{"id":300438,"date":"2025-10-13T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300438\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T17:16:13","slug":"online-boycott-targets-texas-based-companies-over-gov-abbotts-national-guard-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300438\/","title":{"rendered":"Online boycott targets Texas-based companies over Gov. Abbott’s National Guard deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Gov.Gov. Greg Abbott speaks at a Kingwood Tea Party event. Credit: Instagram \/ governorabbott<\/p>\n

A new online boycott is betting that if Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tunes out the complaints of other states\u2019 residents, he\u2019ll listen to his own state\u2019s biggest corporate citizens. <\/p>\n

The boycott asks those angry about the Republican governor\u2019s 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. <\/p>\n

\u201cGOOD LUCK with your next quarterly report,\u201d reads a statement posted to subreddit r\/BoycottTheRight. \u201cTo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

The deployments received serious pushback<\/a> from residents of those states and from Democratic leaders, who argue Trump is using them to stage an authoritarian crackdown on blue states. <\/p>\n

While Abbott has tried to justify approving the troop deployment as an effort to \u201csafeguard\u201d U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, Saturday\u2019s court decision noted that the White House had failed to show convincing evidence that \u201ccivil power has failed\u201d in the state. <\/p>\n

\u201cDonald Trump is not a king \u2014 and his administration is not above the law,\u201d Pritzker tweeted in response<\/a> to Saturday\u2019s court ruling. \u201cToday, 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tTexas Gov. Greg Abbott claimed the deployment was needed to \u2018safeguard\u2019 federal immigration officials. \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\u2018The governor of Texas should be worrying about Texas,\u2019 Mayor Brandon Johnson said. \u2018Why he all up in my business?\u2019\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Texas National Guard, no stranger to being deployed for immigration enforcement, is in the Midwest to \u2018safeguard\u2019 ICE officers.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

This article appears in Oct. 2-15<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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