As Virginia heads into her first off-year election during the Biden presidency, interesting signs of a national GOP undercurrent are beginning to emerge.

Republican Rob Wright held Texas’ 6th U.S. Congressional seat from 2019 until his death in February of 2021. The district runs between Dallas and Ft. Worth with a large swath of territory in Ellis and Navarro Counties. In 2020, Donald Trump garnered 51% of the vote, while Mitt Romney bested Barack Obama 58% - 41% in 2012. This is the kind of classic suburban district that Democrats were successful in turning blue during 2018.

A 23-candidate contest - consisting of numerous Democrats and Republicans - returned a loud GOP victory. The Republican candidates earned 62% of the vote to Democrats' 37%. The top two vote getters were Republican and they will head to a run off election while the Democrats were shut out.

“Nothing could be a worse omen for the Democratic Party than to have a winnable district like this with two Republicans in the runoff,” Democrat Jana Lynne Sanchez said, warning of a splintered vote. "That would be very embarrassing and very disheartening."

That’s exactly what happened.

The 62-37 result is eerily familiar. In 1993, then Texas State Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchinson clobbered her rival in a special U.S. Senate race. Hutchinson prevailed with 67% of the vote. This was the first special election after the Clinton victory in November of 1992, and kicked off the Gingrich revolution in 1994. 

Texas’ 6th district resembles a lot of the targeted House of Delegates districts Republicans hope to win back this November. It is 48% non-white, contains a high number of college educated voters, and straddles urban areas. If the high GOP turnout and enthusiasm in TX-6 can translate to the suburbs in Virginia, Republicans are poised to have a good night. 

The citizens of Southlake, TX, added five anti-Critical Race Theory candidates to local offices. Two anti-CRT residents were elected to the School Board, two more to the City Council and captured the Mayor’s race.

In early 2020, the Carroll Independent School District introduced a $1.4M Critical Race Theory plan for students and teachers. It was met with an army of concerned parents about the necessity and intentions of this initiative.

The School Board’s plan called for cultural sensitivity training for all students and teachers, tracking and reporting of those deemed guilty of racism by others, and created new equity administrative positions. The response from the voters could not have been more clear.

In a record turnout, each anti-CRT candidate for the School Board or City Council received roughly 70% of the vote. The school Board was warned, during the early CRT debate, that they have awakened a “silent majority.”

Judging by the messages being disseminated in the Virginia Gubernatorial race, CRT is rising to the top of the issue list from concerned voters. The CRT mess in Loudoun County has only intensified the conversation.

Our VA candidates need to focus on opening schools with an anti-CRT message. This one issue moved thousands of votes in a small town about 45 minutes north of Dallas. That’s the same distance from Washington, DC to Loudoun County.

The elections in Texas show the ground is shifting away from Democrats in the suburbs. These school boards pushing CRT are turning regular parents into “accidental activists.” The parents pushing back against CRT and trying to open VA schools are being called out as racists and put on blacklists. Our HOD candidates must harness this energy in their local campaigns and be the voice for these voters. Their only recourse is the ballot box.

Virginia Republicans can lead on the issue of CRT in schools. Just this week, we learned the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) is attempting to institute “social-emotional learning," which emphasizes the moral, ethical, and emotional development of students over academic content, into the state-wide curriculum.

This is just one more attempt by the state's institutions to brainwash kids and turn them in a new army of leftists.

According to a draft of VDOE’s new “social-emotional learning” proposal, middle and high schoolers state-wide must be able to recognize and describe a slew of social justice terms in order to graduate. Read more at the DailyWire here.

- Doug Simon,

The Virginia Project Candidate Services Manager

Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from Christchurch, New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.

Join The Virginia Project as we host New Discourses founder James Lindsay (@ConceptualJames), one of the leading voices globally in the fight against critical race theory (CRT), to answer the question: what is CRT, and why is it so dangerous?

James will demonstrate how CRT is a weaponized form of state-sanctioned racism, as well as discuss what activist believers, including the President, mean when they use the term “white supremacy.” We’ll also discuss the inherently anti-Semitic nature of CRT; the infiltration of CRT into institutions of all levels; and the movement’s ultimate goals to rewrite American history, and undermine and replace America’s founding principles and rights, starting with freedom of speech.

Preview James’s discussion by reading his CRT two-page overview.

Wednesday, May 19 @ 7 pm | Online

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