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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton raids Latino Democrats' homes, including those of LULAC members
The nation's oldest Latino civil rights organization, LULAC, is one of several entities in Texas targeted in voter fraud raids led by state Attorney General Ken Paxton, CBS News has learned.
In a letter first obtained by CBS News, LULAC requested that the Justice Department investigate Paxton's office for Voting Rights Act violations. The organization is accusing Paxton's office of carrying out illegal searches premised on voter fraud.
"These actions echo a troubling history of voter suppression and intimidation that has long targeted both Black and Latino communities, particularly in states like Texas, where demographic changes have increasingly shifted the political landscape," LULAC CEO Juan Proaño and the group's national president, Roman Palomares, said in the letter.
The Justice Department confirmed receipt of the letter and declined to comment further.
Last week, Paxton's office announced in a press release that it was launching undercover operations and an investigation into reports alleging some organizations in Texas are unlawfully registering noncitizens to vote, in violation of state and federal law.
LULAC officials told CBS News that some of the group's Texas members were targeted and had their laptops and cell phones confiscated by Texas authorities executing search warrants. Some of the raids focused on Latino activists across the state.
"Attorney General Paxton is using his position of authority to harass and intimidate Latino non-profit organizations like LULAC, Latino Leaders and LULAC members," Juan Proaño, LULAC's CEO told CBS News, calling the state AG's effort "point-blank" voter intimidation. "It is evident through his pattern of lawsuits, raids, searches, and seizures that he is trying to keep Latinos from voting."
Proaño said one of those targeted was Lidia Martinez, an 87-year-old who lives in San Antonio. Martinez has been a LULAC member for over 35 years and works to expand voter registration among seniors and veterans in South Texas.
She said that last Tuesday, there was a knock on her door in the morning, and she was greeted by nine officers in tactical gear and firearms who said they were executing a search warrant. Martinez was questioned for over three hours about her voter registration efforts in Texas.
Law enforcement seized Martinez's phone, computer, personal calendar, blank voter registration forms and her certificate to conduct voter registration, according to Martinez.
"This is a free country, this is not Russia," Martinez said Monday during a press conference denouncing the raid.
Manuel Medina, the chair of Tejano Democrats, is another LULAC member who was targeted, LULAC's CEO said. Medina's home was raided last Thursday by police in riot gear, who were armed and broke down his door, according to LULAC officials.
Paxton's office said in its news release it would continue to conduct undercover operations led by its Election Integrity Unit. The Texas AG's office said it received a referral from the 81st Judicial District Attorney Audrey Louis regarding "allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting that occurred during the 2022 elections." The release added that a two-year investigation "provided sufficient evidence to obtain the search warrants."
This unit was created in the aftermath of Trump's 2020 election loss to President Biden and aimed to probe alleged voter fraud across the state, even though officials in the Trump administration said the election had been secure.
"My office is investigating every credible report we receive regarding potential criminal activity that could compromise the integrity of our elections," Paxton said. "The Biden-Harris Administration has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens, and without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level."
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We were granted access to have a photographer there.
Steven Cheung
Never give up Hareeballs , never give up !
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Biden's departure from Afghanistan was a complete debacle - and unforced. He didn't have to telegraph the date and locations (led to terror attack killing and maiming US servicemen), didn't have to surrender tens of billions in armaments, didn't have to turn over the US built airbase ... but he did that and it is all on him.
Then someone writes an article and says, 'hey - it's Trump's fault'.
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So the chosen one finally agrees to a sit down interview and she has to bring her emotional support pet (Walz) with her .Comment -
Kamala running on Policy. But it's all Trumps Policies.
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She's running on fumes. She wants to bring notes to the debate.
My belief is that her strategy of not speaking to the press is an inevitable fail - because it will just attract more attention to when she finally has to speak on her feet in front of a camera ... and if she isn't perfectly in command it will just draw more attention to her shortcomings.Comment -
She is going to have a ''pre-taped'' interview and her pet dog Waltz will sit with her. In case he has to bite Dana Bash the interviewer..
https://youtu.be/KFdsAASixD0?t=22
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He just became president and had a job to do. Draining the swamp would take decades and probably is impossible to do. You can only try and reduce the swampiness of Washington.
Trump of course can't do it all. There is some learning initially. Of course there are generals who will say negative stuff about Trump. They are the ones who had the country in decades long wars and nation building other countries. What are they gonna say? Uh ya like we just wanted the war to continue because like this is what we do and we make billions for our friends. No, they are gonna say shit about Trump because he exposes them for the war mongers they are.
Also, its not everyone that Trump hires. Washington is filled with incompetent grifters. 35 trillion in debt but the many of the same clowns that have been in powers for years. They will send hundreds of millions to other countries to build wall, but will pass legislation so that Trump couldn't divert any more money from the defense budget to help secure the southern border with a wall. All of a sudden walls don't work. Never have. during the DNC, huge walls were put up because they simply don't do a thing to prevent people from coming in. But here ya go Jordan, here's 500 million! Build that wall! Build it high! Courtesy of the American taxpayer! Walls for everyone. Money for everyone. Wars for everyone. Just remember, Trump is evil for trying to build a wall at the southern border, we must stop him.
But hey, I will vote for Kamala because she is black and a woman and that's all that's important. Yeah Kamala you go girl. You were great as the border czar and you use pronouns to describe yourself. America's enemies respect that. Everything will be wonderful if you are the next president. You are smart and a woman and you aren't white. We love you Kamala.Last edited by DwightShrute; 08-28-24, 01:30 PM.Comment -
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Teen arrested in first violation of New York county's controversial mask ban
This is one of the reasons I can't get behind today's democratic party.
They're so soft on crime.
The Nassau County minority leader called the mask ban “a blatant waste of taxpayer money” and “political theater.”
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Libtard "Tourist" upset after losing HairyBall's address...
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Even in Chile. <a href="https://t.co/yZfUsJlASw">pic.twitter.com/yZfUsJlASw</a></p>— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) <a href="https://twitter.com/RadioGenoa/status/1828743772554821765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" >August 28, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Comment -
The brutal reality of Trump's mass deportation plan needs to be discussed
It would be an unprecedented horror and moral stain on the United States of America.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-...lan-rcna168431
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Dwight - I don’t expect you to change your mind but I want you consider the following people Trump chose as advisors. This was his chose. No one stays. Why? Is he draining the swamp or is he a pompous ass that no one can work with?
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What’s below is not meant to be an exhaustive list, but rather a catalog of the most notable turns by former aides and top officials whom Trump at one point chose to work for him at the White House. Some are now actively working against him. Three are running against him in the presidential primary. Others have stayed relatively quiet after resigning in protest. The link at each name includes more context.
1. His vice president, Mike Pence: “The American people deserve to know that President Trump asked me to put him over my oath to the Constitution. … Anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be president of the United States.”
2. His second attorney general, Bill Barr: “Someone who engaged in that kind of bullying about a process that is fundamental to our system and to our self-government shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office.”
3. His first secretary of defense, James Mattis: “Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people – does not even pretend to try. Instead he tries to divide us.”
4. His second secretary of defense, Mark Esper: “I think he’s unfit for office. … He puts himself before country. His actions are all about him and not about the country. And then, of course, I believe he has integrity and character issues as well.”
5. His chairman of the joint chiefs, retired Gen. Mark Milley, seemed to invoke Trump: “We don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator. We take an oath to the Constitution and we take an oath to the idea that is America – and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
6. His first secretary of state, Rex Tillerson: “(Trump’s) understanding of global events, his understanding of global history, his understanding of US history was really limited. It’s really hard to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t even understand the concept for why we’re talking about this.”
Then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson looks at then-President Donald Trump during a ceremony to commemorate the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the Pentagon on September 11, 2017.
Andrew Harrer/Pool/Getty Images)
7. His first ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley: “He used to be good on foreign policy and now he has started to walk it back and get weak in the knees when it comes to Ukraine. A terrible thing happened on January 6 and he called it a beautiful day.”
8. His presidential transition vice-chairman, Chris Christie: “Someone who I would argue now is just out for himself.”
9. His second national security adviser, HR McMaster: “We saw the absence of leadership, really anti-leadership, and what that can do to our country.”
10. His third national security adviser, John Bolton: “I believe (foreign leaders) think he is a laughing fool.”
11. His second chief of staff, John Kelly: “A person that has nothing but contempt for our democratic institutions, our Constitution, and the rule of law. There is nothing more that can be said. God help us.”
12. His former acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, who resigned as US special envoy to Ireland after January 6, 2021: “I quit because I think he failed at being the president when we needed him to be that.”
Trump and then-acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney at a luncheon with representatives of the United Nations Security Council at the White House on December 5, 2019.
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13. One of his many former communications directors, Anthony Scaramucci: “He is the domestic terrorist of the 21st century.”
14. Another former communications director, Stephanie Grisham: “I am terrified of him running in 2024.”
15. His secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, who resigned after January 6: “When I saw what was happening on January 6 and didn’t see the president step in and do what he could have done to turn it back or slow it down or really address the situation, it was just obvious to me that I couldn’t continue.”
16. His secretary of transportation, Elaine Chao, who resigned after January 6: “At a particular point the events were such that it was impossible for me to continue, given my personal values and my philosophy.
17. His first secretary of the Navy, Richard Spencer: “…the president has very little understanding of what it means to be in the military, to fight ethically or to be governed by a uniform set of rules and practices.”
Then-Acting Defense Secretary Richard Spencer listens to Trump during a Cabinet meeting on July 16, 2019.
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18. His first homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert:“The President undermined American democracy baselessly for months. As a result, he’s culpable for this siege, and an utter disgrace.”
19. His former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen: “Donald’s an idiot.”
20. His White House lawyer, Ty Cobb: “Trump relentlessly puts forth claims that are not true.”
21. A former director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is now a CNN political commentator: “We can stand by the policies, but at this point we cannot stand by the man.”
22. A top aide in charge of his outreach to African Americans, Omarosa Manigault Newman: “Donald Trump, who would attack civil rights icons and professional athletes, who would go after grieving black widows, who would say there were good people on both sides, who endorsed an accused child molester; Donald Trump, and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the country. I could no longer be a part
of this madness.”
Sarah Matthews, former deputy White House press secretary, arrives to testify before the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack in the Cannon House Office Building on July 21, 2022.
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23. A former deputy press secretary, Sarah Matthews, who resigned after January 6: “I thought that he did do a lot of good during his four years. I think that his actions on January 6 and the lead-up to it, the way that he’s acted in the aftermath, and his continuation of pushing this lie that the election is stolen has made him wholly unfit to hold office every again.”
24. His final chief of staff’s aide, Cassidy Hutchinson: “I think that Donald Trump is the most grave threat we will face to our democracy in our lifetime, and potentially in American history.”Comment -
^^^ Have you ever seen so many people, who once followed Trump, totally flip and actively root against him? Do really think it’s all their faults?
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I think annoying Libtards posting under the name HairyBalls! are automatically included.
As a moral stain on America, your ideological hero Nicolas Maduro will be more than happy to receive you and like-minded sycophants.
Don't forget to pack your dog-eared Socialism 101.
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@AGAndrewBailey
BREAKING: The Supreme Court unanimously upheld our court order BLOCKING @KamalaHarris and @JoeBiden illegal student loan cancellation scheme.
This is a HUGE victory for the working Americans who won't have to foot the bill for the Biden-Harris Ivy League bailout.
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Meghan McCain ( Certainly no fan of Trump)
I don’t know if democrats fully realize how damaging the image of the possible first woman president being incapable of giving an interview alone without the presence of a man to help her is.
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Trump drew down Afghan force to @ 6000 w/ 0 combat deaths over last 18 months.
Then Biden did his disastrous pull out.
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There was an 18-month stretch that saw no combat, or “hostile,” deaths in Afghanistan: from early February 2020 to August 2021.
There were two combat deaths reported in early February 2020, when Trump was president, and none reported again until late August 2021, when an attack killed 13 U.S. troops amid the exit from Afghanistan, during Biden’s presidency.
Looking at other periods of Trump’s presidency also tells a different story than the one he offered.
During the last, full 18 months before Trump left office in January 2021 — from July 2019 to December 2020 — there were 12 combat deaths reported.Comment -
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Again, it certainly not everyone.
The Washington cartel is full of grifters with their hands out for easy money. Too bad that you refuse to admit it or see it, but instead blame the outsider Trump. That is what the swamp needs in order to survive. Focus on Trump. Millions of people have been made to believe that losing is the new normal and they must accept this reality. More wars is what is needed. If you don't take this experimental drug, you will not be allowed to participate in society and we will make sure of it. More people like AOC and Omar in positions of power! 93 Trillion new green deal is the answer to everything. Kamala!
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When they are telling you where to look, they are telling you where not to look.Last edited by DwightShrute; 08-28-24, 05:29 PM.Comment -
CNBC host Joe Kernen rolls his eyes and laughs after Harris’ economic advisor Bharat Rama tries arguing in favor of Harris’ unrealized capital gains tax.
Rama sat in silence as the hosts poked fun after he tried saying that property tax was an unrealized gains tax.
“It’s probably unconstitutional… it's not income.”
“And it's never gonna happen.”
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1828797554563436685
But …but she’s not Trump and she’ll probably get close to 85 million votes .
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Taxpayer funded PBS state media doing what it does best: LYING.
I used to respect Judy Woodruff when she was credible.
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Are you saying ALL these people on that list are grifters? Trump had close to 80 people he selected and like 70 of them he fired or resigned. How does that happen in real life? You don’t think that’s a huge knock on him as a leader? Do you think those people were all the problem? Can you at least admit he’s not very good at hiring people?Comment -
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There you go again, posting stuff that makes zero sense to us in America. Who do you know that have not been able to participate in the US society? What does that even mean? Dumb cult members all of a sudden became immunology experts, many of them were misled to their deaths. Tens of thousands of them went to the grave because people like you fed them lies that there was nothing to worry about. It took the vaccines to get America back on our feet. No thanks to you. Don’t ever forget that. Do you at least have a bit of remorse for guys like Hermain Cain?Comment
