Brian Harrison

Texas State Rep (#HD10). Native Texan. Aggie. Husband. Father of 4. Former small biz owner, HHS Chief of Staff. Trump and Bush Admins. Believer in freedom.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨I'm demanding a special session to MAKE IT A FELONY TO ENGAGE IN BIRTH TOURISM IN TEXAS, stop issuing birth certificates to non-citizens, and more after SCOTUS' absurd birthright citizenship ruling!

Texans deserve action, not just rhetoric, from their state leaders. Texas must start acting like the sovereign state it is and stop taking it on the chin when actions from DC threaten to destroy the very fabric of our republic. Texas must not simply act like a powerless bystander but take bold and decisive action to protect liberty for future generations.

I am publicly demanding an immediate special session to combat the harms from mass birth tourism, pressure the federal government to fix birth tourism, and to protect the value of citizenship that countless paid the ultimate price for. I hope every elected Republican in Texas joins my call for immediate action. Delay is unacceptable for a state like Texas!

Texas should pass the following IMMEDIATELY in a special session:

· Make it a felony to operate or participate in birth tourism within our borders

· Expand criminal offense of illegal entry to include entering for purposes of birth tourism

· Stop issuing birth certificates to children of non-citizens

· Give the Attorney General authority to investigate and prosecute birth tourism

· Ban preplanned adoption agreements and gestational surrogacy contracts if any party involved is a citizen or resident of a country of concern (as Florida has already done)

· Pass a resolution formally condemning the Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara

· Pass a resolution formally demanding the U.S. Congress take any and all necessary actions to fix birthright citizenship

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨Proud to file #HB961 to restrict government’s use of license plate readers and require a warrant!

I will not allow Texas to become a police state.

Read: https://t.co/0AHDyXiicw

#txlege (32/x)

[Abby Normal in Texas 🔅 @Treep52]

TEXANS: Did you know this?? 👇

[TexanLife @TerriRGrand]

This is so infuriating

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

The Texas government now taxes Texans at rates far higher than the British crown taxed the colonists.

Let that sink in.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

Know one of the reasons your property taxes keep skyrocketing?…

The Texas government is giving Toyota $300 MILLION tax dollars… and not making them pay the same property taxes that you pay!

Outrageous.

We must end corporate welfare…

And eliminate property taxes!

[Vance Ginn @VanceGinn]

Disgusting. This is not a role for government. Great that Toyota is building more in Texas but stop doing it at the expense of taxpayers. Why all the rhetoric about data centers yet this happens? End corporate welfare.

[Vance Ginn @VanceGinn]

Disgusting. This is not a role for government. Great that Toyota is building more in Texas but stop doing it at the expense of taxpayers. Why all the rhetoric about data centers yet this happens? End corporate welfare.

[Luanne Blair @lublair7]

Thank you @brianeharrison

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

https://t.co/3UtfnpTiGZ

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

We hope you all had a great Fourth of July celebrating the 250th anniversary of the greatest nation on Earth, the country that brought forth the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. That’s exactly why this broadcast matters tonight.

Because right now, as we speak, multiple states are signing in Australia and UK-style Digital ID legislation. You won’t find the words “Digital ID” anywhere in these bills. That’s by design. Naming it would tell you what’s really happening. But the agenda is identical to the dystopian systems already rolling out across the West, in countries where free speech no longer exists.

The World Economic Forum has said it plainly. Digital ID will be required for every facet of life. Justice and law. Innovation, meaning you can’t build without one. The economy, meaning you can’t earn without one. Society itself, meaning you can’t take part in any of it without one.

Understand what that does. It links your identity to everything you say and do online just so you can speak, do business, and eventually even open the internet at all. That’s not a safety feature. It’s a social credit system like China’s, only worse.

So they don’t sell it that way. They sell it as protecting children. Age verification. Age assurance. Safety online. But if you’ve been paying attention, you already know the truth. This was never about the kids. It’s about building a system where everything you do, say, and even look at online is logged, scored, and used against you.

Here’s the part they’re counting on you to miss. Judges in both Louisiana and Texas have already ruled, correctly, that these age verification laws violate the First Amendment. It should be over. It isn’t. Across the country, states are forcing this anti-constitutional agenda through anyway, and in most cases it’s Republicans leading the charge. At the federal level, it gets even scarier, and we’ll take you through all of it tonight.

But start with Texas. A judge struck down the Texas App Store Accountability Act as a First Amendment violation. Ken Paxton appealed. Yes, Ken Paxton seemingly wants every Texan to be in a dystopian Digital ID prison.

The good news? A few people are still fighting for what this country actually stands for. One of them is Representative @brianeharrison, who joins us to discuss which states are at risk right now. 🧵

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

James Talarico helped pass this DIGITAL ID style law in Texas.

I will file legislation to repeal it.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 The Supreme Court allowed Texas to continue enforcing its App Store Accountability Act, which requires age verification and parental consent before minors can download apps or make in-app purchases.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

https://t.co/JCjL6OSNQ1

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨Texas should be leading the fight against dystopian and tyrannical Digital IDs!

I'm announcing plans to file legislation to REPEAL SB2420, which moves Texas closer to UK-style online surveillance and CCP social credit scores...

And I'm asking Gov @GregAbbott_TX for an immediate special session to pass it, along with other conservative priorities that failed this year.

FULL LETTER BELOW:

Governor Abbott,

Since the 89th session, including the special sessions, was a liberal trainwreck, I sent you a letter dated September 4, 2025 asking you to call the legislature back for a special session for the following purposes:

1)Put Texas on a path to eliminate property taxes, cut taxes significantly and immediately, and make all property tax hikes illegal unless approved by the voters

2)Stop all taxpayer funding of DEI, LGBTQ indoctrination, and liberal Hollywood

3)Ban all taxpayer funded lobbying

4)End corporate welfare

5)Repeal all excessive spending increases from the previous bloated budget

I have not heard back from your office, so I am resending it in the event that the original letter did not make it to your desk.

Also, I am now requesting you add an additional item: LEGISLATION TO REPEAL SB 2420.

Texas should be leading the fight against digital IDs, UK-style online surveillance, and CCP inspired social credit scores. Yet, indefensibly, even as conservative leaders like Donald Trump Jr. and others warned against this specific bill, which takes Texas closer to all these dystopian and tyrannical policies, it was passed by the House and Senate, and you did not veto it.

I will be filing legislation to repeal it as soon as we are back in session, but, unless you call us back, we will not be in session again for a full year after this privacy destroying law goes into effect.

While proponents of this bill say it is only about “protecting children” from obscenity, that is simply not true. Texas already has laws on the book to address that issue, and this bill has no limitations restricting its applicability only to minors or to adult content. Instead, all Texas adults will be subjected to this big government, nanny state legislation.

SB 2420 grows government, takes options away from parents, and opens the door to surveillance, data abuse, and censorship.

Apparently Texas leaders need a reminder that there is no limit to the amount of tyranny that can be justified in the name of “protecting the children,” and that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Brian Harrison

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

👀 When you think it can’t get any more insane…

The Texas government is giving BILLIONS of your tax dollars to liberal Hollywood…

And apparently the DIRECTOR of that program in our Governor’s office is… a DEMOCRAT!!

Did any of you vote for this??!???

@GregAbbott_TX?

[Kambree @KamVTV]

Stephanie is a democrat. Who is running this clown show in Austin?

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Texas state Rep. @brianeharrison is calling for a special session to protect Texans from "birth tourism."

Harrison supported making birth tourism a felony, expanding illegal immigration laws, and granting the Texas attorney general authority to prosecute birth tourism cases.

https://t.co/EfxmnQQT8V

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Governor Abbott had the chance to stop this. “Unfortunately Governor Abbott chose not to veto this bill,” Harrison said. “If, if I had been governor, this bill would have been vetoed.”

Instead, Texans got a law marketed as parental empowerment that does the opposite. “These bills take tools away from the parent and, in fact, are in many ways replacing the parent with big government,” Harrison argued, calling it Orwellian to claim a government mandate empowers anyone.

“I’m not gonna sit idly by and watch the state of Texas, where we’re supposed to cherish liberty and freedom, go down the road towards totalitarianism, towards nanny statism, and towards a surveillance state. And a police state,” he said. “And that’s before you even get to the privacy risks that are innate in legislation like this.”

The precedent question is what keeps this from being a Texas story. A Louisiana judge already delivered a clear-cut ruling that these laws violate the First Amendment. If Texas wins its “commercial speech” argument on appeal, that clarity is gone, and every state gets a roadmap.

Harrison thinks the stakes are even higher than that. “Texas, I believe, is the crown jewel in the left’s plan to destroy our country,” he said. “If we lose liberty here in the Lone Star State... we may never get another conservative in the White House ever again.” He described the fight as one for “nothing short or nothing less than the future of Western civilization.”

His message to his own party was blunt: “Stop being cowards. Stop accepting the conventional wisdom of the mainstream media that you need to do just as little as possible, say as little as possible, and hope the fact that we’re just not Democrats will get you reelected.”

He would know something about standing alone. “I was the only Republican in the entire Texas government that had the courage to stand up for my constituents,” he said of the SB 2420 vote. A father of four kids under eleven, he rejected the false trade at the heart of the bill: “There’s nobody that wants to protect kids more than I do. But you know what I’m not willing to do? Forfeit my rights, my freedoms, my liberties, our Constitution.”

“As government grows, liberty shrinks,” he said.

And government is growing this exact program in statehouses from Salt Lake City to Sacramento.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

The entire sales pitch for SB 2420 is child safety. The bill itself never mentions it.

“If you did a word search in SB 2420, there’s not one single reference to, you know, adult content or pornography,” Harrison revealed. Texas already has a separate law dealing with age restrictions on adult content. This one does something else entirely.

“There is almost no limit to the amount of tyranny that can be imposed by a government when they’re doing it under the auspices of, quote, protecting the children,” he warned.

And the law isn’t even scoped to children. “This law is so broad in the way that it’s written, it would quite literally, and does, apply to adults, including adults who have no children,” he explained. Then he made it concrete:

“If you are an adult in the state of Texas and you want to download an app to study the Bible, okay, or to download a calculator, you have to somehow digitally authenticate yourself.”

Imagine, he said, walking past a newsstand and needing to “get through a government censor to be able to put in a quarter and get a newspaper.” That’s the mechanism this law builds, just moved onto your phone.

“That’s the gloss. That’s the veneer,” Harrison said of the child-safety framing. “It is a digital ID style, big government, progressive piece of legislation.”

He also shattered the idea that this is a conservative project. The bill “was championed by the most liberal progressive members of the Texas government, including the radical extremist Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate himself, James Talarico,” yet Republican attorneys general are now lining up to defend it in court.

Harrison’s answer is not to wait on litigation. He is filing legislation to repeal SB2420 outright, and he wants it done now: “Let’s have a special session right now so we can protect Texans from digital IDs and CCP-style social credit scores in 2026.”

There’s just one problem. The man who can call that session is the same man who let the bill become law.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Texas is now arguing in federal court that what you say on social media is “commercial speech,” a category the courts have long treated as less protected under the First Amendment. If that argument wins, the government gets far more room to regulate who can speak online and under what conditions.

Harrison sees exactly what’s at stake. “The First Amendment is critically important, and I will oppose, and I’m going to continue to oppose, anything that that looks like it’s going to impede the First Amendment freedoms of the hundreds of thousands of Texans that I am honored to represent,” he said, noting that the founders protected speech precisely because unpopular speech is the kind that needs protecting.

And the “commercial speech” framing collapses on contact with how people actually use these platforms. Social media is where Americans contact their representatives, organize politically, and challenge official narratives. It is the town square, and Harrison is living proof of what happens there.

“If it were not for social media platforms like X, there’s no chance I would have been able to force through, you know, even probably half of the conservative policies that I’ve been able to force through in the Texas government,” he admitted, describing a legislature “run by a rather liberal coalition of fake Republicans and Democrats.”

His method has been simple: bypass the establishment media, go “around the power broker elite in the Texas government by going directly to the people.”

“It’s those types of tools in 2026 that are empowering the citizenry to stand up against tyrannical big government progressive Marxist initiatives by those in power,” he said.

That is the citizen engagement these laws put at risk. Which raises the obvious question: if this isn’t really about protecting kids, what is it about?

[ZeeeMediaOfficial @zeeemedia]

The Digital ID Agenda is advancing aggressively in the U.S., and the effort is largely being led by Republicans. We cover which states are at risk right now, what is happening at the Federal level. Rep. Brian Harrison joins us to discuss.

Join us in 10 mins: https://t.co/CoQIbfbhfc

[JAMIE @CoffeeGirlTX]

I love my state. I truly believe Texas is the best in the country.
Just a heads-up, Texas: It looks like we’re being sold out on issue after issue, and no one wants to explain it to the hardworking Texans who built this incredible state.
This Texan is done being part of an embarrassing experiment. It’s far too convenient how some of our elected officials suddenly find their voices during election years but go silent the rest of the time. Read Brian Harrison’s post below about fake BIRTH CERTIFICATES being issued.

[Cynthia Dyanne Tx. @CMategra1]

👇🤬👇

[TontBerry King @TontberryKing]

@brianeharrison @Polymarket Brian, you're one of the very few awesome reps.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

@scotus_wire This law takes Texas closer to DIGITAL IDs and was supported by James Talarico.

I’ll file legislation to repeal it.

[Brian Harrison @brianeharrison]

🚨Texas should be leading the fight against dystopian and tyrannical Digital IDs!

I'm announcing plans to file legislation to REPEAL SB2420, which moves Texas closer to UK-style online surveillance and CCP social credit scores...

And I'm asking Gov @GregAbbott_TX for an immediate special session to pass it, along with other conservative priorities that failed this year.

FULL LETTER BELOW:

Governor Abbott,

Since the 89th session, including the special sessions, was a liberal trainwreck, I sent you a letter dated September 4, 2025 asking you to call the legislature back for a special session for the following purposes:

1)Put Texas on a path to eliminate property taxes, cut taxes significantly and immediately, and make all property tax hikes illegal unless approved by the voters

2)Stop all taxpayer funding of DEI, LGBTQ indoctrination, and liberal Hollywood

3)Ban all taxpayer funded lobbying

4)End corporate welfare

5)Repeal all excessive spending increases from the previous bloated budget

I have not heard back from your office, so I am resending it in the event that the original letter did not make it to your desk.

Also, I am now requesting you add an additional item: LEGISLATION TO REPEAL SB 2420.

Texas should be leading the fight against digital IDs, UK-style online surveillance, and CCP inspired social credit scores. Yet, indefensibly, even as conservative leaders like Donald Trump Jr. and others warned against this specific bill, which takes Texas closer to all these dystopian and tyrannical policies, it was passed by the House and Senate, and you did not veto it.

I will be filing legislation to repeal it as soon as we are back in session, but, unless you call us back, we will not be in session again for a full year after this privacy destroying law goes into effect.

While proponents of this bill say it is only about “protecting children” from obscenity, that is simply not true. Texas already has laws on the book to address that issue, and this bill has no limitations restricting its applicability only to minors or to adult content. Instead, all Texas adults will be subjected to this big government, nanny state legislation.

SB 2420 grows government, takes options away from parents, and opens the door to surveillance, data abuse, and censorship.

Apparently Texas leaders need a reminder that there is no limit to the amount of tyranny that can be justified in the name of “protecting the children,” and that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Thank you for your consideration, and I look forward to hearing back from you.

Brian Harrison