Free Republic 1st Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $27,613
34%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 34%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: abbott

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • [TX Gov]Abbott: House Speaker Must Come From Republican Caucus [Cook, not Burrows to Replace Phelan]

    12/12/2024 2:12:31 PM PST · by JeepersFreepers · 16 replies
    Texas Scorecard ^ | 12/12/2024 | Michael Quinn Sullivan
    Gov. Greg Abbott has now made it explicitly clear he wants the next House speaker to have been chosen by members of the Texas House Republican Caucus. Sydnie Henry reports the governor was forced yesterday to issue two statements related to the rump candidacy of Dustin Burrows (R-Lubbock). Burrows has been seeking support from Democrats and a small faction of Republicans to secure the gavel in January after losing the House Republican caucus nomination vote last Saturday to State Rep. David Cook (R–Mansfield). Notably, of the Republicans who opposed Abbott’s school choice push in the 2023 regular and special sessions,...
  • 2028 GOP Primary Polling: Donald Trump Jr., JD Vance Tied for the Lead [Donald Trump Jr. 30%, Vance 30% DeSantis 9%, Haley 6%]

    12/10/2024 3:55:50 PM PST · by conservative98 · 82 replies
    X ^ | 12.9.24
    📊 2028 National Republican Primary• Donald Trump Jr. — 30% • JD Vance — 30% • Ron DeSantis — 9% • Nikki Haley — 6% • Vivek Ramaswamy — 5% • Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — 5% • Sarah Huckabee Sanders — 1% • Marco Rubio — 1% • Tucker Carlson — 1% • Greg Abbott — 1% • Brian Kemp — 1% • Glenn Youngkin — 1% --- • Someone else — 5%@MorningConsult | 12/6-8 | n=994
  • Report offers outlines for making Texas energy industry go nuclear

    11/22/2024 8:02:08 AM PST · by DallasBiff · 15 replies
    Texas Standard ^ | 11/21/24 | Alexandra Hart
    Texas is often considered the energy capital of the U.S. – but usually that means oil and gas. Nuclear power has a much smaller presence in the state, but Gov. Greg Abbott has vowed to change that. This week the governor’s office and the Public Utility Commission released a report from the Texas Advanced Nuclear Reactor Working Group, outlining plans to bolster nuclear power production in the state. Recommendations include creating incentives programs and workforce training to build up the state’s infrastructure and power generating capacity. Reed Clay, president of Texas Nuclear Alliance, an industry group, joined Texas Standard to...
  • Texas Moving to Force Tren de Aragua Gang Out of State, Says Gov. Abbott

    09/29/2024 5:30:59 PM PDT · by george76 · 24 replies
    Breitbart News ^ | 29 Sep 2024 | Bob Price
    Texas Governor Greg Abbott .. is making all available tools available to law enforcement to take action against the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang. The governor said the gang members will find their operations in Texas will become unprofitable, forcing them to leave ... They’re looking to make money. And what they’re going to find is, if they’re coming in the state of Texas, they’re losing money. It’s a losing money proposition in the state of Texas, and they’re going to realize they got to take their business elsewhere.” Governor Abbott recently designated the Venezuelan prison gang as...
  • Abbott declares Venezuelan gang a foreign terrorist organization, DPS targeting

    09/23/2024 7:11:58 AM PDT · by EBH · 13 replies
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday declared the Venezuelan gang, Tren De Aragua (TDA) as a foreign terrorist organization. Texas Department of Public Safety is aggressively targeting gang members who were released into country by Biden administration, he said. “I will not allow them to use Texas as a base of operations to terrorize our citizens,” Abbott said at a news conference in Houston. “Texas is a law and order state and I will ensure that law enforcement has every tool they need to keep our community safe.” Tren De Aragua is characterized as “MS13 on steroids,” Abbott said, referring...
  • AG Ken Paxton Unleashes Voter Fraud Crackdown: Investigates Reports of Illegally Registered Non-Citizens in Texas

    08/21/2024 2:25:01 PM PDT · by DFG · 5 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 08/21/2024 | Jim Hoft
    exas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a comprehensive investigation into allegations that nonprofit organizations are unlawfully registering noncitizens to vote in Texas. Investigators from the Texas Attorney General’s Election Integrity Unit have been actively conducting undercover operations to identify potential voter registration of noncitizens across the state. This is the same unit that arrested and booked Monica Mendez into the Victoria County Jail on June 23, 2021, after a Victoria County Grand Jury returned an indictment against her on multiple counts of election fraud: 7 counts of Illegal Voting (a 2nd Degree Felony), 8 counts of Unlawfully Assisting Voter...
  • I am launching an investigation into reports that organizations in Texas are illegally registering non-citizens to vote.

    08/21/2024 2:09:58 PM PDT · by george76 · 10 replies
    X twitter ^ | Aug 21, 2024 | Attorney General Ken Paxton
    Attorney General Ken Paxton.. I am launching an investigation into reports that organizations in Texas are illegally registering non-citizens to vote. Texans are deeply troubled by the possibility that organizations purporting to assist with voter registration are illegally registering noncitizens to vote in our elections. If eligible citizens can legally register to vote when conducting their business at a DPS office, why would they need a second opportunity to register with a booth outside? My office is investigating every credible report we receive regarding potential criminal activity that could compromise the integrity of our elections. The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally...
  • Greg Abbott Demands Biden-Harris Admin Pay Back Cost Of Illegal Migrant Medical Care In New Executive Order

    08/09/2024 5:03:45 PM PDT · by qaz123 · 8 replies
    The Daily Caller ^ | 09Aug | Hopkins
    Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday issued an executive order requiring hospitals report the annual costs of care for illegal migrants so the state can seek reimbursement from the federal government. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) is directed to collect information on illegal migrants who use state hospitals for emergency and inpatient care, according to the executive order. These costs will be reported every year to Abbott’s office and the Texas Legislature in order for state officials to demand reimbursement from the Biden-Harris administration.
  • Texas Can Keep Floating Border Barriers, Says Court in Biden Admin Lawsuit

    07/30/2024 9:22:43 PM PDT · by Reno89519 · 7 replies
    Breitbart ^ | July 30, 2024 | Bob Price
    The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that Texas can keep the buoys Governor Greg Abbott ordered installed in the Rio Grande. The Biden-Harris administration sued the State of Texas to stop Texas from placing the barriers in the river that separates Mexico from the U.S. “Biden tried to remove them. I fought to keep them in the water,” Abbott posted on social media. “That is exactly where they will stay.” ...
  • Biden admin flying migrants from overwhelmed California to Texas after Gov. Abbott’s crackdown deterred crossings — at $80K per flight

    07/16/2024 1:46:22 PM PDT · by DFG · 28 replies
    NY Post ^ | 07/15/2024 | Jennie Taer
    The Biden administration has been flying migrants from California, which is being overrun, to Texas — where Gov. Greg Abbott’s tough border control measures have deterred illegal crossings into the state, The Post can reveal. For the last month, pricey Border Patrol charter flights on commercial-sized planes have been hauling border crossers from San Diego to Texas’ Rio Grande Valley, sources told The Post. Sources say the flights, which have been operating every week, cost an estimated $80,000 and are known for being “extremely expensive.” Photos also show dozens of migrants shackled by the ankles boarding the planes, which are...
  • Prosecutor asks court to reverse ‘unlawful’ Daniel Perry pardon

    06/05/2024 10:34:02 AM PDT · by libstripper · 15 replies
    Nexstar Media, Inc,. via MSN ^ | June 5, 2024 | Erica Pauda
    USTIN (KXAN) — The Travis County district attorney’s office plans to take action against Gov. Greg Abbott in response to what it believes was an “unlawful” pardon of a man convicted of murder in the death of a Black Lives Matter protester in 2020. Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned Daniel Perry on May 16, one week after he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The former Army sergeant was working for Uber when he drove into a crowd of protesters who started kicking and hitting his car, court testimony showed. He shot protester Garrett Foster, himself an Air Force veteran,...
  • Abbott Trolls CA Over Police Officer Exodus to TX: 'Never Forget the Leftist Policies That You Fled'

    05/14/2024 8:56:23 AM PDT · by DFG · 4 replies
    Red State ^ | 05/14/2024 | Bob Hoge
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott responded to a Sunday article in Daily Mail that detailed the large number of cops ditching California for the pastures of Texas, which might not be greener but are certainly more friendly to law enforcement. Morale is low among peace officers in the Golden State as soft-on-crime woke district attorneys like LA’s George Gascón and Alameda County’s Pamela Price, along with criminal-loving measures like Proposition 47, make them feel undermined and unwelcome. Thousands of them are getting out of Dodge, the outlet reported: "…the Golden State is hemorrhaging thousands of police every year, with numbers down...
  • Biden wants control of Texas National Guard and Air Guard.

    05/08/2024 10:17:24 AM PDT · by eastexsteve · 35 replies
    Fox News / MSN ^ | 5/8/2024 | Louis Casiano
    "By departing from this sensible arrangement, and allowing the Secretaries to dismantle National Guard units on a whim, Legislative Proposal 480 would set a dangerous precedent," he added. "Members of the Texas National Guard must always stand ready to respond to natural disasters, civil disturbances, and cartel activity that threaten our way of life."
  • Gov. Greg Abbott orders Texas to ignore Biden administration’s new federal protections of LGBTQ+ students

    04/29/2024 2:45:04 PM PDT · by DFG · 7 replies
    Texas Tribune ^ | 04/29/2024 | SNEHA DEY
    Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the Texas Education Agency on Monday to ignore a Biden administration rule that expanded federal sex discrimination protections to include LGBTQ+ students. The Biden administration recently revised the rules for Title IX, the sweeping civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination at federally funded colleges and K-12 schools. The new rules, which are set to go into effect in August, redefined sex discrimination and sex-based harassment to prevent misconduct based on sex stereotypes, pregnancy, gender identity and sexual orientation. It codifies initial guidance documents that prompted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to sue the Biden administration...
  • Mayor Johnson Visits Maywood, Defends Legislative Record During Keynote Speech

    04/16/2024 7:48:50 AM PDT · by PBRCat · 3 replies
    Village Free Press ^ | April 15, 2024 | Michael Romain
    In 1985, Harold Washington issued an executive order that relaxed federal immigration laws under then-President Ronald Reagan, whose administration “aggressively used [the] detention of Central Americans as a device to deter migration from that region, where violent civil wars had caused tens of thousands to flee,” according to University of California Davis law professor Kevin Davis. Since Aug. 31, 2022, Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has bussed or flown to Chicago nearly 40,000 individuals seeking asylum in an effort to use the welcoming aspects of Washington’s executive order as a political cudgel. On April 14, Mayor Johnson called out the...
  • Greg Abbott Tells Bands Boycotting SXSW Festival over US Army Sponsorship, ‘Don’t Come Back’ to Texas

    03/13/2024 2:02:07 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 50 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 03/13/2024 | DAVID NG
    Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has responded to the dozens of bands who have pulled out of this year’s SXSW Festival in protest of its sponsorship deal with the U.S. Army. “Bye. Don’t come back,” Abbott wrote Tuesday in a post on X. “We are proud of the U.S. military in Texas. If you don’t like it, don’t come here.” Bands pull out of SXSW over U.S. Army sponsorship. Bye. Don’t come back. Austin remains the HQ for the Army Futures Command. San Antonio is Military City USA. We are proud of the U.S. military in Texas. If you don’t...
  • Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton declare victory in attack on House GOP defectors

    03/06/2024 3:11:22 AM PST · by cotton1706 · 14 replies
    Texas Tribune ^ | 3/6/24 | Zach Despart and Renzo Downey
    In a victory for Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, at least nine House Republicans appeared to have lost their primaries on Tuesday evening. Another eight members, at least, were also forced into runoffs this May 28 — including House Speaker Dade Phelan who was the No. 1 target of the far right.
  • Insurgent Republicans make major gains in Texas primaries

    03/06/2024 7:57:45 AM PST · by 11th_VA · 36 replies
    https://www.texastribune.org ^ | March 6, 2024 | by Karen Brooks Harper
    The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot as incumbent state House members, judges and other state leaders were forced into runoffs or defeated outright Texas voters on Tuesday handed more power to the insurgent wing of the Republican Party in an expensive and vengeful primary election, punishing GOP lawmakers, judges and a House speaker who defied hard-right state leaders and their supporters in recent years. The shockwaves rippled up and down the ballot. Most notably, Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, was forced into a runoff with a well-funded challenger, David Covey, after being targeted by ultra-conservative donors and activists, who...
  • Texas House District 55: Rep. Hugh Shine fighting for his political life (Hillary Hickland, School Choice Candidate leading)

    03/05/2024 9:08:44 PM PST · by 11th_VA · 6 replies
    KWTX ^ | March 5, 2024
    BELTON, Texas (KWTX) - Bell County voters head to the polls on Tuesday as four republican and one democratic candidates are up for election in the Texas House District 55 primary election. The issue at the center of the race revolves around school choice, which Governor Greg Abbott has made a priority. School choice is a concept that uses public tax dollars to help pay for private education and other educational services through an Education Savings Account, similar to Health Savings Accounts...He was one of 21 republicans to vote school choice out of a House bill last year. Shines says...
  • JUST IN: Federal Appeals Court Reverses Judge’s Ruling, Allows Texas Immigration Law That Allows Police to Arrest Illegals to Take Effect

    03/04/2024 11:24:45 AM PST · by Red Badger · 20 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | Mar. 4, 2024 1:00 pm | By Cristina Laila
    More good new out of the courts! The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a temporary stay of a federal judge’s decision to put a Texas law allowing police to arrest illegals on hold for a week. The appeals court ruling will stay in place unless the Supreme Court intervenes by March 9. US District Judge David Ezra, a Reagan appointee last Thursday issued a temporary injunction that blocked a Texas law that gave local police power to arrest illegal aliens. “The preliminary injunction granted by U.S. District Judge David Ezra pauses a law that was set to take effect...