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Too many leaders in the West prefer handing out goodies to foreigners over doing their own nations any practical good.
Ray Sawhill retweeted
As usual, follow the money!
For investigative journalists who have the tenacity and chops to follow through and not be intimidated, find the common denominator in the democrats below.
James Talarico
Gina Hinojosa
Vikki Goodwin
Nathan Johnson
Sarah Eckhardt
Benjamin Flores
Clayton Tucker
Jon Rosenthal
All eight names are the 2026 Texas Democratic statewide ticket, run as a single coordinated slate. Every statewide executive office plus the U.S. Senate seat. Same ballot line, same campaign apparatus, same election night.
Shared campaign infrastructure. All eight were built into “Texas Together,” a $30M coordinated campaign the Texas Democratic Party ran jointly with the Texas Majority PAC, Powered by People (Beto O’Rourke’s group), and the Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee. Per the Tribune, they shared voter files, vendor agreements, field offices, and 30+ million mailers, and held joint rallies. That’s a literal shared-donor and shared-vendor pipeline — the party ran a competitive RFP and negotiated vendor pricing on their collective behalf.
Shared money. Texas Majority PAC is bankrolled by George Soros and family and staffed by O’Rourke campaign alumni; it covered candidate recruitment and start-up costs. Hinojosa took $1M from JB Pritzker and $1M from the Democratic Governors Association. Talarico drew Mark Cuban, Bill Nye, and Don Henley. All eight got bloc endorsements from the Houston Chronicle and Austin Statesman editorial boards.
Six of eight were sitting state legislators, all in the same Lege Democratic caucuses. Four of those six — Talarico, Hinojosa, Goodwin (House) and Eckhardt (Senate) — represent overlapping Austin/Travis County districts. Same media market, same donor Rolodex, same base.
The Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus. Hinojosa was a vice chair; Goodwin is the caucus whip. Talarico was the founding figure of the caucus (founded 2021, the session he entered). Goodwin and Eckhardt are both ranked among the most liberal members by Rice’s Mark Jones scores.
Dynasty ties to the party itself. Hinojosa’s father, Gilberto Hinojosa, chaired the Texas Democratic Party from 2012 to 2025 — the same party that built the coordinated campaign her ticket-mates rode. Eckhardt’s father was U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt. Johnson’s employer is Thompson Coburn LLP.
Shared platform and fate. All five legislators plus Tucker and Flores backed a data-center moratorium; the whole slate ran on affordability and anti-corruption. They won by 4.5 to 12 points and all take office in January.
Next, and most important, look for offshore accounts hidden by layers of shell companies and LLCs.
The release of the Panama Papers 3.0 is long overdue; it will shake Washington, DC, and the nation to its very core. Many family legacies and lifelong careers will end in a flash.
My last update was August 2026, when senior forensic investigators reviewing millions of documents found that 3,629 current politicians (including local, state, and federal governments, attorneys general, district attorneys, and 112 federal judges) have ‘hidden’ offshore bank accounts, using tactics to not only shield assets from judgments and prying eyes, but to circumvent taxes.
Not too bright. They are all using the same core group of a handful of offshore ‘asset protection’ firms. 🤡
The typical scheme these offshore ‘asset protection’ firms set up, costing their clients 6, even 7 figures in legal fees, can be as simple as:
Kickbacks/Dirty Money → Law Firm → Shell Company 1 (Panama) → Shell Company 2 (British Virgin Islands) → Shell Company 3 (Swiss Bank) → Legitimate Business, with additional loops like Shell Company 1 → Shell Company 3 and back.
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The cartels made the Houston Mayor an offer he couldn’t refuse: “lead or gold.” Houston then declared itself a sanctuary city, and in January, the entire state of Texas will follow suit.
Pretty much every Texas Democrat who won in the midterms is on the payroll of the cartels, from the governor to the lieutenant governor to the attorney general, Comptroller, Land Commissioner, Agriculture Commissioner, Railroad Commissioner, multiple seats on the Texas Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals; they flipped the Texas House and even elected a U.S. Senator, etc.
GPS—Roughly 200,000–250,000 adults with a felony conviction live in Houston — on the order of 1 in 7 to 1 in 8 adults in the city. For Harris County as a whole, that’s 400,000–500,000.
Scale: HPD sources put Houston at ~353 gangs and ~20,000 documented gang members (KHOU); the 2018 HPD gang map listed 140+ gangs. HPD’s Gang Division runs the Gang Tracker database and the Multi-Agency Gang Task Force.
Official Texas DPS threat tiers: Tier 1 (highest) = Tango Blast and its cliques (Houstone is the Houston clique and the largest gang in the region), Texas Mexican Mafia, Latin Kings, MS-13, Barrio Azteca. Tier 2 includes Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, Aryan Circle, Texas Syndicate, Bloods, Crips, Bandidos, Gangster Disciples.
Local/street sets: 5th Ward Circle, 52 Hoover Crips, 59 Bounty Hunters, 59 Piru, Southwest Cholos, La Primera, Treetop/Hilltop Bloods, Hiram Clarke 77, South Park 102 Neighborhood Piru, and dozens more cataloged on stophoustongangs.org — plus newer hybrid crews (Free Money, YNS) that drew federal RICO indictments in 2026, and the Homietos OMG.
Geography: Southwest Houston/Alief, Greenspoint, 5th/3rd Ward, South Park, Sunnyside, Hiram Clarke; suburban spillover into Katy and Cypress.
Houston, buckle up; no one is coming to save you. ☠️
Ray Sawhill retweeted
The big difference between the affirmative action age of 1969-2012 and the DEI era of 2013-2023 is the former kept quotas on the downlow, while the latter trumpeted that racial preferences are good because whites are BAD and thus deserve to be cheated out of jobs.
Ray Sawhill retweeted
Call me crazy, but isn’t it weird how:
a) ICE deploys somewhere
b) TSA lines plummet
c) Traffic vanishes
d) ERs clear out
e) Construction sites are ghost towns
f) Class sizes shrink
...and we're still supposed to believe there are only 11 million illegal aliens in the country?!
Ray Sawhill retweeted
H1B was supposed to be the very top tech talent, the superstars who would keep America dominant.
It was not supposed to be a million-man sweatshop gutting young American workers.
It's time to either drastically reform the H-1B visa program or end it all together. American workers in every industry should always come first.
@WatchfulWaiter1 is a Senior Research Fellow at the Border Security and Immigration Center.
Out here in California it’s 2008 all over again.
Dream agenda. May it all come true!
Republicans control congress for another 1.5 months.
It's time for drastic action. We must end the filibuster immediately and begin passing legislation before January.
Democrats are going to end it the minute the take over. They're on the record. It's inevitable now, there's no point protecting it anymore, and we may as well take advantage while we still have a trifecta. We can accomplish a LOT in a month, severely limit what Democrats can do with their power, and ensure the next election is fair.
Once the filibuster is gone, we can pass the SAVE act immediately. Think about that. We can ensure national voter ID and citizenship requirements from now on, codified by a law duly passed by the congress. This will ensure the 2028 election is the cleanest this country has seen in DECADES. There is already mounting evidence that a lot of Democrat success this week was at least partially due to significant discrepancies with voter rolls. We can end that overnight and force the Democrats to obey the law.
We can codify all of Trump's executive orders into law, particularly on immigration, so they cannot be so easily challenged in court or disregarded. We can remove the courts from immigration proceedings entirely, which would turbocharge deportations. We can ban mail voting in all federal elections.
We can fully fund border wall construction and require it be completed within two years.
We can pass funding for ICE for the next ten years at least.
We can pass a law banning birthright citizenship. Remember, SCOTUS only said Trump's executive order was unconstitutional but didn't preclude congress from passing a law banning it.
We can pass a law disqualifying all illegal immigrants currently in the country from ever applying for citizenship. Not an executive order -- a law.
We can pass a law opening dozens of new sites for oil and gas extraction, nuclear plants, and ban state-level green tax schemes that drive up energy costs nationwide.
There is a LOT we can get done in the remaining time we have -- any or all of these would be huge wins. And even when Democrats take over in January, they won't be able to do much legislatively because Trump still controls the veto pen. Anything we pass now would stand for at least the next two years, and give us a fighting chance to win 2028, especially with the SAVE act in place.
There is absolutely no reason to walk away graciously and give the keys to the kingdom to these lunatics who are out here talking about murdering all of us.
Let the Democrats spend the next two years raging and spinning their wheels and making fools of themselves with investigations and impeachments that go nowhere and woke insanity that people absolutely hate, while we clean the national voter rolls, ramp up deportations, build out energy infrastructure, and prosecute fraudsters -- legally, not through executive action.
This is how we win. Will we do it?
How to explain why the lib/left hates data centers so passionately?
“They're not fighting AI because it's dangerous to you. They're fighting it because it's dangerous to them.”
My American friends,
If you don't understand this, you will never beat your real enemy.
On Tuesday, voters rejected data centers almost everywhere they were on the ballot. Within hours, the left was calling AI executives to testify and demanding a national moratorium.
Power bills, jobs, safety. That's the official story. It's not the real one.
The real story is that the institutional left runs on three things: scarcity, narrative, and money. Manufactured scarcity in housing, healthcare and education, so someone has to allocate it. A captured narrative, so you accept it. And a money printer, so you pay for it without ever voting on it.
AI is the first technology in history that hits all three at once.
It makes the $200,000 degree look absurd. It makes the expert's monopoly on truth disappear. It pushes prices toward zero in a system that needs inflation to survive its debt.
They're not fighting AI because it's dangerous to you. They're fighting it because it's dangerous to them.
Read this. Understand it. Then stop attacking the people building abundance, and start fighting the ones who need you poor so they can administer you.
AI isn't a threat to humanity. It's an audit.
Ray Sawhill retweeted
The Sabatini case proves how female cruelty, sociopathy and crimes are excused without consequences, even if the victim is a world-class male scientist.
If the genders were swapped and two men were caught trying to destroy the life of a female colleague, drive her towards committing suicide and laughed throughout the ordeal — they'd be fired, investigated and exiled from public life by the next morning.
Since it was women, the institutions shrugged and allowed them to keep their jobs. This is not even an isolated incident as the pattern is consistent across institutions — male flaws are constantly checked and punished, while female crimes are constantly excused and ignored.
Ray Sawhill retweeted
I have been waiting 24 years for my neighbor David Westerfield to be executed for the kidnapping and murder of my 7-year-old neighbor, Danielle van Dam. And now thanks to @GavinNewsom, it looks like it will never happen.
I was 13 when he abducted her from her bedroom in the middle of the night in 2002. I would never equate what I experienced with what her family suffered, but Danielle's murder devastated our whole neighborhood, and me personally. I was a sensitive kid and it was a major contributor to my mental health decline in adolescence.
In the 20 days between her disappearance and his arrest, I developed insomnia and spent those nights walking around the house checking the locks on the doors and windows. I followed the trial closely. As we learned the horrific details, I couldn't stop thinking about what she endured during the 3 days he had her.
Her body was found dumped off the side of a road 25 days after she went missing. It was too decomposed to test for sexual assault, but we all knew that's why he took her. He was also convicted of possessing child sexual abuse material found on his computer.
There was never any doubt about Westerfield's guilt. There was an abundance of forensic evidence, including her blood on his clothing and in his motorhome. In 2019, the California Supreme Court unanimously upheld his conviction and death sentence. Shortly afterward, Newsom imposed his moratorium. And now he does THIS.
California voters rejected abolishing the death penalty in both 2012 and 2016, and even voted to expedite executions. All these years, I've held on to the hope that someone would eventually take office who respected the will of California voters and would allow these sentences to be carried out.
It's especially insulting to hear Newsom go on about morality, as if he is morally superior to those of us whose lives were affected by these heinous crimes and who want to see the perpetrators brought to justice. I'm hoping the California Supreme Court can stop Westerfield's commutation.
Craziness.
The UK population has grown by over 10 million since 2001. As of 2025, 98% of population growth came from migration.
In the same period, Britain built:
- 0 reservoirs
- 0 nuclear power stations
- 0 international runways
Warnings of water shortages, surging energy prices and economic stagnation are a consequence of massive immigration-fueled population growth putting enormous strain on our infrastructure.
I haven’t looked at or even thought about Salon in a decade, but for some years (while David Talbot was editing) it was a really refreshing, provocative and freewheeling publication, an example of the early web at its best. For example: As left/lib as Salon generally was, Talbott ran a regular column by Camille Paglia. He also — and many genuine thanks, David — published me a number of times, including lengthy interviews that I did with Thomas Sowell and Roger Scruton.
Today, after 31 years, we are saddened to announce that Salon is ceasing publication. It has been an extraordinary privilege. salon.com/2026/11/05/goodbye…
“The Left actively drives the balkanization of society through the relentless enforcement of identity politics. By obsessively categorizing citizens into hyper-specific, grievance-based factions, progressive ideologies demand allegiance to a tribal group rather than the nation itself.”
Balkanization is the fragmentation or division of a larger region, state, or society into smaller, mutually hostile groups or factions, often based on ethnicity, culture, or political identity.
In contemporary politics, the Left actively drives the balkanization of society through the relentless enforcement of identity politics. By obsessively categorizing citizens into hyper-specific, grievance-based factions, progressive ideologies demand allegiance to a tribal group rather than the nation itself. This deliberate fracturing destroys shared cultural values and civic unity, replacing a cohesive society with a chaotic web of competing victimhoods that the Left manipulates for electoral power.
The term originated in the early 20th century following the aftermath of the First World War. It was coined to describe the geopolitical fragmentation of the Balkan Peninsula in Europe. The collapse of the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires left the region divided into several smaller, ethnically defined, and frequently warring states. Over the decades, the word evolved from a strictly geopolitical descriptor into a broader sociological term used to describe any unified system breaking down into antagonistic factions.
For example:
"By pandering to radical enclaves and refusing to demand assimilation, the Left's policies have guaranteed the cultural balkanization of our cities; their handling of the Muslim issue—cheering for parallel societies that openly reject Western values—proves they would rather fracture the country than admit their multicultural utopia is a complete failure."
Bu bu but The Orange Man has been such an outrageously awful force that OF COURSE an extra 19 million Dems showed up! It just makes sense!!!
The authorities are fine with letting dozens if not hundreds of fighting-aged men from the nonWest into England every day, but they WILL NOT TOLERATE a visit by a European who happens to express strong, increasingly mainstream opinions.
Whose side are the people who make these decisions really on?
“According to Muhammad, when faithful Muslims migrate, they must migrate for the sake of Allah and His Prophet, not for their own sake. So wherever they go, they must work for the glory of Islam.”
This is the most important piece anyone will ever read about what Senator-elect Mr. Abdulrahman Muhammad Al-Sayyid will be doing in Washington over the next six years.
open.substack.com/pub/dannyb…
