Monthly Archives: April 2026

After Callais

Callais > Redistricting > Messaging: The Chain That Secures the Long Game The Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais is not some isolated procedural win. It is the root. Aggressive redistricting is the multiplier. Unapologetic messaging (anchored in the economy we delivered through OBBBA and the must-pass wildcard of the SAVE America Act) is the payoff. Get this chain right and we do not merely hold the House in a tough midterm environment. We build the structural dominance that carries the long game: enforcing the filibuster, restoring federalism, and ultimately repealing the 17th Amendment so senators answer to state…

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The COVID Fracture

The Pandemic Policies That Tore America Apart In 2020 and 2021, our suburban streets emptied. Playgrounds sat silent. School parking lots became ghost towns while kids stared at screens. Neighbors glared at each other over masks in grocery stores. Families split at dinner tables over vaccines. Old friendships ended with the question “Are you vaxxed?” What began as a response to a virus became one of the most divisive events in modern American history. It turned neighbors, families, and communities against each other far more than the virus itself. The root causes were panic-driven centralization of power and the suppression of…

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Long March Consequences

The Manifesto That Wasn’t Original: Elite Rhetoric Meets Its Own Predictable Output There’s nothing in Cole Allen’s manifesto that hasn’t been said and repeated by elected Democrats and mainstream media figures for years. On Saturday night, a Caltech-educated teacher and game developer walked into the Washington Hilton with a shotgun, handgun, and knives. He checked in the day before. He had a manifesto ready. Minutes before the attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he sent it to family. In it, he called President Trump a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor,” declared attendees complicit simply for being there, and justified lethal action…

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Divided Among Ourselves

How Mass Immigration Fractures Native American Solidarity and Why a Complete Pause Can Restore It I live in Plano, Texas. The changes I described yesterday (the mosques, the layered languages in the parks, the shifting rhythms of daily suburban life) are not abstract. They have done something deeper and more insidious than simply altering the face of my hometown. They have fractured us, the native-born Americans who built these neighborhoods, these schools, these parks. Neighbors who once shared the same unspoken assumptions about backyard barbecues, English-default conversations, and a common Texas cadence now eye one another warily across the street. Parents…

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The Incompatibility Warning

Britain's Demographic Suicide Is Coming Here Unless We Act Now I wrote my last column from the front porch of the suburban Texas life I grew up in. I looked out at the same streets I played on as a kid and watched mosques rise where churches and community centers once stood. I heard conversations in parks where English used to be the default. I saw kids struggling to find common ground because their parents come from worlds that never shared one. And I said plainly: I don’t want my country to become a shithole country. I don’t want what’s happening…

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Restore the American Melting Pot

The Unrecognizable Hometown: How Hart-Celler Killed the Melting Pot and How to Bring It Back I live in Plano, Texas. Less than a mile from my house stand two mosques that have quietly reshaped the rhythm of daily life in what used to be a classic suburban neighborhood of wide streets, backyard barbecues, and kids riding bikes until the streetlights came on. Parks where my neighbors once spoke English as the default language now echo with multiple foreign tongues: Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, and others I can’t always place. Children struggle to make simple friends because the common ground has narrowed; casual…

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The Machiavellian Nonprofit

Funding the Hate It Professes to Fight: And Why Marc Andreessen Is Asking the Right Question A federal indictment has exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly doing the unthinkable: using donor money to secretly sustain the very extremist groups it built a fortune warning the public about. Over $3 million routed through sham entities between 2014 and 2023. One paid asset, identified only as F-37, received more than $270,000 while embedded in the online leadership chat planning the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. He attended at the SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under its supervision, and helped…

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Beyond the “Independent Commissions” Soundbite

How Democrats’ Redistricting Bill Codifies Race-Conscious Gerrymandering If you've been following the endless cable chatter or social media loops about congressional redistricting, you've almost certainly heard the polished Democratic soundbite: "Republicans voted against independent commissions to end partisan gerrymandering." It's clean, it's simple, and it requires no further explanation. It paints opponents as defenders of rigged maps and self-interested power-grabs. For many well-meaning citizens who want fair elections, that line lands like common sense. Who could possibly be against "independent" commissions and an end to gerrymandering? But as a constitutional scholar who's studied every redistricting battle for over two decades, through…

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Redistricting Power Politics

On Deadly Ground: Why Virginia Democrats Just Rewrote the Map Sun Tzu said: “When on surrounded ground, plot. When on deadly ground, fight.” We are on politically deadly ground in America. The old norms of “fair” redistricting and waiting for the decennial census have been trashed. Both parties understand the new reality: whoever controls the legislature, the governorship, and (when needed) the constitutional amendment process gets to draw the lines that determine who holds power in Congress. Virginia Democrats just demonstrated they grasp this better than many Republicans. The Birth of the Gerrymander The term “gerrymander” was born in 1812 in…

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The Battle of San Jacinto, 190 Years On

18 Minutes That Changed History Imagine the muggy afternoon of April 21, 1836, along the banks of the San Jacinto River. Tall grass swayed in the breeze as nearly 900 Texian soldiers, many still raw volunteers, silently prepared for battle. Across a short stretch of prairie, Santa Anna’s army of about 1,400 rested in camp, confident that the fleeing Texans posed no immediate threat. Then, at 4:30 p.m., the order came: “Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!” In just 18 furious minutes, the Texas Revolution would be won. This is the story of San Jacinto, the stunning victory that secured Texas independence…

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