One of the more difficult (and underappreciated) tasks in politics is recruiting candidates, especially in down-ballot races. Lots of people can be convinced to run for President, but recruiting for county-level races is a much tougher ask. State Representative races fall in-between: Pretty important, but not so high profile that recruiting solid candidates is a… Continue reading Oopsie! Democrat Convicted Felon Drops Bid
Category: Elections
RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party
I’ve mentioned before that I wasn’t a big RFK, Jr. fan when he endorsed Trump, and I was moderately skeptical of him running HHS. But overall I think he’s done a good job, and he just dropped a banger of a speech at the Republican Midterm Convention, delivering a blistering indictment of the perfidy of… Continue reading RFK Jr. Indicts Modern Democrat Party
LinkSwarm For September 11, 2026
The 25th Anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, GOP midterm convention, Iran and Yemen both get spicy again, AfD shocks Germany, Ukraine’s longest drone strike yet, more welfare state fraud, more money for Paxton, It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! More information about the murder of my friend Andrew Wimsatt has come out, and some of my original… Continue reading LinkSwarm For September 11, 2026
LinkSwarm For September 5, 2026
New York Times seems very upset we might win in Iran, the economy adds more jobs (or, as I call it in my house, Passover), ActBlue employees keep invoking the Fifth, the left still wants to trans your kids, a mistrial for Murder Mom, and the unwritten rules of the Internet. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!… Continue reading LinkSwarm For September 5, 2026
Talarico’s “Paxton Is Crooked” Attack Debunked
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton entered the U.S. senate race, there were basically two reputational dings on him. The first was that weird “securities fraud” indictment that always seemed to have been ginned up by political opponents (especially the Joe Straus cabal after Paxton trounced their choice Dan Branch in the 2014 Republican Attorney General… Continue reading Talarico’s “Paxton Is Crooked” Attack Debunked
LinkSwarm For August 28, 2026
Huge Supreme Court win, Ukraine switches from Wildberries to Ozon warehouses, yes, DSA are damn dirty commies, more Second Amendment progress, Ted Cruz’s book on Clarence Thomas is out, Aussie gets 15 years for shooting a carnival air gun, remembering Dolly, and the NFL finally takes the Pro-Bowl to a farm in the country. It’s… Continue reading LinkSwarm For August 28, 2026
LinkSwarm For August 21, 2026
Trump’s winning in Iran, Russia’s losing in Ukraine, Democrats committing fraud left and right, the data center debate rages on, a crappy movie in China gain sudden popularity because it’s crappy, and Orlando PD get to wrestle an alligator. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! National Review comes to the shocking conclusion that Trump’s Iran strategy might… Continue reading LinkSwarm For August 21, 2026
Shapeshifting Talafreako Scrubs Radical Past
I have a whole lot of links saved up to do a Talarico round-up of all his various stupidities and attempts to walk back his social justice activism that I haven’t gotten around to posting yet. In the meantime, Texas Scorecard’s Sara Gonzales has her own roundup of Talarico trying to scrub his radical past.… Continue reading Shapeshifting Talafreako Scrubs Radical Past
No Repentance = No Grace For Woke Bullshit
Various leftists, including Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, are now claiming that you can’t drag them for past statements because “Woke 1 was crazy.” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) debuted a new phrase on Sunday meant to distinguish the current rise of socialism in the Democratic Party from the “woke” cultural peak of 2020 that featured calls from… Continue reading No Repentance = No Grace For Woke Bullshit
LinkSwarm For August 7, 2026
More Iran War spin cycle, Ukraine hits more oil refineries and Wildberries, more welfare state fraud, more Fauci follies, more Democrats behaving badly, and one anime lover does something really, really stupid. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm! (Note: Somehow an unfinished version of this got published and one of Bluehost’s little timeouts temporarily prevented me from… Continue reading LinkSwarm For August 7, 2026