Latinas Are Pushing a Political Revolution in South Texas—to the Right

Texas Monthly ^ | March 9, 2022 | Jack Herrera

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Through 2019 and 2020 the women worked to increase Republican turnout across South Texas, with Flores running Hispanic outreach. For the most part, they toiled out of the spotlight. Even when De La Cruz announced a congressional bid, in 2020, to try to unseat two-term Democratic congressman Vicente Gonzalez, national and state Republicans paid little attention to her campaign... In 2016 Donald Trump hadn’t even mustered 30 percent of the vote in Hidalgo County, where Gonzalez’s district was anchored.

Then everything changed. The world of South Texas politics was rocked in November of 2020, when Trump far surpassed expectations in all the counties along the Rio Grande, and De La Cruz came within three points of ousting Gonzalez. Long-established Democratic fiefdoms now looked like disputed territories. Progressive Democrats’ messaging about defunding the police, abolishing the Border Patrol, and promoting green energy had proven deeply unpopular.

Republicans have rushed to take advantage. Almost $2 million has poured into one House race alone. The Republican National Committee has opened new Hispanic community centers in Laredo, McAllen, and San Antonio, drawing in curious residents with taco breakfasts and movie nights... This year, after Peña-Garza launched her reelection campaign for HCRP chair, she received a video endorsement from Donald Trump Jr.

Shortly after the 2020 election, Flores announced (using the hashtag #SomosConservadores) her bid to represent the Thirty-fourth Congressional District,.... Flores, who immigrated from Mexico, had built a large following on social media with her hard-line messaging. She’d posed with AR-15s, called Democrats “radical socialist communists,” and sometimes captioned photos with QAnon hashtags, including one meme joking that President Biden wanted to lower the “minimum age” to fifteen. But her district became more Democratic-leaning after the Legislature’s redistricting last year.

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The Republicans need to reorganize - they need to have the message of low taxes, less government, pro life, pro Main Street (nothing wring with Wall Street except they are globalists), pro 2A and America First. We need to get rid of people like Liz Cheney, Mitt Romney and others (now in the Northeast, some RINOs voted with Trump 90% of the time.). Some of our GOP members may not be 100% with us, however, they are better than 0%.

Mid terms will help retired some of them...