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Texas Democrats Flee Voter Integrity

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On Monday, for the second time, Democrat lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives denied a quorum for a planned vote on the Republicans’ election integrity bill. Democrats fled the state on chartered private jets to Washington, DC, in an orchestrated stunt to fight the passage of what they falsely labeled a “voter suppression bill.”

“Instead of showing up to represent Texans and pass popular election integrity laws, Texas Democrats walked out of the special session, boarded private jets to D.C., and abandoned their constituents,” observed Jessica Anderson, the executive director of Heritage Action.

In response, Republican state representatives voted to apply Texas law and have those absconding Democrat lawmakers arrested upon their return for refusing to show up for work. Of course, Democrats and their Leftmedia cohorts are decrying this vote as an act of tyranny. However, there is no legal support for such hyperbole: The Texas constitution provides arrest as a remedy for legislators who abdicate their duties.

Elaborating on the decision to hold the Democrat lawmakers to account, Republican Governor Greg Abbott explained, “Once they step back into the state, they will be arrested and brought back to the Capitol and we will be conducting business.”

The Democrat lawmakers ridiculously portrayed themselves as “freedom fighters” who are suffering in the fight to uphold democracy, but Republicans and conservative pundits were quick to point out the hypocrisy underlying their protest.

Charlie Kirk rhetorically asked, “I wonder if the Texas Democrat reps. who abandoned their constituents to avoid a vote and had to show an ID to board their getaway plane?”

U.S. Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) astutely noted: “If these Texas election reforms were made law today, not a single voter would notice. The only people who would notice are the Democrat activists that try to fill out other people’s ballots.”

Fox News’s Tucker Carlson planned the Texas Democrats, stating: “Effectively these freedom fighters, the modern Che Guevaras, these crossers of the Edmund Pettis bridge slash Chipotle, have shut down Texas’ democratically-elected government. That’s how you know they’re defending democracy. That and the private planes.”

Finally, Governor Abbott blasted the Democrats’ blatantly false narrative surrounding the Texas voter integrity bill, pointedly explaining that the legislation actually “makes it easier to vote but harder to cheat.” Precisely. ~The Patriot Post

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bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden’s Voter Integrity Lies
Debase the Presidency
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Who writes this crap for the American president?

A younger, more cognitively sound bumble/socialist/  scumbag/liar-Joe Biden would never have uttered such ridiculous falsehoods. Well, okay, maybe he would’ve. But at least he’d have known they were ridiculous falsehoods. At least he’d have known he was disgracing the office of the presidency. But this guy? We’re not so sure.

Against the deeply ironic backdrop of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, bumble/socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden claimed that the very modest voter reform efforts of certain Republican-controlled state legislatures such as Georgia’s pose “the most dangerous threat to voting and the integrity of free and fair elections in our history.”

Huh? What Republicans are engaged in is precisely the opposite of that.

Sadly, though, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden was just getting warmed up. “The 21st-century Jim Crow assault is real,” he said. “It’s unrelenting, and we are going to challenge it vigorously.”

Jim Crow? We suppose we should be grateful he didn’t say “Jim Crow 2.0,” or “Jim Crow on steroids,” or the Pulitzer-worthy “Jim Eagle,” all of which he’s already uttered at one time or another.

Democrats, though, appear to be fighting a losing battle. As Power Line’s Paul Mirengoff writes: “All Blacks have to prove they are who they say they are — same as Whites and everyone else. More than 80 percent of Americans support this common sense requirement. More than 60 percent of Democrats do. … Moreover, 69 percent of Blacks support voter ID laws.”

As for Jim Crow — what it was, and what it meant — The Daily Signal offers a brief history lesson:

The Jim Crow era following the Civil War saw a series of racist laws imposed in the South at the state and local levels for about 100 years. Some of these Jim Crow laws overtly denied blacks the right to vote and, while they lasted into the mid- to late 1960s, arguably amounted to a much more serious threat to democracy than requiring voters to show a photo ID.

Such laws required poll tests and other obstacles for black voters before they could cast a ballot. The laws also restricted employment, housing, and educational opportunities for black Americans. Schools, parks, recreation facilities, and other public buildings routinely were segregated throughout the South, as were public restrooms and water fountains.

Undeterred by history and fundamental decency, bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden let loose with the worst of it. There is “an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote,” he warned. “We’re facing the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War. That’s not hyperbole — since the Civil War. Confederates back then never breached the Capitol as insurrectionists did on Jan. 6. I’m not saying this to alarm you. I’m saying this because you should be alarmed.”

That’s not hyperbole? Has anyone else noticed bumble/ socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden keeps using that word whenever he’s trying to sell us a sack of manure? We don’t think “hyperbole” means what he thinks it means. In fact, we’re sure it doesn’t. Heck, his comparison of the Republican Party’s voter reform efforts to the calamity of the Civil War — a conflict that caused the deaths of 600,000 Americans, more than all other American wars combined — is the very definition of hyperbole.

Maybe bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden should’ve taken a trip to Gettysburg before sharing such idiocy with the American people. Or maybe just a trip to bloody Shiloh, to our national military park there, on the banks of the Tennessee, about which General Ulysses S. Grant once wrote, “I saw an open field so covered with dead that it would have been possible to walk across the clearing, in any direction, stepping on dead bodies, without a foot touching the ground.”

In terms of casualties, Shiloh was just the sixth-worst battle of the Civil War, behind Chancellorsville, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, Chickamauga, and, of course, Gettysburg, whose casualties were more than double those of Shiloh.

But, yeah, bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe, the GOP’s efforts to bring an honest vote to our elections is “the most significant test of our democracy since the Civil War.”

Shame on you, Mr. President. Shame. On. You. ~The Patriot Post

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Is the GOP Making Inroads Among Hispanics?
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We’ve devoted a lot of column space to the 2020 election and its aftermath, but the Pew Research Center recently came out with its own comprehensive look at the 2020 electorate. This Pew report inspired some additional commentary by one Steven Shepard at Politico.

Shepard, however, focused on the bad news by stating: “The Trump gains with Hispanic voters have some Republicans optimistic they can pick up congressional seats in Texas next year, along with holding the two South Florida House seats they flipped in 2020. But the Pew report suggests those gains could be fleeting: While Trump narrowed his loss among Hispanic voters between 2016 and 2020, Democrats won them in 2018 House races by their widest margin, 47 points.”

The Politico piece also focused on what could be considered a backhanded compliment about Trump’s increased share of the Hispanic vote. As the Pew study noted: “Even as bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden held on to a majority of Hispanic voters in 2020, Trump made gains among this group overall. There was a wide educational divide among Hispanic voters: Trump did substantially better with those without a college degree than college-educated Hispanic voters (41% vs. 30%).” Unfortunately, the Pew data did not break down this factoid in 2016, and the 2018 election Pew used is an apples-to-oranges comparison, because Trump wasn’t on the ballot and some congressional races in Hispanic-heavy districts had either a barely noticed Republican alternative or none at all.

More important, taking Hispanic people as a single demographic group ignores significant cultural and economic differences between them. Mexicans, for example, have different priorities than Puerto Ricans, who both have concerns at variance with the Cuban or Central American populations. One example: It’s long been known that the biggest political distinction among Latino voters is that Cubans are much more Republican than other Hispanics — a phenomenon that plays out most prominently in south Florida.

However, there are other trends that Democrats have noticed — the most important of which was the working-class Hispanic deficit, which has manifested itself most in southern Texas, where local elections have recently trended toward the GOP. There’s no guarantee that this local balloting trend will apply nationwide next year, but Republicans have placed themselves in a position to thrive with working-class Hispanics by using the same issues that endeared them to other working-class voters: an aggressive stance on trade and energy independence, and a focus on kitchen table issues, coupled with a more traditional outlook on the social side.

“We’ve all said Latinos aren’t a monolith, but in the [Rio Grande] Valley in particular, there are three major employers,” said Chuck Rocha, founder of Nuestro PAC, a national group targeting Hispanic voters. Speaking to the Texas Tribune, Rocha added, “There’s border security, there’s the local government and there’s oil and gas, and all of those folks don’t line up with the value set that woke brown consultants or woke white consultants in New York or D.C. are selling as a national narrative to these Democrats.”

Also quoted there was outgoing Democrat Representative Filemon Vena, who represents south Texas’s 34th Congressional District. Vena cut straight to the heart of what concerns working-class Hispanics, noting about his district’s energy industry workers: “These guys are out busting their ass, leaving their homes for two or three weeks at a time, working night and day, but they’re making upwards of $80,000 a year. If they don’t do that, they’re back at home looking for a job that’s paying a third. And if you’re telling somebody, ‘We want you to go make $30,000 instead of $80,000,’ you think they’re gonna vote for you?”

Over the last 50 years, as the Hispanic population grew from just a tiny percentage of Americans to the nation’s largest minority group, the two parties have fought over this voting bloc. While the Democrats have had the upper hand for most of that period, and while Republicans have catered to them in an effort to negate that advantage — Ronald Reagan’s 1986 amnesty for illegal immigrants comes to mind — we may now be seeing a situation where neither party can count on the Hispanic vote. This means that both sides must put in the work to secure their support. And that’s as it should be.

Perhaps Hispanics have noticed the detrimental effects on the black community of having thrown in entirely with the Democrats and their cradle-to-grave welfare statism. And perhaps they’ve decided that the same fate isn’t for them. A good choice. ~The Patriot Post

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They’re Coming for Your Text Messages
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If leftists weren’t afraid of losing the arguments, they wouldn’t feel that irrepressible need to censor us. But they are, so they do.

Big Tech, being the Left’s favorite speech suppressor, is their weapon of choice. They’ve censored regular folks on social media, they’ve censored leading newspapers, and they’ve censored a U.S. president. And now, if you’re engaged in wrongthink about the COVID-19 vaccine, they’re gunning for you.

As Politico reports, “bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden allied groups, including the Democratic National Committee, are also planning to engage fact-checkers more aggressively and work with SMS carriers to dispel misinformation about vaccines that is sent over social media and text messages.”

You read that right: bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden probably doesn’t know it, but he and his fellow Democrats are coming for your private text messages, your one-to-one communications. And if you’ve got some “misinformation” in there — misinformation like, oh, COVID-19 came from a virology lab leak in Wuhan, China, or Hydroxychloroquine may be a safe and effective therapeutic for certain coronavirus patients — well, our always-accurate, always-trustworthy, never-agenda-drive government bureaucrats are going to fix it for you.

Never fear. Anthony “Two Masks Are Better Than One” Fauci is from the government and he’s here to help. “The big misinterpretation that Fox News or whomever else is saying is that they are essentially envisioning a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you’ve got to do something that you don’t want to do,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s absolutely not the case. It’s trusted messengers who are part of the community doing that — not government officials.”

Whew. It’s only “trusted messengers.” For a second there, we thought the bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration was planning to go “community by community, neighborhood by neighborhood and oftentimes, door to door — literally knocking on doors” to make sure folks got the jab.

We’re glad Tony Fauci cleared that up.

Leftists used to be in favor of free speech before they were against it. Their favorite free speech cliché, in fact, goes back more than a century: I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

It’s remarkable, really, this devolution of a political party that at one time was a champion of free speech and individual liberty. And it gets us to wondering: What’s next? What’s the next usurpation? What’s the next encroachment they’ll make upon our civil rights?

On Monday night, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson had this to say:

Historians will assess it. They will likely record the early days of COVID-19 as a turning point in our society — an unprecedented assault on our most basic civil liberties that somehow very few people seemed to notice when it first started happening. The usual stooges and think tank libertarians assured us at the time none of it was a big deal. Soulless multinational media monopolies censoring essential medical information? No problem. That’s how the free market works. Build your own Google if you don’t like it. Start your own NIH. And anyway, in private you can still say what you want. You’re still free. It’s not like this is North Korea. So calm down, conspiracy nut.

We don’t feel like conspiracy nuts. We feel like folks who are having something taken away, slowly but steadily.

There was a time in this country when folks were free. When we had a right to be wrong. When we had a right to communicate ideas and information that weren’t necessarily pre-approved by our government.

There was a time. ~The Patriot Post

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GARY BAUER
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Kids Wave U.S. Flag … in Cuba

As reported, anti-communist demonstrations erupted all over Cuba this weekend. Within hours, the communist regime had taken down the social media platforms that had promoted the demonstrations.

But before the communist tyrants managed to shut off the Internet, one inspiring image escaped the island nation. It was an image of Cuban demonstrators, at great personal risk, marching behind an American flag. That image should warm the hearts of all right-thinking Americans.

American symbols have often inspired people yearning to be free. A year ago, when they were still free, the people of Hong Kong paraded through the streets proudly waving American flags. They also created a replica of our Statue of Liberty, as did the brave Chinese students in Tiananmen Square back in 1989.

This should make all Americans proud. But it should also break our hearts. Too often, our flag only makes news here in America when some spoiled young athlete turns their back on it or Antifa/BLM rioters set it on fire.

As Rep. Jim Jordan noted, “Protestors in Cuba and Hong Kong seem to love the American flag more than some of our Olympic athletes.” Pathetic, but true.

We just witnessed a privileged American athlete become furious when the national anthem was played while she was on the platform accepting her medal. But another person of color protesting in Cuba is inspired by the Stars and Stripes. (By the way, black Americans overwhelmingly oppose such disrespectful temper tantrums by U.S. athletes and others.)

In communist Cuba, the government-run schools teach students that America is evil. But countless Cuban youth don’t believe that. In this country, Marxists in our government-run schools are teaching our children that America is evil. And in far too many cases, the freest young people in the world actually believe it.

While I cheer the oppressed people of Cuba carrying the American flag, I pray that someday soon, young Americans buying into socialism and Marxism will wake up and embrace freedom.

In the meantime, I’m all for a student exchange program where we send our socialist-loving students to Cuba and Cuba sends us their kids who love America.

Leftists Flee Texas

Texas is historically known for the courage displayed at the Alamo. Brave Texans who had the chance to flee the fort and save their own lives instead held their ground and fought to the death. It's one reason why Texas is part of the United States today and not part of Mexico.

But instead of holding their ground, Texas Democrats cut and ran. They fled the state on Monday in order to prevent a quorum so that legislation ensuring that only legal votes are cast in our elections cannot pass.

These cowards shamelessly ran to private jets to fly to Washington, D.C. Presumably, they had to show IDs before they got on board – the very requirement they are fighting against now! By the way, who paid for these private jets?

To top it off, they were photographed on the packed plane all smiles. Not one of them was wearing a mask. These are the same finger-wagging liberals constantly demanding that everybody else must wear a mask, especially on planes. Apparently, they can do whatever they want.

This political crisis in Texas is why so many Americans are losing confidence in our elections.

Think about this: bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden has opened the southern border. On average, at least 150,000 illegal aliens are crossing into the United States every month. Many are being taken to cities all over Texas and beyond. At the same time, Texas Democrats are opposing efforts to ensure that only legal U.S. citizens are voting in our elections.

The left is bringing millions of illegal immigrants into the country, and then gutting election safeguards. We all know what’s going on. It’s a brazen combination guaranteed to undermine the integrity of our elections. And it must be stopped!

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is warning that these runaway legislators will be arrested as soon as they return to the state. Not to needlessly demoralize anyone, but why didn’t Texas Republicans have a plan to stop this? Democrats have done it before.

Was there no indication at all that this was being planned? If so, law enforcement officers should have been sent to the airport to detain them before they “escaped” here to the D.C. Swamp.

Denver’s Gain; Atlanta’s Pain

The MLB All-Star game is tonight. I’m sure the small businesses of Denver hit so hard by COVID lockdowns are thrilled to host the game. No doubt a lot of money will be made.

But I am praying for the many minority-owned small businesses in Atlanta that were looking forward to this day to help them recover after the pandemic. They were deprived of this relief for one reason: Georgia Democrats and their corporate cronies were willing to go to the mat to ensure that their election fraud continued unimpeded.

The collective left – the Democrat Party, the media, woke corporations and weak sports franchises – should be ashamed of themselves. In the name of diversity and justice, they took a huge opportunity away from an overwhelmingly minority city and sent it to an overwhelmingly white city in a state with similar voting laws.

All the while, they accused Republicans of being “racists.” The chutzpah is beyond amazing!

Kudos to the Republican National Committee. The RNC is running ads during tonight’s game reminding viewers that “this was supposed to be Atlanta’s night,” but the people of Georgia “got played.” You can see the ad here.

Killer Camps

It’s summer, and many parents and children eagerly welcomed the return of summer camps where kids can participate in a wide variety of outdoor events and educational opportunities.

But what if your kids were learning how to kidnap soldiers, train with automatic weapons, target police officers on a shooting range, crawl under barbed wire and fire anti-tank missiles, all while chanting “Death to Israel!”

What? That doesn’t sound appropriate to you? Well, I should certainly hope not because it isn’t appropriate at all. It’s child abuse, but that’s exactly what’s happening at summer camps in Gaza run by Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Every year this outrageous news is breathlessly reported by the media, but it’s the same old story. It’s been going on for decades, and the world tolerates it.

Palestinians are training their children for war, teaching them to hate Israel and how to kill Jews. These are actual neo-Nazis, and bumble/socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden just restored funding to them.  ~The Patriot Post

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