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** JULY 28
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the HYR newsletter, !

In Washington, the “Russiagate” scandal took a unique twist. Immigration continued to dominate national discourse. The White House issued an EO to clean up public streets.

In Texas, the presumptive Cornyn/Paxton primary took an interesting turn, and the pro-life agenda prevailed.


** Matt Murphy
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** Political Director
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** Russiagate Reverberations
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As mentioned in our last newsletter, DNI Tulsi Gabbard has blown the doors off the Steele Dossier incident, which implicated the political apparatus of then-incumbent President Obama and Hilary Clinton in manufacturing a “scandal” which politically derailed much of the Trump Administration’s agenda their first time around.

This corruption was readily apparent to those with the attention span and interest to decipher the state of play, but is now both being informally disseminated across social media ([link removed]) , and is under formal scrutiny ([link removed]) by Sen. Tom Cotton [R-AR], Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Eric Schmitt [R-MO], a promising freshman Senator, provided a useful breakdown as well. ([link removed])

Here’s hoping Gabbard’s investigation/documentation precipitates a perp walk; this storyline makes Watergate look like a misdemeanor, but you wouldn’t know it from legacy media reports. Hopefully, if the White House has their way, justice is coming ([link removed]) .


** Immigration Nation
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It was yet another turbulent week on the immigration front. Both President Trump and VP Vance indicated their distaste for the H1B visa program, and intent to reform the long practiced initiative which prioritizes underpaid (essentially international serf-labor) foreign workers over working class Americans. The White House signaled their intent to replace the exploitative tradition of outsourcing blue-collar and marginally skilled white-collar jobs to non-citizens. This was a long awaited development for “America First” labor proponents, but the wins kept stacking up.

Border Czar Tom Homan announced plans ([link removed]) to go scorched Earth on “sanctuary cities.” The determination came in the immediate aftermath of yet another politically motivated, intended-to-be-lethal violent attack ([link removed]) on Border Patrol agents. There’s a reason liberal powerbrokers endorse this kind of phenomenon (some are more strategically quiet about it ([link removed]) however).

As Congresswoman Yvette Clark [D-NY] attests to in the hyperlink above, criminal human trafficking and the undermining of citizen-fueled commerce will remain a Democrat political priority as long as these kinds of criminals continue to further the liberal agenda; Houston is no exception ([link removed]) .

Addendum: At time of writing, initial reporting ([link removed]) indicates the White House has secured a significant trade deal with the European Union.


** In Other News
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* RIP Hulk Hogan ([link removed]) and Ozzy Osbourne. ([link removed]) And no, Andrew Yang ([link removed]) , Ozzy was not an American citizen.
* Affluent Los Angelians raised ~$100M in charity relief for those afflicted by recent wildfires; none of the cash actually went to victims, just NGO slush funds ([link removed]) .
* Former senior advisor to the Obama Administration, Rahm Emanuel, became one of the few voices of reason in the liberal debate on “gender affirming care;” he still couldn’t give his unfiltered take on the matter due to sarcastic fear of violent political repercussions. ([link removed])
* On the note of bare-minumum-credit-due-where-credit’s-due to Democrats, Sen. Mark Warner [D-VA] has introduced legislation ([link removed]) to end the AI-backed practice of airline price gauging.
* Before we give nationally influential Democrats *too* much credit, their communications operatives are still completely missing the point ([link removed]) .
* On the flip side, please take a moment to appreciate what we currently have ([link removed]) in the White House comms department.
* You don’t fear and detest the Chinese State Government as much as you should ([link removed]) .
* The White House is attempting to ([link removed]) clean up America’s streets, and end the drug-fueled epidemic of mentally ill homeless violence. More info here ([link removed]) .
* DEI isn’t dead, it’s just been rebranded, as the Mayor of Boston can attest ([link removed]) .
* Inside the conservative movement to reclaim Hollywood and cinematic culture ([link removed]) .
* “Nothing to see here!” (quote from Minnesota officials, with something clearly to see here) ([link removed]) .
* This isn’t necessarily news, but a brief moment to appreciate the fact that French President Emmanuel Macron holds no authentic political beliefs. ([link removed])



** Primary Presumptions? Planned Parenthood in Peril?
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This week, an investigative journalist (provided their reporting ([link removed]) is accurate) threw an interesting wrinkle into what is already shaping up to be a contentious midterm primary election.

If the race for the Senior Senate seat of the Lone Star State wasn’t interesting enough (Houston-area Congressman Wesley Hunt [R-TX-38] has launched a multi-million dollar ad campaign across metropolitan areas of the state in recent weeks), former White House physician and sitting Congressman, Ronny Jackson [R-TX-13] is reportedly considering throwing his hat in the ring as well. ([link removed]) This brings the number of prospective candidates from either party pondering over gunning for incumbent Senator John Cornyn’s seat up to ~8 people. It’ll be an entertaining electoral cycle to say the least.

And to round out newsworthy developments across the state, the pro-life cause secured a banner victory this week. The Houston Planned Parenthood facility, the single largest provider of abortion operations in the entire Western hemisphere, is shutting down. In 2022 ([link removed]) , ~44M elective abortions were performed; communicable disease, infectious disease/cancer, smoking, and alcohol deaths combined didn’t equal annual abortion fatalities.

To quote Jeff Goldblum in the iconic book-to-film adaptation of Jurassic Park: “Life, uh, finds a way.”


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Author: Matt Murphy, Political Director, Houston Young Republicans

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