This article originally appeared in Texas Scorecard.
Folks, the midterm results out of New York, Virginia, and New Jersey should jolt every Texan wide awake. Up there, far-left radicals just swept into office on platforms that would make even Austin liberals blush. Open borders, soft-on-crime policies, sky-high taxes, and a war on energy independence have turned once-great states into cautionary tales.
We watched Zohran Mamdani win in New York because the deciding votes came from immigrants who arrived in the last five years under Biden’s open-border disaster. Native-born Americans and longer-term immigrants rejected him. Only the recent surge put him over the top. That’s not democracy; that’s demographic replacement in real time.
Let’s be crystal clear: Texas is not New England, and we never will be as long as we stay vigilant. Up north, they sip overpriced coffee while apologizing for their own history. Down here, we raise cattle, drill oil, and thank God every morning for the liberty our forefathers bled to give us. They shutter pipelines; we build them. They defund police; we back the blue. They celebrate dependence; we celebrate independence. Our culture runs on faith, family, and freedom, not government handouts and guilt trips.
Yes, we welcome newcomers with open arms when they come legally and share our values. The thousands moving here every month from California, New York, and Illinois prove it: they’re fleeing the mess that voters created, and most lean conservative once they breathe free Texas air.
But let me be blunt. If you move to Texas, leave the leftist nonsense at the Red River. We don’t need your subway politics, your gun grabs, or your green-new-deal religion. This is the Lone Star State, not a satellite campus of Berkley, Columbia or Harvard.
What happened in those blue states is the Great Replacement in action. Native voters are being drowned out by mass migration that no one voted for. Legal citizens whose families built this country are watching their voices shrink while recent arrivals, many here unlawfully, tip the scales. That’s not immigration; that’s invasion by ballot box.
Texas officials must lead the charge. Every single person who crossed illegally must be removed, no exceptions. Restrict H1B visas to only the most critical, highly vetted cases. And yes, create a strict, enforceable guest-worker program for agriculture with fingerprints, background checks, and a plane ticket home when the harvest is done. Our farmers need reliable labor, but we will not sacrifice sovereignty for cheap produce.
Texas stands as America’s last line of defense against coastal rot. We’ve held the line before, and we’ll hold it again. Stay vigilant. Speak up. Vote every time. Teach your kids why the Texas flag flies just as high as the Stars and Stripes and why we pledge our allegiance to it. Because if we let our guard down even for a single election cycle, we’ll wake up to find Austin looking like Albany, Houston mimicking Hartford, San Antonio smelling like San Francisco, and Dallas drowning in Detroit-style decay.
This is our Texas. Independent. Proud. Unapologetic. Let’s keep it that way, together.