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[Gene Wu @GeneforTexas]

HAPPENING TODAY 🚨

A group of billionaires is trying to dismantle our public schools with a private school voucher scam.

If they want to close our schools, the @TexasHDC has 4 words for them:

Come and take it.

#txlege

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

The governor calls it “school choice.”

But conservative Texans call it vouchers.

Public tax dollars to private schools.

Which they oppose.

So they call their State Representatives.

Because true Texans call BS by its real name.

#txlege @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @Burrows4TX

[Tami Keeling @TamiKeeling]

@pastors4txkids @GregAbbott_TX @DanPatrick @Burrows4TX N

[Tracy Fisher @antraasa]

🧵Charters are a 30-year parent scam. Now @GregAbbott_TX is pushing vouchers. How stupid do he and @MikeMorath (the guy that controls the unchecked expansion of charters in Texas, appointed by Abbott) think Texans and Texas parents really are? #vOUCHersHurt #txed
#txlege 👀

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

BREAKING RIGHT NOW!

THEY ARE NOT GOING TO BRING ABREGO GARCIA HOME.

This is Donald Trump defying the Supreme Court.

"The federal courts have no authority to direct the Executive Branch to conduct foreign relations"

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Greg Abbott is bringing his private school voucher bill to the floor of the Texas House next week.

Thousands of teachers & parents showed up at the Capitol to send a message loud enough for him to hear from the Governor’s mansion:

“We don’t want your billionaire voucher scam.”

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

Lies upon lies

Say we’re fake pastors then attack us incessantly

Say it’s a “done deal” while campaigning for it nonstop

Say it’s for for poor kids of color when they push it with white rich kids

Say it’s fiscally sound when AZ goes broke

Vouchers: grift, graft, greed!

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

“Tax supported vouchers are an entitlement to wealthy folks to pay for their private schools.”

@GinaForAustin bringing the house down at the Network for Public Ed annual meeting in Columbus.

Here she is with AISD trustee @LYNNforAISD & Rev. Mary Spradlin @minimar7

#txlege

[Josh Cowen @joshcowenMI]

Well, it’s not over yet. But I’m proud to have played a big part in making sure that the facts behind these school voucher schemes—forced into states by right-wing billionaires—are so widely known that even @TheEconomist is sick of their empty promises.
https://t.co/zRr8hFC0Zl

[Tracy Fisher @antraasa]

Abbott’s tales don’t hide the school closure crisis he created. “Abbott wants Texans to believe he cares about their children. But his actions tell a different story.” https://t.co/ZGPvx2cqNL
#txed #vOUCHersHurt
#txlege 👀

[Antonio Esparza @AntonioAEsparza]

Huge crowd at the anti-voucher rally on the steps of the Texas Capitol.

This is how they welcomed @jamestalarico. #txlege

[Jamie Carter @JCTheResistance]

Let's talk about the so-called Save Act.

Don't let the name fool you. This bill doesn't SAVE anything - this is 100% a voter suppression bill.

The House is voting on this bill on THURSDAY!

Light up those phones!
#HandsOffHerVote

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Sounds like the Texas House Public Education hearing tomorrow on school finance and school vouchers won't be broadcast live. What's up with that? #txlege

[Gene Wu @GeneforTexas]

VOUCHER MATH 101:

"The math does not add up. My fifth-grade students would be able to look at the math for this program and see that it does not add up."

- Taylor Carriker-Cavin, 5th-grade math teacher

https://t.co/gFdCqk4RnN

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

The bill mandates that taxpayers cover the tuition for every student ALREADY in private school if their parents apply for the $11k - $30k voucher.

The vast majority are rich & now taxpayers will foot the bill for their private school tuition.

That’s what “universal” means.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Elon Musk went to Wisconsin where he said the "destiny of humanity" rested on the election. Tonight the voters agreed and rejected his and Trump's undemocratic vision for the country.

[Rep. Becca Balint @RepBeccaB]

Let me break down the SAVE Act, which Congress is voting on this week.

If you got married and changed your name, your ID will not match your birth certificate.

If you do not have a passport, and your ID does not match your birth certificate, you cannot prove your citizenship, according to the SAVE Act. You will not be able to vote.

The SAVE Act will disenfranchise tens of millions of women in America. It’s blatant voter suppression.

[Sen. Cory Booker @SenBooker]

Social Security is not the government’s money to spend. It’s the hard-earned savings of working Americans that belongs to Americans. Trump and Musk need to keep their hands off of money that isn’t theirs to take.

[Suzanne Bellsnyder @sbellsnyder]

#txlege can save $1B by saying “No to vouchers”!