Summary
Gene Gill[1] (born February 26, 1994) is an American politician and investment banker who is the representative-elect for Texas’s 26th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
Gill won the Republican primary for the district on March 5, 2024. Gill defeated Democrat Ernest Lineberger III in the general election.
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About
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Since I was born – on a United States Air Force Base – I’ve had a deep and abiding love for this country and the principles it stands for. And it started with my family. My father was a fighter pilot who flew over 60 combat missions over Iraq in the Persian Gulf War. My grandfather was a Southern Baptist Preacher in the Dallas area. It’s in my veins.
I grew up on a thousand acre cattle ranch outside of Abilene,Texas where we raised angus beef cows. For as long as I can remember, I was working cows, building fences, driving tractors and backhoes, plowing fields, and slinging hay bales. The work was difficult, but being part of a family business that involved long days and hard labor taught me that great things don’t come easy. It was the type of work too many in Washington look down upon, and the people I grew up with are the Americans too often forgotten by our elite class.
attended Dartmouth College and graduated cum laude with degrees in both Economics and History. I was President of the conservative paper, The Dartmouth Review. I was also President of Christian Union and grew it to be one of the largest student groups on campus, despite being on a campus hostile to the Christian faith. In college, I fought the left nonstop – on their own turf – and I left Dartmouth even more conservative than when I arrived.
Upon graduation, I became an investment banker on Wall Street and then worked as an analyst at a global, multi-strategy hedge fund.
For many people, I was living the American Dream. I was working in one of the largest, most successful hedge funds in the world, and rising fast in the industry.
Yet, the call for service and duty to my country came. I could not sit back as progressive politicians and their cheerleaders in the media worked hard to destroy all the things that make our country great. Biden and his Leftist allies have spent years inflicting disastrous economic policies on millions of working-class Americans, in communities like the one I grew up in.
That’s why I left a successful career in finance. I soon launched DC Enquirer, a conservative, America First news outlet, which exploded in popularity almost overnight. Within mere weeks it was receiving more Facebook engagement than the Washington Post, despite being censored. I am honored that President Trump is an avid reader of DC Enquirer, and regularly shares its articles on his social media.
I also have the the privilege of working with my father-in-law, filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. I was involved in making ‘2000 Mules,’ which exposed the widespread fraud in the 2020 election, and I was a producer in his film Police State that was released in 2023.
I am happily married to my wife, Danielle. She has written two books, one about Christianity, and the other is a pro- life book that debunks the Left’s pro-abortion arguments. She served on the Advisory Board of Women for Trump and led the Texas Women for Trump bus tour. She has spoken at churches in Texas, at Turning Point USA conferences, and at rallies before the Supreme Court to confirm Amy Coney Barrett. She is a media personality who hosted her own show called Counterculture with Epoch Times, and has appeared on shows from Fox News to Newsmax to Dr Phil defending conservative values. She is an amazing mother who continues to fight for the littlest among us.
I am also a father to our beautiful daughter, Marigold.
I’m running in this election, so she and all our children can live in a better America.
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Politics
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After graduating, Gill worked in finance as an investment banker.
Gill founded the news website D.C. Enquirer in 2018, with which Gill said he was “going to bat for President Trump in the public square”. He marketed his father-in-law Dinesh D’Souza’s 2022 film 2000 Mules, a political film claiming the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen.
Gill announced he would seek the Republican nomination in Texas’ 26th congressional district, seeking to succeed retiring incumbent Michael Burgess. Gill had moved to the district from New York City a year prior to Burgess announcing his retirement. Gill said that he would step back from his role as an editor for the D.C. Enquirer to run for office. He was endorsed by former-President Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.[ Gill won the primary with over 50% of the vote, avoiding a runoff, and won the general election due to the district’s strong Republican lean. Gill will be become the youngest sitting House Republican. Gill said that he hoped to join the House Freedom Caucus if elected into office.
Gill stated that “fortifying the border” would be his principal policy objective.
Finances
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Issues
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Immigration
Biden’s open-borders policy is an abomination. It’s extremely dangerous to our communities, and it’s tearing our homeland apart. Our borders should not be controlled by cartels trafficking drugs and people. This has to stop now, and the solution is simple: seal the border and end this invasion of our homeland.
- Build the border wall and tax remittances to pay for the wall’s construction and upkeep.
- Reinstate “Remain in Mexico” and end “Catch and Release”.
- Support the RAISE Act to replace our current immigration system with merit-based immigration.
- Increase the number of immigration judges to end the backlog on illegal aliens.
- Reform our asylum laws so illegal aliens cannot abuse the system.
Economy
The past few years of Bidenomics have been a disaster for American families. The cost of living is skyrocketing, while wages are collapsing. Housing is unaffordable. Gas prices are rising. Every trip to the grocery store is more and more painful.
A rising tide lifts all boats, but unfortunately our current system is crushing American families. The Federal government should seek to maximize economic prosperity, raise wages of the working and middle-class, and reduce the deficit to get inflation under control.
- Cut wasteful spending and audit our federal departments.
- Cut taxes across the board, unleash the free market, and let our economy grow.
- Support a balanced budget amendment to the US Constitution.
- Work towards reducing our deficit to under a trillion dollars a year and move towards a balanced budget by at least 2030.
Crime
Crime is one of the biggest hindrances to economic prosperity. While progressive elites have spent decades telling us that poverty causes crime, the opposite is true: crime causes poverty. It is past time we clean up our streets, throw rioters and looters in jail, end the trafficking of deadly narcotics, stop human trafficking dead in its tracks, and secure our schools. The violent anarchy the Left has unleashed on communities across our nation must end immediately.
- Designate the Mexican Drug Cartel an international terrorist organization.
- Investigate NGOs that pay for rioters and looters’ bail.
- Fund the police and local law enforcement.
- Increase mandatory minimums for violent crimes.
Energy
We cannot be a free country if we are dependent on foreign adversaries for our energy. Texas is the energy capital of the country and we should lead the nation in becoming energy independent – just like it was under President Trump.
- Cut red tape across the industry
- “Drill Baby Drill”
Second Amendment
The individual right to own a firearm has roots going back to — and beyond — our nation’s founding. Firearms constituted a main form of defense from predators, criminals, and a tyrannical government. They also helped our nation tame this land from sea to shining sea. Even today, farmers, ranchers, and hunters rely on firearms to protect livestock and provide for their families. Outside of that, millions of Americans keep firearms to protect their families from opportunistic burglars, criminal gangs, and random acts of violence. But most importantly, our Second Amendment exists so that we Americans can protect ourselves against a despotic, overreaching government. Our Second Amendment is the one that protects all the others. As a proud gun owner myself, I stand by our Founding documents— Our Second Amendment shall not be infringed. I will not give an inch on gun control.
Standing Up for Israel
Israel stands as a beacon of democracy and stability in the volatile Middle East. We firmly support Israel’s right to defend itself against the barbaric assaults of Hamas. The international community must unequivocally denounce Hamas’s terrorism and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel in its fight against these threats to peace and civilization.
Protecting Kids from Gender Transition Surgeries
Our children deserve protection from irreversible decisions pushed by ideological agendas. Subjecting minors to life-altering surgeries for gender transition is outrageous. We adamantly oppose any practice that risks the well-being and future of our youth in the name of ideological conformity.
Fighting Cultural Marxism in Schools and Higher Education
Our educational institutions have been hijacked by radical ideologies that undermine critical thinking and true academic inquiry. We will not stand idly by as cultural Marxism seeks to indoctrinate our youth. It’s time to purge these corrosive ideologies from our schools and restore education to its rightful purpose of fostering open-mindedness and intellectual diversity. Parents – not radical, left-wing teachers – should determine school curriculums.
Pro-Life
I am unabashedly pro-life. Every child is made in God’s image and deserves the right to life. Future generations will look back on abortion the same way we look back on slavery. Abortion is an abomination that needs to be abolished.
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Wikipedia
Brandon Gene Gill[1] (born February 26, 1994)[2] is an American politician and investment banker who is the representative-elect for Texas’s 26th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.[3] Gill won the Republican primary for the district on March 5, 2024.[4] Gill defeated Democrat Ernest Lineberger III in the general election.[5]
Early life and education
Gill was born on a United States Air Force base to a father who served as an officer in the United States Air Force. Gill grew up on a cattle ranch outside of Abilene, Texas. He attended Dartmouth College, where he headed the conservative student newspaper The Dartmouth Review and graduated cum laude from with a Bachelors in history and economics.[6]
Career
After graduating, Gill worked in finance as an investment banker.[7]
Gill founded the news website D.C. Enquirer in 2018, with which Gill said he was “going to bat for President Trump in the public square”. He marketed his father-in-law Dinesh D’Souza‘s 2022 film 2000 Mules, a political film claiming the 2020 United States presidential election was stolen.[8][2]
Gill announced he would seek the Republican nomination in Texas’ 26th congressional district, seeking to succeed retiring incumbent Michael Burgess. Gill had moved to the district from New York City a year prior to Burgess announcing his retirement. Gill said that he would step back from his role as an editor for the D.C. Enquirer to run for office. He was endorsed by former-President Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz.[2] Gill won the primary with over 50% of the vote, avoiding a runoff, and won the general election due to the district’s strong Republican lean. Gill will be become the youngest sitting House Republican.[7] Gill said that he hoped to join the House Freedom Caucus if elected into office.[2]
Gill stated that “fortifying the border” would be his principal policy objective.[2]
Personal life
Gill married Danielle D’Souza in 2017, the daughter of political commentator Dinesh D’Souza. They have a daughter, Marigold, and live in Flower Mound, Texas.
References
- ^ “Rep. Brandon Gill – R Texas, 26th – Biography”. LegiStorm. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ a b c d e “Southlake mayor and Dinesh D’Souza’s son-in-law lead pack in open North Texas congressional primary”. Texas Tribune. February 14, 2024.
- ^ “Trump-backed candidate Brandon Gill will succeed U.S. Rep. Burgess in District 26 seat”. KERA News. 6 November 2024. Retrieved November 9, 2024.
- ^ “GOP navigates primary minefield as it tries to secure House control”. Politico. March 7, 2024.
- ^ “Brandon Gill claims victory in Republican primary to replace U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess”. Dallas Morning News. March 5, 2024.
- ^ “Meet Brandon Gill”. Brandon Gill For Congress.
- ^ a b “Brandon Gill Wins Republican Primary Race to Succeed Congressman Michael Burgess”. The Texan. March 6, 2024.
- ^ Gilbert, David (March 6, 2024). “He Promoted an Election Conspiracy Film. Now He’s Headed for Congress”. WIRED. Retrieved March 7, 2024.
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