Elections

The Autopsy That Refuses to Die

How the Democrats’ 2024 Post-Mortem Became Their Own MacGuffin The Democrat Party — or at least someone inside it — unloaded a 192-page beast titled “Build to Win. Build to Last.” Marketed as a serious post-2024 election autopsy and a forward-looking 10-year strategic blueprint, the document was supposed to mark a turning point. A sober reckoning. A Ron Brown-style call to rebuild from the ground up and reconnect with the voters who had drifted away. Instead, it has become something far more compelling and far more lethal: a MacGuffin. You know the term — that Hitchcock plot device everyone obsesses over,…

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Day Means Day

The Supreme Court Just Reminded America What Election Day Actually Is The New York Times dropped its predictable hit piece this weekend, and it was textbook left-wing spin from start to finish. Headline screaming that the Supreme Court “Could Make It Harder to Vote by Mail in the Midterms.” Sub-head claiming the RNC wants to “toss ballots” and disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of mostly Democratic votes. The whole piece painted President Trump as obsessed, the fraud concerns as “baseless,” and the 2020 “red mirage” as some innocent optical illusion. Make no mistake — that’s gaslighting, pure and simple. The Real Story…

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The Johns

The Base Revolts Against the Johns Roughly 60% of Republican primary voters in Texas just told Sen. John Cornyn exactly what they think of him: NOT CORNYN. On March 3, with over 2.16 million GOP ballots cast—a record turnout that crushed historical averages—Cornyn scraped together 41.9% (907,325 votes). Ken Paxton pulled 40.7% (881,192 votes), and Rep. Wesley Hunt took 13.5% (292,682 votes). No one hit 50%, so we're headed to a May 26 runoff, the day after Memorial Day. But make no mistake: that near-tie wasn't a fluke. It was a warning shot heard far beyond Texas borders. The base isn't…

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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…

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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 step…

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Crockett Was the Moderate Choice

Why Jasmine Crockett Was the Sensible, More Moderate Choice in the Texas Democrat Senate Primary Conventional wisdom has a terrible track record in Texas politics, and it just got another black eye. Back in November and December of 2025, I wrote repeatedly that James Talarico would win the Democrat primary—dismissing Jasmine Crockett's chances against him time and again, based on the racial and coalition fractures I saw clearly in the Texas Democrat electorate. I knew then, as I know now, that Crockett was the more sensible, more moderate choice for a general-election fight—not because her policies were centrist (they weren’t), but…

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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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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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The Immigration Wedge

Democrats' Fatal Misstep Handing Us 2026 Folks, earlier today we delivered the reality check: off-year Democrat flips like SD9 in Texas, Virginia's trifecta grab, and New Jersey's supermajority push aren't a blue wave-they're GOP complacency in low-turnout specials. Temporary seat-warmers with zero legislative teeth, but perfect wake-up calls. When we snooze, they sneak wins; when we mobilize, we reclaim what's ours. Chill, strategize, vote. Today the data drops the hammer that turns that wake-up into a decisive advantage. Cygnal's fresh nationwide survey of midterm voters (1,004 likely 2026 participants, Jan 27–28) exposes the single biggest electoral blind spot in American politics…

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