Marc Veasey

According to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, the message guides recipients to a website owned by a conservative group that highlights a comment Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico made years ago about radicalized white men being the greatest domestic terrorist threat in the country.

Retiring Congressman Marc Veasey, who is Black and out of Fort Worth, says he believes it's just a stunt by the GOP to drum up votes before the election.

Hoping that they can get some of these, again, these sort of far right extreme figures that are, that are like everyone else.

They're upset about the war.

Maloney was describing a political phenomenon that didn't exist when he first took office in twenty thirteen.

One of his Democratic colleagues from the same class, Representative Marc Veasey of Texas, made a similar observation.

"You remember that Paul Newman western movie, Paul Newman western movie Hud?" Veasey asked me while sitting in his office one afternoon in late July.

"There's this kid who really looks up to the Newman character because he's swashbuckling and funny and lives the good life, and his granddad, who's a serious rancher, says to the kid, 'Lonnie, little by little, the country changes because of the men we admire.' And he tells the kid that he has to decide on his own who he's going to follow.