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[ryan🐎 @RyanAckermann_]

Happy belated @jamestalarico! 🥳 I can’t wait for you to become our youngest U.S. Senator this year! We need to flip some tables & some generational change!

[Julie Johnson for Congress @juliejohnsonTX]

When I learned there would be a vote to end Trump’s war with Iran, I got on a plane and returned to Washington immediately, because North Texans deserve to have their voices heard in Congress.

Serving North Texas will always come before campaigning. That’s the job they elected me to do.

I went back to Washington to fight for you. Now I’m asking North Texans to make their voices heard at the ballot box in the May 26 runoff election.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with James Talarico against Republican Ken Paxton!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: An Amazon worker recently died on a warehouse floor and management told the others: ‘Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work.’ That was a human being. That was a child of God. Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.

Don’t conform to this world. It’s not healthy to assimilate in a sick system.

I’m asking you to question everything you’ve been told at school or at work or at church — and certainly anything you hear from a politician. Reject anything that makes you less human.

A different world is possible. What if we built systems that brought out the best in us? What if we invested the same resources into peace that we invest into war? What if the only hunger was for justice?

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents surrounded the WRONG HOUSE for NINE HOURS… got a warrant… and still arrested the wrong person.

They were looking for Gerson Manuel Portillo-Escobar, a human trafficking suspect who lived at 919 Hamilton Crossings Station, Antioch, Tennessee.

Instead, they targeted someone at 939… a completely different home… and arrested Miguel Antonio Blanco, who has no criminal record.

Agents saw Miguel go inside his own house and decided he was their suspect… Even though they had the correct name, address, and a photo of the actual person, who lived a few houses away.

Miguel told them repeatedly they had the wrong person.

They ignored him.

For nine hours, they called out someone else’s name and tried to get inside.

Then, they got a warrant… forced entry… and took a man who wasn’t on that warrant.

This is a Fourth Amendment violation… you can’t have probable cause if you have the wrong person and the wrong house.

It also raises due process concerns under the Fifth Amendment… because the government doesn’t get to ignore facts and detain someone anyway.

They had the right information… They just didn’t use it.

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

Greg Abbott is defunding our public schools, hurting our kids, and failing all Texas workers. He has to go.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

In 2017, Abbott knew Corpus was running out of water.

But Abbott still gave his Saudi plastics pet project millions of your tax $ to guzzle as much water as ALL the citizens of Corpus Christi use.

His solution now? Make the people of Corpus pay more so his donors can keep chugging cheap water. That’s “The Greg Abbott Corruption Tax.”
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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

A man with no official title, no confirmed role, and no public accountability allegedly walked into DHS and started running a pay-to-play scheme with BILLION-dollar contracts. 

His name is Corey Lewandowski. Multiple companies say they were pressured to pay him or risk losing government contracts. And guess what? Trump knew and did nothing to stop it.  

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Corruption Chronicles.

[Austin liberal @AustinLiberalTX]

Rural public transit advocates push back on proposed cuts https://t.co/jwxLVAUpT4 via @comissourian

[Whiplash437 @MrWhiplash_]

🚨 Two MAJOR bombshells in 30 minutes.

CBS News: The Trump administration concealed the true extent of Iran’s strike on a US base in Kuwait. Dozens of service members suffered severe injuries. 30 remain hospitalized right now.

They hid it.

The New York Times: A US military investigation has concluded the United States was responsible for the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran.

165 girls. Ages 7 to 12.

Trump said the Tomahawk was “very generic.”

Trump said Iran bombed its own school.
Trump said he’s “willing to live with” whatever the report shows.

The report shows it was us.

And while Trump was lying about dead children, his administration was hiding dozens of wounded American service members from their own families and the American public.

Concealing American casualties.
Lying about dead Iranian children.
Blocking terror warnings to law enforcement.

Sealing the Epstein files.

This is a pattern.

[Texas AFL-CIO @TexasAFLCIO]

BREAKING: @TaylorRehmetTX was just sworn in as the first rank-and-file union member to serve in the Texas Senate.

Senator Rehmet is a beacon of hope not just for Texas, but for every union member and worker in the state. This is a huge win for Texas workers!

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

BREAKING: The Dallas Morning News just endorsed our campaign for the US Senate!

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

It’s important that you understand what happened last night.

Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.

In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.

CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”

In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.

But censorship always backfires.

Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

When I was 28, I almost died. I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.

My first insulin prescription cost me $684.

Most Texans can't afford that. So when I got elected, I capped insulin at $25/month.

I know what it means to fight for my life. In the Senate, I’ll fight for yours.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Threatening allies while refusing to lower health care premiums and turning Midwestern cities into battle zones... Americans don't want this and don't have to accept it.

We must use the tool that has been working in more and more situations over the past year: intense political pressure, especially on elected Republicans, to change their behavior.

[Austin liberal @AustinLiberalTX]

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[Austin liberal @AustinLiberalTX]

Help me save my furbaby
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[FactPost @factpostnews]

Veteran detained by ICE: I identified myself as a US citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out. Even after I complied, I was taken to a detention center and held for 3 days without charges. No phone call, no lawyer, no medical care, even though my skin burned from the chemicals.

[Taigan Plummer @Taigan4Dist54]

Imagine profiting off of people who have cancer. Imagine profiting off of people who have limb amputations. Imagine profiting off of people who suffer from a heart attack or stroke.

You don’t have to imagine. America’s healthcare system has been allowing this for decades.