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What do we do when the federal government violates the Constitution every day in myriads of ways?

Enforce the Constitution!

Texas officials should honor their oaths to defend the Constitution by stopping the feds when they commit unconstitutional acts.

The Constitution Cannot Protect Us Unless We Protect the Constitution.

The root cause of our political problems is that no one is enforcing the Constitution.  The federal government engages in multitudes of activities not delegated to the feds in the Constitution.

Constitutional Enforcement  -  Our Path Back to Constitutional Government

Texans know that an out-of-control federal government will destroy us.  An insatiable federal government will never limit itself.  We can only restore our Constitution, our liberty, our state, and our union by enforcing the Constitution to stop unconstitutional federal acts.

Texas is the only power that can stand up to federal tyrants to save our Constitution.  We have to persuade Texas officials to honor their oaths and stop the feds as the commit unconstitutional acts.

An act by a fed under the color of unconstitutional law is null and void.  Attempted enforcement by feds violates the Texas Penal code, including the Texas Official Oppression Act.

The Constitution is not a self-enforcing document.  We have to take action here in Texas to stop the destruction of our liberty.

The Supreme Court is not protecting the Constitution!

Art. VI of the Constitution says that it is the Constitution that is supreme - not the Supreme Court or the federal government.  Art. VI also requires EVERY member of government to swear an oath to support the Constitution.

The way we protect the Constitution is to convince our local and state governmental officials - including law enforcement - to stop unconstitutional federal acts.

RESIST, DEFY, NULLIFY!

Resistance to tyranny was the spirit of the founders that created our liberty.  Jefferson said, "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."  Texas was born in that spirit:

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Actions needed for enforcement:

  • Urge our Sheriffs, DAs, AG, and governor to take action to stop unconstitutional acts in Texas.
  • Urge all Texas officials to not implement unconstitutional acts.
  • Encourage Texas officials to exercise independent judgment about constitutional meaning.
  • Pass Texas legislation to streamline formal declarations of federal unconstitutionality by any branch of state government. (See Texas Sovereignty Act)
  • What's New

    Texas Legislative Status - March 10

    Texas House hearings considering bills start this coming week, and the deadline for filing bills is end of day Friday. I am overdue in providing a status update on the Texas Legislature.

    I have often said that the Texas Legislature is like a fifty-ring circus. There is so much happening at one time, that it is virtually impossible for one person to keep up with it all. I certainly can’t. And I do not even have the space and time to tell you everything that I have seen.

    I will focus in this report on the areas that I personally prioritize. That includes the Texas Constitutional Enforcement legislative agenda and a few of the Legislative Priorities of the RPT including End Federal Overreach, Secure the Electric Grid, End Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying, Border Enforcement, and Texas is Not for Sale.

    At the end, I will also discuss what I have seen in the Texas House about the likelihood of passage of bills.

    Texas Constitutional Enforcement Legislative Agenda

    1. End Federal Overreach

    Texas Sovereignty Act – Joint legislative committee recommends unconstitutional federal acts for declaration by legislature and governor. (RPT End Federal Overreach Priority). (RPT Platform Plank 20) (HB 796 Cecil Bell, HB 898 David Spiller, SB 80 Bob Hall) RPT Endorsed

    Resist FBI Weaponization Against Texans -- Require feds to get sheriff and AG permission for arrests and searches in county. (RPT Platform Plank 5) (HB 1982 & HB 3932 Andy Hopper.) HB 1962 RPT Endorsed, HB 3932 Pending.

    Don’t Mess With Texas Elections – limits on funding from outside Texas for Texas races. (RPT Platform Plank 202) (SB 405 Mayes Middleton) RPT Endorsed

    Run Texas Elections Separately from Federal Elections – (RPT Platform Plank 221 g) (HB 209 Mike Schofield, SB 106 Bob Hall) RPT Endorsed

    Protect the Texas National Guard (RPT Platform Plank 247) (HB 930 Briscoe Cain) RPT Endorsed

    Protect County and District Attorneys From the Feds – Allows Attorney General to defend county and district attorneys in actions taken against them by the feds for enforcing state law, if the county/district attorneys request. (RPT Platform Planks 5 and 20) (SB 888 Lois Kolkhorst). RPT Endorsed. TCE testified. Passed out of Senate State Affairs.

    Protection of Intrastate Firearms Manufacture/Sale – Exempts most firearms and accessories manufactured and staying in Texas from federal law or regulation. (SB 130 Bob Hall / HB 1617 Valoree Swanson). RPT Endorsed

    Resisting Global Interference – Denying jurisdiction to World Health Organization, UN, and World Economic Forum in Texas – (RPT Platform Plank 244) (SB 129 Bob Hall / Charles Schwertner SB 386 / HB 706 Terri Leo Wilson, HB 1377 Wes Virdell). RPT Endorsed

    Refusal to Assist Officers of the Union – Legislature declares unconstitutional federal acts and state agencies and subdivisions prohibited from assisting feds. (RPT Platform Planks 20 and 70) (SB 707 Phil King). (Needs modification to require majority instead of 2/3.) TCE testified. Passed out of Senate State Affairs.

    Rule-of-Law Enforcement – Give a statewide official independent prosecutorial authority in addition to DAs for election law, public integrity, official oppression, abortion, maybe other like riot and sedition. (RPT Platform Plank 165) (SB 846 & SB 1026 Bryan Hughes).

    2. Fighting Inflation, CBDC, Globalism, and ESG

    Currency Choice Amendment to protect the natural right to hold and trade with any medium of exchange including cash, coin, digital currency, and scrip. (RPT Platform Plank 30 d and 80). (SJR 55 Tan Parker / HJR 177 Andy Hopper).

    Transactional Gold – expand Texas Bullion Depository function to provide ability for Texans to use a credit card or digital app to spend stored gold or silver in ordinary transactions (RPT Platform Plank 80). (HB 1062 & 1049 Mark Dorazio / SB 2002 & 665 Bryan Hughes) See comments below regarding committee assignments for these bills

    Prohibit Discrimination in Lending by Financial Firms based on ideology/ESG/nature of business  - (RPT Platform Plank 31). (HB 1516 Mike Schofield / SB 512 Lois Kolkhorst) Repeat of last session, stopping Paypal and other money services businesses from imposing fines due to speech.

    Anti-ESG Bill – Prohibit companies doing business in Texas from implementing ESG standards or forcing suppliers to implement ESG standards required by foreign statutes that require companies to do so for access to those markets. (SB 495 Kevin Sparks – stops Texas Department of Insurance from implementing rules that implement ESG. Expands upon what Tom Oliverson and Ken King accomplished last session.) TCE testified. Out of committee and on intent calendar.

    3.  End Texas Executive Overreach and Protect Texas Medical Freedom

    Stop Mandatory Vaccinations - Constitutional amendment to add provision to Texas Bill of Rights to protect natural, unalienable right to decline vaccination. (RPT End Federal Overreach Priority) (RPT Platform Plank 114). (HJR 91 Andy Hopper, SJR 10 Bob Hall). RPT Endorsed.

    Stop Executive Overreach -- Amend Texas Disaster Act to insure that we never get lockdowns or mask mandates again and to stop open-ended criminal penalties for which executives define offense. Put conditions on delegation of power that legislature must approve emergencies after short time. (RPT Platform Planks 8 and 114). Working.

    “Gain-of-Function” Accountability – ban gain-of-function research in Texas (RPT Platform Plank 159) (SB 1488 Bob Hall).

     4.  Texas Freedom to Travel

    Stop Federal Vehicular Kill Switches (RPT End Federal Overreach Priority) (RPT Platform Plank 49) (SB 381 Mayes Middleton, HB 1074 Nate Schatzline).

    Stop Mileage Tax

    Stop Digital Licenses/ID – (RPT Platform Planks 208 and 49) (Oppose HB 1796 Terry Canales)

    5.  Border Enforcement

    Stop the Magnet – cut off taxpayer services to illegal aliens (RPT Platform Plank 232) (RPT Priority). Working.

    Note that the End Federal Overreach Legislative Priority endorsed bills are pretty much embedded in the list above.

    Secure the Electric Grid Legislative Priority

    Protection of Critical Grid Components from Solar Flares and EMP (RPT Platform Plank 41 c & d) (SB 1740 Tan Parker).

    All Hazards Grid Resilience (RPT Platform Plank 41) (SB 75 Bob Hall / HB 941 Cain).

    Prohibit Grid Components from Hostile Nations (RPT Platform Plank 41) (SB 934 Bob Hall).

    Texas Tax on New, Large Solar & Wind Projects to Offset Fed Subsidies (RPT Platform Plank 47) (HB 3017 Brent Money).

    Note that the Secure Electric Grid Legislative Priority Committee has endorsed other bills, but the ones above have caught my eye.

    End Taxpayer-Funded Lobbying Legislative Priority

    End Taypayer-Funded Lobbying (RPT Platform Plank 212) (SB 19 Mayes Middleton / HB 309 Terri Leo Wilson, HB 1189 Troxclair, HB 1294 Jared Patterson, also HB 571 Briscoe Cain, HB 671 Matt Shaheen, HB 755 David Spiller, HB 3257 Mike Olcott). I testified for SB 19. Out of committee. On intent calendar.

    Texas is Not for Sale Legislative Priority

    Banning Texas Land Ownership by Hostile Entities (RPT Platform Plank 201) (SB 17 Kolkhorst). I signed in support of SB 17 in committee. No committee vote yet. I have not heard whether Texas is Not for Sale Legislative Priority Committee has officially supported any bills, yet. I was in Texas House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans’ Affairs Chair Cole Hefner’s office last week and they told me they have their own bill that differs in several respects from the Senate bill. I don’t know the particulars.

    Reading the Tea Leaves on Whether Conservative Legislation Will Pass

    Given the Uniparty speaker in the Texas House, the new House Rules giving power to Democrats, a Calendars Committee chair that has told members in the past that his job was to help non-transparantly kill bills, and the slow start in the House, the burning question for the grassroots is whether conservative legislation, especially RPT legislative priorities will pass this session. I have several observations.

    Transferring Conservative Bills from Grassroots to Team Burros

    First, I am hearing that a number of bills are being involuntarily being transferred from the grassroots legislators to be carried by Team Burros Republicans. While this is quite irritating to the grassroots legislators, the silver lining in this is that the apparent motive for this action is to create talking points for embattled Uniparty Republicans in their upcoming primary challenges. It means that some of those bills are probably going to pass. The worry is that they may be watered down, but the likelihood of them passing under this situation is better than if the grassroots members got to carry the bills.

    Milton Friedman said, “The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.” Ronald Reagan said, “There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.” Lets hope those maxims pay dividends in this sad situation.

    Committee Assignments

    Second, so far, the House Parliamentarian is assigning end federal overreach bills to the crowded State Affairs which only has vague high level jurisdiction for bills of that nature in this set of Rules. The far superior committee from clear jurisdictional language in the rules and a under-crowding perspective is the new Intergovernmental Affairs Committee or its State-Federal Relations Committee.

    The most outrageous assignment of those bills is the assignment of Cecil Bell’s Texas Sovereignty Act away from the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee he chairs to State Affairs where that bill has died the last three sessions. I have sent an email to the Parliamentarian’s office, the Speaker’s staffs, the respective committee clerks, and the authors of the misassigned bills.

    We will see whether the situation is rectified. It will be a big deal if not because if for no other reason the end federal overreach bills are likely to be crowded out in the large press of work in House State Affairs.

    Transactional Gold Committee Assignments

    Finally, I have not gotten the inside story on this yet, but I note that the Transactional Gold bill has been introduced twice by Mark Dorazio in the House and twice by Bryan Hughes in the Senate. In the House, the first version has been assigned to the busy State Affairs Committee where it was last time, receiving a hearing late enough to cause the bill to not make it to the House floor for a timely vote. But the second bill has been assigned to Pensions, Investments & Financial Services.

    In the Senate, Hughes’ first Transactional Gold bill was assigned as it was last session to Finance, which makes no sense at all if the bill is favored. Last session, Finance Chair Joan Huffman waited until the budget was done and gave the bill a hearing on the last hearing of the Committee, then did not hold a vote to move it out of committee. Hughes’ second bill has not been assigned. Hopefully, it too will be assigned differently than the first, hopefully to Hughes’ own State Affairs.

    Committee assignments matter.

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  • Presidential Executive Orders for Constitutional Enforcement

    Presidential Executive Orders for Constitutional Enforcement

    What if a president took his oath of office seriously, exercised independent judgment about constitutional meaning, and started issuing executive orders (including interpretive reasoning) declaring existing statutes unconstitutional that order his administration not to enforce those unconstitutional laws?

    If there is anything that the new DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency) that includes Elon Musk, Vivek, and maybe Ron Paul could do to downsize the federal government, it would be to persuade the president to simply stop enforcing unconstitutional federal statutes.

    The oath the Constitution requires any president to take is:

    I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

    Early in our Republic, the U.S. Supreme Court started with the self-serving assertion that they were final arbiters of Constitutional meaning. But the Constitution does not say that. That is an interpretation the Constitution. Using circular logic, SCOTUS has interpreted the Constitution to say that they are the final interpreter.

    It is true that because SCOTUS swears the oath that every governmental official takes to the Constitution, each justice should use his or her best judgment to understand and apply the Constitution, but so should every other actor, including the president.

    Madison and Jackson certainly thought so. They said so in messages to bills they vetoed. We degraded over time, however to presidents who refused to use constitutional reasoning in their decisions. George W Bush, for example, infamously said that he would sign McCain-Feingold and let SCOTUS determine its constitutionality.

    The most earthshaking question a modern president can answer is whether his oath allows him to enforce statues, regulations, or judicial opinions that he understands to be unconstitutional.

    To answer that precedent trumps a president’s oath is the way we have ratcheted ever farther away from the limits the framers placed on the central government. Once one set of bad actors in time have strayed from the limits of the Constitution, deference to precedent instead of the Constitution allows the Constitution to be perpetually violated and power to be inexorably centralized.

    What are the most important constitutional principles have been violated over time that, if enforced, could create transformative change?

    • Stop the feds from exercising unenumerated, undelegated power. (E.g., regulating the environment and engaging in education are not powers delegated to the central government, but rather are reserved to the states.)
    • Reverse the complete gutting/replacement of the interstate commerce clause – the Constitution allows the feds to “regulate Commerce” “among the several States.” One of the worst SCOTUS decisions ever, Wickard v Filburn amended by judicial opinion those limiting words to allow the feds power to regulate anything “affecting” commerce.

    Now may be the time that a president can set us on a new course that puts the power of the central government back in the Constitutional box. Executive orders by the president to enforce the Constitution can save the Republic and truly Make America Great Again.

     

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  • Coalition Letter to Governor re Election Law Enforcement

    P.O. Box 130012, Tyler, TX 75713

    182 Grassroots Leaders Lay Out the Case:

    Plea for Governor Abbott to Call a June 2024 Special Legislative Session
    to Secure Our November 2024 General Election

     

    June 13, 2024

    The Honorable Texas Governor Greg Abbott Office of the Governor
    P.O. Box 12428
    Austin, TX 78711-2428

    Electronic dispatch to: Steve Munisteri, Senior Policy Advisor; Gardner Pate, Governor’s Chief of Staff

    Dear Governor Abbott:

    We, the undersigned, urgently join with Republican Party of Texas Convention delegates from all 31 State Senate Districts – representing Republicans from across Texas – who passed the following Resolution 7, for ELECTION INTEGRITY ENFORCEMENT and ENSURING THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT VOTING IN TEXAS, found on page 42 of the 2024 Republican Party of Texas Platform:

    1. Special Legislative Session: The Republican Party of Texas calls upon Governor Abbott to call a special session in June 2024 to address election integrity and other Specifically, the call should include the following items:
      1. Legislation to implement independent, state-level prosecution of election integrity; to address abortion, human smuggling, sedition, and riot; and to respond to the Court of Criminal Appeal’s ruling in State v.
      2. Legislation to require proof of citizenship for new voter registration and a thorough review of existing voter rolls to identify and remove illegal aliens, other non-citizens, those with unauthorized non-residential addresses, and long-time inactive voters from the voter rolls.

    We also underscore that these two items flagged as urgent in Resolution 7 are also covered in the 2024 RPT Legislative Priorities Report under Priority #2.

    Governor Abbott, we urge you to immediately call an Election Law Enforcement Special Session. We believe you will agree with us that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and the Republican nominees (especially judicial candidates) in large urban Texas counties should not face the November General Election with election cheaters knowing they are unlikely to face any prosecution in Texas counties where Soros-funded District Attorneys will never prosecute cheating and voter fraud.

    The following describes the problem, the solution, and the urgency, which should compel you and the Texas Legislature to rapidly, boldly lead the way in protecting the people of Texas:

    STATE-LEVEL ELECTION (AND OTHER) LAW ENFORCEMENT

    Problem: The 2022 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ State v. Stephens opinion prohibiting the Texas Attorney General from independent, state-level prosecution of the violation of election law makes prosecution of election law violations in the high population counties of Texas in 2024 exceedingly unlikely. Any law without enforcement is worthless.

    Additionally, there are reports of mass-scale registration of illegals to vote by Biden administration officials and/or NGOs. This may be the new way elections are compromised in 2024.

    Solutions:

    1)  Legislation to implement independent state-level prosecution of election fraud, public integrity, abortion, human smuggling, sex slave trade, sedition, and riot law in response to and in compliance with the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals’ State v Stephens decision.

    The bill that offered a solution in the 88th Regular Session was SB 1927 (Hughes). For a variant on that approach, see also HB 4026 (Schofield).

    With the time we have left, we cannot pass a constitutional amendment. And we cannot timely give the prosecutorial power back to the Attorney General by statute because neither the Democrats nor Republicans in the Texas House who voted to impeach Ken Paxton are likely to restore his prosecutorial power. Wisely, Senator Hughes’ SB 1927 solution creates a State Prosecutor Office under the Texas Supreme Court, following the structural logic of the State v Stephens opinion.

    If the bill passes and is signed by early July, the law will go into effect in early October, just in time to give potential cheaters pause before they do so.

    2) Legislation to require proof of citizenship for new voter registration and a thorough review of existing voter rolls to identify and remove illegal aliens, other non-citizens, those with unauthorized non- residential addresses, and long-time inactive voters from the voter rolls

    Given that these types of amendments to existing law will also not go into effect until October, the cleanup will not likely be done in time for November. But passage, accompanied by independent, state- level prosecution of existing Texas election law prohibiting illegals from registering or voting and prohibiting citizens from knowingly assisting illegals in voting, along with the publicity generated by the passage of these provisions is likely to have a chilling effect on illegal voting and the unlawful exploitation of illegal registration.

    Urgency:  Texas is unlikely to have effective enforcement of election law in the largest counties in 2024 without this legislation. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz need our assistance!

    Recently passed improvements to the law (enabling removal of recalcitrant prosecutors) are worthwhile, but due to long lead times and narrow removal criteria, these improvements will not work to address the looming 2024 problem.

    It is no secret that in certain counties, Texans cannot rely on local prosecutors to enforce the rule of law! Adding state prosecutorial resources for human trafficking, sex slave trade, abortion enforcement and election law violations will no doubt save the lives of children and protect Texas voters from organized vote theft.

    Governor Abbott, we remind you that Texas Republican Primary voters overwhelmingly supported the two related Primary Ballot Propositions calling for prosecution of election crimes and requiring proof of citizenship before any individual can be registered to vote. The base of the Republican Party is with us!

    The time to protect Texas is NOW, Governor Abbott! We implore you to do so!

     For liberty – for Texas, we the 182 undersigned conservative Texas influencers,*

    Tom Glass, Founder/President, Texas Constitutional Enforcement, SD 18

    JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director, Grassroots America – We the People PAC; GrassrootsPriorities.com

    C.R. “Dick” Saulsbury, Business Owner, Odessa, SD 31

    Don Dyer, Business Owner, Austin, SD 14

    George Clay, Business Owner, Rancher, Wichita Falls, SD 30

    Bill Holmes, Business Owner, Midland, SD 31

    Monty Bennett, Business Owner, Publisher, Athens, SD 3

    MaryAnne Aiken, Board Member, Grassroots America - We the People, SD 1

    Karen Albright, past President, Freestone County TEA Party, SD 5

    Betty Anderson, President, Montgomery County Eagle Forum; Precinct Chair, Montgomery County Republican Party, SD 4

    LaDaune Ashley, former Precinct Chair, Brazoria County Republican Party, SD 17

    Anna Bartosh, Pres. San Angelo TEA Party; Legislative Chair, San Angelo Republican Women, SD 28

    Vickie Bass, Precinct Chair, Henderson County Republican Party, SD 3

    Michael & Christina Bastos, Co-Founders, Milam County Constitutional Conservatives, SD 5

    Teresa Beckmeyer, Senior Political Advisor, Saulsbury Family, SD 31

    Charlotte Belsick, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Mike Belsick, Secretary, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Beth Biesel, Vice President, Texas Eagle Forum, SD 12

    Aileen Blachowski, Lead Parent Advocate, Texas Education 911, SD 30

    Elena Blake, Prec. Chair, Dallas County Republican Party; President, Irving Republican Women, SD 16

    Patsy Boatright, Mitchell County Republicans, SD 28

    John Bolgiano, Llano TEA Party; Deputy Local Coordinator, Llano, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 24

    Greg & Joanna Bounds, Precinct Chair, Rusk County Republican Party, SD 1

    Larry Bowman, President, Holly Lake/Hawkins Rep Club, SD 1

    Melynda Bracken, Precinct Chair, Bexar County Republican Party, SD 25

    Jill Bridges, Flower Mound Area Republican Club; Denton County Conservative Coalition, SD 12

    Rick Briscoe, Legislative Director, Open Carry Texas; Prec. Chair, Bexar County GOP, SD 26

    Kathleen Brown, Secretary, Central Texas Tea Party; Central Texas Republican Women, SD 24

    Frank & Becky Bussey, Secretary, Easland County Republican Party, SD 22

    Adam Cahn, Activist, Columnist SD 14

    David Carruth, Co-chair, American Liberty Forum, SD 12

    David Carter, precinct Chair, Bell County Republican Party; John Birch Society, SD 24

    Janice Carter, Chapter Leader, John Birch Society, SD 24

    Rodney Casey, Chairman, Shackelford County Republican Party, SD 10

    Mary Joe Cason, past member, Kaufman Tea Party, SD 2

    Cindi Castilla, President, Texas Eagle Forum, SD 12

    Janna Castloo, President, Republican Women of Wood County, SD 1

    Dee Chambless, VP Programs, Smith County GOP Women; Grassroots America - We the People, SD 1

    Logan Chew, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party; Nueces County Republican Club, SD 20

    Resa Clarke, Founding Board, C2 – Houston, SD 7

    Velvet Coberley, Treasurer, Franklin County GOP; Conservative Republicans of Northeast Texas, SD 1

    Dr. Dwayne “Doc” Collins, President, Van Zandt Republican Club; Founder, Edom TEA Party, SD 2

    Mel Cooper, President, Bastrop County Conservatives, SD 5

    Donna Cox, Texas Truth Movement - Legislative Chair, SD 7

    Ruth Cremin, Vice Chair, Kerr County Republican Party; former SREC SD 24, SD 24

    Connie Curry, Founder, West Texas Conservative Leadership, SD 28

    Debra Damman, Precinct Chair, Williamson County Republican Party, SD 24

    Bill & Debbie Decker, Precinct Chair, Van Zandt County Republican Party; VZ Republican Club, SD 2

    Diana Denton, Secretary, Texas Truth Movement; Klein Republicans, SD 7

    Jeree DeVisser, Treasurer Eastland County Tea Party, SD 22

    Jim & Char Doonan, Lake Country Republican Club: Grassroots America - We the People, SD 1

    Keith Dotson, Poll Worker, Wood County Republican Party, SD 1

    Carol Doucet, Founder, Conservative Society of Navarro County & Navarro County TEA Party, SD 2

    Christina Drewry, SD 1 Dist. Director, Texas Nationalist Movement; Smith Co. Commissioner Elect

    Mack Dunkin, Prec. Chair, Angelina Co. GOP; Legislative Team, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 3

    Andrew Eller, Centex Tea Party; Chair RPT Election Integrity Committee; SREC SD 24,

    Sherry Eller, Social Media Chair, Central Texas TEA Party, SD 24

    Nitsie Elliott, Precinct Chair, Van Zandt County Republican Party, SD 2

    Sharon Emmert, self-term-limited Smith Co. Commissioner; Grassroots America, SD 1

    Sue Evenwel, Board Grassroots America; Conservative Republican Women of NE TX; SD 1 Coalition

    Tom Fabry, Chair, Government Watchdog Committee, Board Member, Grassroots America, SD 1

    Toni Fabry, Board Member, Grassroots America, Coalition Leader, SD 1

    Nancy Falster, Lady Hawks Gun Club, SD 1

    Randy Farrar, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party, SD 20

    Brian Fitzgerald, County Coordinator, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 3

    Shawn Flanagan, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party, SD 20

    Davis Ford, President, Central Texas TEA Party, SD 24

    Kat Fox, Kaufman County GOP Club; Lone Star Coalition, SD 2

    Terry Frady, Treasurer, Cameron Co. Conservatives; Secretary, Republican Club of Brownsville, SD 27

    Samuel Fryer, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party, SD 27

    Gary Gentz, Precinct Chair, Henderson County Republican Party, SD 3

    Mike Giles, Chair, Collin Co. Patriots; Board Member, McKinney First PAC; Prec. Chair, Collin County Republican Party, SD 8

    Suzanne Guggenheim, Chairman, Coastal Bend Grassroots Coalition, SD 27

    Sharon Guthrie, Secretary & Prec. Chair, Smith County Republican Party; Grassroots America, SD 1

    Rachel Hale, Executive Director, Texas Freedom Coalition, SD 1

    Jaclyn Hall, Steering Committee, We the People - Liberty in Action; Kerr County Patriots, SD 24

    Roger Hall, Founder & Steering Committee, We the People - Liberty in Action, SD 24

    Terri Hall, Founder/Director, Texans Uniting for Reform & Freedom (TURF); Texans for Toll-free Highways, SD 24

    Tobie & Elaine Hall, Denton County Conservative Coalition, SD 12

    Maria Hammerlein, Prec. Chair, Kerr County GOP Party; Board Member, Juan Seguin Society, SD 24

    Phyllis Harding-Nichols, Vice Chair, Wood County Republican Party, SD 1

    Aaron Harris, North Richland Hills, SD 9

    Marilyn Harris, Denton County Conservative Coalition, SD 12

    Erika Hatfield, State Director, Convention of States, SD 2

    Robin White Hayes, Chair, Eastland County Republican Party, SD 22

    Robert Hayhurst, TX ED 911, SD 31

    Richard Heizer, Parker County Conservatives; Vice Chair, Parker County Republican Party, SD 30

    Sara Heizer, Parker County Conservatives; Precinct Chair, Parker County Republican Party, SD 30

    Marty Hiles, Vice-President Republican Club of Comal County; Vice Chair, Comal County GOP, SD 25

    Beth Hollingsworth, Red Texas Forum, SD 2

    Kelly Holt, John Birch Society, SD 5

    Connie Hudson, Prec. Chair, Denton County Republican Party; Director, Salt & Light Brigade, SD 30

    Amy Huggins, Vice President, Constitutional Conservatives - Houston, SD 15

    Mary Huls, Executive Board, Bowie County Patriots, SD 1

    Bill Hussey, Grayson County Conservatives, SD 30

    Bobbie Jarvis, Eastland County Republican Party, SD 22

    Jackson Jarvis, Eastland County Republican Party, SD 22

    Dr. Joyce Bateman Jones, Board Member, Central Texas Tea Party, SD 24

    Bill Kelberlau, Board Member, Citizens Defending Freedom, SD 5

    Robert Kelsey, past President, Llano Tea Party, SD 24

    Sam Kemp, Legislative Director, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 8

    COL Jon Ker (Ret.), SREC SD 22,

    Richard Krantz, Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County, SD 22

    Jennifer LePore-Pope, Precinct Chair, Wood County Republican Party, SD 1

    Craig Licciardi, Prec. Chair, Smith County Republican Party; Grassroots America, SD 1

    Susan Lucas, Rooftop Texans; SREC SD 5,

    Kathy Lux, Membership Chair, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Karen & William Marsalis, Panola County Republican Party, SD 1

    Beth Maynard, Member, Eastland County Tea Party Patriots, SD 22

    Kevin McCall, Precinct Chair, Smith County Republican Party, SD 1

    Ronda McCauley, Precinct Chair, Williamson County Republican Party, SD 5

    Gloria McDonald, President Denton Co. Conservative Coalition; Prec. Chair, Denton Co. GOP, SD 12

    Travis McQueen, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 17

    Laura Milby, Prec. Chair, Nueces County GOP; Chaplain, Nueces County Republican Women, SD 20

    Billy Mills, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party, SD 27

    Cynthia Murphy, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Joe Murphy, Treasurer, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Dr. Dana Myers, Founder, Lone Star Civics, SD 15

    Kitty Ocker, Steering Committee, Liberty in Action, We the People; Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Ashton Oravetz III, past Chairman, Smith County GOP; past Board Member, GAWTP, SD 1

    Tillie Perkins, President, RED Texas Forum; Lone Star Coalition, SD 16

    Terry & Joy Putnam, Texans 4 Truth; Citizens Defending Freedom, SD 5

    Lillie Ralph, Vice President, Republicans of East Dallas; Southwest Dallas Republican Club, SD 16

    Randy Reeves, Prec. Chair, Smith County GOP; Sergeant at Arms, Lindale Republican Club, SD 1

    Daniel Resley, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party; Citizens Defending Freedom, SD 27

    Fran Rhodes, President, True Texas Project, SD 9

    Joy Roberts, Prec. Chair, Grayson County GOP; Co-Founder, Grayson County Conservatives, SD 30

    Paul Robie, Director of Government Affairs, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 2

    Brett Rogers, Precinct Chair, Smith County GOP; Grassroots America – We the People, SD 1 Coalition

    Leann Robinson, Treasurer, GOP Women of Wood Co.; Holly Lake/Hawkins Republican Club, SD 1

    Sudie Sartor, Treasurer, Texans United for Reform and Freedom (TURF), SD 25

    Selina Sauter, Precinct Chair, Brazoria County Republican Party, SD 11

    Susan Schaub, Precinct Chair, Cooke County Republican Party; Cooke County Conservatives, SD 30

    Edward Schwing, Precinct Chair, Nueces County Republican Party, SD 27

    Jud Scott, Appointed board member, Texas State Veterans Land Board, SD 25

    Marilyn Sevin, Precinct Chair, Collin County Republican Party, SD 8

    Laurie Shelton, Prec. Chair, Harrison County GOP; Founder, Republican Club of Hallsville, SD 1

    Cynthia & James Simpson, Prec. Chair, Brazoria Co. GOP; past Pres. Pearland Area GOP Club, SD 11

    Angela Smith, President, Fredericksburg Tea Party, SD 24

    Mary Smith, North Texas Director, Concerned Women for America, SD 10

    Mike Smith, Precinct Chair, Cherokee County Republican Party, SD 3

    Murray Smith, former Precinct Chair, Cherokee County Republican Party, SD 3

    Jim Speiran, Board Member, Grassroots America; Prec. Chair, Smith County Republican Party, SD 1

    Carol Spencer, President, Bastrop County GOP Club, SD 5

    Barb Stauffer, Steering Committee member, Garland Tea Party, SD 2

    Richard Steenson, former SREC SD 16; Board Member, Grassroots America - We the People, SD 1

    Peggy Stodola, Citizens Defending Freedom; True Texas Project, SD 12

    Marcia Strickler-Watson, Executive Director, County Citizens Defending Freedom USA, SD 24

    Stephen Sullivan, President, Robson Ranch Conservatives, SD 12

    Kaaren Teuber, Coordinator, Texoma Patriots, SD 30

    Elizabeth Theiss, former President, Stop the Magnet, SD 15

    Jim Thompson, Prec. Chair, Hopkins County GOP; former Hopkins County Treasurer, SD 1

    Bela Toth, Board Member, Pearland Tea Party; Pearland Area Republican Club, SD 11

    Mildred Toth, Board Member, Pearland Tea Party; Pearland Area Republican Club, SD 11

    Shann Turner, Chair, Lee County Republican Party; President, Lee County Conservatives, SD 18

    Mary & Scott Vance, Clear Lake TEA Party, SD 11

    Charlene Vanderpoorten, past Sec. San Antonio GOP Women; Bexar Co. Election Integrity, SD 26

    Sam Walzel, Deacon, Living for the Brand Cowboy Church, SD 3

    Pam White, Prec. Chair, Eastland County GOP; President, Tea Party Patriots of Eastland Co., SD 22

    Ronnie White, Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County, SD 22

    Suzanne Whitsell, Immediate Past President, Republican Women of Wood County, SD 1

    Maggie Whitt, President, Minority Engagement Group; Board Member, Hispanic Republican Club of North Texas; SREC SD 8

    Susan Williamson, former Chair, Menard County Republican Party, SD 28

    Scott Wilson, Texas Nationalist Movement, SD 8

    Maggie & Carroll Wright, Founding member & past President, Lone Star Patriots, SD 10

    John & Mary-Margaret Wrinkle, Precinct Chair, Franklin County Republican Party; Conservative Republicans of Northeast Texas, SD 1

    Ruth York, Vice President, Tea Party Patriots of Eastland County; Interim Chair, Texas Family Defense Committee, SD 22

    Clayton Young, Montgomery County Tea Party PAC, SD 7

    Pastor Greg Young, Nationally Syndicated Radio host, Chosen Generation Radio, SD 24

    *Organizations are listed for identification purposes only for the above-signed political opinion leaders who influence thousands of Texans.

    CC: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
          Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan

     

    Click here for a PDF version of the letter.

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  • Call for Election Law Enforcement Special Session

    The most important way Texas Republicans can prepare for November is to ensure that election law is enforced in Texas. To that end the RPT State Convention Platform and Resolutions Committee presented this vital resolution to the delegates on May 25, 2024 for a vote:

    RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Texas calls upon Governor Abbott to call a special session in June, 2024 to increase election integrity. Specifically, the call should include the following:

    1. ELECTION INTEGRITY ENFORCEMENT: Legislation to implement independent state level prosecution of election integrity, abortion, human smuggling, sedition, and riot in response to and in compliance with the CCA State v Stephens.
    1. ENSURING THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT VOTING IN TEXAS: Legislation to require proof of citizenship for new voter registration and a thorough review of existing voter rolls to identify and remove illegal aliens, other non-citizens, those with unauthorized non-residential addresses, and long-time inactive voters from the voter rolls.

    Note also that similar measures were included in the top “Secure Texas Elections” priority reported by the RPT State Convention Legislative Priorities Committee.

    The Soros-installed District Attorneys in the big Texas counties are unlikely to prosecute election cheaters in November. The Court of Criminal Affairs (CCA) has taken away independent, state-level prosecution of election law away from the Attorney General. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz need the prosecution in place by November to provide a credible threat to cheaters, but the lame-duck Texas House that impeached Ken Paxton is unlikely to return prosecutorial power to him.

    We have a path forward to election law enforcement without a constitutional amendment and without giving prosecution back to the AG. The solution is to create a State Prosecutor Office under the Texas Supreme Court consistent with the CCA State v Stevens opinion. Senator Bryan Hughes passed such a bill (SB 1927) out of committee in 2023.

    While we are at it, to address the alarming warnings that the feds and NGOs under Biden are registering illegals on a mass scale, we need to also send a shot across the bow of the cheaters, reminding them that registering or voting as an illegal and knowingly helping illegals register is a crime in Texas.  Publicity about starting the process of cleaning up voter rolls, especially of illegals is also a vital part of defending the vote in November.

    We just need Governor Abbott to call a special session to put these measures into effect in the nick of time in early October. Please contact Governor Abbott using this link gov.texas.gov/contact to urge him to make the special session call.

    We expect to get the news that the RPT delegates passed this call on Governor Abbott any day now.

    Governor, no law is any good if not enforced! Please give Trump and Cruz every tool needed ensure that Texas is not stolen from us in November.

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  • Border and Election Integrity Resolutions

    This letter is being sent to the 2024 RPT Platform & Resolutions Committee members:

    Thank you for serving on the 2024 RPT Platform & Resolutions Committee.  As one who served on your body in 2022, I know how much effort it takes to do so.

    This letter is to urge you to consider and pass to the state convention delegates two resolutions, one on Border Security and the other on Election Integrity.

    Every RPT convention passes a small number of timely, high priority, big impact resolutions that get major media attention. (Last session we stated the truth that the 2020 presidential election was stolen and we condemned John Cornyn for betraying our right to keep and bear arms.)  There is evidence that overwhelming majorities of Texas Republicans care about border security and election integrity and want effective action now – before the general election in November – on both these issues.

    Enforce Border Security Without Delay, Despite the Feds Telling us to Delay

    Background:

    The occupied federal government violates federal border security law every day, using our tax dollars to the benefit of the various trafficking businesses of the cartels.  Governor Abbott has sent multiple letters to President Biden urging him to stop violating the law and protect Texans from the border invasion, stating that Texans have the natural and constitutional right to defend themselves against this invasion and imminent danger that will not admit of delay.

    The governor has declared an emergency and using Texas law, the power of commander in chief delegated him by the Texas Constitution, and the concurrent right of defense reserved to Texas in the U.S. Constitution, deployed Texas military and law enforcement to defend Texans. The Texas legislature passed SB 4 last year, creating Texas law that criminalizes entry in between ports of entry into Texas from Mexico, and allowing removal of illegals under certain circumstances.

    Because Texas reserves the power to self defense when it concurrently delegates the duty to the federal government, the federal government under the U.S. Constitution cannot preempt Texas from defending the people of Texas when we are in such “imminent danger as will not admit of delay.”

    Yet, the cases have been brought in the federal judiciary against legitimate, constitutional actions by Texas to stem the invasion and address the danger, and worse yet, some parts of the federal judiciary are attempting to delay or stay Texas defensive action when they will not admit of delay!

    Proposed Resolution (Click here for PDF version:

    WHEREAS, The federal government is deliberately acting in violation of federal law to the benefit of cartels in their trafficking businesses to detriment of the citizens of Texas and the immigrants delivered into the hands of the cartels; and

    WHEREAS, Untold number of terrorists under the control this nation’s enemies have been embedded into Texas and the United States due to the deliberate violation of federal law and are a clear and present danger to the security of Texans and Americans; and

    WHEREAS, Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dying due to deliberate fentanyl poisoning by cartels using Communist Chinese precursors with the assistance of the federal government’s deliberate open borders policies; and

    WHEREAS, The federal government’s deliberate violation of federal law is a violation of the constitutional mandate on the federal government in Article IV, Section 4 to protect Texas from invasion; and

    WHEREAS, Under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, Texas is entitled as a sovereign state of the United States of America to protect itself against this current cartel and border invasion. This constitutional authority grants the State of Texas the power to defend the state when the state has been invaded or is "in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay"; and

    WHEREAS, the Texas governor is taking defensive actions to repel illegal border crossings under authority granted to him by the US Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and Texas law; and

    WHEREAS, Texas has recently passed SB 4 providing a method of deportation of invaders after due process; and

    WHEREAS, Texas has a natural and constitutional right to self defense that is a power reserved to Texas.  Because a power reserved by Texas cannot be legitimately questioned or denied by the agent to which the power is not relinquished, the federal judiciary has no jurisdiction over if, when, or how Texas chooses to defend itself; and

    WHEREAS, Texas is in imminent danger of irreparable harm that will not admit of delay and that any federal judicial stay delays Texas in its self-defense, be it

    RESOLVED, That the Republican Party of Texas calls upon Texas law enforcement, the Texas judiciary, and the governor to act to protect Texans from the border invasion and imminent danger, enforcing SB 4 and other such measures as the governor or legislature sees fit to protect Texas, without paying heed to any stays or opinions of the federal judiciary or other branch of federal government to the contrary.  

    June Special Session for State Level Election Law Enforcement and Stopping Illegal Alien Registration and Voting

    Background:

    Problems:  The 2022 Texas Court of Criminal Appeals’ State v. Stephens opinion prohibiting the Texas Attorney General from independent, state-level prosecution of the violation of election (and other) law makes prosecution of election law violations in the high population counties of Texas in 2024 unlikely.

    More and more reports are coming in that in addition to violating federal law on immigration and border security, federal agents and the federally funded NGOs are also violating federal and Texas law to register the illegal aliens they are processing to vote.

    Both Texas and federal law criminalizing a noncitizen registering and voting exist.  And Texas law criminalizes assisting noncitizens in registering to vote or voting.  But Texas law makes it very difficult to remove non-citizens from voter rolls.

    Any law without enforcement is worthless.

    Solutions:

    • Legislation to implement independent state-level prosecution of election integrity, public integrity, abortion, human smuggling, sex slave trade, sedition, and riot in response to and in compliance with the Texas Criminal Court of Appeals’ State v Stephens


    The bill that led the way in the 88th Regular Session was SB 1927 (Hughes). For a variant on that approach, see also HB 4026 (Schofield).

    • Legislation to facilitate removal of non-citizens from Texas voter rolls and mandates to clean up the voter rolls for inactive registrations and registrations with unauthorized non-residential addresses.


    Urgency:

    Texas is unlikely to have effective enforcement of election law in the largest counties in 2024 without this legislation. Recently passed improvements to the law enabling removal of recalcitrant prosecutors are worthwhile, but due to long lead times and narrow removal criteria, these improvements will not work to address the looming 2024 problem. It is no secret that in certain counties, Texans cannot rely on local prosecutors to enforce the rule of law! Adding state prosecutorial resources for human trafficking, sex slave trade, abortion enforcement and election law violations will no doubt save the lives of children and protect Texas voters from organized vote theft.

    I do not want to have to tell Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, or other Republican candidates on the ballot in 2024 that Texas had the opportunity to effectively enforce election law in 2024, but failed to do so.

    Proposed Resolution (click here for PDF version:

    WHEREAS, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (CCA) 2022 State v Stephens opinion stops the Attorney General from independently prosecuting any crime, including election law, and

    WHEREAS, Texas big county district attorneys funded by globalist outsiders like George Soros have demonstrated their unwillingness to prosecute many criminal statutes including election law, and

    WHEREAS, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, and other Republican campaigns need effective election law enforcement for the November, 2024 election in the big counties of Texas, and

    WHEREAS, Proposition 10 on the 2024 Republican primary ballot called for one method of achieving independent, state-level prosecution of election law, receiving 89.4% of the vote (even with invited Democrat participation in our Republican primary), and

    WHEREAS, existing Texas election law does not mandate proof of citizenship to register to vote and voter cleanup procedures under Texas law make it very costly and difficult to identify and remove illegal aliens from Texas voter rolls, and

    WHEREAS, several media sources are alleging that federal agencies and federally funded non-governmental agencies are encouraging recent illegal aliens to vote on a large scale, be it therefore

    RESOLVED that the Republican Party of Texas calls upon Governor Abbott to call a special session in June, 2024 to increase election integrity.  Specifically, the call should include the following:

    • ELECTION INTEGRITY ENFORCEMENT: Legislation to implement independent state level prosecution of election integrity, public integrity, abortion, human smuggling, sedition, and riot in response to and in compliance with the CCA State v Stephens
    • ENSURING THAT ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE NOT VOTING IN TEXAS: Legislation to require proof of citizenship for new voter registration and a thorough review of existing voter rolls to identify and remove illegal aliens, other non-citizens, those with unauthorized non-residential addresses, and long-time inactive from the voter rolls.


    Looking forward to seeing you at the convention and working with you . . .

    Toward liberty,

    Tom Glass
    www.txce.org
    832-472-4726
    X:  @tomgglass
    Facebook:  Tom G Glass
    Texas Constitutional Enforcement FB group
    Texas Legislative Priorities FB group

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