed one of the most decisive military operations in decades — a Trump‑ordered strike that sent 150 aircraft into Venezuela and delivered dictator Nicolás Maduro into American custody — Texas Democrats erupted in fury, blasting the mission as “stupid,” “illegal,” and driven by personal greed.
Award‑winning Tejano star Bobby Pulido’s run for Congress is colliding with his past online footprint, as lingering references to explicit material on his social media accounts raise questions about judgment and image as he campaigns for the Democrat Party nomination for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives’ 15th Texas Congressional District.
Two Democrat lawmakers from Texas appear to be losing sleep over a recent federal law enforcement raid at an illegally run nightclub that resulted in the arrests of more than 150 illegal aliens. Those arrested included 27 suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Two Democrat congressmen are now demanding answers about the recent raid.
The Texas Senate passed the “Big Beautiful Map” shortly after midnight Saturday morning. The party-line vote to approve the map came after a planned filibuster by Senator Carol Alvarado (D-Houston) was canceled by Republican senators using a parliamentary procedure.
Reports on social media indicate that the Texas House of Representatives levied fines of more than $9,000 to the quorum-busting runaway Democrats who fled the state earlier this month. Previous reports indicate the legislators must pay the fines with personal funds, not campaign funds.
The Texas House of Representatives’ effort to approve a mid-census congressional redistricting map cleared an important hurdle with the passage of the bill’s initial reading on Wednesday afternoon. The resolution was approved along party lines after a five-hour debate. Final passage by the House is expected later on Wednesday.
Texas State Representative Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) slept at her desk on the floor of the State House after she refused to sign a document that required a police escort to allow her to leave the building. The Texas speaker of the House made any Democrat legislator who wanted to leave the building sign a pass agreeing to be escorted by a Department of Public Safety trooper to ensure their return to the chamber when required.
The Texas Supreme Court set an “expedited” schedule for briefs to be filed by the parties involved in Governor Greg Abbott’s lawsuit to vacate the House seat of Rep. Gene Wu. The schedule requires all briefs to be filed and
Texas Governor Greg Abbott traveled to Ingram, Texas, to deliver $25,000 checks from country-western legend George Strait to families devastated by the deadly Independence Day Hill Country flooding. The checks delivered by Abbott on Saturday were part of the more than $7 million raised during Strait’s benefit concert on July 27. Aid and other support for Hill Country communities is being delayed by Texas House Democrats who broke quorum to stop the state’s congressional redistricting plan.
A Texas district court judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order against Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke to stop what Attorney General Ken Paxton described as a “misleading financial-influence scheme to fund runaway Democrats who fled Texas to break quorum. ” The order stops O’Rourke and his political group, Powered By People, from fundraising and expending funds to support Democrat House Representatives who fled the state to prevent the passage of congressional redistricting in the special session called by Governor Greg Abbott.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) filed a lawsuit on Friday to pursue judicial declarations that 13 seats held by runaway House Democrats have been vacated due to continued unlawful absences. The move comes after many House Democrats refused orders to return to the Texas Capitol to resume their duties in the called special session.
As the 1 p.m. deadline for a quorum call came and went, Texas Speaker of the House Dustin Burrows announced a series of actions to hit House Democrats in their pocketbooks.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the investigation into whether Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke’s political group’s contributions to the House Democratic Caucus members are breaking the law. The investigation could lead to bribery charges if the State can prove the group is paying legislators not to exercise their vote on the measure to redistrict Texas’s congressional seats.
Governor Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court seeking to begin the process for the removal of House Democrat Caucus Chairman Gene Wu and others. The Chairman, along with most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to block a quorum in protest of the GOP’s efforts to carry out congressional seat redistricting.
Governor Greg Abbott (R) ordered Texas Rangers to begin an investigation into the House Democrats who fled the state to break quorum over the proposed congressional redistricting. He ordered the state’s top law enforcement agency to investigate “potential violations of Texas law.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott ordered the arrest of what he called the “Delinquent House Democrats” after the legislators failed to return to the Capitol as ordered on Sunday. The governor ordered Texas Department of Public Safety troopers to “locate, arrest, and return to the House chamber any member who has abandoned their duty to Texans.”
Texas Governor Greg Abbott warned House Democrats that they will forfeit their offices if they are not present at the Legislature by 3 p.m. on Monday. The governor stated he plans to remove them from office and fill the vacant seats under powers authorized by the Texas Constitution.
Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives fled the state on Sunday to prevent their Republican colleagues from voting on a redrawn map of the congressional districts.
Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a total reward of $30,000 for information leading to the arrest of a fugitive capital murder suspect. The suspect was released by a judge in Kaufman County on bond. Abbott says the case highlights the need for passage of the bond reform bill currently before the Texas Legislature.
Texas House Democrats were served “civil arrest warrants” Thursday after they neglected their duty and escaped maskless on a private plane to Washington, DC, to prevent the passage of election integrity legislation.
The Texas Senate has conveyed election integrity bill SB 1 to the House Thursday by an 18-11 party-line vote after a short-lived filibuster, while Democrat flee baggers from the House remain at large.
The Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan has signed arrest warrants for the 52 Democrat fugitives who neglected their duty and escaped maskless on a private plan to Washington, DC, to prevent the passage of election integrity legislation.
The Texas Speaker of the House of Representatives issued a warrant for the arrest of a Democrat member who fled to Washington, D.C. to avoid a special session. The San Antonio-area Democrat traveled to the nation’s capital with fellow legislators to break quorum and prevent the House from voting on legislation involving election reforms.
A senior staffer for Pelosi and a White House official both tested positive for coronavirus after going to a reception with Texas Democrats.
Five members of a group of Democrats from the Texas House of Representatives who fled to Washington, DC, to deny the chamber a quorum to pass Republican-sponsored voting laws last week have now reportedly contracted coronavirus.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) praised the “brave and persevering Texas legislators” who have fled the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation, and argued that the filibuster needs to be altered
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” host Don Lemon responded to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) praising Democrats in Texas who fled the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation and denouncing the filibuster as “tyranny of the
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) said there should be “an exemption, whatever you want to call it” to the filibuster, “for the sake of saving our fundamental democracy.” And praised the Texas legislators who
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) slammed Democrats in the Texas state legislature for “using a filibuster to flee the state of Texas” to stop the passage of election legislation while
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) praised Texas Democrats fleeing the state to prevent the passage of voting legislation and argued that we need to abolish the filibuster due to “obstruction after obstruction” on
Voters in Texas sustained the Republican majority in the state’s House of Representatives despite millions of outside dollars poured into races.
