I'll be on Egberto Wiilies’ Politics Done Right on KPFT 90.1, tomorrow morning, 5/14, 6-7 for Houston Democracy Project weekly hour. We'll talk about new AI traffic surveillance system in Hou., District C & early voting starting for runoff. We'll also talk about topics callers want to discuss.

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on Alejandra Salinas asking about new AI traffic surveillance system in Houston. How long until cops use it? Will ICE have access? It’s all overwhelming, but we must stay the course & work for a better council. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

I'll be guest on KPFT's, 90.1 FM, We The People tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/12, 9:30 AM-10 AM. We'll talk about protest across Houston-region, Houston City Council & how next action when you organize it, 1st Amendment is your permit & only credential needed is your presence. Please tune in! #Houston

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on Hou. Resistance News. It’s self-published regional schedule of both protest/conventional political events & more. You can create something like this yourself. Next action when you organize it. 1st Amendment permit. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 483, tomorrow, Tue., 5/12, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Houston city government has made clear they'll never fight for our rights no matter abuse from state or feds. Black voting power under attack. We must show up for ourselves. Protest is essential. #Houston

Asking why someone else didn’t organize a protest is strongly suggesting that you didn’t go ahead and just organize it yourself.

The path forward involves multi-racial coalitions at the polls & protest as well. Anybody telling you otherwise is telling you a story.

I wager people paid by Democratic elected officials who downplay the value of protest are essentially cops. They merit the trust you’d afford a cop.

I just read a line in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale that went: “For all thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.” It made think of how all the idiotic & cruel things from the right that we discuss & challenge, are just warm ups & precursors to trying to take all our rights.

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports conversation with Hou. Councilmember who switched ICE vote. Argument Hou. would lose $ for ordinance, same argument Dems must support Republican Speaker each Legr session. How long can we accommodate authoritarians? #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

ICE Abducts Disney Cruise Staff Right Off of Ship in Horrific Raid At least 10 staffers were detained, some of whom were zip-tied in front of cruise passengers as they were led off the boat.

At budget press conference today, Whitmire said people who criticize excessive police & fire overtime are "defunding the police." Council Democrats who stood behind him at conference for that comment are Castillo, Alcorn, Jackson, Evans-Shabazz, Martinez, & Castex-Tatum. #Houston

It's disappointing that Councilmembers Peck, Carter, Ramirez, Castex-Tatum, Huffman , Evans-Shabazz, Davis, Castillo, Martinez, Jackson & Alcorn are taking part in Mayor Whitmire's propaganda press conference about the budget rather than preparing for oversight and tough scrutiny. 1/2 #Houston

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 482, tomorrow, Tuesday, 5/5, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Houston city government with effective repeal of ICE ordinance made clear will never fight for our rights. Now Voting Rights Act is gone. We must show up for ourselves. #Houston

Houston Democracy Project Blog says Voting Rights Act Decision is a collapse of business as usual. Elected officials must meet the challenge. Now would be good time for Rodney Ellis & Carol Alvarado to spend some of millions in campaign $ they sit on. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

That the governors of Alabama & Louisiana can just suspend elections to put in districts that lock out Black folks tells you plenty of what you need to know. We are going to win, but voting is not going to be enough.

Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.

Some pictures from Tuesday’s Week 481 of the John Cornyn Houston Office Protest. Please join us each Tuesday, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Next action is when you organize it. 1st Amendment is your permit. Only credential needed is your presence. #Houston

A big reason you strip representation from people is because you intend to make them slaves or kill them. Of course these Trumpers & the people they elect are capable of these things. Your family, your co-worker, your neighbor—You bet they would do it.

There is no path forward without cross-racial coalitions. None. The right where they have control, will be looking at every “safe” Democratic district at every level of government.

Houston Democracy Project Blog says many May Day protests across Houston-region on Friday. They are put on by different groups/coalitions & different approaches to organizing. Some events by unaffiliated rank & file people just like No Kings. Find one to support! www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Shakespeare wrote in The Winter’s Tale—“One good deed dying toungeless, slaughters a thousand waiting upon that.”

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 481, tomorrow, Tuesday, 4/28, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Houston city government through effective repeal of the ICE ordinance has made clear they will never stick up for or take risks for our rights. We must show up for ourselves. #Houston

Neil at Hou. Democracy Project says please invite me to speak at your meeting or protest. I say useful things & am friendly. I’m comfortable everywhere. Next action when you organize it, 1st Amendent your permit & only credential needed your presence. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Whitmire said this morning state might pull $ for our emergency center "as hurricane season approaches." Through the debate, it's important to calmly understand we are dealing with people who’d do anything to us & conventional political process at City Hall offers no ability to challenge. #Houston

Whitmire, police union & HPD have with response to ICE ordinance, made clear how they’ll respond to suspension of habeas corpus, if Abbott follows through on threats to interfere in Harris County elections or ICE shoots a Houstonian. The work ahead is ours. We must organize ourselves. #Houston

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 480, tomorrow, Tuesday, 4/21, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Also: 2 PM protest at Houston City Hall. We can't hand over Houston to Abbott & police union. Whitmire won't show up for us no matter how state/feds attack Houston. Join us. #Houston

Houston Democracy Project Blog has timeline of ICE/City of Houston ordinance & info on contacting council. We can’t yield our city to Abbott & police union bullies. We must fight back against our authoritarian/white supremacist state & fed. governments. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

An important way Houston city government works, is that the mayor and council give police and fire unions irresponsible, budget-busting contracts, & then those unions turn around and endorse candidates and electeds who threaten to take away our public safety funding. #Houston

Houston Democracy Project Blog says contact City Council, sign up to speak & protest, to fight Whitmire gutting ICE ordinance because of Abbott’s threats. And because that’s what he wants to do in any case. We can’t cede city & our rights to far-right. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Houston Democracy Project Blog says there is protest at Houston City Hall, Fri., 4/17, 9 AM for ICE ordinance repeal session. With possibility of successfully mitigating cruel federal policies at City Council seemingly blocked, we must show up for selves. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Houston Democracy Project Blog says Whitmire calls Friday, 4/17, 9 AM session of Council to repeal ICE ordinance. Abbott threatens to defund law enforcement if we don’t. What happens when Abbott interferes in elections? Contact Council with info in post. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 479, tomorrow, Tuesday, 4/14, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. Council passes ICE ordinance & now Abbott attacks us. Police union erratic & bullying after passage. Hungary finally dumps Orban! That took work. We must show up for ourselves. Join us. #Houston

Now 14 months in, Canada’s rejection of the U.S. is the most successful tourism boycott in memory.

Houston Democracy Project Blog says though it is weekend, we can contact City Council to thank members who voted for ICE ordinance, demand HPD enforce & make clear elected officials run city & not police union. Let’s support electeds who do right thing. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on Ken Paxton’s threats to Houston over the newly-passed ICE ordinance. We must lead the pushback ourselves. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

I’m appreciative of the Houston Police Officer’s Union for the work they are doing today to marginalize themselves. #Houston

Nick Hellyar is a perennial candidate who claimed 2 endorsements he did not have in the 1st round of District C voting, worked for hard-right Houston Republican Councilmember Twila Carter & is endorsed by the Houston Police Officer’s Union. #Houston

Stephen Miller urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis.

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on council public comment session about ICE ordinance. If council can’t approve now watered-down ordinance about ICE, what hope they’ll have our backs when Abbott/Trump mess with ‘26 elections? Contact council today. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

The people who go to Houston City Council to support city cooperation with ICE are sure a bunch of sour apples.

Stay your course. Work with others as you want. Stay autonomous as best you can. Show up as works for you. Keep making connections. You don't need to establish anything to anybody. 1/2 #NoKings

John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 477, tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/31, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. City of Hou. cooperates with ICE & Abbott threatens to take over elections. Opposition to ICE in Minn. & record breaking No Kings shows we can defend ourselves. Voting not enough. Join us. #Houston

Houston Democracy Project Blog reports on speaking at Downtown Houston No Kings. Every community across Houston-region in the fight. We must show up for ourselves. Mayor Whitmire has made clear he’ll tolerate anything from the state & federal governments. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Houston Democracy Project reports unelected Hou. City Attorney gutted most significant portion of Prop A motion to regulate city cooperation with ICE. Still we should press Council on ordinance & use process to further organize selves for challenges ahead. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

Don’t get into it with anyone criticizing No Kings. Just make your case. Offer your view of weak points of No Kings if you like. But move forward. These protests are rank & file organized for most part & often in conservative places. Go or don’t go. Do what you want. #NoKings

The overwhelming majority of No Kings protests do not have permits. The First Amendment is your permit.

Houston Democracy Project Blog says many 3/28 No Kings Protests across Houston-region. Find 1 near you. Voting not going to be enough. We’ve seen so in S.Korean martial law crisis & Minn. ICE response. Houston Democracy Project a speaker at Hou. No Kings. #Houston www.neilaquino.com/houston-demo...

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John Cornyn Houston Office Protest, Week 476, tomorrow, Tuesday, 3/24, 11:30-1, 5300 Memorial Dr. HPD/ICE cooperating & Abbott threatens to take over elections. Opposition to ICE in Minn. & 5000+ No Kings 3/28 protests planned shows can/must organize ourselves. Voting not enough. Join us. #Houston