Assclown Alert Archives

In a flurry of purple prose, Buzbee called Paxton's coming impeachment trial an 'evil, illegal, and unprecedented weaponization of state power.'

Tags: Assclown Alert, Ken Paxton, Tony Buzbee, Texas Senate, Ken Paxton impeachment, Texas attorney general impeachment

To anyone paying attention, the gulf between the House and Senate on property taxes was clear weeks before the session was over.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Gov. Greg Abbott, Texas Legislature, Special Session, Property taxes, Abbott vetoes

The same judge who tried to outlaw the widely used abortion drug mifepristone is now preparing to hear a dubious legal case that would slap Planned Parenthood with $1.8 billion in fines.

Tags: Assclown Alert, abortion rights, Planned Parenthood, Matthew Kacsmaryk, women's health, reproductive rights

Roy threatened to derail the military budget because he found the Air Force's plans to celebrate Pride 'divisive' and 'embarrassing.'

Tags: Assclown Alert, U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, Pride Month, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Texas politics, Austin, San Antonio

Despite saying the legislature should stop 'bashing on' LGBTQ+ Texans, Phelan enabled final House passage of a bill to ban gender-affirming care for trans minors.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas anti-transgender legislation, gender affirming care for minors, Texas transgender minors bill, LGBTQ rights, Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan

In a statement on the mass shooting in Cleveland, Texas, Abbott referred to the tragedy's victims as 'illegal immigrants.'

Tags: Assclown Alert, Gov. Greg Abbott, Greg Abbott calls shooting victims illegal immigrants, Cleveland, Texas mass shooting, Texas mass shooting, immigration rhetoric

The crusading social conservative is facing accusations that he had an 'inappropriate relationship' with an intern under the age of 21.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas Legislature, Bryan Slaton, Texas House, House General Investigating Committee, Texas Republicans

During a hearing, the Republican lawmaker unknowingly called out names of fake speakers including Connie Lingus and Anita Dickinme.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas Legislature, texas state rep. Jeff Leach, Texas Republicans, fake names at anti-trans bill hearing, Texas anti-trans legislation

One of Texas' most tireless and tiresome culture warriors has filed a bill that would make it illegal to 'provide information on how to obtain an abortion-inducing drug.'

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas Rep. Steve Toth, Texas abortion ban, free speech, first amendment, abortion drug ban, Texas abortion legislation

The freshman Republican filed a bill that would ban polling places from college campuses and used the absurd justification that she's concerned about safety.

Tags: Assclown Alert, State Rep. Carrie Isaac, Texas Legislature, ban on polling places at college campuses, voter suppression, Texas Republicans, college voting ban

By asking Hagee to give the invocation at her campaign launch, Haley is signaling that she's no moderate.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Nikki Haley presidential campaign, Pastor John Hagee, San Antonio churches, Christian Nationalism, Cornerstone Church, religious right, Republican Party, 2024 Republican primary

The pair wasted two hours in a failed tag-team attempt to tack anti-transgender amendments onto a procedural resolution.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas Legislature, Texas Rep. Tony Tinderholt, State Rep. Bryan Slaton, anti-LGBTQ lawmakers, anti-transgender lawmakers, Equality Texas, LGBTQ rights, LGBTQ Texans

Critics warn that Kolkhorst's bill banning people from four countries from buying land in Texas will worsen anti-Asian sentiment, which is growing.

Tags: Assclown Alert, State Sen. Lois Kolkhorst, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, State Rep. Gene Wu, Houston, China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, land ownership, Texas Legislature, Texas Republicans, banning foreign ownership, Texas lawmakers, anti-asian sentiment, anti-asian bias, bathroom bill, anti-transgender legislation

The Black congressman Roy nominated to thwart Kevin McCarthy's bid 'is not a historic candidate for Speaker. He's a prop,' one critic fired back.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Assclown Alert, Chip Roy, House Speaker, San Antonio, Austin, Texas Hill Country, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, Florida, Texas, racial equity, Kevin McCarthy, U.S. Rep. Cori Bush

Texas' junior senator started the year on a low note, and it's only been downhill from there.

Tags: Assclown Alert, 2022 in review, assclown of the year, Ted Cruz, LGBTQ, gender identity, kiss my ass, COVID-19 vaccine, Elmo, airport ticket counter, CPAC, violent rhetoric, anti-vaxxer, Capitol riot, insurrection, Tucker Carlson, Texas Republicans, Republicans, extremist politicians

As the increasing threats against drag shows suggest, the Texas GOP's anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric has consequences.

Tags: Assclown Alert, drag shows, drag, LGBTQ+, transgender, trans children, State Rep. Jared Patterson, Gov. Greg Abbott, Aztec Theatre, San Antonio, Texas Republicans, Texas Legislature, far-right, conservatives

'There's a very specific, established path for invoking the Invasion Clause,' one expert said. 'You don't just do it in a tweet.'

Tags: Assclown Alert, Gov. Greg Abbott, invasion clause, invasion, migration, immigration, El Paso Walmart shooting, Sarah Hicks, border, operation lone star, Texas, Texas politics, Joe Biden, Ron DeSantis, Republicans, presidential nomination

Both the Federal Trade Commission and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Massachusetts, have also issued stern warnings to Musk about the dangers of dicking around with one of the world's most-accessed social networks.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Elon Musk, Twitter, Twitter Blue, social network, social media, paid verification, verification checkmark, Eli Lilly, LeBron James, Tesla, Federal Trade Commission, Ed Markey, parody

The former Republican Texas House member gleefully thanked Ye for a tweet broadly condemned as antisemitic.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Texas, Assclown Alert, Texas politics, Texas representative, republican, Texas House, Jonathan Strickland, Kanye, Kanye West, Ye, antisemitism, White Lives Matter, The Gap, Uvalde shooting, death con 3, jewish people, twitter, recovering politician, Christian conservative liberty loving Texan

Anyone questioning whether Gov. Greg Abbott is chasing the 2024 Republican nomination need look no further than his despicable actions last week to see he's all in.

Tags: Assclown Alert, Gov. Greg Abbott, Gov. Ron DeSantis, President Joe Biden, Martha's Vineyard, immigration, political stunts, migrant planes, migrant buses, student loans, Republican Party, Donald Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris, migrants, asylum seekers, Texas politics, 2024 presidential election, Republican nominee