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Beto engaging with MAGA, White Supremacists, Neo-Nazis, and other assorted Reps: A Thread šŸ§µ

Whitesboro, TX
San Antonio, TX
Brenham, TX
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ā€œWE COULDNā€™T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughterā€¦It mustnā€™t happen again. We canā€™t let it. We simply canā€™t let it happen again.ā€
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
ā€œCalifornia [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to allā€¦
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.ā€
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
ā€œFreedomĀ is under attack in [Florida]ā€¦ In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Donā€™t let them take yourĀ freedom.ā€
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022

@GavinNewsom:
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Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.

Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.

Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your fā€”ing hands.

#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.

#CassidyHutchinson: Thatā€™s correct. That is my understanding.

#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes maā€™am.
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ā€œThat could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortionā€”on the order of the U.S. Supreme Courtā€¦ They will now wield [power] however they wantā€¦to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.ā€@maddow

ā€œWhat makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Courtā€¦would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? Iā€™ll tell you the answer: THEY WONā€™Tā€¦as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our countryā€¦ā€
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
ā€œ[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ā€˜60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.ā€™ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesnā€™t, I want to know why it doesnā€™t.ā€
Jane Elliott
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Just 3 minutes after President* Trumpā€™s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking ā€œcourage,ā€ a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings

ā€œDr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign wasā€¦a coup in search of a legal theory.ā€
Judge David Carter 3/28/22

#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
ā€œI've lost my name [and] sense of securityā€”all because a group of peopleā€¦scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.ā€
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
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ā€œPresident* Trumpā€¦followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giulianiā€”to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulentā€¦ Millions of Americans believed him.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œThe Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ā€˜The Official Election Defense Fund.ā€™ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œI said to him: ā€˜Are you out of your fā€”ing mind?ā€™ I said, ā€˜I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.ā€™ā€
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21

@AccountableGOP šŸ¼ #January6thCommitteeHearings:
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Can confirm. Good thing itā€™s only 107 with the heat index right now. #BetoForTexas #GregAbbottFailedTexasAgain
Our power has thankfully been restored after about 90 minutes. I hate that this is a constant source of worry for Texans.
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ā€œI made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolenā€¦which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshitā€¦ The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.ā€ Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: ā€œDid that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?ā€

Ivanka Trump: ā€œIt affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.ā€

#January6thHearings:
ā€œAny legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States ā€” all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.ā€
Bennie Thompson

#January6thHearings:
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@PearlJam has been calling alot of this shit out for decades.

School shootings/mental health/suicides/guns ā€”
Jeremy, š‘»š’†š’ 1991

ā—»ļøprivilege, ā™‚ļø toxicity, Aggro Angloism, Qualified Immunity ā€”
W.M.A, š‘½š’Šš’•š’š’š’š’ˆš’š 1994

Oligarchy & criminalizing poverty, oppressing/marginalizing the most vulnerable ā€”
Hunger Strike, š‘»š’†š’Žš’‘š’š’† š’š’‡ š’•š’‰š’† š‘«š’š’ˆ 1991

I know there's a million more but I woke up with White Male America playing in my head & I haven't heard that song in >20 years. It RESOUNDED.
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It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (šŸŽ„:#RealSports 2014)

Gun show loopholes still exist.

Senate Republicans wonā€™t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
ā€œWe are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movementā€¦ Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.ā€@CoryBooker

ā€œWomen and mothers have political powerā€¦ We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers donā€™t act, hold them accountableā€” [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.ā€
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
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Why I became active in #politics

#civic action #government
via #Memes #PhotoModeMonday

a šŸ§µ
Inspired by @Teri_Kanefield
2/ I was raised Catholic and believe in this (ctto via reddit)

Love thy neighbor.
All neighbors. No exceptions.

If I really hated them then I just did not hang out w them šŸ¤·šŸ»ā€ā™€ļø. No hateful speech or hateful laws.
3/ Most of my family in Texas is religious, republican, & single issue voters. Anti abortion, no matter what. Even if M@ga Trumpism breaks all the other 9 commandments.

I hate that I now have to discuss forced-birth issues w beloveds.

I'm a social entrepreneur #feminist
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ā€œJustice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. Thatā€™s simply not true. Weā€™ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.ā€
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
ā€œJustice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.ā€
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
ā€œOut of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ā€˜Justiceā€™ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.ā€
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesmaā€¦
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ā€œWe now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.ā€ Jamie Raskin

@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what ā€œis being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on boardā€¦ to take the next election regardless of who wins.ā€

@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
ā€œIn America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortableā€¦ If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.ā€
@Trevornoah #WHCD

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ā€œPresident* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the electionā€¦ Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.ā€

@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
ā€œIf I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.ā€
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22

ā€œLincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ā€˜destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time ā€” to both future Americans and the world ā€” that a government of the people could not survive.ā€™ā€@tribelaw
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ā€œ727 insurrectionists arrestedā€¦ Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?ā€ @colbertlateshow

ā€œThe threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, voteā€¦ If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.ā€ @JoeBiden
ā€œOur democracy has been declining over the last 5 years. In fact, right after January 6 of last year, our country was classified as an anocracyā€¦ The most important thing is for citizens to be aware of the dangers of democratic decline.ā€
@bfwalter @AC360
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ā€œ[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did ā€” ā€˜look at all of the people fighting for meā€™ ā€” hitting rewind, watching it againā€¦ā€
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN

ā€œWe must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?ā€ @JoeBiden
ā€œ727 insurrectionists arrestedā€¦ Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?ā€ @colbertlateshow

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Is this snark or legit ā€œnot all White peopleā€ in *my* TL in the year of our Queen Betty Whiteā€™s 2022?! šŸ¤·šŸ¾ā€ā™€ļøšŸ§ #DyingOfWhitenessWithJonAndJane
Asked & answered. šŸ™„šŸ’…šŸ¾ā˜•ļøšŸ§¾šŸŒ“ #ScreenshotsAreForever #Bloop
I can assure you youā€™re roasting your own self, dear. šŸ„“ Deplorable and unexamined White privilege are a CHOICE, they go together like PB&J.
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Beto Oā€™Rourke is officially running for Governor of Texas!!!

Join and support one of the most important, if not THE most important campaign of the ā€˜22 election season!
#BetoForGovernor #BetoForTexas
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A story in honor of the #TexasSenateDebate:

My parents live in #EastTexas, in a district represented by one of the most conservative members of #Congress. However, my mom is one of the most liberal I know.
After 39 years of marriage, my dad finally let my mom put a bumper sticker on the back of his pickup truck (b/c #Texas) that said "I vote for Democrats." @TexasYDs @scyd_texas @texasdemocrats @BGTX @SmithDems
A few months ago, my dad had to take his truck into the shop. While it was there, one of the workers scratched D-E-M-O-C off the sticker so it read "I vote for rats." Understandably, my mom (who is 71 & under 5 ft, but raised 6 daughters & terrifying when need be) was angry.
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Iā€™m joining the broadcast about 30 minutes late, got stuck in traffic..šŸ™ƒ
Theyā€™re discussing legalization of cannabis. Beto gave a great answer about medicinal cannabis potentially being useful to stem the tide of the opioid epidemic. Cruz says Beto wants to legalize all narcotics and briefly harkens back to his sisterā€™s drug overdose.
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So Ted Cruz looks dumb shading @BetoORourke. I admit it makes me laugh that he thinks these things should turn voters off, but you know, this is not just the desperation of a say anything man (Trump Rally is really the sign) it's the kind of campaign that works with GOP base. 1/
Remember, this is a base that does not care about corruption & cupidity so long as you appoint the right judgesl. They don't care about child molesting if you can ban abortion. They care about social issues that reinforce homophobic white supremacist patriarchy 2/
So Ted is not bothering with policy issues because they don't care about policy issues. Cruz is showing countercultural Beto because they fear challenges to their cultural hegemony. It's silly, but it's not stupid. #BetoForTexas
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As Texas Democrats attempt to win a major statewide contest for the first time in almost three decades, a new NBC News/Marist poll finds Democrat Beto Oā€™Rourke trailing Republican Sen. Ted Cruz by just four percentage points. nbcnews.com/politics/firstā€¦
Take in consideration that this was only among registered voters and the margin of error is 3.8 percent. So, if you live in Texas, register to vote! And tell your friends in Texas to register, the deadline is October 9, 2018. #BetoForTexas votetexas.gov/register-to-voā€¦
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Virtually every @ColinAllredTX yard sign I see has a @BetoORourke yard sign next to it. Not a single one of the Pete Sessions signs Iā€™ve seen around town has had a Ted Cruz sign next to it. People really dislike Ted Cruz. Even those who vote for him! (1/x)
This made me want to refresh my memory about 2012. Ted Cruz ran against David Dewhurst in the GOP primary, the ā€œrealā€ election of 2012 Texas. Dewhurst received the most votes, but not over 50%. (2/x)
In the runoff, only 8.5% of eligible voters voted, and the lower the turnout, the more ideologically extreme the voters tend to be. Cruz got 57% of the vote. (3/x)
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#BREAKING:After THE WHOLE WORLD expresses OUTRAGE over #Trump Admin's EVIL #ZeroTolerance policy, all of a sudden HIS RIGHT HAND MAN .@SenTedCruz is against the policy.Folks don't be fooled,VOTE #TedCruz OUT!!
#TheResistance #MigrantChildren #CNN #MSNBC thehill.com/homenews/senatā€¦
#BREAKING:ALSO REMEMBER that the EVIL #ZeroTolerance policy of ripping #MigrantChildren from their parents HAS THE FULL BLESSING OF.@GovAbbott.VOTE FOR DEM.@LupeValdez for Texas Gov!
#TheResistance #WhereAreTheChildren #LupeValdez #GregAbbott #CNN #MSNBC #FoxNews #BlueWave2018
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