So let’s start on a positive note. I talked to you about Senate Bill 17. A couple of weeks ago, this is the DEI bill that passed the Senate very strong ban on dei hiring practices policies. At our university level, it also gets rid of the DEI offices. These are hundreds of full time employees whose job it is to literally spread more Marxism throughout our universities. So Senator Brandon Creighton passed a very strong bill, one of the strongest in the nation out of the Texas Senate and went to the house got completely gutted in committee and then came to the floor and then on the floor, the house conservatives put back in language that strengthened it to the point of where it looked more like what the Senate had passed against the will of House leadership. But then leadership tacked on a little gift to the Democrats at the end. Not a surprise for those of us who are used to watching House leadership operate. But what did it do? It basically said that employees, all these di employees, the worst of the worst on our college campuses, of which by the way, they have a lot of bad employees, but the worst of the worst need to be offered a job to continue to work at our colleges. Well, the Senate went to conference after a whole lot of conservatives came out Scott yener, who’s a leading voice who we’ve interviewed on this program before came out. Chris Ruffo came out who’s probably the leading dei voice and said the Texas House put unforgivable language in this bill. I can’t remember the exact words he used. But he basically said this is unacceptable. It cannot stand the Senate has to fight to change this. And they went to conference and they were able to significantly watered down the compromised Democrat gift of an amendment that House leadership gave. So yet again, the Senate comes to kind of our rescue, giving us a last minute victory. Also, the conference committees that met agreed upon language on Senate Bill 12, which is a ban on the sexual performances in the midst of shelter. This is also yet another big victory for Republicans that they can bank as a victory that happened because conservative grassroots Texans stood up and said, You are not allowed to kill these key conservative policies and the Texas House was forced to take action, even though they dragged their feet for four months. We got it across the finish line, huge victory. There are a number of other key victories. hB 900 was a victory that we got out again, the Texas Senate took the one of the few things that the House passed first, and actually got it across. I don’t even know if they passed it first. Angela Paxson did pass a bill over even before that, but they took up Jared Patterson’s legislation and moved it through the process and got it across the finish line. So there were a couple of very key victories here in the final moments of the session. And then what what surprised a whole lot of people including almost the entire legislature, it didn’t surprise House leadership, meaning Dade feeling maybe 678 other state representatives, but other than them. The rest of the state of Texas did not intend for the legislature to debate the impeachment of Attorney General Ken Paxton. This set a very dangerous precedent. It is very concerning. I’m not actually going to talk about it a ton, because we’re actually going to close out today’s show with Representative John Smithies speech. Now many representatives spoke out against this representative Travis Clardy, who’s actually one of the more liberal Republicans in the legislature, Representative Harold Dutton, who’s actually the second most senior Democrat voted present not voting, and got up and clearly articulated a lot of concerns with this entire process. Representatives Brian Harrison, Matt Schaefer, Steve Toth, Tony Tinder hold all got up and shared massive concerns with this process. Nate Schatz line asked a number of questions. So we could fill up this entire program with all that was said and much was said that was very beneficial for Texans to be aware of. If you want to go to my Twitter, you can To watch or listen to all the speeches that were given, I’ve posted I think all almost all of them. Mike Schofield is a representative from Houston, who got up and gave a very eloquent articulation of why this impeachment was a problem. But I’ll explain at the end, why I selected representative Smithies speech for something that you should hear. I went up to the Capitol during this impeachment proceeding on Saturday. And I will tell you, I had basically set this expectation with my wife and my kids, I’ve been gone three to four to five days a week for the last almost a month and a half, it feels like in this last part of session for two months, and I had told them, hey, the good news is that last week of session, once we’re kind of towards the end of the week, I get to come home and that weekend, it’ll be slow. And we’ll get to spend time together, and it’s going to be a great, great deal. But that was not the case. So I had to go up to the capitol and be there. Honestly, it was historic. We have only ever impeached a state official in Texas, a statewide official once since 1875. Like that is crazy. Remarkable. Astonishing. And again, I think representative smithy will do an even better job than I would be able to to explain the massive concerns and why 23 Republicans courageously stood up and said, We’re not going along with this charade. We’re not going along with this sham of an impeachment. We are not going to, as representative Harrison said the impeachment process should be unimpeachable itself. And this was not that. I will let representative smithy enlighten y’all even further on that. But it what it is worth saying that this has, I think, caused more energy to be infused into conservative Texans than I have seen maybe since the Tea Party wave in 2010. I’ve never seen this many conservative activist saying I am done with the Texas legislature’s gains. They killed a ban on critical race theory. They messed around with property tax relief, they killed legislation that would help D transitioners. actually sue these people that have massively abused their bodies. They killed legislation that would ban China from being able to purchase Texas Land, they killed a ban on COVID vaccine mandates. So you can still in Texas get fired for not getting fouled cheese concoction, that he basically said every single one of you need to comply and get in line and then he use these businesses as enforcement mechanisms to say you get this shot or you can’t feed your family. The Texas Senate said you shouldn’t be able to do that the Texas House sat on that legislation. Representative click played games with that legislation. Representative burrows played games of that legislation. It was a coordinated effort. And we remember I’ve done episodes on this where Stephanie click Dustin burrows and Dadeville and they teamed up last time to kill the ban on gender modification. And this year, they teamed up to kill the venom COVID vaccine mandat...
