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WE CAN'T TRUST
RADICAL
DEMOCRATS
RADICAL
DEMOCRATS
1. Tax-and-Spend Democrats Want to California Your Texas
Socialist Democrats claim they want to make Texas more affordable for all, but their record tells a different story. Democrats’ vision for Texas looks a lot like NYC and California: over-taxed, over-regulated, and unaffordable. James Talarico voted NO on banning property taxes in Texas. 72% of Texans are in favor of banning death tax – James Talarico voted no anyway. 89(R) HJR 2 RV#714
2019: Democrats voted against a state income tax ban.
2019: Democrats voted against historic property tax reforms that have reduced local property tax increases from 8% to 3.5%.
2025: Democrats voted against lowering the amount local governments can raise your property taxes, and fought against an amendment to give Texans a vote on any tax revenue hike over 1%.
2025: Democrats voted against banning state taxes on retirement accounts.
What they actually said:
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“There’s an element where yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes.” - U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on funding her “Green New Deal.”
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“We’re taxing the rich” - NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani on his pied-a-terre tax on second homes in New York City.
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"Anyone from California that receives any of those [Anti-Weaponization Funds], we want to tax 100% of those proceeds. That's an action the State of California can take. It's an action we look forward to taking." - California Governor Gavin Newsom
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"Taxes are going to have to go up." - Vice President Kamala Harris
2. Open Border Insanity
Radical Democrats’ reckless open border policies invited criminal illegal immigrants across Texas’ southern border with open arms, endangering the lives of Texans and Americans. Democrats have carried the torch, repeatedly putting violent criminal illegals over law-abiding citizens, protecting sanctuary cities, and opposing border funding that prevents human trafficking and the smuggling of drugs and weapons into Texas.
2017: Democrats voted to allow sanctuary cities in our state.
2023: Democrats voted against vital funding for border wall structures and operations.
2025: Democrats voted against criminal penalties for those who cross the southern border illegally.
What they actually said:
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" A 2,000-mile wall is a monument to stupidity, not just vanity, to stupidity." - California Governor Gavin Newsom
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"We're not a border town... We're not Texas." - DC Mayor Muriel Bowser
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"An undocumented immigrant is not a criminal." - Vice President Kamala Harris
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“We should treat our southern border like our front porch. We should have a giant welcome mat out front.” - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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"We are spending billions of Texas taxpayer dollars on a political stunt at the border.” - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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"It is not a criminal violation to enter the country illegally… It's not a crime.” - U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
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"There is no issue that has done more damage to the public’s perception of President Biden's handling of the job than the border... It has become a political vulnerability that they have struggled to find an answer for, for years." - NBC’s Chuck Todd
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"We must end immigrant detention, not expand it." - U.S. Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX)
3. Indoctrination Over Education in the Classroom
For socialist Democrats, schools are a training ground for indoctrination, protests, and perversion. Democrats would rather expose your children to drag queen story hour than our nation’s founding documents. They support corrosive Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and Critical Race Theory, they want sexually explicit books in the classroom, and they vote against teaching our children to understand the commonsense ideals that make Texas, Texas.
2021: Texas Democrats supported Critical Race Theory and teaching our kids that some people are inherently racist.
2021: Texas Democrats voted against teaching children core subjects and the study of U.S. government and the nation’s founding documents.
2023: Texas Democrats opposed repealing DEI training and initiatives at public universities.
2025: Texas Democrats opposed banning DEI in public schools.
What they actually said:
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“[Republicans] want to suggest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are foreign values. They’re not foreign values, they’re American values.” - House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries
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“If you’re against [DEI], you’re against democracy.” - U.S. Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC)
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"I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach." - Former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe (D)
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"Radicalized white men are the greatest domestic terrorist threat in our country." - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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“The purpose of a public education in public schools is not to teach kids only what parents want them to be taught. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client of the public schools is not the parent, but the entire community, the public.” - Michigan Democratic Party
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“I’m co-authoring legislation to explicitly teach ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ in our schools.” - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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“We’re not shying away from diversity as a strength and equity as a goal and inclusion being the air we breathe.” - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
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“I don’t feel good about being white every day, for a lot of reasons … I get to move through the world in a way that so many of my other colleagues, friends, family, members of the community don't get the privilege to do, and I’m just a white woman. If I was a white man, I'd be functioning from a point of even greater privilege.” - KY State Rep. Sarah Stalker (D-Louisville)
4. Allowing Biological Men into Women’s Private Spaces
Socialist Democrats have abandoned all common sense. They support boys in girls' sports. They think women should be forced to share private spaces like restrooms and locker rooms with biological men. They reject the basic, common-sense truth that there are only two sexes: male and female. When it comes to the gender modification of children, Democrats would rather transition your kids than protect them, educate them, or employ them.
2021: Democrats opposed legislation requiring an athlete's biological sex to determine if a student plays in girls’ or boys’ high school sports.
2023: Democrats voted against legislation protecting the integrity of women's sports by prohibiting men from competing against women athletes at Texas public colleges and universities.
2023: Democrats opposed legislation banning puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and life altering gender transition-related surgeries for minors in Texas.
2025: Democrats opposed legislation requiring Texas governmental entities to have separate bathrooms and changing rooms for men and women.
2025: Democrats voted against recognizing that there are only two sexes: male and female.
What they actually said:
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"Modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes, in fact there are six.” - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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“Gender-affirming care is not child abuse.” - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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"God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is non-binary." - Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate James Talarico
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"Targeting trans children for playing sports makes all women, whether trans or cisgender, less safe... Sex testing is regressive, invasive, discriminatory, and a fundamental violation of our privacy as women and as Americans." - U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on the topic of boys in girls’ sports
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“The fight to defend the rights and freedoms of trans individuals continues, regardless of who occupies the White House” - Senator Alex Padilla
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“Trans rights are human rights.” - Rep. Pramila Jayapal on the Transgender Bill of Rights
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“What they should be doing is connecting trans rights to the larger message of affordability and freedom.” - Caius Willingham, Senior Policy Analyst at Advocates for Trans Equality
5. Law and Order vs. Left-Wing Lunacy
Democrats are pro-criminal and anti-law enforcement. Socialist Democrats repeatedly prioritize the criminal over the victim, letting dangerous criminals back onto our streets to endanger the lives of innocent Texans and Americans. Democrats need to choose: support the safety of the citizens they represent or the criminals who harm Texans.
2021: Democrats supported the defunding of the police.
2023: Democrats opposed removing rogue district attorneys.
2025: Democrats voted against prohibiting bail for illegal immigrants.
What they actually said:
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“Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal.” - U.S. Rep Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
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"Cash bail is a failed system that criminalizes poverty ... We must end it." - Vice President Kamala Harris
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"Stop building prisons. It's that simple... we need decarceration." - U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY)
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“Locking up illegal crossers in Texas is a ‘cruel, lawless, and unconstitutional stunt.’" - U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX)
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“Let’s just start with the hard truth about the criminal justice system. It’s racist. It is. And when I say our system, I mean all the way.” - Minority Leader of the United States Senate Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
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"Austin City Council just reduced the police department budget by over $100 million... This is a historic moment." - U.S. Rep Greg Casar (D-TX) on stripping funding from Texas law enforcement
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"I love that [activists] are demanding this ... completely dismantling those police departments and starting over." - Beto O'Rourke
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"The criminal justice system in Texas was built on a foundation of white supremacy ... We need an absolute overhaul." - U.S. Rep Jasmine Crockett (D-TX)
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