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Past due to get out of the way for Herrera.
1 posted on 02/23/2026 7:12:23 AM PST by Miami Rebel
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To: Miami Rebel

Agree.


2 posted on 02/23/2026 7:19:02 AM PST by sauropod
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To: Miami Rebel

Eeeewwwwww.


5 posted on 02/23/2026 7:34:58 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Miami Rebel

It’s almost never the crime, but the coverup that brings them down.


6 posted on 02/23/2026 7:36:11 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: Miami Rebel

causing the congressman to “abruptly cut her off.”

That’s a switch. A congressman STOPS screwing a constituent?


10 posted on 02/23/2026 8:07:34 AM PST by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait.)
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To: Miami Rebel

Isn’t Texas known for having Democrats run as Republicans?


11 posted on 02/23/2026 8:29:59 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Miami Rebel

He’s arguing over the fact of a relationship with a woman, and I’m wondering who set the woman on fire. Women don’t commit suicide by disfiguring themselves. They use drugs or hanging.


13 posted on 02/23/2026 8:37:29 AM PST by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: Miami Rebel

Per Wiki

Gonzales is considered a moderate Republican, having voted for proposals such as the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Respect for Marriage Act. In 2023 he was the sole Texas Republican in the House to oppose the Border Safety and Security Act of 2023. These positions resulted in a censure from the Texas Republican Party.

He is also one of 18 Republicans who voted against Jim Jordan’s nomination for Speaker of the House all three times, and the only Republican to have voted against the House rules package afterwards.

Gonzales’s votes prompted several conservative primary challengers in 2024, most notably YouTuber Brandon Herrera, who forced a runoff after Gonzales received less than 50% of the vote. He won the runoff election with 50.7% of the vote.

On May 19, 2021, Gonzales was one of 35 Republicans to join all Democrats in voting to approve legislation to establish the January 6, 2021 commission meant to investigate the storming of the U.S. Capitol.

On March 4, 2023, the Texas Republican Party’s executive committee censured Gonzales for failing to vote in line with the party positions, citing his decision to support the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Respect for Marriage Act (both in 2022) as well as his vote against a House rules packages passed after the contested 2023 Speaker election.

On June 13, 2024, Gonzales was the sole Republican who voted against an amendment that would prohibit Tricare and the Department of Defense from covering and furnishing gender transition surgeries and gender hormone treatments for individuals that identify as transgender.

In the published text messages, from April 2025, Santos-Aviles wrote that she had an affair with Gonzales in 2024. According to her husband, Adrian Aviles, Santos-Aviles confessed to the affair on May 29, 2024 (one day after Gonzales’s victory in the 2024 Republican primary). Aviles told media outlets that his wife had a sexual relationship with Gonzales for two to three weeks before he caught her, and she admitted the affair. Following this, Aviles asked his wife to quit her job, but she refused. Aviles then confronted Gonzales and his campaign about the affair, which led to Santos-Aviles being black-sheeped at work. The couple later separated, and Santos-Aviles fell into depression. Aviles stated that she threatened to kill herself one month before her suicide, but police arrived and found “nothing of concern.” Aviles added that he disagrees with the ruling of her death as a suicide.


14 posted on 02/23/2026 8:41:43 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: Miami Rebel

Self-immolation is self-punishment, self-loathing for the harm she caused...like Judas’ hanging.

God, please have mercy on her soul and help the widower.


16 posted on 02/23/2026 9:05:41 AM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Miami Rebel

Agree.


19 posted on 02/23/2026 9:11:22 AM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Miami Rebel

Light My Fire
by the Doors

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now, we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre.

Come on, baby, light my fire
Come on, baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah.


20 posted on 02/23/2026 9:38:18 AM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Miami Rebel

Not my TX district, but I’d like to see Herrera win this.


22 posted on 02/23/2026 10:23:07 AM PST by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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To: Miami Rebel

Talk about a hot and heavy romance.


24 posted on 02/23/2026 11:08:31 AM PST by Hyman Roth
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To: Miami Rebel

I’ve donated twice to Brandon’s campaign, both times $23.00 (for District 23).

Unfortunately, I’m a law abiding citizen (more often than not - haha) and unable to vote for him since I don’t live in that district. I know, that wouldn’t stop the DemoKKKrats!


26 posted on 02/23/2026 12:11:19 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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