Rick Kennedy

@RpsAgainstTrump @grok Local my ass. A Texas State Senator represents ~940,000 Texans. A Congressman represents ~767,000. He's trying to minimize the damage to him personnaly. Any R in any district R+15 or closer is now recalculating their position. Do I take a closer look at the Epstein files or nah?

Q: A Democrat won a special election in Texas SD9 in an area that you won by 17% Trump: I’m not involved in that. That’s a local race. I don’t know anything about it. I had nothing to do with it @Grok, didn’t Trump post about this election multiple times?

@MattMackowiak You got it backwards. Trump is imperilling Republican seats. Trump won on affordability/immigration. Affordability? He'sdone nothing. And it turns out that while Americans want immigration law enforced, they don't want masked jackbooted thugs kicking down doors without a warrant

Lesson from last nights earthquake loss in #sd9 in TX: This mid term has headwinds for the GOP at the moment. It places an emphasis on the need for serious nominees who have no baggage, can raise money, and who run good campaigns. At all levels. GOP primary votes must choose wisely or we could lose House & Senate, imperiling President’s Trump’s agenda in the second two years.

100% agree. Unfortunately they’re all sitting in their rigged gerrymandered districts so chances are somewhere between slim and none and slim’s left town…

@JDVance Undoubtedly reducing the drug trade would weaken the cartels. What’s the most effective and least expensive way to do that? Treat our addiction problem right here at home.

You see a lot claims that Venezuela has nothing to do with drugs because most of the fentanyl comes from elsewhere. I want to address this: First off, fentanyl isn't the only drug in the world and there is still fentanyl coming from Venezuela (or at least there was). Second, cocaine, which is the main drug trafficked out of Venezuela, is a profit center for all of the Latin America cartels. If you cut out the money from cocaine (or even reduce it) you substantially weaken the cartels overall. Also, cocaine is bad too! Third, yes, a lot of fentanyl is coming out of Mexico. That continues to be a focus of our policy in Mexico and is a reason why President Trump shut the border on day one. Fourth, I see a lot of criticism about oil. About 20 years ago, Venezuela expropriated American oil property and until recently used that stolen property to get rich and fund their narcoterrorist activities. I understand the anxiety over the use of military force, but are we just supposed to allow a communist to steal our stuff in our hemisphere and do nothing? Great powers don't act like that. The United States, thanks to President Trump's leadership, is a great power again. Everyone should take note.

@Sarah4Texas @Martyupnorth A precious few of us in suburbia as well...

@Martyupnorth Unfortunately those of us in West Texas cattle country are all too familiar with them.

Most of you have no idea what this is.

This should truly terrify everyone. stateline.org/2025/12/18/tru…

@atrupar I was in Portland several times this spring and summer, and of course, what Trump is saying is utter bullshit. But I wonder why the mayor and the governor aren't challenging him to come out and see for himself? It's time for them to go on the offensive.

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

@PeterOlivier Treating the root cause (addiction) doesn't make for dramatic video - just actual progress. Hence...

never ever ever a word on the demand side of this war

@axios If the price of those Uber rides is any indication, these numbers aren't gonna be good...

JUST IN: Bureau of Labor Statistics postpones key inflation data report trib.al/n03dDsT

WTAF people...

Texas is moving Forward 💜! ✅ 84 counties pledged in July ✅ 92 counties pledged with just 3 days to go! 🎯 Goal: 100 counties by Aug 31 Every new pledge is a signal Texans are tired of political games + ready for a new path forward. 👉 txfwd.org/ballot_access #ForwardTexas #ForwardParty #100Counties

The political system affects us all. It should represent us all. It should be responsive to us all.

The best cure for gerrymandering would be to move to proportional representation with multi-member districts. There’s a bill in Congress called the Fair Representation Act that would accomplish this.

I don’t care who you are or what your last name is. And I don’t have any secrets. We need to elect more people like me. Are you ready to run for local office? What are you afraid of? #txlege

Republicans drew that map

Voters don’t choose who they get to vote for. The two private companies RNC and DNC do. That should outrage every American. Voting Riggts Foundation is working to fix this issue.

Firing someone for bringing news you don’t like is the essence of terrible leadership.

@TRHLofficial I was told there was no list…

So. Good news. The President will be releasing the Epstein list. This means the influencers and pundits who told us just last week to “move on” from Epstein because “no one cares” will become the biggest child advocates you’ve ever seen again. x.com/RealAlexJones/…

It's been a little disheartening to hear so much confusion in the reporting on Trump's new trade deal with Japan. So let me try to clarify.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes