Texas State Rep (
#HD10
). Native Texan. Aggie. Husband. Father of 4. Former small biz owner, HHS Chief of Staff, Trump and Bush Admins. Believer in freedom.
🚨 CONTRACT WITH TEXAS
For years Texas House Speakers have betrayed Republican voters by putting radical Democrats in charge and colluding with them to destroy liberty.
That insanity must end.
Voters repudiated
@DadePhelan
's failed, liberal leadership team in last month’s…
🚨BREAKING: CMS just EXEMPTED officials hired to enforce their vaccine mandate...from the vaccine mandate! My office obtained the memo. Stunning hypocrisy. These mandates must end.
#txlege
🚨Senate finds Paxton NOT GUILTY🚨
Speaker Phelan must step down now for empowering this Democrat effort while killing Republican priorities.
I am also demanding the State Auditor investigate how much tax money this wasted.
Full statement👇
#txlege
#PaxtonImpeachmentTrial
🚨Breaking: Governor
@GregAbbott_TX
just demanded legislation to ban all
#COVID
vaccine mandates next session. The Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act is the boldest bill in America. Statement from Senator-Elect
@Mayes_Middleton
and me.
#txlege
#HB81
🚨BREAKING: Odessa becomes first Texas city to BAN ALL COVID VACCINE MANDATES!
@CityofOdessa
did what
#Txlege
House failed to do and PROTECTED MEDICAL FREEDOM for every resident by passing the Texas
#COVID
Vaccine Freedom Act.
Proud to partner w/them. What city will be next?
🚨Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
and I exposed how DEMOCRATS really control the GOP-dominated TEXAS House of Representatives...
And why we need more bold conservatives like
@AndyHopperTX
in
#txlege
.
Watch👇
(Warning: if you're a Texas Republican, prepare to get angry.)
🚨Speaker Dade Phelan and his Democrat parliamentarian just decided to KEEP
#COVID
VACCINE MANDATES in Texas… for college students, nursing students, and medical students. Unbelievable!
Why does he want to force COVID vaccines on students?
Watch!👇
#txlege
This morning I stood up for Texas and America by suing the Biden Administration for ILLEGALLY disregarding the Title 42 Order we created when I was Trump's Chief of Staff at HHS. They turned the most secure border in history into the
#BidenBorderCrisis
. Time to fight back!
🚨BREAKING:
#Txlege
Senate Committee PASSES a ban on COVID vaccine mandates!
Thank you
@mayes_middleton
and
@LoisKolkhorst
.
(Note: despite bold bills already being written and filed in the House, not a single bill has even been referred to a committee.)
Special Session
#3
of the Texas Legislature will begin Monday, October 9th at 1:00 PM.
Now is the time for Texas to deliver school choice for every family, protect Texans and Americans against Biden’s border crisis, and ban all COVID vaccine mandates.
Let's get to work.
Post-Constitutional America.
Unelected bureaucrats now both write and enforce law; by edict.
Congress has made itself irrelevant… except to occasionally vote to spend more money we don’t have.
Every elected Republican not fighting this is complicit.
#txlege
@HouseGOP
If you’re more outraged it’s taking a few days to elect a
#speaker
than you are that we’re 31 TRILLION in debt, you’re priorities are wrong.
#txlege
@HouseGOP
🚨Proud to announce I just filed the TEXAS COVID VACCINE FREEDOM FOR STUDENTS ACT to ban
#covid
vaccine mandates in colleges, nursing, and medical schools!
This is necessary because Speaker Phelan and his DEMOCRAT PARLIAMENTARIAN indefensibly protected those mandates.
#txlege
ICYMI: Excerpt from my floor speech opposing the impeachment of Attorney General
@KenPaxtonTX
.
"Not a shred of anything even closely approximating new and sufficient evidence has been presented to this body."
Watch 👇
#txlege
#paxton
#PaxtonImpeachment
Texans can never own their homes and are being taxed out of them. Property taxes are unethical and should be eliminated. Until then, property tax hikes should require an election. Proud to file
#HB2220
&
#HB2221
to put taxpayers back in charge.
#txlege
(1/x)
🚨Speaker
@DadePhelan
caught lying at the polls... claiming he did NOT kill
#HB20
(the Border Protection Unit Act).
Well, he did... and it's on camera.
Watch him keep us from even debating the bill because a DEMOCRAT objected to it.👇
#txlege
#BidenBorderInvasion
Texans are shocked to learn that Speaker
@DadePhelan
lets an OBAMA staffer control the Texas House of Representatives.
This is Texas.
We must do better.
Watch👇
#txlege
@DentonCountyGOP
🚨BREAKING: Texas State Library & Archives Commission just informed me they will leave the American Library Association!
I asked them last month to cut ties after electing a radical socialist and self-described "Marxist lesbian" as President.
Huge win! Full Statement👇
#txlege
I oppose the impeachment of AG
#Paxton
; not because I am convinced of his innocence, but because
#txlege
House leadership made no attempt to adequately document his guilt nor to demonstrate that this is anything other than a sham railroading of a political enemy. Full Statement👇
I hope the Democrats enjoyed their reign of the Texas House… because 2024 is the last year they’ll be committee chairs or parliamentarians.
#MakeTheTexasHouseRepublicanAgain
#Txlege
The biggest frauds in Texas are elected “Republicans” who tell voters they’re fighting for conservative priorities… then vote to put liberal Democrats in charge and collude with them to destroy liberty.
It’s primary season.
Do your research.
Vote them out.
#txlege
Biden's COVID mandates are not about public health, but about federal government control of our lives. They must end, and it's why I filed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act in
#txlege
.
🚨UPDATE: After discussions with
@TAMU
leadership, they just confirmed that Texas A&M is spending state resources to assert that "gender and sexuality are socially constructed," that "transphobia" has a "relationship to racism, colonialism, sexism, ableism, classism," and that…
Texas A&M is offering a MINOR in this??
What. The. Hell.
I will be demanding answers from
@tamu
on why they think my constituents should be forced to subsidize this.
#txlege
#txed
🚨Tomorrow
#txlege
House will vote on impeaching
#Paxton
We have not yet voted on:
- securing the border
- eliminating property taxes
- education freedom
- banning COVID mandates
- ending taxpayer funded lobbying
- cutting spending
- reining in executive powers
PRIORITIES
I was Trump's Chief of Staff at
@HHSGov
, and we used our public health authority to finally secure the border from illegal immigration and COVID with our Title 42 Order. Biden's illegal disregard for that order is causing the
#BidenBorderCrisis
. He must be stopped!
#TX06
Finally, if interested, here’s a photo of us briefing President Trump on “the plan” – along with Dr. Fauci, Dr. Birx, Dr. Slaoui, General Perna, Dr. Collins, and others. We had to start from scratch – your team didn’t!
#plandenier
@VP
@axios
@mikeallen
The U.S. House of Representatives has a (far) more conservative Speaker… than the Texas House of Representatives.
Let that sink in.
Texans deserve better.
#txlege
I filed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act almost exactly TWO YEARS AGO… just hours after being sworn in to
#txlege
.
Worked every day since then to protect medical freedom for all Texans.
It’s taken (way) too long, but Texans are finally going to be free from COVID tyranny!
Sworn in this morning; filed boldest, broadest, and most legally defensible bill banning COVID vax mandates in Texas this afternoon. Busy first day!
#HD10
#txlege
"Wait, so you're saying that the Republican Speaker in Texas is chosen by the Democrats!? -
@TuckerCarlson
"Yea" -
@KenPaxtonTX
"Wait, so you can have a big [Republican] majority in the Texas House, but still not control the Texas House!?... That's crazy!" -Tucker
#txlege
🚨BREAKING: the bipartisan Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act (
#HB81
) just passed
#Txlege
House Public Health Committee 10-1!
Thank you to Chair
@StephanieKlick
and the committee for voting to protect
#InformedConsent
by banning COVID vaccine mandates in Texas!
Probably the most under-reported SCANDAL in Texas politics. The equivalent of a Republican winning the presidency and appointing Merrick Garland to be White House Counsel. 👇
---
Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Waxahachie) quipped Monday on social media that “a Democrat Obama lawyer……
🚨Shocking: While Republicans flipped Congress and won huge in Texas, Republican leaders here plan to voluntarily give power back to Democrats and let them chair powerful committees where they can advance their liberal agenda and stop ours. My statement.
#txlege
Today’s action by the University of Texas at Austin is a direct result of the law the House passed last year to prohibit DEI initiatives at our higher education institutions—legislation I was proud to pass in the Texas House.
Under the guise of “diversity, equity, and…
States should be able to RECALL THEIR U.S. SENATORS when they go rogue, and I’ll discuss my bill to do that in Texas on
@KSEV700
with
@CSalcedoShow
at 8am.
Tune in or listen online 👉
Read the bill! 👇
#txlege
Shocking, but true:
@DadePhelan
hired a Democrat Obama White House lawyer as House Parliamentarian… to help his “Republican” leadership team kill conservative bills.
Texans deserve better.
#txlege
In May, I called on liberal Speaker Dade Phelan to resign after he was recorded numerous times presiding over the Texas House in a state of apparent debilitating intoxication. Despite this embarrassing conduct, & his continuing erratic behavior, Phelan has refused to resign. He…
Love or hate
#Trump
, the precedent this sets should terrify every American.
In America, we don’t criminalize political opponents. Third world countries do.
With 87,000 IRS agents enforcing a 67,000 page tax code exactly zero Americans understand, YOU could be next.
#txlege
Texas should be leading the nation in freedom and liberty.
We aren't... because of the failed "Republican" "leadership" team in the
#Txlege
House.
It wasn't just Dade Phelan. His "leadership" team delivered the MOST LIBERAL SESSION in Texas history.
Time for new leadership.
Hard working, over-taxed Texans deserve to know how much of their money was WASTED by the
#Txlege
House on the
#PaxtonImpeachmentTrial
.
As promised, I am formally requesting an immediate audit from the Texas State Auditor's Office.
Letter 👇
Historic border crisis continues. What new response did the Texas Legislature provide?
Texas Senate passed:
-Cartel Invasion declaration
-Felony criminal trespass at border
Texas House killed them both.
Those are the facts.
#txlege
It gets worse... Texas A&M is using tax dollars to teach that there are "alternative genders," and Texans, who are being taxed out of their homes, are being forced to pay for it.
The Regents should end it now. If they don't,
#Txlege
must rein them in.
@TAMU
#txed
🚨 I just filed
#HR103
to REMOVE EVERY DEMOCRAT COMMITTEE CHAIR in the Texas House of Representatives.
Texans stand with Israel, but the Texas Democrat Party recently issued a statement making it clear they side with Hamas. Democrats should never have been appointed Chairs of…
🚨Breaking: I've independently confirmed the Texas House has withheld information and is STONEWALLING the audit being conducted by the State Auditor's Office into the funds wasted on
@KenPaxtonTX
's impeachment... likely violating state law.
Outrageous.
Texans deserve answers.
Democrats are literally arresting Republicans across the country, yet in the (Republican dominated) Texas House… liberal Democrats are given powerful committee chairmanships.
Insanity.
What good is election integrity if
#txlege
Republicans just give their jobs to Democrats?
This insanity must end!
Medical and nursing students deserve freedom from
#covid
tyranny too.
#Txlege
must (finally) ban ALL covid vaccine mandates in Texas.
The border INVASION risks the future of our republic.
Biden is responsible, but Texas must do all we can to fight the
#BidenBorderCrisis
.
Rep
@RepMattSchaefer
and I respectfully ask Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
to call an IMMEDIATE special session on border security.
Full Statement 👇
There were only EIGHT
@TexasGOP
legislative priorities last session.
Texas House “leadership” failed to pass all of them. Instead…
The House Calendars Committee prioritized over 500 DEMOCRAT bills.
Texans deserve better.
#MakeTheTexasHouseRepublicanAgain
#txlege
"Texas is a red state with a majority of Republican House Representatives, why in the world can we not have a conservative House Speaker?" -
@MarkDavis
just now.
Great question!
After 1st full day of
#Paxton
impeachment, a reminder that
#txlege
still has NOT:
- banned COVID mandates
- passed a serious border security bill
- fixed our grid/energy market
- passed education freedom
- reined in executive emergency powers
- banned taxpayer funded lobbying
🚨Breaking: the Texas House Republican Caucus is pressuring House Republicans to sign a statement attacking a political opponent of Speaker Phelan based on allegations from a liberal media outlet. This is even less serious than their handling of
@KenPaxtonTX
’s impeachment, and…
Never-ending property taxes are unethical, confusing, unfair, incompatible with private property rights, and must be abolished. Today, I filed HB3455 & HJR145 so the next generation of Texans can truly be homeowners and throw off the shackles of government landlords.
#txlege
A genuine
#txlege
scandal for the ages:
Speaker
@DadePhelan
hired liberal Democrat HUGH BRADY, a former OBAMA WHITE HOUSE LAWYER, to be the Texas House Parlimentarian.
Let that sink in: a Democrat Obama lawyer... is currently controlling... the GOP-dominated Texas House.
🚨Gov
@GregAbbott_TX
is right to call
#txlege
back for
#schoolchoice
, but that is not enough.
I am asking he also demand action on other urgent items including border security, medical freedom, "emergency power" reform, and banning the CCP from buying Texas land.
Full letter👇
🚨Biden's
#TitleIX
rule is a public education emergency that endangers women, teachers, and all Texas students.
I am asking Speaker
@DadePhelan
to immediately issue an interim charge for Texas to reject federal education money and the dangerous strings attached to it.
Texas is…
Thank you
@TuckerCarlson
for inviting me to discuss one of most important developments for free speech in recent memory:
@elonmusk
acquiring Twitter, making changes. I hope he ushers in a new regime of transparency, incl. disclosing all government attempts to censor speech!
Texas A&M is offering a MINOR in this??
What. The. Hell.
I will be demanding answers from
@tamu
on why they think my constituents should be forced to subsidize this.
#txlege
#txed
The Texas House leadership, who misled and pressured Republicans to join a Democrat effort to overturn an election, has, possibly irreparably, disgraced itself and tarnished the reputation of the entire Texas House.
#txlege
#PaxtonTrial
@KenPaxtonTX
The biggest lie in
#txlege
is from “Republican” incumbents who voted to impeach
@KenPaxtonTX
with less due process than 3rd world kangaroo courts and support giving liberal Democrats committee chairmanships… telling their voters they’re “conservative fighters.”
Never-ending property taxes are unethical and should be abolished.
There are no homeowners in Texas.
“Homeowners” are just renters from government landlords.
#txlege
I don’t know who needs to hear this
but
even if you’ve paid off your home, you will pay monthly property taxes the rest of your life.
I’m in Texas and I am looking at ~$500/month forever.
Refuse to pay? Lose your home.
You never truly own your home in America.
Perhaps the most underreported political scandal in America is that a Barack Obama staffer controls the GOP-dominated Texas House of Representatives.
#txlege
Why the hell do states like TEXAS still take orders from the Department of Education!?
We don’t need their $$.
We should stop taking it, and protect Texans from the tyrannical and dangerous regulations that come with it.
Make the 10th Amendment Great Again!
#txlege
#TitleIX
From
@DailyCaller
: “What happened here is a very common tale,” Harrison told the Daily Caller. “The Texas Senate passed a Republican priority to make it so that to vote, you can only be a US citizen. It came over to the Texas house. And Dade Phelan, not just him but also his…
🚨President Trump calls out
@DadePhelan
for NOT VOTING FOR Texas’s new border security law,
#SB4
.
Worse, Phelan was the ONLY Republican who refused to vote for it. (See below.)
Time for new leadership in the
#Txlege
House.
Today I respectfully asked Gov.
@GregAbbott_TX
to not renew Texas'
#COVID
emergency declaration. It is no longer justified, and never-ending emergency authorities are antithetical to representative government. He is right to demand
#txlege
finally ban COVID vaccine mandates.
Democrats were allowed OVER 500 BILLS on floor of the Texas House this session. YET…
Republicans were not allowed to vote on even one single serious border security bill.
Remember this when watching the
#BidenBorderCrisis
.
Time for new leadership.
#txlege
👀 Embarrassing and infuriating that COVID vaccine mandates still exist in Texas. In 2023.
All because the
#Txlege
House Calendars Committee killed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act.
We must pass it in special session to protect
#medicalfreedom
.
There were an [unofficial] 226 proxy votes cast on the $1.7 trillion omnibus in the final hours before Christmas
Rep. Roy breaks down how this creates a lack of a physical quorum as REQUIRED by the constitution.
Proxy voting is an unconstitutional disgrace.
#standupforamerica
Good time to remind everyone that Texas House “leadership” fought AGAINST strong border security legislation last session.
#Txlege
#BidenBorderInvasion
Yesterday I filed the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act… for the 5th time in two years.
ALL Texans deserve medical freedom from COVID tyranny… now!
Read 👇
#txlege
@DallasExpress
url=
Beware: Dade Phelan’s team now wants to scapegoat him.
Don’t be fooled.
Dade was a massive problem… but he did NOT do it alone.
His “leadership” team helped him collude with Democrats to kill GOP priorities.
Time for new leadership with an agenda for liberty!
#txlege
It is absolutely outrageous that the Attorney General of Texas has been forced to stop prosecuting voter fraud!
Even more outrageous that
#Txlege
House “leadership” did nothing serious on election integrity last session… including fixing this insanity.
#txlege
@KenPaxtonTX
BREAKING: Florida, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Montana, Arizona, and Utah have all banned schools and universities from requiring COVID vaccinations.
🚨BREAKING: the Texas COVID Vaccine Freedom Act (
#HB81
/
#SB177
) is set on Tuesday’s calendar. This is the ONLY bill to ban all COVID vaccine mandates. I filed it a year and a half ago and fought like hell alongside
#medicalfreedom
advocates statewide.
#Txlege
must finally pass it.
Winning!
“During the regular session, legislation… to prohibit local governments from imposing COVID vaccine mandates passed into law, but lawmakers like Rep. Brian Harrison have maintained a steady stream of pressure all summer for the issue to be revisited this fall.”
#txlege
As the former Chief of Staff at HHS (which oversees the FDA) I want to congratulate my friend
@MdBreathe
on her victory over Biden’s FDA, which he transformed into the most political in history.
#txlege
🚨BREAKING:
FDA loses its war on ivermectin and agrees to remove all social media posts and consumer directives regarding ivermectin and COVID, including its most popular tweet in FDA history.
This landmark case sets an important precedent in limiting FDA overreach into the…
I'm extremely honored to receive Senator Ted Cruz's endorsement for
#HD10
! Proud to partner with him to fight for freedom and liberty!
@tedcruz
#txlege
#momentum
🚨Today, I’m suing to end NGO's operations in Texas.
The chaos at the southern border has created an environment where NGOs, funded with taxpayer money from the Biden Administration, facilitate astonishing horrors including human smuggling. While the federal government…
Since you asked… I was Chief of Staff of the largest government agency in the world with a budget of over $1.4 trillion and 25 divisions, where I led a staff of over 85,000 employees. Any school districts that big? I was paid a fraction of these outrageous salaries.
@brianeharrison
Hey Brian, what is fair to you? Have you ever been a school Superintendent in charge of an entire school district? I think we all know that answer, yet you act as if you are an expert in public education... Trust me, you would not last 2 days as a school Superintendent in Texas.
Texas should’ve passed
#schoolchoice
a generation ago, but the
#Txlege
House uniparty won’t allow it.
I proudly stood up for parents, students, and teachers… and called out my “Republican” colleagues, as they once again killed education freedom.
Watch👇
Lies.
I have spoken to the State Auditor.
The Speaker’s office has refused to comply with their requests.
@DanPatrick
is NOT alone in demanding to know how much $$ House “leadership” wasted impeaching
@KenPaxtonTX
.
Multiple
#Txlege
members have also.
Texans deserve answers.
Here
@DadePhelan
starts by saying that people saying he's holding up an audit aren't telling the truth.
Then he explains why he won't support an audit.
#txlege
🚨I commend
@TexasGOP
for taking this bold action. Texas voters gave Republicans a big majority in the
#Txlege
House and deserve a Speaker committed to protecting liberty for the next generation - not someone beholden to Democrats.
I renew my call for
@DadePhelan
to step down.
Rep. Brian Harrison, R-Waxahachie, also called on Phelan to resign. In a lengthy statement, he applauded the Senate for “conducting a fair and transparent trial and for reaching a verdict that was obviously correct given the shocking lack of evidence. The Texas House leadership,…
Phelan should step down.
Not just because he came in 2nd…
But because he presided over the MOST LIBERAL
#Txlege
House session, with conservatives silenced, Democrat bills prioritized, GOP priorities killed, and a 3rd world-style sham impeachment of
@KenPaxtonTX
.
Indefensible.
🚨 Biden's HHS may be breaking federal law by funding a Soros-backed group using tax money to promote illegal immigration. I'm demanding an immediate investigation along with Reps.
@BethVanDuyne
and
@ChipRoytx
.
#txlege
@HouseGOP
@dcexaminer