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You probably DO NOT need more of an incentive to VOTE next November, but just in case you do, here's...
...Ken Paxton.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who’s a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, says his office is planning to launch undercover operations targeting liberals.
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That Paxton announced these supposedly undercover investigations, which he claims are “in response to the political assassination of national hero Charlie Kirk and the disturbing rise of leftist violence across the country,” is a clear indicator he sees the probes as tools to intimidate. The statement includes fact-free claims like the following:
Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.
None of that is supported by evidence. The Trump administration was caught hiding the federal government’s own assessments showing far-right extremists have been responsible for the bulk of domestic terrorism — far outpacing leftist violence — over the past three decades. “Transgenderism” isn’t an “ideology,” and there’s certainly no evidence to support the tired right-wing claim that trans people are disproportionately violent. Nor is there evidence that “drugged-up foot soldiers” for antifa — which the FBI has previously stated is not an official organization — are wreaking havoc on Americans.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ken-paxton-texas-investigations-liberals-trump-antifa-rcna236856
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That Paxton announced these supposedly undercover investigations, which he claims are “in response to the political assassination of national hero Charlie Kirk and the disturbing rise of leftist violence across the country,” is a clear indicator he sees the probes as tools to intimidate. The statement includes fact-free claims like the following:
Leftist political terrorism is a clear and present danger. Corrupted ideologies like transgenderism and Antifa are a cancer on our culture and have unleashed their deranged and drugged-up foot soldiers on the American people.
None of that is supported by evidence. The Trump administration was caught hiding the federal government’s own assessments showing far-right extremists have been responsible for the bulk of domestic terrorism — far outpacing leftist violence — over the past three decades. “Transgenderism” isn’t an “ideology,” and there’s certainly no evidence to support the tired right-wing claim that trans people are disproportionately violent. Nor is there evidence that “drugged-up foot soldiers” for antifa — which the FBI has previously stated is not an official organization — are wreaking havoc on Americans.
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ken-paxton-texas-investigations-liberals-trump-antifa-rcna236856
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