Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Senate campaign is launching a new television ad targeting Democratic challenger James Talarico’s record, accusing the state representative of attempting to reinvent himself for a statewide audience while hiding his leftist past. The new ad, titled “Hypocrite,” will air during the Texas Democratic Convention in Corpus Christi, where the event is scheduled to take place from June 25 through the 27. The ad focuses on what the Paxton campaign describes as a growing disconnect between Talarico’s current messaging and his legislative record. “James Talarico is a hypocrite when it comes to fighting for families,” the narrator says in the ad. The commercial highlights several positions that Republicans believe could create vulnerabilities for Talarico in a statewide race, including his opposition to the Save Women’s Sports Act, criticism of the oil and gas industry, and votes against tax-cut legislation. “Talarico wants to teach trans ideology in schools and let boys compete in girls’ sports,” the ad states. “Talarico says it’s immoral to use the oil and gas that employs millions of Texans. Talarico wants higher taxes and policies that will raise prices on families.” The ad concludes by labeling Talarico a “hypocrite” who “will do anything to push his radical agenda, even if it leaves families broke and jobless.” The Paxton campaign says the ad is intended to push back against what it views as an effort by Talarico to moderate his image as he seeks to appeal to a broader Texas electorate. “We will not let Talarico continue to lie to Texans,” a Paxton campaign spokesman told The Daily Wire. “He can try to reinvent himself and hide behind the liberal media all he wants, but the truth remains: at every turn, Talarico has voted against Texas families to advance his radical progressive agenda.” “He can scrub his website and try to deny it, but Texans deserve the truth, and we’re going to make sure they hear it,” the spokesperson added. The new ad comes as Republicans continue scrutinizing Talarico’s past comments on religion, gender, and sexuality. As previously reported by The Daily Wire, Talarico openly credited activist theologian, and transgender identifying woman, Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, as a major intellectual influence during a 2021 podcast appearance, describing himself as a “fan boy” of the theologian’s work and praising the author’s writings for helping shape his worldview. At the time, Talarico told Henderson-Espinoza that books such as “Activist Theology” had helped expand his understanding of politics and faith, arguing that his own “whiteness” and “masculinity” limited his imagination. The relationship has drawn attention because Henderson-Espinoza is not simply a “progressive Christian” scholar, but a self-described “TransQueer Latinx” activist theologian who has argued that even “progressive Christianity” does not go far enough in challenging traditional institutions, doctrine, and social norms. Henderson-Espinoza has advocated for what was described as “transing religion,” opposed legislation preventing biological males from competing in girls’ sports, and built an activist ministry centered on political organizing, social justice activism, and liberation theology. Meanwhile, Talarico has spent months attempting to distance himself from some of his own past remarks, recently describing several previous statements as “cringey.” Those comments included claims that “God is non-binary,” suggestions that there are six biological sexes, and arguments that the Bible does not prohibit abortion. The Paxton campaign appears determined to ensure those issues remain front and center as the Senate race intensifies. With Democrats hoping Talarico can make the race competitive statewide, Republicans are betting that his past statements, votes, and ideological influences will make it difficult for him to successfully reposition himself as a mainstream Texas Democrat.

It’s 1917 all over again. Some communists weren’t communist enough, so the truly radical ones ate them alive. This time, it’s not the Bolsheviks destroying the Mensheviks. It’s the socialists destroying the Democrats. And the organization leading the charge isn’t marching under a red flag; it’s marching under a donkey. Meet the Democratic Socialists of America. Their mission is to hollow out a country they are convinced is the root of all genocide, poverty, and malfeasance in the world, and replace it with third-worldist, communist radicalism that leaves the United States in permanent ignominy. Brutal, right? To prevent that very bleak reality, we need to understand what the DSA is — and why it is the antithesis of America. The DSA is the largest explicitly socialist organization in the United States, with over 100,000 members and chapters across nearly all 50 states. They use young people, TikTok, and apathetic voters to propel obscure candidates to victory and make themselves look more mainstream than they are. They’re a radical, multi-tendency activist organization that runs carefully recruited candidates exclusively as Democrats, while simultaneously pushing campus radicalism, street organizing, and a platform of “democratic socialism.” Which is a fancy new way of saying communism. They want to replace capitalism with top-down government control over private property, housing, healthcare, energy, and more. Democrat policies aren’t radical enough for them. The Democratic Party is simply the vehicle they’re using to Trojan Horse their revolution through. We know this because their leaders are saying it openly. NYC DSA co-chair Gustavo Gordillo recently boasted that the group needs to “turn DSA into a factory,” and admitted their alliance with the Democratic Party is more for a ballot-access vehicle — not because they share its goals. Most of them, in fact, detest the Democratic Party. They compete in Democratic primaries, make their liberal opponents look like MAGA Cavemen by comparison, get elected with a “D” next to their name, and then treat the Democratic establishment as an obstacle to be discarded. Never a home. Always a beachhead. It’s the classic “entryism” — or “dirty break” — strategy: infiltrate the larger party, use its infrastructure and ballot access to grow, then fracture from within. They aren’t hiding it. It’s no wonder they idolize Vladimir Lenin. The long-term plan may seem far-fetched, but its seeds are already sprouting. The DSA started with the Squad: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib — the usual suspects. Then they expanded to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the communist terror-sympathizer who recently declared: “[These] were not just victories from one elected office. They were victories of a movement.” He’s right. That’s exactly the point. The blueprint is methodical: start small in winnable local and state races, build name recognition and infrastructure, primary moderate Democrats, shift the Overton window left on wealth redistribution, housing, policing, immigration, and foreign policy (hating Israel), and eventually capture enough leverage inside the Democratic Party to make it a fully functioning vehicle for socialist priorities. They will do this for as long as it takes. Their stamina outlasts your attention span. They can sustain it because their promises will never go out of style: “Free housing!” “Abolish the police!” “Healthcare is a human right!” (It’s not.) But make no mistake: the only way to fulfill those promises is to seize the means of production, tax your ideas and innovation into the ground, and handicap the creative, the strong, and the successful in the name of forced equality. Vonnegut wrote about where that leads in 1961. Venezuela lived it more recently. The DSA is apparently unaware of either. In the meantime, the mask slips. At a DSA Socialism conference, a panelist openly declared, “I want to perform abortions in a church before it’s all said and done.” This came from a panel on “The Left and the Family,” which also featured arguments for abolishing the nuclear family, placing children under state supervision rather than with parents, and celebrating sex work. Separately, DSA members have stated: “It should not be controversial to say ‘Death to U.S. empire’ — this should be the moderate position,” and “We need to orient ourselves toward insurrection.” So yes. These people exist. They are organized. And while you’re watching Love Island and going on matcha dates, they are winning races. They are also the direct antithesis of everything this country was built on. America’s foundation rests on individual liberty, limited government, secure property rights, free enterprise, and a civic culture rooted in Judeo-Christian tradition. The DSA’s project — collective economic control, mass redistribution, cultural radicalism targeting the family, and the deliberate erosion of American power abroad — attacks every single one of those pillars. Like the Frankfurt School before them, they use American institutions as temporary hosts before devouring them from within. These are not cartoon villains in ski masks plotting gulags for tomorrow. They are organized, funded, patient, and growing today. They believe capitalism is immoral (It’s actually the most moral economic system ever devised), and they are doing everything in their power to kill it. The Democratic Party is just a stepping stone. The Bolsheviks didn’t win because they were right. They won because nobody took them seriously until it was too late. Don’t make the same mistake.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) are not hiding the ball. They despise America. And now they and their allies are forming a winning coalition, not just in New York, but they hope, across America. Three New York City congressional seats are now filled by DSA members or former DSA members. In L.A., another Democratic Socialists of America member may end up as mayor; in New Jersey, a former alleged al-Qaida mouthpiece will likely win a congressional seat; in Michigan a terrorist supporter will likely be elected to the Senate; in Maine, a dude with a literal Nazi tattoo will likely end up in the Senate as well. The rise of the Hate America crowd is the story here. It’s their pitch. It’s not a bug; it’s a feature. I know a lot of people are saying, “No, no, they’re winning in spite of all that.” Wrong. This is how you win with young people. It’s how you signal that you’re not part of the machine. The seeds of all of this were planted long ago. In 2008, the Democratic Party coalition turned into the Barack Obama coalition. By 2012, the Obama coalition had turned into the coalition of the oppressed; by 2016, that coalition of the oppressed had become the anti-Trump coalition. And now the anti-Trump coalition is turning into the Hate America Coalition. Full-scale, all masks off now. The seeds were always there. I often cite this quote from Barack Obama, from his 2007 book Dreams from My Father: I have seen the desperation and disorder of the powerless, how it twist the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does in the lives of children on Chicago’s South Side. How narrow the path is for them between humiliation and untrammeled fury, how easily they slip into violence and despair. I know the response of the powerful to this disorder, alternating as it does between a dull complacency and when the disorder spills out of its proscribed confines, a steady, unthinking application of force of longer prison sentences and more sophisticated military hardware is inadequate to the task. That sentence could have been written by Zohran Mamdani or any of the variety of Democratic Socialists of America candidates. That is their entire matrix of thinking: All suffering all over the world is the fault of evil capitalist free-market systems, and what you really need is an America that apologizes for its presence in the world. They believe there is some sort of ideological solidarity between gang members on the South Side of Chicago  — who, after all, are victims of the system — and teens in Jakarta. There was a reason Barack Obama sat in Jeremiah Wright’s church for decades: he agreed with him. There’s also a reason Barack Obama loves Mamdani: Mamdani is Jeremiah Wright, except he’s much more smarmy, younger, and has a better beard. Bernie Sanders almost won the Democratic nomination in 2016, running against the Democratic Party as an open advocate of anti-American socialism. He won the youth vote outright. Now that the Obama-Sanders coalition has turned into the Mamdani coalition, it’s going to keep getting worse. Here is what the Democratic Socialists of America actually believe – their new platform: Abolish the Senate, replace the president and the Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress. Defund the Department of War completely. Abolish all prisons; free Palestine (of course, naturally, because all complaints about Western civilization must be projected into love for a pseudo- state that loves terrorism); end sanctions on Cuba, Venezuela, and Iran; abolish ICE, grant amnesty for literally everyone; open borders, public ownership of all major corporations, and remake the elections nationwide. The ultimate goal: a Democratic socialist republic. In 2012, the DSA had 6,500 members. By February of this year, that was over 100,000; by the end of this year, it would be shocking if they don’t have at least half a million registered members. Left-wingers and legacy media interlocutors say all these Democratic Socialists of America candidates are winning based on “affordability.” It’s not true. They’re winning primaries, not based on affordability, but from a bunch of white, college educated voters. The Democratic Socialists of America is led by overeducated white people. This professional, disproportionately white, useless class has been manufactured over the last 20, 30, 40 years in university classrooms. They’ve been majoring in absolute junk. They are unemployable losers who have never held a real job. But they did go to the best colleges for years and then more years, and then they can’t get real jobs. So they end up as community organizers or agitators or political aides for crappy candidates who hate the country. The Democratic Socialists of America is a make-work machine for college-educated losers. That’s what it is. And this is who these folks are. The core group is useless people, pseudo-intellectuals, not particularly smart, but granted high degrees in useless crap, who now have extra time on their hands; they’re going to lead the revolution. The second group is people in the Democratic Party who are annoyed with the Democrats because the Democrats are constantly promising the world and failing to deliver, yelling about Trump, but they don’t give you enough. The third group is the people who aren’t watching very closely. The Joe Rogans or the Theo Vons who are perfectly happy, I am sure, to host members of the DSA and hit them with no difficult questions, but talk about how “revolutionary” they are and how they are “changing it up politically.” No deep questions, no serious policy ramifications, but they do make cool TikToks. They never like to talk about solutions, but they do love people who will just complain about the “problems” with “the system,” because now you’re “in the know” and all the rest of the nonsense. And then finally, you have the loyal liberals, right? The partisans. These are people who, if forced to choose between the psychotic Left and the Trump Right, will choose the psychotic left every single time. But it turns out the biggest group of Democrats are the order and opportunity Left. The hope for the Democratic Socialists is that the order-and-opportunity Left basically continues to vote alongside the Democrats. If they were to do that, it would be a huge problem for the Republicans. But if Republicans reach out to that group, they could win. These are people who don’t hate capitalism but do hate crime, who want the border closed, who don’t love trans politics. What these people actually want is moderation. That’s all they want: law and order; immigration law enforcement, although they don’t want raids in their workplace. They want capitalism but with the rough edges shaved off. It’s an opportunity for Republicans. The more the Democrats push to the Left, the more opportunity there is for Republicans. With that said, it would be dangerous to pretend that the DSA and its group are not a major threat.

President Donald Trump scored major victories in two Supreme Court decisions issued Thursday that will allow him to ramp up his ongoing crackdown on the border and illegal immigration. The high court ruled that the federal government could turn away migrants seeking asylum at ports of entry, rejecting arguments that federal law requires officials to process every migrant who arrives at the border seeking asylum. In a separate ruling, the court opened the door for the Trump administration to proceed with its plans to terminate the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitian immigrants and 6,000 Syrians from deportation. The court’s two 6-3 decisions were made along ideological lines. In its decision on TPS, the court rejected claims that the Trump administration’s decisions with regards to Haitians specifically were based on racial animus. “Citing statements made by President Trump and former Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, one set of respondents advances an equal protection claim that Haiti’s TPS designation was terminated because of the racial makeup of that country’s population,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion. “But, ironically, one of respondents’ other arguments undermines the equal protection claim by offering a strong, race-neutral explanation for Haiti’s termination: namely, that the current administration, which has terminated every TPS designation that has come up for renewal, simply opposes the TPS program, at least as it has been implemented in the past,” Alito added. Both groups, who have been shielded from deportation for over a decade, now “have to leave” the United States since they will lose their legal status, Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom, told The Daily Wire. Many of the Haitian and Syrian nationals have yet to receive deportation orders and will likely remain in the United States until they are formally ordered removed by an immigration judge. Former Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) New York Field Office Deputy Director Scott Mechkowski said they’re not all yet targets of Trump’s mass deportation effort and that the process will take time. “The cases get worked the way every other case gets worked, by priority, starting with criminal records and prior removal orders,” Mechkowski said. Since Trump’s second term commenced, the president has sought to end TPS for 13 of the 17 countries with such protections. Only four — El Salvador, Lebanon, Sudan, and Ukraine — remain covered by the program, NPR reported. White House border czar Tom Homan celebrated the ruling, saying the protections were abused. “I’ve been doing this since 1984. TPS has never been temporary. That’s why the whole statute exists: temporarily give people protection while their country’s in turmoil or after they suffer a hurricane. The problem is no administration has had the guts to actually follow that statute,” Homan said. In the court’s ruling on the border, federal authorities will be able to turn back asylum seekers who are in Mexico and don’t actually set foot on American soil. “The consequences of this are if the administration closes the border … folks who are kept from crossing the line cannot make any claims that they’ve got a right to be in the United States,” von Spakovsky said. “It literally means stepping over the border line between the two countries. If you are one foot across the U.S. border, you’ve arrived in the U.S.,” he added. Traditionally, federal officers at the border screened migrants and generally allowed those who expressed a fear of persecution into the country for further processing. Even if the fear claim was rejected during an initial interview with an asylum officer, the migrant could choose to have their case heard in an immigration court. “In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place — for example, a house, a city, or a country — before the person enters that place,” Alito wrote in the majority opinion. The Center for Immigration Studies’ Andrew “Art” Arthur, a former immigration judge, said the ruling “reaffirms the fact that we don’t have to let everybody in,” adding, “We do have the ability to actively keep them out.” In response to an overwhelming influx of migrant crossings in 2016, the Obama administration began employing the practice of rejecting asylum seekers at the border through the process, which is known as “metering.” Lower courts eventually blocked the practice before Trump revived it, according to NPR.

Members of a historic female-only society are being warned they could violate human rights law if they vote to exclude “transgender” males from their ranks. Members of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) are voting on a resolution that would amend the group’s bylaws to clarify that only natural-born women can join the female-only society at its national meeting this week in Washington, D.C. “The proposed resolution would blatantly violate the D.C. Human Rights Law,” states a legal analysis addressed to voting members from the DAR Executive Committee. “Refusing admission to transgender women facially discriminates against them based on gender identity.” Gender identity is a term transgender activists use to describe a person’s feelings about their sex. The DAR’s headquarters are in Washington, D.C. DAR allows men who believe they are women to join the historic female-only society, which prompted local chapters to put forward the resolution clarifying that only natural-born women could join the society. “The term ‘woman’ shall be understood to clearly mean a woman who was born female, and therefore, individuals who were born male shall not be eligible for membership; transgender women shall not be eligible for membership,” the proposed resolution states, according to a document reviewed by The Daily Wire. The Daily Wire obtained an internal memo and legal analysis of the resolution distributed by the organization’s Executive Committee to voting members of DAR. The memo was dated June 19 — days before members would vote to decide if DAR’s future will remain exclusively female. The Executive Committee wrote it felt an “obligation” to provide educational information on the proposed resolution, warning it would “prohibit transgender women from joining the DAR,” according to the memo. “At the 135th Continental Congress, voting members will consider a resolution submitted by a group of DAR chapters to prohibit transgender women from joining the DAR,” states the memo. “The National Board of Management has an obligation to ensure that members voting on consequential matters have access to information necessary to fully exercise that responsibility.” The DAR Executive Committee called upon Professor Samuel Bagenstos, a professor of law at the University of Michigan with a history of involvement in LGBTQ+ litigation, to provide members with legal analysis of the “risks this resolution would create” for DAR. “I worked on many regulations and initiatives involving the rights of transgender individuals,” Bagenstos wrote in his legal analysis. Bagenstos served in the Biden administration from January 2021 to December 2024. He served as General Counsel to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from June 2022 to December 2024, as it made radical moves to push transgenderism onto children. Bagenstos notes in his biography that he drafted and issued major rules on issues such as “the treatment of LGBTQ+ kids in the foster care system.” The Executive Committee told DAR members informed decision-making is “best served when voting members have access to relevant information and expert analysis” and that Bagenstos’ legal analysis of the resolution was being distributed “in full and without modification,” according to the internal memo. The legal analysis from Bagenstos strongly suggested DAR will face harsh consequences if it adopts the position that men cannot be women. “I have reviewed the proposed resolution that would introduce a requirement to bar transgender women from admission to membership in the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. In my legal opinion, implementing the proposed resolution would expose the National Society to significant risk of being found in violation of the District of Columbia Human Rights Law,” Bagenstos wrote in the opening paragraph of the legal analysis. “If found in violation, the National Society could be required to pay damages to those excluded from membership. More significantly, it would likely lose both its D.C. tax exemption and any licenses or permits to operate Constitution Hall.” The three page legal analysis provided by Bagenstos concluded with a strong message to members that the adoption of the female-only resolution would “very likely” have dire financial consequences for the organization. “The proposed resolution would very likely expose the National Society to liability for damages and injunctive relief—as well as the revocation of business licenses and tax-exempt status–under D.C. law,” wrote Bagenstos. Bagenstos did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment. Founded in 1890, the DAR aimed to give women the same opportunities as men to “promote Historic Preservation, Education, and Patriotism” in the United States. Throughout its more than 130-year history, DAR has welcomed over a million members, supported American efforts in three major wars, and continues to serve active-duty military members and veterans, as described on its website. The Daughters of the American Revolution did not immediately respond to The Daily Wire’s request for comment.