adminMark Teixeira, the former Major League Baseball star now running for Congress in Texas, used a recent Newsmax appearance to lay into Democratic resistance to commonsense voter ID measures and to demand that election integrity be taken seriously. Teixeira made clear that his decision to run was driven by a desire to defend American institutions and to translate patriotic rhetoric into real policy in Washington.
Democrats have loudly opposed the SAVE proposals pushed by Republicans, even likening voter ID and proof-of-citizenship rules to Jim Crow tactics, a characterization conservatives rightly reject as inflammatory and false. The debate over the SAVE America Act shows the left preferring partisan grievance over practical solutions that most Americans accept as reasonable safeguards for elections.
Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers and allies of President Trump are demanding national minimum standards — including photo ID to vote — arguing that no democracy can survive if its outcomes are routinely questioned. House Republicans have been moving forward with legislation and public pressure to force a real debate in the Senate about how to secure the franchise for citizens alone.
The hypocrisy is glaring: the same voices that insist on IDs for firearm purchases, flights, and countless everyday transactions suddenly scream that asking for ID at the ballot box is “suppression.” Conservatives see this as a cynical strategy to keep elections ambiguous where ambiguity benefits one party, not a principled defense of voter access.
Teixeira’s entry into the race gives the debate a fresh, outsider face who isn’t a career politician and who frames election security as a matter of national survival, not partisan advantage. His backing of measures to tighten registration and ensure only citizens vote crystallizes a broader conservative push to restore trust in the system rather than kowtow to the perpetuation of doubt.
Of course, procedural hurdles like the Senate’s filibuster remain a real obstacle to passing bold reforms, but that is no excuse for inaction or moral evasion. If the country is to remain a functioning republic, lawmakers must decide whether they will stand for clear rules that protect the ballot or continue the politics of complaint that leaves elections perpetually contested.
