Jack, 5,000 Texas Republican delegates approved their party's policy platform. The 40-page policy wishlist reads like a Fox News fever dream with parts pulled from a QAnon handbook. With some hard work, this platform will likely never become policy, but it is a frightening look into how far right some republicans want to take our country:
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Those in the LGBTQ+ community are living "an abnormal lifestyle choice" and define marriage as that between "a natural man and a natural woman"
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and any updates should be repealed and not reauthorized
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Any sort of gun control measures are seen as a direct violation of the Second Amendment and "our God given rights"
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The United States should leave the United Nations
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They call for abortions to be abolished and for "equal protection of the laws to all preborn children from the moment of fertilization"
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They endorse Trump's Big Lie by stating they reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and hold that acting President Biden was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States
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Texas retains the right to secede from the United States, and the Texas Legislature should be called upon to pass a referendum consistent thereto,
Here's our chance to stop the bigoted agenda from ever becoming a reality.
The Texas GOP can read the writing on the wall: Texas, a historically red state, is trending blue. Republicans carried it in presidential elections by 15+ points in 2012, nine in 2016 and less than 6 points in 2020. Texas Republicans are hoping that these far-right stances will help to drive their base to the polls not only in the 2022 midterms, but in the 2024 presidential election.
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