“It’s a weird feeling,”Garcia said. “The only way to explain the entire process is: It’s like I’m in a movie.” #surveillance [#intimidation]
The trooper assignments, ordered by #Texas #Republican House Speaker #DustinBurrows, was another escalation of a #redistricting battle that has widened […]
(6/6) #RepNicoleCollier #Texas #DustinBurrows #Fascism
TTT: “When I press that button to vote, I know these maps will harm my constituents — I won't just go along quietly with their intimidation or their discrimination.” 💪🏽 🙌🏽
www.texastribune.org/2025/08/18/t...
(5/6) #RepNicoleCollier #Texas #DustinBurrows #Fascism
TTT: “I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,” Collier said in a statement." 💪🏽 🙌🏽
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(4/6) #RepNicoleCollier #Texas #DustinBurrows #Fascism
TTT: “One Democratic lawmaker, Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth, refused the police escort, meaning she will remain locked in the Capitol building until the House reconvenes Wednesday morning.”
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(3/6) #RepNicoleCollier #Texas #DustinBurrows #Fascism
TTT: "He added that lawmakers would be responsible for any costs incurred in trying to ensure their attendance.”
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It's quite unnerving that the Texas maga GOP is trying to force Rep Nicole Collier and other Democrats to obtain permission slips and seek a personal Department of Public Safety escort to leave the chambers in retaliation for their resistance to a racist redistricting gambit that is being done at the behest of an adjudicated rapist, 34-count convicted felon, who tried to violently overthrow the US government while advocating for having the sitting vice president of the United States lynched and hanged. I'm talking about Donald Trump, who is a probable Russian asset, who was a very close friend of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, convicted child predators. Trump is also exhibiting worsening symptoms consistent with a dementia related illness. This is why Rep. Collier is defying your redistricting plans and your overarching fascist actions. Get off your fascist and abusive high unicorns, or we the people will disabuse you of those notions at the ballot box. Stop your perverted exploitation of law enforcement and the rule of law. Let Rep. Collier go.
(2/3) #Fascism
I called #Texas Speaker of the House #DustinBurrows to register my horror at the retaliatory actions the Texas #MAGA/PutinG☭P has taken against the #Democrats.
Since I don't have the oratory skills of Rep. Jasmine Crockett, I had to write my spiel.
Here's what I said:
Maybe, just maybe, the Texas House of Representatives has returned to sanity.
#TexasSpeaker
#DustinBurrows
www.texastribune.org/2025/01/14/d...
Meanwhile, here in my home state of Texas, the Speaker’s race in the Texas House is still not decided. I’ll be monitoring that as they gavel in on January 14th.
May do a thread on that after work.
#txlege #texashouse #DustinBurrows #DavidCook #texasspeaker #texashousespeaker
