All in the Game

A Second Chance at Freedom

Elián González Faces Freedom’s Ultimate Test Cuba went dark on March 16. The whole grid collapsed. Eleven million people in total blackness: no lights, no refrigeration, food spoiling, hospitals on the edge, fuel gone. This isn’t another rolling blackout. This is the system breaking. Protesters aren’t waving signs anymore. They’re storming Communist Party headquarters in Morón, ransacking offices, torching furniture and Castro relics in the streets, chanting “¡Abajo el comunismo!” and “¡Libertad!” Flames lit up the night while regime forces panicked. Videos show what looks like gunfire in response. The people have had enough. For those of us who’ve followed this…

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Brute Force Smashmouth Politics

Make Their Shame Visible “I myself will lift up your skirts over your face, and your shame will be seen.” (Jeremiah 13:26 ESV) Read that again. God isn’t asking politely. He isn’t negotiating. He is declaring judgment on a people who forgot Him, chased after idols, trusted in lies, and lived in spiritual adultery. The image is brutal on purpose: skirts lifted over the face, naked shame exposed for all to see. No covering. No excuses. No quiet retreat into the shadows. That is exactly where we are with Senate Democrats right now. We are in the largest U.S. military engagement…

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Flaming Pissed and Ready to Fight

Start the Talking Filibuster on the SAVE America Act or Lose the Midterms They're right. Pass the SAVE America Act or lose the majorities in both houses. That's a fact. The base is flaming pissed at being gaslit by our own leadership. This is me looking at you, @LeaderJohnThune and @JohnCornyn https://t.co/xZEmz273tt— James K Bishop (@James_K_Bishop) March 9, 2026 That was my post yesterday, and nothing since has changed my mind. David Marcus gets the pulse of the street better than most. In his Fox News column, “Passing the Save America Act to save Cornyn is a fair deal,” he reports…

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Fisking French

David French’s “MAGA” Smear Proves He Doesn’t Know Texas A 25-year Texas politico reads the latest New York Times lecture on Christian character, and finds the same old outsider blind spot. I’ve been active in Texas politics for more than a quarter century: knocking on doors, phone banking, running precincts, serving as a Presiding Election Judge, and watching this state transform from a purple battleground into the solid red powerhouse that keeps delivering Republican supermajorities. So when David French, the Connecticut-based New York Times columnist, parachutes in with his Sunday piece “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” I recognize the familiar…

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Iron Sharpens Iron

Texas Republican Primary Voters Will Choose Our Senate Nominee Texas Republican primary voters will choose our Senate nominee, not even a President we admire and support. That principle was underscored this morning (March 5, 2026) when President Trump, in a phone interview with POLITICO, leaned toward endorsing Sen. John Cornyn over Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP Senate runoff set for May 26. Trump called Paxton's public stance against dropping out “bad for him,” hinted it might push him “the other direction,” and said an endorsement is coming “pretty soon.” He added he would ask the non-endorsed candidate to…

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Why Talarico Won’t Win Texas

The Preacher Candidate Texas Evangelicals Will Reject in November Calm down, panicans. The national press and the Democratic donor class are already treating James Talarico’s Senate nomination like the second coming of Beto 2.0. Slow your roll. This race is not competitive, it’s not close, and it’s definitely not the “blue wave” moment some folks are hallucinating. Talarico is a preacher candidate selling a version of Christianity that most Texas believers will recognize as straight heresy — and that alone dooms him before the first general-election ad even airs. Let’s start with the theology, because that’s the brand he’s running on.…

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Talking the SAVE America Act Into Law

There's a Way Forward But Does Senate GOP Have the Will? Senate Majority Leader John Thune has a point when he calls floor time the coin of the realm. Every hour spent grinding through quorum calls, dilatory amendments, and endless debate is an hour not spent on confirmations, funding bills, or the next must-pass item on the calendar. It's the same scarcity that once let Al Gore extract promises of a clean vote on the 1991 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in exchange for his support. Thune's caution is real: reviving a true talking filibuster on the SAVE…

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Eyes on Ossoff

The Legacy Media Misses the 2026 Pressure Cooker Late last month, the FBI executed a search warrant at Fulton County's election hub, hauling off some 700 boxes of 2020 ballots and records. It's all under the guise of probing old irregularities in Georgia's 2020 presidential and Senate races. But while the legacy media spins this as Donald Trump's endless "obsession" with relitigating 2020, they're missing the real storm brewing. The overlooked story here is the forward-looking political pressure piling up on Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) ahead of his 2026 re-election. This pressure casts a long shadow on his legitimacy and could…

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Let Democrats Cook

The Looming Democrat Shutdown Blunder Republicans Should Let Them Own Folks, we're staring down the barrel of another partial government shutdown this weekend, with the January 30-31 deadline looming like a Texas thunderstorm. Democrats in the Senate are digging in their heels, threatening to withhold the 60 votes needed to pass the DHS appropriations bill unless Republicans cave on so-called "reforms" to ICE-like requiring judicial warrants for arrests and detentions. It's all tied to the recent uproar over ICE and CBP actions, including that tragic shootings in Minneapolis. But let's call this what it is: political theater at its worst, and…

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No Backdoor Amnesty

The Amnesty Gateway in Lawler-Fitzpatrick Reforms Republican Representatives Mike Lawler and Brian Fitzpatrick recently released statements calling for what they term "comprehensive" and "common sense" immigration reform. On Tuesday, following the fatal shootings in Minneapolis involving federal immigration agents-incidents that claimed the lives of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti-Lawler published an op-ed in The New York Times urging a "new comprehensive national immigration policy" that is "secure, lawful, and humane." He praised the Trump administration's border successes, including over 675,000 deportations and sharply reduced crossings, but insisted the system remains "broken for 40 years" and requires bipartisan action beyond…

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