Rodger Cottrell

I told y'all this was coming. Texas Democrats didn't even wait a week. On the VERY FIRST DAY they could file bills, they dropped nearly 20 of them and almost every single one goes straight for our Second Amendment rights. This isn't about "safety." This is about control. Plain and simple. Look at what they filed: *SB 80:* A full-on ban on so-called "assault weapons" not just buying them, but POSSESSING them. They want to turn law-abiding Texans into criminals overnight for owning a rifle they've had for years. HB 173 and others: Make it a FELONY to transfer many semiautomatic rifles to adults under 21. So you're old enough to serve in the military, old enough to vote, but not old enough to own a rifle? Make it make sense. HB 712: Lets cities and counties chip away at statewide gun protections. You know exactly what Austin, Houston, and Dallas would do with that power. HB 613: Background checks on private gun sales. Because criminals are famous for following background check laws, right? HB 659: Forces dealers to report people who buy multiple guns or magazines. Since when is buying in bulk a crime in Texas? And then there's HB 218 which would repeal the 2025 law that BANNED red flag orders in Texas. They want to bring back a system where your guns can be taken away before you've even been charged with a crime. This is exactly what I warned about. People said, "Oh, Texas will never turn blue, it won't matter." Well look now. They win the House and the governor's mansion for the first time in decades, and the FIRST thing they do isn't fix the grid, isn't fix the border, isn't fix schools it's come for our guns. That's their priority. Always has been. Right now the only thing standing between us and all of this becoming law is the Republican Texas Senate. They HAVE to hold the line. No compromises, no "common sense" deals, no watering it down. Once you give them an inch on the 2nd Amendment, they take the whole mile. Texas, you were warned. We cannot sleep on the next election. We cannot sit home. We cannot say "my vote doesn't matter." If we let this stand, Texas won't be Texas anymore. Turn red in the next election. 🟥 Protect Texas. Protect Freedom. Protect the 2nd Amendment. Share this if you're not giving up a single inch.

🚨 Trump's White House Counsel Will Scharf just put Democrats on notice and he did it in writing. He confirmed the White House is monitoring what he called the impending "unlawful" use of subpoenas by Democrats. His warning went directly to incoming Oversight Chair Garcia, with a clear message: if this crosses into blatant criminality, it could face further federal investigation. Scharf explained why he stepped in now: "What we've seen in the last week is this explosion by new Democrat members of Congress, by existing Democrat members of Congress. And they're talking about subpoenas and investigations for blatantly unlawful purposes. And I thought it was very, very important that just at the outset we set the tone." He also called out Garcia's own words about being motivated by pettiness: "Congressman Garcia saying that he was motivated by his own pettiness to bring subpoenas and investigate this administration is just so wildly inappropriate that I felt like it called for a vigorous response." That is the heart of this fight. Garcia has been bragging he will hand out subpoenas like "candy" and "Mardi Gras beads." Now he claims Trump "has something to hide." The White House response was simple: "will not be extorted and will not be cowed." Subpoenas are supposed to be a tool for real oversight, not a weapon for revenge. When a chairman openly talks about pettiness and handing them out like party favors, he tells the public exactly what this is about. Oversight without a legitimate purpose is not accountability, it is intimidation. And Scharf is right to draw the line early, before this turns into two years of political theater paid for by taxpayers.