🚨🚨 BREAKING: Governor Abbott has officially ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois. What country do we live in?
🚨🚨 BREAKING: Governor Abbott has officially ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois. What country do we live in?
Texas is officially an authoritarian totalitarian police state. Why deny it?
One where Republicans fleeing DC to avoid a vote is just fine, but Democrats fleeing TX to avoid a vote is a crime.
In the last TWO years america has sent $22 BILLION dollars of military equipment to israel. 60,000 Palestine people murdered. So the american people are paying approximately $367,000 per Palestinian death. This is the disgusting nation you live in. Wake up.
я больше не знаю, товарищ.
I am OK with this, but only right after they arrest Republicans for violating the Constitution and their oath of office.
He's playing pocket pool. No laws were broken. But, if they arrest them laws will be broken. Funny, he's doing this to stop them. Only so he can turn around and continue breaking the law.
Is there actually a law against not showing up to vote?
Nope, it's just political theatre. They've done this before and Abbutt threatened them the same.
That’s what I suspected; otherwise there would have been hundreds of arrests over the years due to missed votes. 😉
TX Gov Abbott wants to personally remove ELECTED Democratic legislators from office AND appoint any replacement he wants...NULLIFYING the votes and will of Texas citizens. Who made Abbott KING of Texas?!??
Check with the King of the USA. He might have made Abbott King the of Texas.
Republicans in Congress effectively nullify the voters of their state when they fail to fulfill their duty and oath. They aren’t a check and balance, they’re a rubber stamp and that stamp is gold plated.
Governor hot wheels SOOOO wants to be like the fascist felon pedophile Trump. He wants to make Trump King so he can be King No. 2. Not happening! Let’s get his ass arrested!
I live in TX. Abbott is testing the maga waters for 2028. In the long run, he will find out that maga will not out up with a dude in a chair. Maga is too opinionated to allow for a handicapped or women lead them.
Trump?
United States of Authoritarianism!
Apparently Russia. Next step he’ll send them to Florida, the US equivalent to Siberia.
So he arrests them. Then what? Nothing
Russia
What law was broken to arrest them?
The Republican Political Party is the new poster child for Group Insanity.
With a shithead banana republic dick-tator.
Let's see that hit the courts.🙄 It's completely illegal and unconstitutional.
He didn’t. There’s no arrest attached to a civil warrant. He’s just showing off for his boss and rw media.
The same country your country has turned many other countries into
😵💫😖🤬
A Fascist leaning country.
On what grounds?
Not voting. Its a real thing , but has no teeth. they can force a vote with the warrant but that's all the power it has.
In an autarchy everything is possible.
Fuck him.
Sooooooooooo tempting for any adjoining jurisdictions to officially order Abbott's arrest if he leaves his state. Sometimes being 'better than' isn't nearly half the fun or sense of justice.
Thats because Abbott is scum thats all
We live in Tex Ass Next year can we toss the 3 stooges?
Another idiot 🤡 taking fucking stupid actions to retaliate. Must get those madman skills from the 🍊 monster in the Whitehouse.
This is the moment people will look back on and think “Why did the entire country just let this happen? Why didn’t they do more to stop the fascists?”
Orwell’s Oceania
Not sure anymore
Fk him
Little Russia.
Boycott Texas!
Trump leads the way and the rest of the spineless wannabe fascists follow
Sherrilyn Ifill: "Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution. If there's a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we'll have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a good piece:" www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...
The one that protects this asshole while trampling on what we thought was freedom? But, wheels, won't feel a thing due to his buddies.
The most authoritarian democracy on Earth. Highest prison population. Up there with Iran,China, Saudi Arabia and Somalia as the top 5 for executions.
Same one we lived in in 2011 when Scott Walker was gov of WI
under what pretense? There isn't a law, so what's he pretending he can use?
The USA (still) so his arrest order is only civil and has no affect in other states.
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There is not one brave republican anywhere.
the republic of gilead
I have officially ordered Gov. Abbott to go fuck himself.
BREAKING: Governor Abbott has officially ordered the arrest of Democratic lawmakers who fled to Illinois. What country do we live in? --- Perhaps it is time now for Illinois to order the arrest of Gov. Abbott ? Based on illegal persecution.
He isn’t a leader…he’s a pawn in he game of MAGA. May he find himself on the downhill slide to see the faces of all he failed on his way to hell.
The country where conservatism is dead and gone.
Abbott is the same man responsible for stringing razor wire across the Rio Grande. What can we expect from a monster like that?
NOT THE U.S.A. THATS FOR SURE
Texas people better rise up if they care about democracy. Hit the streets!
A fascist one, of course.
What law did they break?
Drumpfland
Texas would be better off as an Iranian province. That way we could invade it and give it democracy
😡f wannabe emperor Abbott.
Guess he'd better dispatch the Illinois and New York divisions of the Texas State Patrol. 😂
I love this hill for republicans.
Read this somewhere else: I hope for Abbots sake, there IS a stairway to heaven
People do what they get away with...until they don't. These lawmakers were all voted in by their constituents. Governor Abbott is not a king.
With what authority?
Arrested for what, fleeing the scene of a crime?
Abbott is in Texanistan, didn't you know?
Well, he do love Russia and said you should be more like China. So maybe a bit of both?
I guess they've never heard the word martyr before
Good luck with that, hot wheels!
Could somebody tell me what law they have broken? Is leaving Texas against the law now?
Yes, if you are leaving to have an abortion in another state
I'm no lawyer, but I don't believe they have committed a crime. They will have to pay a fine for this.
The Texas Constitution (Article III, Section 14) protects lawmakers from arrest or criminal prosecution for actions taken "in the discharge of [their] duties," which courts have interpreted to include legislative tactics like breaking quorum.
Did anyone bitch and threaten to arrest the US House members who left DC to avoid the vote requesting Epstein file information? Nope…
Maybe they should have
The United States of America
Well he can’t. So he can shut his bitch ass up
Screw him
Oops , here it comes! Civil war.
Texas Republicans are ending the United States. If they disenfranchise Dems completely, CA and NY will do so to Repugs. Other states will follow and the Union will split. Blame Abbott, Trump, McConnell, SCOTUS and Reagan.
TX is surrounded by poverty stricken states filled with well-armed angry young men. TX officials should ask themselves what would happen if the federal funds that keep those states from falling into anarchy went away.
The anarchy is the point. The Floridaho Empire will be attacked by the alliance of the California, Illinois and New York Republics. The Alliance prevails and Floridaho becomes a territory of the Allied Republics and its residents have virtually no rights.
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Unusually Strict Authoritarianism.
He is awful! This is ridiculous!
Why do MAGAs always resort to arrest/imprison anyone who has a different view or opinion. It is almost as if there ideas and beliefs are so fragile that they can not survive the challenge. Hence the need to be protected by “authority”.
💯 can’t compete, cheat
You republicans have fucked this country into oblivion. Oh well. Enjoy!
Also TX DPS can’t do a thing outside the state lines, and it’s a civil warrant and likely unconstitutional so there is that
Good to know.
What country do we live in, you ask? We live in the Trump Fascist State. There is no denying it. Now, we must dismantle it!
Ordered? How does the governor "order" the legislature to do anything? He's not their boss!
If i were one of those Tx Dem lawmakers, i'd like nothing better than to be arrested for what? Leaving the state? Dereliction of duty? What law? Arrest would virtually ensure their re-election and perhaps swing a district or two. Bring it on Abbott.
Post Reconstruction Jim Crowe, McCarthyism, Gerrymandering … it’s all suppression. This is who we have always been to various extents, it’s just the power balance is more concentrated and those impacted is larger.
A country on the verge of civil war.
One most Canadians and others around the world don't want to visit!
Let’s arrest Abbott instead for abuse of power
Send him to South Sudan in his fucking wheelchair.
No, why so mean to the wheelchair?
Right!? Let the wheels stay here. I bet that fucker is faking it anyway.
He needs to pick himself up by the bootstraps
Because he screws disadvantaged people like himself, but enjoys special privileges because he’s the governor and Trump ass kisser.
I order the arrest of trump… same level of authority behind it…
a weird Russian territory
The Taliban.
The Dystopian States of AmeriKKKa
They can do whatever the fuck they wants but the second we fight back, we should be arrested! FUCK THEM!!!
If we keep protesting and signing petitions surely they will work this time
Nazi Germany, late 1930s.
Who's going to arrest them, Texas law enforcement have no jurisdiction in IL
A fascist one.
Germany, 1940
Russia
Disunited States of Armageddon. I've renamed it.
Orange Scare. Tangerine Reign of Terror.
Nazi USA, 2025.
An idiocracy
Nobody disobeys the FURER
Someone could just kinda push him down a hill. A very steep hill. Or into an un controlled amount of water. Or?
f that!
He can’t do that legally. He just blowing smoke.
Hitler billigt ihre Bemühungen. Texas. The Loon Star State.
🖕🖕 Abbott.
That's ridiculous. They've broken no laws, so they can't be arrested 🙄
What anal cavity..!!
Shithole
An authoritarian country.
Can a governor even make an arbitrary order to arrest people? Yikes.
In Texas? Yeah Abbott owns DPS they do what he says.
Texassistan.
Time for Texas to secede. We’d be better off as a nation if free loading red states left the Union.
Germany 1939-1945
US 1600s to the 1800s. www.mountvernon.org/george-washi...
1933 - 1945
Frank Turner wrote a song about that. youtu.be/QWmnBcNijvo?...
The one knee deep in fascism
It sounds better in the original Russian
Now you can’t leave Texas?🤮
Abbottistan, evidently.
Maybe one that is done by not tolerating bad Republican behavior!
On what charges?
United States of America, now they're just also oppressing white people too.
"Surrender to fascism, or we will arrest you!"
Did he serve a warrant on Ted? Cancun Ted that is.
Russia republicans think anyhow
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If the Dems were to step up against that rigged election last fall we wouldn't have to go through all this fucking bullshit. They knew he was going to fucking steal it and here we are. With them quiet. About all of it. Aren't you fucking suspicious??
The '24 Election results? A mathematical improbability and this Whole Vile Administration is Illegitimate. How do voters vote down ballot all blue & then suddenly vote red at the top of the ticket (?) Musk has tortured the voting machines to achieve F47's fraudulent win 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 bsky.app/profile/1000...
I'm with you!!
Thank you I appreciate you 🤗
Thank you!! I appreciate you! Solidarity! 🙌🏽🖖🏽
Does he even have the power to do this? (legally)
Arrest them for what exactly?
Take your pick but it sure isn’t America anymore.
Arrested on what charges?
Take the arrests and settle it in court, please TX dems.
The one at the bottom- somewhere below USSR/CHINA/NKorea/ Iran…
The United States circa 1861....Texas is a racist shithole all over.
Show them. Meet their deputies at the Illinois border with armed force.
He is indoctrinated in the MAGA GOP MADNESS cult. Certainly doesn't have anything to do with following the rules of the law. Corruption abounds.
Well it is no longer THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RESIST FASCISM 🇺🇸 🗽 🇺🇸
A banana republic
For now, we live in Trump's America and it's a third world shit hole. Only for now.
Abbott claims he will have the Dems removed from office. That's probably against the Texas State Constitution, if Constitutions mean anything any more. Even if he's successful what then? Appoint Republican flunkies to meet the quorum? Hold an election? What? Another day after question unanswered.
They know if they lose power now they won’t get it back, so they’re clinging to it with everything they’ve got.
Pedophiles protecting pedophiles.
East Korea
Copied post: Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
Thanks to obarcala@bsky.social
Tell Abbott and his corrupt colleagues to go fuck themselves.
Texas AG Ken Paxton will seek judicial orders to declare any seats held by "runaway Democrats" as VACANT if they continue to ignore their legislative duties.
But they are not ignoring their legislative duties. They are working AND they are preventing the attempted steal of yet another election.
The election denial movement in the United States is a widespread false belief that elections in the United States are rigged and stolen through election fraud by the opposing political party. Adherents of the movement are referred to as election deniers.
If you thought I was referring to the 2020 election, I was not. The so-called 'bullet ballots', widespread in the tallies of votes in #Election2024, Swing States, show v. similar mathematical distributions to that found in Russia, where votes are widely acknowledged to be manipulated.
No, that's an out-dated, misleading pov, only true up to 2020 when US Election deniers who lost, made many claims in swing states. Each was investigated and proven false! However, the Dems signed off on the '24 election, even where there were stark mathematical irregularities, now under review.
Translation: Abbott is a piece of shit.
To bad breaking Quorum isn't illegal
They are civil warrants, not actionable outside of Texas.
All the more reason to let Texas be its own country.
Starting to feel like North Korea
Texasistan?
On what charge?
it's on you Texans ... y'all voted and keep voting for Abbott & Paxton & Cruz & every other ass backwards cow humpin' orange taint licker MAGAt.
Abbott is talking out his ass again. This is pure political theatre. They have ZERO legal authority to go to Chicago or NY and arrest Democratic leadership. Abbott's just pissed off that he was outmaneuvered. Fucking fascist asshole! www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
The last time this happened was 2003, when Bush, a Republican, was President. We live in the country you fuckheads created.
Abbott will lose in court.
Courts rules are slower than executive orders, they play with that
@govpritzker.illinois.gov should openly mock pathetic little Abbott
Russia 🇷🇺
I'd say some 70s Banana Republic, but that would be insulting to 70s Banana Republics
He has no power to do so outside of Texas. Good luck with that.
Breaking quorum is not a crime: When lawmakers leave the state to prevent a quorum (as Texas Democrats did in 2021 and again in 2025), they are not committing a criminal offense. This means they cannot be arrested.
You have a pre-2025 mindset.
Exactly. They just all happened to take a vacation at the same time.
Texas is just the beginning… so… what happens in Tx won’t stay in Tx…
Not exactly correct. Overstaying a visa is also not a crime. They “can’t” be arrested nor deported. That was back when there was a United States. Those days are over.
Perhaps the arrests must be executed from both sides.
From the righteous AND the just. Double whammy against GOP and Nazis. Unless you are trying to both-side Nazis… Nobody does that right? Nazis are Republicans.
The Texas Constitution (Article III, Section 14) protects lawmakers from arrest or criminal prosecution for actions taken "in the discharge of [their] duties," which courts have interpreted to include legislative tactics like breaking quorum.
Texas is Mexico. Not a crime.
They can't *legally* be arrested. I kinda hope there are some number crunchers somewhere keeping track of all the fucking crimes this criminal regime is racking up, and they are all held accountable. Call it the Palm Beach Trials.
You do know how many Nazis were found guilty for the murder of 10’s of millions, after Nuremberg, right? 19. 12 were executed. You’re not under the impression that this is what stopped Nazis, I hope. Killing them. That’s how Nazis are stopped. The greatest generation killed millions. Our turn.
1) I'm on board with removing Nazis. 2) Palm Beach is where Mar a Lago is - and I'm uncomfortably certain we have more than 19 Pedos in elected offices across this country.
Well of course we do. Their god raped Mary. We just don’t see things the same way as them. They believe Iron Age shepherds knew all that needed to be known. Yet their “savior” didn’t even know what soap was. Still we revere/respect these imbeciles? Much less give them voice? Destined to failure.
Which is why recording the kidnappers is paramount to future consequences. Make no mistake, there is a post-MAGA era. Trump is 79, assuming he survives the Epstein files.
“Recording” is one method. 19 people were found guilty in Nuremberg. 12 were executed. 12 Nazis. Total. You think that’s what stopped the Nazis? Not a fucking chance.
Sadly, you are right!
overstaying a visa is not a crime but you certainly can be deported for it (legally)
Not legally motherfucker. Read the law. Nazis hate laws.
It's a civil warrant, not a criminal one. Which means they can't be extradited.
It's a delay tactic and maybe some amendments may happen.
It's really just political theater. No civil or criminal charges are being brought against them. It's a civil detainment at best, and if the rangers or Sergeant at arms cross the state lines to enforce it, they'll likely be arrested for actual criminal charges like false imprisonment.
You mean governor Cuckwheels?
It means nothing and he knows it.
Germany, 1937
Coltland, home of the cowards, land of the weak.
The same thing happened in Oregon when Republican law makers fled to Idaho in 2020. Now granted that was over voting for a carbon tax and raising the budget for K-12 public schools. But this is pretty standard now.
#SITLER
Welcome to the 4th Reich.
A shithole banana republic
Always has been. We are just seeing both parties be more open about it. www.mountvernon.org/george-washi...
Shithead president and supporters.
Nooooo that was my childhood show! Clara was nice, maybe Miss Rottermeier down the mountain.
Just seems like political theater. Oregon's D governor did something similar in 2019 when it was Rs who walked out. www.oregonlive.com/politics/201...
Get a wheel lock and arrest Abbott for being a horrible "roll " model.
One I no longer recognise. This is like something you would read about on North Korea or Russia. Truly frightening.
What a disgusting POS state & government. They want to cheat so bad they’ll even openly admit to doing it. Fk little Texas.
They are doing the will of their constituents.
Soo then they won’t return to the state and it can’t govern.
I'm picturing Matt Damon's Labouf character from True Grit, laying down next to a burning garbage can telling Chicago South side homeless how he'd drink water out of a horse hoofprint chasing down these Democrats.
you have to admit it, whether youre a citizen there or not, Texas causes a lot of heartache for the whole country, ALL THE DAMN TIME
Is this for real? Seriously? Any links?
Effectively, Hitler’s Germany. And precisely so.
Mark Elias? Will you represent them and sue the fuck outta Abbott?
And it’s illegal. So. Fuck him
He's a fat demented pathetic piece of shit.
That man is so sycophantic it's nauseating.
We still want the full EPSTEIN list, and we will keep asking ....
#ReleaseTheEpsteinList
I don’t think the Texas Rangers will be welcomed by the Blue state governments.
Shithole
Not Texikistan.
On what charges?
We need to arrest Governor Abbott and throw him in a hole and bury him along with all the MAGAts.
Abbott has no authority to arrest lawmakers outside Texas, and Florida officials or courts would likely refuse to cooperate. To remove any legislator from office, Abbott would need to rely on court action (i.e. quo warranto lawsuits) a process that is legally and procedurally complex. 1/2
The situation remains a political standoff, not a straightforward legal enforcement. 2/2
On what charges?
Push that fucker off a pier already
Yes please
The water is so polluted in Texas he might float.
MAGA America Circa 2025