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Remember yesterday’s question about parents changing their child’s gender surgically or chemically? The response was overwhelming. Not. Even. Close. So why are Democrats for it... and why aren’t Republicans stopping them?

Here is today's Texas Minute.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Wednesday, September 2, 2020
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• Elections in Texas are not secure, and shady operators have stolen elections through mail-in ballot fraud. As Democrats nationwide push for massive mail-in ballot expansion, Texans must  begin acting now to guard the integrity of our elections. Robert Montoya has the story.
   
• “The Democrats have run an ongoing campaign to undermine trust in the result of the 2020 election.” – Daniel Greer, executive director of Direct Action Texas

• One way to help keep the election secure, writes Erin Anderson, is to work the polls. In Texas, tens of thousands of citizens will be needed to staff polling places across the state on Election Day, November 3. (And it’s a paying job.)
   
• Poll workers must be eligible voters and can only serve in the county where they reside. 

• Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking the Harris County District Clerk to court over a scheme hatched by the Democrats to send mail-ballot applications to all 2.37 million registered voters in the county. The state’s election officials say the Harris County Democrats’ scheme could cause voters to provide false information on the form, confuse voters about their ability to vote by mail, and impede the ability of those who are able to vote by mail by clogging up the infrastructure with applications from those who do not qualify.
       
• Brandon Waltens reports Democrat Harris County Clerk Chris Hollins had until noon on Monday to cancel the plan. When that deadline passed, Paxton filed suit in state district court. 
     
• “Election officials have a duty to reject mail-in ballot applications from voters who are not eligible  to vote by mail. Unfortunately, instead of protecting the integrity of our democratic process, the Harris County Clerk decided to knowingly violate election laws by preparing to send over two  million ballot applications to many Texans who do not qualify and have not requested to vote by mail.” – Texas Attorney General Paxton

• A Tarrant County woman was handcuffed and issued a trespass warning for not wearing a mask in the Tarrant County Courthouse – despite having a doctor’s note exempting her from the mask mandate and permission to the enter the building. Robert Montoya has the full story.
   
• For 10 weeks Rebecca Rodgers and others have spoken against the mandates being issued by Republican County Judge Glen Whitley with the approval of the Tarrant County Commissioners. For all 10 weeks, Rodgers had a doctor’s note exempting her from the mask mandate. That did not stop a sheriff’s deputy from accosting her for being in the building without a mask.
   
• Rodgers told Texas Scorecard she “left because I can’t afford to go to prison. I can’t afford to have charges brought against me... I just am tired of being segregated. I’m tired of all these draconian measures being put on people.”
   
• Duke Glen seems to be following the lead of King Greg.

• Yesterday we asked whether parents should be allowed to surgically or chemically change their child’s gender. The question arises because a Democrat judge in Dallas is letting a woman turn her son into a girl despite the father’s objections.
       
• Less than 1 percent of Texas Minute readers support parents physically changing the gender of their child. Put another way, more than 99 percent of Texas Minute readers agree with the sentiments of Patti, Mark, and Greg...
       
• “It is horrific. I pray for the child. I pray for eyes to see the horror of it all. It is basically sacrificing the child.” – Patti G. of Haskell
        
• “I think that it exposes the radical left’s ideology that overall, they think that children are not God-created humans, but ‘property’ that they can do anything they want... I see this as nothing more than an extension of the Left’s ideology of not only partial birth abortion, but of what’s beginning to be legalized actual infanticide.” – Mark H. of Sachse
      
• “Parents have the right to love, nurture, and discipline their children, not to maim them.” – Greg M. of Deer Park

Quote-Unquote

“It is my earnest hope and indeed the hope of all mankind that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past.”

– Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur, on accepting Japan’s surrender​

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