Texas Democrats just showed gun owners the next phase of their plan to flip Texas. The money is already flowing from George Soros and coastal elites. The targeted races have already been identified by state and national Democrat interests. Now, they’re trying to sell the same radical agenda with a softer label.
At their recent state convention in Corpus Christi, Texas Democrats left confident, organized, and openly focused on breaking Republicans’ three-decade hold on statewide offices. And while party leaders tried to dress it all up as “kitchen table” politics, gun owners shouldn’t be fooled.
The Left’s new message is simple: stop talking about the radical agenda and start pretending this election is only about affordability, schools, health care, and corruption. They even claimed the “culture wars are tired.”
But the gun confiscation agenda isn’t tired. It is still sitting right there in their candidates’ records:
Red flag-style gun confiscation. Gun owner registration schemes. Bans on commonly owned rifles. Magazine restrictions. Mandatory storage laws. Attacks on constitutional carry. Restrictions on lawful carry. And every other scheme the gun confiscation lobby can use to make the Second Amendment harder to exercise.
Bernie Sanders Was the Tell
A party trying to look moderate does not close its convention with Bernie Sanders by accident. Sanders urged Texas Democrats to embrace a bold left-wing agenda, giving their activist base exactly what it wanted to hear. That tells gun owners what all the “kitchen table” talk is really about.
Texas Democrats know Beto O’Rourke’s “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15” moment became a political disaster. So now they’re trying a different approach. They soften the language, avoid the scary details, and talk about “common sense” and “public safety.” But behind the rebrand is the same old gun ban agenda Texans have rejected for years.
Talarico and the Democrat Slate Can’t Hide Their Records
James Talarico is the face of this statewide push. He can talk about faith, civility, and kitchen table issues all he wants, but his record is already clear.
Talarico opposed constitutional carry, backed red flag-style gun confiscation schemes, supported gun owner registration policies, and pushed restrictions on law-abiding Texans. And he’s not an exception in today’s Texas Democratic Party. He is the model.
The same party cheering Talarico in Corpus Christi is trying to elect anti-gun Democrats up and down the ballot — from statewide races to the Texas House. That’s why gun owners can’t afford to sit back and assume Texas is safe.
The Left believes Texas can be flipped. They’re raising money like it. They’re training volunteers like it. They’re building the machine like it. And now they’re trying to hide their gun ban agenda behind a new campaign message.
The Record Behind the Rebrand
Texas Gun Rights isn’t going to let anti-gun Democrats rebrand their way into power. “The Texas Democratic convention made one thing clear: the Left believes Texas can be flipped, and they are building the machine to do it,” said Chris McNutt, President of Texas Gun Rights.
“They can call it ‘kitchen table’ politics all they want, but the candidates they are pushing support the same red flag laws, gun registration schemes, AR-15 bans, and attacks on Constitutional Carry that gun owners have rejected for years. Texas Gun Rights is going to make sure voters see the record behind the rebrand.”
Gun owners fired John Cornyn because they refused to forget his betrayals. Now they must make sure James Talarico and the entire anti-gun Democrat slate cannot hide theirs.
Texas Gun Rights will keep exposing the gun grabbers, mobilizing pro-gun Texans, and making sure voters know exactly who is trying to turn Texas into the next front for the gun confiscation lobby.