Democratic Party Chair Attacks Cruz, Cornyn Over Burn Pit Bill Failure

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Gilberto Hinojosa, the chairman of the Texas Democratic Party, attacked Republican senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn for voting against the "Honoring Our PACT Act," which failed in a vote Friday night, but Cruz fired back that the bill, which was meant to compensate veterans who had been injured in burn pits, had been larded up with unrelated pork spending by Senate Democrats.

“There are few political moves that are as heinous, as egregious, as rage-inducing, as using servicemembers or veterans as political pawns. But that’s exactly what Senators Cruz and Cornyn did last night," wrote Hinojosa in a press release posted on the state party website.

“Ted Cruz and John Cornyn – the former of whom had time today to tweet memes, Fox News clips, and promote his podcast; the latter of whom had time to tweet or retweet dozens of unrelated posts since the vote – should immediately explain this shamelessly partisan vote to the hundreds of thousands of Texas veterans demanding answers."

For his part, senator Ted Cruz posted immediately after the vote, explaining that the $600 billion Senate bill had been settled with $400 billion in additional pork by Democrats, which Cruz characterized on Twitter as "a blank check.," and he felt he had to vote against it for that reason.

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Democrat Congressional Candidate Left $200k Off Disclosure Form

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Michelle Vallejo, a Democrat running for the open Congressional seat in Texas’ 15th District, left more than $200,000 in assets off of her financial disclosure report, a form on which she was required to certify the contents were “true, complete and correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.”

In February, Vallejo filed an initial financial disclosure report for the year 2021 with one asset in San Luis, Colorado, valued between $15,000-$50,000. She also listed earned income of just under $40,000 from Pulga Los Portales, a family business, and $3,000 she made consulting for a company called Trucha.

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Governor's Public Safety Office Gives $1.25 Million To Uvalde ISD For Counseling

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Gov. Greg Abbott yesterday announced the Governor's Public Safety Office (PSO) is providing $1.25 million to the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD). 

The funds will provide counseling, trauma-informed care, crisis intervention, and community outreach efforts for students and faculty affected by the tragic shooting at Robb Elementary School. These state financial resources will also establish a district-wide, trauma-informed counseling program to ensure Uvalde students receive support services and counseling within the UCISD.

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Potential 2024 pres. Contender Newsom Runs Ads In Llberal Texas Papers

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is running an ad in three Texas newspapers criticizing Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) for his record on guns and abortion, The Hill reports.

The effort comes after Newsom ran television ads in Florida criticizing that state’s GOP governor, Ron DeSantis. The ads have fed suggestions that Newsom could run for president in 2024.

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George Soros Gives $1 Million To DemGov. Candidate Beto O'Rourke

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Left-wing billionaire George Soros donated $1 million to Beto O’Rourke’s bid to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in Texas, contributing to the Democratic candidate’s feat of outraising the incumbent during the past fundraising quarter.

Nearly half of O’Rourke’s record-breaking $27.6 million fundraising haul came from out-of-state donors, with Soros’s hefty donation helping the Democratic challenger best Abbott in fundraising over the past six months, according to filings by the Texas Ethics Commission. 

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Parties Call On Biden To Declare Very Different Emergencies

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As the nation continues to navigate the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, several Texas Democrats and abortion advocates called on the Biden administration to take immediate and direct action to protect Texans’ access to abortion. Meanwhile, Republicans are demanding that by declare that an " invasion" is occurring at the border and take extraordinary axtions to protect the border from further incursions by illegal immigrants.

First on the Democrat's list of requests in a letter to the White House was for President Joe Biden to declare a public health emergency to ensure telehealth providers can dispense abortion-inducing medication without interruption.

The heavily-Republican Texas legislature passed what is known as a "trigger law" last year that, in the event of Roe v Wade being overturned, abortions would all but be eliminated in the state. That has now occurred, and Biden has since pledged that he would protect abortion in every state

Republicans site the US Constitution, which guarantees states protection from invasions as justification for calling on biden to declare one has been occurring. In 2022, record numbers of migrants have been seeing and captured along the US/Mexican border. The illegal migrants have been from mexico, Central america, the Middle East, and many other regions of the world.

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Texas House Report Blames Uvalde Police, State Agencies For Slow Uvalse Follow-Up During School Shooting

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Nearly 400 local, state and federal law enforcement officers were at the scene on May 24, including 91 state troopers, the Texas House investigative report said, and none took initiative to lead the response. The school district police chief, Pedro “Pete” Arredondo, wrote its active shooter response plan and assigned himself as incident commander, but did not follow the protocol he had set up, the report said. 

The report, however, cast a broader net of blame at “the entirety of law enforcement ... on that tragic day.” Nineteen students and two teachers died in the attack the 18-year-old gunman, who was killed when police broke into a classroom after a long delay.

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Gilberto Hinojosa Reelected to Lead Texas Democrats

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Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa has  fended off two challengers to win another term at the party's statewide convention this weekend in Dallas.

Hinojosa, who became party chair in 2012, was among those who were the target of Democratic frustration over the party’s lack of gains in Texas in the 2020 election.

The convention closed early due to a lack of a quorum, which prevented the convention voting on a party platform for the 2022 election.

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Texas GOP Chai Ridicules Democrats For Convention Quorum Issue

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Texas State Republican Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi went after the Democratic Party yesterday after Democrats were forced to adjourn their State convention this weekend in Dallas for a lack of a quorum. 

According to the state party' s official Twitter feed, Rinaldi said, “Texas Democrats showed this weekend what happens when you take away tens of millions of dollars from California, New York, and D.C. All that remains is a low enthusiasm, fringe party of political extremists who can’t even run a meeting, let alone a state. "

Speaking of the Democratic Party's convention, Rinaldi continued, "The showing was so dismal that Democrats couldn’t even maintain enough attendance to complete the primary business of a party convention—passing a Platform. The Texas Democrat Platform will now be written behind closed doors by party bosses."

The Texas Democrat Convention adjourned due to a lack of quorum and failed to pass a party platform.

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Beto O'Rourke Raises Record Amount in Gubernatorial B

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— Gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke raised $27.63 million between Feb. 20 and June 30, the most a state-level candidate in Texas has ever raised in one reporting period, his campaign said Friday.

In money raised through the campaign, O’Rourke still trails incumbent Republican Gov. Greg Abbott. The two-term GOP incumbent raised $24.9 million in the period — about $2.7 million less than the Democrat.

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Texas Power Crisis Underscores Green Energy Unreliability, Expert Says

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Energy expert Jonathan Lesser warned that the power crisis in Texas underscores the broader problems with green energy, in an interview Tuesday with Fox News Digital.

Lesser — an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute who has more than 30 years of energy industry experience — argued that, because of renewable energy sources' intermittent quality and the lack of reliable utility-scale battery storage infrastructure, forcing a green transition will lead to more power outages.

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Abbott Still Leads Beto in Guv Race

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Incumbent Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is leading Democratic challenger Beto O’Rourke by 8 points among likely voters in the state’s gubernatorial race, a new poll has found.

According to a CBS News-YouGov poll released Thursday, Abbott is leading O’Rourke 49 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, despite the majority of Texas residents surveyed viewing the governor’s response to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, school shooting negatively and more than half having an unfavorable opinion of his general performance as governor.

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Abbott Signs Executive Order Returning illegals to the Border

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has issued an Executive Order authorizing the Texas National Guard & Texas Dept. of Public Safety to return illegal immigrants to the border.

Abbott tweeted: 

"Cartels have become emboldened by Biden's open border policies.

Texas is taking unprecedented action to STOP this criminal enterprise."

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Voter Fraud Allegations In Texas Most Sparsely Populated County

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Eleven people are registered to vote at one address in Loving County. One of them is Loving County Commissioner Ysidro Renteria, who has been in office since 2011 and listed this property in December as his permanent address on his application to run for re-election, signed under oath. He and at least three relatives used the address to vote in the March primaries.

The secret? "No one lives there,” says Loving County Sheriff Chris Busse, who's also the voter registrar for the county, which is the least populated county in the United States, with an estimated 54 residents, despite voter rolls that show 97 voters are registered in the oil-rich county.

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Kinney County Declares "Invasion" Demands Help

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Kinney County, Texas declared a local state of disaster on Tuesday. Officials say they are being invaded by migrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border.

The declaration filed Tuesday by Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan declares that what is going on at the border an “invasion” as defined by the US and Texas constitutions and requests assistance from Pres. Biden and Gov. Abbott immediately.

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Biden's DOJ investigating Abbott's Operation Lone Star

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Gov. Greg Abbott's Operation Lone Star border initiative is reportedly under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) for alleged civil rights violations, reports liberal news site Newsweek.

The investigation was first reported by The Texas Tribune and the nonprofit news organization ProPublica, which said that they had obtained state records.

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Uvalde Police Chief/City Councilor Not Attending Meetings

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Pete Arredondo, the Uvalde CISD police chief who ordered cops to wait nearly an hour before confronting the shooter, has yet to show up to a council meeting.

Arredondo was elected as a council member earlier this year and sworn in on June 1. He has missed two regular meetings and a special emergency meeting. If he misses the next regular meeting, he could be eligible for a recall election. 

City counselors have refused to release any details they have learned about the school  shooting, which cost 19 lives.

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