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Rep. Jason Villalba is standing by a Tweet he made during Tuesday’s Democratic debate that included an image connecting presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders’ standing as a “Democratic socialist” to Nazism. Under fire from Texas Democrats, the Dallas Republican said it was “ridiculous” to say that he compared Democrats to Nazis in the social media message. Villalba said the Tweet’s attached image, which refers to Nazis, was just a “meme that was floating around the web.” He pointed instead to the text of his Tweet, which blasted the Democratic Party for being “filled with Democratic Socialists and soft socialists.” “It’s perfectly...

A bill in the Texas House authored by State Rep. Jason Villalba (R-Dallas) would allow a school district to require mental health evaluations of students at the sole discretion of the school. This could lead to wrongful mental health determinations, and result in suspensions or alternative education placements of students, even creating an offense. Villalba has received much negative criticism for his previously proposed House Bill 2918, which would criminalize bloggers, independent journalists and regular citizens in filming police officers, which Breitbart Texas reported. The Dallas rep also authored HB 2006, which would negate religious and philosophical exemptions that have...

Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Texas) has found himself at the center of controversy after filing a bill that would make it a crime for bloggers and independent journalists — as well as regular citizens — to film police officers. Despite the backlash from free speech advocates, Villalba is insisting that his bill “does not infringe on constitutional rights” or “limit liberty in any way.” Villalba’s bill would also make it illegal for private citizens to record their own interactions with police officers. In fact, the language is so broad, in prohibiting “documenting” the police officer’s activities, that taking notes...