Education (K-12)
Opposes gender-identity curriculum in schools
No woke curriculum. No gender ideology. Parents first.
Republican
Texas
Key dates
Full two-year term
Republican
Texas
Key dates
Full two-year term
Education (K-12)
No woke curriculum. No gender ideology. Parents first.
Health Care
No mandates. No coercion. No mRNA vaccines
International Affairs & Trade
No more blank checks for foreign wars. Put America first.
Immigration
Finish the wall. End the invasion. Put Texas first.
Education (K-12)
No woke curriculum. No gender ideology. Parents first.
Health Care
No mandates. No coercion. No mRNA vaccines
International Affairs & Trade
No more blank checks for foreign wars. Put America first.
Immigration
Finish the wall. End the invasion. Put Texas first.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
Big Bend is 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert that Americans set aside more than eighty years ago, and the canyon walls along the river hold rock art made thousands of years before there was a border here to argue about. Construction is working toward it now under a legal power almost nobody knows exists: one line in the REAL ID Act lets the Secretary of Homeland Security waive any law at all (the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, historic preservation, the statutes protecting tribal sacred sites) to build a wall, with no court permitted to review the decision. That isn't border policy. That's a single official with a pen and nobody to answer to. Repeal that waiver authority and bar wall construction inside national parks, wildlife refuges, and tribal sacred sites.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.
The government holds the investigative files on Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking of children: who paid, who flew, who knew, and which prosecutors decided back in 2008 that a plea deal was enough. Every release so far has landed late, partial, and with the redactions falling in suspiciously convenient places. The survivors have spent two decades being told to wait while the people they named kept their board seats and their reputations. There is exactly one legitimate reason to withhold any of this, and that is protecting victims who never chose to be in it; every other black box is someone being shielded who shouldn't be. Force the full release of the Epstein files with victim-identifying information redacted and nothing else, and open an independent review of how the 2008 deal was allowed to happen.
Big Bend is 800,000 acres of Chihuahuan Desert that Americans set aside more than eighty years ago, and the canyon walls along the river hold rock art made thousands of years before there was a border here to argue about. Construction is working toward it now under a legal power almost nobody knows exists: one line in the REAL ID Act lets the Secretary of Homeland Security waive any law at all (the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, historic preservation, the statutes protecting tribal sacred sites) to build a wall, with no court permitted to review the decision. That isn't border policy. That's a single official with a pen and nobody to answer to. Repeal that waiver authority and bar wall construction inside national parks, wildlife refuges, and tribal sacred sites.
The National Archives holds the founding documents and the receipts, the records that let a citizen check what the government actually did. The Smithsonian and the national museums hold the version of the American story that outlasts whoever is in office. None of that survives being run by whoever currently holds power. We are watching boards replaced with loyalists, exhibits rewritten to flatter one man, collections put at risk, and a Pearl Harbor hero's name scraped off a ship to make room for an ego. A country that lets its record be edited by the people the record is about has no way to hold anyone accountable later. Write independence for the National Archives, the Smithsonian, and the national cultural institutions into statute, with fixed board terms, protection from political removal, and no rewriting or renaming without public process.