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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a Democrat from Texas, tried to block a member of the Texas House from closing out a news conference on Monday in Illinois, thinking she held the coveted final speaking slot. Crockett joined a group of Texas House lawmakers who had fled to Illinois over the weekend to block Republicans from voting on a congressional redistricting map. - snip - Crockett took to the podium at the Warrenville, Illinois, news conference on Monday by first announcing, “I will be your last and final speaker.” - snip - Crocket said her fellow congressional Democrats’ response to Republican...

Governor Greg Abbott today filed an emergency petition in the Supreme Court of Texas seeking to remove from office Texas State Representative Gene Wu, the ringleader of the derelict Democrats who fled the state to break quorum. "I made clear in a formal statement on Sunday, August 3, that if the Texas House Democrats were not in attendance when the House reconvened at 3:00 PM on Monday, August 4, then action would be taken to seek their removal," said Governor Abbott. "They have not returned and have not met the quorum requirements. Representative Wu and the other Texas House Democrats...

Texas House of Representatives member Gene Wu (D-Houston) lamented on Twitter Friday evening that it would be “hard to serve a prison sentence” if President Donald Trump dies of Coronavirus. Not long after, the tweet was deleted and replaced with well wishes for a full recovery. The southwest Houston politician did not offer an apology for the original statement. Rep. Wu followed up the deleted tweet wishing the President “a full recovery. I’ll pray for him and send him healing thoughts.”

In the week since the Trump administration evicted the Chinese consulate in Houston, American leftists have begun to echo China’s assertion that allegations of intensive espionage by the communist country are overblown. The Intercept’s Mary Hvistendahl, who in the past has reported from Shanghai for Science magazine and other publications, for instance has characterized China’s reported activities as “hardly an imminent threat to U.S. national security that would require closing a consulate.” She nonetheless had to concede some extent of “technology transfer or intellectual property theft” by China in the recent past. Hvistendahl and others who oppose ousting the consulate...

Democrat Traitors Stand by China’s Spy Consulates Democrat sanctuary cities don’t just provide sanctuary for illegal aliens, but for enemy spies. Wed Jul 29, 2020 Daniel Greenfield 53 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. On Tuesday, Houston firefighters arrived at 3417 Montrose Boulevard. Neighbors had reported smoke and a burning smell at the Chinese consulate. The consulate, which had been given 72 hours to close by the State Department, did not let them in even as the smoke continued to waft into...

(photos available at website) In response to evidence of China’s intensified spying on the United States, the State Department has retaliated by expelling China’s consulate from its Houston premises, one of five across the nation. The U.S. has also delayed returning U.S. diplomats to China. To this measured, nonviolent answer to a national-security threat, progressives like Houston-based State Rep. Gene Wu (D-137th District) are venting their outrage. When called out on social media by this webzine and others for blaming America and shilling for the Chinese government, Wu and his allies have called eviction supporters extremists, warmongers, and—as if on...