Crisis makes the obscure suddenly clear, and from our current crisis comes clarity. How did we get here? By trusting our leaders to do the right thing. But they failed us; blaming and vacationing. How do we move forward? 1/5
Support a vision of Texas where we focus on good government, rather than culture wars. Texas has immense resources. Let’s support each other and positively invest in our future. We are all in this together. 2/5
Community style local government is one of Texas’s greatest resources. We’re not out of the woods yet, and I applaud local leaders - mayors like Galveston’s Craig Brown and Brownsville’s Trey Mendez who are stepping up. 3/5
So too are County Judges like Dallas’s Clay Jenkins @JudgeClayJ and Harris County’s @LinaHidalgoTX. Local government that cares is the best government. Let’s all find a way to help one another. 4/5
And when this crisis is over, we need to organize and take action so that we can elect real statewide leaders that care about people. Leaders that will work for a better Texas for all of us. 5/5
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We wake up this morning to learn that Texas has sued Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Ken Paxton has further disgraced the Office of Texas Attorney General with this appalling filing in the United States Supreme Court yesterday, the sole purpose of which is to (1/6)
make a last ditch attempt to succeed where President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Guliani has repeatedly failed. It is highly suspect to see the State of Texas is not represented by its own Solicitor General in the Supreme Court, but instead by a “special counsel” (2/6)
Lawrence Joseph. This is all we need to know about the constitutional integrity of this ill-advised pleading, which I hope will be met with uniform rejection by all four states that were sued and by our esteemed Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
In our great (3/6)