How Trump can fix his endorsement problem



You might not know it by watching algorithmically approved conservative media, but we are in the thick of primary season, with important red-state primaries taking place nearly every Tuesday. In most states, the primary outcomes these weeks will be of greater consequence than the general election in November.

Sadly, special interest-supporting liberal Republicans will likely win most races — often thanks to Trump’s support. However, last week’s Indiana Senate elections demonstrated that it doesn’t have to be that way.

Trump has scared away quality challengers in every single congressional primary by reflexively endorsing incumbents.

Last week, we were entreated to what it looks like to finally have a unified and organized movement. A group of liberal Republicans in the Indiana Senate blocked a core party initiative; in this case, it was redistricting, and all but one target was defeated.

Thanks to Trump endorsements and support from Turning Point USA, the Club for Growth, and Indiana Sen. Jim Banks (R), six or seven state senators were defeated. Along with two more conservatives who won in open districts, a quarter of the entire Senate GOP conference shifted to the right, meaning they will likely have the votes to replace the Senate president.

This victory raises an obvious question: How come we don’t see united movements in other red states to replace entrenched groups of liberal Republicans who buck the party platform and betray their voters?

Instead, we often see Trump endorse those incumbents, who then attack the few conservatives we currently have in legislative chambers. If Trump would only endorse the way he did in Indiana, we’d change the party in one election cycle. Unfortunately, in almost every other primary, the president has been a net liability.

Even in Indiana, the president was something of a double-edged sword, as he successfully re-elected two Senate RINOs — Liz Brown and Ron Alting — simply because they voted for redistricting, but they were horrible on numerous other issues. Jim Banks himself opposed Alting because he was a champion of transgenderism and illegal aliens.

In Congress, both Reps. Jefferson Shreve (Ind. 6) and Jim Baird (Ind. 4) were vulnerable. Shreve only won his race by five points, which means Trump’s endorsement likely made a difference. Baird is one of the original sponsors of Florida Republican Rep. Maria Salazar’s amnesty bill.

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Looking ahead to Idaho’s upcoming primary, conservatives are outraged over a video surfacing from Gov. Brad Little (R) lambasting those who oppose illegal immigration. The Freedom Caucus in the state has tried to shut off illegal labor, but Little and his allies are not only blocking those bills, they are funding challengers against the conservatives.

Little has been a thorn in the side of conservatives for years and only received 60% in his re-election during the 2022 primary. It was well understood that he’d have a hard time running for a third term in 2026, but he preemptively secured Trump’s endorsement, which all but ensured that quality candidates like Attorney General Raul Labrador could not get into the race.

Numerous primaries have already been canceled because of Trump’s endorsements.

Before he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk had endorsed Nate Morris for Mitch McConnell’s Senate seat in Kentucky. Earlier this month, Trump endorsed establishment Rep. Andy Barr (R-Ky.), forcing Morris out of the race in exchange for an ambassadorship.

Meanwhile, Trump has scared away quality challengers in every single congressional primary by reflexively endorsing incumbents. The only incumbent he is trying to unseat is Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.). As a conservative, I have some disagreements with Massie on Hamas, Islam, crime, drugs, and immigration in general, but we all know that Trump singling him out has more to do with Massie’s dissent on the issues we do agree on.

Then, of course, there is Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, who just won yet another term thanks to a Trump endorsement. Conservatives complain bitterly about RINO senators wasting deep red states and undermining our ability to accomplish anything. Well, Capito is ground zero for this mismatch.

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In a state Trump won by 40 points, Capito is liberal on both fiscal and social issues and embodies the special interest and lack of heart, brain, and soul of the geriatric Senate GOP Conference that was led by Mitch McConnell.

Tom Willis, who was a state senator and Green Beret, was a viable challenger. Trump could have easily endorsed him and kept the seat in conservative hands, but he handed Capito another term. Capito also bankrolled a number of RINOs in the legislature who successfully fended off conservative challengers.

As conservatives scramble to push redistricting in southern states in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling, those who have slept through 10 years of Trump’s primary sabotage are surprised to find many RINOs in these supermajority Republican states who are recalcitrant to fully eliminate Democrat districts.

Tyler Bowyer, CEO of Turning Point Action, observed, “In deep red states like Indiana, Mississippi, Alabama — a large percentage of 'moderate republicans' are actually Democrats.”

The State Freedom Caucus Network has been valiantly fighting these people who have consistently been buttressed by Trump endorsements. The water is warm. It would be nice for conservative leaders with large followers or millions of dollars in PAC money to actually lead Trump rather than follow him and support the foot soldiers who are risking their livelihoods and careers to fight for the issues they post about.

'Circling the drain': California has become a warning to the nation



California once stood as the symbol of American innovation and unity — but today, it has become the warning sign for a nation in decline.

Harmeet Dhillon and BlazeTV host Nicole Shanahan both live in California, and while it remains one of the most aesthetically beautiful places to live, policy and unity-wise, it is anything but beautiful.

“Some younger folks may not remember the time when people would be giving speeches on the opposite sides of something in Congress, and then they would play basketball together afterwards,” Dhillon tells Shanahan.


“That doesn’t happen any more in D.C., and it doesn’t happen any more in Sacramento. I mean, Sacramento has become like the paradigm of, you know, just sclerotic inefficiency over there. It’s just a one-party state, with terrible results for the consumers because of that,” she continues.

“If we had a vibrant two-party state here, we would have some compromise, and we would have some solutions,” she says, noting that instead the state is just “circling the drain” and has become “unlivable here for most people.”

And despite the way Silicon Valley and other densely populated areas of California may vote, Dhillon points out that when “you look at the map, California is a red state.”

“There’s a thin slice of blue on the coast, where there’s a population overload, but most of the state ... you just drive an hour into the interior of our state, and there’s Trump signs everywhere, and there’s people working with their hands, and there’s people involved in their communities, and there’s nature, and there’s beauty,” she says.

“It is really two states in that sense. … But, you know, it’s sort of with self-interested line-drawing and the so-called independent commission, which isn’t independent. It really defines a ceiling for Republicans right now, until that system changes,” she continues.

“We’ve had Republican leaders in the state when the state was great, and I don’t think other states want to emulate California’s infrastructure, its schools, its, you know, health care system,” she says, adding, “We are not a paradigm of anything positive right now, and that should change.”

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A storm is brewing in Iowa — and Republicans should take note: 'There are danger signs'



In recent years, Republicans have enjoyed sweeping victories in the red state of Iowa, most recently with President Donald Trump's 13-point statewide victory in the 2024 presidential election. However, there are warning signs that this monumental lead is beginning to erode.

For the first time in three years, Democrats managed to break the Republicans' supermajority after Iowa Democrat Catelin Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch for an open state Senate seat on Tuesday. Drey won the district by a jaw-dropping 10 points, which is a dramatic departure from Trump's 11-point victory in the district back in November.

'If it can happen in Woodbury County, Iowa, this can happen anywhere in America.'

Steve Deace, a native Iowan and host of the "Steve Deace Show" on BlazeTV, cautioned that this shift is part of a growing political phenomenon in the Hawkeye State that poses a real threat to Republican leadership.

"This is not an isolated incident," Deace told Blaze News. "They have been doing this to us for several years now. If they can do it in Woodbury County, which Trump won by 23 points in 2024, then they can pretty much do it absolutely everywhere.”

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Normally, Republicans easily sail to victory in Western Iowa, Deace said. They could even nominate "a ham sandwich for Congress" and it would win because "there is no blue area in that part of the state." But now that Trump will no longer appear on the ballot, Republicans may have a tougher time.

"What we have seen as a trend line for the last several years now is that if Trump is not on the ballot, our people just don't turn out. That's just a fact."

After Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds announced she would not seek re-election, her imminent departure opened the playing field to a slew of candidates. Notably, Reynolds endorsed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida's presidential bid in 2023.

On the Democratic side, former Assistant Attorney General Rob Sand has pitched himself as a gun-toting moderate in an effort to capture some of the Republican vote. On the Republican side, Congressman Randy Feenstra has been considered the front-runner, but Deace says he "excites no one."

"This is just a complete indictment of the complacency of Republicans," Deace told Blaze News. "There's energy on the other side."

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One source familiar with Iowa's ongoing political battles told Blaze News that the GOP's inability to put forward an energizing candidate is the product of a perfect political storm.

Sand has focused much of his campaign on improving water quality and advocating against the CO2 pipeline projects, echoing the concerns of landowners and farmers. In doing so, Sand and other Democrats have made an effort to make Republicans synonymous with the pipeline, furthering the apparent divide between the GOP candidates and their constituents.

"There is a lot of grassroots to see [Feenstra] as the pipeline guy. ... There's just not excitement for candidates right now," the source told Blaze News.

"Our people are just not motivated, by and large, to vote for the Republican Party brand as a brand anymore," Deace told Blaze News. "And so you've got to prove to them you're worth their time and effort for them to show up. And I think that this is a wake-up call for the next midterm."

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The source, who was granted anonymity to speak freely about Iowa's political landscape, said the disconnect between the conservative base and the lackluster candidates is ultimately because of external influence in politics.

"There is a little fatigue," the source told Blaze News. "There are a lot of state senators and state reps who are very good, very conservative, if not the most conservative in the country overall. We're so conservative that the moderates that are in there get more conservative voting records because they just don't want to take the flak."

"But there's a money factor in play," the source added, speaking about lawmakers who ascend to national politics. "There's a reason a bunch of these guys don't want to go to D.C. They want to stay home. They got a farm to worry about."

“There are danger signs," Deace told Blaze News. "Because if it can happen in Woodbury County, Iowa, this can happen anywhere in America."

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'Red state privilege': MD Anderson’s quiet LGBTQ+ push in Texas



One of the world's premier cancer research hospitals, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, is hiding behind so-called "red state privilege," leaving the public in the dark about its ongoing support for LGBTQ issues.

Information and documents obtained by Blaze News from a whistleblower inside the hospital demonstrate MD Anderson's continuing LGBTQ-focused research and groups, even as its public-facing website appears to keep such promotion a secret. The whistleblower spoke with Blaze News on the condition of anonymity.

'It's good to be in a red state these days'

MD Anderson, a nonprofit that nevertheless receives some state funding as part of the University of Texas System, may keep its public support for LGBTQ issues rather muted with President Donald Trump back in the Oval Office, but its president, Dr. Peter Pisters, appears to believe the hospital can still participate in woke activism behind the scenes on account of its "red state privilege."

The whistleblower told Blaze News that it is "common knowledge" that Pisters, like other MD Anderson officials, is a "true believer" in woke causes and regularly discusses the hospital's "red state privilege" with top hospital executives, even though "he doesn't speak freely like that to the faculty."

By "red state privilege," Pisters generally means that MD Anderson can maintain most lines of federal funding and avoid serious scrutiny from the Trump administration about its woke policies and research interests because the state of Texas is generally perceived to be conservative, the whistleblower explained.

'The longer they get away with it, the more this continues.'

According to minutes from the Strategy Leaders Forum on June 6, Dr. Pisters assured forum attendees that the Trump administration "is not looking at MD Anderson since we are afforded red state privilege, as opposed to our colleagues at Harvard."

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Dr. David Vining, a professor of diagnostic radiology and the medical director of the Image Processing and Visualization laboratory, recalled Pisters making a similar remark during a "coffee talk" conversation back in early April.

"We will not know the repercussions of what's happening in DC until cuts come our way," Vining wrote in an email. "The potential loss in revenue could be staggering.

"He mentioned that they are working behind the scenes to lobby for the institution," Vining continued, seemingly referring to Pisters, "and that it's good to be in a red state these days."

The hospital did not respond to Blaze News' questions regarding Pisters or "red state privilege."

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Notably, the Trump administration has targeted medical schools such as Harvard that have allegedly engaged in anti-white discrimination and other institutions of higher education that have seemingly stoked the flames of anti-Americanism on their campuses. Trump has also issued an executive order prohibiting the "chemical and surgical mutilation" of children related to so-called "gender affirming care."

"Anderson is the crown jewel of the UT System. They exceed financial performance of every other UT institution by hundreds of millions of dollars. So nothing is done to upset the apple cart. And I would actually argue that they use that wealth to get whatever it is that they want," the whistleblower explained.

'Walk with MD Anderson colleagues in Houston's iconic Pride Parade.'

"They really are a paper tiger," the whistleblower added, referring to MD Anderson executives like Pisters. "... They just rely on the backing of the state to cover up whatever mistakes they've made. And that really is the heart of it.

"The longer they get away with it, the more this continues."

Inside MD Anderson

While corporate and municipal support for Pride Month was down considerably in 2025 in comparison with recent years, Pride Month 2025 celebrations were apparently in full swing at Inside MD Anderson, the hospital's internally facing online board.

"This year, MD Anderson's LGBTQ+ Employee Network has several opportunities for employees to participate in Pride Month both virtually and in-person. All employees are invited to participate," said one 2025 post reviewed by Blaze News.

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That Inside MD Anderson page, which also included an image of a transgender Pride flag, went on to list seven Pride-related events, culminating in the 2025 Pride Houston 365 LGBT+ Pride Celebration: Festival and Parade. "Walk with MD Anderson colleagues in Houston's iconic Pride Parade," an attending message said.

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According to another photo from Inside MD Anderson, seen here, the LGBTQ+ Employee Network at the hospital is a lively, active group that wore matching green T-shirts, proudly waved the rainbow flag, and hoisted an MD Anderson balloon adorned with rainbow trim during a recent Pride parade. The whistleblower claimed that the photo was from the 2025 parade, but Blaze News could not independently verify that claim.

Blaze News did review another photo at Inside MD Anderson dated 2022 in which parade participants from the hospital's LGBTQ+ network wore matching blue or purple T-shirts.

A post on the hospital's official Instagram account further claimed that MD Anderson sponsored the 2024 Pride parade. As of Wednesday, that post remains live.

'One of the most underreported stories in American politics is that the so-called Republican Texas government fully supports, funds, promotes, and forces taxpayers to subsidize DEI and transgender ideology.'

The LGBTQ+ Employee Network appears to be one of only a handful of organized intra-hospital staffing networks at MD Anderson. An apparently outdated webpage — available via internet search but not at the hospital website — about the similarly named LGBTQ+ Network at MD Anderson claims the group works to:

  • "ensure that sexual orientation and gender identity are not barriers to full participation in the professional and academic workplace,"
  • "present recommendations for increasing awareness and tolerance of LGBTQ+ issues," and
  • "foster a sense of community for LGBTQ+ employees."

The outdated webpage likewise promotes the 2019 and 2022 Pride parades in Houston.

Blaze News reached out to an email address for the LGBTQ+ Employee Network that, as of last week, was still available at Inside MD Anderson. We did not receive a response.

MD Anderson did provide a statement about the network, telling Blaze News, "The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has multiple employee networks, including an LGBT network, to provide opportunities for employees to feel connected with their colleagues. Participation in each network is voluntary and open to all employees regardless of whether they personally identify as a member of that group.

"Employee networks are for internal engagement and therefore are not referenced on our public-facing website," the hospital reiterated.

The hospital did not respond to a question about whether staff members in heterosexual relationships and traditional families enjoy similar support services. The hospital also did not clarify whether it provides any funding to the LGBT network.

Out in the open

While LGBTQ+-oriented photos and events are readily promoted at Inside MD Anderson, the public-facing website for the hospital is relatively quiet about LGBTQ-related issues. The "About MD Anderson" website page makes no overt reference to woke-related topics except to list "teamwork and inclusion" among its "core values."

A search of "pride parade" at the website yields only two results, both of them from 2019.

'This grant was canceled in March 2025 as part of the administration’s broader effort to remove gender ideology from federal programs and ensure that public health initiatives remain grounded in evidence-based science.'

In fact, most of its LGBTQ-related materials are years old. For example, a hospital website article from January 2023 cited Dr. Benjamin Schrank, a medical doctor as well as an assistant professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, who co-founded the Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Care & Research Committee at MD Anderson.

Schrank indicated at the time that LGBTQ+ patients had unique treatment needs because of their fears of substandard care or maltreatment, presumably from bigoted or insensitive medical staff.

"Ultimately, we want all patients to know MD Anderson is a safe place to seek care, and we want to give our patients the resources, support, and dignity they deserve," Schrank said, according to the article, which likewise mentioned Schrank's "husband."

Schrank did not respond to a request for comment from Blaze News.

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According to records from the Department of Health and Human Services, MD Anderson has also collected more than $1 million in federal grants for "sexual and gender minority cancer ... research and education" since 2019.

However, in keeping with Trump's promise to Make America Healthy Again and to end "gender ideology extremism," his second administration seems to have cut this line of so-called SGM research funding for MD Anderson.

In a statement to Blaze News, the Department of Health and Human Services said: "This grant was canceled in March 2025 as part of the administration’s broader effort to remove gender ideology from federal programs and ensure that public health initiatives remain grounded in evidence-based science and the best interests of all Americans.

"HHS remains fully committed to advancing rigorous, high-quality cancer research."

MD Anderson did not clarify to Blaze News whether its Sexual and Gender Minority Cancer Care & Research Committee still exists or whether the hospital is still receiving any federal grant money for SGM-related research. It also did not confirm whether it recognizes any juvenile patients as "trans" or SGM.

Instead, the hospital said only that "the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is committed to providing high-quality and safe care to cancer patients" and that it "complies with state and federal laws, including Texas Education Code § 51.3525."

That particular statute regulates institutions of higher education and strictly forbids them to establish policies or infrastructure related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Failure to comply can result in the loss of state funding.

Earlier this year, state Rep. Brian Harrison (R-Midlothian) introduced the Defunding Indoctrination in Education Act, which seeks to ban institutions of higher education in Texas from "offering programs or courses in LGBTQ or DEI studies." Harrison then refiled it during the special legislative session that began earlier this month, though Gov. Greg Abbott (R) must first add it to the agenda before the legislature can consider it.

Harrison told Blaze News that the ongoing shadowy LGBTQ push at MD Anderson would likely qualify as the kind of propaganda the DIE Act is trying to prevent. "I have no problem believing it's happening [at MD Anderson] because I'm seeing it happen all over the place with DEI or transgender ideology, people just changing the names of it and continuing to fund it at taxpayer expense," he said, characterizing such deception as "taxpayer abuse."

Though Harrison stopped short of agreeing that woke activists in Texas enjoy "red state privilege," he did tell Blaze News that for years Texas has "just been simply coasting on [its] reputation" of conservative values and limited government, a reputation he called a "myth."

"One of the most underreported stories in American politics is that the so-called Republican Texas government fully supports, funds, promotes, and forces taxpayers to subsidize DEI and transgender ideology," he claimed.

Abbott's office did not respond to Blaze News' question about adding the DIE Act to the special session agenda.

A 'very liberal' hospital

MD Anderson annually receives more than $100 million from the National Institutes of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services, so the recent cessation of the "sexual and gender minority cancer ... research and education" grant, which brought in less than $300,000 a year, should not have a major impact on the important research and treatment that the hospital conducts in the fight against cancer.

But the whistleblower indicated to Blaze News that leaders at MD Anderson are generally "very liberal" and push leftist politics, including those regarding LGBTQ, at the hospital.

For instance, the whistleblower revealed that the hospital's internal email system includes a group called the SURG Gender Inclusiveness Committee, though it's unclear whether the committee has ever met or engaged in any meaningful advocacy at the hospital. The whistleblower confirmed to Blaze News that "SURG" is short for "surgery."

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The hospital has also recently promoted ongoing "sexual and gender minority"-based cancer research. As recently as last September, the hospital offered a "Sexual and Gender Minorities in Cancer Research" professional development event.

Shine Chang, the leader of and contact for the recently canceled SGM grant project at the NIH, was listed as a "co-activity director" for the event.

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According to her biographical information on the MD Anderson website, Chang, a member of the Department of Health Disparities Research faculty, is deeply invested in woke medicine. Her research interests include:

  • establishing an "LGBTQIA+ cancer research" workforce,
  • examining "systemic bias and systems thinking in health science,"
  • understanding the role that "financial toxicity" and other factors play in cancer outcomes,
  • studying "cancer disparities across multiple demographic factors," and
  • "developing culturally and geographically specific cancer prevention curricula."

'Spearheading blood or stem cell drives that invite and welcome LGBTQ peoples to participate as donors.'

Yet another hospital researcher, hematologist Warren Fingrut, sent a blast email to the Graduate Medical Education program in May 2025, less than three months ago, seeking prospective trainees for "projects to engage LGBTQ peoples to healthcare." Fingrut even expressed interest in "spearheading blood or stem cell drives that invite and welcome LGBTQ peoples to participate as donors."

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Fingrut and Chang did not respond to requests for comment. The hospital also did not respond to questions about transgenderism and whether men can become women or vice versa.

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Texas AG lays out 3 options for cowardly Democrats who fled redistricting vote



In a bold move, some Texas Democratic state representatives have fled the state in order to block a vote on a congressional map that would redraw Texas voting districts to create five more areas likely to elect Republicans. Despite Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott's threats of arrests and removal from office, all but two Democrats have remained in other states, specifically Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts, claiming that the redistricting vote is full of Republican gerrymandering.

To find out what can be done about the Texas Democrats' refusal to return for the redistricting vote, Glenn Beck invited Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) to “The Glenn Beck Program.”


“It's pretty ironic that they're going to Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts – three of the most liberal states and some of the most gerrymandered states in the country,” says Paxton.

His preference would have been for Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows (R) to “shut the doors” and force a vote. “Once the doors are locked, you can't get out, and you spend the night there, and you vote,” Paxton tells Glenn.

But now that that ship has sailed, Texas is forced to choose from inferior options.

Option one is “arrest them,” but this poses complications as Texas is “not going to get help from jurisdictions like Illinois [or] Boston.”

“So arresting them is not a likely scenario until they come back,” says Paxton.

Option two, which Paxton says has proved successful in the past, is to “[wait] them out.”

“Ultimately, many of them have to come back. They have jobs, they have families. They're not going to live in Illinois,” he says.

“So they come back, and we vote, and every time we've ultimately been successful.”

Option three is to employ something called quo warranto, which is a legal action used to challenge someone's right to hold a public office or position.

“It might be a way to take existing members out of their positions if they fail to show up to perform their duties,” says Paxton.

“[If] you take them out of the positions ... then there has to be a special election, so you can't go right to vote, right?” asks Glenn.

Paxton confirms that this would likely delay voting, as the quorum – the minimum number of people needed to be present for a vote to take place – would change.

There’s a chance Gov. Abbott, however, could make special appointments to fill the vacant seats until a special election is arranged, says Paxton.

“It's definitely not a fast process, although we're trying to figure out a way to fast-track it,” he tells Glenn.

“Either way, in the end, we know how this is going to turn out because Governor Abbott is not going to back down, and he'll just keep calling them back until they show up.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the full interview above.

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The Republican Party won’t be saved by excuses



Texas conservatives have long trusted the Republican Party to stand firm on core values: secure borders, parental rights, the Second Amendment, and limited government. We’ve delivered them power in Austin. But too many GOP lawmakers now serve corporate donors and media elites — not the grassroots conservatives who put them in office.

Texas may be a red state, but the last legislative session told a different story. Thirty-six Republican state lawmakers joined Democrats on critical votes that gutted conservative priorities. They campaign as fighters and govern as cowards — folding at the first whiff of media pressure or lobbyist resistance. That’s not leadership. That’s betrayal.

When Texas Republicans falter, they don’t just fail their state — they fail the country.

Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star generates headlines, but the border remains wide open. Despite the efforts of the Trump administration, cartels continue to move drugs and people freely across Texas soil. Ranchers continue to live in fear. Families bury loved ones lost to fentanyl. Texans demand action, but Austin delivers press releases.

Yes, regardless of the federal government’s efforts — and the Trump administration is certainly a refreshing change from Joe Biden —Texas has the constitutional authority to act. Where’s the declaration of invasion? Where’s the full mobilization? Leadership doesn’t mean deploying troops for photo ops. It means taking responsibility and enforcing the law.

It isn’t ‘culture war nonsense’

Parents across Texas want transparency. They want to know what their kids are learning, reading, and hearing in school — especially on issues of sex and gender. Some lawmakers have stepped up. Too many haven’t. They call it “culture war nonsense” while siding with school boards and bureaucrats who treat parents as threats.

Legislators who can’t stop minors from receiving irreversible medical procedures without parental consent don’t belong in conservative office. That’s not compromise. That’s surrender.

Don’t dismiss the Second Amendment

After every shooting, moderate Republicans float “reasonable restrictions.” But the Constitution doesn’t hedge. It says “shall not be infringed.”

Texans don’t want red-flag laws. They want their rights respected. When figures like Rep. Dan Crenshaw entertain policies that chip away at due process, they don’t look pragmatic. They look weak. If you won’t defend gun rights without apology, step aside.

Meme bills and muzzled dissent

Texas Republicans now flirt with speech regulation. One bill would have required registration for anonymous political memes — all in the name of fighting “disinformation.” That’s not governance. That’s control.

Conservatives believe in protecting anonymous speech because we remember what it’s for: dissent. Critique. Satire. These aren’t bugs in the system — they’re essential features. If Austin lawmakers wants to mirror D.C.'s, voters will start treating them the same way.

Contempt for the base

The real issue isn’t just policy. It’s culture. The GOP establishment in Austin feels more at home with lobbyists than with the voters who knock doors and fund their campaigns. Primary challengers get dismissed as “fringe,” even as the grassroots base grows louder — and angrier.

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Calls for term limits are rising. The appetite for bold reform is real. If Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) can deliver conservative wins in Florida, why can’t Texas? Why are we still making excuses?

This isn’t just about Texas

Texas shapes the national Republican Party. It drives presidential races and defines what the GOP stands for. When Texas Republicans falter, they don’t just fail their state — they fail the country.

As state Rep. Brian Harrison has shown, the last legislative session exposed serious cracks in the GOP foundation. Conservatives must respond: organize locally, show up at the Capitol, primary the cowards. An “R” isn’t a free pass. If you govern like a Democrat, expect to be treated like one.

Secure the border. Empower parents. Protect the Second Amendment. Defend free speech. Or get out of the way.

Texas doesn’t need more Republicans. It needs better ones.

What if Harris gets away with it?



On Nov. 5, the American experiment in republican government may well come to an end. Over the past two decades, we have been living through a slow-motion communist revolution. Acts of political warfare have become commonplace. The most devastating has been the corruption of our election system.

Having vilified Donald Trump more than any man in American history, the American communists and their allies in the Democratic Party (and the communist world abroad) may well be able to steal the 2024 election. One thing needs to be made clear: If this happens, they will have created an ungovernable country.

We may well be in for the kind of murder, mayhem, and sabotage that the American left has so brazenly embraced.

I have two kinds of colleagues: those who believe it is going to be a wave election and therefore a blowout for President Trump; and those who believe the election can be stolen, given the massive cyber vulnerability of our electronic voting system and the refusal of blue-state governors and secretaries of state to build a transparent, same-day voting system. At this stage of the game, I believe it will be a blowout win for President Trump. But I realize that it may well be stolen for reasons I describe in my American Mind essay “The Diminishing Likelihood of a Fair Election.”

The RealClearPolitics average of polls has Donald Trump either up or tied in the seven swing states. Very few if any undecided voters remain at this point. In these polls, Trump has historically “underperformed,” as the pollsters say. This means that a two-point lead by President Trump is likely a four- or five-point lead. Perhaps more telling are the right track-wrong track polls that ask Americans whether or not the country is headed in the right direction. As of October 29, only 27% of the American people believe the country is on the right track.

This is historically low. Never has an incumbent vice president won an election for president with these numbers. That 27% is obviously the Democratic base: hard-core progressives, communists, abortionists, and transgenderists. Only they could believe the country is on the right track. Simple math would suggest that even much of the traditional Democratic Party base believes the country is not going in ways that are conducive to the happiness and welfare of the American people.

Yes, but we are told that Donald Trump is a racist, sexist beast virtually indistinguishable from Adolf Hitler. How can this man win?

This caricature, however effective it may have been in 2016 and 2020, has lost its effectiveness in 2024. The first Trump administration was not an exercise in the exploitation of blacks, Hispanics, and other minorities. It ushered in economic good times for these groups, who enjoyed greater prosperity and freedom than at any other time in the history of the United States. Their lived experience demonstrated to them that President Trump saw them not as a problem but rather as an integral part of American society and economic life. Charges of racism, ridiculous on their face, have grown meaningless to everyday Americans.

Deep state on defense

Then there is the matter of Kamala Harris.

Harris was an obscure vice president, previously unpopular even among the Democratic Party base. Her public performances are nothing short of bizarre, ranging from frenetic to what can only be described as addled, possibly by drugs or alcohol.

She is not, in short, running a credible campaign. Even within left-wing popular culture, she comes off as little more than a joke. Does anyone believe that if President Biden had dropped out of the race last year and there had been a competitive primary season, Kamala Harris would today be the nominee of the Democratic Party? She would likely have done little better than she did in 2020. The country is quite alive to this fact.

So the question “What if Kamala wins?” must be answered in light of the fact that she should not win by any conventional understanding of polls and public opinion.

But will Harris win? A substantial number of serious people believe that the 2024 election can indeed be stolen. Very little has changed in the seven swing states that decided the 2020 election. If anything remains obvious, it is that there are substantial numbers of deep-state operatives within the Biden administration who know that if President Trump is elected, they will most certainly face investigation — and for those who have committed crimes, prosecution.

Violence is not an option. But a political disintegration of red America from blue America is not impossible.

The accusation that a second Trump administration would more broadly investigate journalists and purveyors of popular broadcast media is of course absurd. To the contrary, Trump would enjoy their collective misery as they watched him Make America Great Again.

But there are people within the intelligence community and the Department of Justice who crossed all manner of lines in their treatment of President Trump and his allies such as Steve Bannon (just released from prison). Likewise, the Secret Service’s failures to protect Trump this summer constitute an astonishing stain upon this republic.

So a large number of powerful people within our government have a vested interest in seeing Trump lose. For all of FBI Director Christopher Wray’s warnings of Russian and Chinese influence operations in the election, one doubts that a finger will be lifted to stop either country, or their surrogates within the drug cartels and dark money groups, from working to alter the results of the election.

A looming legitimacy crisis

Clearly our American oligarchs on Wall Street, in Hollywood, and in Silicon Valley have decided that Kamala Harris is not their cup of tea. Witness the fact that the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and USA Today did not endorse Kamala Harris. But they may not have a say if nation-state actors or dark money groups genuinely want Trump defeated. Our system is not designed to stop determined adversaries of a free and fair election.

So if Kamala Harris does win, it will, as of today, be the result of a stolen election. Under these circumstances, America will become an ungovernable country. Large groups of Americans will believe their vote no longer counts. We have the experience this summer of Venezuela, where it was clear that the opposition party won — so said the Biden administration — only to have the Maduro regime keep hold of power by affirming the fraudulent results and gutting it out publicly against domestic and world opinion. One imagines the Harris campaign learned a lesson from that.

For four years, the Biden-Harris administration has attempted to bolster its shaky legitimacy through the manipulation of economic data and crime statistics. Despite ludicrous claims to the contrary, everyday Americans are not better off — as that 27% “right track” figure clearly shows.

Regardless of who wins, Americans must prepare themselves and their families for what could be great societal dislocation.

Imagine another administration suffering not merely from a lack of but from a crisis in legitimacy. Americans in large numbers will believe they have had their country stolen from them and may choose no longer to participate in the body politic. Given the lack of transparency within our election system, this type of attitude by Americans would be likely to persist even if Harris did win a completely fair election.

This is a worst-case scenario, but certainly possible under the circumstances. Americans can be a very rough lot of people when they want to be. You can rig one election before their eyes, but can you rig two? And can you rig the second one so openly and brazenly and expect that the American people will not push back? How they push back is another matter, but it would serve the interest of America’s enemies to face a nation even more deeply divided than ours already is. Violence is not an option. But a political disintegration of red America from blue America is not impossible.

Elon Musk to the rescue?

I have three key recommendations, most of which rely on Elon Musk, who has the resources and platform to make them a reality.

First, establish a whistleblower program that offers a multimillion-dollar reward for concrete evidence of nation-state-level efforts to tamper with the election, whether through counterfeit mail-in ballots, fraudulent Election Day ballots, overseas ballots, or cyberattacks on our electronic voting system. While electronic voting companies may have good intentions, dismissing the possibility of cyber manipulation is naïve. Any computer-based system carries some potential for exploitation. A large-scale whistleblower program could help uncover the truth if such interference is occurring.

Second, Musk could launch a “Decision Desk 2024” on X, both in Spaces and on the “America” video platform. We shouldn’t leave the announcement of election results solely to the legacy broadcast media, as if they hold some divine authority. Mainstream outlets — from Fox News to MSNBC, ABC, NBC, and CBS — have become propaganda arms of the American deep state. By doing so, they’ve disqualified themselves from an objective role.

Elon Musk can build a team of respected journalists and analysts to perform their own calculations and judgments about who won the election. He and his platform have a greater reach both nationally and internationally than the “mainstream” media. Imagine Elon Musk with Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the like examining the results. Not only would they be better trusted, but the democratization of the results by all the users of X would serve the American people better as well.

Finally, regardless of who wins, Americans must prepare themselves and their families for what could be great societal dislocation. We cannot ignore the potential, in the days and weeks after the election, for violence fueled by American communists, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, pro-Palestinian jihadists, and the 100,000 Chinese Special Forces who may have come over our open borders over the last three and a half years. We may well be in for the kind of murder, mayhem, and sabotage that the American left has so brazenly embraced.

We may also see China, Iran, and Russia take advantage of this situation by making moves on Taiwan, Israel, and Ukraine during America’s interruption of leadership and civil unrest. In other words, Americans must be prepared.

It is my sincere hope that Kamala Harris will concede on election night after she has lost. I pray for the country if she lets the counting continue for days and weeks on end and nefarious behavior ensues. That may yet be in the cards, but the country does not deserve it.

Let us pray to God instead that the decency of the American people prevails and that there can be a peaceful transfer of power after a sufficiently fair election.

Editor’s note: A version of this article appeared originally at the American Mind.

Trump leads Harris in state Democrats have won for over 2 decades



Former President Donald Trump has pulled ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris in New Hampshire, according to a New Hampshire Journal/Praecones Analytica poll released Sunday. The last time a Republican presidential candidate won New Hampshire was over two decades ago, when George W. Bush was running in 2000.

Trump has managed to gain momentum in the longtime blue state, polling at 50.2% while Harris trails at 49.8%, according to the poll. Although Trump's lead is slim, this poll may sound the alarm for Democrats who have otherwise dominated the state in seven of the last eight presidential elections.

'She's on defense and knows President Trump is on the path to victory.'

Trump previously lost the state to President Joe Biden in 2020 by 7.3% and to Hillary Clinton in 2016 by 0.3%. In 2012 and 2008, former President Barack Obama won the state by 5.6% and 9.6%, respectively.

"There's a reason Kamala Harris has been spending money in New Hampshire," Karoline Leavitt, a Trump campaign spokeswoman and New Hampshire native, told the New Hampshire Journal. "She's on defense and knows President Trump is on the path to victory."

Nearly half of adults in New Hampshire, 44%, self-identify as Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters, while just 35% self-identify as Republican or Republican-leaning and 20% self-identify as having no partisan leaning, according to a Pew Research study. Despite having more Democratic-leaning voters, Trump is pulling ahead of Harris, likely due to a growing favorability among independents.

"To my fellow Granite Staters who want to keep our beautiful state safe, business-friendly, and free — get out and vote for President Trump," Leavitt told the New Hampshire Journal. "Kamala is a radical liberal who would destroy New Hampshire and America forever."

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The real reason liberals suddenly want to ‘build the wall’



Liberals have historically been against building a wall, but it seems they’re suddenly singing a different tune.

Dave Rubin has noticed the shift in perspective.

“Do you sense that a lot of people are on that wake-up thing?" Rubin asks Emily Austin, adding, “There’s a lot of Jews like that in Long Island, and they’re just like finally, ‘Okay, maybe we should have guns, maybe we shouldn’t vote for Democrats, maybe we shouldn’t have open borders.”

As a native of New York, Austin has noticed it too.

“Remember when ‘build a wall’ was racist? And now, everyone’s like, 'Can we build this damn wall?'” Austin says to Rubin, adding, “It’s not about excluding others, like, they shift the narrative too much. It’s about protecting ourselves.”

As illegal immigrants begin to flood liberal hotspots like New York City, the idea of protecting themselves overshadows the narrative that they must help everyone in need.

“It’s not as racist and excluding as people want it to be, and I think people are starting to realize that because of their own selfish interest, because now it’s your house getting robbed, it’s your daughter being harassed on the street,” Austin says.

“Once it applies to you, you care. It’s easy to speak when you have no skin in the game,” she adds.

Before Governor Abbott of Texas began bussing migrants to California, California was looking down on Abbott as racist for not wanting an open border. But now, they’re begging him to stop sending illegals their way.

“I think people unfortunately only open their eyes once it’s reached an insane point of craziness,” Austin tells Rubin.


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Retired player suggests racist idea to 'fix' the NBA



Retired NBA player Gilbert Arenas has a solution to fix the NBA’s lack of defense — and it involves racism.

“I know what they can do. Get rid of all the Europeans,” Arenas said on his podcast, "Gils Arena."

“They have no athleticism, right? They have no speed, no jumping ability, they are a liability on defense.”

“They didn’t soften the rules for the Americans, they softened the rules to open it up international,” Arenas continued, adding, “This is not our league, this is not the American South, this is the Euro style.”

Steve Kim believes Arenas has unwittingly gone “MAGA.”

He notes that it’s basically the same thing as “the replacement theory” since “he’s blaming the immigrants.”

Whitlock agrees, seeing Arenas’ take as fairly racist and full of misinformation, but he does admit there are “tiny kernels of truth there.”

“Tiny kernels of truth in terms of the NBA wanted to extend its international reach. That was their whole big plan for ‘we’re going to overtake the NFL, we’re going to be the international game, they’re going to love us in China, they’re going to love us here,’” Whitlock explains, adding that the NBA is suffering “the consequences of globalism.”

“Now, the chickens are coming home to roost, and it’s not an American game,” he adds.

To hear more, watch the clip below.


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