Red, White, and Blue

For the past few generations, Texans have been told that their politics is only allowed in two colors:

"Red for one party, Blue for the other. Pick a side - Wear the color. It's the grand design, The entrenched structure - Loyalty to one means We must hate the other…"

You know this isn't how it's supposed to work. You've known it for years.

This is the framework the uniparty has imposed on every conversation about our state. Both halves of the entrenched party structure. The media that covers only them. The donors who fund them. The bureaucracy that guards ballot access for them. All of them speak the same language, push the same lies, and draw the same lines right through the hearts of Texans.

It is beyond a lie. It is a psy-op. It foments confusion and conditions people to act in fear and anger.

In a word, it is unGodly.

The Colors

The colors of Texas are red, white and blue. Not just 3 colors — red, white and blue are much more than that, especially on that beautiful Lone Star flag, which was adopted 6 years before statehood. That flag was never a partisan banner. Not party meaning. Not campaign strategy. Meaning.

Red stands for courage — the blood shed at the Alamo, at San Jacinto, at every point in our history where Texans refused to kneel.

White stands for purity — the commitment to principle, to a moral foundation that does not shift with the wind of public opinion.

Blue stands for loyalty — devotion to God, to family, to the land itself.

But these three do not stand alone. Courage without purity is just violence. Purity without courage is just sentiment. Loyalty without either is just obedience to the wrong master. Pull one thread and the whole thing unravels.

Independent

The uniparty opposes any other party — any option whatsoever that brings light to its darkness.

But there is one option for which they reserve their deepest disdain — one label that defines Texas and Texans far better than either "Democrat" or "Republican" ever has.

Independent.

Because "Independent" is the recognition that government controls belong to the people. Because the people govern themselves, and government is only by the consent of the governed. Independent is the understanding that any political party seeking power must prove itself worthy of the privilege, that no Texan owes their vote to anyone, and most certainly not to a political party.

A Constitutional Independent knows their rights are granted by God — not by a government, not by a party, not by a ballot.

That is the difference the uniparty cannot survive. They can outspend a candidate. But they cannot argue with a man or a woman who is a Texan — who knows what God has given them and refuses to hand it over without a fight.

The False War

But the division runs deeper than party labels. It has been engineered along every fault line the establishment can exploit. Class. Geography. And most insidiously, race.

Consider the word "white." On the Texas flag, white means purity. Principle. The clean, uncompromising commitment to truth that every Texan should aspire to.

But in the modern political vocabulary, "white" has been weaponized. To speak of whiteness in any positive or even neutral context is treated as taboo — as though the color itself, and the people who share it, carry an inherent stain.

This is not an accident. It is a strategy.

If you can make an entire race of people ashamed of their own identity, you can control them. If you can make it socially dangerous to affirm the heritage, history, or moral foundations of half the country, you render half the country silent.

The same forces that manufactured this taboo seek to garner votes and even dispense justice along racial lines. From their lying tongues, they decry racism while their political strategists make it their stock and trade as they teach upcoming generations that societal unity can only be accomplished through racial division.

It does not. It never has. The flag does not fly for one race. It flies for one people. Divide the people, and the flag means nothing. Which is precisely the point.

The Foundation

The Constitution Party of Texas does not accept that Texas must be divided to be governed.

We do not accept that any Texan should be ashamed of the color of their skin. We do not accept that any Texan should be ashamed of the history of their state. We do not accept that any Texan should be ashamed of the faith of their fathers.

The self-evident truths that established your rights are the same self-evident truths that establish ours: that there is a Creator, that our rights come from Him, and that we are individuals — not groups, sorted and pitted against one another by political strategists who profit from the division.

The religion foundational to the Common Law of the State of Texas is the religion of Jesus Christ and His moral teachings. It is a historical and legal fact — not a demand that you worship as we do, but the recognition that your freedom to honor God as He calls you is the very foundation that protects every other freedom you hold.

All societies are rooted in law. All law is rooted in morality. All morality is rooted in religion. Remove the foundation, and the structure collapses.

The uniparty has no answer for this because it has no foundation of its own. While they invoke the name of God, they use "Christian" as a label and the Bible as a prop. By their fruits (Matthew 7:20), we see there is no moral framework. No binding truth. No standard higher than the next election. When division is your primary weapon, unity becomes your greatest threat.

Stand

You have voted for candidates you did not believe in. You have held your nose and told yourself it was the responsible thing to do. Or you stopped voting altogether — because you could not find one worth the trip.

Either way, you know it isn't working.

Every election, the same play. They do not represent you. Do not fight for what you believe. Do not keep the promises they made to earn your vote. But you vote for them anyway — because the alternative is worse.

If your vote never costs them anything, why would they ever change?

They won't. They haven't. And as long as you keep choosing the lesser of two evils, evil remains your only option.

You are not dividing the vote. The vote was never united — it was captured. You are not wasting your vote. You are taking it back.

Our Creator assures us in His Word that God is not a God of confusion but of peace (1 Corinthians 14:33), and that perfect love drives out fear (1 John 4:18). A citizenry rooted in His foundation does not vote in fear. It votes in clarity, in courage, and in loyalty to what is true.

You do not have to abandon your convictions. You have to put them in order. The foundation comes first. The label comes second. Bring your ideology to the table — but know what the table is. It is the self-evident truths. It is the Constitution. It is the flag.

We have put a Constitutional Independent on the ballot.

Jenn Mack Raphoon is running for Governor of Texas — not as a Republican, not as a Democrat, but as a Texan who knows what God gave her and refuses to hand it over. She is living proof that the uniparty framework is not invincible. It is just unchallenged.

The Constitution Party of Texas will never be identified with a single color. We are the party of red, white and blue — and we have never traded one away.

If you are tired of being told who to hate — stop.

If you are tired of being told what to be ashamed of — stop.

If you know what God gave you, do not hand it over.

Stand with Jenn. Stand with Texas. The flag is already flying. The only question left is you.

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For Texas and the Constitution,

David Pipkin State Chairman Constitution Party of Texas statechair@constitutionpartytx.org constitutionpartytx.org