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12 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
We’ve borne the brunt of your cruelty & understand the cost & consequence of your administration better than most. 23 murdered in an El Paso Walmart by a gunman incited by your comparison of immigrants to “animals,” to an “invasion,” to an “infestation.”
houstonchronicle.com/opinion/editor…
Children ripped from the arms of their mothers; kept in cages; 6 dying in our country’s custody; hundreds still separated from their parents years later.
So many dying of Covid due to your failure to respond to this crisis that border communities like El Paso have set up multiple mobile morgues and called in the National Guard to help move the dead.
You have deeply failed and harmed America. Broke our laws, defied our constitution, & attempted to destroy our democracy. You have caused unprecedented suffering & death in Texas. If there is any justice you will be impeached and convicted and never step foot in this state again.

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Thanks to all of the amazing people stepping up to volunteer, we will expand our voter registration & contact efforts statewide. Working w candidates, @texasdemocrats & @TexasHDCC we will contact every Democrat in every county of Texas ahead of November.
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This means Democratic candidates running at every level will be armed with a list of confirmed voters & their phone numbers in every single district in Texas, including tens of thousands of new voters we’re adding to the rolls during the most important election of our lifetimes.
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To put the Texas Supreme Court’s craven, chickenshit ruling on mail-in ballots from this week in perspective — it helps to understand some of the history of voter suppression in Texas. (They’ll tell you it’s about voter fraud, but I think we all know what’s happening.) ...thread
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