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Thank you, Judd.

Honestly, the ONLY reason Patrick is doing all this is that HE is under criminal investigation. And he saw how Trump, under creeping investigations, desperately tried to create any CHAOS that he could to distract and confuse his pursuers, and the public. All of this has, for both Trump and Patrick, only ONE GOAL: to EVADE PRISON.

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Posturing from the Trump pushback playbook no doubt on sale with the greetings 45 and the wife are selling to the MAGA. The GOP has fully embraced being Trump's party.

Mr. American Airlines can parrot the words right back to Patrick and Abbott when their campaigns come looking for their pocket linings of donations. I used to love the state of Texas when I lived there. A crying shame it has turned into this bastion of Fascist rhetoric. Crying shame much of the United States has as well.

Good job, Judd you are a shining example of why the 1st amendment matters. Thank you.

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I hope this piece gets a lot of exposure in the MS press. Patrick has gone on the record before with the most outrageous statements and assertions; this delusional yahoo needs to be stopped. Grandparents would gladly die to keep their grandkids out an about, right? Now Black people don't own cars? WTF are Texans THINKING when they pull the lever for this jerk?

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Just a quick correction - Fetterman is our Lt Governor here in PA not Governor.

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Thank you for your exposure of this clown, whose name is not well enough known (though it should be) as a leading anti-democracy Republican. While we focus on the loudest voices (Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, MTG, Lauren Boehbert, Matt Gaetz, etc.), clowns like Patrick (and on the federal level, Ron Johnson) are doing just as much damage to our country. I'm glad that they are being exposed for who and what they are.

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Thank you for this, Judd.

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I keep hoping that all these idiot and dangerous trumpublicans would eat s**t and die, however I don’t think that’s going to happen anytime soon. They are trying to infect the rest of us with the same degenerative disease they seem to be infected with; the Putin disease. It’s highly infectious and affects those who tend to believe they live in the 1840’s South.

All that aside, it would be so nice for these very same people who are bemoaning corporate money in politics, to find those same big money donors’ doors slammed shut come their reelection bids. Some nerve. Maybe corporations will wise up and begin to see that this particular breed of republican is indeed poisonous to the progress and stability of this country.

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Thank you, Judd, for your indefatigable investigations. Texas is a tragic mess. All together, what everyone here is commenting about has to make us grateful that Biden won! 7 millions votes was almost not enough of a winning margin. Remember, Hillary had 3 million more. Judd, your work in the cause of truth and exposing underlying greed and deceit is invaluable.

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Very appreciative, but requires some study internationally. It seems that Russian influence is everywhere. American politicians in the South are dumber than the dumbest person in Mike Judge’s film, Idiocracy. I think Putin influence is rampant. As much as I dislike him. he is smarter than most American politicians (especially Republicans), if they haven’t sold out already.

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These Republicans who support Trump’s Big Lie will are owned by it and can only devolve further into conspiracy. That’s what happens when you embrace a big lie. A man in his 30s told me that the US is overburdened by only white Republican men and the US will be a better place as they die off. He may have a point there, but I say IF we can keep the US from going to authoritarianism. I sure hope Paxton, et.al. get prosecuted soon. That might end some of this Big Lie nonsense.

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Another republican traitor. Vote these traitorous scum out of office. Another small man in every way that matters. He's ashamed of himself and he tries to take it out on others. Typical republican.

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"iconic Texas companies like Delta and Dell," I'll give you Dell, but Georgia has got Delta. Maybe you meant American Airline which has their headquarters in Texas and a huge hub at DFW?

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