Christian nationalism has been building for decades. @mentack and I became aware of it living in Granbury, as it took over our hometown. This 🧵 is my attempt to tie together where we've been, what's happening, and what's next. 1st video is Lance Wallnau in 2009. 7 Mountains.

Aziz on Bo French on all those Indian dudes at that football game.

Do You Wanna Talk About The Budget Yes or No On 9/15/26, Tarrant County Commissioners Court met to vote on the 2027 Budget. @mentack called them out. And yeah, Amie copped our verbiage 🙄 And yeah, Tim tossed another guy out of the courtroom. November is coming.

Matt, You’re Gonna Get Your 4-1 Court On 9/15/26, Tarrant County Commissioners Court met to vote on the 2027 Budget. @mentack made two appearances, and this is her first one, as the first speaker in public comments. November is coming #wakeup #tarrantcounty #seeitnameitfightit

Please invite me to these dinner parties! I’d love to chime in on these discussions. Can’t make any promises I won’t make the white supremacists uncomfortable though.

Sit Down And Don’t Say Anything Else During the 9/1/26 discussion ahead of the vote to cut 92 polling places, Commissioner Simmons challenged the hypocrisy and yes, they admitted the redistricting was about power. So one should assume this is too! November is coming.

That’s @mentack in the See It Name It Fight It tee to the left of the speaker!

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

Tarrant County is proposing to reduce Election Day voting sites for November from 316 to 224. I wrote a piece on who is actually being harmed the most by the reduction of 92 sites. Any guesses? christackett.substack.com/p/…

Let's set the record straight because @RobertKennedyJr’s post is inaccurate and misleading and he is making claims that have been debunked repeatedly by actual scientists and doctors. Secretary Kennedy called me yesterday morning to ask whether Pennsylvania needed any additional support to respond to the measles outbreak. I told him I appreciated the call but that our Administration and the Pennsylvania Department of Health had all the resources we needed to respond, including existing support from professional staff at the CDC and HHS.  I told him what would be most helpful is if he would join me in encouraging people to get vaccinated and stop spreading misinformation. He then launched into a tirade — talking about fetal tissue and blaming the previous Administration for this problem. He even told me it would be better if we went back to “natural measles.” Unfortunately at a time where I needed the top “health expert” in the nation to responsibly work with us to deal with this outbreak, he instead chose to go down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories and false claims. To his claim about fetal tissue, that has been thoroughly discredited time after time by real doctors and trusted medical institutions like CHOP. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics has an entire webpage devoted to this. They write: “Vaccines do not contain fetal cells. Some vaccines involve growing viruses in human cell cultures originally developed from two aborted fetuses in the 1960s. These cell lines are still going, so no new aborted fetuses are ever needed. Purification processes filter the vaccine during production, and no fetal tissue remains.”   But my conversation with him proved what many of us already knew:  Secretary Kennedy’s actions to dismantle public health agencies and his language that undermines confidence in vetted medical guidance are contributing to these kinds of outbreaks.  Just a few years ago, Secretary Kennedy was in Lancaster downplaying the severity of measles and saying that the cure was “chicken soup and vitamin A.” Before he held his current position, measles was virtually eliminated in the United States. As recently as 2024, there were only 285 cases of measles across the entire country over 12 months. This year, in just 8 months, there are nearly 400 cases of measles across 29 counties in Pennsylvania alone — and nearly 3,000 cases across the country.  In Pennsylvania, 70 people who have tested positive for measles have been hospitalized this year — and yesterday, our @PAHealthDept announced that two Pennsylvanians who tested positive for measles have died. According to doctors and medical experts, the MMR vaccine is the best way to protect yourself, your kids, and your community against measles. But we have seen vaccination rates decline on RFK’s watch.  The correlation is clear: Secretary Kennedy has stoked confusion amongst parents and others — and the result has been less protection from measles and more cases. As a dad, all I want is to protect our four kids. I know that’s how every parent feels. Parents have the right to make their own decisions about how to keep their kids safe and sort through the noise to figure out which information to trust.  So what I’d ask of every parent in Pennsylvania: take any information you get about vaccines and talk to a trusted health care provider about it before you make your decision. The most important conversation that needs to take place now is one that should happen offline, in the real world, between parents, their trusted health care providers, and other medical experts.

Abbott = Incompetent or Malicious Or is it both?

The election code dictates that if you must order a special election to be placed on the general election ballot, you must do so by the 78th day before the election. For the November 3 election, that was Monday August 17th. The Governor ordered the special election for State Senate District 22 at 3pm on Tuesday August 18th. This is in violation of the election code. The Governor ordered the special election for State House District 93 at 12pm on Thursday August 20th. This is in violation of the election code. The Governor didn't post the HD93 order to his website or inform the county of the ordered election. This is in violation of the election code. The county received the order TODAY at 11:32am. So, in this instance, Judge O'Hare is not to blame. My information I received yesterday was incorrect. But the question for Republicans is: Your Governor is either incompetent or malicious. Or both. Which do you prefer?

Hey @BrandonHallTX next time you go to post something on Facebook that you don’t understand & didn’t fact check, you can run it by me first to save yourself the embarrassment of everyone realizing you have no idea what you’re doing & that you’re in WAY over your head at the SBOE.

Why so blue, Leigh? Tired of red, conservative, MAGA, Trump endorsed? I wonder why 🤔 Well, if you're gonna vote blue, I definitely recommend you get the real deal and vote Taylor Rehmet 💙

And let’s not forget that @DanPatrick is the head of the “Religious Liberty Commission” and is who has pushed the Ten Commandments, Bible stories, and the Bluebonnet curriculum into our Texas Public school classrooms. Religion belongs at home, in religious buildings, and in higher level courses covering the religions of the world (so we can have an understanding of ALL religions).

This. 100% this. @mentack nails it.

Someone who was at the True Texas Project “Year Of The Patriot” event held on 8/1/26 shared this image with @mentack and I yesterday. Those on the paper were being discussed amongst a group as “the enemies that we have to be aware of”. “The enemies” Looks like we made it!