A 🧵 of key moments from a Baker Institute panel

“What is the difference between Nationalism and Patriotism?”
Samuel Perry had the answer

In fairness, these Republicans never liked college students anyway. Why else would they make it harder for them to vote, pay their bills and kick them out of the Texas legislature?

I just heard a shocking statistic on NPR re: gun laws.

90% of suicide attempts with guns are lethal.

4% of all other types of suicide attempts are lethal.

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If you missed the Samuel Perry, Andrew Whitehead - American Idols Podcast, and Tim Alberta panel at the Baker Institute “Christian Nationalism and Public Policy in the US” event on 4/26, here is a chance to catch up in 2:20. (Link to full event in next tweet)
#SINIFI #ChristianNationalism

Just so we’re clear, this is a public charter school in Texas.

Just so we’re clear, Toth is injecting his expression of religion into a public school and boasting about it.

Just so we’re clear, this is very much a part of Christian nationalism.

#txlege #txed

“Snot-nosed, entitled, mindless brats”…who have the audacity to exercise their rights.

Let alone the fact that he has no issue butchering faculty’s constitutional rights, but this is how he is talking about bright, accomplished, goal-oriented students who worked to attend UT.

Tim Dunn wrote an op-ed. It fully ignores his push to impose of one expression of religion on all and focuses instead on attempting to dismiss a label he doesn’t like.

It’s EXACTLY what Andrew Whitehead - American Idols Podcast and Samuel Perry were talking about
#txlege
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Uvalde Greg: “It could have been worse”

UT Greg: “they could have been peacefully protesting”

Watching these college students sticking to their principles, demanding their first amendment right to free speech, makes me think of all the book bans

This Granbury ISD student got it so right. History won’t remember those who ban books, speech and/or rights as the good guys

It’s really hard to comprehend how law enforcement stood back doing nothing while a gunman slaughtered kids and teachers, but this is law enforcement’s response to students exercising their first amendment right.

We are in a bad place, y’all.

Dunn’s short blurb was a word salad in which the only thing he makes clear is that he embraces Christian nationalist ideology.

Once again, the “pro-life” crowd showing off their hypocrisy.

Again, being against bombing of Palestinians is not being pro-Hamas. They are humans.

I watched Sean Feucht’s supporters wave the Israeli and the Appeal to Heaven flags last Thursday in NY…free speech.

Abbott’s Zionism demonstrates both ignorance and a lack of leadership.

Craig Goldman being framed as the “moderate” just boggles my mind. Oh my lord, Texas politics have gone completely off the rails.

TX Democrats have spoken out against the HISD takeover.

I’ve still never seen a TX Republican do so (not even those who say they’re pro-public ed).

“So if I’m a Christian and I care about my country, am I a Christian nationalist?”

Andrew Whitehead - American Idols Podcast just dropped a definitive answer.

Short answer: No
But you really should hear the full answer.