Elections

Going on Offense Wins the Midterms

How Republicans Can Seize the Midterms by Attacking the Failed Hart-Celler Legacy In 1965, Congress inserted the camel’s nose under the tent. Lawmakers sold the Hart-Celler Act as a modest, humane tweak: ending national origins quotas while promising no major shift in America’s overall immigration numbers or cultural character. Sixty years later, the tent is overflowing. We now live with a record foreign-born population, sustained wage pressure on American workers, stalled assimilation in many communities, overburdened schools and housing, and growing public safety concerns. As I have documented in prior columns, this post-1965 system has systematically depressed wages for native-born Americans…

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Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Be Major Midterm Issues

Crime and Illegal Immigration Will Dominate the Midterms Stephen Federico stood before Congress and unleashed raw fury. The father of 22-year-old Logan Federico screamed at Democrats about the system that failed his daughter. A career criminal with 39 arrests and 25 felonies dragged Logan from her bed, forced her to her knees, and executed her in cold blood. That monster walked free because politicians, prosecutors, and judges chose leniency over public safety time and time again. Federico’s testimony remains one of the most powerful and heartbreaking moments of the past year. One grieving father’s uncontrolled rage cuts through every carefully worded…

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Why Ken Paxton Crushed Cornyn

Washington Turned John Cornyn Into an Establishment Figure Ben Domenech, who once worked for John Cornyn, cut straight through the spin on Laura Ingraham’s show just prior to polls closing in the Texas GOP Senate runoff: “Washington sucks it all out of you. He’s more establishment now. I wish he was still more conservative.” That one line is the perfect epitaph for Cornyn’s long political career in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, Ken Paxton didn’t just beat him: he destroyed him. Paxton cruised to a decisive 64-36 victory in the runoff after Cornyn had barely edged him out in the March…

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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, chases, fights about,…

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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 from…

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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 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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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…

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