Democracy Under Siege
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American democracy is under siege, by the Supreme Court declaring the president a king, a president that pardons insurrectionists that violently assaulted Capitol police, and by out-of-control ICE agents, in masks, seizing legal immigrants and US citizens.
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Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas.
So don't tell me this isn't about race…
So don't tell me this isn't about race…
August 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Crockett: We're talking about them going after Clyburn in South Carolina, Andre Carson in Indiana, Reverend Cleaver in Missouri. Emilia Sykes in Ohio, three of the four black representatives that we currently have in the state of Texas.
So don't tell me this isn't about race…
So don't tell me this isn't about race…
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Happy Independence Day, TX-30.
Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself.
We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.
Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself.
We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.
July 4, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Happy Independence Day, TX-30.
Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself.
We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.
Let this day be a reminder that democracy doesn’t protect itself.
We’ve got to keep showing up, speaking out, and standing firm—until freedom feels real for everyone.
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I’ve been thinking this all along. If they need to be deported, send them home. If they need to be locked up, the prisons should be here after a trial and guilty verdict. How can they just be shipped off to prison in another country and why are my tax dollars paying for it?
July 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I’ve been thinking this all along. If they need to be deported, send them home. If they need to be locked up, the prisons should be here after a trial and guilty verdict. How can they just be shipped off to prison in another country and why are my tax dollars paying for it?
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Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
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Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
June 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this?
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids.
She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms.
Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen.
🧵
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MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF
June 27, 2025 at 3:13 PM
MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF
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My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
June 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.
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BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
June 20, 2025 at 11:53 PM
BREAKING: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out after being released from ICE detention.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
"The Trump administration are doing their best to dehumanize everyone here," Khalil said.
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ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
Warren, Markey call for probe into ‘escalating aggression’ by federal agents in immigration raids - The Boston Globe
The Massachusetts senators called for the investigation in a letter sent Wednesday to the US Department of Homeland Security.
www.bostonglobe.com
June 20, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ICE's increasingly aggressive tactics are unacceptable and dangerous. They do not make us any safer.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
I’m calling for an independent investigation right now — this abuse of power must end.
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I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan.
We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.
That’s how democracy should function.
We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.
That’s how democracy should function.
June 17, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan.
We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.
That’s how democracy should function.
We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised.
That’s how democracy should function.
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Why are the American taxpayers footing the bill for 10 armed "ICE" agents to arrest one un-armed man in a suit at a courthouse when all they had to do, if just cause, was to have one person hand him a warrant? Where is the document? What was the reason? WHO are these guys? Why did they not show ID?
June 17, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Why are the American taxpayers footing the bill for 10 armed "ICE" agents to arrest one un-armed man in a suit at a courthouse when all they had to do, if just cause, was to have one person hand him a warrant? Where is the document? What was the reason? WHO are these guys? Why did they not show ID?
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holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.
June 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
holy shit -- acting US attorney Thompson details that Boelter went to the homes of two other elected officials after shooting Hoffman but before going to Hortman's house. One cop encountered him at the third house but thought he was a police officer.
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This doesn’t happen in America. This is what happens in dictatorships, when federal agents silence lawmakers for asking questions. A sitting U.S. Senator was physically removed and restrained by his own government. That’s not just a breach of protocol, it’s a warning sign.
June 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This doesn’t happen in America. This is what happens in dictatorships, when federal agents silence lawmakers for asking questions. A sitting U.S. Senator was physically removed and restrained by his own government. That’s not just a breach of protocol, it’s a warning sign.
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“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’”
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June 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
“.. ‘Whether people are legal or not, they don’t care,’ Alvarado said. ‘If chaos and fear is what they were after, they’ve accomplished it.’”
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Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.
June 13, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Mark this for the history books: “We’re talking about the president exercising his authority, and the president is of course limited to his authority. That’s the difference between a constitutional government and King George,” said Judge Charles Breyer.
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Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."
June 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Rep. Lynch: "In late March, ICE agents wearing masks detained Rümeysa Öztürk. And those of you who watched that abduction, when you compare the old films of the Gestapo grabbing people off the streets of Poland ... it does look like the Gestapo."
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Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
June 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Wow. California Sen. Alex Padilla is wrestled and detained by federal officers after showing up to DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference in LA. (video from Bill Melugin of Fox News)
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277 men remain imprisoned at CECOT after they were illegally rendered without due process from the United States.
(And one is, thankfully, back in the United States, facing Trumped up charges that were filed in a pathetic attempt to save face.)
(And one is, thankfully, back in the United States, facing Trumped up charges that were filed in a pathetic attempt to save face.)
June 12, 2025 at 7:49 PM
277 men remain imprisoned at CECOT after they were illegally rendered without due process from the United States.
(And one is, thankfully, back in the United States, facing Trumped up charges that were filed in a pathetic attempt to save face.)
(And one is, thankfully, back in the United States, facing Trumped up charges that were filed in a pathetic attempt to save face.)
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Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
BREAKING: SENATOR PADILLA HANDCUFFED AND THROWN TO THE GROUND AFTER BEING FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM PRESS CONFERENCE.
June 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Afterwards, Sen. Padilla framed what happened in exactly the right way:
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
"If this is how the Department of Homeland Security responds to a senator with a question...I can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers, in Los Angeles & throughout California & the country."
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Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
June 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Padilla: “We will hold this administration accountable”
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Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."
June 12, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."