Rep. Brandon Gill, the 32-year-old former Wall Street executive who represents the 26th congressional district of Texas, a district that stretches from the suburbs north of Dallas to the Oklahoma border, has emerged in his freshman term in Congress as one of the conservative movement’s most effective spokesmen.
With his movie star cowboy good looks, and an instinct for the viral moment, Rep. Gill is a regular on FOX News and omnipresent on social media.
So, it really should not have surprised us when he brought down the house by delivering a tongue-in-cheek “land acknowledgement” at the beginning of his remarks on Wednesday.
However, while that was a good laugh line, he stole the show on Day 1 of the Republican Party’s Midterm Convention in Dallas with his hammering of Democrat congressional candidates, and no one has summed-up this campaign better than Brandon Gill has when he said, “How can people who have such a transparent disdain for this country be trusted to govern it?”
To that end, we post his speech in its entirety. (Transcript prepared by Grok and edited by CHQ.)
Good evening.
It's an honor to be here at the Republican National Convention in the great state of Texas.
Now, I think it's only appropriate that we kick this convention off properly. With a land acknowledgement.
I'd like to acknowledge that we stand here today in the great state of Texas in the United States of America. The ancestral homeland of great American patriots, pioneers, and explorers who put down roots, fought for freedom all over the globe, and bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever known to man.
My friends, we live in the finest country in the history of the world. And we're no longer going to apologize for that.
We're hosting this midterm convention so that we can talk directly to you about our record and President Trump's accomplishments so that you can hear exactly what's at stake for our country this November.
This election is very clear. It's the mainstream versus the extreme.
Because there's another political movement in our country right now that doesn't believe that America is or ever was great. They sometimes call themselves socialists. Some even call themselves communists. But most of them simply go by Democrats.
They're the ones who will tell you that your love for America is nothing but bigotry, that our heritage is rooted in white supremacy, and that your Christian faith is patriarchal and needs to be dismantled.
That's extreme.
They're the people like Democrat congressional nominee Darializa Avila Chevalier who tweeted, quote, "I forgot to get napkins. So, I just wiped my hand on the American flag behind me." And later said, quote, "This country is a effing disgrace."
That's extreme.
There are people like Democrat Congressional nominee Claire Valdez who described American foreign policy as one of, quote, "white supremacy and capitalist exploitation."
That's extreme.
And here in Texas, we have James “God is nonbinary, there are six genders, we need to dismantle capitalism,” Talarico. It's somebody who will hollow out your most deeply held Christian faith and wear it like a skin suit.
That's extreme.
And now, as we near the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Democrats are nominating Abdul Rahman El-Sayed, an extremist who sympathized with terrorists and who campaigned with a man who says America deserved 9/11.That's extreme and deplorable.
Now, we have to admit that every party has their crazies. The difference is that the Democrat Party is nominating theirs for Congress.
How can people who have such a transparent disdain for this country be trusted to govern it?
We saw what they did the last time they were in power. We watched on Easter Sunday in 2024, the most holy day of the year for Christians, as Democrats turned the White House lawn into a celebration not of Christ's resurrection but of transgender day of visibility.
We saw images every single day as millions of illegal aliens poured across our border transforming American communities, taking American jobs, suppressing American wages, spiking American housing costs, overrunning American hospitals and schools, and bringing drugs and crime into American neighborhoods.
And Americans began to ask themselves why don't I recognize my country anymore?
And Democrats didn't just watch this happen. They facilitated it.
The last time Democrats were in power with Joe Biden in the White House, inflation hit 9% and we had a government that cared more about the color of your skin than the content of your character.
We had a president who said that if you were born a man or if you were born white, Hispanic or Asian, then you need not apply for certain government jobs.
People are now looking back and they're saying woke one was crazy. Well, AOC, you were finally right about one thing. Woke one was crazy and we're not going to let you get your hands on woke two.
But in 2024 like Thomas Paine before him President Trump led a common-sense revolution. And he beat the extremists. But that battle continues today.
The other side is telling us exactly what they want to do next, woke 2.0. The total destruction of America's constitutional order.
And this isn't just rhetoric; this is their platform. Democrats are campaigning on abolishing the United States Senate, eliminating the office of the presidency, shutting down the Pentagon, and defunding the United States military.
Now, these aren't just policy disagreements that we have with Democrats. The question this election cycle, the fundamental question of this election cycle, is whether America as we know it should even exist.
I think we can all remember the good old days when political debates were about marginal tax rates and government spending. Now, we're debating whether toddlers can become transgender, whether men can get pregnant, and whether your daughter should have to share a locker room with grown men.
Democrats are campaigning on defunding your local police department, abolishing prisons, and releasing violent criminals into your neighborhood.
Just this past year, every single Democrat in both the House and the Senate voted to give your tax dollars to fund transgender surgeries in foreign countries.
That's insane.
Then they shut down our government to demand Medicaid benefits for illegal aliens.
By contrast, President Trump and Republicans in Congress lead with mainstream values. The president has secured the border, and Republican policies protect American citizens against dangerous criminal illegals.
Working with Republicans in Congress, he delivered historic tax relief and the working families tax cut. That means no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security, an expanded child tax credit, and tax breaks for small businesses.
In the face of absolutely unhinged Democrat opposition, Republicans put more money in the pockets of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Under President Trump, America has achieved energy independence. If Democrats had their way, we would be dependent on our biggest foreign adversaries and our gas prices would just keep ticking up perpetually.
And just a month ago, Republicans tried to ban members of Congress from trading stocks. But of course, Nancy Pelosi wouldn't let that happen, so the Democrats voted no.
My friends, what we need in this country is some common sense. And under President Trump's leadership, that is exactly what we are getting.
This November, Americans have a very clear choice. It's the mainstream versus the extreme.
Our country will not go back to Democrats woke insanity. We will not go back to divisive racialized politics. We will not go back to 9% Biden inflation, and we absolutely will not go back to open borders.
But we will go back to common sense. Because this country is our home.
And I want my children to grow up in a country that they actually recognize. I want them to grow up in the same America that I grew up in. And I want them to grow up with the same values that my parents taught me and that my grandparents taught them.
Because we love this country and America is worth preserving. Thank you. God bless Texas and God bless the United States of America.
