BARB HONAS
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BARB HONAS
@babstwitme
Wife, mother of three. Love of God, Country..True Patriot











@HEB Open Letter to HEB: Be the FEMA of Texas — In Every Way That Matters To the Butt Family and HEB Executive Leadership, Texas didn’t give you a trophy for showing up. We gave you our trust because you earned it the hard way. When the hurricanes roll in, when the grid collapses, when federal FEMA is still filling out forms in Washington, it’s HEB trucks rolling first — generators, water, hot meals, and real help before anyone else even finds the map. You are the FEMA of Texas. Not the government agency. You. The one Texans actually count on. The one that never waits for permission or a press conference. That role didn’t happen by accident. It happened because you chose to put Texas first when it counted most. Now we’re asking you to live up to that title in every single aisle, every single policy, every single decision. Stop sponsoring foreign visas while Texas families and veterans compete for every decent job. Stop stocking Halal meats and special religious accommodations for a faith that isn’t ours — while pushing aside the Christian roots and Texas values of the ranchers, farmers, and butchers who built this company with you. Get back to your roots — the ones Howard E. Butt planted in 1905: unapologetic Texas values, Texas jobs, Texas families, Texas food. Be the first major grocery chain in America to say it out loud and mean it: “Texas First — period.” Drop the visa programs. Clear the Halal sections. Reclaim the store your customers have shopped for four generations and make it feel like home again. Do it and the payoff will be historic. You’ll lock in the fiercest loyalty this state has ever seen. Texans will drive past every other chain to shop the one grocer that finally stood up and refused to bend. Your brand won’t just be “the nice local store” anymore — it’ll be the undisputed champion of Texas values. The one that leads when it’s hard. The one that protects our way of life the same way you protect us in every disaster. Sales will follow pride. Pride will follow courage. And every other big-box coward chasing national trends will be left watching from the sidelines. Right now it hurts. It hurts every loyal customer who walks through your doors and feels the slow drift away from what made HEB ours. It hurts knowing the company that acts like Texas’ real FEMA in a crisis is still bending the knee on jobs, culture, and faith. You’re better than this. You know it in your bones. This is your moment to own the title we already gave you. Be the FEMA of Texas — not just when the lights go out, but every single day. Stand up for Texas jobs. Stand up for Texas roots. Stand up for Texas families. Don’t make us lose that faith. Do the right thing. Lead like the FEMA of Texas you already are. Texans are waiting to hear from you. For Texas. For your legacy. For the families who made you great. --- If you agree, let HEB hear you loud and clear — repost this, comment, tag them, and make some noise. Texas is done staying quiet. Time to remind them who really built this state.

In general, if you want to know what team someone is heading towards... don't listen to what they say, watch which direction they fire their bullets.


Have started to get more questions about why I do stuff like this. Quick response... 1) Not every pastor should, and not saying I'm doing it perfectly. Guarantee I'm not. 2) I've come think of discipleship in terms of "Air War" and "Ground War." - Air War = applying the Word to PEOPLE and FAMILIES "down there" - Ground War = applying the Word to culture "up there" Just like in a military conflict, if you have no Air War it doesn't matter how many battles you win on the ground, the Enemy just flies in, bombs your wins, and un-does everything you did. I feel like that happens with Christians: If we don't combat the lies they are inundated with in culture, Enemy "air war superiority" is undoing for the next 6 days (via social media, journalism, entertainment media, higher ed, etc) what we did on 1 day. 3) Many of the "false teachers" of this era are not in pulpits. They are on podcasts, YouTube pages, Twitch streams, etc doing reverse-discipleship and frequently twisting the Scriptures to do so. In 1960 a pastor could generally keep his sheep from wolves by controlling who he allowed in his pulpit. In 2026, people are carrying entire packs of "wolves" in their pockets... so as a shepherd I'm trying to go there too. 4) I refuse to let my pulpit get hijacked by the issue of the week. On weekends I'm preaching verse by verse through books. Stuff like this gives me the ability to combat bad teaching my people are hearing without letting my pulpit get hijacked. (Not saying everything Tucker said in this clip I reacted to = bad teaching, listen to ep) 5) If pastors refuse to help their people think Biblically through the issues of the day, someone else will help them think UNbiblically about them. If godly people don't, godless people will. 6) It is counterintuitively an avenue for evangelism. One takeaway I had from watching the effect of Charlie Kirk's life was that what is often called "the culture war" can be a PLATFORM for the gospel, rather than a distraction from it. 7) Last year I read a book that touched on church leadership and pastoral ministry during the era of the American founding. Pastors leveraged Sundays to preach through books of the Bible, but many leveraged the mid-week gathering to teach their people about "Christian statesmanship" (applying Biblical principles to society, local politics, culture, etc.) We accidentally backed into doing that with Live Free. *All that to say, I GUARANTEE I'm doing it imperfectly and this is not going to be every pastor's "thing." I've always been drawn to "Christ and culture" thinking. But I'm doing my imperfect best for the above reasons.








