Project 2025 Happening NOW: Texas
Project 2025 Happening NOW: Texas
Is Texas the most Christo-fascist state in the Union? (No voice recording today. Husband is ill and sequestered in my recording room. Fingers crossed he doesn't share.)
The first time I spoke in Texas, a white man approached me afterward. I hoped he might pick up a new book or several, but he wanted to tell me a story.
“Texas is its own country,” he crowed. “We can leave the United States whenever we want.”
This was my first of many times hearing this tale of Texas independence. White guy after white guy after white guy explained it to me in subsequent Texas appearances spanning several years. I heard it in Houston, Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, and east Texas. Basically everywhere I went.
This assertion that Texas can do whatever it wants made it among the first states to use gerrymandering to create an unbeatable Republican supermajority. It is why Governor Abbott continues to defy federal government orders regarding border policing and immigration. It’s partly why they refuse to be part of the national electrical grid.
Let’s tie various legislation Texas has already enacted to Project 2025 policy positions.
Under President Trump, HHS was dedicated to serving “all Americans from conception to natural death, including those individuals and families who face…economic and social well-being challenges.” Under President Biden, the mission has shifted to “promoting equity in everything we do” for the sake of “populations sharing a particular characteristic” including race, sexuality, gender identification, ethnicity, and a host of other categories.
Project 2025, page 449
ABORTION
Texas banned abortion BEFORE Roe fell. They passed SB8, a legalistic workaround also known as the abortion bounty hunter law, and the Supreme Court let it stand. Anyone can report persons or groups for aiding and abetting an abortion, with awards of $10,000 per reported occurrence.
Several Texas attorneys have sued abortion funds both in Texas and beyond in attempts to get client and donor lists and pursue bounty hunter cases.
Texas outlawed the dispensing of mifepristone and misoprostol to self-manage abortions. A 45-appointed federal judge in Texas ruled to nullify the FDA’s approval of mifepristone. The Supreme Court recently heard this case but haven’t ruled.
Texas has a separate EMTALA case. AG Ken Paxton filed suit to protest EMTALA’s requirement to provide stabilizing abortions when a pregnant person’s health is at risk. The Christo-fascist US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld Texas’ right to flout EMTALA earlier this year.
A group of women are suing the state of Texas for pregnancy complications caused by abortion bans. The state Supreme Court has yet to rule on that case.
Texas forces women with fatal fetal abnormalities to carry pregnancies to term. Abortions are not allowed even when a pregnancy is not viable. (Source for the 5 prior paragraphs: The Texas Tribune)
GENDER-AFFIRMING CARE BANS AND LGBTQIA+
In the past, the word “gender” was a polite alternative to the word “sex” or term “biological sex.” The Left has commandeered the term “gender,” which used to mean either “male” or “female,” to include a spectrum of others who are seeking to alter biological and societal sexual norms.
Project 2025, page 259
Texas has outlawed gender-affirming care for minors. In January, the Texas Supreme Court heard a challenge to that ban, but as of this writing they have not ruled.
Texas requires that people play on sports teams of their gender assigned at birth.
Texas also moved to classify drag performances as “sexually explicit.”
During the 2023 session, Texas also proposed the most severe “Don’t Say Gay” law in the US, as well as restricting classroom instruction regarding LGBTQIA+ issues. In total, the Texas legislature proposed over 90 anti-LGBTQIA+ bills during its last legislative session.
PUBLIC EDUCATION AND CENSORSHIP
Federal education policy should be limited and, ultimately, the federal Depart-ment of Education should be eliminated.
Project 2025, page 319
Texas’ long fight to allow taxpayer-funded vouchers to pay for private, religious education got closer to the finish line with multiple pro-voucher Republican primary wins earlier this year.
Abbott has also advocated to force people to pay tuition for public schools, which would give the state another means to force Christian Nationalist religious indoctrination into those classrooms. Though he lost at the Supreme Court, he vowed to bring another case.
In 2023, Texas passed a law requiring booksellers to use a rating system for a library book’s mention and depictions of sex. The US 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law. To date in 2024, Texas has banned 801 books, more than any other state.
Whew. This is so much Christo-fascist Project 2025-infused Texas legislation, and we haven’t even gotten to immigration.
That’s why today’s progressive Left so cavalierly supports open borders despite the lawless humanitarian crisis their policy created along America’s southern border. They seek to purge the very concept of the nation-state from the American ethos, no matter how much crime increases or resources drop for schools and hospitals or wages decrease for the working class. Open-borders activism is a classic example of what the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer called “cheap grace”—publicly promoting one’s own virtue without risking any personal incon-venience. Indeed, the only direct impact of open borders on pro-open borders elites is that the constant flow of illegal immigration suppresses the wages of their housekeepers, landscapers, and busboys.
Project 2025, page 11
In 2023, the Texas legislature passed SB4, which allows Texas police officers to arrest people they suspect of crossing the border illegally. The Supreme Court allowed this law to remain in effect while it is contested in court.
According to NPR, Texas has spent over $148 million Texas taxpayer dollars busing migrants to blue states since 2022.
Texas has spent $11 billion Texas taxpayer dollars on border security, including Operation Lone Star.
I could cover more Christo-fascist Texas legislation, but I want to acknowledge my Texas subscribers instead.
Texas is one of my biggest readerships, and I hope that means Texans are paying attention to how Christo-fascist their state has already become.
For readers living in Texas or with connections there, follow a link to a Texas Democratic Voting Guide HERE. It has sample ballots with Democratic candidate endorsements for the 4 May 2024 special election and the 5 November general election.
Check whether or not you are registered to vote HERE.
OTHER CHRISTO-FASCIST TEXAS BILLS
Texas public schools must display donated “In God We Trust” posters.
Texas allows Young Life to conduct Bible studies in public middle and high schools. At least 409 Texas public schools welcome this religious program.
Women have got to run for office even if it’s at the lowest rung and work up to Congress or President. Vote Blue and take some one to the polls with you. Tienes razón (you are right)
I live in Houston Texas. It’s rough living here. I’m originally from the blue state of Connecticut. Moved for work years ago. I do not like Texas politics. There are a lot of bright 🔵 dots living here. I’m fighting like hell to make this place purple. I know others feel the same. I like to think my advocacy efforts make a difference. For now staying put but we have an exit plan if needed. 🥰.
Thanks Andra for exposing how awful it is living in the Belly of the Beast - Texas.
Marcy flying high on strong wings of Advocacy