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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican Senate primary runoff Tuesday night by sixteen points, a Texas-sized message to Washington, as he put it, that the establishment wing of his party no longer commands the votes it once did. The celebration lasted about an hour. The hard math began at sunrise. Paxton's general election opponent, Democratic state Rep. James Talarico, raised more th...

The polls in Texas have not yet closed, but the story of John Cornyn's political demise has already been written. It was written over the course of two months by a Senate Republican leadership team that had every opportunity to save him and chose, instead, to save the filibuster. Cornyn did not lose to Ken Paxton because Texas Republicans suddenly developed an allergy to the establishment. They ha...

The most fortunate thing that ever happened to Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was the catastrophic Palisades fire of January 2025. That sentence sounds cruel until you study how her political survival actually works. The fire — with its dead, its incinerated neighborhoods, its iconic image of a stone-faced mayor refusing to answer questions on a tarmac after returning from Ghana — is so visually ove...

Three hundred thousand. That is the figure the federal government now uses to describe the unaccompanied migrant children that the Biden administration’s Department of Health and Human Services lost track of or handed to unvetted sponsors between January 2021 and December 2024. Three hundred thousand children is not a statistic. It is the population of Anaheim. It is larger than Pittsburgh, larger...

Discovering fraud isn’t victory. It’s the bare minimum. In California, Attorney General Rob Bonta announced charges against 21 suspects in a $267 million Medi-Cal hospice fraud ring. Shell companies used stolen identities to bill taxpayers for end-of-life care that never happened—no patients, no services, just straight cash grabs. Days earlier, federal agents arrested eight more in a separate $50...

The Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne, a 125-year-old Catholic religious order, filed a federal lawsuit on April 7, 2026, challenging New York's LGBTQ Long-Term Care Facility Residents' Bill of Rights, signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul in November 2023. The sisters operate Rosary Hill Home, a 42-bed facility in Hawthorne, New York, providing free terminal cancer care to those who cannot afford it — accepti...

Senator Thom Tillis has publicly declared he will block any attorney general nominee who fails his personal “red line” on January 6, effectively holding the Trump administration’s justice agenda hostage. As a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tillis wields outsized influence over confirmations for judges, prosecutors, and top law-enforcement officials at the precise moment the Depar...

Democrats have spent years warning that voter ID laws amount to a new era of voter suppression — a modern-day Jim Crow designed to disenfranchise minority communities. But a viral moment from a black church in Alabama is raising some uncomfortable questions about that narrative. Representative Shomari Figures, a Democrat, recently stood before a Black congregation and posed a pointed question: how...

There is an old adage in politics, roughly translated from the language of hardball to plain English, that you don't spend ammunition on a target that isn't a threat. By that measure, the American left has just handed JD Vance the most sincere endorsement a political figure can receive: they are terrified of him, and they want you to hate him before you've had the chance to decide for yourself. Th...

A new report indicates President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in the Republican Senate primary runoff against incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. The May 26 runoff follows a March 3 primary in which neither candidate reached 50 percent, with Cornyn edging Paxton by a slim margin and Rep. Wesley Hunt taking third. Over half of GOP primary voters supported candidates...

It can be extremely challenging to convince a modern leftist that their ideas are wrong. Even trying to get them to acknowledge that the borders are more secure today is often met with challenges in the "way" the border has been secured, which invariably turns the conversation towards ICE and deportations. Their cognitive dissonance is strong. There is a path to wake many Democrats up, particular...

President Donald Trump has declared that election integrity, specifically through voter ID and proof of citizenship, constitutes a core element of homeland security and must be addressed immediately. Trump urged Senate Republicans to attach the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act to the Department of Homeland Security funding bill to resolve the ongoing partial government shutd...

President Trump announced ICE agents will assist TSA at airports starting Monday amid a partial DHS shutdown causing travel delays. The move, led by border czar Tom Homan, aims to relieve overwhelmed TSA workers unpaid for weeks due to congressional funding impasse. Long airport lines during spring break have intensified public frustration with staffing shortages and absenteeism. ICE's visible, he...

In the deep-blue stronghold of Illinois, voters delivered a clear message on Tuesday: the far-left wing of the Democrat Party, often amplified by high-profile endorsements from members of “The Squad,” does not command the loyalty it once appeared to hold. Progressive challengers backed by figures like Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and others went down to defeat in mult...

The battle lines have been drawn between the various warring factions within the conservative movement. The MAGA faithful are being torn apart as they choose whether to back this side or that side. But is it really that bad? Perhaps. But is it really going to have an impact on the midterms? No. Here's why... See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...

Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) launched a Faith Advisory Council on March 10, 2026, as part of his evangelical outreach effort ahead of a May Republican primary runoff against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Three council members — Dr. Jack Graham, pastor Max Lucado, and Dr. Gus Reyes — are affiliated with the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), a group that advocates for chain migration and pathw...

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX) announced Thursday he will not seek re-election, dropping out of his Republican primary runoff after mounting pressure from House Speaker Mike Johnson and the entire House GOP leadership team. The scandal centers on an admitted affair with Regina Santos-Aviles, a 35-year-old aide in his Uvalde district office, who later died by suicide. Gonzales had publicly denied the af...

Travis County DA José Garza is facing renewed criticism after career criminal Caleb Anthony Jenkins was charged with murdering a 25-year-old father of five outside an Austin 7-Eleven. Jenkins had accumulated at least three separate gun charges dating back to 2022, all of which were dismissed or declined for prosecution by Garza's office. Jenkins was also arrested on a domestic violence charge in 2...

The announcement at the State of the Union that JD Vance would be heading up a task force to uncover fraud in America was lowkey, but it represented the most potentially consequential midterm election event second only to passing the SAVE America Act. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit conservativeplaybook.subst...

California hasn’t elected a Republican governor in nearly two decades. But thanks to the state’s “jungle primary” system, 2026 may present a once-in-a-generation opportunity to flip Sacramento red — if conservatives understand the strategy and execute it correctly. In this episode, we break down how two Republican candidates currently leading in the primary could both advance to the general electi...

The SAVE America Act must pass. Without it, Democrats will be able to establish de facto single-party rule indefinitely. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit conservativeplaybook.substack.com See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-i...