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The Case Against Talafreako: A Link Roundup

Monday, October 19th, 2026

With Texas early voting starting, here are a ton of links I’ve collected demonstrating why James Talarico is completely unfit to be a U.S. senator.

  • “Talarico Linked Capitalism to ‘White Supremacy‘ in 2020 Meeting, Said System Should Be ‘Dismantled.'”

    Speaking to members of the Sierra Club in 2020, James Talarico described capitalism as an “oppressive system” that contributes to “climate change” and “white supremacy” and must be dismantled.

    The Democratic U.S. Senate nominee from Texas made the comments during a private Zoom meeting with members of the club, a recording of which was obtained by CNN’s KFile.

    One meeting attendee asked the then-31-year-old state legislator whether he believed that “communities of color receive the most harm from impacts of climate change yet receive the least government support to deal with it.”

    “I am so thankful you asked this question and also thankful young activists have really drawn the link between climate change, white supremacy, and capitalism in our country, and I think only in the way that all three of those oppressive systems work together are we going to be able to begin the process of dismantling them,” Talarico responded.

    Add “communism” to the long, long list of stupid far left things Talarico believes in. No wonder the hard left loves Talarico so much. He believes in All The Things.

  • “Talarico Called Himself a ‘Christian Who Hates Christianity.'” I’m pretty sure he’s half right.

    U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico once described himself as a “Christian who hates Christianity” during a podcast appearance with a progressive theologian known for advocating transgender and queer theology.

    The comments were highlighted Tuesday in a report by The Federalist, which unearthed a March 2021 appearance by Talarico on the Activist Theology podcast.

    Talarico, an Austin Democrat now running against Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate, frequently speaks about his Christian faith on the campaign trail and has built a national profile as a progressive Christian voice within the Democrat Party.

    During the podcast, however, Talarico offered a striking description of his relationship with Christianity.

    “I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity, right?” Talarico said.

    The podcast was hosted by Roberto Che Henderson-Espinoza, a theologian who identifies as transgender and nonbinary and whose work focuses on progressive and queer interpretations of Christianity.

    According to The Federalist, Talarico expressed admiration for Henderson-Espinoza’s work, saying he was a “BIG fan” and that the author’s book “Activist Theology” had been an inspiration to him.

    The discussion covered a range of topics, including race, gender identity, Christianity, and political activism.

    At another point in the interview, Talarico argued that Christianity could serve as a powerful vehicle for advancing political change because many Americans already identify with the faith tradition.

    “The reason I think Christianity can be powerful in our context in this country is because so many of our political opponents share that kind of, that tradition,” Talarico said.

    You known, I’m pretty sure “We believe also in only One, Universal, Holy Social Justice Democrat Party” isn’t part of the Nicene Creed…

  • “Watch Talarico squirm when his lies about the Bible got called out live on CNN.”

    Talafreako: We’re both Christians and the Bible is silent on the issue of abortion. It means you and I both have to look at different scriptures to try to come to a conclusion.

    Woman: Ahh, but the Bible is not silent on abortion. There is the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not kill, and as Catholics we take great insult sometimes when it’s spouted that way.

  • “Talarico Said Islamic Mystics Shaped His Faith as Much as Christians.”

    Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico said Islamic mystics influenced his faith as much as Christian authors.

    The remarks, made during an April 2024 appearance on The State of Belief podcast alongside Democrat State Rep. Salman Bhojani of Euless, have resurfaced in a new report from The Daily Wire as Talarico continues to emphasize his Christian faith on the campaign trail.

    In the interview, Talarico said his spiritual life had been shaped by writers outside the Christian tradition.

    “I know personally that I’ve learned as much about my faith from Salman’s tradition, from the Islamic mystics, from poets like Rumi, as much as I have from Christian authors and Christian writers,” said Talarico.

    He seems like someone who should be teaching Comparative Religion courses at some small liberal arts college, not representing Texas in the United States Senate.

  • “James Talarico Tries to Argue the Bible Calls for a Government-Run Healthcare System.”

    Talarico Says the Bible Demands Government-Run Health Insurance

    Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico said Scripture requires the government to guarantee health coverage, telling a Texas church crowd that the New Testament makes a public health insurance option a Christian obligation.

    Talarico made the argument at a town hall he held at a DeSoto church on July 20, footage of which his campaign posted Saturday under the title “James Talarico Unveils Plan For Black Voters.” The Austin Democrat argued the country should “finish the work of President Obama” and pass a public option, then grounded the pitch in the Gospels.

    “Because health care is a human right. It is not a privilege,” Talarico said.

    Talarico told the crowd he wanted to speak scripturally, given the setting, and pointed to how Jesus spent his ministry.

    “If you read our scriptures, if you read the New Testament, what does Jesus spend most of his time doing? It’s not preaching, it’s not teaching, it is healing. Healing the sick,” Talarico said. “And in Matthew 25, scripture says that’s how we will be judged and how we will be saved. By healing the sick, by feeding the hungry, by welcoming the stranger, by visiting the prisoner.”

    Somehow he failed to cite the passage where it’s the government’s obligation to do all these things…

  • Talafreako started backtracking from his radical woke beliefs right after he won the primary.

    James Talarico, the most insanely leftist candidate to ever run in a statewide election in Texas, has decided that it’s important to pretend to be a moderate Democrat in his face-off against Ken Paxton.

    The man who puts gay children’s books in his church library now says that trans surgery for kids is off the table.

    Now says he opposes transing the kids?

    And if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge for sale.

    But don’t trust what I’m saying, Talarico himself voted AGAINST a ban on taxpayer funding for trans surgeries on kids. He’s on the record.

    Talarico also seems to be a friend of the oil industry suddenly, despite being a climate cultist who has voted for laws that hurt the energy industry:

    • RNC Research posts a video of Texas Democrat James Talarico stating “We have to protect good paying oil and gas jobs,” while accusing him of hypocrisy for introducing HB 2206 in 2021.
    • The 2021 bill, known as the Texas Climate Action Act, proposed requiring the state to create a plan reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 10% of 1990 levels by 2050.
  • “James Talarico’s extremely woke posts are coming back to haunt him — said there are 6 sexes, ‘poverty is violence.’”

    Texas Senate hopeful James Talarico’s leftwing rhetoric on social media, which made him a darling of Lone Star state progressives, is coming back to haunt his campaign as he tries to win over Texans in the general election.

    Republicans have been unearthing clips and X posts from Talarico within just the past few years, showing him claiming “poverty is violence,” suggesting the Bible approves of abortion, insisting that there are six biological sexes, and other lefty ideas.

    “I learned that violence is a problem that cages will never solve,” Talarico declared in April 2022, recounting his family’s struggles with his estranged father’s alcoholism.

    “We don’t always recognize the ways in which our systems hurt people every day. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence,” he later added.

    “…We all recognize domestic abuse as violence, but we don’t always recognize the ways in which our systems hurt people every day. Poverty is violence. Pollution is violence. And yes, prison is violence.” pic.twitter.com/lb7cq0lsnC
    — James Talarico (@jamestalarico) April 11, 2022

    Plus that classic: “I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too.”

  • “James Talarico’s Votes Against Income and Death Tax Bans Show a Clear Pattern of Fiscal Recklessness.”

    State Rep. James Talarico, now the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate after his March 2026 primary win, has shown time and again that he’s comfortable leaving the door open for higher taxes and bigger government.

    A prime example came during the 86th Legislature in 2019. House Joint Resolution 38 was a simple, common-sense constitutional amendment to ban any future personal income tax in Texas. While the law at the time allowed the Legislature to pass legislation imposing an income tax with a simple majority and then allowing a vote of the people, HJR 38 ensured an outright ban was solidified in the constitution, something that could only be changed with a two-thirds vote of both chambers of the legislature and a majority vote of the people….

    James Talarico voted NO, making it clear that he thinks it should be easier to impose a higher tax burden on Texans, not harder.

  • “Here are the megadonors and dark money groups boosting James Talarico’s anti-billionaire Senate bid.”

    The cast of contributors bankrolling Lone Star Rising PAC, a super PAC in his corner, features several billionaires, many of whom are prolific Democratic donors, and dark money nonprofit groups that do not have to disclose their funders.

    While donors are capped at giving $3,500 per election to individual candidates, no such contribution limits exist for super PACs, which can spend unlimited funds supporting or opposing candidates, including through advertising, voter mobilization efforts and polling, as long as they don’t coordinate with a candidate’s campaign.

    Lone Star Rising raised just under $9 million from its inception in September through the end of March, and spent almost all of it on ads supporting Talarico and attacking U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, his primary foe. The group’s treasurer is Alexander Clark, who overlapped with Talarico when both taught in public schools in San Antonio through Teach for America.

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    Reid Hoffman
    Amount donated to LSR: $1.5 million

    Hoffman is the cofounder of LinkedIn and a billionaire venture capitalist, AI investor and Democratic megadonor. Since 2016, Hoffman has given roughly $77 million to numerous Democratic groups and campaigns in contributions reported to the FEC, including $10.3 million to former Vice President Kamala Harris’ main super PAC, Future Forward PAC.

    This cycle, Hoffman’s largest collective contribution so far has gone to Lone Star Rising PAC. He has also donated to other Democratic U.S. Senate candidates, including former Gov. Roy Cooper in North Carolina, former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio and Sen. Jon Ossoff in Georgia.

    Hoffman recently drew scrutiny for his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — the sex abuser and financier who died in jail in 2019 — upon the Justice Department’s release of the Epstein files. The documents show Hoffman was communicating and meeting with Epstein well after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 for soliciting a minor for prostitution and was registered as a sex offender. Hoffman visited Epstein’s private Caribbean island in 2014, gifted him a statue and offered to help with publicity after Epstein was accused of sex trafficking in 2014.

    Crockett nodded at the connection in the leadup to the March election, saying, “If one of the individuals who donated publicly is someone in the Epstein files, imagine who else has given anonymously” — a reference to Lone Star Rising’s dark money support.

    Talarico has advocated for the full release of the Epstein files and justice for the victims of Epstein’s circle. Most Republicans in Congress, including Cornyn, opposed releasing the files last fall before reversing and approving their disclosure.

    Hoffman said on social media that he went to Epstein’s island to help fundraise for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He said the FBI under the Trump administration found no indication of wrongdoing, adding, “I regret ever interacting with Epstein.”

    The Bench
    Amount donated to LSR: $500,000

    The Bench is an organization that launched in January to develop the “next generation of Democratic leaders” — specifically, up and coming candidates with unusual political profiles that, in the eyes of the group’s leaders, reflect the states and districts they aim to represent. Lis Smith, a Democratic strategist who worked on Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 presidential campaign, serves as a senior adviser to The Bench. Andrew Mamo, a consultant for Talarico’s campaign, is a spokesperson for the group.

    “Our candidates are community-rooted, values-driven, and ready to connect with voters across party lines,” the group’s website states.

    This cycle, The Bench has also endorsed Tejano music star Bobby Pulido in Texas’ 15th Congressional District and sheriff’s deputy Johnny Garcia in the 35th Congressional District. Its roster of Senate candidates also includes former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola in Alaska and state Sen. Mallory McMorrow in Michigan.

    In the first three months of this year, The Bench received major donations including $2 million from billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic donor Stephen Mandel; $500,000 from Better World Civic Trust; $395,000 from billionaire Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings; and $250,000 from billionaire crypto CEO and investor Michael Novogratz.

    Adam Pritzker
    Amount donated to LSR: $180,000

    Adam Pritzker is a scion of the billionaire family that derives much of its wealth from the Hyatt hotel empire. He is a cousin of Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and a prolific Democratic donor, giving $926,000 to Kamala Harris’ campaign in 2024.

    Pritzker is a major supporter of state level Democrats around the country, contributing to state Democratic parties and cofounding and serving as president of PAC for America’s Future, formerly known as Future Now Fund. The group’s purpose, according to IRS filings, is to “elect the next generation of American leaders with a focus on state legislatures.” PAC for America’s Future helps fund the States Project, a group Pritzker cofounded that focuses on winning and defending blue majorities in state legislatures.

    PAC for America’s Future also maintains a Texas committee, which in 2024 received $2 million from investor Jonathan Soros, the son of billionaire financier and Democratic megadonor George Soros.

    Texas Justice Fund
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Texas Justice Fund is a group affiliated with the Lone Star Project, a Democratic political research and communications firm founded in 2005 by strategist Matt Angle. Texas Justice Fund donated $500,000 to the Texas House Democratic Caucus last year around the Texas House Democrats’ walkout over Republicans’ mid-decade redistricting effort. A group called Texas Justice Fund is also registered as a 501(c)(4) with the IRS, listing Angle as its president and Lisa Turner — a Democratic strategist and wife of state Rep. Chris Turner — as its director.

    Dark money groups

    Government That Works PAC
    Amount donated to LSR: $3.75 million

    Government That Works PAC is by far the biggest donor to Lone Star Rising PAC, but that money largely came from undisclosed sources. The group, according to its donation page, was “established to defeat ineffective and extreme incumbent candidates.”

    The group received $4 million from Sixteen Thirty Fund in January, around the time it gave $3.75 million to the pro-Talarico super PAC. Sixteen Thirty Fund is a top Democratic dark money hub that does not have to report its donors. It has previously been associated with Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss and Democratic megadonor George Soros.

    Government That Works PAC previously received $2.9 million from Contours Inc., which was recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit in October 2025, meaning it does not have to disclose its donors. Contours Inc., according to its website, “educates voters and advocates for changes that give greater voice and choice to voters from coast to coast.”

    Government That Works PAC also received $300,000 from America Votes and $250,000 from Global Impact Social Welfare Fund — both of which are also dark money groups.
    Lone Star Forward Fund Inc.Lone Star Forward Fund Inc.
    Amount donated to LSR: $250,000

    Lone Star Forward Fund Inc., according to its website, is a 501(c)(4) nonprofit. The group calls itself a “Texas policy advocacy organization dedicated to educating, engaging and mobilizing communities in support of progressive policies.”

    Sufam Advisors Corp
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Sufam Advisors Corp is a corporation first registered in Florida in 1992 by Neil Subin, an investment manager at MILFAM, a firm managing the assets of the descendents of industrialist Lloyd I. Miller Jr.

    Stephen Mandel
    Amount donated to LSR: $500,000

    Mandel is a Connecticut billionaire hedge fund manager and major Democratic donor. He sits on the board of directors for Teach for America — through which Talarico taught middle school in San Antonio for two years — and is a supporter of charter schools. Mandel previously sat on the board of trustees of the Environmental Defense Fund. He established the Zoom Foundation in 2001, a nonprofit that funds environmental, education and democracy-based causes.

    Mark Jacobsen
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Jacobsen is the Maryland-based cofounder and CEO of the financial services firm IntraFi. He previously served as the chief of staff at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. He has contributed to a number of Democrats running for Congress.

    Mark Heising
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Heising is the founder of Medley Partners, a San Francisco-based private investment firm. A major Democratic donor, Heising holds six U.S. patents in cryptography, compression and data communications.

    Heising serves as chair of the Environmental Defense Fund and as a board member of the Heising-Simons Foundation, which works to “advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people,” according to its website.

    Heising and his wife, Liz Simons, pledged to commit most of their wealth to philanthropy in 2016. According to their pledge letter, Heising worked as a chip designer before entering finance.

    David Gochman
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Gochman is the president and founder of Inclenberg Investments, a private investment firm focused on real estate with offices in Florida and Texas. Gochman previously led Academy Sports & Outdoors, a sporting goods company his grandfather founded in San Antonio in 1938. Based in Florida, he has contributed to numerous Democratic campaigns, groups and state parties in recent election cycles…

    Lisa Primus
    Amount donated to LSR: $500,000

    Primus is a New York physician, philanthropist and active Democratic donor who has given $7.7 million largely to Democratic groups and candidates over the years. She funds the Livelihood Impact Fund, which “invests funding and expertise into data driven early stage organizations that strive to meaningfully and durably improve the lives of the global poor,” and served on the boards of the Center for Voter Information, the League of Conservation Voters and the Pipeline Initiative, which recruits and supports progressive political candidates.

    Simone Coxe
    Amount donated to LSR: $500,000

    Coxe is an Austin philanthropist married to Tench Coxe, a billionaire venture capitalist and longtime board member of Nvidia. Simone Coxe cofounded a public relations firm for the tech industry, and she was the cofounder of CalMatters, a nonprofit news site covering California politics and policy. The couple donated $100 million to the University of Texas at Austin’s academic medical center this year. They are part owners of Austin FC.

    Don Henley
    Amount donated to LSR: $150,000

    Henley is a Grammy award-winning musician and founding member of The Eagles, which was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. He is an East Texas native who has supported numerous Democratic groups and candidates this cycle. Henley founded the Walden Woods Project in 1990, which “preserves the land, literature and legacy of Henry David Thoreau to foster an ethic of environmental stewardship and social responsibility,” and the Caddo Lake Institute in East Texas, which focuses on protecting the wetlands area that straddles the Texas-Louisiana border.

    Susan Sarofim
    Amount donated to LSR: $100,000

    Sarofim is a Houston businesswoman, philanthropist and widow of billionaire investment manager Fayez Sarofim. She founded a temp agency in 1989, owns New Orleans Auction Galleries, and cofounded To Educate All Children, a nonprofit that offers class management programming to Houston and Aldine Independent School District educators.

    I know that’s a big old list of names, but I think it’s important to capture and map Democrat donor networks whenever possible.

  • Here’s an anti-Talarico site covering many of the topics addressed here.
  • Here’s another post covering Talarico’s many stupid ideas, including “shutting down a power plant that provides 10% of Austin’s power” because it uses that sinful coal.
  • “Republicans for Talarico Disbands After We Learned It Was Really Just a Bunch of Democrats.” “Leftist outlet MS NOW aired a segment featuring three Texas women who identified themselves as Republicans and vowed to cross over for James Talarico — but records show at least some of them have voted in Democratic primaries and donated to liberal candidates and causes.”
  • You know who vanquished primary foe Jasmine Crockett isn’t going to campaign for? James Talarico.

    It’s been clear for a few weeks that Crockett has no interest in helping Democrats with campaigning for the US Senate seat. Both she and Colin Allred refused to show up to the Democrats’ state convention last month after James Talarico had the nerve to run against Crockett and had allegedly insulted Allred as a “mediocre black man,” an allegation Talarico denies. Both Crockett and Allred fumed at the time that the party had insulted them in more ways than one too, but hadn’t explicitly made a claim of racism.

    Well, wait no longer. At a forum yesterday afternoon, Crockett went even further in refusing to “hold his hand” in reference to suggestions she should help Talarico win against Ken Paxton, and hinted that black voters should perhaps not turn out for that race at all. Crockett also blamed her primary loss on the Democrat primary being a “racist race,” which is a much clearer signal to black voters for disengagement…

    That, of course, is the nightmare scenario for Texas Democrats, and not just among black voters. In the 2024 election, black voters were 11% of the overall electorate, but Hispanic voters were 26% of the turnout. Having Crockett cast the party as racist in its execution in its US Senate primary sends a message of disengagement to both demos, although clearly more to black voters than Hispanics. Crockett has been one of the more notable figures in the party, and certainly its most visible black woman even up to today – and her claims that she got shafted over race will resonate, especially on the Left where activists are particularly sensitive to such allegations.

    (Hat tip: Director Blue.)

  • More on the same subject: “Black Democrats Express Doubts About Talarico, U.S. Senate Primary at Houston Town Hall.”

    A town hall in Houston on Sunday highlighted a factional divide within the Democratic Party as their U.S. Senate nominee, state Rep. James Talarico (D-Austin), was questioned and at times rebuked about his appeal, or lack thereof, to black voters.

    Republicans have emphasized “unity” as their goal moving forward into the general election battle of November, but they are not the only ones finding it difficult to switch off from intra-party conflict. The Democrats will need a strong showing from all the members of their base to give Talarico a fighting chance in a state where no Democrat has won statewide office in three decades, especially after the strong showing of the Republican nominee, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in his May primary runoff with incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

    Prior to Talarico’s introduction to the crowd for his opening statement and Q&A session, elected officials expressed disappointment that he had defeated U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX-30) in the Democratic primary, while appealing to the audience to hear Talarico out.

    Talarico defeated her in March with over 53 percent of the vote, while Crockett received nearly 46 percent. In Harris and Dallas counties, Crockett did receive the majority of the vote — 52 percent and 59 percent, respectively.

  • “James Talarico says the violent hierarchies of the heteropatriarchy have colonized white minds.” “We have to understand especially for white educators that these violent hierarchies, these systems, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, economic exploitation, those things have colonized our own minds.”
  • “Totally Normal Heterosexual Christian James Talarico Wants You to Know He Has a Favorite Drag Queen and He’d Like to Know Your Favorite Too.” “Alyssa Edwards — who has described himself as ‘a drag performer that works with children.'” Always with the creepy interest in turning your kids gay…
  • Speaking of communism: “James Talarico Voted Against Bills Targeting CCP Influence in Texas, Including Popular Measure Barring Chinese Nationals From Buying Farmland.”
  • Mr. Hypocrisy strikes again: “James Talarico has campaigned against the influence of billionaires in politics. Yet facing a must-win Senate race that could shatter spending records in one of the country’s biggest states, he’s turning to wealthy tech donors for help. Talarico attended at least four Bay Area fundraisers with prominent Democratic Party donors with ties to the tech industry in mid-April.” He really does want to California your Texas.
  • I may have used this one before: “Democrat Strategists Remove James Talarico From Campaign Trail To Hide The Fact That He’s James Talarico.”
  • County-By-County Soros Invasion Plans

    Monday, October 12th, 2026

    If you’re wondering “Who gets to decide which foreigners are going to be imported into towns and neighborhoods to boost Democrat election chances,” one answer is “George Soros.”

    “enable local governments and private entities to sponsor immigrants directly”

    That is what the Niskanen Center, a Washington think tank whose immigration program receives Soros-foundation backing, wants policymakers to do. The instruction appears in its November 2025 immigration blueprint.

    Two weeks later, Niskanen published a county-by-county migration index, identifying hundreds of American communities as potential destinations for newcomers. Its proposed applications include planning where refugees and asylum seekers could settle.

    The agenda reaches straight into the question of who gets to shape your town: which places should receive newcomers, which private actors should help sponsor them, and how arrivals could be encouraged to stay.

    Niskanen’s own funding disclosure lists $300,000 from Open Society Foundation for immigration work, covering September 1, 2024, through February 27, 2026. That period includes the release of both proposals.

    George Soros founded Open Society. The same Niskanen disclosure lists another $400,000 from Carnegie Corporation of New York and $100,000 from Migration Policy Institute for immigration work, with grant terms also spanning the publications.

    Your county, scored for immigration

    The Migration Match Index report describes communities with:

    “aging, stagnant, or insufficient native labor supply”

    Its model screens unemployment, job openings, rental vacancies, affordability and age. Older residents and available apartments become indicators that a community could accommodate more migration.

    Maybe Niskanen had a hand in importing all those illegal aliens working at plants in near-slave-labor conditions we kept hearing about.

    The authors explicitly discuss using updated data to plan resettlement following:

    “an influx of asylum seekers at the border”

    Translation: We want cheap illegal alien labor that will vote for Democrats once we amnesty them. Just like Chuck Schumer admitted.

    Niskanen’s involvement in private refugee sponsorship already extends beyond publishing recommendations.

    Its 2025 annual report says it:

    “helped conceive and implement”

    Welcome Corps, the private refugee-sponsorship program established during the Biden administration.

    The same annual report promotes the new migration index as guidance for policymakers, employers and local leaders. It identifies no agency using the index to place people.

    Niskanen’s April 2025 retrospective explains the employer pathway in the separate Welcome Corps at Work pilot. Refugee candidates interviewed with U.S. businesses. A job offer led into resettlement processing and matching with a private sponsor group in the employer’s community.

    Niskanen reported that 12 employers extended offers to 23 refugee candidates. Those figures count job offers, not confirmed arrivals.

    Call me a stickler for due process, but I don’t think immigration policy should be taken from the federal government and given to random businesses.

    A town’s future should require more than a vacancy rate and a donor-funded recommendation.

    Here’s a map of the places they want to import illegal aliens:

    Funny how in the Democrat-dominated west coast there’s only two counties total targeted for California, Oregon and Washington. Why, it’s almost like they don’t need to flip those states blue.

    There’s a list at the end of the article listing every county. For Texas, the list is “Cottle County; Dimmit County; Edwards County; Gillespie County; Hartley County; La Salle County; Parmer County; Potter County; Upton County; Ward County.” Potter County is home to Amarillo, and Gillespie to Fredericksburg, but all the rest are under 12,000 people. The sort of places you could change the demographics of rapidly if you started air-dropping illegal aliens in.

    Can we start calling it an invasion yet?

    (Previously.)

    (Hat tip: Director Blue.)

    Trump Texas Trip Targets Talafreako. Trans-Touter? Truant.

    Thursday, October 8th, 2026

    President Donald Trump swung through Texas yesterday, and he had some choice words for the Democrat’s 2026 senate nominee.

    President Donald Trump rallied thousands of supporters Wednesday night, delivering a nearly two-hour speech that included repeated attacks on Democrat U.S. Senate nominee James Talarico.

    The rally at the Freeman Coliseum came less than a month before the November 3 election, with Trump urging Republicans to turn out for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s U.S. Senate campaign and several congressional races.

    Throughout his remarks, Trump repeatedly referred to Talarico as “Talafreako,” criticizing his record on immigration, energy policy, and child gender mutilation.

    “A vote for Talafreako is a vote to turn Texas into a dirty, failing, third-world country,” Trump told the crowd, contrasting that with his support for Paxton.

    Trump also questioned Talarico’s recent absence from public campaign appearances.

    “Where is he? Where the hell is he?” Trump asked.

    Paxton raised the same issue during his remarks earlier in the evening, telling attendees that Talarico had gone 11 days without making a public appearance.

    Paxton then led the crowd in a chant asking, “Where is James Talarico?”

    That is a good question.

    With just 28 days remaining until he faces off against Republican candidate Ken Paxton, Democrat James Talarico is nowhere to be found.

    Talarico has not been seen publicly in Texas in over a week, with his last appearance occurring on Saturday, September 26, before he took a fundraising trip to New York City. There, he was treated to a VIP fundraising dinner where attendees, like a filmmaker who labeled America a “shithole” and a group that advocates for child sex change surgeries, were charged $27,000 a plate.

    That group would be the Human Rights Campaign, a gay advocacy group that takes money from George Soros. For all that Talarico has tried to back away from his professed love for transing your kids, he sure does seem to be firmly on Team Child Mutilation.

    On Wednesday, September 30 Talarico was slated to speak with the U.S. Hispanic Business Council in the Rio Grande Valley, but instead joined virtually from a hotel because “his staff says he’s ill and was unable to travel.” During the appearance, Talarico claimed that he was forced to seek care at an urgent care clinic in Dallas, but social media users have disputed the timeline offered by the candidate.

    Guy’s 37. How sick would he have to be to go to “urgent care?” At that age, I never got so sick that I required “urgent care,” though I did go to the emergency room a couple of times (a bike accident and slicing open my thumb trying to cut through a frozen bagel).

    Then, on Friday, October 2, the Talarico campaign chose to recycle footage from a February 22 rally before Talarico had even won the Democrat nomination, and tried to pass it off as current.

    Next, his campaign cancelled an event slated for October 5 with the Central Texas African American Civic Engagement Symposium. The campaign has offered no explanation as to why the event was suddenly canned.

    The campaign once again cancelled a planned appearance for October 6, at a grassroots Final Austin Fundraiser.

    Guy lives in Austin and can’t even make it to events in Austin? Something smells.

    The event was advertised as an opportunity for “neighbors, organizers, and supporters from all corners of the community to gather” and prepare for the final stretch of the election season. When attempting to RSVP for the event, interested parties are told that the event has been rescheduled and are offered no details as to when the new date may be.

    The campaign calendar currently shows no scheduled public appearances for Talarico.

    Very curious indeed. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)

    Back to Trump’s appearance.

    Trump also mocked Talarico’s vegan diet, joking about the Democrat’s recent public appearances eating barbecue and hypothesizing that had made him sick and unable to campaign.

    The president criticized Talarico’s legislative record, accusing him of opposing border security measures, restrictions on illegal immigration, and protections for the state’s oil and gas industry.

    “Talarico voted three times against walls. He doesn’t want a wall,” Trump said.

    Trump also accused Talarico of changing his positions now that he is running statewide.

    Paxton echoed that argument, telling attendees that Talarico’s views had shifted since the general election campaign began.

    “Do you all believe his voting record or what he’s telling us now?” Paxton asked.

    The attacks came as Trump sought to energize Republican voters ahead of an election in which his own name will not appear on the ballot.

    “Pretend that I’m on the ballot,” Trump urged supporters. “Because they’re going to destroy everything that we’ve done.”

    He specifically encouraged attendees to support Paxton, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and Carlos De La Cruz, the Republican candidate running against Democrat Johnny Garcia in the newly redrawn 35th Congressional District.

    Trump praised Paxton as one of the country’s leading attorneys general and predicted he would become an influential member of the U.S. Senate.

    Other Republican congressional candidates speaking at the event included Brandon Herrera and Chris Gober, along with attorney general candidate Mayes Middleton and Patrick.

    Gober is the only one of those I’m not familiar with. He’s running to replace retiring Michael McCaul in the Texas 10th Congressional District, a Republican-leaning district that, post-redistricting, stretches all the way from Austin to east Texas.

    We keep hearing how polls show Talarico with a thin lead over Paxton, but his campaign sure isn’t acting like it. Right now they’re acting like every time Talarico speaks, his poll numbers go down, so they’re going to try to hide him to run out the clock.

    Murder Charges Dropped Because Travis County Missed Deadlines

    Thursday, September 17th, 2026

    In Travis County, the land of bonded-out murder suspects, a case recently resurfaced that had previously evaded my eye, one where a suspect managed to avoid murder charges through sheer sloth and incompetence from the Travis County DA’s office.

    AUSTIN MAN beat a woman to death, left her body under a tarp in his yard for two days, then buried her in a backyard burn pit — and never faced a single day in court for the murder, because Travis County prosecutors missed the deadline to indict him.

    Ad now he’ll be released from prison in March, according to Texas prison records.

    The victim was Natalie Renee Pearce, a 36-year-old caregiver who worked with adults with developmental disabilities and helped run a horse therapy program.

    Peter Perius picked her up near Rundberg Lane and brought her home to get high on meth. He texted his nephew afterward that he didn’t want to spend the second half of his life in prison.

    He apparently is getting his wish and will be a free man soon.

    Perius was charged with murder, bond set at $500,000. Then the case sat. In February 2024, a judge dismissed the murder charge because prosecutors failed to meet deadlines.

    What was left was tampering with a corpse. He pleaded guilty in December 2024, but two enhancements were abandoned, and he got 10 years with 766 days already credited.

    Prosecutors could have put him away before he killed Natalie. Two months before he picked her up, prosecutors had declined to file a felony meth possession case against him. He had 18 Travis County cases already — including a child/elderly/disabled injury charge, three family violence assaults in a single year, an indecent exposure, a revoked probation, a string of DWIs.

    Now Natalie Pearce is dead and her killer is set to be a free man soon because Austin’s prosecutors failed to do their job.

    That’s from the Austin Justice Twitter account, but news stories corroborate all the relevant details. “A murder charge that Perius previously faced was dismissed due to the Travis County District Attorney’s Office failing to meet the indictment deadline.” Somehow this case of massive incompetence got relegated to half a sentence at the end of paragraph five.

    Under Soros-backed DA Jose Garza, Travis County’s DA office has put a revolving door on the jailhouse to allow repeat offenders back out on the streets to continue victimizing law-abiding citizens.

    Usually murder cases are treated with a fair degree of seriousness in a competent DA’s office (at least outside of no-witness drug gang shootings). They’re high profile cases that receive special attention, but evidently not in Travis County. One wonders whether Garza’s staff let Perius walk out of sheer incompetence, or an ideological belief that no one should spend time in jail for committing a crime against anyone, for anything, ever.

    Soros-Backed DA Larry Krasner Going Down?

    Wednesday, September 16th, 2026

    The love of Soros-backed DAs for repeat offenders and other criminal scum is well-documented. Evidently Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner’s love of setting murderers free is so deep that he’s facing federal prosecution over lying about it. Robert Stacy McCain:

    On any list of “Things a Lawyer Should Never Do,” lying to the judge must always be No. 1. Let me summarize this complex story as briefly as possible: With financial backing from George Soros, Larry Krasner became Philadelphia’s District Attorney in 2018, and immediately instituted a policy of leniency, which he sought to make retroactive by cooperating with the Innocence Project to overturn previous convictions. Among the cases was that of Dennis Johnson, who was 23 years old in August 2007 when he murdered Kenyatta Smith in a Philadelphia convenience store. Backed by the Innocence Project, Johnson sought to have his conviction overturned and, after Krasner was elected, the D.A.’s office was eager to cooperate with Johnson.

    By an amazing coincidence, the Innocence Project is also backed by George Soros money through the Open Society Foundations. What are the odds?

    A junior staffer in the office was assigned to write a brief conceding the case to Johnson, essentially admitting that previous prosecutors had deprived Johnson of his constitutional rights. However, because Krasner’s handling of such cases had already raised questions (see this long story here), the federal judge overseeing Johnson’s case ordered a hearing — causing “panic” in Krasner’s office.

    “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive”:

    A federal judge said Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner may have broken the law while overseeing a contentious post-conviction case, and he said he referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to investigate whether Krasner should be charged with crimes including conspiracy or obstruction of justice.

    U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond made those stunning statements in a memorandum in which he also ruled that Krasner and one of his top supervisors, Matthew Stiegler, could not longer participate in the case — a matter in which a man is seeking to have his murder conviction overturned.

    Diamond wrote that over the past several months, as he conducted hearings to learn more about how attorneys in DA’s office handled that case, testimony from some of Krasner’s staffers revealed actions by Krasner and Stiegler that Diamond called “troubling,” “disturbing” — and potentially illegal.

    Those actions, he wrote, included pressuring other staffers to take steps to protect Stiegler and blame one of his subordinates; urging staffers to lie to Diamond in court; and threatening “consequences” for those who did not follow Krasner’s orders.

    “I have thus reluctantly concluded that Philadelphia’s highest law enforcement official and one of his top assistants may have violated the law,” Diamond wrote. “In these circumstances, with the issuance of this Memorandum, I refer the DAO, Mr. Krasner, and Stiegler to this District’s United States Attorney’s Office for investigation and other appropriate action.”

    Krasner did not provide an immediate comment Tuesday, nor did a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, which would have to determine whether or not to open an investigation or file charges. Diamond, as a judge, cannot do so himself.

    The filing was the latest explosive development in the case, which is centered around Dennis Johnson’s 2009 conviction for second-degree murder. Johnson has been fighting to have that conviction overturned, and the matter before Diamond began years ago as a routine petition in federal court.

    But in recent months, the case has led to a series of unusual revelations about the inner workings of the district attorney’s office as various lawyers handled the case.

    Diamond, in his filing Tuesday, said those assertions were not only proof of significant internal disagreements — but also “evidence of possible criminal wrongdoing by Mr. Krasner and Stiegler.”

    Krasner is completely cooked! He’s finished! Done!

    I certainly hope so, but many Soros-backed DAs have an uncanny ability to slough off all sorts of scandals that would torpedo the careers of anyone without a (D) after their name.

    McCain, in turn, points to this Ace of Spades piece for more details.

    Larry Krasner and his “prosecutors” have been questioned and accused by judges of deliberately misstating evidence to contrive reasons to free guilty murders from jail.

    Two of his “prosecutors” have been disbarred over their flagrant crimes before the court– all to support meritless appeals so that guilty murders could go free.

    We covered that part of the ongoing saga here.

    Krasner is a full supporter of the left’s “decarceration” agenda and believes no one should be in prison — not rapists, not killers, not child sex abusers — and he’s not shy about saying so and he’s not shy about putting his communist believes into practice.

    Snip.

    Here’s the bigger problem: That appears to be the way Krasner’s office has handled other post-conviction cases. Under Krasner, more than 60 people convicted — mainly of murder — have been set free or had their sentences reduced following concessions despite no incontrovertible proof of the person’s innocence.

    Given this, their celebration of Charlie Kirk’s murder, and their infatuation with abortion and literal infanticide, Democrats can be objectively called “the pro-murder party.”

    Federal charges are no joke, but we can’t discount the possibility that Krasner and his henchmen could still wiggle out of jail if the case gets assigned to an Obama- or Biden-appointed judge.

    While I would be delighted to see pro-crime Krasner see hard time in Club Fed, I would be even more interested in possible revelations from a robust discovery process exposing just what communications pass between the numerous tentacles of various Soros-backed organizations and Soros-backed DAs. I suspect seeing exactly what pro-crime and anti-American beliefs and justifications they’re operating on might be what we call a “clarifying moment” in exposing the social justice war against law and order.

    Austin: Soros DA = 74% Higher Homicide Rate

    Thursday, July 23rd, 2026

    The difference between having a real DA who prosecutes criminals, and a Soros-backed DA who doesn’t is stark. While most of America was seeing a drop in murder rates, Austin under Soros-backed DA Jose Garza has seen murder rates rise by 74% since 2019.

    Amid a likely decrease in homicide rates across the nation, both Dallas and Austin have experienced an increase in homicides compared to last year, with Austin’s homicide rate for the first half of 2026 apparently 74 percent higher than in 2019, according to a new study released Thursday.

    Commissioned by the nonpartisan Council on Criminal Justice (CCJ), the study examined patterns for 13 types of crime in 36 U.S. cities. It found that reported homicides appear to have dropped by 18 percent from the same period in 2025, and by 51 percent since the 2022 peak.

    “Murder and other crime rates are falling across the map, in cities with different political leadership, housing and economic conditions, policing and prosecution strategies, violence reduction models, and levels of federal enforcement activity,” said CCJ President and CEO Adam Gelb in a statement.

    Of the 30 cities reporting homicide rates, Arlington saw a decrease of 60 percent and Dallas saw an increase of 30 percent compared to the first half of 2025.

    What does Dallas have in common with Austin? A Soros-backed DA, in this case John Creuzot.

    CCJ also looked at longer trends and found that compared to 2019, there were 31 percent fewer reported homicides in the study cities in the first half of 2026, with some — such as Arlington — seeing drops of at least 50 percent or more, but Austin was among four cities that reported a higher rate.

    According to the study, four cities had homicide rates from January to June higher than in 2019: Austin at 74 percent; Norfolk, Virginia at 36 percent; Minneapolis, Minnesota at 26 percent; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at 4 percent.

    In addition to reduced policing after the #BlackLivesMatter riots, Minneapolis has a Soros-backed DA in Mary Moriarty. Norfolk is another city with a Soros-backed DA, Ramin Fatehi.

    Although Dallas’ homicide rate is trending higher over last year, compared to 2019, that city’s rate has dropped by 22 percent. Of the other Texas cities analyzed, since 2019, San Antonio dropped by 8 percent, Fort Worth by 26 percent, and Arlington by 60 percent.

    Snip.

    Austin and Travis County have drawn controversy over the past few years due to Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza’s allegedly lenient approach to the prosecution of crime. First elected in 2020, Garza has been accused of dropping or reducing charges in hundreds of criminal cases, and last year, Garza’s office reportedly failed to bring timely indictments for crimes that included violent felonies, leading to the dismissals of hundreds of cases.

    Earlier this year, Gov. Greg Abbott cited Garza in his call for new legislation to create a statewide prosecutor and a mechanism for removing “rogue” local prosecutors. A ,a href=”https://rightoncrime.com/going-rogue-how-radical-reformist-prosecutors-are-endangering-public-safety/”>study from the Texas Public Policy Foundation published in July also listed concerns over practices in Travis County.

    It matters a great deal whether your county has a DA who’s actually dedicated to fighting crime, or a soft-on-crime, Soros-backed DA who loves putting criminals back on the streets. And American citizens are paying for that difference with their lives.

    LinkSwarm For July 10, 2026

    Friday, July 10th, 2026

    Chinese commie money is helping fund American commie wins, Rapey McNazi drops out, Ukrainian drones feast on Russian ships and hit Russia’s largest oil refinery (among others), Labour wants to install Big Brother into YouTube, and a victory for right to repair. Plus: Trebuchet!

    It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!

  • Non-link summary of the state of Iran war: Bombing currently paused, but the ceasefire is over and, oh yeah, supposedly Iran is plotting to assassinate
    President Trump.

  • How tech and commie money-fueled anti-Israel PAC is funding the rise of socialism.

    One of the most consequential groups behind the surge of radical leftist candidates in New York’s and Colorado’s congressional primaries was a super PAC formed earlier this year, calling itself American Priorities. After filing with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) in February of this year, the group pledged to spend more than $10 million during the 2026 midterms and declared that its goal, according to founder Hannah Fertig, was “to make sure that someone’s there to protect candidates who question these [pro-Israel] policies,” countering the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

    The group invested about $2 million in supporting Adam Hamawy, an Egyptian-born physician who has testified on behalf of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheikh convicted of seditious conspiracy for his part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Thanks in part to the group’s generous contributions, Hamawy handily won the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 12th District.

    American Priorities then spent an additional $2 million across the river in New York, contributing to the successful campaigns of Brad Lander, who unseated the incumbent, Congressman Dan Goldman, in a campaign focused largely on vilifying Israel, and Darializa Avila Chevalier, who unseated Adriano Espaillat in New York’s 13th District while doubling down on a host of controversial statements, from using the American flag as a napkin to supporting Hamas in the immediate aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023. The super PAC also spent $150,000 on TV ads to help democratic socialist Melat Kiros win Colorado’s 1st District primary.

    Who, then, is behind American Priorities?

    Public reports reveal that the group’s two largest donors, by far, are Omer Hasan and Mohammad Waqas Javed, who were described in the press as former Silicon Valley executives who recently became involved in politics and about whom “little is publicly known.”

    But Hasan and Javed, as a simple web search reveals, are both alums of the same company, the mobile advertising and data company AppLovin, founded in 2012.

    The company’s path to becoming one of the world’s most highly valued ad tech companies is highly unorthodox. According to The Economist, for example, the company’s share price has climbed more than 30-fold between 2022 and 2025, an astonishing feat for any company but particularly for one that, for years, wallowed in obscurity in the murky waters of app-monetization solutions.

    In 2018, six years after it was launched, the company introduced a mobile-gaming publishing arm. “The result,” explained ad tech analyst Rio Longacre, “was a self-reinforcing flywheel: more games meant more first-party data, which fueled better optimization, which in turn strengthened both the AdTech stack and the company’s foothold in the gaming ecosystem.” Which, naturally, also raised considerable concerns: AppLovin was now both running the advertising platform and selling inventory, which inspired many critics to strongly doubt the validity of the numbers it was reporting.

    But the company’s growth—and the vehemence of its critics—grew far more exponentially in 2022, when it pivoted away from being primarily a gaming company to “an AdTech company powered by AI-driven performance optimization,” a giant de facto machine learning operation. The company’s many detractors, Longacre noted, now charged it with “money flowing between entities the public can’t fully scrutinize, creating the illusion of third-party demand when some of it may simply be internal recycling. They also highlight the quality of traffic inside the system, pointing to patterns that resemble click-farm-adjacent behavior—bursts of installs from low-value regions, strange retention curves, and activity that seems optimized more for algorithmic signaling than real user engagement.”

    To assess the validity of these claims, it helps to know who AppLovin partners with. In 2016, the company agreed to be bought by Orient Hontai Capital, a state-backed Chinese private equity firm. The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, an interagency government body dedicated to monitoring the national security implications of large-scale business transactions, objected, and the deal was subsequently amended.

    The Chinese connection, however, was far from over: One of the company’s largest investors is one Hao Tang, who, according to regulatory filings in 2025, owned 3.2% of AppLovin, valued at roughly $4.6 billion. Other reports claim that Tang controls, through shell companies, at least 9.8% of Class A shares, making him the company’s largest individual shareholder beside AppLovin’s CEO, Adam Foroughi, who told Fox News in April, when AppLovin was trying to acquire TikTok’s non-Chinese assets, that he remains the largest shareholder.

    Snip.

    At the moment, $2 million of American Priorities’ war chest comes from Hasan and Javed (an additional $500,000 came from another former AppLovin team member, Tariq Afaq Ahmed, according to FEC filings). As attention on both the left and the right continues to focus on AIPAC and its alleged impact on American politics, it’s worth noticing that the most prominent PAC on the scene right now is funded primarily by two veterans of a shady tech colossus with strong links to China and repeated allegations of ties to the Communist Party in Beijing.

  • “Graham Platner Formally Withdraws from Maine Senate Race Following Sexual Assault Allegation.” “Democrats will now have until 5 p.m. July 27 to name their replacement candidate.”
  • Democrats didn’t care that Platner was a nasty Nazi communist rapist, they only cared that he looked like he was going to lose. (Hat tip: Charlie Martin at Instapundit.)
  • New Report on ‘Rogue’ District Attorneys in Texas Calls for Reforms at State Level.”

    A new analysis from a Texas think tank found a correlation between district attorneys’ non-prosecution policies and increases in crime, but with few state options for addressing so-called “rogue” prosecutors, the group suggests that Texas lawmakers should consider reforms next year.

    Ross Jackson, a senior policy analyst for Right on Crime at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, said he has been researching the issue since last fall.

    “There are correlations that are particularly evident in Austin and Minneapolis and some other cities around the country and it’s more evident in cities and counties where there hasn’t historically been a huge crime rate like in Austin,” Jackson told The Texan.

    According to Jackson’s report, Austin experienced one of the most dramatic surges in violent and property crimes in recent years, which saw the city’s homicide rate climb by over 60 percent between 2016 and 2024.

    Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza, who was first elected in 2020, has been accused of dropping or reducing charges in hundreds of criminal cases, including one in which an appeals court had called for a new trial. Last year, Garza’s office reportedly failed to bring timely indictments for crimes that included violent felonies, leading to the dismissals of hundreds of cases.

    Attempts to remove Garza through House Bill (HB) 17, a state law enacted in 2023, have failed, and he has ignored calls for his resignation over mishandled cases. Jackson noted that HB 17 is limited to removing district attorneys who officially adopt non-prosecution policies in conflict with state law, and does not apply to those who adopt informal policies or internal guidance.

    Jackson noted that some proposed legislative remedies face high hurdles.

    The policy solutions examined by Jackson include mechanisms to discipline or remove district attorneys, as well as avenues for prosecuting serious crimes when the local district attorney or a county prosecuting attorney fails to do so.

    One possibility suggested by Jackson is creation of a new state commission to provide oversight and administer discipline. The model he suggested is based on the state’s former Prosecuting Attorneys Coordinating Council that operated between 1977 and 1983. While state lawmakers could create such a council through statute, Jackson noted that an amendment to the Texas Constitution would be needed to allow the council to remove district attorneys.

    Constitutional amendments require the support of two thirds of both chambers of the Legislature, which usually requires bipartisan support, as well as approval by voters in a statewide election.

    Jackson also noted that state lawmakers could give authority to the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to discipline rogue prosecutors, but giving it a removal mechanism would also likely require a constitutional amendment.

    One possibility for prosecuting cases dropped by prosecutors would be to give that power to the Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG). Under a 2021 Texas Criminal Court of Appeals opinion, the OAG may only prosecute cases referred by a local district attorney or county attorney.

    “Unless the Court reverses their decision, giving the OAG that authority would definitely require a constitutional amendment,” said Jackson. “I think that would be the most difficult option legislatively, just given the partisan nature of that position. I don’t see many crossover voters on something like that.”

    Other options include creating a state prosecutor or creating five new regional district attorneys, each anchored in one of Texas’ urban areas.

    Jackson says that lawmakers appear to have the authority to create a state prosecutor or regional district attorneys through statute, but the regional approach may also require a constitutional amendment and may necessitate the creation of new courts — a more costly option for taxpayers.

    Earlier this year, Gov. Greg Abbott cited Garza’s history as Travis County’s district attorney in his call for new legislation to create a statewide prosecutor and a mechanism for removing rogue prosecutors. Texas Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), now the GOP nominee for state attorney general, has also voiced support for a statewide prosecutor.

    In addition to Garza, Jackson’s report identified concerns over district attorney policies in both Bexar and Dallas counties. In Bexar County, District Attorney Joe Gonzales gave local law enforcement officers the option to issue tickets for certain “drug, theft, and traffic misdemeanors in lieu of jail time,” and Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot announced that he would no longer pursue charges against “low-level, first-time drug offenders.” Cruezot rescinded a previous policy in 2022 of declining to prosecute low-level theft.

  • “113 Active Spies From Foreign Countries Arrested.”

    The FBI has arrested 113 active spies from foreign nations, agency director Kash Patel said on Wednesday.

    The arrests of foreign spies “means our tech stays home and our defense secrets stay locked down,” a video shared by Patel on X said. “But the FBI didn’t stop there. They forced 62 removals of Chinese spies in 2026 alone.”

    The video added that this has shattered the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) deep cover operations against the United States.

    The House Committee on Homeland Security released a report in February 2025 detailing multiple cases of espionage conducted by the CCP in the United States since 2021.

    The cases, spread across 20 U.S. states, involved the transmission of sensitive military information to Beijing, stealing trade secrets to benefit the regime, transnational repression schemes targeting Chinese dissidents, and obstruction of justice. Every 12 hours, the FBI opened new cases to counter Beijing’s intelligence operations, according to the report.

    The report noted that the CCP’s theft of U.S. intellectual property amounts to roughly $4,000 to $6,000 annually per American family of four after paying taxes.

    In one prominent case, a senior adviser to the State Department was arrested in October 2025, accused of taking thousands of top-secret documents and meeting with Chinese officials. The individual allegedly downloaded and saved documents related to U.S. fighter jets and weapons capabilities.

    On Jan. 12 this year, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a former U.S. Navy sailor was sentenced to 200 months in prison for spying for Beijing.

    The person had access to sensitive national defense information about the amphibious assault ship U.S.S. Essex, such as its weapons, propulsion, and desalination systems. These ships are a “cornerstone of the U.S. Navy’s amphibious readiness and expeditionary strike capabilities,” according to the DOJ statement. The sailor sold critical information to a Chinese intelligence officer for $12,000.

    More recently, on June 4, the DOJ announced that a U.S. citizen pleaded guilty to acting as an agent for China. The man, who lived in China, would travel to the United States to meet with individuals who could provide him, and ultimately the Chinese Ministry of State Security, with important information.

  • Finally: “Vance announces investigation into alleged H-1B visa fraud.”

    Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration has opened an investigation into allegations of fraud within the H-1B visa program, which allows foreign workers to legally work in the United States on a temporary basis.

    The visas allow U.S. companies to hire high-skilled foreign workers to serve in occupations such as healthcare, technology and education, while critics argued big businesses use the program to import cheap labor to replace Americans.

    “Big corporations and fraudsters overseas are using this program to undercut the wages of American workers,” Vance said in a speech in Milwaukee. “If you are trying to take advantage of that visa program, you are not allowed into the United States.”

    President Donald Trump tapped Vance as his “fraud czar” in early April. Since his appointment, he has overseen major fraud busts across the nation, including against allegedly fraudulent hospices in Los Angeles and other operations in Minneapolis and Maine.

    Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito said the administration is also investigating alleged fraud in the Permanent Labor Certification visa process, and that investigators have already begun to issue dozens of subpoenas in relation to the probe.

    “This is another example where fraud is fueling violent crime,” D’Esposito told Fox Business. “Much of the visa and the human trafficking that we see when it comes to this foreign labor is tied to cartels, is tied to transnational gangs, and this is the work that we should be doing, not only to make America safe again, but to make America more affordable again.”

    I hope they take a close look at Microsoft. (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)

  • “Big Drone Strike On St. Petersburg Oil Terminal: Multiple Impacts.”
  • “Ukrainian Drones Hit Omsk Refinery! Russia’s Largest! Su-57’s Deployed in Defence!” As I’ve said before, if they can hit Omsk, they should target the Transiberian railway bridge over the Irtysh river.
  • “Ukraine Hits TWO Oil Refineries: Nizhnekamsk Oil Refinery and Saratov Oil Refinery.”
  • “Big HIMARS Strike on Belgorod: Fuel at Airport, Powerplant and Gas Pipeline All Hit.”
  • Ukraine hits ten power substations in Crimea.
  • And 13 more! “This makes 48 ships hit in four days.” (More. Still more.)
  • “Ukraine Shoots Down Su-35 With Top Russian Pilot: Possibly Air-To-Air
  • “Russian MiG-29 Hit by Drone At Belbek Air Base in Crimea.”
  • Moscow oil refinery on fire again. Not clear it’s actually a Ukrainian attack.
  • Last Russian infiltrators cleared from Kharkiv.
  • Heh: “If you have a VPN, you can edit in real time the status of gas stations in Russia.”
  • “Cuba’s Entire Power Grid Collapses As Castro’s Grandson Seeks Talks With Trump.”

    Hours after USA Today published an interview between one of its journalists and Cuban President Castro’s grandson, Raúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, the communist-run island experienced an island-wide power grid collapse.

    The electrical workers’ union said the entire power grid went offline and that officials were investigating the cause. Cuba’s energy ministry confirmed the blackout and said crews were working to restore service.

    “A total disconnection of the National Electric Power System is occurring. The causes are being investigated,” the electrical workers’ union wrote on X.

    And that was the first blackout. It just blacked out again today…

  • Spencer Pratt on how how commies erase history and memories.
  • “Soros Continues To Pump Money Into Efforts To Turn Texas Blue. George Soros funds the Texas Majority PAC, which is supporting a left-wing slate for the 2026 election cycle.”

    According to Transparency USA, Soros has already funneled over $1 million into the Texas Majority PAC. The federal American Bridge PAC, long aligned with Soros, has contributed $7.57 million to the Texas Majority PAC.

    The Soros family has poured a staggering $103 million nationwide into the 2026 election cycle so far.

    The Texas Majority PAC exists to turn Texas into a blue state by electing Democrats to statewide offices.

    Snip.

    Texas Gun Rights is warning that Texas Majority PAC-backed candidates, including James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa, Vikki Goodwin, Nathan Johnson, Sarah Eckhardt, Jon Rosenthal, and Clayton Tucker, support radical anti-gun policies such as red flag laws, raising the age to purchase guns, gun-registration schemes, and the outright banning and seizure of common semi-automatic firearms.

    “Soros and his allies are not investing millions in Texas because they think this is a lost cause. They are doing it because they believe Texas can be flipped,” warned Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt.

  • “Abbott Appoints Comptroller Candidate Don Huffines to Fill Outgoing Hancock’s Unexpired Term.” Huffines ran against Abbott for the 2022 Republican gubernatorial nomination.
  • “Texas Ban on In-State Tuition for Illegals Upheld by Federal Court.”

    A federal appellate court has upheld an agreement between Texas and the Trump administration ending in-state tuition for illegal aliens in compliance with federal law.

    The Texas Dream Act, enacted in 2001, formerly allowed qualifying illegal alien students to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities.

    In June 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice sued the State of Texas, arguing that federal law preempted the Texas Dream Act.

    According to the suit, federal law preempts any state rules that grant illegal aliens benefits not afforded to all U.S. citizens. The Texas Dream Act did this because U.S. citizens from outside the state were forced to pay higher rates than the qualifying aliens.

    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ultimately agreed with the DOJ, settling the case.

  • “Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar Faces Removal Bid Amid Federal Fraud Case. The lawsuit seeks Martin Cuellar’s removal following his federal indictment on fraud and money laundering charges tied to an alleged COVID-era disinfecting scheme.”

    Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar, the brother of Democrat U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, faces a state court hearing Thursday as proceedings move forward in an effort to remove him from office while he awaits trial on federal fraud and money laundering charges.

    A docket control conference is set for 9 a.m. in the 49th District Court in the case seeking Cuellar’s removal under Chapter 87 of the Texas Local Government Code.

    The removal petition was filed in May by former Laredo City Councilman Alfonso “Poncho” Casso, who alleges Cuellar committed official misconduct based on the conduct underlying a federal criminal indictment returned last year.

    According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Cuellar conspired with former Webb County Sheriff’s Office Assistant Chief Ricardo Rodriguez and others to operate a private disinfecting business during the COVID-19 pandemic using sheriff’s office employees, equipment, and other county resources.

    Federal prosecutors allege the business, Disinfect Pro Master, secured a $500,000 contract to disinfect schools in the United Independent School District while relying almost entirely on sheriff’s office personnel and supplies to perform the work.

    Coverage of the federal charges here.

  • The Republican heads of the Texas Senate and House are teaming up to support ibogaine research.

    Texas lawmakers are continuing to push for advancements in state-led ibogaine research, following an executive order from President Donald Trump.

    Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows sent a letter this week to the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston (UTHealth Houston), University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), and Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

    The letter refers to Senate Bill (SB) 2308, passed in the 89th Legislature, which created a state-sponsored consortium for the purpose of conducting research and clinical trials into ibogaine, a naturally occurring psychoactive compound. The drug is being studied for its potential benefit for those suffering from traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction, and other mental health conditions.

    However, as the letter affirms, no proposals set forth by pharmaceutical companies met the standards required for the state to move forward with clinical trials.

    Patrick and Burrows commented on the lack of readiness to proceed: “This should not preclude the State of Texas from independently proceeding with this vital work through our university research partners as spelled out in the March 31 press release from both the House and Senate.”

    The press release in reference announced Texas’ allocation of $50 million toward research into the drug.

  • YouTube warns that the Labour government wants censor creators by algorithm.

    American video-sharing platform YouTube told users in Britain that, under pressure from the left-wing Labour Party government, independent creators will likely see their content suppressed.

    The British government has been accused of attempting to silence political opposition, with YouTube telling UK creators that proposed new rules would include a “prominence regime” that would force sites like YouTube to give a “privileged position” to the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, and other legacy media.

    The notice said that artificially propping up establishment media would naturally result in independent media being downranked and obscured from view, as “pushing this group forward means pushing everyone else downward. Mandatory prioritisation of broadcasters would affect how your content reaches your audience, regardless of what your audience actually wants to see.”

    “Mandating prominence for established media networks would push the UK’s diverse mix of independent journalists, educators, and digital-first businesses down the line,” YouTube added.

    Snip.

    The government is said to have told the site that legacy broadcasters had the “trust” of the state to provide accurate reporting, which YouTube noted implies that “digital-first voices are less credible, damaging the foundational trust that sustains the creator economy.”

    Translation: Labour to suppress coverage of Muslim rape gangs and anything else that makes it look bad.

    This comes despite the BBC recently facing significant scandals involving the accuracy of its reporting, including last year when it was forced to apologise to U.S. President Trump after a documentary produced by the public broadcaster deceptively spliced together different sections of his speech on January 6th 2021, to falsely give the impression that he had encouraged supporters to riot, when he did the exact opposite.

    Just last month, the BBC was also forced to issue an apology to Brexit leader Nigel Farage after one of its presenters fabricated fictitious quotes from the Reform UK leader in the wake of the killing of handcuffed teen Henry Nowak.

    Commenting on the notice from YouTube, Mr Farage said: “Look at this appalling state censorship. Labour now want to seize control of YouTube’s algorithm. They want YouTube to artificially boost the BBC and Channel 4’s content, and suffocate independent journalists and producers.

    “The BBC has been biased to pro-mass migration, open borders, and Net Zero views these past few decades. It’s part of the reason we’re in a mess. The BBC’s own internal reports admit and document some of this bias.

    “People have moved to X and YouTube in part as a response to it. And now, Labour want to control what they see there? Reform will scrap this heavy handed lunacy.”

    Insert your own 1984 reference here.

  • UK Health Secretary flips on tranny madness.

    Listen to this extraordinary exchange between [GB News Broadcaster] Camilla Tominey and Labour’s Health Secretary James Murray. It is genuinely jaw-dropping.

    Camilla: “You’re quite pro-trans, aren’t you? Do you think a woman can have a penis? Because you did previously?”

    Murray: “No, I don’t.”

    Camilla: “So you’ve changed your mind?”

    Murray: “Yes.”

    Camilla: “Why?”

    Murray stumbles. He says he’s been thinking about the issue over recent years and would not now say trans women are women.

    The Labour Party is in many ways more loony than the Democrats. If tranny madness has broken there, maybe it’s finally receding globally.

  • “Nigel Farage, leader of Britain’s Reform UK party, said Tuesday he is resigning as the member of Parliament for Clacton to trigger a by-election in the Essex constituency, which he intends to contest as the party’s candidate.”
  • Speaking of the UK, former Tory and current Reform MP Ann Widdecombe was murdered in her home. Police have a 26 year old man in custody.
  • “ICE Agent Fatally Shot Man During Houston Operation in Self-Defense. Federal officials say a Mexican national used his truck as a weapon during a Magnolia Park enforcement operation before an ICE agent shot him.” Magnolia Park is an old Houston neighborhood southeast of downtown along Buffalo Bayou.

    The man has been identified as Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.

    According to the Department of Homeland Security, ICE agents attempted to stop Salgado Araujo’s vehicle around 6:50 a.m. in the 6800 block of Canal Street. DHS said Salgado Araujo rammed an ICE vehicle, ignored multiple verbal commands and used his vehicle in an attempt to run over an agent, who then fired his weapon in self-defense. Three other people were detained during the stop.

    Salgado Araujo suffered a gunshot wound to his abdomen, according to the Houston Fire Department, and was taken to Ben Taub Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

    Two separate federal investigations are now underway. The FBI’s Houston field office is investigating a possible assault on a federal officer, while the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General is reviewing the shooting itself.

    Houston police said they have no role in the case and referred questions to federal authorities.

  • “Texas Stock Exchange Has Officially Begun Trading. TXSE officially opened its doors to begin trading on Monday.​”

    Based in Dallas, TXSE began its phased rollout in July. The firm’s launch comes as major financial institutions, including BlackRock and Citadel Securities, have invested over $120 million in the new exchange since 2024. The exchange gained federal approval last year and attracted investment from several other firms, bringing total investment to more than $275 million.

    TXSE opened its doors at 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning to approved brokers, banks, and trading firms. For now, brokers are trading only test stocks. Thousands of symbols, such as TSLA (Tesla), will come online in July, with an announcement to precede it. That rollout will officially allow the public to trade stocks on the exchange.

    TXSE officials also hope to have exchange-traded products, or ETPs, trading by the end of the third quarter. ETPs allow investors to gain exposure to a wide variety of investment products, such as oil or the S&P 500.

    While all trading is primarily done through electronic mediums, exchange locations still matter because brokers predominantly invest in local businesses. TXSE has the ingredients for success, including a large number of Fortune 500 companies that have recently relocated to Texas and a rapidly growing financial district in Dallas.

    Stockbrokers tend to make a fair bit of money, and Dallas will enjoy some second order economic benefits from having the exchange there.

  • The enemy within.

    At just 16 years old, Calla Walsh was celebrated by the New York Times as part of an “influential new force in Democratic politics” for her work on the campaigns of Senator Ed Markey (D., Mass) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.)

    But six years on, Walsh is making headlines again for a much different reason: She recently appeared in an Iranian state-media interview calling the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the “greatest anti-imperialist leader” of her lifetime.

    Walsh, now a 22-year-old full-time resident of Lebanon, has descended from a progressive wunderkind to a radical who has been placed on a suspicious persons watch list by the U.S. government for her “expansive dealings with the governments of Cuba and Iran … as well as a spiderweb of U.S.-designated terrorist groups,” according to the Free Press.

    “He was a leader to all people of the world who struggle against imperialism, arrogance, against Zionism, against genocide,” Walsh said of Khamenei while speaking with Iran’s PressTV about her attendance at his funeral Saturday.

    Snip.

    At just 14, she knocked on doors in Cambridge to encourage residents to support a bill that would prohibit “gender-identity-based discrimination” in public places. One year later, she helped coordinate thousands of young protesters for an international “climate strike” at Boston’s City Hall. At 17, she served as one of the youngest delegates at the Democratic Socialist of America’s National Convention. That same year, the Boston Globe called her a “force in the world of climate activism.”

    She volunteered for Warren’s 2020 presidential campaign and also helped Boston Mayor Michelle Wu’s campaign.

    She received significant notoriety for her efforts in the “Markeyverse” in 2020, an online Gen Z–led movement credited with helping the incumbent senator secure a 2020 primary win over then–Representative Joe Kennedy III. “The Markeyverse carried out a devastating political maneuver, firmly fixing the idea of Senator Markey as a left-wing icon,” the Times reported.

    She went on to hold several other roles in Democratic politics: She served as communications director for Massachusetts state house candidate Jordan Meehan, and she did digital-media work for Boston City Councilor Julia Mejia’s reelection campaign in 2021. She also worked as a regional organizer and strategist for Act on Mass, a progressive nonprofit.

    But the candidates she was working to elect were falling short of her increasingly radical politics. Just two months after she helped to secure Markey’s reelection, she was already protesting outside his office, according to the Free Press. She partnered with CodePink and The People’s Forum to protest the senator’s support for a bill to increase U.S. defense spending in East Asia.

    The makings of her radicalization were beginning to fall in place as early as 2021, when she was invited to Cuba at just 17 years old. She then visited the country four times between 2022 and 2024.

    By the end of 2021, Walsh announced her exit from the Democratic Party and electoral politics. She explained that she’d been disappointed by Markey in the aftermath of his reelection win and that she’d learned that no party or candidate could spur the revolutionary change she wanted — it might be achieved only by “direct action, protest, and internationalist solidarity.”

    Soon after, she posted a Me Too account of an inappropriate relationship she had with a 27-year-old campaign field director in Massachusetts when she was just 16. She and the older man had sexually explicit conversations during a yearlong relationship that included in-person meetings but did not involve sex.

    “Most of the interactions I have with men and adults I work with in politics are tainted by my trauma and fears of being sexually exploited again,” she wrote.

    Funny how you meet so many scumbags in Democrat politics.

    In addition to her trips to Cuba, Walsh also notably appeared in Chinese state-media propaganda videos in 2022 to criticize then–House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for leading a congressional delegation to Taiwan. Walsh was involved, at least for a time, with CodePink and The People’s Forum which are led by Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, who are both under investigation for their suspected ties to Chinese intelligence services.

    Her trips to Cuba ultimately led to her introduction to Fergie Chambers, a Marxist organizer and millionaire heir to the Cox Communications empire. Walsh met Chambers, who is 20 years her senior, at a 2022 conference in Cuba. That meeting seemed to supercharge her extremism.

    Democrat, liberal, progressive, social justice warrior, radical, extremist, socialist, communist, terrorist. It’s funny how, say, 40 years ago, these were distinct categories, but now it’s an ever tightening Venn diagram of extremism. What’s the line between a “progressive” and an “extremist”? The first time they assault a Jew?

    We previously covered Walsh’s pro-Ayatollah policies here.

  • Important safety note for Windows users: Microsoft’s GDID can track you even if you use a VPN.
  • A victory for right to repair: “FTC chairman announces settlement with John Deere to let farmers fix their own equipment again.”

    The Federal Trade Commission, along with five states, secured an important settlement in an antitrust lawsuit against farm equipment manufacturer Deere & Company that will ensure farmers can enjoy the right to repair their own John Deere tractors and farm equipment.

    For the next decade, Deere will be required to give farmers and independent repair shops “the same equipment repair resources, including applicable software capabilities” as its stealerships – err, dealerships.

    ‘Today’s settlement enables farmers to do what they’ve done for generations — fix their own tractors and other farm equipment — without having to pay an authorized John Deere dealer to do it for them,’ said FTC Bureau of Competition Director Daniel Guarnera. ‘The settlement with Deere will help lower costs for American farmers. The FTC will continue fighting against anticompetitive restrictions on American consumers’ right to repair.’

  • “Maryland man’s truck was stolen while he was busy burglarizing a Verizon store.”
  • Tim Scott helps fire a trebuchet.

  • “Dems Wishing There Had Been Some Sort Of Sign That Platner Was A Bad Person.”
  • “Democrats Quietly Add ‘Have You Raped Anyone?’ To Questionnaire For Aspiring Candidates.”
  • “Embattled Platner Flees To Argentina.”
  • Run free, happy dog:

    (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)

  • I’m still between jobs. Feel free to hit the tip jar if you’re so inclined.





    House Investigates Austin’s Own Soros-Backed DA Jose Garza

    Wednesday, June 24th, 2026

    It turns out if you repeatedly flout Uncle Sam’s immigration laws, sooner or later Uncle Sam is going to notice.

    Congressional Republicans have launched an investigation into Travis County District Attorney José Garza’s handling of immigration-related cases, accusing his office of adopting policies that shield illegal aliens from immigration enforcement and undermine public safety.

    In a letter obtained by Texas Scorecard, U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R–Ohio), Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee Chairman Tom McClintock (R–California), and Constitution and Limited Government Subcommittee Chairman Chip Roy (R–Texas) demanded records from Garza’s office related to its interactions with federal immigration authorities and treatment of noncitizen defendants.

    “The Committee on the Judiciary is conducting oversight of state and local jurisdictions that endanger American communities through their refusal to cooperate with federal immigration officials and their prioritization of illegal and criminal aliens over American citizens,” the lawmakers wrote.

    The letter points to campaign promises made by Garza regarding immigrant communities and his office’s consideration of immigration consequences in criminal prosecutions.

    According to the lawmakers, Garza previously pledged to “protect immigrant communities” and create policies that consider the immigration consequences of criminal charges and convictions. The committee also highlighted Garza’s support for diversion programs that could allow noncitizen defendants to avoid criminal convictions carrying immigration consequences.

    “Under your office’s pro-crime, pro-illegal immigration policies, illegal alien criminals are allowed to freely operate, terrorize local communities, and reoffend without consequences,” the lawmakers wrote.

    Just like the offices of other Soros-backed DAs. See also: Larry Krasner and George Gascon (among others).

    The committee is seeking a broad range of records dating back to January 2021, including communications with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, policies related to the prosecution of non-U.S. citizens, training materials concerning immigration consequences, and communications with local law enforcement agencies regarding immigration enforcement.

    Lawmakers also requested records involving cases in which prosecutors considered immigration consequences, including instances in which defendants were allowed to replead charges or had convictions reduced or vacated.

    Roy said the inquiry builds on concerns he has previously raised about Garza’s office.

    “Under District Attorney José Garza, Austin has been failed by pro-criminal policies that weaken accountability and prioritize lawbreakers over public safety,” Roy told Texas Scorecard. “This dereliction of duty has raised serious questions about whether repeat offenders, including criminal aliens, are being adequately prosecuted and whether the safety of law-abiding Austin residents is being put first.”

    Of course American Citizens aren’t being put first. Garza and Soros prioritize putting criminal back out on the streets in the name of socials justice, not to mention the needs of keeping illegal aliens around as welfare state clients and to vote for Democrats.

    Congressional hearings are one thing, but Roy et al need to refer Garza to the Department of Justice for prosecution (and all other Soros-backed DAs) for ignoring the law in favor of putting hardened criminal and illegal alien felons back on the street.

    Judges Tire Of Soros-Backed DA Krasner Lying To Them

    Saturday, June 20th, 2026

    Judges hate it when people lie to them, and when they do it over and over again, they start to get pissed. And the office of Soros-backed Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner seems to be lying to them an awful lot.

    Most of the mainstream media isn’t spending much effort to cover the slow-rolling collapse of Soros-prosecutor District Attorney Larry Krasner.

    At least I HOPE it will be a collapse, as judges turn on Krasner not so much for his soft-on-crime policies, about which they can do little directly, but for his office’s illegal tactics used to help convicted murderers get out of jail.

    I wrote about decision #1 yesterday, in which the Democrat-dominated Pennsylvania Supreme Court blasted Krasner’s office for lying to the courts about deficiencies in trials for convicted murderers, conceding—falsely—that prior D.A.’s had committed errors (or worse) in pursuing convictions of murderers.

    By doing so, they gave what amounted to get-out-of-jail tickets to murderers. With convictions vacated, Krasner’s office did not give up the right to retry the cases, but it’s pretty hard to expect that an office that committed what amounted to perjury to help convicts overturn their convictions would then pursue the subsequent cases with vigor. At best, they purposely helped the defense and endangered cases that were won; at worst, they decided to just let guilty people go free.

    The Supreme Court was not amused, and essentially defanged Krasner’s office, allowing the Attorney General of Pennsylvania to intervene in cases as required.

    In a forceful and scolding opinion, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office misled the courts, “violated its duty of candor,” and submitted false statements when asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.

    In the opinion released Tuesday, Justice Kevin Dougherty wrote that prosecutors’ pattern of misleading judges in seeking to overturn murder convictions is so troubling and recurrent that, going forward, before Krasner’s office seeks such relief, judges must notify the state attorney general’s office and allow it to review the case.

    The decision amounted to one of the most scathing rebukes yet of Krasner’s efforts to revisit decades-old convictions, and arrives amid intensifying scrutiny of the office’s Conviction Integrity Unit and appeals division, whose handling of post-conviction cases has drawn criticism from judges in both state and federal court.

    Just last week, Krasner’s office reversed course in a separate murder case, writing in a federal court filing that one of its prosecutors had made “material misstatements” and submitted “legally erroneous” statements when seeking to overturn a man’s murder conviction. The office sought to withdraw its recommendation to grant the defendant a new trial.

    This decision is, as far as I can tell, one of the most scathing rebukes of a District Attorney in memory. It’s pretty shocking, actually. The Justices spared no mercy to Krasner and company, and with good reason.

    Snip.

    Now comes round two: a federal court just sanctioned one of Krasner’s former attorneys who was in charge of this program, barring her for three years from cases before the court.

    Nancy Winkelman was suspended for three years by a panel of federal judges who found that she was complicit in efforts to mislead a federal judge while seeking to overturn the death sentence of a man convicted of killing an East Mount Airy couple in the 1980s and allow him to serve life in prison instead.

    The ruling, made public this week, adds to the mounting judicial scrutiny of post-conviction work in Krasner’s office. On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court imposed remarkable new restrictions on prosecutors’ efforts to reverse potentially problematic convictions.

    In a forceful and scolding opinion, the high court said Krasner’s office misled judges, submitted false statements, and “violated its duty of candor” in asking a judge to vacate a 2004 murder conviction.

    The court wrote that prosecutors’ actions in the case were part of a troubling pattern of conduct in seeking to overturn murder convictions and ordered that, going forward, the state attorney general’s office must be asked to review and weigh in on all such cases.

    The panel of federal judges, in ordering Winkelman’s suspension, echoed some of those concerns.

    Nor did the viciousness of the murders in question prevent Krasner’s office from lying to get said murderers sprung.

    The three-judge panel, in a ruling issued in March and unsealed this week, said Winkelman and a subordinate, former assistant district attorney Paul George, misled a federal judge by misrepresenting parts of the case while attempting to reverse the death sentence of Robert Wharton.

    Wharton was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death for the 1984 strangulation and drowning deaths of Bradley and Ferne Hart inside their East Mount Airy home.

    The jury found that Wharton, angry over a disputed debt, spent months terrorizing the family before he forced his way inside the home at knifepoint and killed the couple. Afterward, he turned off the heat, leaving the couple’s seven-month-old baby, Lisa, to freeze to death — but she survived.

    Decades later, prosecutors in Krasner’s office, in seeking to vacate his death sentence, suggested in court that the victims’ family backed their effort. But it was later discovered that they had consulted only one relative and never contacted Lisa Hart-Newman, the couple’s surviving daughter, who strongly opposed the move.

    George later acknowledged that was a mistake, and U.S. District Judge Mitchell Goldberg ordered Krasner to write apology letters to the Harts’ relatives.

    Goldberg, who denied the request to reduce Wharton’s sentence, later said George’s and Winkelman’s review of the case was “patently deficient,” and that they violated federal rules of procedure in a manner that was “egregious” and “exceptional.”

    The two prosecutors then faced federal disciplinary proceedings to examine whether they’d been intentionally deceptive.

    Last year, the three-judge panel found that George had lied to Goldberg about key facts, “flouted the interests of the public and the victims’ families,” and acted as the “quarterback” of efforts by the district attorney’s office to undo or undermine all death penalty cases.

    Is it possible to have them tried for perjury? I am not a lawyer, so I am unclear whether lying in documents to the court count the same as perjury under oath.

    Apparently, among the “needed reforms” Krasner refers to, letting convicted murderers escape punishment by lying to courts is on the top of the list.

    Two courts so far have made clear that Krasner’s office is not only pursuing bad policies, which could be “justified” by the fact that Krasner was elected, but also willing to break the law to do so in the name of “reform.”

    Given that Krasner got some 75% of the vote the last time he was elected, it seems that ordinary Philadelphians are either ignorant of his love of criminals and mindlessly pull the D lever, or are aware of them and side with the criminals as well…

    (Hat tip: Director Blue.)

    Abbott Seeks New Crime Fighting Tools

    Tuesday, May 19th, 2026

    Texas is a law-and-order state, but soft-on-crime Democrats are hellbent on undoing public order in blue cities, so Texas Governor Greg Abbott is asking for new tools to correct the errors of their ways.

    In an ongoing push for public safety, Gov. Greg Abbott called for state lawmakers to pass legislation next year that would create a state prosecutor, deny bail to illegal aliens charged with violent crimes, and allow for the impeachment of “rogue” district attorneys.

    “I talk to victims … almost every day, and they’re angry about the current system and how the current system is failing them,” said Abbott during a press conference in Austin on Thursday. “I’m here today to provide solutions that we are going to pass this next session to ensure that victims’ rights are fought for, and we have their back and we are going to make our communities safer.”

    Flanked by law enforcement and state lawmakers, including newly elected Texas Sen. Brett Ligon (R-Conroe), Abbott touted the success of a task force launched in the Houston area last October and said he had expanded the coordinated multi-agency effort to arrest repeat offenders to include Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio.

    “In a matter of half a year, [they] had tremendous success, arresting over 700 of these repeat offenders,” said Abbott.

    According to the governor’s office, the arrests included 455 “high threat” offenders and 155 known gang members. The task force has also seized 225,000 lethal doses of fentanyl, 115 pounds of methamphetamine, and 110 weapons, and recovered 25 stolen vehicles.

    Abbott highlighted accomplishments from the last legislative session, but said lawmakers needed to do more and called for the passage of a constitutional amendment that would automatically deny bail to illegal immigrants accused of violent crime.

    A similar proposal passed in the Texas Senate last year with the two-thirds majority needed to pass a proposed constitutional amendment, but fell short of the 100 votes needed in the House.

    Abbott also reiterated his push to create a state prosecutor who would be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Texas Senate.

    “The Travis County District Attorney failed to bring indictments for more than 200 people who were arrested and were behind bars, and he failed to bring those indictments within 90 days as required by law,” said Abbott. “Because of that failure, those people who have been arrested for crimes, including murder, were required to be let out from jail on very low bond.”

    “A person arrested for murder was allowed to get out of jail for a $1 bond. That’s outrageous.”

    In addition to adding a state criminal prosecutor, Abbott said there should be a process for impeaching district attorneys.

    “Every statewide officer, every legislator, every district judge — they are subject to impeachment,” said Abbott. “The only elected official I’m aware of who is not subject to impeachment is a district attorney. Why are they excluded?”

    Noting that there have only been three impeachments in Texas history, Abbott dismissed claims that impeachment could be used as a political tool to attack a district attorney as “a failed argument.”

    Abbott said Ligon, the former Montgomery County district attorney, would be helping to draft the legislation addressing rogue prosecutors.

    “The governor shared private comments with me that with his permission, I would share with you,” said Ligon. “What he told me was that he believed that the number one job for the state of Texas is to protect its people.”

    “The way that you protect your people is you demand accountability of your elected group of district attorneys. The district attorney is the highest law enforcement officer in every community,” added Ligon.

    He also took aim at Travis County District Attorney José Garza.

    “There are only two ways to describe what’s going on here in Travis County. It’s absolutely ineffectual, or it’s intentional, and either way, it’s going to stop,” vowed Ligon.

    It’s intentional. Like other Soros-backed leftwing DAs, Garza seems to regard it as a holy social justice imperative to put dangerous criminal back out on the streets as quickly as possible.

    Garza has faced mounting calls for his resignation due to alleged prosecutorial misconduct and his handling of violent suspects.

    Kristina Byington, whose sister Anita was murdered in Austin in 1991, was among the victims’ families present for Abbott’s press conference.

    Although Texas courts called for a retrial of Anita’s alleged killer, Allen Andre Causey, Garza instead dropped the case and instructed the state to pay Causey $2.5 million in compensation.

    These all seem like solid, common-sense proposals. Even better would be for voters in blue cities to stop electing Soros-backed pro-crime DAs…