Rep. Gonzalez Says Republicans Politicizing Border Crisis

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U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio, accused his fellow Republicans of politicizing the border for their own benefit, further escalating his standoff with more conservative members of his party who he said stood to gain from a sustained migration conflict.

“Anyone who thinks a 3 page anti-immigration bill with 0% chance of getting signed into law is going to solve the border crisis should be buying beach front property in AZ,” Gonzales tweeted Thursday night in an apparent reference to border legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin.

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Republican Wins 15th Congressional Seat For First Time

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For the first time in its history, Texas’ 15th Congressional District will be represented by a Republican.

Monica De La Cruz won her bid to represent the district Tuesday in the traditionally Democratic stronghold of South Texas.

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Border Congressman Warns: "No End In Sight" To Immigration Crisis

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Rep. Tony Gonzales, a Republican who represents a district in Texas that spans more than 800 miles along the border, warned that the surge of illegal immigrants crossing into the US won't stop until Congress takes action. 

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South Texas Republicans Out raising Democrats

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The three GOP candidates raked in a combined $4.3 million over the past three months, while their Democratic competitors got $2.4 million together, according to new campaign-finance filings.

Two of the Democrats — incumbents Henry Cuellar and Vicente Gonzalez — still ended the period with more on cash on hand than their challengers, though Gonzalez had only a slight edge.

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South Texas Republican Congressional Candidates Highlight Faith, Voter Turnout

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The three Republican candidates running to represent the Rio Grande Valley in Congress came together for a prayer breakfast here, highlighting their faith as they called on people to vote in the midterm elections.

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Abbott Condemns Gang Shooting In Uvalde Park

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Gov. Greg Abbott yesterday issued a statement on the gang shooting in Uvalde and manhunt for the suspects:

“I was outraged to learn that gang violence has endangered the Uvalde community and innocent Texans this evening. I immediately called Mayor McLaughlin and County Judge Mitchell to offer the state’s full support and resources as law enforcement hunts down the gang members. After speaking with the mayor and the county judge about the immediate need for more law enforcement support, I have directed the Department of Public Safety to conduct patrol operations in gang hotspots, send an additional six DPS trooper units to work around the clock, and begin coordinating an anti-gang effort with the city. Working with the Uvalde Police Department and Uvalde County Sheriff's Office, DPS is also deploying Special Agents to target the five gangs operating in Uvalde. 

Thank you to all local and state law enforcement and first responders who swiftly went into action to protect their fellow Texans. Gang violence has no place here in Texas, and we will bring the full force of justice down on these heinous criminals.”

The violence in Uvalde comes barely four months after the mass shooting at Rob Elementary School in the city left 19 students and two teachers dead.

While Abbott's statement was in no way political, his opponent Beto O'Rourke has hammered the incumbent Republican and state legislators for not moving to ban "assault rifles" in the aftermath of the school shooting.

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GOP Congressman Faces Backlash for Gun Vote

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After the Uvalde school shooting, the Republican congressman who represents the city, Tony Gonzales, welcomed Democratic President Joe Biden to the community. They visited Robb Elementary together, attended mass at a local church and met with first responders.

Gonzales expressed gratitude, saying afterward that they “had an open, honest conversation about the realities this community is facing.”

That, and his vote to support gun restrictions in Congress, have led to a backlash among Republicans who previously had supported him enthusiastically.

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Both Congressional Candidates Face Challenges In South Texas Race

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In Texas’ most competitive congressional race this November, conventional wisdom would suggest that the candidates make their way toward the middle.

Democrats face the  challenge of running a far left candidate, Michelle Vallejo, in the newly drawn South Texas district that would have voted for former President Donald Trump by 2.8 percentage points in 2020, and massive infusions of cash from national Republicans hoping to tap into the area’s economic concerns amid record inflation. Meanwhile, Republicans will be pitching a conservative Hispanic Republican woman, Monica De La Cruz, in a Hispanic-majority region that has delivered Democrats victories for decades.

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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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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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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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Democrat Congressional Candidate: "No Violence" On Border

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Dan Sanchez, a Dem, Texas Democrat running in the U.S. House special election next Tuesday, has claimed that “there is no violence” along the country’s southern border.

Sanchez, who is running for Texas’ 34th Congressional District, spoke about his experience living along the border in Los Indios, Dem Texas, last week during a larger discussion about gun control.

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Beto Using Uvalde to Jump Start His Campaign

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Democratic Texas governor’s race candidate Beto O’Rourke is hoping to use the Uvalde school shooting to reset the contest in America’s largest red state, a contest polls show him trailing incumbent Greg Abbott by several points.

Last week, following the massacre of 19 elementary school students and two teachers by an 18-year-old man with an AR-15-style rifle in Uvalde, Texas, O'Rourke briefly seized the national political spotlight by crashing the news conference of the man he wants to unseat, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, and declaring — in a moment subsequently viewed widely online — that the carnage was "on you.”

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House Speaker Launches Independent Probe Of Evalde Shooting

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Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan says he’s forming a committee to independently investigate the school shooting in Uvalde.

“The fact we still do not have an accurate picture of what exactly happened in Uvalde is an outrage,” Phelan said in a news release.

On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary in Uvalde and killed 19 children and two teachers. It was the country’s worst school shooting since the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.

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Progressives Angered Over US House Leaders' Support of "Moderate" Cuellar In Runoff Election

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Texas election officials have still not declared a winner in the state’s 28th congressional district, where incumbent Democratic congressman Henry Cuellar leads progressive lawyer Jessica Cisneros by 175 votes out of roughly 45,000 ballots cast.

But as progressives wait to see who will win the runoff race, they cannot help but think of what might have been if House Democratic leaders had not come to Cuellar’s assistance. Cuellar secured the endorsements of the top three House Democrats, and the congressman’s campaign was also propped up by millions of dollars in super Pac spending aimed at attacking Cisneros.

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Disgraced Uvalde School District Police Chief Sworn in As City Councilman

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The blame for an excruciating delay in killing the gunman at a Texas elementary school — even as parents outside begged police to rush in and panicked children called 911 from inside — has been placed with the school district's homegrown police chief, Pete Arredondo.

Arredondo was elected to the city council earlier this month, and has taken his place on the board, despite an ongoing investigation into his actions that day.

Mayor Don McLaughlin said there was nothing the city could do to prevent him being sworn in, because he had been duly elected to the position.

The state Department of Public Safety (DPS) reportedly says Arresondo is not cooperating with the ongoing investigation of the shooting.

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Not Done Protesting: Beto Protests Outside NRA Meeting

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Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke joined other protesters in downtown Houston Friday to voice opposition to the 2022 National Rifle Association (NRA) convention just days after a deadly elementary school shooting in the state.

The protest was organized by several advocacy groups – including Moms Demand Action, March for Our Lives, the Harris County Democratic Party, and Black Lives Matter Houston – and featured speeches from gun control advocates. 

Democrats have been quick to blame Republicans for inaction in the wake of the tragedy, hoping to politically capitalize on grief over the tragedy.

O'Rourke earlier crashed a news conference on the events in South Texas held by Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt  Gov. Dan Patrick. He was removed after blaming both for the massacre. 

Both Abbott and Patrick later withdrew from the convention, citing the families of the victims as the reason.

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Pro-Life Democrat Cuellar Gets Help From National Democrats

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Just a day after Democrats forcefully recommitted to protecting abortion rights, a U.S. House leader swooped into Texas on Wednesday to defend and stand side-by-side with Rep. Henry Cuellar, one of the last pro-life Democrats in Congress.

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Republican Leading In Special US House Election

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House Republicans might not have to wait until November to chip away at Democrats’ majority.

Internal party polling conducted this month shows the GOP has a real shot at flipping former Democratic Rep. Filemon Vela’s South Texas seat in the upcoming June special election. Republican Mayra Flores led Democrat Dan Sanchez by 5 points in a late April survey — and President Joe Biden’s job approval was underwater by 14 points in a district he carried by 4 points in 2020.

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