May Mailman

WH Official for 45 + 47. Legal Director @IWF. "She has a blunt and candid conversational style, and an easy proficiency with profanity." - NY Times

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

@HarrisonWFields Never seen someone so angry at a Black governor before

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

Basically same. This was her entire platform. Entire. There's no other policy on her website besides this.

[Eithan Haim MD @EithanDHaimMD]

These numbers are crazy. I live in Texas and never saw a single pro-Hinojosa ad. I never saw a Hinojosa supporter in person or online (i.e. among Facebook normies). I never met a person who even knew who she was. And my wife and I know a good number of libs and can generally see where there is organic support.

But she gets 2M more votes than Beto and blows Abbott out of the water? Somehow you have this groundswell in voter turnout for someone who no one ever talked about?

This seems odd. Definitely needs to be looked into.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

As of today, more than 100,000 manufacturing jobs and 120,000 factory construction jobs have been added since President Trump returned to office.

Biden lost more than 200,000 factory jobs.

I'm sure the $47T Medicare for All Illegals, financed through crippling taxes, will bring on even more high paying jobs though.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

Republicans lost our national message from 2024, which was (1) close the border, (2) drill baby drill, and (3) restore sanity. Because we solved it!

The Democrats picked their 2026 national message: affordability. Republicans said we'll do the same. But the problem is, you can't out Democrat a Democrat. You can't be more free than free.

Not only that, it missed a lurking feature of the affordability crisis: lack of hope and upward mobility. The group that swung the most from 2024 were young men in their 20s. Economic stress for people in their 20s? It's a fact of life to be poor in your 20s. But you don't feel the weight of it, ideally, because the idea is you're investing in yourself to be wealthier in your 30s+.

When people in their 20s start feeling their weight of their financial crunch, it's not necessarily the day to day costs (which, again, always suck for 20 year olds). It's a lack of upward mobility. The feeling that they'll indefinitely be struggling. That lends itself to disliking Washingtonians getting wealthy ("corruption"); being old and out of touch; or focusing on "irrelevant" or distant policy issues. If you're upwardly mobile yourself, you don't care *as much* whether a Swamp Creature is monetizing too.

Republicans are the party of the American Dream. Of opportunity, pioneering, self-reliance, and hard work paying off. This isn't "affordability." Mexico is affordable. We wouldn't want to live there because we want more than that. We want opportunity to thrive. Optimism was missing in the electorate, replaced by anger, resentment, and comparative gloom. It's a tough environment for long-term optimism to be sure: AI uncertainty, ballooning college costs with low value degrees, social media comparators, DEI unfairness, less dating/marriage due to a serious divide among the sexes, etc. But reigniting and re-inspiring young people on the American Dream is, I believe, the open economic lane for Republicans to recapture.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

@amuse No he got 100k votes fewer.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

On the "culture war." I live in Texas and was inundated with "Talorico is for they/them" mailers, texts, and TV ads, at the expense of literally any other message. This missed the entire point of the issue from 2024.

Yes, single-sex sports are 80/20. But voters in 2024 weren't actually motivated out of passion to save women's sports. On paper sure; in reality it was deeper. They were tired of elitists in power looking down on their way of life as immoral and backwards. Bud Light hated its own "fratty" drinkers. Target turned an enjoyable "Target run" into a drag show. The Biden Admin hired an overweight male pretending to be a woman to be the arbiter of public health. LinkedIn asked that you provide pronouns. Institutions treated LGBTQ as a minority status for admission. (Even today, the WNBA has seized this mightiness and treated women's rights advocates with utter disdain.)

Kamala embodied that "otherness." The issue proved she's just not regular like us. The 2024 vote was a return to normalcy. Americans voted it's perfectly moral and normal to know what a woman is, elitists be damned.

The 2026 flavor treated voters as if they were motivated by the issue itself. Like Texans were going to wake up and vote on women's prisons and sports. To be sure, Texans are on the right side of this issue. But they entirely missed the point. The 2024 vote was backlash against elitist cultural domination.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

Understand the implications of what happened in Texas last night.

Gina Hinojosa has called on Gov. Abbott to end state & local cooperation with ICE & she can order that on day one.

Hinojosa voted against the 2017 SB 4 as a TX state rep. The bill was essentially a sanctuary cities ban and required TX law enforcement to cooperate with ICE detainers. She then voted against another SB 4 in 2023, which made it a state crime to cross illegally into Texas.

Should there be another border crisis in coming years, there will likely be no resistance from Texas at the border. No Texas DPS, no TX National Guard, no razor wire or water buoys, and no Operation Lone Star, which Hinojosa called a “dog and pony show” and “political theater”.

Remember when 15,000 Haitians surged illegally into Del Rio, TX in 2021 under the international bridge? That was only stopped because Texas DPS responded on Abbott’s orders and physically blocked further crossings by lining up their cruisers to form a wall. The Biden Border Patrol was caught off guard and offered almost no resistance, except for some horseback agents who were falsely slandered for “whipping”.

Additionally, because Republicans failed to pass any legislation codifying President Trump’s border security measures, if Dems take the White House in 2028, that Dem president could, if he/she wants to, reverse every single Trump border security policy immediately upon taking office because they were all done at the executive level, and they can order Border Patrol to go back to a passive catch & release policy like we saw under Biden.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

For all the economic voters who punished Republicans, just remember:
(1) Poverty and child poverty are at an all time low.
(2) GDP per capita is at an all time high.
(3) The murder rate is lowest recorded.
(4) Real median income is up to an all-time high of $88,000.
(5) U.S. crude output is at an all time high. Natural gas production also at an all time high.

The Dems promised free everything. We'll see which track pulls more Americans up.

But you already know.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

I have a hard time over-blaming the war. Gas prices, yes. But only 4% of voters ranked foreign policy as their top issue. It's sadder and more vibes-based. Almost 60% of voters (two-third of whom are Dems) sense life will be worse for our kids. Without hope, why not blow it all up?

[Angela Morabito @AngelaLMorabito]

85,000 Texas kids are benefitting from the school choice program Gina Hinojosa just promised to nuke.

100,000 more are on the waitlist.

Randi Weingarten's teacher union donated $347,000 to her campaign.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

It's VERY abnormal to wait beyond Election Day for results -- just look at every other country. Liberal state slowness is a choice, and a choice proven to degrade trust in elections. Here's what other countries do:

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

Lol. What he said, and you can listen, is that kids may as well be exposed to bad things because they are going to be exposed to them anyway on phones:

"You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world, all the world's information in your pocket. The notion, somehow, that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something that you may find disagreeable, and that that is going to be because of school, is so profoundly outdated. "

"And the most important thing you can do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing."

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

I’m still stumped here. It’s okay for Payton McNabb to be paralyzed by a male volleyball spike, because… she has an iPhone??

[Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI]

.@AbdulElSayed says it’s ok for MEN to be in girl’s locker rooms.

Why?

“Well because they are going to find out about it on the internet anyway”

Completely unacceptable.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

At today's @HarvardFedSoc's "Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Feminism" with the great Tobi Young, we chatted about the rising divide between the sexes and the policies aggravating and mitigating that divide. Our bottom line: prioritize family, pursue what you love, and find someone who helps you balance, and go for it.

[Inez Stepman ⚪️🔴⚪️ @InezFeltscher]

I am really tired of everyone blackpilling. So without further ado, the Trump W Master List: https://t.co/oJKAZ0sQUT

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

Yes. That’s the argument 🤷🏻‍♀️

[Michele Perez Exner @michelepexner]

Wait… his answer is basically that it’s okay to force young girls to see a penis in a locker room because they can see it online anyway?!?!

He deserves to lose on this horrendous answer alone.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

Advice from, checks notes, Al Gore’s press guy on winning the Presidency.

[POLITICO @politico]

OpenAI is already pitching 2028 hopefuls on how to talk about AI https://t.co/1fa23Y71If

[Haley Stevens @HaleyforMI]

I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.

[May Mailman @MayMailman]

I like a data center rebrand but the point would be the actual opposite of adding the name AI, right?? Either a hard-hat focus (“manufacturing hub”) or liken it to things people like and somewhat know (“the cloud base”).

[Axios @axios]

NEW: Right after Tuesday's midterms, OpenAIwill unleash a policy and PR blitz to try to get in sync with the new Washington, including an effort to rebrand data centers as "AI compute campuses." https://t.co/2dirpieQm6

[Federalist Society @FedSoc]

@MayMailman, Director at @IWF, previews her upcoming NLC panel exploring the Declaration’s charge: “Sent Hither Swarms of Officers to Harass Our People, and Eat Out Their Substance.”

Has an unaccountable bureaucracy “swarmed the American people and hampered our future in favor of fraud, debt, and mismanagement”?

Tune in Saturday, November 14, at 10:30 AM ET.