It's been a minute since I posted. I've given two trainings in the last week (Beaumont and Llano). I'm updating Grassroots Priorities daily and the session is starting to move quickly. I'm trying to keep up with my client work.

I've got some things on my mind, so I'll just talk randomly...

I read of people who want to create qualifications for certain positions, such as ensuring that only native born Americans can serve on the bench as a judge or can be elected to Congress. That sounds like a smart qualification, but it guarantees nothing. Bernie Sanders is native born. John Roberts is native born. In my opinion, it's a lazy requirement to keep from the real work: electing the right people.

We get the government we allow. If you want people appointed to positions who will do the right thing, then you have to elect people with the right judgment to appoint the right people. Greg Abbott makes some pretty horrible appointments. Joe Biden made some terrible appointments. Giving them a more narrow constraint for appointment will not solve their bad judgment, which is the root of the problem.

The same goes for those elected. You don't solve Ilhan Omar with nativity requirements - we can get a Jasmine Crockett or AOC.

Elections are work. Scott Presler warned of the Pennsylvania result of not working to keep a seat and now Democrats keep majority control of the state House by a single seat... and this other result too.

It's all about elections. The goal is to win. This is why I do the work I do - to teach you how to win every time.

I'm also watching friends of mine down at the capitol here in Texas fight to get good legislation passed and to kill bad legislation.

A phrase I miss is "the spirit of the law." That was used by savvy judges who wouldn't allow the tiniest of loopholes in the wording of the law as an excuse for criminal activity. Now we have to get the exact right wording or the law can be the opposite of what we need.

But that gets back to appointing and electing people who use good judgment to adhere to the spirit of the law. That's on us. We get the government we allow.

So either get involved or get run over.