The RPT State Convention delegates have now voted for their top eight priorities from the 15 pictured here. The ranking of the 15 is how the convention Legislative Priorities ranked them. The delegates often rank them differently. The top 8 become our official priorities. We will probably know within a week how the vote turns out. I provided input to the language on Don't Sharia Our Texas, End Government Overreach, Border Enforcement, and Reform the Texas House. Of course, anything done by committee gets tweaked, and even substantially modified.

This is the 250th anniversary Richard Henry Lee's June 7, 1776 introduction in the Second Continental Congress of the independence resolution that would be voted on on July 2, 1776, declaring the 13 colonies to be independent of Great Britain. In doing so, Lee followed the instructions of his home country of Virginia. The text of the resolution: Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved. After independence was declared on July 2, the Declaration of Independence, explaining the vote, was adopted on July 4, 1776.

As we head into the week where we pick the RPT's Legislative Priorities for 2026-27, seeing SCOTUS back up our current priority of Stop Sexualizing Texas Kids is wonderful.

For this D-Day remembrance, I share this moving clip from the 2019 documentary, D-Day at Pointe-du-Hoc, showing the son of James Earl Rudder, Bud, read a letter from his father to the mother of an Army Ranger, Willis Caperton, under Rudder’s command who died in the Normandy invasion. (Bud, himself, has since passed.) My favorite quotes from the letter are: “A country must be great to call for the sacrifice of such men. But America will always be great just because such men have fallen in order that the principles expressed in our Constitution might endure.” And, “The people of America will realize what that Gold Star means to those who loved him and will resolve to keep America worthy of such men.” Get that? This native of Concho County, Texas, who in addition to being the respected and decorated lieutenant colonel in the Army Rangers, was a Texas Aggie, a football coach and teacher, the mayor of Brady, Texas, Texas Land Commissioner, and President of Texas A&M, understood his oath to support and defend the Constitution. He believed that he was serving and his men were sacrificing for the “principles expressed in our Constitution.” And just as importantly, he expected that Americans would “resolve to keep America worthy” of the efforts of those who came back and the ultimate sacrifice of those who did not. At this moment in history, there are many Americans who are working against our constitutional republic, seeking to replace it with a variant of the collectivist tyranny Rudder and his men fought. That threat and the sacrifice of those men and so many more strengthen my resolve to be worthy. How about you?

Islamic preacher: “When Muslims become the majority in the West in the next 40 years, non‑Muslims will have to convert, pay the jizya, or be killed, because Sharia will rule.” Is the message clear, or do they need to spell it out?

COVID changed something in me that cannot be unchanged. Not the virus. Not even the mandates. What changed it permanently was watching every government on earth arrive at the same silence, at the same moment, and hold it for six years running. Nearly six years since the rollout began. Not one head of state has stood before their people and said: some of you were harmed, we know it, and you deserve an honest accounting. Not one parliamentary inquiry with genuine authority. Not one compensation framework built on the actual scale of injury. The vaccine injured remain without diagnostic codes in most countries. Without legal recourse. Without the most basic institutional acknowledgment that what happened to their bodies was real. This is what accountable institutions do after genuine public health emergencies. They review. They audit. They ask who was harmed and how. They produce findings that are uncomfortable because the discomfort is the point. The discomfort is how trust gets rebuilt. What we have instead is a wall. And behind the wall, people who lost careers for raising questions that turned out to be legitimate. People who watched their governments promote Long COVID with full institutional weight while refusing to ask a single honest question about overlapping presentations in the vaccine injured. The same symptoms. The same mechanisms proposed in the literature. The convenient frame that points in every direction except at the product. The coordination is what tells you the most. Individual negligence looks different. It is patchy. It is inconsistent. Individual negligence produces whistleblowers, outliers, one government that breaks from the rest because the political cost of silence finally exceeds the cost of honesty. What we have is not that. What we have is universal. And universality of this kind does not emerge from independent actors independently deciding to do nothing. It is decided. There is a particular cruelty in what this does to the injured. It is not just that they are uncompensated. It is that the silence communicates something to them about their value. That they were considered acceptable losses before the fact, and inconvenient liabilities after it. That the calculus was made, and they lost. The psychological cost of that message, delivered not once but every single day through continued institutional indifference, is its own injury layered on top of the physical one. The children absorb this too. They are watching their parents fight for recognition against institutions that will not move. They are learning what governments actually mean when they say they will protect them. They are developing a relationship with authority that no civics class will be able to undo. The universal silence of world leaders on vaccine injury is not the behaviour of people managing an honest disagreement about evidence. It is the behaviour of people who have made a collective calculation that the cost of telling the truth now exceeds the cost of never telling it. And that calculation, held simultaneously, across every major government on earth, is the most important public health finding of the last six years. Not what the virus did. Not even what the vaccines did. What the silence, together, reveals about who was making decisions, and who they were making them for.

UPDATE: Language to kill the kill switch just advanced out of committee. Our amendment to prohibit the FY27 THUD Appropriations bill from funding the kill switch mandate, advanced out of committee today. Taxpayer dollars should not fund a surveillance system that treats every law abiding American driver as a suspect. As we work to address very real problems, we cannot allow our Constitutional liberties to be shredded or create a world where every American driver becomes a node for data gathering.

On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning. You were never taught his name. June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills. They were wrong. That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws. There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war. Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it. He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life. Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped. Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature. Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone. Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal. Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly. No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.

I stand with the indigenous people of the UK

In preparation for proposing Republican Party of Texas resolutions for our 2026 State Convention next week, I came across this resolution that we passed in 2022: "We reject the so called “bipartisan gun agreement”, and we rebuke Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.)." What struck me when I read it again is how many of those we rebuked will not be in the US Senate come 2027. Only Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins have a shot at being there. Graham faces his primary in SC next Tuesday. On top of that, with the endorsement of the RPT under our 2024 End Federal Overreach priority, we passed a Texas law in 2025 that criminalized enforcement of red flag laws in Texas by any level of government. We discovered in the process that Biden's VA was using the law to enlist local law enforcement to take guns without due process from Texas veterans. Never think that grassroots pressure, especially that organized and coordinated via Republican Party leadership cannot fight the Deep State.

As a self described COVID tyranny (including lockdown, mask, and vax) resister, I love this article. My favorite of the four traits of resisters is this: "The resisters had usually thought, before the crisis, about the limits of institutional trust. They weren’t cynics. They were people who had already asked the question “under what conditions would I refuse?” before anyone was asking them to comply."

Our system has worked because on the main, Americans self govern based on their religious values. That's what makes a high trust society work. You destroy it when you import people who do not share your values and are not worthy of trust because they are scammers, grifters, and fraudsters.

Arynne Wexler did the best roast on Muslims you're going to hear 🤣

Don't Sharia My Texas!

Saw this comment by @therealroseanne and it reminded me of the Tea Party anthem, "I am America" by Krista Branch. I had the pleasure of meeting Krista in 2010 in Fort Worth at a huge Tea Party rally. youtube.com/watch?v=0heL2Cze… Here are the wonderful lyrics: Pay no attention to the people in the street, Crying out for accountability. Make a joke of what we believe, Say we don't matter cause you disagree. Pretend you're kings, sit on your throne, Look down your nose at the peasants below. I've got some news; we're taking names, We're waiting now for the judgment day. I am America, one voice, united we stand. I am America, one hope to heal our land. There is still work that must be done. I will not rest until we've won. I am America. You preach your tolerance but lecture me. Is there no end to your own hypocrisy? Your god is power, you have no shame, Your only interest is political gain. You hide your eyes and refuse to listen. You play your games and abuse the system. You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning. I've got a feeling that the tide is turning. I am America, one voice, united we stand. I am America, one hope to heal our land. I will not give up on this fight, I will not fade into the night. I am America. You stuff your pockets while Rome is burning. I've got a feeling that the tide is turning. I am America, one voice, united we stand. I am America, one hope to heal our land. I am America, one voice, united we stand. I am America, one hope to heal our land. I will not give up on this fight, I will not fade into the night. I am America.

I recently started following a Texan (Paul Slough @SloughPaul ) who is currently working on staff for a State Rep. As I looked at his background, I found that he had suffered a political false imprisonment for an incident where his Blackwater group protecting State Department personnel was fired-upon by multiple insurgents Iraq, ultimately spending more than 6 years in jail until Donald Trump pardoned him, facilitated by Pete Hegseth. I bought the book by reporter Gina Keating about his story called Raven 23. It is mind-blowing. I focus on state politics, so I completely missed this story. I highly recommend this book about how our justice system can go horribly wrong and how much effort it takes to undo a terrible wrong.

At this point, Americans are no longer taxpayers. We are fraud victims. And we want our money back.