I have hope that Americans will fight for and keep their freedom.

Melissa MackenzieTexas — rolling green hills awash with poppies and bluebonnets, lowing cows, and thousands of acres of farmland punctuated by four of America’s largest metroplexes — has never been more beautiful. In all my years here, the rain that has come in this spring has made an often drought-plagued place look more pastoral and verdant than ever before. Texas has been described as a distillation of America — her independence, ruggedness, cowboys, resources, and grit set the world’s imagination on fire. She is all those things, and people are right to envy what is here.

As I crested the landscape and passed over the Colorado River, only to see a more glorious vista bursting with trees, I imagined the hard work of the farmers and ranchers who make this place productive and magnificent. I could only think that the people here who have received God’s blessings and made something more do not deserve the leadership they’re receiving. Texas is indeed a microcosm of America. …

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