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Texas Military MOBILIZES for SHOWDOWN at the Southern Border
Dr. Steve Turley's pod cast ^ | 1/26/2024 | Dr. Steve Turley

Posted on 01/26/2024 8:49:43 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN

Something I did not know and I suspect many do not know, but it is NOT the National Guard at the Southern border but the state of Texas's own military! Texas has a military branch not connected with the Federal Government.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: border; constitution; gregabbott; military; nationalsecurity; security; southernborder; texas; texasstateguard; txsg
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To: ansel12

I began reading a lot about Rhodesia’s struggle several years ago. The account of the flight of “Green Leader” is quite interesting.

I fear our future is similiar.


21 posted on 01/26/2024 9:06:14 AM PST by MachIV
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To: cuban leaf

Remember the Alamo?


22 posted on 01/26/2024 9:07:29 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Jim W N

“ I’m hoping that Eagle Pass, TX will be Obama’s Armageddon.”

I’d settle for just Waterloo


23 posted on 01/26/2024 9:07:34 AM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (“We should not assume civilization is robust”)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
Michigan has a similar group called the Michigan Volunteer Defense Force (although it seems that they have dropped the "Volunteer" from their name since the last time I looked into them.)

For the most part the Michigan Defense Force fills in during natural disasters or other state emergencies alongside the Michigan Army and Air National Guards in mostly logistical support (noncombat) roles.

24 posted on 01/26/2024 9:07:47 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Though the Texas national guard has the largest membership of any state, they are all Texans. How many of them do you think will follow orders to bear arms against their own state and brethren?

And, we also have the Texas Rangers, DPS, Texas State Guard, Texas State militia, 255 sheriffs department SWAT and tactical teams, and about a dozen other militias around the state to throw into the mix.


25 posted on 01/26/2024 9:08:34 AM PST by eastexsteve
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To: ansel12

All of this gives folks an incentive to move to Texas.


26 posted on 01/26/2024 9:09:08 AM PST by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: CIB-173RDABN

California also has a state militia but the last time I checked it was a mere shadow of what would be expected if a proper militia. In CA the governor would only call it out to provide security at a pride parade


27 posted on 01/26/2024 9:10:53 AM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (What is left around which to circle the wagons?)
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To: lepton

The State Guard is small....1,600 +/-. By comparison, the TX National Guard is 18K. Abbott has supplemented his support , I believe, with Texas Rangers (State Police).


28 posted on 01/26/2024 9:10:59 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

Lexington.


29 posted on 01/26/2024 9:12:47 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MachIV

Saw this...

https://youtu.be/phJlbpsACn4?si=CLqsPBWMy0fBv6Ie


30 posted on 01/26/2024 9:13:01 AM PST by desertsolitaire ( M)
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To: ducttape45
"All of this gives folks an incentive to move to Texas. ">

Yeah; like all those Mexicans /SARC

31 posted on 01/26/2024 9:13:46 AM PST by traditional2 (lets go B*and*n)
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To: Fido969

State defense forces are distinct from their state’s National Guard in that they cannot become federal entities. All state National Guard personnel (to include the National Guard of the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the territories of Guam and the Virgin Islands) can be federalized under the National Defense Act Amendments of 1933 with the creation of the National Guard of the United States. This provides the basis for integrating units and personnel of the Army National Guard into the U.S. Army and, since 1947, units and personnel of the Air National Guard into the U.S. Air Force.[4]


32 posted on 01/26/2024 9:14:16 AM PST by KenW255
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To: CIB-173RDABN

I know several CBP guys on the Canadian Border. They actually believe in “border patrol”

Sure they want to keep their jobs and pensions, but there is no way in hell they would confront an organized Texas force actually trying to secure the border.

Half of them might even go over to the Texas forces’ side.


33 posted on 01/26/2024 9:15:30 AM PST by PGR88
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Texas v. White, 74 U.S. 700 (1869) Obviously, the Supreme Court is going to have to speak up on it, rather than one word answers. They need to get going and make a ruling on it asap, or we will have a Constitutional crisis.

Here is what the Net says about the situation:
Governor Abbott of Texas has claimed that he has the constitutional authority to deploy Texas National Guard and state troopers to the border, citing Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution, which allows states to act in self-defense when they are invaded or in imminent danger1. However, this claim is disputed by legal experts and the Biden administration, who argue that the federal government has exclusive power over immigration and border security, and that Texas is interfering with federal law enforcement and violating the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution23. The U.S. Supreme Court has not directly ruled on this issue, but it has vacated a lower court’s decision that prevented Border Patrol agents from accessing a park where Texas had erected concertina wire2. The legal standoff between Texas and the federal government over the border situation is ongoing and may escalate further.


34 posted on 01/26/2024 9:16:56 AM PST by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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To: Scott from the Left Coast

That too...


35 posted on 01/26/2024 9:17:34 AM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: silent majority rising

The Constitution is clear.Gov. Abbott is standing by the Constituton. It is the fedccoats move now.


36 posted on 01/26/2024 9:19:19 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Do y’all need any help?

From Lake Charles, La (almost Texas!) and happy to help!


Im also willing to help.

From Northern CA, as far from texas as you can get!


37 posted on 01/26/2024 9:20:16 AM PST by hillarys cankles
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To: griswold3

Minor correction, not the militia which is composed of the National Guard, Air National Guard, and the Texas State Guard. Only the Texas State Guard portion would be exempt from nationalization. Wonder if it could be expanded by concurrent enlistments of National Guardsman and other current/retired LEOs. May not be necessary, 1,600 seems small but it’s a lot of people.


38 posted on 01/26/2024 9:24:50 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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To: griswold3

Texas Rangers

I wish Frank Hamer was still about.


39 posted on 01/26/2024 9:30:59 AM PST by Mouton (150MTs in the right location will not solve our problems now.)
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To: Cincinnatus.45-70
I’ve been saying that since I saw the two ignorant Texas Congerscritters demanding Biden nationalize the Guard so Abbott couldn’t use them. Yes, there is a Texas National Guard that could be federalized, but there is also a state Guard that cannot be.

Stupid Congresscritters don't surprise me. I'm thinking Joe isn't going to want to declare a national emergency to federalize, nor is he going to want to pay them. And what's the emergency and where will he deploy them. I doubt he can nationalize them just to block Abbot's callup though it will take a while to go through the courts.

40 posted on 01/26/2024 9:31:03 AM PST by SJackson (In a war of ideas it is people who get killed, Stanislaw Jerzy Lec)
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