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Roll Call reports: Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Rep. Daniel Crenshaw of Texas lead a group of more than a dozen GOP members of the House and Senate agitating for a congressional rule change to ban members from using the app in an official capacity as members of Congress, though they could still use it for personal or …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Houston-area Congressman Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) joined in on the wave of backlash to the commercial with an Instagram post over the weekend. In a video published to the platform on Sunday, Crenshaw vows to throw out all the Bud Light in his fridge—only to find it stuffed with Karbach. “Saw Bud Light’s stupid ad campaign,” Crenshaw …

“Things get heated and things get said. Obviously, to the people who took offense by that, it’s pretty obvious that it’s meant as a turn of phrase. “I’ve got thick skin. I’m called awful, vile things by the very same wing of the party that I was fighting at that moment. “So I was a little taken aback by the …

“It was always a lie. The whole thing was always a lie. And it was a lie meant to rile people up. I’ve talked about this ad nauseam, it really made me angry. “Cause I’m like, the promises you’re making that you’re gonna challenge the electoral college and overturn the election, there’s not even a process for you to do …

The Texas Tribune reports: Offering a scorching rebuke of what he called the “woke right,” U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, continued to distance himself from some firebrand conservatives, accusing them of helping to sow manufactured division in the party. In an interview with The New York Times’ Jonathan Martin for The Texas Tribune Festival, the two-term congressman admonished “alt-right” politicians …

Via press release: The Crenshaw Youth Summit is back for its third annual conference of more than 2,000 young conservatives from across the country. Hear from an all-star lineup of speakers October 8 – 9 in Downtown Houston. If you’re a teenager or young adult who is fired up for conservatism and protecting America’s future, you’re going to want to …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Jake Tapper drilled down on Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) — as the congressman attempted to defend Trump over the FBI’s search through Mar-a-Lago. “It’s not a question that it’s bad to have classified material in a non-SCIF environment,” Crenshaw said. “I still haven’t seen any evidence that Trump was even asked to give these documents back. He’s been …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were violently confronted at the Republican Party of Texas convention a short time ago, when far-right social media activist Alex Stein and others whom witnesses described as Proud Boys began shouting “eyepatch McCain” at him – an attempted insult coined by Tucker Carlson. A witness to the incident tells Mediaite that in …

Vanity Fair reports: One day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to break up anti-vax protests shutting down Canadian cities and border crossings, Rep. Dan Crenshaw of Texas, a Republican, attempted to recruit Canadian truckers to the U.S. “Quick note to Canadian truckers being fired and now targeted as ‘terrorists’ by your woke government: The USA has …

The Texas Tribune reports: U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, is taking heat this week for sending out campaign mailers containing unsolicited mail-in ballot applications to voters who are 65 and older. Last year, Texas Republicans in the Legislature passed an elections law that banned local election officials from that very same practice under the banner of protecting election integrity. However, …

The Houston Chronicle reports: The footage shows the 37-year-old former Navy SEAL at a Montgomery County Tea Party meeting on Monday night responding sharply to a young girl at a speaking engagement after being presented with quotes from past comments he’d made on the Jocko podcast back in March of 2020. The video begins with the girl quoting remarks made …

“@realmarjoriegreene, instead of playing the victim about censorship maybe use your position as a LEGISLATOR to help pass LEGISLATION against censorship. “Luckily I’ve already done all the hard work for you and drafted a bill that would change Section 230 to prohibit political censorship. “Want to co-sponsor before I introduce it? Or prefer to keep up with petty and childish …

Mediaite reports: “It’s hard to educate people on this,” Crenshaw said during the latest episode of his Hold These Truths podcast. “When you attack fossil fuels, oil and gas, you raise the prices for those fossil fuels.” Crenshaw continued that Democrats won’t fully embrace nuclear energy because of popular television shows. “They don’t like nuclear because they watch the Simpsons …

“There are two types of members of Congress: there is performance artists and there is legislators. Performance artists are the ones who get all of the attention, the ones you think are more conservative because they know how to say slogans real well. “They know how to recite the lines that they know our voters want to hear. What you …

Yahoo News reports: Representative Dan Crenshaw (R., Texas) must pay a $5,000 fine after he allegedly bypassed metal detectors that were installed inside the U.S. Capitol following the January 6 riot, the House Committee on Ethics announced Wednesday. The congressman reportedly refused to comply with security procedures as he entered the Republican cloakroom inside the U.S. Capitol last week, an …

The Daily Beast reports: While speaking at the Illinois GOP Fundraising dinner in Rosemont, Illinois on Wednesday evening, Crenshaw was asked by an attendee if he believed in “election integrity” and whether he thought last year’s presidential election was rigged against Trump. “There’s certain states with problems, but don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost, it’s not. It’s …

“Look, the vaccines are actually effective. I actually believe the FDA’s data on this. Not only are they effective, but the FDA still stands by their assertion and their assessment of the data that says that the vaccines here in the United States are effective against transmission including the delta variant. “So the CDC is in direct confrontation with the …

Fox News reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, and Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., on Friday launched a whistleblower form for military service members so that the armed forces don’t “fall to woke ideology.” The form is available on a new webpage on Crenshaw’s website, which states that submissions will be shared with Cotton’s office. Crenshaw said that “with written permission,” he …

“You’re not going to excommunicate a former president, right? And I refuse to — I refuse to go into the sort of black and white thinking about it’s either totally one thing or totally the other.  These are complex human relationships that involve millions of people Look, I do not think Trump is the devil, and I won’t say that. …

The Hill reports: Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) said Saturday he is taking a monthlong leave after having surgery on his eye, saying he’ll be “effectively blind” for a month. Crenshaw, who lost his right eye in 2012 during a bomb attack while he was serving in Afghanistan, said his ophthalmologist discovered that his retina was detaching in his left eye …