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violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
Here's a useful way to think about what is going on in TX: The 8th largest economy in the world is experiencing regime change
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
.@JamesTalarico on Texas officially banning THC:
“This bill is insane.
Texans aren’t going to stop smoking weed and eating edibles because politicians in Austin say so. Texans will still use THC — but instead of getting it safely from a local small business, they’ll go back to getting it from the black market. From the drug cartels.
This ban is a gift to the cartels.
We are now telling full-grown adults how to live their lives. This is the nanny state at its worst; this is big government at its worst.
Instead of fully funding our schools, guaranteeing healthcare, or making childcare more affordable — this Legislature is focused on banning a product that gives people a little peace.
We’re making people’s lives harder, not easier.
I want to leave you with a quote: ‘It is time to end needless arrests and incarcerations of adults for small amounts of marijuana for personal use.’ That wasn’t a Democrat. That was President Donald Trump.
To my Republican colleagues, I’m asking you to oppose the cartels, stand with President Trump, and vote no on this insane bill.”
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
I continue to believe that this race might be the catalyst for democracy ending in America. I just don't see a situation where the TXGOP will accept losing, it's one of the most extreme republican parties in America
Texas Public Opinion Research poll | 7/15-7/17 LV
US Senate Texas 2026
🟦James Talarico 45% (-2)
🟥Ken Paxton 40% (-4)
(Change from late May)
Link to poll: texastribune.org/2026/07/28/…
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package:
Overturn Citizens United
Ban corporate PACs and super PACs
Ban members of Congress from trading stocks
Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this corrupt system.
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
After 19 children were murdered in Uvalde, TX, you decided that going to a fundraiser 300 mi away in Huntsville was more important than leading our state during a horrific crisis. You, of all people, should not throw stones.
James Talarico was absent when it mattered most.
When Texas lawmakers voted on Jocelyn's Law -- named for a 12-year-old Houston girl sexually assaulted and strangled by illegal immigrants -- Talarico was a no-show.
Before that, he voted against the Damon Allen Act -- against bail restrictions for violent sexual offenders. And called illegal immigrants "my constituents."
Jocelyn Nungaray's family deserved better. Texas deserves better.
Talarico can run for U.S. Senate. But he can't run from his record.
foxnews.com/politics/dem-rip…
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
FUN FACT: Rafael “Ted” Cruz is the first Canadian-born Cuban man to represent the country of Israel for the State of Texas in the U.S. Senate
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
The U.S. not discounting perishable foods an hour before closing time is solely because of greed and cruelty. In America, they will rather throw away millions of pounds of food instead of coming up with a solution that benefits all but nope they’ll even arrest dumpster divers.
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
At first it seems Democrats are always caving to Republicans. But when you watch it happen over & over again you eventually wake up & realize it’s more sinister than caving. Democrats are COLLUDING with Republicans because they serve the same donors & same corrupt system as them.
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
Not only should homeschooling be illegal but private schooling too. We should have a robust public system funded better than any other system on the planet that extends to daycare and through college
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
Thank you for trying to not let me merge. I had to work for it. And It feels so good to be in this lane now
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
Democrats know exactly what their voters want. They have the data. The problem is what their voters want, goes directly against with their donors/owners want. So they’re spending millions of dollars on consultants to figure out how to lie to you better.
violin bug 🇵🇸 retweeted
This is undoubtedly the single most incriminating statistic of the US system (alongside the 13% poverty rate): skyrocketing homelessness when your economy grows means something is fundamentally broken.
BREAKING: The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless. apnews.com/article/homelessn…