But For The Letter

An editorial by David Pipkin, State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Texas. November 1, 2026

You have been told this election is simple. Red or blue. Vote red or the other side wins.

Before you mark that box, do one thing. Read this record and put a D beside every line, as though a Democrat had done it.

Property tax revenue in this state is up 85 percent under Greg Abbott. The burden on each person is up about 60 percent. Property taxes are 61 cents of every dollar the state and local governments collect. Statewide levies went from 18.7 billion dollars in 1998 to 89.4 billion in 2025. That is 378 percent, across three Republican governors.

Now the house. A home in Houston appraised at 200,000 dollars in 1995 carried a 5,000 dollar tax bill. That same house is worth 800,000 to 850,000 today. The owner is still taxed on 550,000 to 720,000 of it.

The current governor calls that relief. In Richmond on October 21 the current governor said his plan would "slash the average Texas homeowner's property taxes by $3,000." In May the current governor said 51 billion dollars had been delivered, and "we are not done." On October 29 in West El Paso the current governor promised a fourth term would "completely eliminate" school property taxes on your homestead.

The current governor has held that office since January 2015.

Follow the money.

In March 2021 the current governor declared a border disaster. It has never been lifted. More than 11 billion dollars has moved through it, much of it handed out without competitive bidding.

Gothams. $600,000 donated. Half a billion in state contracts.

Recana Solutions. $400,000 donated. Nearly $50 million in contracts.

Enterprise Holdings. $52,500 donated. $30.2 million in contracts.

Two of the three donated after the contracts came. All three are on the state's payroll and all three write checks to the man who signs it.

Their money went to him as donations. Your money went to them as contracts. You funded both ends of it.

Not a bribe. A toll, and you paid it.

The data centers. Since July of last year the current governor has taken 9 million dollars from that industry, about 5 million of it from the people who build, own, or run the data centers. Then he froze new approvals. Then he wrote the rules those companies have to follow.

The men who paid him got a hand in writing their own rulebook. You got the power lines, the water use, and the higher bill.

Elon Musk gave him 5 million dollars, his largest backer this cycle. A judge ordered the emails between Musk's companies and the Governor's office turned over. The current governor is fighting to keep them sealed.

Then the mosques.

Based on available reports, our estimate is 90 to 100 million dollars of taxpayer money into Islamic organizations during his time in office, most of it to groups that make up the CAIR network.

In November 2025 the current governor stood at a microphone and called CAIR a terrorist organization. Since that day, no record shows an appropriation rescinded. No record shows an agency told to stop writing checks. We estimate another 7 to 8 million dollars has gone into the Islamic network that supports CAIR.

That money is yours. The state writes the check. You cover it.

Now look at who else pays into that same network.

Syed Javaid Anwar. Pakistani. Muslim. An oil executive out of Midland. A practicing radical who puts his money where his doctrine is: hundreds of thousands of dollars into Islamic organizations in Texas, groups preaching the conquest and the violence the current governor claims to be at war with.

He is also the current governor's largest donor. More than 15 million dollars over his time in office. More than 4 million in this cycle's primaries alone.

The state pays those groups out of your pocket. Anwar pays them out of his. One network, two paymasters, and one of them is you.

In Irving there is a charter school system called Manara Academy. Since 2015 it has taken about 70 million dollars of public money. Your money. Its Arabic instruction was coordinated with the Qatar Foundation, and one lesson written for Texas children was titled "Express your loyalty to Qatar."

Children in this state were taught to pledge loyalty to a foreign country, and you paid the tuition. The Education Agency opened an investigation this spring. Fifteen years late.

Then the state he built.

Texas ranks first in the nation in data centers, counting what is running and what is planned. It ranks second in reported sex trafficking cases. It ranks first in mosques, 330 of them, ahead of California.

Those are not accidents of geography. That is the shape of a state run for the people who write the checks.

Then the jobs.

This governor has pressed for more H-1B visas while Texans who could do the work were shown the door. Every one of those visas is a Texan not hired. He does not defend the Texas worker. He auctions him.

Then the children.

James Younger is thirteen. His mother, Dr. Anne Georgulas, a pediatrician in Coppell, decided when he was three that he was a girl. His father, Jeff Younger, said no, and has said it in court for eleven years.

A jury gave him equal custody and a veto on every medical procedure. Judge Mary Brown set that jury aside, stripped his rights, and gagged him. Under this governor, Texas let the mother move the case, and the boy, to California. One justice voted to protect him. The rest did not. The justice who wrote the ruling is Jimmy Blacklock, whom this governor promoted to Chief Justice. Blacklock is on your ballot Tuesday.

He appoints the judges. He calls the special sessions. He signs the budget and can strike a line out of it. He has used every one of those powers for vouchers, for border money, and for his maps.

For this boy he used one. A tweet in 2019 telling two agencies to look into it.

Jeff Younger says the psychologist whose findings cost him his son was represented in court by the governor's own personal attorney.

A law came in 2023 and he told you it stopped this. Jeff Younger wrote the first draft. Three sentences were cut before it reached the floor, the three that would have made it a felony. Carry a child out of state, change him, bring him home, and Texas lets him. Nobody blocked this governor. He chose.

Cutting into a healthy child and calling it care is mutilation. It happened here, with this state's money and this state's blessing, and it is still happening.

James Younger is thirteen. Your state let him go. He was chemically castrated last December, and the governor of Texas has never said this boy's name out loud.

Then the parents.

Texans who asked questions at a school board meeting were written down as domestic extremists and put on a list meant for terrorists. The current governor did not build that list. The agencies he runs did.

Ask what he has done about it since.

He signs their budgets. He appoints their chiefs. He can order a name struck, fire the men who wrote the policy, or pull the money that pays for it, and not one of those takes a bill or a court order.

Not one name struck. Not one official fired. Not one dollar pulled.

A mother who asked why her child's school was teaching what it was teaching is sitting on a watchlist tonight, and the man elected to protect her has not lifted a finger to get her name off it.

Then the murderers.

Since this governor took office in 2015, an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 Texans have been murdered by violent felons turned loose on the public by activist judges. He fills the vacancies on those courts. He can send the Attorney General into a county to prosecute a judge. He can call the legislature back and keep it there until one is removed.

Not one judge prosecuted. Not one judge removed from the bench. He has held that office for eleven years.

We ask one thing of true Texans. Read this record the way you would read a bill someone sent you for work that was never done. Quietly. Line by line. Without a single soul in the room telling you what to think about it.

Now place a D beside it.

If a Democrat had done these things, the people who call themselves "Conservatives" would be renouncing him from the rooftops. Their cries would be heard across this nation and around the world. They would be actively spreading the message to their family, friends, and neighbors that this man must be driven from office. They would be saying that the party that produced him has forfeited any claim on an honest man's vote.

They would be right.

However, the man is a Republican. He wears their color, red. He calls himself by their label, "conservative."

So what is their answer?

Vote Red.

Ask why. Press them on it. They will tell you plainly. They would rather vote for the Republican traitor than have the betrayal continued by a Democrat.

The betrayal is admitted. The traitor is admitted. The letter is protected.

That is the whole of it. No creed. No standard. No line a man cannot cross. A jersey.

Ask what the word "Conservative" has bought you in twelve years. One tax cut. One agency closed. One list emptied. Not one dollar of the money above recovered. There is nothing to name. A label that has never cost its bearer a single vote is not a standard. It is a leash.

My fellow Texans, you have been betrayed. It makes no difference what color the betrayer wears. There is a word for a person who betrays the people he claims to lead and represent. Traitor.

No ballot has a box for it. No party card makes it anything else.

A man or a woman who votes to endorse a traitor is not a Texan. Texan is not a word for whoever happens to live here. It is a word for whoever answers to God and the Constitution before he answers to a party.

They will tell you a write-in is a wasted vote. They are counting on that fear more than they are counting on any argument, because that fear is the last thing holding the leash in their hand. Your vote is not a bet on who wins. It is a statement of what you will put your name to. A vote cast to endorse a traitor is the only vote on that ballot that is wasted before it is ever counted.

Between the D and the R, both names on that ballot come out of this record. One wrote it. The other wants to write the next chapter of it.

You were not betrayed by a stranger. You were betrayed by a man wearing your colors, while you were told the other side was the only danger you had.

The danger took your money, your children's schools, and your state, and it did all of it with a red letter beside its name.

Jenn Mack used to believe God himself was a Republican from Texas. Then she watched the uniparty govern, long enough to see what it produced: a government hostile to its own people. When she decided to run, she refused the labels. She would not trade her principles for the easier path. She is the only name on that ballot that does not come out of this record.

She will protect the family, because parents decide what happens to their children. She will secure the border, and she is the only candidate for governor who has vowed to put a bounty on the cartels and the traffickers. She will prosecute the corrupt, and she will end the uniparty. She will end the property tax and the taxpayer-funded lobbying. She will protect life from conception to natural death. Under all of it, she will work to help Texans return this nation to the Lord.

Write it by hand. Select Write-In and type JENN MACK.

No machine can pre-count a mark you make yourself. That is the one act on that ballot they cannot buy, cannot forecast, and cannot substitute. It is the hammer against the wall they built around your ballot.

My friend, being a Texan sometimes means standing out there alone.

Whether you are a veteran or simply a citizen of this great state, we all have a duty to the Constitution. That duty does not end at the voting booth, and it does not require the approval of a friend.

The State of Texas is already blue. The government you fear is already here. Whether the current "Red" governor wins this election, or the "Blue" challenger wins this election, we lose. Texas loses. You are being ordered to choose between a traitor and the one who longs to continue the betrayal.

There is only one vote in this race for governor that ends the betrayal.

If you believe God is greater than your ideology, and that your duty to the Constitution is greater than your belonging to a party, then there is only one answer for how you vote for governor of Texas.

Tuesday, November 3. Seven in the morning to seven at night.

Return Texas to the Lord. Return the authority of government to the people.

Texans, we humbly invoke the blessings of Almighty God, along with your help, as we work with Jenn Mack to rescue Texas.