Galindo’s posts set off a firestorm
Texas congressional candidate Maureen Galindo has drawn sharp criticism after a string of social media posts that called for a detention center near San Antonio to be turned into “a prison for American Zionists.” The posts, which also pushed wild claims about Jewish people, Israel, and local politicians, landed with all the grace of a cinder block through a windshield. Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin highlighted one of the Instagram posts, and it quickly spread across social media as voters learned the candidate is facing a runoff election in just days. The problem here is not complicated. Americans can debate foreign policy, Israel, or immigration all day long, but calling for people to be jailed because of their beliefs or identity is ugly, reckless, and completely beneath any serious candidate for Congress.
The rhetoric got even more extreme
According to reporting from the San Antonio Current, Galindo posted that she would turn the Karnes ICE Detention Center into a prison for American Zionists and a processing center for pedophiles, while claiming that “most of the Zionists” would fit that description. Other posts went after her runoff opponent, Johnny Garcia, accusing him of taking money from Israel and saying politicians who received such money should be tried for treason. One graphic named Garcia directly and claimed he, along with other elected officials who took money from Israel, would be tried for treason. That is not tough political speech. That is the kind of poison that drags a campaign into the gutter and then keeps digging. Galindo has also been accused of sharing posts that promoted conspiracy theories about Jewish control of Hollywood, the media, and local politics, which explains why the backlash has been fast and fierce.
Jewish leaders and voters are pushing back
Galindo has tried to defend herself by saying she is targeting “zionists,” not Jewish people as a whole, but that explanation has done little to calm the outrage. The San Antonio Jewish Federation condemned what it called antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories in public discourse, warning that hateful rhetoric has no place in civic life. That should not be a hard standard to meet, yet here we are. Garcia, a former Bexar County Public Information Officer, did not respond to requests for comment, while Galindo kept doubling down online. Conservatives should be able to say this plainly: candidates who want public trust should not traffic in hate, conspiracy theories, or fantasies about prison camps for political opponents. If this is the new face of progressive politics in Texas, voters may want to ask who exactly is taking the shortcut around common sense and straight into the political swamp.
Maureen Galindo, a Democrat running for Congress in TX-35, says in an Instagram post that she would turn an ICE detention center near San Antonio “into a prison for American Zionists”, and will also use it as a castration processing center for pedophiles, “which will probably be… pic.twitter.com/d5Xmb2uk9n
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 19, 2026
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The left continues to tell the American people how insane they are. When the left speaks, all others should listen.
Het kind of Democrat is the reason Americans have the Second Amendment. An unarmed American Jew is unwise.