This isn’t just a “technical issue.” Civix has a massive contract on Texas election systems and staffs H-1Bs. Now we learn DPS QA work is also being done by H-1B placements. Unknown number of voter registrations sitting unprocessed weeks before the deadline is exactly what you get when taxpayer-funded critical infrastructure isn’t handled by Texans and Americans first. @GregAbbott_TX — how many applications were affected, how long did this go on, and why are foreign workers on these systems? Every Texan needs to check their registration at VoteTexas.gov before Oct 5. Don’t wait!!

This isn’t just a “technical issue.” Civix has a massive contract on Texas election systems and staffs H-1Bs. Now we learn DPS QA work is also being done by H-1B placements. Unknown number of voter registrations sitting unprocessed weeks before the deadline is exactly what you get when taxpayer-funded critical infrastructure isn’t handled by Texans and Americans first. @GregAbbott_TX — how many applications were affected, how long did this go on, and why are foreign workers on these systems? Every Texan needs to check their registration at VoteTexas.gov before Oct 5. Don’t wait!!

@TXPolResearch @Texas2036 @TPPF @FoxNews @fox7austin @TexasScorecard @TexasTribune This should be huge news. Voter suppression as a result of a alleged "technical issue" by contractors employed by a state agency.

Texas is paying premium contractor rates for ordinary white-collar work and losing visibility once those jobs enter the staffing pipeline. Take TEA requisition 70127080: It’s a Business Analyst 3 role and the work is not remotely exotic: Interview users, Write requirements, Create user stories, Make wireframes, Use Jira and Support the SDLC. But TEA requires 8 years across a long list of overlapping BA skills - making it a “Level 3” BA role. This matters because Texas’s contractor structure gets much more expensive as the level rises: BA2 — $98.21/hr BA3 — $127.59/hr Meanwhile, Texas directly hires senior Business Analysts for roughly $26–$42/hr in salary, and some of those state roles involve work at least as complex as this TEA assignment. I’m not arguing that contractors shouldn’t be purchased as a higher rate. Benefits, flexibility, payroll burden and vendor overhead are real, but this is not a reasonable premium. Looking at the cost of labor - vendors recruiting similar Texas BA3 positions publicly advertise worker pay around $70–$90/hr. So there may be tens of thousands of dollars per seat, per year, between what taxpayers pay and what the actual worker receives. Then it gets stranger. TechNix recruiters in India repeatedly advertise identifiable Texas-government jobs for TEA, HHSC and other agencies using the actual state requisition numbers. For this exact TEA job: 70127080, one India-based recruiter posted: “Only H1B candidate.” Other recruiters carrying the exact same TEA requisition accept U.S. citizens, green-card holders, H-1Bs and other work-authorized candidates. So the state does not appear to have required an H-1B worker, but someone downstream did. That is the part Texas needs to explain. At a high-level, a Business Analyst can mean a lot of things. Some are deeply technical product owners working on complex integrations, Medicaid systems, security and enterprise modernization. Others are doing fairly standard requirements and process work. Years of experience are not the same thing as complexity. Yet Texas’s contractor system can move an ordinary BA role into a much more expensive tier simply by requiring 8+ years. Then that expensive taxpayer-funded requisition enters a multi-layer staffing market, gets recruited from India, and in at least one case emerges as an opportunity restricted to H-1B candidates. So the questions are pretty simple: Why did TEA need 8 years for this job? What exactly is Texas getting for $127.59 an hour? What is the actual worker being paid? Who is keeping the spread? Why are Texas-government jobs being recruited from India? And most importantly: How can a taxpayer-funded Texas job end up advertised as “Only H1B candidate” when Texans were apparently eligible for the exact same requisition elsewhere? This looks less like one weird recruiter and more like a procurement system nobody is auditing end-to-end. @GregAbbott_TX I’m begging you. please address this - if you need help, just ask.

I’m pretty disappointed that I grew up believing bad people would face consequences for doing terrible things, only to become an adult and realize that bad people literally get away with everything. Sometimes, they even get rewarded for it.

Gov. Abbott announced @DrGregBonnen will lead a team securing Texas as the permanent home of the U.S. Space Academy. No state matches what TX offers: NASA's Johnson Space Center, a leading commercial space industry, military installations, & an unmatched aerospace workforce.

American jobs are for American workers, not corporate schemes. I join @AAGDhillon @Sonderling47 @AndreaLucasEEOC @WHFraudTF in putting employers on notice: Discriminate against Americans. Abuse foreign labor programs. Commit fraud. We’re coming. breitbart.com/immigration/20…

Nearly 90 U.S. politicians just pledged to refuse campaign money linked to the RSS. It’s an interesting standard. Because one of America’s major government IT contractors is CGI - a Canadian multinational. USAspending currently shows $1.3 BILLION awarded to CGI Federal across 1,041 federal transactions. CGI also handles passport processing for the State Department under a $378M contract extension and says it supports 100+ federal clients. Texas? CGI is an active Texas DIR prime vendor, with contracts covering AI, application development, ERP and other IT services. CGI itself lists the Texas Comptroller, HHSC, TCEQ and Texas Workforce Commission among its government clients. Now look overseas. CGI India formally selected Ekalavya Foundation as a CSR implementation partner and funded its tribal agriculture program. Ekalavya was founded by P. Venugopal Reddy, reported as a former RSS worker. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has personally appeared at an Ekalavya event and praised Reddy’s work. Ekalavya also publicly partners with Sewa International. The contrast is remarkable: Politicians are now saying RSS-linked money is too radioactive to accept as a campaign contribution… …while a multinational whose Indian subsidiary funds an organization with documented RSS connections can simultaneously collect enormous U.S. federal and Texas government business. Apparently we scrutinize the $6,600 campaign check harder than the billion-dollar contractor. Maybe it’s time procurement officials started asking some of the same questions.

HANDCUFFS AWAIT.” That is how the Department of Labor Inspector General just ended his brutal warning to corporate tech labor brokers. 🚨⛓️ The feds just completely suspended PERM green card filings for Cognizant, one of the largest H-1B "body shops" in America. A PERM filing requires companies to prove they tried to hire an American worker first. Instead, these tech giants rigged the system with fake hiring loops to reject qualified Americans and exploit cheaper foreign labor. But the game is up. The Inspector General is tracking the cash, issuing subpoenas, and treating this like organized white-collar crime. He didn't promise fines—he promised jail time. Is it about time these body shops faced criminal charges for stealing American jobs? 👇

The GOP needs to learn a lesson from this. Any Republican who supports the H-1B visa, amnesty, and third world mass immigration will not win. That is the red line that candidates cannot cross if they want voters to show up for them. Never Vivek.

There is an employment recession in the US Information sector. The Information industry shed -23,000 jobs in August, bringing employment down to 2.75 million, its lowest since the 2020 pandemic. The Information sector includes software publishing, data processing and computing infrastructure, web search, telecom, broadcasting, publishing, and other information services. Excluding 2020, this is the lowest reading since April 2015. Since the November 2022 peak, Information employment has contracted -270,000, or -12%. By comparison, during the 2008 Financial Crisis and its aftermath, employment in this industry also fell -12%, or -350,000 jobs. AI is increasingly replacing skilled human labor across parts of the Information sector.

I know it’s Friday, but maybe they could save these for Monday and actually get something done

He is not wrong. There is a definite double standard in this world. ❤️