Foreign-lobby money compromises America First. The U.S. has no formal mutual-defense treaty with Israel; AIPAC operates a super-PAC (United Democracy Project) that spent over $100M during the 2024 cycle on independent expenditures against U.S. candidates who criticize Israeli government policy. A candidate who has accepted that money has, in their own revealed preference, accepted a foreign-policy filter on their congressional vote. The same logic covers China-linked donations, where federal law also prohibits CCP members from contributing.
For every candidate with a documented donor record, two things happen: (1) the specific category question is marked False (foreign_policy_restraint[q4] for AIPAC + China; economic_stewardship[q5] — the WEF/ESG/Davos capture question — for Soros-network donors), so the per-category subscore drops by 2 points; (2) an additional dollar-bracket adjustment is applied to the total, making the penalty proportional to the magnitude of the funding. Both impacts are visible on this page.
Reach out directly. Your voice matters. Proverbs 29:2 — When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice.
Carries a 100% pro-life voting record; cosponsored the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, which would require full medical care for infants who survive a failed abortion; and has fought to make the Hyde Amendment permanent to block taxpayer funding of abortion.
A Texas border-security advocate who has consistently backed wall funding and military resources at the southern border; authored the Stop the Cartels Act to designate major drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations and authorize military counterdrug operations.
Led and shepherded the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (signed June 2022) — the first major federal gun-control legislation in nearly 30 years — which expanded background-check waiting periods for under-21 purchasers, closed the 'boyfriend loophole,' and provided federal grants to incentivize states to enact red-flag laws. He was booed at the Republican Party of Texas convention and rebuked by the state party for his role.
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