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  • Update: Texas House GOP Caucus Votes Against Punishing AWOL Democrats Who Broke Quorum to Block Redistricting Efforts

    08/25/2025 4:16:12 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 30 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 25, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    Andy Hopper @AndyHopperTX The Texas House Republican caucus just voted against holding the Dems who fled accountable in any real way. This motion did NOT pass by the required majority.
  • Dade Phelan Calls It Quits One Session After Speakership Collapse

    08/24/2025 8:37:22 AM PDT · by ma_che62 · 13 replies
    Texas Scorecard ^ | 8/21/2025 | Brandon Waltens
    Critics...have pointed to his record as evidence of failed leadership. Attorney General Ken Paxton blasted Phelan’s legacy as “one of betrayal,” citing his reliance on Democrat votes and his role in the impeachment. Phelan’s opponents have also noted the repeated special sessions called by Gov. Greg Abbott during his time as speaker due to a failure to pass conservative priorities.
  • John Cornyn learns not to mess with Texas

    08/24/2025 8:29:34 AM PDT · by DFG · 18 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 08/24/2025 | Mike McDaniel
    “Don’t mess with Texas” is a homespun aphorism that expresses a genuine sentiment. Texans, and to a slightly lesser degree, Wyomingites, are independent cusses. They’re proud of their states and their beliefs, and pushed too far don’t whine about why government isn’t making things right. They handle it themselves and vote the useless weasels out at the next electoral opportunity. One such weasel is long-serving Texas Senator John Cornyn. Once thought a reliable Republican, he forgot which state he represents and stepped on a known Texas land mine: gun control. In Texas, weakness on the Second Amendment and cruelty to...
  • Illinois Judge Denies AG Paxton’s Request to Enforce Arrest Warrants Against AWOL Texas Democrats

    08/13/2025 6:02:43 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 12 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | August 13, 2025 | Cristina Laila
    An Illinois judge denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to enforce arrest warrants against derelict state House Democrats. The Democrats fled to Illinois last week to block the Republicans from voting on a new congressional redistricting map. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Governor Greg Abbott threatened the derelict Democrats with arrest and removal from office if they didn’t return to the Capitol. Judge Scott Larson said Paxton failed to “present a legal basis for the court to obtain subject matter jurisdiction over this cause of action…” The Hill reported: An Illinois judge on Wednesday declined Texas Attorney...
  • Exclusive — ‘Lock Him Up’: Texas AG Paxton Seeks to Jail Beto O’Rourke over Alleged Violation of Court Order Barring Fundraising for Statehouse Democrat Fugitives

    08/13/2025 12:11:52 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 20 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12 Aug 2025 | Matthew Boyle
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state court clear the way for law enforcement officials to arrest Democrat Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke for allegedly violating a court order barring him from fundraising for the statehouse Democrats who fled Texas to delay the redistricting process for U.S. congressional seats in the state. Paxton has filed a motion for contempt in court against O’Rourke, alleging that he violated a Tarrant County, Texas, judge’s order and therefore is subject to a fine of up to $500 and jail time of up to six months behind bars. “Beto told me ‘to come...
  • Beto O’Rourke Is The Political Wart That Won’t Go Away

    08/13/2025 12:06:13 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 30 replies
    The Federalist ^ | August 13, 2025 | M.D. Kittle
    The sugar daddy of temper-tantrum-throwing Texas Democrats appears to be ramping up for another losing political campaign. Someone my family knows well — let’s just call her an old family friend to protect the subject of this, uh, sensitive story — for years battled a nasty plantar wart on the ball of her foot. Our friend and her doctors tried just about everything shy of amputation. Salicylic acid treatments. Prescription medicines. Cryotherapy. Immunotherapy. Minor surgeries (electrodesiccation and curettage). She couldn’t get rid of it. That freeloading wart just wouldn’t take the hint. The unpleasant growth hung around so long she...
  • VIDEO: "Beto" O'Rourke Is Still a Punk

    08/13/2025 8:29:41 AM PDT · by PJ-Comix · 18 replies
    Rumble ^ | August 13, 2025 | DUmmie FUnnies
    VIDEOPerennial LOSING candidate Robert Francis (who calls himself "Beto" for political reasons) O'Rourke continues his LOSING streak. Not content with being a LOSING punk rocker dressed like a lamb in white tights, O'Rourke went on to become a three time election LOSER in the past few years. His latest shtick is remaking himself as a leader of the resistance to redistricting in Texas by paying for the Democrat legislators of that state to split to highly Gerrymandered Illinois. Unfortunately for poor Beto this latest effort is also LOSING since those legislators are now reported to be returning to Texas where...
  • Beto O'Rourke: When Dems Take Power Back "We're Gonna Drive That Car Like We Stole It," And Legalize Every Immigrant

    08/10/2025 8:40:08 PM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 122 replies
    Real Clear Politics ^ | 08 10 2025 | Tim Hains
    Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke called on Democrats to do more than "comprehensive immigration reform" the next time they take back the White House and Congressional majorities, at a rally on Saturday against the GOP effort to redistrict Texas congressional districts. "We absolutely failed to live up to the expectations that we set, so next time we win power, we're going to drive that car like we stole it," he said at the rally in Fort Worth called "The People vs. The Power Grab." BETO O'ROURKE: Check this out. "You know, Democrats -- present company excluded -- have talked an...
  • REPORT: Plane That Carried Texas Democrats to Illinois Was Funded by Beto O’Rourke’s PAC (Prosecute Bribery)

    08/06/2025 5:12:46 AM PDT · by C210N · 42 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 8/5/2025 | Mike LaChance
    When Texas Democrats fled to Illinois a few days ago in an effort to stop the state legislature from moving forward with redistricting efforts, they traveled there by private plane. How did they afford such a thing? Beto O’Rourke’s PAC apparently paid for it.
  • Beto O'Rourke calls for Democrats to be 'ruthless' in pursuit of power, backs Newsom's gerrymandering proposal

    ...Beto O’Rourke called for Democrats to be "ruthless" in their pursuit of power and endorsed partisan gerrymandering. "We have to get serious. We have to be absolutely ruthless about getting back in power...
  • Beto O’Rourke: ‘Texas Could Possibly Be in Play’ for Kamala Harris

    08/12/2024 6:13:41 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 49 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/12/2024 | Pam Key
    Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) said Monday on MSNBC’s “Inside” that Vice President Kamala Harris could possibly win the state of Texas in November. Host Jen Psaki said, “I want to ask you, you’ve seen a lot of presidential candidates run. Vice President Harris and Tim Walz are clearly creating a lot of excitement out there. Do you think this is enough? Is Texas a pipe dream or should people hold their hope out for Texas in 2024 or is it going to take a little longer?”
  • Dirty Money: Beto Clings to $100K from Sam Bankman-Fried After Pledge To Return Tainted Crypto Cash

    07/19/2023 5:49:15 AM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    Washington Free Beacon ^ | July 18, 2023 | Chuck Ross
    Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke won praise last year after he pledged to return a massive campaign contribution from Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced cryptocurrency kingpin charged with defrauding customers out of billions of dollars. But campaign finance records show the failed political candidate has not lived up to that promise nearly eight months later. O'Rourke has kept $100,000 that Bankman-Fried donated to O'Rourke's failed gubernatorial campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures released this week. A spokesman for O'Rourke said in November that the campaign had returned an "unsolicited" $1 million donation from Bankman-Fried just before the Nov. 8 election. O'Rourke received...
  • Beto O’Rourke Pushes More Gun Control After Mexican Male Kills 5 People in TX

    04/30/2023 7:35:25 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 26 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 04/30/2023 | Awr Hawkins
    Unsuccessful Senate, presidential, and gubernatorial hopeful Beto O’Rourke responded to news a Mexican male shot and killed five people in Cleveland, Texas, by pushing for more gun control. Breitbart News reported the 38-year-old suspect, Francisco Oropeza, allegedly shot and killed five people after being asked to quit shooting his gun in the front yard. ABC News quoted San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers saying, “My understanding is that the victims, they came over to the fence and said ‘Hey could [you not do your] shooting out in the yard? We have a young baby that’s trying to go to sleep,’...
  • UChicago selects failed candidates Beto O’Rourke, Tim Ryan to teach politics

    02/05/2023 2:09:13 PM PST · by DFG · 20 replies
    The College Fix ^ | 02/03/2023 | JONATHAN DRAEGER
    Pair has lost five races in the past three cycles combined Two failed Democratic political candidates will bring their experience to the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics as fellows for winter-spring seminars. Robert O’Rourke, also known as “Beto,” recently completed a trifecta of losses — in 2018, he lost in a Texas U.S. Senate bid against Ted Cruz, in 2020 he lost in the Democratic primaries for president, and in 2022 he lost in a gubernatorial bid against Republican Greg Abbott. Fellow Democrat Tim Ryan knows something about losing as well — he lost to political outsider J.D. Vance...
  • Report: Beto O’Rourke Kept $100k in Sam Bankman-Fried Donations

    01/25/2023 1:18:54 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 19 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 01-25-2023 | Sean Moran
    Failed Texas gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke has claimed that he returned a $1 million donation from disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried; however, it appears that he did not return all of the money, according to a report. A spokesman for O’Rourke said in November that the campaign returned the “unsolicited” $1 million donation Bankman-Fried gave the Texas Democrat in October. An O’Rourke spokesman said that the refund was issued prior to FTX’s bankruptcy and the discovery of Bankman-Fried’s reportedly illegal business practices. However, the Washington Free Beacon found that the O’Rourke team did not return all of the money:
  • Beto O'Rourke returned $1 million contribution from disgraced FTX crypto magnate

    11/29/2022 11:37:10 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 17 replies
    Houston Chronicle ^ | November 29, 2022 | By Michael Murney
    Beto O'Rourke returned a $1 million donation from controversial cryptocurrency magnate Sam Bankman-Fried less than a week before Election Day, the Texas Tribune's James Barragán reported Tuesday. FTX, Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency exchange, was valued at $32 billion before its abrupt collapse earlier this month sparked widespread panic amongst crypto investors and industry leaders. FTX filed for bankruptcy and Bankman-Fried stepped down as its top executive on Nov. 11, just three days after Election Day. Chris Evans, an O'Rourke campaign spokesperson, told Barragán that the decision to return Bankman-Fried's donation was not connected to the controversy now swirling around Bankman-Fried and FTX....
  • Judge blocks Beto O'Rourke from funding Texas Dems who fled to stop GOP redistricting vote

    08/08/2025 8:14:54 PM PDT · by Libloather · 29 replies
    Fox News ^ | 8/08/25 | Alec Schemmel
    A Texas judge ruled Friday against Beto O’Rourke and his nonprofit in a case brought by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, who accused them of illegally raising funds to support Democratic lawmakers fleeing the state to block GOP redistricting legislation. Tarrant County District Judge Megan Fahey handed down a temporary restraining order Friday evening against O'Rourke, a former congressman and Democratic presidential candidate, and his group, Powered by People, over alleged "unlawful fundraising practices" tied to efforts to support Texas Democrats who fled the state — including funding air travel, lodging, logistics and daily fines. "Defendants have and will continue...
  • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Moves to Declare Every Runaway Democrat Seat Vacant

    08/08/2025 1:59:55 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 80 replies
    X.com ^ | 3:41 PM · Aug 8, 2025 | The Gateway Pundit✓ @gatewaypundit
    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/just-texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-moves-declare/Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now going nuclear to ensure the Texas fleebaggers never return to power.Paxton announced Friday afternoon that he has filed a “historic” lawsuit with the Texas Supreme Court to declare all 13 seats vacant.“The rogue Democrat legislators who fled the state have abandoned their duties, leaving their seats vacant,” Paxton said in a statement. “These cowards deliberately sabotaged the constitutional process and violated the oath they swore to uphold.”“Their out-of-state rebellion cannot go unchecked, and the business of Texas must go on,” he added. “I have asked the Texas Supreme Court to declare what has...
  • Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's wife files for divorce on 'biblical grounds' after 'recent discoveries'

    07/11/2025 10:06:02 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 35 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 07/11/2025 | Michael Gryboski
    The wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says she is filing for divorce from the polarizing political figure, citing “biblical grounds” for her decision. Texas state Sen. Angela Paxton took to her official X account on Thursday afternoon to announce that she filed for divorce after 38 years of marriage. “I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage,” she tweeted. “I move forward with complete confidence...
  • JUST IN: Ken Paxton’s Wife Announces Divorce in Shock Statement — Citing ‘Recent Discoveries’

    07/10/2025 11:47:07 AM PDT · by Miami Rebel · 167 replies
    Mediaite ^ | July 10, 2025 | Zachary Lemaa
    Texas State Sen. Angela Paxton (R) announced on Thursday that she has filed for divorce from her husband, Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate Ken Paxton (R) after “recent discoveries.” “Today, after 38 years of marriage, I filed for divorce on biblical grounds. I believe marriage is a sacred covenant and I have earnestly pursued reconciliation. But in light of recent discoveries, I do not believe that it honors God or is loving to myself, my children, or Ken to remain in the marriage,” Angela Paxton wrote on X. “I move forward with complete confidence that God is always working...