Greg Abbott Declares Civil War On Blue States At The Behest Of Trump
Texas governor authorizes Trump to deploy 400 Guard troops into Illinois and beyond, without state consent, without precedent, and without shame.
When one state’s army aggressively marches into another state, unwanted, armed, and there to harm, what do you call that?
A military occupation? A violation of state sovereignty? A Civil War?
When Texas troops march into Illinois under Trump’s command, without an invitation, it is an armed invasion. It’s a violation of sovereignty, a breach of constitutional order, and an authoritarian escalation.
Last night, Greg Abbott announced on Twitter that he had “fully authorized the President to call up 400 members of the Texas National Guard to ensure safety for federal officials.” He bragged about it, declaring that if states won’t comply with Trump’s orders, Texas will enforce them by force.
This is borderless aggression. Confederate Greg has turned his so-called sovereignty crusade into an exportable army for a felonious president. The man who spent years ranting about state rights just volunteered his state to violate another’s. The hypocrisy is breathtaking, but the danger is worse. We’re watching a governor volunteer soldiers to enforce a political agenda outside his own borders. That’s not patriotism. That’s secession with better branding.
ICE and DHS are lying about this incident, as you can see the video here and find the full unedited video on social media (including on my Threads account). Nothing from ICE, DHS, FBI, or Trump’s government can be trusted. They’re all liars.
And if Trump’s Gaestapo (a.k.a. ICE) wasn’t enough for us to worry about. Criminals are exploiting these tactics. Reports of fake ICE agents are emerging from all over the country. Immigrants are being robbed. Women are being raped.
Or they could be real ICE agents. I suppose we’ll never truly know.
Back to Abbott sending our sons and brothers to commit war on American citizens because Trump told him to….
Abbott’s move isn’t unprecedented. It’s the logical next step in a years-long pattern of militarizing politics.
Through Operation Lone Star, he already turned the Texas border into a campaign backdrop of razor wire, drone footage, and body counts. Now he’s exporting that theater across state lines. It’s a spectacle and an endless audition for Trump’s approval, paid for with Texas taxpayers’ dollars and Guard families’ safety.
Legally, the ground beneath this stunt is rotten. The Posse Comitatus Act limits the use of US troops for domestic law enforcement. The Insurrection Act allows exceptions only in extreme cases, rebellion, invasion, or the obstruction of federal law. None of that applies here.
Illinois didn’t request aid. There is no insurrection, no rebellion, no riot to quell. What’s happening is political theater masquerading as federal duty, a test to see how far Trump can stretch the military chain of command and how willing Abbott is to play the good soldier in his show of force.
But beneath the performance lies a constitutional crisis. Another. Again. Every day with Trump is a constitutional crisis.
The Tenth Amendment reserves police powers to the states; that’s the bedrock of federalism. When Texas troops march into Illinois without its consent, they’re dismantling the Union. And Abbott knows it. He’s betting that chaos benefits him, that every lawsuit, every headline, every confrontation fuels his standing in the post-truth Confederacy he’s trying to lead.
This is what the next phase of American authoritarianism appears to be. Not tanks rolling through capitals, but governors turning the National Guard into partisan militias. Not secession by declaration, but secession by deployment.
We’ve seen this story before.
In the 1870s, Southern governors defied federal authority to preserve white power and crush Reconstruction. They called it “home rule,” but it was really mob rule. Armed men enforcing hierarchy at gunpoint while pretending to defend liberty. Texas was one of them. The same soil that birthed the Klan’s first Texas chapter now hosts a governor eager to relive that rebellion in high definition.
Back then, the pretext was “states’ rights.” Today, it’s “security.” But the pattern’s the same. A white nationalist project dressed up as state sovereignty, using soldiers to intimidate, silence, and dominate. Abbott is performing dominance for an audience of one. He’s turning the tools of Reconstruction-era resistance into the tactics of a twenty-first-century coup.
The Confederacy rebranded. It swapped gray uniforms for tactical beige, muskets for AR-15s, and “Lost Cause” mythology for Fox News sound bites. But its goal hasn’t changed. To keep power in the hands of those who think democracy is something to subdue, not defend.
So when Abbott sends his Guard across state lines, call it what it is. A dry run for the day, a governor decides state loyalty outweighs national law because that’s how democracies die, not with a bang, but with a deployment order signed in Texas.
Illinois is suing. Civil rights attorneys are drafting injunctions. The Pentagon is pretending this isn’t happening. The press, as usual, is searching for a both-sides headline to soften the word invasion. But there’s no neutral way to describe a governor marching troops into another state to serve a felon’s vendetta.
This is the line we swore we’d never cross, and Abbott just leapt over it.
If he gets away with it, every extremist governor in America will learn that you can turn your state guard into your private army, call it “protection,” and dare the courts to stop you. That’s the present tense of American decline.
Texans didn’t enlist to become Trump’s mercenaries. They signed up to defend the Constitution. And the Constitution needs defending right now from the men pretending to guard it while they dismantle it piece by piece.
Call it an invasion. Call it the opening act of a slow civil war if you must, but above all, call it what it is, a test. And the rest of us, from Austin to Chicago, had better start answering it.
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Abbott is using the Texas National Guard for yet another political stunt, but that isn't all he's doing. He's given them illegal orders to engage in law enforcement in another state, to support ICE that is engaged in illegal searches and seizures, violations of due process, using unneccessary force, in violaton of federal court orders to not deploy out of state National Guard troops into Democrat run cities. Every member of the Texas National Guard should resign as soon as possible to avoid being enmeshed in illegal deployments by a criminal governor.
We need Gina Hinojosa to declare her candidacy soon. We need a fighter.