A Time for Choosing

I got my photo with Ken Paxton and Ted Cruz (left) at the Paxton rally on September 21, 2026;
Trump endorsed Paxton on video at the rally (top right)

We’re less than a month out from the start of early voting in the November midterm elections (Early Voting begins October 19 in Texas). It seems we say this every time, but it becomes more intensely true each time: this may be the most important election ever for our future.

The reason that is more true now is that the Democrats have laid out their plan, if they gain the House and the Senate: impeach Trump, pack the Supreme Court, remove election integrity laws, give statehood to DC and Puerto Rico, and allow in illegal aliens—and let them vote, get rid of the Electoral College, and possible abolish the Senate. In short, it is to remove any possibility of opposition in the future, giving them a total and permanent socialist dictatorship.

The outcome of having socialists and Islamists in power would not offer a better future for America; it would be to offer what Cuba, Venezuela, and other socialist regimes have offered: poverty and tyranny.

They say they are offering better economic and social conditions. But no socialist regime has ever come through on that promise; that is simply the lie they use to get themselves installed in positions of power.

Here in Texas, we have a couple of races that exemplify the existential battleground. There’s Greg Abbott vs. Gina Hinajosa for Governor. And the other is the senate race: Ken Paxton vs James Talarico.

This is Texas, where a Democrat has not won a statewide race since 1994. Before that, Texas was pretty much a reliably Democrat state, but that was back when they were Democrats just because they were in the South (the South was mainly Democrat in the Civil War), and some of them even considered themselves “conservative.”

While, in the wild, you can still find some non-radical Democrats in Texas, they aren’t in leadership positions or running for office.

Texans are, as a people, no-nonsense, common sense, plain speaking, hard working, and God believing. The Democrat Party is none of those things. The Democratic Socialists, who run the party now, are dead set against all of those things—and anything else wholesome and good that could lead to freedom, prosperity, and civilization.

On Monday I attended a rally for Ken Paxton. Senator Ted Cruz also came—and he is an excellent and entertaining speaker. This was in the middle of the day, at a church in northwest Houston. It was packed. I don’t know quite how to estimate numbers, but I’m guessing around 500 (maybe it was double that; I don’t know). It was hosted by Cypress Republicans and was a very positive and well-organized event. That’s a lot of people at a ticketed (but low-cost) event on a workday. And there was a lot of positive energy in the room. It’s hard, after an event like that, to believe that the polls are close, and we could really be facing the possibility of a tyrannical takeover of our beloved state. And, as Texas goes, so goes the nation. This is precarious.

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