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[Attorney General Ken Paxton @KenPaxtonTX]

5 DAYS LEFT of early voting.

Don’t wait until Election Day. Get your family, your friends, and your neighbors to the polls this week.

We need every Republican in Texas to vote. Make it count.

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@mavsmarie Not true but thanks for lying publicly. It helps us keep track and understand what you have to do to try and win, but you won’t.

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@SawyerHackett Not true, but thanks for showing your lies publicly.

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@CoxHerb Not a good move, and you know it… if this is even true. 🙄

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@GinaHinojosaTX @jamestalarico @PulidoForTexas @votolatino That’s because it’s Republican.

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@DianeCPiette @NCRegister Absolutely! Spine-ectomy is real

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@NCRegister Funny how everyone worships clergy who meets with democrats but god forbid they meet with a sitting presidential cabinet who’s Republican… the bias for the death culture is real.

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@Chardonnay_OG Yeah I’d publicly call out Jim Cramer to never speak my company’s name. It’s the death kiss.

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@ScottUhlTX @jamestalarico Loser move…

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@Xtopher_Uzo Or you can try to play mental gymnastics to make standing for truth and justice a “pride thing.” Truth is truth. It doesn’t come from the wrong decisions forced by bishops. Pride is not being possibly in the minority who seek THE truth. Slow your roll man.

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@TeamTalaricoHQ Brainwashing kids at such a young age… it’s what they do

[Joseph Fosco @FoscoJoseph]

An Open Concern About Appearances: The Catholic Church and the Midterms

I am Catholic. I say the rosary. I go to Mass. Nothing in what follows is an accusation against the Church, the Pope, or any bishop. It is a concern about how things look from the outside, and how that appearance is landing with millions of Americans right now.

This administration created a Justice Department task force on anti-Christian bias, pardoned twenty-three pro-life prisoners, stood up a White House Faith Office and a Religious Liberty Commission, designated Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern over the killing of Christians, and cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood. For a Catholic writer, that record is not nothing. It is, on its face, one of the most tangible pro-life and pro-faith agendas in modern presidential history.

In January 2025, the same administration suspended the refugee and migrant service contracts that had funded the USCCB and Catholic Charities for decades. Over one hundred million dollars a year. More than ninety-five percent of some program budgets. By spring, staff were laid off. By summer, agencies were closing programs. The money did not come back.

Institutions that lose their largest funding stream tend to find their moral vocabulary sharpening in the same direction as their budgets. I am not saying that is what happened. I am saying that is what it looks like, and that appearance is not going unnoticed.

Fourteen months later, in April 2026, the public statements from the Vatican and from American bishops toward this administration grew noticeably louder and more pointed than anything seen during the first term. Catholics see it. Non-Catholics see it.

And when a bishop speaks out days before a national election against one party’s immigration positions—which are prudential disagreements open to debate—while remaining silent on the other’s platform positions that contradict settled Church teaching on life, on the body, on marriage, the imbalance is impossible to miss.

I am not suggesting the Church holds a grudge, or that its silence on one side was bought. I am saying that is the appearance, and appearances are what most Americans, Catholic and not, actually see. When the institution that spent a year without its largest funding stream then directs its public voice at one party near an election—the very party that delivered more concrete protections for Christian life and religious liberty than perhaps any administration in living memory—the appearance is not of a shepherd. It is of a stakeholder.

That is the embarrassment I cannot unsee.

-- Joseph Fosco
October 27, 2026

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@AbdulElSayed Nope. You’re lying and you know it.. even worse

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

Friends, in just two days, Christians were murdered on two continents.

On Friday, gunmen opened fire on a funeral at St. George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak, Jordan, and killed nine people. On Saturday, armed men attacked Orthodox churches and homes in Oromia, Ethiopia, and killed more than forty.

These are not statistics. They are our brothers and sisters, members of the mystical Body of Christ. When Saul set out to destroy the Church, the risen Jesus asked him, “Why are you persecuting me?” The Lord is still being persecuted in these victims of anti-Christian violence.

Christianity is by far the most persecuted religion in the world today. Those of us who worship in comfort have to ask what the deaths of these martyrs demand of us. At the very least, they demand that we pray for them, learn their names, press our leaders to act, and refuse to look away.

The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.

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@dallasdemocrats To lose harder

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

THANK YOU KEN PAXTON

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@MLJHaynes @archchicago Wow… yeah just o relook that “little detail”

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@Andy Lost in the world without any direction and no faith of substance…

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@briana__gomez You don’t…. He’s wasting your time

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@RubenGallego It sucks you’re lying and blanketing an ethnic group for vote persuasion. Stop being racist.