Tell Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton to denounce the national Republican Party for proclaiming the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection to be “legitimate political discourse.”
Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton
Tell Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton to denounce the national Republican Party for proclaiming the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection to be “legitimate political discourse.”
You read that right. In an actual Resolution today, the Republican National Committee – the governing body of the national Republican Party – defended the insurrectionists and suggested that assaulting and injuring law officers and defacing our very seat of government was not criminal, but patriotic.
It’s bad enough the Republican Party is kowtowing to Donald Trump and purging anyone who won’t go along with The Big Lie about the 2020 election. But defending violence as an election strategy? That’s not the America we know, and the working families of the Texas AFL-CIO won’t stand for it.
Just last week, Texas Republican leadership paid homage to Trump in a Houston rally, doing everything they could to seek his approval. Trump said he might pardon the insurrectionists if he ever becomes President again. Paxton, who spoke at the Trump rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, was again a Trump-endorsed speaker in Houston.
It is long past time for Texas’s political leadership to renounce criminal violence in the quest for political advantage.
Sign the petition, and lets all demand an election system that encourages voting rather than violence.
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Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Attorney General Ken Paxton
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The greatest strength of American democracy is that when voters speak, peaceful transitions in government take place.
A resolution by the Republican National Committee calling the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riots “legitimate political discourse” undermines our nation and cannot be tolerated by the working families of the Texas AFL-CIO or our allies.
The real power in American government must always rest in voters’ hands at the ballot box, not in the fists of those who would end democracy as we know it.
We, the undersigned, call on Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Attorney General Ken Paxton and other Texas officials to condemn the RNC for declaring that violence is a legitimate tactic in American politics.