2026 General Election
2026 Voter Guide: My Picks for California and Texas
If you followed my California guides, you know my family now lives in McKinney, Texas.
AuthorKody Fairfield
Faith & Culture
All Lamb, No Lion: Why a Defanged Church Needs the Whole Christ Back
Netflix is softening C.S. Lewis's Aslan, but the church defanged its Lion first. All Lamb and no Lion, it stopped influencing the culture and started being influenced by it. Here's what that cost the church and its men, and how to breathe life back in.
Elections & Strategy
Leadership Means Picking Winnable Fights, Not Flaming Out for a Headline: McKinney Had No Path
McKinney's mosque vote was decided weeks before the outrage arrived. This piece argues conservative leadership means aiming energy at fights that can actually be won: zoning code, utility districts, funding disclosure, not just the ones that make headlines.
Constitution & Courts
Avoiding the Question: How SCOTUS Just Flattened the 14th Amendment
Six justices ruled against Trump's birthright citizenship order. Only five signed onto the constitutional holding. A close read of what Roberts actually argued, what Thomas's 91-page dissent exposed, and what Congress can no longer fix by statute.
2026 Primary Election
2026 California Primary Voter Guide
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA THE RACE With Governor Gavin Newsom term-limited, California faces its most wide-open gubernatorial primary since 1998. There are 61 candidates on the ballot. * Steve Hilton (R) — Former
Faith & Culture
The Fourth Chair: The Dangers of James Talarico Rewriting God in the Image of the Voter
The fourth chair doesn't ask you to reject Jesus. It invites you to keep His name while remaking Him in your own image — and in the process, hand authority to the very institutions that want Christ off the throne and the state in His place.
Ideology & the Left
The Truth is, She Never Left You: Evita, AOC, and the New Face of Old Illiberal Temptations
Evita was a warning about how a beautiful “voice of the people” can sell a hard edged state. AOC is not Eva Perón, but the style she embodies, and the power grabs her movement normalizes, may be writing America’s own soft on ramp to illiberal rule.
Economy & Taxes
House‑Poor, State‑Rich: Why California Has No Incentive to Drive Down Housing Costs
California’s housing crisis is no accident. Sacramento rigs the rules to keep homes scarce and prices high, then turns “affordability” programs like Dream For All into a way to skim your equity while staying financially dependent on inflated values.
Elections & Strategy
The Forest for the Trees: Why Political Purism Sacrifices the Political Good
Political purists win arguments while the country loses ground. This piece makes the case for judging candidates by one standard: do they actually move the Overton window toward liberty in the real world, or just polish their reputation with perfect “no” votes?
Foreign Policy
Old Maps, New Wars: Why the Hormuz Wargames Were Right Then — and Dead Wrong Now
A defense industry veteran told me the Strait of Hormuz was a guaranteed nuclear flashpoint. His wargames said so. Two decades of classified modeling backed it up. He's probably right about 2005. What he hasn't updated is the board. And the board has moved.
Foreign Policy
The Isolationist Case Against American Superpower Ignores Two Realities: The Enemy's Own Words and the Vacuum We'd Leave
The blowback theory assumed the enemy was reacting to what we did. It never asked what happens when they're acting on what they believe — and have been telling us so for 45 years.
Economy & Taxes
Whose Laffing Now, California? How a Napkin Predicted California's $1T Exodus
A labor union's proposed wealth tax hasn't even made the ballot—but it's already triggered a $1T billionaire exodus from CA. The math shows every remaining household could absorb $576–$1,742/yr in higher taxes and cuts. The Laffer Curve isn't theory. It's happening in real time.