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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is now dealing with a razor-thin margin in the Republican’s House voting edge, and can only afford one defection on a party-line vote to pass legislation favored by his side of the aisle.

That has created a dilemma: Will Republicans who have been primary losers still be motivated to show up for House votes?

Congress reporter Olivia Beavers noted in a tweet that there’s “broader concern among senior Rs” about whether Republican primary losers are “motivated enough to fly back for votes each week they are in session.”

In another tweet, reporter Reese Gorman put a finer point on it, citing Texas Republicans Dan Crenshaw and Wesley Hunt, who are “both out of jobs now and one (Hunt) rarely showed in the first place, what’s to motivate them to keep coming back?”

The New York Times reports that concern over the thin Republican margin has been part of the dynamic since President Trump’s 2025 triumph. Republicans like Crenshaw, who occasionally reach across the aisle, gain outsize power, although there are consequences for bucking the party leaders. Crenshaw was the only Texas Republican not to get an endorsement in his primary election from President Donald Trump Trump.

Major legislation can’t come to the House floor without a vote to set the debate ground rules. With thin margins, Republicans won’t be able to move their agenda forward. Under House rules, tie votes fail. Which means that a lot of GOP hopes rest on under-motivated lame ducks getting on a plane....

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) was ousted in a primary on Tuesday, and it all goes back to a feud he was having with a billionaire megadonor.

Axios reported on Thursday that Texas banker Robert Marling, a donor and supporter of President Donald Trump, was "hellbent" on destroying Crenshaw's career — and it only cost him $675,000.

Texas state Rep. Steve Toth, a far-right Republican, ousted Crenshaw 55 to 40 percent.

The battle began several years ago, those close to Marling told Axios. Marling invited Crenshaw to an annual conservative youth summit, but Crenshaw said he'd only attend if those in the audience wore masks. Those close to Crenshaw deny this and Crenshaw once proposed legislation to end the federal mask mandate on planes.

Marling, for his part, has a history of bankrolling groups such as Turning Point USA and the Club for Growth.

In an unrelated incident, Marling got wind that Crenshaw wanted to put Marling's "head through a wall," which Crenshaw also denies.

"A Crenshaw ally said the bad blood has to do with the peculiarities of Texas' 2nd District — specifically that Crenshaw represents the Harris County (Houston) portion of the district, and Marling resides in the Montgomery County portion, in Houston's northern suburbs," Axios reported. "This source said there's been a rivalry between the two counties, and that Marling wanted the district's representative to be from Montgomery County, which he found in Toth."

Allies of Marling swear that the two simply disagree over their loyalty to Trump, while Crenshaw has a reputation as a maverick.

The feud turned petty when Crenshaw took to social media, attacking Marling, alleging the billionaire was "funding all those slanderous mailers ... about me." He added that Marling's Woodforest National Bank loaned $20 million to a residential development near Houston, which "conservatives claim is a haven for undocumented immigrants," said Axios.

Marling claimed he wasn't involved. He then created an X accountwith a few dozen followers dedicated to attacking Crenshaw.

Marling said that he and his wife celebrated while they were lounging in the Caribbean.

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House Republican leadership recently took action to bar one of their own members from international trips, according to a new report.

Punchbowl News reported Wednesday that GOP leaders decided to ban Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) from traveling for three months due to an "alcohol-related episode" in Mexico this summer. In details laid out by Punchbowl reporter Andrew Desiderio, the original incident took place while Crenshaw and other Republicans were on an official Congressional delegation (CODEL) visit to Mexico in August, and Crenshaw was "having drinks with a group of Mexican officials."

"One Mexican official cracked a crude joke that made a woman present uncomfortable. Crenshaw toasted the remarks," Desiderio wrote on his X account.

Following the August CODEL, Crenshaw reportedly met with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Intelligence Committee chairman Rick Crawford. (R-Ark.) Desiderio's sources told him that the meeting grew "heated," and that Crawford apparently wanted Crenshaw kicked off of the prestigious committee.

Johnson reportedly didn't strip Crenshaw of his seat on the committee, though the Texas Republican was banned from international travel for 90 days. Crenshaw's cartel task force was also disbanded.

Desiderio further reported that Crenshaw and Crawford were squabbling over appropriations for counterintelligence programs in the annual legislation to fund intelligence agencies. Crawford had been pushing for additional funding, and was reportedly "frustrated with Crenshaw’s lack of support for the plan." Those funds were ultimately included in the version of the bill that reached the House floor.

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) isn't happy with House Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-Louisiana) promise to kill immigration legislation that the US Senate is working to pass.

According to reporter Emily Brooks of the Hill, Crenshaw railed against his Republican colleagues on Thursday for refusing to even consider any legislation to address the flow of migrants at the Southern border. Brooks tweeted that Crenshaw — while not naming names — specifically addressed his comments to "the right" in airing his frustrations.

"I'm extremely disappointed in the very strange maneuvering by many on the right to torpedo a potential border reform bill. That's what we all ran on doing," Crenshaw said. "If we have a bill that decreases illegal immigration — and that's an if, right? … But if we have a bill that on net significantly decreases illegal immigration, and we sabotage that, that is inconsistent with what we told our voters we would do."

The US Senate is currently close to finalizing legislation aimed at providing additional funding for border security, as well as new authorities for the executive branch allowing for a temporary shutdown of the border if crossings number more than 5,000 in a given week. President Joe Biden has insisted he's done all he can to stem the flow of migrants without additional powers over the border that would have to be granted by an act of Congress.

:{Sens. James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Arizona) have been leading the bipartisan negotiations since late last year, and the Democratic-controlled US Senate is poised to pass a legislative package that would include many items on the Republican wish list.

Included in the proposed framework is language that would allow for the automatic expulsion of asylum seekers and shortening the time for asylum to be considered to just six months (where it used to take up to 10 years). The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA) has criticized the framework as potentially committing "refoulement," which pertains to international law aimed at preventing governments from knowingly sending people fleeing danger back to their home countries.}:

"Refoulement was frequent during the Title 42 era. In addition to exposing some asylum seekers to the same perils they were originally fleeing, border expulsions placed them in new danger," WOLA wrote. "Despite the difficulty of monitoring during the pandemic, Human Rights First and border-zone partners tracked 13,480 attacks—killings, rapes, kidnappings, assaults, robberies—against people expelled into dangerous Mexican border cities."

Despite the conservative nature of the bill, former President Donald Trump has been reportedly lobbying Republicans to not support the legislation, hoping to prevent Biden from notching a win on a key campaign issue for Trump.

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Republican congressman calls Fox News’ Jesse Watters a “tool, making millions to push conspiracies on tv" | Media Matters for America

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) launched a barrage of attacks on Jesse Watters after the Fox host accused him of “corruption” and insider trading, calling Watters a “fucking hack,” “fucking clown, desperate for clickbait,” and a “tool, making millions to push conspiracies on tv.”

Watters' show is indeed a cesspool of conspiracy theories.

During a brief segment of the January 2 broadcast of Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters displayed a graph showing that a number of lawmakers outperformed the S&P 500 in 2023. Watters singled out a few members of Congress including Crenshaw, who he said outperformed the market by 13 points.

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CitationFrom the January 2, 2024, edition of Fox News' Jesse Watters Primetime

“This is what corruption looks like,” declared Watters, “and that is why Congress still hasn’t passed a ban on insider stock trade.”

Hours later, Crenshaw took to Instagram to air his grievances against the Fox host. He addressed Watters on his Instagram story: “Hey you fucking hack, if you’re gonna accuse me of literal corruption, get your facts straight and man up and come accuse me to my face. You’re a fucking clown, desperate for clickbait.”

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Crenshaw hurled too many insults at Watters to list them all, but some highlights include “wealthy elitist” who is a “mediocre entertainer,” a “loser” who “grew up with a silver spoon,” and “the type of dude who pees sitting down.” He also further rebutted Watters' claims about his portfolio.

The next day, Crenshaw returned to Instagram to claim that Fox canceled an upcoming interview on January 3 in retaliation for his profanity-filled tirade. “Guess I hurt their feelings by calling out their bullshit,” the congressman wrote.

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According to The Daily Beast, a source from Fox News denied that Crenshaw had a scheduled appearance on the network for January 3. Supposedly, Fox Business canceled an interview with Crenshaw for reasons unrelated to his social media outburst.

This feud likely marks the end of a seemingly cordial relationship between the congressman and the Fox host. Crenshaw appeared on Jesse Watters Primetime for a friendly interview in March 2023, in which the two discussed the Mexican government’s response to fentanyl trafficking in the U.S. Crenshaw also invited Watters on his in 2021 to promote the Fox host’s book.

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Tensions within the party at times got personal. Video posted online showed far-right activists physically accosting U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, calling the conservative Republican “eye-patch McCain” over his criticism of Russia. The group included self-identified Proud Boys and Alex Stein, a social media activist from North Texas. A Navy SEAL veteran, Crenshaw lost his right eye to a bomb in Afghanistan.

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russia invaded Ukraine yesterday, because “President Biden supports transgender rights, canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, and like all world leaders, was bent to the incredible power of international energy and climate overlord Greta Thunberg.” That’s the view from denierland, and we honestly wish we were joking or exaggerating or otherwise misrepresenting the online reactions from climate and general rightwing “experts”

By Climate Denier Roundup

So here’s the roundup of reactions from crazytown:

No quicker than you can say “moment of uncertainty ripe for disinformation,” Tucker Carlson (who’sbeen defending Putin) had :{Marc Morano on his show to –what else – blame Biden and climate concern for the Russian invasion.}:

Matt Walsh, a comedian of sorts who works at Ben Shaprio’s fracker-funded propaganda shop [DAILY WIRE] and has written a whole “children’s book” attacking trans people, tweeted that he was “so glad that the west (sic) gave up on energy independence because Greta Thunberg yelled at us.” This is of course exactly backwards. If Greta’s calls for replacing fossil fuels with renewables were heeded, then countries would already be providing clean energy for themselves without needing to rely on Russia’s fossil fuels.

And despite what you may expect, Walsh was hardly the only one attributing Putin’s aggression to Greta Thunberg, as though that makes any sense at all.

Similarly nonsensical is tobacco-shill turned fossil fool Steve Milloy, who claimed Putin’s invasion is just like COVID and climate mandates, also quote-tweeted a story about Ukrainian people in traffic leaving Kyiv, with the comment “imagine you were in this and driving an EV”. As though it would be better to be beholden on the fossil fuels imported from Russia while Russia invades your country, than it would be to merely be reliant on the electricity generated by power plants running on Russian fuels.

While we’re imagining though, imagine having an electric car and clean energy grid to power it, so you’re not reliant on Russian fossil fuels for your car or electricity!

Similarly wrong yet Right was Dan Crenshaw, Texan Republican who has received $689,000 from the oil and gas industry for his campaigns for one of the most obviously gerrymandered districts in the country. He suggested that the Keystone XL pipeline could have replaced the fossil fuels we import from Russia, as though that pipeline was for US consumption (and not the global market it’s already reaching anyway). “Relying on Russian oil is a choice.” he added, “And it’s a stupid one.”

And he’s right! It’d be infinitely smarter to not rely on oil at all!

(But we somehow doubt that’s what he meant.)

(Originally appeared at DailyKos)

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https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/dan-crenshaw/geography?cid=N00042224&cycle=2022

Top Contributors, 2017 - 2022

Contributor	Total	Individuals	PACs
Huntsman Corp	$37,100	$25,100	$12,000
S&B Engineers & Constructors	$32,900	$22,900	$10,000
University of Texas	$29,721	$29,721	$0
Chevron Corp	$29,634	$12,634	$17,000
Valero Energy	$28,200	$10,700	$17,500

Top Industries, 2017 - 2022

Industry	Total	Individuals	PACs
Retired	$4,174,697	$4,174,697	$0
Republican/Conservative	$2,194,452	$2,150,802	$43,650
Real Estate	$985,315	$927,315	$58,000
Oil & Gas	$689,607	$469,607	$220,000
Securities & Investment	$457,958	$441,458	$16,500

Top Contributors, 2017 - 2022

Contributor Total Individuals PACs

Huntsman Corp $37,100 $25,100 $12,000

S&B Engineers & Constructors $32,900 $22,900 $10,000

University of Texas $29,721 $29,721 $0

Chevron Corp $29,634 $12,634 $17,000

Valero Energy $28,200 $10,700 $17,500

Top Industries, 2017 - 2022

Industry Total Individuals PACs

Retired $4,174,697 $4,174,697 $0

Republican/Conservative $2,194,452 $2,150,802 $43,650

Real Estate $985,315 $927,315 $58,000

Oil & Gas $689,607 $469,607 $220,000

Securities & Investment $457,958 $441,458 $16,500

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Industry Total

Retired $4,174,697

Republican/Conservative $2,194,452

Real Estate $985,315

Oil & Gas $689,607

Securities & Investment $457,958

Health Professionals $374,655

Lawyers/Law Firms $354,662

Misc Finance $258,001

Insurance $209,953

Leadership PACs $198,900

Education $162,103

Crop Production & Basic Processing $159,728

Business Services $159,394

Misc Manufacturing & Distributing $158,573

General Contractors $150,827

Commercial Banks $144,396

Automotive $139,004

Construction Services $138,007

Pharmaceuticals/Health Products $118,331

Retail Sales $111,951

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Sector Total Individuals PACs

Agribusiness $371,874 $279,699 $92,175

Communications/Electronics $337,436 $203,096 $134,340

Construction $498,862 $443,362 $55,500

Defense $106,912 $47,412 $59,500

Energy & Natural Resources $886,718 $612,718 $274,000

Finance, Insurance & Real Estate $2,174,659 $1,908,659 $266,000

Health $657,922 $498,472 $159,450

Lawyers & Lobbyists $453,377 $412,377 $41,000

Transportation $307,564 $206,158 $101,406

Misc Business $916,699 $775,199 $141,500

Labor $26,375 $375 $26,000

Ideological/Single-Issue $2,742,416 $2,428,141 $314,275

Other $4,560,106 $4,560,106 $0

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As the 2022 midterm elections approach, Republican lawmakers across the country are scrambling to redraw congressional district maps in hopes of making them more uncompetitive and, subsequently, safer for the party's candidates. So, how can they achieve this goal?

According to HuffPost's Travis Waldron, veering further to the right will likely do the trick. Waldron pointed to Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) and the political battle unfolding in Texas as a prime example of what is transpiring in many areas of the United States. While the Republican lawmaker appeared to seamlessly breeze through his first campaign two years ago, Waldron notes that things aren't as simple this time around.

Although Crenshaw is widely considered to be one of the most conservative lawmakers in the House, the Republican candidates looking to unseat him have more radicalized far-right belief systems. In short, Crenshaw is being depicted as the type of Republican lawmaker to straddle the fence; a moderate-centrist perspective the radicalized far-right has no tolerance for.

Waldron wrote:

"To hear his opponents tell it, Crenshaw is the personification of Republican heresy: Although he supported a Texas lawsuit that sought to overturn the election in late 2020, Crenshaw has since denounced conspiracy theorists who said that the election was 'stolen' from Trump. He’s also criticized the idea that sham audits, like those the Arizona GOP and Republicans elsewhere have conducted, will lead to Trump’s imminent return to the White House. 'Republicans like Dan Crenshaw,' one of his right-wing challengers told The Texas Tribune recently, are 'why we allowed ... the election to be stolen.'"

So, how are far-right radicals tapping in to steer elections in their favor? By incorporating what Waldron describes as "suburban gerrymandering." Waldron explained how this works:

"Throughout the current redistricting cycle, Republicans have largely sought to shore up seats they already hold, by increasing the proportion of Republican voters in those districts, instead of creating new ones. And in Texas and elsewhere, their main targets have been seats like Crenshaw’s — districts that include substantial suburban areas that have trended, both demographically and politically, in favor of Democrats over the last decade. As in past rounds of redistricting, that approach is almost certain to dilute the votes of Black, Hispanic and other minority voters who have driven suburban population booms in Texas and other states."

Michael Li, an expert on gerrymandering and congressional redistricting at Brennan Center for Justice, shed light on the Republican perspective and the goal they are trying to reach.

“In places like Texas, Republicans drew maps like they felt they had to neutralize the suburbs,” said Li. “That’s what Republicans did across the country: They created a lot of rural-suburban districts. They broke up the suburbs, and that’s going to affect the kinds of people that are elected."

While these types of practices raise ethical questions and concerns, the problem, according to Alex Keena, —a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who researches the impact of gerrymandering— is that they are legal.

“This is just the obvious consequence,” said Keena. “It’s basically legal now."

As the political population of suburban Republicans continues to diminish, Republican lawmakers like Crenshaw will be left with limited platform options. The obvious alternative: lean further to the far right or jeopardize the possibility of re-election.

“You can see a world in which they become a little bit more conservative,” Li said. “Because they have to win the primary, and the primary electorates in these newly drawn districts are much more conservative."

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https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/marjorie-taylor-greene-2656645182/

Texas Republican candidate Bianca Garcia is vowing to become a "mini Marjorie Taylor Greene" if elected to the Senate, according to Newsweek. On Wednesday, February 9, Garcia —who currently serves as the president of the conservative group, Latinos for Trump— appeared on The McFiles podcast.

During the interview, Garcia discussed her platform as she gave listeners a depiction of the type of politician she'd be. Although Greene is often at the center of controversy, Garcia has applauded her for her political stance. In fact, Garcia believes Greene is "the only one right now that's really fighting back."

"They don't like her. So I might be a little mini Marjorie Taylor Greene," she said. "I don't know. They're going to call me BRG."

The Republican candidate went on to issue an ultimatum to local pastors in her area saying they would "be held accountable" if members of their church did not cast their votes for her. "You're going to either have to show up and show out, or you're going to have to deal with it with the Lord," she said.

Garcia's remarks come as she continues her campaign for the Texas Senate seat located in the 11th district. Her area covers vast metropolitan areas including suburbs south of Houston, Pearland, Texas, and Galveston.

Her praise of Greene comes just days after the extremist Republican lawmaker was mocked on Twitter for confusing Adolph Hitler's private german state police, the Gespado, with the Spanish chilled soup, Gazpacho.

During an appearance on One America News Network's (OANN) Real America with Dan Ball, Greene said, "So everything is completely out of control. Not only do we have the DC jail, which is the DC Gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi's Gazpacho Police spying on members of Congress."

Although Garcia is a fierce supporter of Greene, some Republican lawmakers have expressed disapproval of her. In fact, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) recently spoke out against the controversial lawmaker.

"She [Greene] doesn't want solutions and she doesn't care if you get censored," Crenshaw said back in January."She just wants to be a victim so she can keep asking you for campaign donations. It's a scam."

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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/06/donald-trumps-parting-gift-to-washington-was-a-party-of-shitposters/

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i've seen many things at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the years, including many things I wish I hadn’t. But until Ted Cruz spoke to a ballroom of activists from the main stage in Orlando in February, I had never seen an elected official interrupt his own speech to promote a podcast.

“Please go subscribe,” barked the Texas Republican, sounding more like a street performer with a SoundCloud than a second-term senator. “Verdict With Ted Cruz! Verdict With Ted Cruz! Click on ‘subscribe.’ Five stars, please!”

One week earlier, Cruz had left his constituents and his poodle behind to wait out his state’s deadly grid failure at the Ritz-Carlton in Cancun. It was the sort of PR disaster that would leave many politicians reeling. Cruz tried to monetize the controversy instead, printing a line of Barstool Sports–chic “spring break” tank tops with a caricature of his nascent mullet. He may never lead the Republican Party, but Cruz always knows its temperature, and in the space of a few minutes in Orlando, between jokes about his ill-advised Mexican vacation and plugs for his side project, he managed to distill this conservative moment to its essence. Increasingly, as world-historical crises unfurl all around them—often exacerbated by their own policies and actions—the GOP’s most ambitious officials view their primary responsibility less as public servants than as content creators, churning out an endless stream of takes, memes, stunts, and podcasts. So many podcasts.

The Republican Party has long been infused with an irrepressible hustle, what the historian Rick Perlstein calls “mail-order conservatism.” Talk radio and direct mail were not only effective at peddling reactionary politics to voters; they were also perfect vehicles to sell products, such as gold and home-security systems. For decades these conjoined strains of politics, entertainment, and marketing have eroded trust in public institutions and the media and provided a template for self-aggrandizement and enrichment. There is nothing really like this on the left; Infowars and Goop sell the same pills, but Gwyneth Paltrow is not fomenting rebellion.

The way conservatism manifested itself over the airwaves has shaped what rank-and-file conservatives expect to be told and how they expect to feel about it. The late Rush Limbaugh’s listeners called themselves “dittoheads,” eager to nod along with everything. Newt Gingrich used to distribute tapes of himself talking so that candidates could emulate his language. In the 1980s, he weaponized C-SPAN’s new House cameras—where members previously addressed each other, Gingrich and his allies began speaking past them. They turned the Capitol into a studio and made politics into a product. Donald Trump easily won the Republican base because it had been primed for someone who could provide both the programming and the commercial breaks, sometimes all at once; in conservative politics, after all, you’re always being asked to buy something.

Trump’s presidency blew past the old frontiers: The performance of politics became the purpose of it.

But Trump’s presidency blew past the old frontiers: The performance of politics became the purpose of it, and the grind of governance became secondary to the responsibilities of posting.

It was as if, after years of awkward but largely profitable power-sharing between conservative politicians and conservative media, the Republican Party at last stumbled upon the ultimate efficiency: What if both roles could be played by the same person? Trump once dreamed of spinning a losing presidential bid into his own media entity.

During the pandemic, in lieu of crisis management, he turned briefings into a variety show, assembling a rotating cast of characters, and plugging an array of sponsors—MyPillow, Carnival, Pernod Ricard. You would not necessarily get good medical advice, but you would learn that Hanes is a “great consumer cotton products company” that’s being recognized more and more.

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There was no issue grave enough to take seriously and no controversy too petty to weigh in on. Anything could be resolved via tweet, precisely because nothing really can; the ephemerality was the point. And a rising generation of politicians learned an important lesson about what conservative voters wanted. If Limbaugh taught them all how to talk, Trump taught them how to govern. His enduring gift was a caucus of content creators.

Just consider the Republican congressional class of 2021—the new arrivals to Washington who modeled themselves most directly after Trump. They seem almost blissfully detached from the work of Congress. There is 25-year-old Madison Cawthornof North Carolina, who was elected on the strength of a largely invented personal story amplified with loads of influencer-style Instagram posts. He recently posted a 19-second video of himself punching the bark off a tree. Cawthorn boasted to his colleagues that he had built his staff “around comms rather than legislation.” He was in Washington, in other words, mostly just to post.

Cawthorn boasted to his colleagues that he had built his staff “around comms rather than legislation.”

When Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon representative from Georgia, was stripped of her committee assignments in February by colleagues upset that she had harassed fellow members of Congress and blamed forest fires on the Rothschilds, she greeted the news with relief. “If I was on a committee, I would be wasting my time,” she said. Now she was more free to share videos of her CrossFit workouts with the hashtag #FireFauci. Not that showing up for committee hearings necessarily means you’re there to work. Colorado’s Lauren Boebert, who like Cawthorn and Greene spent her first weeks on the job scaring the shit out of her co-workers, recently hijacked a virtual committee hearing by posing like John Wick in front of a shrine of firearms in her living room. (“Who says this is storage?” she responded to critics. “These are ready for use.”)

Cawthorn, Greene, and Boebert were all members of the National Republican Campaign Committee’s “Young Guns” program, which takes its name from an earlier trio of House Republicans—one of whom, Paul Ryan, went on to become a vice presidential nominee and speaker of the House and unite the party behind a vision of budget austerity. There is surely some sort of ideology at work here, too, but it’s more Jake Paul than Paul Ryan; they are treating the Capitol like their own hype house, using the stature of their office for clout.

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These younger, gunnier guns are taking cues from their elders. Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a content farm of a congressman who has filmed not one but two Avengers-style videos in which the ex–Navy SEAL parachutes out of airplanes to fight Democrats, also hosts a podcast. So doesDevin Nunes. Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has a podcast called Hot Takes. Before he became publicly embroiled in a federal sex-trafficking investigation (“If you aren’t making news, you aren’t governing,” Gaetz once said), he was considering retiring to take a job at the conservative cable channel Newsmax. In February, more than a dozen House Republicans—including Gaetz and Nunes—skipped work to speak at CPAC with Cruz. They took advantage of a covid-era policy that let members vote by proxy in medical emergencies; to them, promoting their brands is the job.

After watching Cruz’s speech I took his advice and checked out Verdict, which he co-hosts with Michael Knowles, who rose to prominence after publishing an entirely blank book called Reasons to Vote for Democrats. Cruz recorded the first episode at 2:40 a.m. after the opening day of Trump’s Ukraine impeachment trial—hence the name of the show—and returned to the studio every night of the proceedings. Within days of its debut, Verdict had passed Joe Rogan on the iTunes charts.At CPAC, Cruz announced it had been downloaded 25 million times. It is almost certainly the most popular thing he has ever done.

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https://www.alternet.org/2021/05/stealing-2024-election/

there's only one way to stop Republicans from stealing the 2024 election

Amanda Marcotte Salon

May 17, 2021

Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw was pretty angry with NBC's Chuck Todd on Sunday's episode of "Meet the Press." Todd was uncharacteristically determined to hold the Republican's feet to the fire, calling him out for his support of Donald Trump's Big Lie.

"Why should anybody believe a word you say if the Republican Party itself doesn't have credibility?" the host asked. When Crenshaw, clearly annoyed at being called out for his B.S., retreated by whining that "the press is largely liberal," Todd was rightly contemptuous, retorting, "There's nothing lazier than that excuse!"

At stake: Crenshaw's support for Trump's false claims that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election, claims that Trump used to justify an attempted coup and to incite an insurrection on January 6. Crenshaw's main role in all of that, as Todd pointed out, was joining a lawsuit filed by Texas' Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton which leveraged false accusations of "fraud" in a failed attempt to get the Supreme Court to throw out the results of the election. During the interview, Crenshaw hid behind a line that is increasingly popular among Republicans who are trying to wave off questions about their support for Trump's attempted coup: "[I]t's time to move on."

Republicans are increasingly circling around this talking point. They insist that the coup is ancient history and that it's churlish to keep rehashing who did and did not join in efforts to overturn democracy. It's the favored justification for the ouster of Wyoming's Rep. Liz Cheney from House GOP leadership, with Republicans claiming it's not that she refuses to support Trump's election lies so much as that she just keeps going on about it. And it was the line that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., trotted out last week, while trying to wave off media inquiries about the GOP's increasingly fierce backing of Trump's Big Lie: "I don't think anyone is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election. I think that is all over with, we're sitting here with the President today."

The problem with this "water under the bridge" approach is twofold. First, it should be self-evident that seditious behavior should not be so easily forgotten or forgiven. Second, Republicans themselves have not moved on from the attempted insurrection or the lies that Trump used to justify it. On the contrary, Republican leaders have spent the past four months actively moving not just to turn Trump's Big Lie into GOP canon but to use it to justify laying the groundwork for Trump or some other GOP nominee to successfully steal the 2024 election.

"[I]f the current Republican Party controls both Houses of Congress on Jan. 6, 2025, there's no way if a Democrat is legitimately elected they will get certified as the president-elect," Erica Newland of Protect Democracy recently told Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times. As Goldberg goes on to detail, since the insurrection, Republicans "have systematically attacked the safeguards that protected the last election" — and not just with voter suppression laws, either.

Republican officials or politicians who stood against Trump's efforts to steal the election are being driven out of office and new laws are being passed to allow GOP-controlled state legislatures to invalidate the results of any election that a Democrat wins. Republicans are also passing harsh "electoral integrity" laws that are actually more about using threats of prosecution to intimidate election officials into looking the other way from GOP efforts to steal elections. And, as Goldberg writes, they are clearly lining up to justify it when a GOP-controlled House simply refuses to certify a Democratic winner of the 2024 election.

As Matt Gertz at Media Matters documented last week, the propaganda apparatus for the GOP — especially Fox News — has "responded to Donald Trump's 2020 defeat by institutionalizing his lie that the election was stolen and laying the groundwork to rig the next presidential election in favor of the GOP." Gertz writes:

Fox's propagandists are getting ready. They are cheering on the GOP's purges of officials insufficiently committed to authoritarian rule in the U.S. They are validating and valorizing the Capitol insurrectionists as patriots simply "there to support the president of the United States and defend our republic" rather than a collection of extremists. They are falsely claiming that Democratic pro-democracy legislation before Congress would "destroy the credibility of all future elections," while defending Republican efforts to restrict voting rights in the states.

In a piece at **The Bulwark last month**, Jonathan Last laid out how the GOP has been busy "removing the Republican officials who were not willing to comply [with the coup] last time" and plotting out "how a Republican can win the presidency even while losing the popular vote and the Electoral College," i.e. how to steal the next election. Mona Charen,part of the small and shrinking group of Republicans who still believe in democracy, warned in another piece at The Bulwark last week that "the 2024 mantra" of the GOP "is going to be 'Steal It Back.'"

I got a taste this weekend when I tweeted out Goldberg's piece. I got a vicious reaction, as one conservative tweeter after another retorted by with variations of the argument that they are entitled to steal the 2024 election as revenge for Biden stealing the 2020 election. Of course, this is a lie — Biden won fair and square — but it was a small indicator of how "steal it back" is, indeed, becoming the Republican mantra.

This has all happening a mere four months into Biden's presidency. Republicans still have three and a half more years to keep building the political will and infrastructure necessary to steal the election in 2024, and clearly have every intention of doing so.

Democrats, meanwhile, seem wholly unable to take measures to slow down the coup train, between letting the filibuster kill any hope of passing bills to prevent these Republican manuevers and Biden's unwillingness to unleash the Justice Department to hold Trump accountable for his many crimes, which would take Trump out of the equation in 2024. The only real obstacle to the GOP successfully stealing the 2024 election is the mainstream media continuing to call out Trump's Big Lie and those Republicans who continue to support it. The public's refusal to be complacent is the main reason Trump failed to steal the 2020 election, and if there's any hope of stopping Republicans from pulling it off in 2024, the public must stay alert and ready to fight for their democracy. That's why Republicans are trying to bully journalists into shutting up about the insurrection already.

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**Republican U.S. Congressman Dan Crenshaw** of Texas is getting roundly criticized and mocked after attacking the growing number of major corporations publicly opposing voter suppression laws, like Georgia's, and

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It's time for Americans to end their ritualistic fawning over veterans. When former members of the U.S. armed forces visit the White House to _{promote military coups}_, they prove that veterans do not automatically, uncritically warrant our praise.

In an era of perpetual war, this may appear blasphemous. America's all-volunteer force has borne the burden of a militarized foreign policy in the wake of 9/11 that has _{sent more than two million}_ servicemen and women overseas to keep our nation safe. These veterans have sacrificed immensely, some in _{heroic fashion}_. Incredibly brave men and women still populate our military ranks.

Yet in society's haste to thank them for their service, veterans have become, in far too many ways, an inviolable sect beyond reproach. Any criticism risks bringing forth a slew of anti-patriotic opprobrium. Such blanket adulation must end. And this most chaotic of years demonstrates why.

In one of the more contentious political seasons in American history, few malefactors have exceeded the duplicity of retired Lt. Gen. _{Michael Flynn}_, who has called on President Trump to suspend the Constitution and declare martial law so military leaders can oversee a redo of the 2020 election. Never mind that Flynn, who pled guilty to misleading the FBI, once swore an oath to uphold that very Constitution.

Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. _{Thomas McInerney}_ has echoed Flynn's sedition entreaties. The Vietnam War veteran also petitioned for martial law in the aftermath of a free and fair election, but then went further still, imploring Trump to cancel the Electoral College, suspend habeas corpus and arrest Democrats for treason.

Below these conspiracy theorists might be found veterans like Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, embracing his party's hyper-partisan talking points to ridicule the working-class background of his colleague Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.To Crenshaw, his political opponents were "nuts" and didn't "know hardship" like he did. (Democratic senatorial candidate _{MJ Hegar}_ relied on similar tactics in Texas.)Apparently, in these narratives, only veterans understand adversity and suffering.

Nor have senior military leaders and veterans accorded themselves well in foreign policy. Secretary of State _{Mike Pompeo}_, a 1986 West Point graduate, slow-rolled acknowledging Joe Biden as president-elect and publicly quipped he would help usher a "smooth transition to a second Trump administration." The policies Pompeo have supported — one source recently described him as a "_{global arsonist}_" — hardly have advanced our national interests overseas.

Even well-respected officers have been largely derivative in their approach to U.S. foreign policy. Retired Lt. Gen. and former national security adviser _{H.R. McMaster}_, in his latest book, has recommended a national security strategy based on little beyond what one reviewer has deemed "a more muscular and constant use of force." When President Trump authorized the assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani, chief of Iran's Quds Force, other retired generals described the act only in terms of "_{American deterrence}_," without questioning its _{moral or legal justifications}_.

And none of us should discount that some American veterans have acted immorally in our recent wars, a point of vital concern for our society, if not for our president. Texas Republican chair Allen West — who recently called for secession — received a military reprimand for threatening to shoot an Iraqi detainee,while _{Eddie Gallagher}_, _{Clint Lorance}_ and _{Robert Bales, among others}_, either have been accused or convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. Do these men deserve our admiration simply because they wore a uniform?...

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December 17, 2020

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), a former U.S. Navy SEAL, is facing stark criticism for his recent action video skit. For many , Crenshaw's latest stunt is exactly why a substantial number of Americans do not take politicians seriously.

Now, United States Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Tony Thomas is slamming Crenshaw and describing his video as an "embarrassing" skit similar to a parody seen on "Saturday Night Live" or "Comedy Central."

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"Watched this twice now. I was sure it must be an SNL or Comedy Central skit," Thomas tweeted, "Nope, just the base(r) level our political environment slips to with each succeeding day. There is a reason 100M people opted not to vote again this year. Embarrassing."

From fearmongering, to the use of a British voiceover in an American political action clip, Crenshaw's action video miserably missed the mark, according to Twitter users who have chimed in.

One Twitter user wrote, "What is this nonsense? And who thought it was a good idea? It's like a bad trailer for a C-grade action movie accompanied by a British narrator. What does any of this have to do with an American election?"

Former Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) special agent Asha Rangappa also lambasted Crenshaw tweeting "There are so many bizarre things about this commercial but I want to know why you're taking instructions from a woman with a British accent to get to Georgia."

In Crenshaw's attempt to "save Georgia" ahead of the upcoming runoff, many Twitter users also reminded him of his own wrongdoings as they tweeted about the smear campaign he was accused of creating to discredit a female veteran who was sexually assaulted. Crenshaw has not yet responded to the backlash surrounding his action clip.

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daniel Reed Crenshaw^[1] (born March 14, 1984)^[2] is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving in the United States House of Representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the 2018 midterms.^[3]

Early life and education

Born to American parents in Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom,^[4][5] Crenshaw grew up in Katy, Texas.^[6] His mother died of cancer when he was ten years old.^[7] While his father worked in the oil industry, Crenshaw spent some time growing up in Ecuador and Colombia, gaining a proficiency in Spanish.^[8] He graduated from Colegio Nueva Granada high school in Bogotá, Colombia in June 2002.^[8]

Crenshaw graduated from Tufts University with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in international relations in May 2006.^[9] He earned a Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in September 2017^[10] and worked as a military legislative assistant for Congressman Pete Sessions.^[9][11]

Military service

Crenshaw in Afghanistan, 2012

W**hile at Tufts, he joined the**Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps and was commissioned in the United States Navy after his graduation.^[12] He served in the Navy SEALs for ten years, including five tours of duty,^[13] reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.^[10] His first deployment was to Fallujah, Iraq, where he joined SEAL Team Three.^[14] He was based out of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in Coronado, California.^[15]

While serving in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2012, during his third deployment, he was injured by the detonation of an improvised explosive device; he lost his right eye and required surgery to save the vision in his left eye.^[16] After the injury, he was deployed to his fourth and fifth tours of duty in Bahrain and South Korea.^[16] As a Navy SEAL, he earned two Bronze Star Medals, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor. He medically retired from military service in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander.^[16]

United States House of Representatives

Elections

2018 elections

Primary election

In the 2018 elections, Crenshaw ran for the United States House of Representatives in Texas's 2nd congressional district to succeed the retiring Ted Poe.^[17] He announced his candidacy for Congress in November 2017.^[18] Crenshaw credited national security analyst John Noonan for encouraging him to run for Congress.^[19] During an interview in February 2018, he stated that border security and immigration reform would be two of his election issues.^[20]

Crenshaw and Kevin Roberts advanced from the nine-candidate first-round of the Republican Party primary election to face each other in a second-round runoff election;^[21] Crenshaw received 155 votes more than Kathaleen Wall,^[22] a candidate who was backed by Senator Ted Cruz^[23] and Governor Greg Abbott.^[24] The lead-up to the runoff election was contentious.^[25] A super PAC, funded by Roberts' brother-in-law, Mark Lanier, focused on Crenshaw's 2015 statements that were critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite his opponent being critical of Trump as president. The ads also compared Crenshaw's policy proposals to the likes of President Barack Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders.^[26][27][28] Gaining the endorsement of Senator Tom Cotton, Crenshaw received national attention, appearing in print and television, including on Laura Ingraham's show on**Fox**Business.^[29]

General election

Crenshaw and Candace Owens speaking at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA

Crenshaw won the runoff to advance to the November general election.^[30][31] In August, it was reported that Crenshaw and four other candidates for Congress were current or former administrators of a conservative Facebook group called "Tea Party" that advanced debunked conspiracy theories.^[32] Crenshaw responded that he was unaware of the group's content and that he had been made an administrator without his consent. Crenshaw responded that he had shared the same campaign content to many other local and national groups without prior investigating their backgrounds.^[33][34] On November 6, Crenshaw was elected, defeating Democrat Todd Litton by seven percent margin, 52.8% to 45.6%.^[35][36]

Following the election,Crenshaw called for the de-politicization of comedy and sportsand expressed a desire for political rhetoric to be toned down.^[37]

On the November 3 episode of Saturday Night Live, comedian Pete Davidson joked about the appearances of multiple candidates in the 2018 midterm elections, and described Crenshaw as looking like a "hit man in a porno movie" while adding that he lost his eye in "war or whatever." The joke received significant criticism,^[38][39] and on the following episode, Davidson and Crenshaw appeared on air together. Davidson offered an apology, which Crenshaw accepted.^[7][39] Crenshaw and others have speculated that the joke may have helped him win.^[40][41]

Tenure

Committee assignments

Committee on the Budget^[42]
Committee onHomeland Security^[42]
- Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery^[43]
- Subcommittee on Oversight, Management and Accountability (Ranking Member)^[44]

Political positions

Healthcare

Crenshaw favors repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), describing it as an "unmitigated disaster."^[45] During his 2018 campaign, Crenshaw ran on a policy of allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, becoming one of a handful of Republicans to endorse what was primarily a progressive idea.^[46] However, by 2019, Crenshaw had retreated from this pledge.^[46]

On May 24, 2019, Crenshaw co-sponsored a bill to extend time limits for claims under the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act.^[47][48][49]

Election reform

In 2019, Crenshaw voiced opposition to the For the People Act of 2019. Crenshaw said the bill would "limit free speech drastically." Crenshaw also stated that the bill would use taxpayer money to "legalize" the kind of electoral fraud that occurred in the 2018 North Carolina's 9th congressional district election.^[50] PolitiFact rated Crenshaw's assertion concerning the North Carolina race "false," adding that "nothing in the bill that expands who can collect absentee ballots, allows people to fill out ballots for others, or loosens witnessing procedures for absentee ballots," which relate to the controversial election in North Carolina.^[50][51]

Environmental issues

According to Business Insider, Crenshaw is among the members of Congress who reject the scientific consensus on climate change.^[52] In 2018, Crenshaw called for a debate on the causes of climate change, adding, "We can't start off the conversation saying the climate is settled. The right way to have this conversation is to actually listen to what the science says on both sides."^[52] In 2019, Crenshaw has said that "climate change is occurring and that man-made emissions play a part in that. What isn't clear is how our actions will serve to reverse that warming trend, and what thecost-benefit outcome would be.

Regardless, we should continue pursuing new green energy solutions that lessen our impact on the environment and create cleaner air and water."^[52] During his 2018 election campaign, Crenshaw's website made brief mention of global warming, applauding President Trump for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accords.^[53] Crenshaw described the agreement as "costly and meaningless." He went on to call the agreement value signaling^[citation ^needed] and said it was not good policy. He also stated that "We must use our money to develop better infrastructure."^[53]

Immigration

During his 2018 election campaign, Crenshaw defended Trump's proposal to build a border wall on the Southern border.^[54] During a May 2019 appearance on The View, Crenshaw claimed that 80–90% of asylum seeker requests "don't have a valid asylum claim." PolitiFact rated this as "not accurate." Politfact pointed out that while it is true about 20 to 30 percent of asylum requests have been granted annually since 2009, experts said this does not mean that the remaining cases do not have merit.^[55]

Social issues

Crenshaw is pro-life.^[56][57]

Crenshaw believes that government should not be involved in regulating marriage.^[57] He supports same-sex marriage and stated in 2015, "The worst thing modern Christianity stands for is anti-homosexual marriage".^[58][59]

Crenshaw opposes a ban on assault weapons.^[54]

He opposes federal funding to "subsidize college in general", but supports it in cases of vocational training.^[54]

Foreign policy

Crenshaw supports cooperation with the state of Israel.^[60]

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Republican Rep. Andy Barr of Kentucky recently invited Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to meet with coal miners in his state in the hope of showing her that a Green New Deal would harm them financially. But the 29-year-old congresswoman accepted his invitation, stressing that green energy is about job creation—not putting Americans out of work. And Barr, GQ is reporting, has withdrawn his invitation.

According to GQ’s Luke Darby, Barr is demanding that Ocasio-Cortez apologize to Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas over something that is unrelated to coal miners and the Green New Deal: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar’s recent comments about the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After Crenshaw attacked Omar and claimed that she said the 9/11 al-Qaeda attacks weren’t terrorism—which Omar never said—Ocasio-Cortez rose to Omar’s defense and called Crenshaw out on Twitter for having “the audacity to drum resentment towards Ilhan” with “completely out-of-context” quotes. AOC pointed out to Crenshaw that “in 2018, right-wing extremists were behind almost all domestic terrorist killings.”

Barr is maintaining that unless Ocasio-Cortez apologizes to Crenshaw, his invitation to speak to Kentucky coal miners is off. But according to Darby’s report in GQ, Republicans could be using the Omar controversy as a smokescreen — and Kentucky Republicans are worried that AOC could make some convincing arguments if she comes face to face with coal miners.

Rep. James Comer of Kentucky recently warned that he didn’t “see any upside” to bringing Ocasio-Cortez to his state and that “a lot of Republicans are making a mistake picking on her. I think we need to be very prepared when we debate her on issues that we’re having a hard time with.”

On April 16, Ocasio-Cortez responded to Comer’s assertion on Twitter and saw it as evidence that Republicans are “getting scared that up close, their constituents will realize I’m fighting harder for their health care than their own reps.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Crenshaw

Daniel Reed Crenshaw^[1] (born March 14, 1984)^[2] is an American politician and former United States Navy SEAL officer serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas's 2nd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he was elected in the 2018 midterms.^[3]

Early life and education

Born to American parents in Aberdeen, Scotland,^[4] Crenshaw grew up in Katy, Texas.^[5] His mother died of cancer when he was ten years old.^[6] While his father worked in the oil industry, Crenshaw spent some time growing up in Ecuador and Colombia, gaining a proficiency in Spanish.^[7] Crenshaw graduated from a high school in Bogota, Colombia named Colegio Nueva Granada in June 2002.^[7]

Crenshaw graduated from Tufts University in 2006.^[8] He earned a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 2018^[9] and worked as a military legislative assistant for Congressman Pete Sessions.^[8][10]

Military service

While at Tufts, he joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy after his graduation.^[11] He served in the Navy SEALs for ten years, including three tours of duty, reaching the rank of lieutenant commander.^[9] Crenshaw was a member of SEAL Team Three;^[12] and was based out of Naval Amphibious Base Coronado in Coronado, California.^[13]

While serving in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan in 2012, he was injured by the detonation of an improvised explosive device; he lost his right eye and required surgery to save the vision in his left eye.^[14] After the injury, he was deployed to Bahrain and South Korea.^[14] As a Navy SEAL, he earned two Bronze StarMedals, the Purple Heart, and the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal with valor. He medically retired from military service in 2016.^[14]

U.S. House of Representatives

2018 election

In the 2018 elections, Crenshaw ran for the United States House of Representatives in Texas's 2nd congressional district to succeed the retiring Ted Poe.^[15] He announced his candidacy for Congress in November 2017.^[16] Crenshaw credited national security analyst John Noonan for encouraging him to run for Congress.^[17] During an interview in February 2018, he stated that border security and immigration reform would be two of his primary issues.^[18]

Crenshaw and Kevin Roberts advanced from the nine-candidate first round of the Republican Party primary election to face each other in a runoff election;^[19] Crenshaw received about 155 votes more than Kathaleen Wall, a candidate who launched her campaign with an event featuring a performance from Lee Greenwood and who had major backings from Senator Ted Cruz and Governor Greg Abbott. Wall spent six million dollars on her campaign and early returns led to projections that she was in a solid position to secure a spot in the run-off.^{[20][21][22][23][24][25][26]}

The lead up to the runoff election was contentious.^[27] A super PAC, funded by Roberts' brother-in-law, Mark Lanier, focused on Crenshaw's 2015 statements that were critical of presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite his opponent being critical of Trump as president. The ads also compared Crenshaw's policy proposals to the likes of President Obama and Senator Bernie Sanders.^[28][29][30] Gaining the endorsement of Senator Tom Cotton, Crenshaw received national attention, appearing in print and television, including on Laura Ingraham's show on Fox Business.^[31]

The Link Letter mailer by Terry Lowry received much push back after it revealed that Crenshaw was unemployed and lived with his parents. Dr. Hotze's robo call regarding Crenshaw's faith was poorly received as well.^{[32][33][34][35]}

Crenshaw won the runoff to advance to the November general election.^[36][37] Writing in National Review, Crenshaw argued for working and partnering with the Mexican government to reduce illegal immigration to the United States; he also called for rebuilding Central American countries as a long-term solution to illegal immigration.^[38] In August it was reported that Crenshaw and four other candidates for Congress were current or former admins of a conservative Facebook group called "Tea Party" that stated debunked conspiracy theories.^[39] Crenshaw has refuted this, stating he was unaware of the group's content and that he had been made administrator without consent. Crenshaw responded that he had shared the same campaign content to many other local and national groups without prior investigating their backgrounds.^[40][41] On November 6, Crenshaw was elected, defeating Democrat Todd Litton.^[42]

Crenshaw and Candace Owens speaking at the 2018 Student Action Summit hosted by Turning Point USA

Following the election, Crenshaw called forde-politicization of comedy and sports,and wanted political rhetoric to be toned down.^[43] On Amanpour & Company, Crenshaw spoke about improving infrastructure in his district due to the impact of Hurricane Harvey on it, and the impact that Beto O'Rourke had on his race for a seat in Congress.^[44]

On the November 3 episode of Saturday Night Live, comedian Pete Davidson joked about Republican candidates' appearances, and described Crenshaw as looking like a "hit man in a porno movie" while adding that he lost his eye in "war or whatever." The joke received significant criticism,^[45][46] and on the following episode, Davidson and Crenshaw appeared on air together. Davidson offered an apology, which Crenshaw accepted.^[6][46] Crenshaw and others have speculated that the joke may have helped him win.^[47][48]

Committee assignments

Committee on the Budget^[49]
Committee on Homeland Security^[49]
- Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery^[50]
- Subcommittee on Oversight, Management and Accountability (Ranking Member)^[51]

Electoral

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Rep. Ilhan Omar is being targeted once again by both Republicans and Rupert Murdoch’s right wing media machine, raising concerns among her supporters and colleagues about the level of hate being directed at her—and prompting a vigorous defense from some of her fellow House freshmen.

Omar isn’t the only newly elected Democrat to receive negative attention from right wing and politicians, but the vitriol directed at the Somali-born Democrat from Minnesota has resulted in a number of death threats.

The last few days have been more of the same for Omar after language she used last month in remarks to the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) resurfaced in right wing media.

The Congresswoman mistakenly referred to CAIR’s creation as a reaction to the 9/11 attacks in 2001 (the organization was founded in 1994) as part of a broader point about the curtailment of civil liberties in the 21st century in her remarks.

“CAIR was founded after 9/11, because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties,” said Omar.

That phrasing—”some people did something”—set off a firestorm this week as right wing media and politicians interpreted the comment as downplaying the attacks, which left nearly 3,000 dead.

Much of the outrage has been driven by media properties owned byRupert Murdoch: Fox News and The New York Post.

Murdoch “knows exactly what he’s doing,” said progressive PAC Justice Democrats in a tweet.

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The New York Post and Fox News are owned by a racist billionaire, Rupert Murdoch, who knows exactly what he's doing.

Murdoch is part of a billionaire class that wants to divide and conquer America through hate and fear.@IlhanMN and all Americans deserve not to live in fear.

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Rupert Murdoch inciting more fear and hatred of @IlhanMN and Muslims in the New York Post this morning.

Disgusting and dangerous.

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On “Fox and Friends” Wednesday morning, host Brian Kilmeade took the opportunity of Omar’s comments to suggest the congresswoman had dual loyalties.

“You have to wonder if she’s an American first,” said Kilmeade, who later clarified his comments.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), who was amoderator for an Islamophobic Facebook group from May 2018 to August 2018, said on Twitter that Omar’s comment was “unbelievable” and implied that the congresswoman was downplaying the attacks.

“Crenshaw is twisting her words because she’s black, Muslim, and the GOP and Fox [want] to paint her as foreign and un-American,” said Pod Save America co-host Tommy Vietor. “Democrats should call out his bullshit. So should the media.”

Rather than take a breather, however, Murdoch properties pushed even harder on Thursday. The Post published as its cover Thursday morning an image that superimposed Omar’s phrasing of “something” over a picture of the World Trade Center burning during the 9/11 attacks.

“Here’s your something,” the Post thundered.

Splinter‘s Katherine Krueger noted the hypocrisy in the selectively edited clips and subsequent outrage machine epitomized by the Post‘s cover.

The irony is that this narrative around Omar’s remarks is proving her exact point—bigots began widely equating terrorists with all Muslims after 9/11, but ask us not to do the same if the terrorist is white—so cutting off Omar’s remarks to make it seem like she was minimizing the attacks fits an Islamophobic narrative already entrenched on the right.

Mehdi Hasan of The Intercept wondered if the paper—and Murdoch in general—was trying to get Omar killed.

“I mean, this is just astonishing,” said Hasan.

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Are Murdoch-owned media outlets - Fox News, the New York Post - trying to get Congresswoman @IlhanMN killed? Genuine question. I mean, this is just astonishing.

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Rupert Murdoch inciting more fear and hatred of @IlhanMN and Muslims in the New York Post this morning.

Disgusting and dangerous.

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Omar, for her part, pushed back against her critics Wednesday. Calling the remarks from Kilmeade and Crenshaw “dangerous incitement,” Omar expressed hope that “leaders of both parties will join me in condemning it.”

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@IlhanMN

This is dangerous incitement, given the death threats I face. I hope leaders of both parties will join me in condemning it.

My love and commitment to our country and that of my colleagues should never be in question. We are ALL Americans!

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democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has proposed a 70% marginal tax rate on the richest Americans, and one of her fellow House members who is totally opposed to that idea is Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw. On February 3, the Texas Republican hoped to discredit Ocasio-Cortez’ proposal by using a football analogy—which Twitter users were quick to denounce as horribly flawed.

Crenshaw tweeted, “Should someone propose a 70% tax on the Patriots so that NFL competition is more fair and equal? Asking for a friend.”

The congressman was referring to the football team New England Patriots, and Ocasio-Cortez responded with a tweet that mentioned Colin Kaepernick—the quarterback that National Football League (NFL) owners are refusing to sign because of his anti-racism protests. Ocasio-Cortez posted, “The average NFL salary is $2.1 million, so most players would never experience a 70% rate. The owners who refuse to hire Kaepernick would, though.”

Other tweets were equally critical of Crenshaw’s football analogy. Philadelphia-based attorney Adam C. Bonin tweeted, “The NFL has revenue sharing, a salary cap (and team spending floors), and a player entry draft designed to reward the weakest teams. That’s socialism, not capitalism.”

Similarly, Kace Phillips (a musician based in Dallas) tweeted, “The NFL is about as socialist as it gets. Revenue sharing, free agency, salary cap. And every year about 6 teams that didn’t make the playoffs the year before make it.”

Twitter user Adam G. compared Crenshaw to another Texas politician: Sen. Ted Cruz—and not in a favorable way. Adam G. posted, “I see @SenTedCruz has competition for most embarrassing and uninformed elected official from Texas.”

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Sen. John McCain has been dead for seven months. The Arizona senator, Vietnam veteran and self-described “Goldwater Republican” was 81 when he died of brain cancer on August 25, 2018. Yet President Donald J. Trump continues to be obsessed with him, declaring during a speech earlier this week, “I wasn’t a fan of John McCain.” In response, Rep. Dan Crenshaw called Trump out on Twitter, posting, “Mr. President, seriously stop talking about Senator McCain”—and the Texas Republican is being angrily attacked for it by Trump supporters.

As right-wing as McCain was, many figures in the far-right media—from Rush Limbaugh to Ann Coulter—have a long history of denouncing him as a RINO (Republican In Name Only). And the silly notion that McCain wasn’t genuinely right-wing asserted itself in many of the comments attacking Crenshaw on Twitter.

Twitter user CC, who has 286,000 followers on the social media website and has said that her “top priority” on Twitter is “to retweet President Trump’s tweets,” responded to Crenshaw by asserting that “John McCain’s actions were traitorous” and that his opposition to Trump was “vindictive” and “un-American.”

@TheReady1775 was especially venomous, declaring that McCain was “a piece of shit” because he “died a traitor working for Dems.” And @TheReady1775 threatened that Crenshaw could “be a one-term wonder” if he decides to “go RINO on us.”

California-based Trump devotee @steph93065 urged Crenshaw to “shut your damn mouth” about Trump and cited him as an example of “the entire establishment” and “their media…. trashing our president.”

Rep. Dan Crenshaw

@RepDanCrenshaw

Mr. President, seriously stop talking about Senator McCain.

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@TheReady1775

Go RINO on us Dan & you’ll be a one-term wonder.

McCain may have had honor in war but he died a traitor working for Dems to stage crimes that never happened. THAT man was a piece of shit.

Wartime service doesn’t give you lifetime immunity against consequences of shit behavior.

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Steph

@steph93065

Replying to @she_brews11 @RepDanCrenshaw

The problem with Crenshaw is, when the entire establishment & their media is busy trashing our President without even caring WHY the President called out McCain (the reveal of his involvement in the dossier), maybe shut your damn mouth. It's the piling on that pisses me off.

@ChatByCC

What pisses me off is John McCain‘s actions were traitorous. McCain did everything he could to unseat a sitting president. Just because 1 wears the uniform does not mean that we cannot call out there vindictive un-American actions.

Even McCain‘s funeral was a Trump bash session.

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A Trump supporter in Los Angeles, @almostjingo, posted, “Mr. Crenshaw, when did you become the ruler of free speech?” And @1AmericanMama, a Trump supporter in Missouri, posted:

Catturd

@catturd2

Replying to @RepDanCrenshaw

If I hear one more person say Trump needs to move on from McCain, I'm going to puke.

This is the biggest treason in our country's history - a sitting President and his corrupt FBI, CIA, and DOJ spied on Trump and are still trying to frame him.

and McCain was knee deep in it

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@1AmericanMama

Why does Dan think b/c McCain served in the Military that he should get a free pass for all his evil doings? So, if Hillary served in the military would she also get a pass? This is asinine! Step back Rep. Crenshaw you are out of line! Criminals must be exposed, dead or alive!

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The pro-Trump @nelliestirs described McCain as a “vile human being” who “took his hatred” of Trump “to his grave.” And @mystormee insisted that “McCain took every opportunity to stab the American citizen in the back,” while @LoriS09598635 posted that Crenshaw “is looking to be like other Washington elite RINOs ….Romney, McConnell, Ryan, Flake, McCain, Rubio, Hurd, Amash.”

But not all of the conservatives who responded to Crenshaw’s tweet were unfavorable. @LouiseMensch posted, “I like Crenshaw a hell of a lot…. when Mueller has arrested all the traitors infesting the GOP leadership, and I can go back to being a regular person with domestic political views, Crenshaw is the kind of leader I would support in a Presidential primary.”