Texas native Wade Miller, former Chief of Staff to Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX) and Political Director for Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), shared a list on social media of the Texas Republican candidates he would vote for, “as a citizen and a MAGA supporter.” Miller would choose Ken Paxton over incumbent Sen. John Cornyn, and Chip Roy for Attorney General.
[NOTE: Miller now lives in Virginia, where he is executive director of the MAGA-aligned organization Center for Renewing America.]
Kyle Rittenhouse, who at age 17 shot three men in Kenosha, Wisconsin, two fatally, amid protests in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in 2020, amplified Miller’s post and added: “This is the way. This is how we save Texas!!!”
(Note: After Rittenhouse was acquitted of homicide, President Trump invited him to Mar-a-Lago and called him “really a nice young man.”)
SAVE TEXAS FROM WHO?!! THE STATE HAS BEEN RUN BY REPUBLICANS FOR 30 YEARS!
Lord give me strength.
https://t.co/AB2tom4v1w
— Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 (@SaraForTexLege) May 9, 2026
Democrat Sara McGee, Director of Radiology at a Houston hospital who is running for Texas House District 132, responded to Rittenhouse, “SAVE TEXAS FROM WHO?!! THE STATE HAS BEEN RUN BY REPUBLICANS FOR 30 YEARS! Lord give me strength.”
TLDR; Fund state legislative races.
Y’all, I love my party. I really do. So I am going to hold their hands when I say this.
YOU ARE STILL DOING IT WRONG!!!
While we are over here writing strongly worded letters and bleeding resources into picking up a US House seat here and… pic.twitter.com/NN8qI5Ab4D
— Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 (@SaraForTexLege) May 9, 2026
[NOTE: McGee also complained about her own party. As seen below, she urged reluctant Democrats to spend money on state legislature elections, writing: “There are so many strong candidates in a state environment that is the most favorable for Democrats in a generation and all Texas dollars are going to Talarico. Y’all, I love JT, but the DNC has GOT to focus! We’re over here holding our hats out hoping some pennies fall in and several of us are running in districts where the ONLY element missing is funding. We have a few thousand while Abbott has made sure to drop MILLIONS into our opponents accounts.”]