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I hope everyone had a wonderful and joyful Christmas weekend. This week, as we approach the end of 2022, the Texas Minute will be looking back at some of the biggest storylines of the year.

Here is the Texas Minute for Monday, December 26, 2022.

– Brandon Waltens

Every day this week, the Texas Minute will feature one of the top stories that shaped the year.

This morning, we will kick things off with two of the stories that you—the readers—were most interested in this year. The Border Invasion Intensified in 2022 [[link removed]]

Following President Joe Biden’s inauguration in 2021, the number of illegal border crossings immediately increased. This hit Texas’ border especially hard.

“Under the current administration, illegal aliens have more rights than the American citizens do,” Kinney County Rancher Cole Hill told [[link removed]] Texas Scorecard in January of 2022.

Nearly a year later, the U.S. has seen record-breaking numbers [[link removed]] of illegal aliens crossing the southwest border—2.3 million in the last federal fiscal year and hundreds of thousands already in the new fiscal year, which began in October.

This year, Gov. Greg Abbott added onto his Operation Lone Star border security operation, by busing illegal aliens north into the interior of the country. As of December 20, 2022, Texas has bused more than 15,000 illegal aliens [[link removed]] to cities such as Philadelphia, Chicago, D.C., and New York City, costing taxpayers about $1,400 per rider [[link removed]].

Meanwhile, federal [[link removed]], state [[link removed]], and local [[link removed]] activists are calling on [[link removed]] Gov. Greg Abbott to use his constitutional authority—under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 [[link removed]-] of the U.S. Constitution—to defend Texas by declaring a foreign invasion and expelling illegal border-crossers amid the federal government’s dereliction of duty.

In July of 2022, Kinney County became the first of several counties to issue their own invasion declarations, urging Abbott to do the same and take decisive action to stop it. So far, 43 Texas counties have issued such declarations.

Woke Academics Infiltrating Our Schools [[link removed]]

In the past year, we’ve seen increasing evidence that public education is an institution that exists for the benefit of those who run it and can tap into the money it generates—teachers, administrators, school board members, and contractors.

Not only is the system failing in its primary mission—providing a good education for students so that they’re prepared for life and a career—some educators are actively indoctrinating them with identity group victimhood [[link removed]]propaganda and grooming them for deviant lifestyles.

As the Texas Legislature prepares to convene in Austin next month, there has never been more attention on the education students receive through the public school system.

From practices intended to promote “equity” and the LGBTQ lifestyle, to exposing children to s exually explicit material [[link removed]] and failing to provide students with the tools to improve their fundamental academic abilities, public schools have become ground zero in the culture war being waged in every area of society.

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