Texas demands a Court of Criminal Appeals who protect kids, families & the rule of law, & rejects judicial lawlessness, activism, & hug a thug “justice.” That is why I’m running for this court. Help me protect the Texas you love so much. VOTE! EV 5/18-22 Election Day 5/26

The First Court of Appeals is very saddened to learn of Justice Kristin Guiney’s untimely passing. Our heartfelt condolences go out to her entire family. Here is the Court’s full statement: txcourts.gov/media/1463409/s…

This will be great, let’s go!!

Can’t wait to vote for you again, Tom!

This is a choice, not a fate.

Great to see you in Belton last night! Road Warrior For Texas!

When you go to the Dead Fish Grill in Belton and instead you meet a live shark 🦈, @4SharkFour! Huey 🚁 pilot, Vietnam veteran, ‘64 varsity 🎾 at @OhioStateMTEN and strong conservative American 🇺🇸! Great to see you!

Really looking forward to this! Let’s go!! Thank you, @TexasGOP 🇺🇸

50,000+ mile campaign! Grateful to have met thousands of awesome Texans during my travels. We’re Texasmaxxing the next 34 days to get this done! @TexasGOP @YRsOfTexas

Paul Tibbets & Thomas Ferebee in the cockpit of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber 'Enola Gay' that they crewed to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945. ✈️

81 years ago today, General Patton is relived of his military governorship & his command of the 3rd Army after a heated exchange with General Eisenhower. 🪖 "The best thing that has ever happened to me thus far is the honor & privilege of having commanded the 3rd Army." 🇺🇸

Let’s go! 🇺🇸

It was great to continue the Texas Justice Tour in Harris and Montgomery Counties! The first stop was a spectacular event by maybe the most energetic GOP club in Texas, Cypress Republicans. Huge crowd! Then it was on to speak to the Montgomery County Tea Party, who hosted all 3 of us running for the Court of Criminal Appeals. More tour stops coming up soon! @TexasGOP @grdevine @CypressRep37883

"Strong courts and a strong judiciary are often the last line of defense between chaos and order in a civilized society" — Tom Smith @smithfortx

On this morning 250 years ago, the British hanged a 21-year-old American schoolteacher as a spy, and in trying to make him disappear quietly, they accidentally made him immortal. His name was Nathan Hale, and it is worth sitting with just the last few hours of his life. He had been caught the night before, behind British lines on Long Island, carrying notes on enemy positions hidden in his shoes. There was no real trial. A man out of uniform with military intelligence on him was a spy by the rules of war, and the sentence for spying was death by hanging, no ceremony, no honor. General Howe ordered it done in the morning. What we know of that morning comes mostly from the enemy, from British officers who were there, and it is the small human cruelties that stay with you. Hale asked for a clergyman to attend him in his final hours. The request was refused. He asked for a Bible. That too was denied. He was a devout young man about to die, and they would not give him even that comfort. A British officer named Montresor, watching, was troubled enough by the young man's composure to later make sure his story was told. In his last moments Hale was allowed to write a couple of letters, one to his mother, one to a fellow officer. He wrote them, and then the British provost marshal, a notoriously brutal man named Cunningham, took those letters and destroyed them in front of him. The reason given was chilling in its pettiness: so that the rebels should not know they had a man in their ranks who could die with such firmness. They did not just want to kill him. They wanted to erase him. Then they marched him to the gallows, and there, according to the accounts that survived, this young schoolteacher who had failed at the one dangerous mission he ever attempted, stood calmly and spoke about duty and country with a steadiness that unnerved the men sent to kill him. The famous words attributed to him, that he only regretted having but one life to lose for his country, may be polished or borrowed from a play he loved. But everyone who was there agreed on the essential truth beneath the wording: he met his death without flinching, and he made even his executioners remember him. And that is the irony that redeems the whole sad morning. Cunningham burned the letters so no one would know how bravely Hale died. It did not work. The story got out anyway, carried by the very enemies who watched it, and a young man the British tried to erase became one of the most enduring symbols of the Revolution, honored two and a half centuries later, on this exact day, as the first American to die spying for his country. They denied him a Bible and a chaplain and burned his last words, and still they could not make him small.

Fantastic event last night by @natesheetsforTX in McKinney as he kicked off his bus tour! Nate’s program featured several conservative leaders and candidates including @realBrandonGill, @ShelleyLuther, @DrindaRandall, @PastorKason and many others. I was grateful to participate in a panel discussion with Sheriff Skinner from Collin County and Nate about law enforcement, the rule of law, and preserving a strong judiciary in Texas. Another great stop on the Texas Justice Tour!

Buc-ee Beaver told me to do the V for “victory” sign, and when he tells you to do something, you do it! 😂🇺🇸 @bucees

Only 5 movies for the rest of your life: Tombstone A Few Good Men Crimson Tide Rocky IV Major League

We remember. We are thankful. They are never forgotten. 🇺🇸