Hard Hitting Conservative Commentary by Gary M. Polland
Volume XXIV Number 13 – December 3, 2025
REST IN PEACE
State Representative Gary Elkins
March 15, 1955 – November 26, 2025
State Representative Gary Elkins, who represented State House District 133 from 1995 to 2019, passed away on November 26, 2025, at the age of 70.
Services set for former Rep. Gary Elkins – Visitation on Tuesday 12/2 from 5-8pm at Memorial Oaks,13001 Katy freeway, Houston, Tx 77079. Funeral service on Wednesday 12/3 at 10am at Faith Church, 7755 Fairbanks N Houston, Houston, TX 77040. Graveside Service on Wednesday 12/3 at 3pm at Memorial Oaks,13001 Katy freeway, Houston, Tx 77079
JASMINE CROCKETT INCHING TOWARDS
A DECISION IN US SENATE RACE
Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett appears to be zeroing in on a decision whether to file in the Democrat Primary election in hopes of becoming the nominee for US Senate (Texas) to face the Republican in November, 2026. Crockett, who currently represents Texas’ District 30 in the United States House of Representatives, is apparently emboldened by the prospect of facing a fatally flawed Ken Paxton in the November 2026 General Election. TCR believes that Paxton would be the weakest candidate against the Democrat and urges Republican primary voters to nominate the strongest general election candidate, Senator John Cornyn.
FACT CHECK: WESLEY HUNT’S VOTING HISTORY
Posted by Mark McCaig on 14 November, 2025
Since GOP Congressman Wesley Hunt announced his candidacy for the United States Senate last month, various allegations about his voting history have been made by his critics. In this installment of Texas Fact Check, The Texas Voice examines some of the questions surrounding Wesley Hunt’s voting history.
Hunt Claimed to Support President Trump in 2016, But Did Not Vote in the 2016 Election
In an interview last month with Jack Fink on CBS News Texas’ “Eye on Politics” program, Hunt was asked by Fink about claims that he did not vote for President Trump in either the 2016 primary or general elections. Hunt responded by saying, “That’s a boldfaced lie. I’ve been supporting President Trump since 2016, and I have the proof.”
The Texas Voice independently researched voting records from Harris County, where Hunt resides, and verified that Hunt did not vote in the 2016 General Election. The voting history records indicate that Hunt voted in the 2008 Democrat Primary and General Election, but did not vote again in Harris County until the 2018 General Election. Hunt’s first vote in a Republican Primary was in 2020, when he ran for Congress for the first time.
CRUZ TELLS GOP: IT’S TIME TO
STAND UP TO TUCKER CARLSON
Speaking about right-wing antisemitism at a Federalist Society convention, the Texas senator said his colleagues ‘think what is happening is horrifying’ but are scared of Carlson’s sway in the party
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) called on his Republican colleagues to speak out against Tucker Carlson, arguing in a fiery Friday morning speech that they need to rise above their fear of alienating the popular conservative podcaster to denounce his platforming of antisemitism.
“It’s easy right now to denounce Nick Fuentes. That’s kind of safe. Are you willing to say Tucker’s name?” Cruz said in a speech at the Washington National Lawyers Convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group.
“Now I can tell you, my colleagues, almost to a person, think what is happening is horrifying. But a great many of them are frightened, because he has one hell of a big megaphone.”
Cruz’s speech escalates a feud within the Republican Party about antisemitism on the party’s rightward fringes, after Carlson, the former Fox News host, held a friendly interview with Fuentes, a neo-Nazi agitator and commentator.
Following Carlson’s interview with Fuentes, Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, released a video defending Carlson from attacks by the “globalist class” and standing by his right to interview Fuentes. Since then, the influential conservative think tank has been navigating internal dissension and public blowback — with Roberts apologizing for the video but so far refusing to take it down.
Speaking to a room of lawyers, Cruz emphasized his support for the First Amendment and made the case that calling out Carlson is not akin to “canceling” him.
“My complaint about Tucker having Nick Fuentes on was not that he platformed him. That’s a choice you can make or not. But the last I checked, Tucker actually knows how to cross examine someone,” said Cruz, who had his own heated discussion with Carlson on his podcast in June. “If you want to cross examine and challenge him, that’s fine. But he didn’t. He fawningly gazed at him.”
Fuentes and Carlson, Cruz continued, “have a right to say what they are saying. But every one of us has an obligation to stand up and say it is wrong.”
At the start of his speech, Cruz outlined the rise of antisemitism on the American left, arguing that “there is a real and cognizable pro-Hamas wing of the Democrat Party.” But, he added, antisemitism does not end there.
“When that happened on the left, those of us on the right were quite comfortable standing up and denouncing it. In some ways, that’s easy. But now it’s happening on the right,” said Cruz. “In the last six months, I’ve seen more antisemitism on the right than I have at any time in my life. It is growing. It is metastasizing.”
Cruz invoked Ronald Reagan’s famous 1964 speech, “A Time for Choosing,” as he implored conservatives to speak strongly and loudly against antisemitism.
“I believe now, today, is a time for choosing as well. I think it is a time for every elected official, I think it is a time for every editorialist, I think it is a time for every lawyer, for every student, to decide, where do you stand?” said Cruz. “We will stand for liberty. We will stand for the Constitution. We will stand for the Bill of Rights, but we will also stand for truth, and we will call out lies where they occur, and we will call out hatred when they occur. And the best antidote to lies is truth. The best solution to darkness is light.” He walked off the stage to a standing ovation.
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RISING POLITICAL VIOLENCE?
Per a friend of TCR, Gary Bauer, Leader of American Values, [email protected].
- A radical leftist tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.
- A radical leftist tried to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida.
- Radical leftist Luigi Mangione assassinated a healthcare executive.
- Radical leftist Tyler Robinson assassinated Charlie Kirk.
- A left-wing antisemite used a makeshift flamethrower trying to burn Jews in Colorado.
- A radical transgender leftist tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
- Radical leftists attacked churches and crisis pregnancy centers after Roe v. Wade was overturned.
- Radical transgender leftists firebombed Tesla dealerships.
- Radical transgender leftists murdered Christian students in Nashville and Minneapolis.
- Radical transgender leftists tried to assassinate immigration police officers in Texas.
- Radical leftists are rioting in Portland against immigration enforcement.
I know the fake news media won’t do us any favors. But maybe elected Republicans should stop saying, “It’s both sides,” and aggressively reject any suggestion that political violence is coming from anywhere but the Left.
CARTOON OF THE WEEK
UPCOMING EVENTS
December 1-9, 2025 | Vote for Dwight Boykins, City of Houston Runoff | DETAILS HERE
December 3, 2025 | Memorial Services for State Rep Gary Elkins | DETAILS HERE
December 3, 2025 | Judicial Petition Signing Event |DETAILS HERE
December 4, 2025 | Republican Women’s Club of Katy | DETAILS HERE
December 4, 2025 | Fort Bend County GOP Christmas Party | DETAILS HERE
December 6, 2025 | The Menudo Club | DETAILS HERE
December 8, 2025 | CPAC-Houston | DETAILS HERE
December 9, 2025 | Fort Bend GOP Executive Committee Meeting | DETAILS HERE
December 13, 2025 | Vote for Dwight Boykins, City of Houston Runoff | DETAILS HERE
ELECTION CALENDAR
November 4, 2025: General Election (CD 18 and SD 9 for example)
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ABOUT YOUR EDITOR
Gary Polland is a long-time conservative and Republican spokesman, fund-raiser, and leader who served three terms as the Harris County Republican Chairman. During his three terms, Gary was described as “the most successful county Chairman in America” by Human Events – The National Conservative Weekly. He is in his twenty-eighth year of editing a newsletter dealing with key conservative and Republican issues. For the last twenty-three years, he has edited the Texas Conservative Review. As a public service for the previous 20 years, Gary has published election guides for the GOP primary, general elections, and city elections, all to assist conservative candidates. Gary also for 20 years cohosted Red, White and Blue on Houston Public Media TV 8 PBS Houston, longest running political talk show in Texas history and for the last four-plus years Gary has been a regular commentator on Fox 26-Houston’s “What’s Your Point” airing Sunday’s at 7 a.m. Gary serves on the Board of Directors of American Values, a national pro-family, pro-faith, conservative organization supporting the unity of the American people around the vision of our founding fathers and dedicated to reminding the public of the conservative principles fundamental to the survival of our nation. Gary is a practicing attorney and strategic consultant. He can be reached at (713) 621-6335.
