Nixon in 2023

09/21/2026

09/21/2026

He was killed in the Philippines in 1945. It took four years to bring him home, and when he finally got there the only funeral home in town would not let his family use the chapel. 🕊️

Private Felix Longoria was from Three Rivers, Texas. He volunteered, he shipped out, and he was killed on Luzon in the last months of the war. In 1949 his remains were returned to his widow, Beatrice. She went to arrange the wake and was told the chapel was not available to her family, and the reason she was given was that the other people in town would not like it.

Beatrice Longoria did not let it rest there. Word reached Dr. Hector P. Garcia in Corpus Christi, a physician and Army veteran who had founded the American GI Forum the year before, and he carried it to anyone who would listen. A first term senator named Lyndon Johnson answered. Felix Longoria was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in February of 1949 with full military honors.

That did not end discrimination in south Texas, and nobody pretended it had. What it did was make the American GI Forum a national organization overnight, and it told a whole generation of Mexican American veterans that the uniform they had worn was an argument they were allowed to make out loud. 🇲🇽

Most of us were never taught his name in a classroom. Whose service in your own family went unrecognized for far too long?

09/20/2026

09/20/2026

JUST IN: a Magnitude 2.7 Earthquake just occurred just SSW of Smiley, Texas! Did you feel it or hear it?

09/20/2026

09/20/2026

🚨 FORMER TEXAS STATE TROOPER, CHRISTIAN ESTRADA, SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN FEDERAL PRISON 🚨

A former Texas Department of Public Safety trooper trusted to uphold the law will now spend a decade behind bars for attempting to entice someone he believed was a 12-year-old child into s*xual activity.

Christian Estrada of Laredo was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo also ordered him to serve a lifetime of supervised release and register as a s*x offender.

According to reports, the FBI investigated Estrada from April through December 2025. An undercover agent posed as the parent of a fictitious 12-year-old girl and communicated with a user known as “dopehound” through Reddit, Snapchat and Telegram.

Authorities said the user attempted to arrange a s*xual encounter with the fictitious child, repeatedly requested s*xually explicit images and discussed s*xual activity. Estrada later confirmed that the Telegram account belonged to him.

In November 2025, investigators said Estrada began communicating directly through a Snapchat account supposedly belonging to the child—but that account was also operated by the FBI. At the time, Estrada was still employed as a Texas state trooper.

When authorities executed a search warrant at his home on January 8, investigators seized his phone and reportedly discovered additional Snapchat conversations with users whose listed ages were 14 and 15. DPS suspended Estrada that same day.

Estrada pleaded guilty on April 8. No real 12-year-old child was involved in the undercover communications.

The FBI and Texas DPS conducted the investigation as part of Project Safe Childhood.

A badge is supposed to represent protection—not provide cover. Online predators can come from any profession, position or level of public trust. Parents and guardians should continue talking with children about online safety and monitoring who contacts them through social-media and messaging platforms.

09/19/2026

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