The gun confiscation lobby, the radical left, and the political swamp just got a very dangerous reminder:
Republican primary voters can be manipulated if they do not check the record.
After Congressman Chip Roy lost the Republican runoff for Texas Attorney General, the Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC — a clean-energy political operation backed by left-wing interests hostile to Roy’s America First record — did not quietly celebrate behind closed doors.
They bragged about it.
In a public statement after Roy’s loss, the PAC gloated: “Good riddance, Chip Roy.”
Then they admitted the quiet part out loud.
They said they spent nearly $1.5 million reaching GOP voters “where they are” — including conservative cable, streaming sites like Rumble, and MAGA social media — to convince them that Chip Roy had “betrayed their leader.”
Let that sink in.
A left-wing clean-energy PAC did not beat Chip Roy by telling Republican voters the truth about its agenda.
They did not run ads saying they were angry because Roy fought green-energy subsidies.
They did not tell GOP voters they wanted to punish one of the most conservative members of Congress for standing up to their taxpayer-funded climate racket.
Instead, they attacked Roy from the right.
They dressed up their revenge campaign in MAGA language, pushed misleading attacks into conservative media spaces, and tried to convince Republican voters that Chip Roy was somehow a RINO, anti-Trump, or a traitor to the movement.
That was never true.
But enough voters believed it to change the outcome.
Chip Roy Was No RINO
Chip Roy was not some squishy Republican moderate.
He was one of the strongest conservative fighters in Congress.
On gun rights, Roy stood with the Second Amendment when it mattered. He fought federal gun registration schemes, opposed red flag gun confiscation, battled unconstitutional ATF abuses, and stood against the endless attacks on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms coming from the gun confiscation lobby.
On border security, Roy was one of the loudest voices in Washington demanding that Congress stop funding the Biden invasion and force real border enforcement.
On election integrity, Roy was not just a vote in the crowd. He authored the SAVE America Act, legislation backed by President Trump’s push for stronger election safeguards, requiring voter ID for federal elections while building on proof-of-citizenship requirements for voter registration.
On the radical left’s cultural agenda, Roy became one of the leading voices warning about the Islamification of Texas and the danger of importing ideologies hostile to Western liberty, constitutional government, and the rights of free citizens.
On spending, bureaucracy, COVID mandates, and the weaponized administrative state, Roy repeatedly took the arrows that most politicians in Washington spend their careers trying to avoid.
He was a leader in the U.S. House Freedom Caucus.
He was one of the few Republicans willing to challenge leadership when the swamp was trying to spend too much, cave too quickly, or betray the voters who sent them there.
That does not mean every Republican voter had to support him.
Good conservatives can disagree in a primary.
But calling Chip Roy a RINO was absurd.
And the fact that a left-wing clean-energy PAC successfully pushed that narrative should be a wake-up call to every gun owner in Texas.
“Chip Roy was one of the strongest warriors in Congress for gun rights, secure borders, election integrity, and limiting federal power,” said Chris McNutt, President of Texas Gun Rights. “The idea that he was a RINO was always ridiculous — but a California-backed political operation figured out how to weaponize that lie against him.”
They Couldn’t Defend Their Agenda, So They Lied About His
The Invest in Tomorrow Coalition PAC has made clear why it wanted Roy gone.
Roy fought the green-energy subsidy machine.
He opposed the taxpayer handouts, corporate welfare, and climate-scheme spending that the left and its politically connected allies depend on.
So they came after him.
But here is what matters most: they did not campaign against Roy by defending solar subsidies to Republican primary voters.
They did not say, “Vote against Chip Roy because he opposed our clean-energy tax credits.”
They knew that message would not work with conservative voters.
So they did something far more deceptive.
They attacked him from the right.
They used Trump-aligned messaging, conservative platforms, and MAGA-style attacks to make GOP voters believe one of the most conservative lawmakers in America was somehow against them.
And now they are bragging about it.
In their own words, they are “just getting started” and plan to spend millions going after other politicians they consider enemies of so-called clean energy.
That means this will not stop with Chip Roy.
Any conservative who fights the left’s taxpayer-funded agenda could be next.
The Trump Test Should Have Exposed the Lie
The attacks against Roy were designed to make voters believe he had somehow betrayed President Trump and the MAGA movement.
But voters should have asked one simple question: if that were true, where was Trump?
“MAGA Mayes” never actually received Trump’s endorsement.
And President Trump is not known for ignoring betrayal, either.
The entire country just watched what Trump and his allies did to Congressman Thomas Massie, another pro-gun champion, after Massie crossed him.
Trump does not need a California clean-energy PAC to tell Republican voters when he believes someone has betrayed him.
If Chip Roy had truly wronged Trump the way these ads wanted voters to believe, Trump could have said so himself.
Instead, Roy was the only candidate in the Texas Attorney General race that Trump publicly acknowledged favorably, saying Roy was “doing a good job.”
That should have told voters everything they needed to know.
But the PAC understood something dangerous: many voters would not check the record.
They would not look at Roy’s votes.
They would not study his work on gun rights, border security, election integrity, or the SAVE America Act.
They would see a slick attack ad, hear the right MAGA buzzwords, and assume it must be true.
That is how one of the strongest conservatives in Congress was taken out by the very left-wing special interests he had been fighting.
And that should terrify every serious gun owner in Texas.
The Real Loss Was Losing Chip Roy
To be clear, this is not an attack on Mayes Middleton.
Middleton is a conservative and has been an ally to gun owners. Texas gun owners should expect him to defend the Second Amendment as Attorney General.
The issue is not that Texas is now stuck with some anti-gun liberal in the Attorney General’s office.
That is not the case.
The issue is that a left-wing, California-backed political operation successfully helped take Chip Roy off the board — not just in the Attorney General race, but in Congress after his current term ends.
That is the real damage.
Because now Texas will not have Chip Roy in Congress.
And Texas will not have Chip Roy in the Attorney General’s office.
That is a win for the left, the swamp, the green-energy subsidy machine, and every special interest group that wanted one of the most fearless conservatives in America out of the fight.
“Mayes Middleton has been an ally to gun owners, and conservatives should work with him to defend the Second Amendment as Attorney General,” McNutt said. “But losing Chip Roy from Congress is a serious blow. The left knew exactly what it was doing when it targeted him, and conservatives need to learn from what happened.”
Gun Owners Must Check the Record
This is bigger than one race.
This is about whether grassroots conservatives are going to let out-of-state money, anonymous consultants, and deceptive PAC ads decide who represents them.
Gun owners cannot afford to outsource their thinking to 30-second attack ads.
They cannot afford to believe every mailer, text message, digital ad, or social media clip that hits their phone two weeks before Election Day.
They have to check the record.
How did the candidate vote?
Who endorsed them?
What bills did they file?
What did they actually do when the pressure was on?
Did they stand up for gun owners when it mattered, or did they just talk tough during election season?
That is how voters separate real fighters from political actors.
And it is how they avoid being fooled by left-wing money dressed up as conservative messaging.
“Attack ads are designed to make voters angry before they make voters think,” McNutt said. “That is why gun owners have to slow down, check the voting record, and ask who is paying for the message. If the same people pushing green-energy subsidies and left-wing policies are telling you who the ‘real conservative’ is, you should probably ask why.”
This Is the New Playbook
What happened to Chip Roy is a preview of what is coming.
The left knows it cannot win Republican primaries by openly running on its agenda.
So instead, left-wing donors and special interests will try to influence GOP primaries by pretending to care about conservative issues.
They will call pro-gun conservatives “RINOs.”
They will claim America First fighters are “anti-MAGA.”
They will cherry-pick old quotes, distort procedural votes, and flood conservative media spaces with misleading attacks.
And if Republican voters do not do their homework, it will work.
That is the whole strategy.
The goal is not to make Democrats like the Republican candidate.
The goal is to confuse Republican voters long enough to take out the conservative who is actually standing in the way of the left’s agenda.
This time, it was Chip Roy.
Next time, it could be another pro-gun champion.
Texas Gun Owners Cannot Be Fooled Again
Texas gun owners have too much at stake to let the left pick winners and losers in Republican primaries.
The Second Amendment is under attack.
The border is still a crisis.
Election integrity is still under threat.
The administrative state is still weaponized.
And the same left-wing forces that want to disarm law-abiding Americans are getting smarter about how they influence Republican voters.
They are not just attacking from the left anymore.
They are attacking from the right.
That is why Texas Gun Rights will continue doing what we have always done: exposing the truth, checking the record, holding politicians accountable, and making sure gun owners know who is really fighting for them.
Because when voters know the record, deceptive attack ads lose their power.
And when gun owners refuse to be manipulated, the left loses one of its most dangerous weapons.
Chip Roy’s loss should be a lesson for every conservative in Texas.
Do not take attack ads at face value.
Do not let out-of-state PACs tell you who the real conservative is.
Do not believe a political hit job just because it uses MAGA language.
Check the record.
Follow the money.
And never let the enemies of freedom trick you into taking out one of your own.
Chip in today to Texas Gun Rights to help us expose the truth, hold politicians accountable, and make sure Texas gun owners are never fooled by the left’s deceptive attacks again.
