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Thursday, October 28, 2021
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Texas Schools Peddling Porn

• In a social media post yesterday, four moms in the Keller Independent School District said one of the local high schools provided a sexually explicit “graphic novel” to minors in the library. The novel, “Gender Queer,” is aimed specifically at young readers and contains explicit illustrations of adolescents performing various sex acts.
      
• It turns out the same “comic” style, highly sexualized book is available in the libraries of other school districts in Texas. Jacob Asmussen has the story.
       
• In response, Keller ISD admitted Wednesday afternoon the sexually explicit material had been available, but claimed there was “no indications from the book’s description that it contained graphic illustrations.” The district statement said they are “changing the process we use to review and approve books and related materials to prevent future incidents.”
     
• Dallas ISD and Austin ISD are among those making “Gender Queer” available in school libraries—and both districts even provide it to kids in middle school.
     
• Please note: Keller ISD only took action after parents spoke up.

States Protecting The Border

• As the southern border crisis continues and the Federal Emergency Management Agency denied aid for the catastrophe in Texas, the Center for Renewing America has laid out a plan for state government actions that can mitigate the disaster.
   
• Sydnie Henry details their recommendations.
   
• “If the Biden administration or federal officials attempt to thwart patriotic state leaders seeking to protect their citizens and restore our nation’s sovereignty, then the federal government will be signaling to every American its intent to operate in a post-constitutional environment that explicitly abandons both the rule and spirit of the law.” – Center for Renewing America

Texans Stage Protest Of Vax Mandate

• Employees at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth are staging a rally next week in protest of President Biden’s vaccine edicts on their company. Griffin White has the story.
       
• “We are a group of concerned employees and believe this is an issue of extreme government overreach that, if not addressed, is going to have much larger implications than many people realize right now,” one rally organizer told Texas Scorecard. “With that in mind, we are not protesting LM or other companies; in fact, we all want to keep working for them! We just believe the vaccine mandates violate our medical freedoms and the government should not be in charge of what is put into our bodies.”

Blain Brings Conservative Voice To Civil Rights

• At just 31, Charles Blain may seem young to be advising the federal government on civil rights issues. In fact, Blain wasn’t sure he fit the bill; he’s not a lawyer, a professor, or a politician. But as Erin Anderson describes, his unique experience and enthusiasm for service made the conservative Republican “journalist with a purpose” an ideal selection.
   
• Last month, Charles Blain became one of 16 citizen volunteers appointed to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission’s Texas Advisory Committee.
   

• Originally from New Jersey, Charles moved to Houston in 2014 to work on a statewide Republican campaign. He decided to stay in Texas and began reporting on Houston-area politics for Texas Scorecard. In 2019, he founded Urban Reform, a platform for promoting free-market policies that foster upward mobility for people living in metropolitan areas.

Soros-Funded Anti-Police Campaign In Austin

• Leftwing financier George Soros is behind a series of advertisements that are misleading Austin voters on a key city proposition. As Jacob Asmussen reports, a new mailer from the leftwing donor claims supporting law enforcement will defund the parks and fire department.
   
• The mailer comes as Austinites are voting to determine the fate of Proposition A, a citizen-pushed referendum that would reverse the Democrat-run city council’s “defund the police” efforts.
   
• Soros doesn’t live in Texas, but is nonetheless underwriting efforts to stop Prop. A – and thereby subvert public safety in Austin.

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