Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a Kingwood Tea Party event. Credit: Instagram / governorabbott
A new online boycott is betting that if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tunes out the complaints of other states’ residents, he’ll listen to his own state’s biggest corporate citizens.
The boycott asks those angry about the Republican governor’s controversial deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois and Oregon to boycott Lone Star State-based corporations such as American Airlines, Tesla and San Antonio-based USAA.
“GOOD LUCK with your next quarterly report,” reads a statement posted to subreddit r/BoycottTheRight. “To ANY other state that may want to do the same by sending your armed troops to a state that explicitly asks you not to, expect the same fate.”
Details of the boycott are circulating after the Trump administration attempted to deploy the National Guard to Illinois and Oregon with the blessing of Abbott, a MAGA adherent.
The deployments received serious pushback from residents of those states and from Democratic leaders, who argue Trump is using them to stage an authoritarian crackdown on blue states.
While Abbott has tried to justify approving the troop deployment as an effort to “safeguard” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, Saturday’s court decision noted that the White House had failed to show convincing evidence that “civil power has failed” in the state.
“Donald Trump is not a king — and his administration is not above the law,” Pritzker tweeted in response to Saturday’s court ruling. “Today, the court confirmed what we all know: there is no credible evidence of a rebellion in the state of Illinois. And no place for the National Guard in the streets of American cities like Chicago.”
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This article appears in Oct. 2-15.