Thoughts on the Fecklessness of the Texas GOP

The establishment elites screaming about Bo French’s tweets are the very figures who presided over Texas’ frightening demographic transformation.

Bo French opened the week of September 13 by treating a University of Texas celebration as proof that America had already been lost. The Republican nominee for the Texas Railroad Commission circulated an image of South Asians and wrote, “I heard UT graduation this year looked like this. I didn’t believe it. The problem is now obviously far worse than anyone imagined.” He followed that with a second post. “Like body-cams exposed criminals, social media is exposing how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners. It’s everywhere and far worse than any of us could imagine.”

As a UT Austin alumnus, French’s comments validated a statewide trend I observed from my childhood in an affluent North Dallas suburb all the way through my 2013 graduation from UT. Namely, the demographic transformation of the state, a shift that has only accelerated in the last decade or so.

The demographic shift at UT Austin has been quite stark. The Daily Texan, citing a New York Times analysis, reported that White enrollment at UT Austin fell from 87 percent in 1980 to 44 percent by 2015. Current figures compiled by Data USA put White students at about 31.5 percent, Hispanic or Latino students around 25.5 percent, and Asian students around 22.4 percent. International undergraduates made up about 4 percent in 2025 to 2026, The Texas Tribune noted.

The same pattern defines the state. Texas A&M sociologist Dudley L. Poston noted that Hispanic residents had become the largest group in Texas at 40.2 percent, compared with 39.4 percent for White residents who are not Hispanic. In 1990, those White Texans still made up 60.6 percent of the population, according to the Texas Politics Project. The Texas Demographic Center showed that minority populations accounted for 95.3 percent of nearly 4 million in growth between 2010 and 2020, while White residents who are not Hispanic contributed 4.7 percent. The Bush Center cites projections of a 2050 Texas in which Hispanics comprise 42.7 percent and White residents who are not Hispanic fall to 28.6 percent.

Indian Texans stand at the center of the image French posted. Pew Research Center estimates that roughly 570,000 Indian Americans now reside in Texas, the second largest state population after California. That growth followed the 1965 Immigration Act and the 1990 Immigration Act that created the modern H-1B system, which together enabled employers in Austin, Dallas and Houston to import large waves of cheap labor from South Asia. One caveat: this author and many other disaffected Texans may view these figures as substantially understating the actual scale of demographic change, given how overwhelmed many Texas suburbs have become by South Asian migration in the last two decades.

What French won’t tell you is that his party has presided over the state’s Great Replacement and has done virtually nothing to check it. Ballotpedia records 23 years of Republican trifectas in Texas from 2003 through 2025. After 2010, Republicans reached 101 of 150 House seats. The Railroad Commission position French is running for is a three-member body that regulates oil and gas rather than railroads. It does not write visa caps or pass immigration restriction measures.

He can evoke the played out Southern Strategy and race-bait to turn out the White vote as election day approaches. However, he cannot meaningfully restrict immigration from that governmental position. The man across the ballot is Jon E. Rosenthal, a Jewish mechanical engineer and Texas state representative for House District 135 since January 2019.

The Humanist described him as agnostic and “multireligious,” raised by a Jewish father and a Christian mother, with more than two decades of oil and gas work. At 14 he lived in Israel for a year while his father taught at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and became conversational in Hebrew. The Forward reported that he later took his legislative oath on a Torah he received as a bar mitzvah gift.

Taking advantage of the post-October 7 “vibe shift” that has allowed for public figures to indulge in all manner of antisemitic and racial appeals to disgruntled White voters, French took some thinly veiled shots at Rosenthal’s ethno-religious background. In a fundraising email first reported by Texas Monthly, he circulated an AI generated image of Rosenthal in the room where Russia’s Romanov family was killed. The email claimed Rosenthal has “much in common with the Marxist revolutionaries who brutally executed the Romanov family,” making a reference to the disproportionate role Jews played during the Bolshevik Revolution that set the stage for the Soviet subjugation of the Russian-speaking world.

French has clearly updated the Southern Strategy script for the current year. Perhaps he may even have some groypers on his staff that help craft such race-baiting strategies. Who knows.

Nevertheless, French talks about foreigners and demographic displacement but offers no concrete statute the Railroad Commission could pass. White voters remain the bedrock of the Republican electorate in Texas, and when an election is close, the party will scrounge for any type of White support it can get. French knows the game all too well.

Behind the fiery rhetoric lies a generic pro-Zionist Republican. On his iVoterGuide questionnaire he called Israel “a strategic ally in a region of radical Islamists who hate us” and boasted that he alone had “proposed detailed plans for a stronger partnership between the Railroad Commission and the Israeli energy industry.” That posture sits beside the 2025 social media poll in which, as The Dallas Morning News reported, he asked followers who posed “a bigger threat to America” and listed Jews or Muslims as the options, in a clear ploy to tap into the racial instincts of Texas voters. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick replied, “Bo French’s words do not reflect my values nor the values of the Republican Party,” and demanded “immediate resignation and replacement.” French refused. “I have always strongly supported Israel and I’m not resigning,” he wrote in response.

Pro-Zionist oil billionaires Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks are key supporters of French’s political campaign. Their political network, then operating as the Texas Freedom Fund for the Advancement of Justice, gave French $225,000 and spent another $150,000 on an ad, more than half of the $637,139 he had raised through late February. Dunn also chairs the Christian Advisory Board of the Israel Allies Foundation, whose stated mission is to “equip and empower pro-Israel legislators.” The foundation credits him with organizing numerous trips to Israel for politicians. Additionally, French received an endorsement from the American Jewish Conservatives, a Dallas-based grassroots organization that describes itself as “fervently Pro-God, Pro-America, Pro-Israel and Pro-Constitution, during the 2026 primary cycle.

The amusing part of this episode is how squeamish the Texas Republican Party remains about French’s otherwise played-out race-baiting script. Even for those empty suits, that’s a bridge too far. Outgoing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) asked whether Republican officials would “condemn the intolerance and racism, or look the other way while it becomes normalized.”

By September 17 he had ruled out voting for French. “He’s an embarrassment to the Republican Party, and he’s going to drag the whole ticket down because of his racist comments,” Cornyn said, according to Houston Public Media. “I may just leave it blank.” He still declined to back Rosenthal.

Establishment Republican hack Karl Rove went further. After calling French a “bigot” at a private Austin lunch, he used a Wall Street Journal column to pledge his vote to Rosenthal, only the second Democrat he said he had ever supported, after Lt. Gov. Bob Bullock in 1994. “The GOP has a growing number of Bo Frenches—and not only in Texas,” Rove wrote. “This November, I’ll vote for only the second Democrat in my life.” He added, “The GOP’s stables need a cleaning. This is a good place to start.”

Regardless of all the noise being made, French will not move the needle in any meaningful way on immigration restriction. The office he is running for has little to no impact on changing immigration policy—what is actually a federal matter to begin with. His party already held a trifecta while Texas has changed, so there’s scant reason to believe that the situation will change if people vote straight-ticket Republican this election cycle.

From a big picture perspective, politicians come and go, while corporate oligarchs—the key drivers of mass migration policy—remain fixtures in the state’s plutocratic structure. Mark Cuban, one of the most prominent Jewish billionaires in Texas who enthusiastically promotes mass migration, told FOX Business in 2015, “if someone from another country earns a job, more power to them.” In March 2025 he posted, “The H1b Visa game is ridiculous,” and argued that corporations should pay $5 million for immediate citizenship for any employee earning over $500,000.

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell, also of Jewish extraction, in a 2017 internal memo quoted by CRN, pledged, “We will advocate for immigration reform that supports our business, our customers, our team members and their families.” Department of Labor data compiled by MyVisaJobs show Dell USA filed 434 H1B labor applications in fiscal 2025, even as FOX Business reported Dell cut its workforce from about 133,000 to 97,000 in 2023.

Between French and Rosenthal, and any other statewide race in Texas for that matter, there are no good choices for Texas. Red meat rhetoric on the campaign won’t change the structural factors that have led to Texas’ demographic transformation.

The path ahead is clear. Unless the prevailing Judeo-capitalist order is dismantled, Texas will inevitably succumb to the same entropy as the rest of the country, becoming little more than an incoherent racial mish-mash. It is a modern Tower of Babel, overseen by a regime of Jewish oligarchs who utilize their loyal South Asian functionaries to manage our collective displacement.

A nightmare scenario by any measure.