Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast

Join host @gwfulce as he opines and interviews his way to the truth of what's happening in Texas Politics.

[Team Bettencourt @TeamBettencourt]

LOL, Apparently, I did well on the #ALEC26 AI data center panel in Orlando with economist @StephenMoore and former ALEC Board @SteveDelBianco, that in @thecentersquare article they gave me a battlefield promotion to U.S. Senator!
Well, "US" Senator or really Texas Senator or just plain old "Uncle Paul" I’ll stick to facts of public policy, like already 335 Data Centers are operating in Texas now. Literally, every application I used to fly to FLA and back, airlines, rental car, hotel, GIS Maps, and restaurant payments are in "the cloud" in a data center... Just doing research now for taxpayers is in the cloud, too. It's everywhere! Check out the story now!

https://t.co/sta8Isl6Ek

Moore framed it perfectly when he said this is an Indy 500 race with China, and you don’t win from the sidelines. DelBianco reminded everyone that when these projects are done right, the upsides are real, and the downsides get managed.

I gave out the facts that in Texas, we have 102k direct data center employees, more than 429k indirect workers in associated businesses. They have contributed $39 billion as an economic unit to the Texas Economy! We cut through the noise and the concerns around data centers and talked about what actually matters: opportunity, JOBS, American leadership, and building the future the right way which we can do even with Hyper-scale AI data centers.

On the way home, I sat next to young man 1/2 my age, and he's traded in his old ship channel job for a 6 figure one traveling the country building them. He told me about how much money his friends are making now even with high school, and quite frankly, they're astonished. I told him an old Aggie Prof and US Senator Phil Gramm summed it up; "He's happy for @elonmusk for making it rich because he made me and my wife a little richer too!"

Texans have never run from the future — we build it.

Thanks to CEO @LisaBNelson of @ALEC_States and @Taxeconomist and ALEC President @johnathanwilliams for an excellent panel, which I'll post up soon to #txlege.

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

"You're never gonna have a voice in the middle saying let's have a nuanced, reasonable policy... because there's no momentum there." Garrett and Evan Mintz on why absolutists, not moderates, drive policys debates.

https://t.co/W6kJHqxMYE

@evan7257 @gwfulce

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Susan Collins calls DHS. Tom Homan announces a pause. Even Greg Abbott says ICE can enforce immigration "100%" without killing people. Then President Trump goes on Truth Social and says keep doing the vehicle stops. @evan7257 breaks down the whiplash.

https://t.co/0F18lVz7XV

@gwfulce

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Evan Mintz on Lorenzo Salgado: "He was not a U.S. citizen... but in the ways that matter to our city, he was very much a Houstonian." A blunt take on immigration, identity, and who belongs.

https://t.co/W6kJHqxMYE

@evan7257 @gwfulce

[Evan @evan7257]

Teaching the Bible in Texas schools is good, actually https://t.co/BZfpAJ7o7N

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

"We need to get to the truth, and you can't trust ICE." Opinion editor @evan7257 breaks down how the paper covered the ICE shooting versus a separate HPD shooting the same morning, and why the difference in transparency matters.

https://t.co/W6kJHqxMYE

@gwfulce

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

"You can't trust ICE," says @HoustonChron opinion editor. Do voters buy it?

@evan7257 joins @gwfulce to make his case on the shooting splitting the country, the Hill Country Floods, and the IKE DIKE.

All of that and more on this week's episode. WATCH NOW!

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Most candidates dodge "what would you actually do?" @NateSheetsTX didn't. His plan for Ag Commissioner: make farming profitable again, hold data centers accountable on water and power, and keep the county out of your land. 🎧 https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Most candidates dodge "what would you actually do?" @NateSheetsTX didn't. His plan for Ag Commissioner: make farming profitable again, hold data centers accountable on water and power, and keep the county out of your land. 🎧 https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Shoulda had it in Denison

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

In case you missed the speaker lineup update for @ShelleyLutherTX-Palooza #txlege

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Data centers didn't create Texas's water and power problem. The state kicked the can for 30 years. We need this infrastructure regardless of who's building. @NateSheetsTX and I got into who actually pays. 👇 https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

Data centers didn't create Texas's water and power problem. The state kicked the can for 30 years. We need this infrastructure regardless of who's building. @NateSheetsTX and I got into who actually pays. 👇 https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

One landowner in Stamford, Texas sold to Google for $30 million.

Then he stayed, gave a chunk of it away, and started building downtown.

@NateSheetsforTX on why data centers and agriculture might actually coexist.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Jets fans watching a scoreless primetime game at MetLife

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

He built the #1 branded honey in America and figured his big chapter was over.

Then @RickSantorum asked him one question: "Why don't you go be the Ag Commissioner?"

@NateSheetsforTX tells the story.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

He built the #1 branded honey in America and figured his big chapter was over.

Then @RickSantorum asked him one question: "Why don't you go be the Ag Commissioner?"

@NateSheetsforTX tells the story.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

@NateSheetsforTX isn't subtle about his opponent.

"My opponent is a socialist Democrat."

Then he explains why he thinks the data center 'protections' the left wants are a Trojan horse for your property rights.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

@NateSheetsforTX isn't subtle about his opponent.

"My opponent is a socialist Democrat."

Then he explains why he thinks the data center 'protections' the left wants are a Trojan horse for your property rights.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Seeing Red | A Texas Politics Podcast @theseeingredpod]

"We lost 68 farms this week in Texas."

@NateSheetsforTX on why the family farm is going broke, revenue down 60%, costs up 300%, and who shows up to buy the land when the farmer finally quits.

https://t.co/hXWpNCB0TB

[Garrett W. Fulce @gwfulce]

Probably the best interview I've ever done. You wanna know what the hell an 'Agriculture Commisioner"does? Watch the full episode. Get learnt