MAGA Infighting, Charity Grift, and a Texas Crack in the Wall
Fox News host Tomi Lahren aggressively pressed Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) on Saturday's "The Big Weekend Show," accusing the congressman of pushing an "amnesty" bill framed as a lifeline for family farms in just the latest example of MAGA pushback to the Trump administration's immigration policies. The spectacle reveals the fault line between the nativist base and agribusiness donors who rely on exploitable migrant labor — Sessions carrying water for the latter while Lahren performs outrage for the former.
Nick Adams' Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG was spending that money on its stated mission of teaching civics to children. The grift is the pathway: a taxpayer-subsidized slush fund for a propagandist, converting small-dollar MAGA contributions into a diplomatic sinecure.
Rep. Thomas Massie says fellow Republicans condemning the Ceuta migrant surge backed language favorable to Morocco's claim on Ceuta. While GOP performers rage about border invasions, they legitimize the Moroccan monarchy's occupation of the Spanish enclave — a move that greenlights Rabat's weaponization of migration against Europe. Roughly 60,000 people crossed in a single surge, and European leaders now demand tighter controls, but the Republican hypocrisy on display is structural: empire's borders are negotiated in backrooms, enforced on the bodies of the desperate.
A Fox News poll released Thursday finds Democratic candidate James Talarico leading Attorney General Ken Paxton 51 percent to 48 percent in the Texas Senate race, with Talarico winning support from a sizable bloc of Republican voters. Paxton, the embodiment of corrupt MAGA legalism, is bleeding the very base that elevated him. The crack is not demographic destiny — it is the fracture between a movement built on grievance and a politician whose only delivery is self-preservation.