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FirstLight

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8. Agreed! They should go before cameras, rip up the goddamn permission slips and

Reply to ScoutHikerDad (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 19, 2025, 12:10 PM

Aug 2025

join their colleague in the chambers and then ALL walk out of there!! Arma Locked, and dare them to arrest all of them.

This is total bullshit and so far beyond Constitutionality... downright fascism.

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I Honestly Just Don't Understand ScoutHikerDad Aug 2025 #1

Maybe they selected her as the test case. Others making the cbabe Aug 2025 #2

Agreed! They should go before cameras, rip up the goddamn permission slips and FirstLight Aug 2025 #8

How would it be kidnapping? MichMan Aug 2025 #3

The word is kidnapped. Texas Republicans have Kidnapped a Democratic state representative. LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2025 #4

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