This is not a drill. This is not another election cycle where we hold our nose, pull the same lever out of habit, and pray things somehow get better. They won’t. Not this way. Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity — and Texas has been living that insanity for too long. John Cornyn has planted himself in that Senate seat for over two decades. Look around you. Right now. Are we better off? Are our streets safer? Are our children reading? Is the border secure? The answer to every single one of those questions is a resounding, undeniable no — and John Cornyn owns every last bit of that failure.
And now, in the final desperate stretch of a primary he is losing on the merits, John Cornyn wants to wave the Ten Commandments around like a campaign prop. Let that sink in. The same John Cornyn who did nothing — absolutely nothing — for two decades now wants to lecture Ken Paxton about the Ten Commandments from a podium.
The difference between these two men could not be more stark. John Cornyn uses the Ten Commandments in a campaign ad. Ken Paxton took them to federal court, fought all the way to the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — and won — ensuring the Ten Commandments are displayed in classrooms across Texas. One man talks. One man wins.
And here is something worth saying plainly: you do not have to be a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, or a person of any faith at all to recognize that the Ten Commandments represent one of the most enduring moral frameworks in human history. Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness against your neighbor. Honor your father and your mother. These are not exclusively religious instructions — they are the bedrock principles of every civilized society that has ever managed to hold itself together. A child taught that honesty matters, that human life is sacred, that truth is not negotiable is better equipped for life regardless of what church their family attends, or whether they attend one at all. Ken Paxton believed protecting that right was worth fighting for. So he fought — and he won.
Paxton didn’t stop there. He defended Texas House Bill 1181 — requiring pornography websites to verify the age of every user before granting access to our children — all the way to the United States Supreme Court. In a landmark 6–3 ruling, the Court upheld the Texas law. The pornography industry spent millions suing Texas to keep your kids exposed. Ken Paxton sued them right back — and won. Pornhub and other major sites packed up and left Texas entirely. That is what a fighter looks like. John Cornyn ran a campaign ad. Ken Paxton changed the law of the land.
For years, Cornyn has warmed a Senate seat while Texans got left in the dirt. While he accumulated seniority and attended Washington fundraisers, our working families watched illegal immigrants flood our construction sites, deadly fentanyl poured across our border into our communities, and our own kids were turned away from good-paying jobs. Cornyn had the power and the platform to stop it — for more than twenty years he had every tool in the toolbox — and he chose Washington over you every single time.
Walk our streets. Look at our crime numbers. Too many Texas cities rank among the most dangerous in the nation, and our families wake up every morning living that nightmare. It starts long before anyone picks up a weapon. When children cannot read, when our schools fail them so completely that the state has been forced to seize control of entire school districts, we are not just failing kids in the classroom — we are shoving them toward a future with no options, no hope, and too often, no way out except the wrong way. That is not abstract. That is our streets. That is our reality right now.
We cannot survive another decade of this. The middle-class dream — a Texas family owning their home, taking the kids to dinner, saving for a vacation — is not fading, it is dying. It will not be resurrected until we protect jobs that pay honest wages, slam the border shut, crush the fentanyl pipeline, and build communities where our children can read, graduate, and claim a future worth having.
Ken Paxton acted when Cornyn talked. Paxton fought the federal government in court when Cornyn wouldn’t lift a finger on the Senate floor. He defended Texas’ sovereign rights when Washington tried to steamroll them. He battled open-border policies in federal courts, appellate courts, and the United States Supreme Court — and he won. That is the relentless, unapologetic fighter Texas must have in Washington right now.
Violent criminals crossing our border, arrested in our neighborhoods, then turned loose because the federal government refuses to send them home — that is John Cornyn’s legacy. Fentanyl burying our families while Cornyn smiles, shakes hands, and cuts deals — that is John Cornyn’s legacy. School districts seized while a generation of children falls further behind — that is what two decades of the same senator gets you. We are done accepting it.
Texas deserves a Senator who fights with the same fire, grit, and refusal to quit that Ken Paxton brought to the Attorney General’s office every single day. Washington does not need one more smooth-talking dealmaker who trades Texas’ future for committee assignments and donor checks. It needs a warrior with a proven record — and we need him there now.
Early voting runs Monday, May 18, through Friday, May 22. Election Day is Tuesday, May 26. Get to the polls. Bring your family. Bring your neighbors. Every vote matters.
Send Ken Paxton to the United States Senate — to protect your family, take back our state, and save the great state of Texas while we still can.