The Governor's Standard

An editorial by David Pipkin, State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas — October 23, 2026

On November 18, 2025, Greg Abbott signed a proclamation. The Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Governor announced, would be treated by the State of Texas as foreign terrorist organizations.

It was a strong standard. The Governor ordered state agencies to have nothing further to do with the named organizations. He demanded that a school district sever its ties with CAIR. When CAIR sued him, the Governor called the lawsuit flimsy and went back to work.

A standard is only useful if the man who writes it lives by it.

Now follow the money.

This election cycle, the largest donor to the Governor's re-election campaign is a Muslim oil executive operating from Midland, named Syed Javaid Anwar. Through the end of September, Syed Javaid Anwar had given the Governor $4.1 million — more than any other donor in Texas. Across the years, his giving to the Governor passes $15 million.

The Governor has not kept this man at arm's length. He appointed him to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and reappointed him when the term expired. He has shared a stage with him at a Dinner of Champions held in the donor's honor. And the donor's patronage has flowed in the same direction the Governor's proclamation points — into the very network his proclamation names.

The morning Hurricane Harvey made landfall, Syed Javaid Anwar wrote a $50,000 check to the Islamic Society of Greater Houston. The giving has continued in the hundreds of thousands since. The Society operates twenty Islamic centers across the city of Houston. Researchers documenting the spread of Saudi ideology in American mosques recorded its publications in the Society's own library. CAIR — the organization the Governor's proclamation names a foreign terrorist organization — works that same network of centers, advocating for its mosques and celebrating its get-out-the-vote drives.

Now follow the money a step further — to the State of Texas itself.

While the Governor's proclamation was before the federal courts, the state's own money kept moving. State funds have continued to flow to Islamic organizations at an estimated $7 to $8 million per year — more than $90 million in recent years. Roughly $20,000 of Texas taxpayer money, every day, arriving at the same network the Governor has designated as terror.

The similarity is not a coincidence that needs a conspiracy to explain. It is what the money always does. The Governor's biggest donor and the Governor's own budget water the same ground.

Apply the Governor's standard, the one he wrote himself, on November 18, 2025:

If these organizations are foreign terrorist organizations, then the Governor's budget is their patron.

If these organizations are foreign terrorist organizations, then the Governor's biggest donor is their patron.

And if the designation was ever meant to protect Texans, the one man in Texas who never has to obey it is the man who signed it.

The proclamation was real. The standard was real. The only thing missing was obedience.

Early voting runs through October 30. Election Day is November 3.

There is one candidate for Governor of Texas who has never taken a dollar from this network, and who will shut off the funding the Governor keeps open. She is not on your ballot. She is on your write-in line.

Write in JENN MACK for Governor of Texas.