Tony McDonald

HCML at LOTM. Chief Storytelling Officer at The Nondescript Building. General Counsel for the Tarrant GOP.

[Dan Lennington @DanLennington]

Yesterday was the 1st time the Supreme Court called the Constitution "colorblind." If you're keeping track, that's 130 years since Harlan's dissent in Plessy ("Our constitution is color-blind") & 160 years since abolitionist Wendell Phillips first utter the phrase. This is undoubtedly brought to us by Justice Thomas, who called the Constitution "colorblind" in separate opinions in Alexander v. S. Carolina (2024), SFFA v. Harvard (2023), & Parents Involved v. Seattle (2007). In 1978, Justice Brennan concurred in Bakke stating, "no decision of this Court has ever adopted the proposition that the Constitution must be colorblind." Not anymore. Thank you Justice Thomas. 🇺🇸

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@EWess92 If we had a functioning Congress, this is the sort of thing that ought to lead to an automatic and unanimous impeachment.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

This is better than a picnic at Mannasas.

[Alaric The Barbarian @0xAlaric]

There is a Stone Age tribal war happening in Colombia right now

The Misak and Nasa people are fighting over a section of land. Yes this is real, and yes they are using traditional weapons. Video is from May 21st, 2026.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@amilynne87 @LoewyLawFirm @lynnsdavenport FYI: The motion to dismiss isn’t set yet. Will require at least 21 days notice but has to be heard in the next 60 (or possibly 90) days.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@CurrentRevolt What are they saying about Pikl?

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

There can be appeals, sure. But it’d be a Herculean lift to get the roll call lined up to actually have a record vote, and it would arguably happen at the time of the nominations report, so it’d be a vote about whether to have a vote, so even less relevant to anyone who’s interested in substance as opposed to abstractions.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

I sure hope they don’t waste our time with this challenge. It is quite silly. Even Randall is conceding he filed on time, and he’d be the one who would have to rule his own application out of order.

[Drinda Randall @DrindaRandall]

Delegates,
Yesterday, I received an overwhelming number of calls regarding the filing deadline issue involving Chairman George. Rather than allow speculation and rumors to drive the conversation, I knew I needed to address it directly.

Chairman George and his Vice Chair candidate waited until the final hours before the filing deadline to submit paperwork for their re-election/election campaign. Whether one believes the deadline should be measured in days or hours misses the larger point.
Republicans deserve leadership that is organized, proactive, and prepared, not leadership that consistently waits until the last possible moment on matters of consequence.

David Covey and I filed our Statements of Intent in February because we believe preparation matters.
The real question is not whether they met the filing deadline. The real question is why our Party continues to find itself navigating avoidable confusion, controversy, and unnecessary drama caused by last minute decisions and poor communication. Strong leadership prevents these situations from arising in the first place.

Our State Convention begins in just nine days, yet delegates are once again scrambling because of changes that should have been communicated weeks ago. Delegates were told the SREC elections would take place on Thursday. Which in the past they happened on Friday. Many adjusted their travel plans, work schedules, and budgets to ensure they could participate. Now, following a Rules Committee meeting, we are being told the Chairman changed those elections to occur on Friday instead.

This confusion was entirely preventable. Unfortunately, this is not an isolated incident.

When candidates requested access to the delegate list, Chairman George initially cited Rule 32 and stated that candidates and vendors would not be granted access. Yet he later chose to provide the list to SREC members. As the elected Vice Chair of the Republican Party of Texas and a voting member of the SREC, I was not granted access.

Your SREC members ultimately called an emergency meeting and voted to allow all candidates access to the delegate list. Chairman George then decided to impose a fee for that access, which we paid and received.
During that meeting, it was specifically decided that delegate addresses would not be distributed in order to protect delegates' privacy. I honored that decision. Yet the only candidates who have sent several mail pieces to delegates have been Chairman George and his Vice Chair candidate.

Lastly, in three candidate forums Chairman George repeatedly claimed he has raised $14 million, $14.5 million, and most recently, in writing he said he raised $15.5 million for the Republican Party of Texas.**

According to the information available to me, there are no records that substantiate those numbers.** At the same time, our convention is operating at a deficit.
Claims that cannot be verified damage the credibility of the Republican Party of Texas and erode trust among the grassroots activists, donors, and volunteers who make this Party work.

Under my leadership, I will initiate a comprehensive financial review so delegates can have complete confidence in the Party's financial condition.

Honesty, transparency, and accountability are not optional. They are fundamental responsibilities of leadership.

I will not want to spend the next two years talking about internal drama. I want to spend the next two years defeating Democrats, growing our Party, and preparing for victory.

David Covey and I are prepared to lead on Day One.

We understand the challenges facing our Party, including its financial realities. We also know Texas Republicans are ready for leadership that plans ahead, communicates clearly, tells the truth, and remains focused on winning elections.

Our first priority will be the 2026 midterms. We will focus relentlessly on voter registration, turnout, fundraising, messaging, grassroots engagement, and building the infrastructure necessary to make Texas even redder.

The stakes are too high for distractions, drama, and last-minute chaos. Texas Republicans deserve leadership that earns trust, inspires confidence, and delivers results.

This is our Party. This is your Party.

And Texas is better when it's Redder.

For Texas,
D'rinda Randall
Candidate for Chair, Republican Party of Texas

Here are the receipts for the **.
RPT Rule 1(g) on page 5 is clear: when computing any period of days, the first day is excluded and the last day is included.

Rule 14: “To be eligible, candidates for the office of State Chairman or Vice Chairman shall be required to file a statement of intent to run with SREC Secretary at least (10) days prior to the first General Session of the State Convention.”

** Chairman Statement on $15.5M raised under his leadership: https://t.co/RQuzilagG1

**TEC Reports and FEC Reports: https://t.co/kmBer4vcM7
https://t.co/tV1i75Klyf

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a stranger will rename you in a single breath, and you are simply expected to come when called.

I went to eat at a busy restaurant. A young man at the front asked for my name, to mark my place in line. I gave it the weight it has carried for eight hundred years.

"Nobunaga."

He smiled, nodded, and wrote it down with great confidence. Then he read it back to me, to be sure he had honored it correctly.

"Perfect. Banana, party of one."

Banana. He had heard my name, held it a moment, and returned to me something rounder and more cheerful. To refuse the name a host gives is to refuse his welcome. I bowed. I was Banana now.

Then he handed me a small black disc, said it would "light up and buzz" when my table was ready, and turned to the next guest as though he had not just placed a living thing in my hands.

I held it in both palms, the way one holds a small sleeping beast that may wake. I found a place to stand. I waited, ready.

It woke.

It screamed. It flashed red. It leapt and shook in my hands like a captured spirit demanding release. A lesser man would have dropped it. I did not. I gripped it, steady, looked into its blinking lights, and told it, in a low voice, that its time had come. Then I carried it back to the host with both hands, the way one returns a hawk to its master.

He took it without looking and shouted across the entire room.

"BANANA! Party of one, your table's ready!"

A hundred strangers turned. I rose. I crossed that floor as Banana, spine straight, chin level, a man answering to his name. A child pointed at me. I gave the child a small bow. He had recognized me.

All through the meal they kept me. "How's it tasting, Banana?" "More water, Banana?" The check, when it came, said Banana, and thanked me for visiting. By the end the whole staff knew me. They waved as I left. "Night, Banana!"

So tell me honestly.

For eight hundred years my clan answered to one name. Tonight I answered to a fruit, calmed a screaming relic in my bare hands, and ate among people who were glad I came.

When the little disc lights up, is the table truly mine, or am I only keeping it warm for the next Banana?

Because I have already decided to return on Friday, and to ask, very humbly, for the same disc.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

I just got an email from @BMc_Kenzie (and also signed by Bill Eastland, who is highly competitive for the most obnoxious person in politics). It starts:

"I have formally requested that Chairman Abraham George immediately issue a Rule 1(f) clarification confirming that Abraham George and Amanda Hopper are ineligible..."

I'm sure Chairman George is going to declare himself ineligible. Hilarious.

These people seem obsessed with wasting productive people's time with the worst plans imaginable.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@slocumfortexas @rdgarcia03 To the best of my knowledge the only client they’ve ever tricked into hiring them was Stephen. They hold themselves out as professionals but are in fact just activists, and incompetent ones at that.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

Pretty good summary of what went on.

[Brandon Waltens @bwaltens]

NEW: A former SBOE candidate's court filing alleges his campaign consultants @lynnsdavenport and @JackyBesinger:

• Sent him to the wrong place to file for office
• Blamed a Thanksgiving closure at Texas GOP HQ on a conspiracy involving Greg Abbott and Abraham George
• Didn't understand web hosting
• Warned that a campaign AI chatbot could get people sent to prison
• Told him he had "no value"
• Then told him to drop out

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@LoewyLawFirm @lynnsdavenport @JackyBesinger @TXBullpen They're not. But @txbullpen has this messed up. Besinger sued Yearout, expecting to be paid $65k for a campaign that she told Yearout to drop out of. You've got to read the answer -- it's wild.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@JoeKhalilTV You can vote for Dipper Dan or Dipperless Dan.

[Brandon Waltens @bwaltens]

Worth noting @SecJaneNelson spent the last year fighting the @TexasGOP's lawsuit seeking closed primaries.

Will her replacement take the same position?

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

I love when politicians get defeated and immediately confirm why.

[Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn]

Rut roh

Libertarian Ted Brown courts disaffected conservative voters in Texas’ U.S. Senate race – Houston Public Media https://t.co/wZ9ipRviE1

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

This is how the death penalty information center spins it:

At tri­al, Mr. Carruthers was forced to rep­re­sent him­self because his tri­al judge became frus­trat­ed with his repeat­ed dis­missal of court-appoint­ed coun­sel — which his coun­sel argued was “due to his long­stand­ing and well-doc­u­ment­ed men­tal ill­ness.” Mr. Carruthers did not ask to rep­re­sent him­self at tri­al and repeat­ed­ly request­ed legal rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Post-con­vic­tion attor­neys for Mr. Carruthers wrote in a 2019 fil­ing that his per­for­mance at tri­al was “one of the most sin­gu­lar­ly inept, inef­fec­tive, and dis­as­trous cross-exam­i­na­tions pos­si­ble, one that seemed designed to secure not only a guilty ver­dict, but a death sen­tence.” Counsel for Mr. Carruthers have unsuc­cess­ful­ly argued that their client can­not legal­ly be exe­cut­ed because of his severe men­tal ill­ness. According to a fil­ing from February 2026, Mr. Carruthers has a “per­va­sive and all-con­sum­ing obses­sion that a cabal of cor­rupt judges, pros­e­cu­tors, and defense attor­neys have con­spired to secure his con­vic­tion and death sen­tence.” The fil­ing also not­ed that Mr. Carruthers has called the Tennessee Federal Public Defender’s office as often as 300 times in one day.

In other words, he’s so crazy and stupid and OBVIOUSLY GUILTY that he can’t be held accountable for his murder “master plan” he started planning from prison nearly a year in advance of the crimes.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

Tony Carruthers buried three victims alive in 1994 - two rival drug dealers and one dealer’s mother. At trial he fired his attorney, went pro se, and called a witness who testified to his confession to the murders.

https://t.co/FTvROMEjEQ

[Allegra Harpootlian @ally_harp]

ACLU attorney Maria DeLiberato was in the room with her client Tony Carruthers as Tennessee tried to kill him for over 90 minutes. Her accounting of what happened that day is devastating, disturbing, and disgusting.

This barbaric practice must end.

[Charlie Spiering @charliespiering]

The America 250 concert debacle reveals the two groups organizing events to celebrate America’s 250th birthday.

America250 vs Freedom250

America250 is a bipartisan nonprofit effort created by Congress in 2016.

Freedom250 is a public-private effort launched by Trump when he took office

Freedom250 is behind the national prayer event on the mall, the UFC fight at the White House, the Great American State Fair, July 4th fireworks, and the Indy 500 in DC.

America250 is organizing charity events, innovation showcase, day of reflection, time capsule, and block parties.

Lefties and Dems are attacking Freedom250 as the “Trump” group, successfully pressuring musical artists and businesses to boycott or drop out of events billed as nonpartisan birthday celebrations.

That's why we can't get an awesome concert on the National Mall to celebrate America's 250th birthday.

[Tony McDonald @TweetTonyMac]

@MattOsterndorf Deserved.