Welcome to South Texas, where corruption isn’t just tolerated, it’s apparently a résumé booster. Congressman Henry Cuellar, the Democrat representing Texas’s 28th District, is up to his neck in federal indictments, foreign bribes, and sketchy campaign donations. But don’t worry, he still managed to stay on the ballot and, miraculously, win re-election. Nothing to see here, right?
Let’s start with the basics. Cuellar and his wife are accused of pocketing over $600,000 in bribes from a Mexican bank and Azerbaijan’s state-run oil company. Just your everyday congressman moonlighting as a foreign lobbyist. Prosecutors allege he used his position to push foreign interests while his family cashed the checks. And get this, three of his own aides have flipped and are cooperating with the Department of Justice.
In a functioning republic, this would be career-ending. But in 2024’s Democrat Party? It’s just Tuesday.
Instead of removing Cuellar from the ballot, Democrats shrugged, the media yawned, and he coasted into re-election against Republican Jay Furman. This, in a district President Trump won by seven points. Cuellar won by five. That’s a 12-point swing that defies political gravity—and common sense.
Furman submitted over 80 affidavits from voters saying his name was missing from their ballots. The Texas Fourth Court of Appeals ordered an immediate forensic review. But here comes the kicker: Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina refused to carry it out. Then, he announced his own campaign for Congress…the same race he just rigged by blocking transparency.
You couldn’t script this nonsense. It’s straight out of a Banana Republic.
But it gets worse. Cuellar’s campaign raked in over $110,000 from ActBlue, the Democrat money-washing machine currently under multiple federal investigations. ActBlue has been flagged for accepting shady donations from foreign IP addresses, prepaid debit cards, and shell companies—textbook signs of money laundering. Internal documents even show they trained staff to overlook red flags. Because hey, it’s all about “democracy,” right?
Now the FEC is finally waking up, flagging Cuellar’s campaign for possible violations involving PACs and LLCs. One donation blew past legal limits, another came from a corporate entity—both big no-nos under federal election law. He’s got until October to respond or face the music.
And yet, through all this, Henry Cuellar is still sitting in Congress like nothing ever happened.
This isn’t just a scandal about one corrupt politician. It’s about a system where indictments mean nothing, judges have political ambitions, and Democrats circle the wagons around their own no matter what. If a Republican pulled even a third of this, CNN would be running 24/7 specials, and MSNBC would be calling for martial law.
But because Cuellar has a “D” next to his name, the machine keeps grinding, and the swamp stays full. If we’re serious about election integrity—and we should be—this mess in South Texas is exactly the kind of rot that has to be cut out. Fast.
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