Texas is home to over one million veterans. Today, we join Americans across the country in honoring all who have served and the families who have served alongside them, through deployments, homecomings, and loss.
Thank you for your service, your sacrifice, and your bravery. As governor, I will work to give you and your families a state government that delivers the services and support you deserve.
Cait Conley spent 16 years in the Army and earned three Bronze Stars. Last week, New York sent her to Congress.
She said exactly what she thinks of Pete Hegseth 🔥
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The cruelty never stops!
In a new rule proposed by the the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Trump regime moved to drop 6 million Americans from the SNAP food stamp program, and eliminate 2 million from free school meals.
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Yes, it is absolutely not normal that firms tied to the president's sons have received tens of millions of dollars in government contracts.
This is just the latest example.
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ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
Our current military deserves better than Pete "Hair Gel" Hegseth and Donald "Bone Spurs" Trump.
Trump famously missed Vietnam because his feet hurt, and thinks his personal Vietnam was avoiding STDs in the 80's.
And let's review the resume of the man Trump put in charge of the greatest military on earth, Pete Hegseth:
He took us into a war with Iran that Congress never signed off on.
He put attack plans in a Signal group chat that somehow had a magazine editor in it.
He basically took a sobriety oath in order to get confirmed, and we doubt he's been honest.
He ordered mandatory testosterone testing for male troops over 30, which medical experts called puzzling. Because nothing says national security like checking everybody's hormone levels.
These two have never told the truth about the war, hiding the real numbers of wounded and killed; not being up front about the damages to US bases and equipment; and refusing to answer questions to members of Congress.
Hegseth and Trump have no idea what the hell they are doing and even less a clue how to get out of doing it. Negotiations and bombings are called on and off at a moment's notice while the world's oil markets go haywire. It's not the work of two people who are "crazy like a fox", it's just incomparable incompetence.
Hegseth is becoming history's fall guy for a war that's ripping the wool off the eyes of even Trump's most fervent supporters. MAGA wanted no new wars, no corruption, and no rising prices. They got all three in the war with Iran.
Let's call it what it is. Pete Hegseth is a low-IQ sycophant who got handed a war machine because he licked Trump's boots on Trump's favorite news channel every week. Anybody would be a better fit.
God knows our service members deserve better.
NATO has never attacked the Soviet Union or Russia.
Ukraine has never threatened Russian security.
Putin calling for new security guarantees for Russia is complete nonsense.
Before he launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine, many -- including me -- suggested reforms for enhancing European security. He rejected them. He wanted war instead.
What is Donald Trump hiding? As Congress, we have the Constitutional authority to conduct oversight that informs legislation and ensure we have a government that actually works for the people.
We will not be intimidated by the White House.
Stephen Miller has contributed nothing to our country except for to make us more angry, stoke the worst kind of fear and vitriol, weaponize ICE in our streets, and take American lives.
If Trump actually wants to work with us on humane immigration reform, then I look forward to seeing him sign it.
If not, and the cruelty continues, Democrats will hold them accountable and show them what a real solution looks like.
San Mateo, CA (11/06/26): With No Signs of Slowing Down, ICE Terrorizes Community Members, Violently Tackling and Abducting Resident on Front Lawn Amid 21 Detentions in 10 Days
Latino groups want the White House chief of staff to answer for aggressive and sometimes deadly mass deportation actions. They’re also calling for a freeze on new ICE funding. https://t.co/KhROBt4oHA
ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
For anyone who hasn't heard about this yet: ICE showed up at the front door of Dr. Ann Lawani in Lodi, California, while she was still in her pajamas, shackled her at the wrists, waist, and ankles, and shipped her all the way to a detention center in Louisiana.
She’s a frontline nurse who worked through the worst of COVID, directs the master's nursing program at the University of San Francisco (overseeing 230+ nursing students), and takes care of her 83-year-old dad.
When her family and lawyer tried to find out where she was taken, ICE’s online locator came back with "0 results." It turns out ICE quietly changed its policy the day before her arrest to stop listing thousands of detainees in the public database, so her family had no idea where she was for days while she was bounced from Stockton to Bakersfield to El Paso to Louisiana.
DHS put out a statement claiming she had a 2013 removal order, but they conveniently left out that on the *exact same day* in 2013, an immigration judge granted her Withholding of Removal blocking her deportation to Nigeria because she faced persecution there.
She has zero criminal record, has checked in with ICE for 13 years, and has a valid federal work permit through 2029. Because they legally can't send her to Nigeria, Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has been trying to quietly deport her to an undisclosed third country behind her lawyer's back.
Full write-up and breakdown of what happened here:
https://t.co/cu2O8Gz0Md
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