• What Happened: Conservative firebrand Valentina Gomez is claiming her Texas congressional race against 84-year-old incumbent John Carter was rigged, saying she has video evidence involving voting machines that she fears will land her in prison if she releases it.
  • Why It Matters: Voters in her district are reporting on X that Gomez's name never appeared on their ballots despite living in TX-31, with video circulating of constituents confronting her about the issue directly.
  • Bottom Line: Gomez says she'll only release the evidence if Trump, Susie Wiles, Rubio, or Elon Musk guarantee her immunity first.

Valentina Gomez isn't going quietly.

The conservative social media firebrand and congressional candidate lost Tuesday's Republican primary in Texas's 31st Congressional District to 84-year-old incumbent Rep. John Carter, who secured roughly 60% of the vote to Gomez's single digits. But Gomez isn't accepting those results and she says she has proof on video.

"I have video evidence that my election has been RIGGED to benefit 84-year-old Congressman John Carter," Gomez posted to X Tuesday night, which has since racked up 1.3 million views. "If I publish this video, they will send me to prison because it involves the VOTING MACHINES."

There's a catch. She says she'll only release the footage if President Trump, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, or Elon Musk can guarantee her immunity first.

The claim isn't coming out of nowhere. Voters in TX-31 began posting on X Tuesday saying Gomez's name never appeared on their ballots despite being registered in her district. Video circulating on the platform shows Gomez speaking directly with constituents who told her they couldn't find her name when they went to vote.

This isn't Gomez's first clash with the Texas Republican establishment. Last month, the Republican Party of Texas banned her from all party events after she publicly confronted Carter at a state GOP gala over what she described as his undisclosed health condition. Trump had endorsed Carter for re-election.

Leading up to the primaries, Gomez warned about how the establishment hated her and were doing all they could to ensure voters could not cast a ballot with her name. This isn't new.

While Gomez's allegations remain unverified, Carter's campaign has not responded to the claims...But with 1.3 million views and voter complaints piling up on social media, the story isn't going away.

The question worth asking is whether the Texas Republican establishment had a motive to sideline her. Gomez was going viral across social media, warning that Texas is being "conquered" by radical Islam, ticking off 330 mosques, Sharia cities and schools, CAIR, the Muslim Brotherhood, and halal requirements creeping into public schools and chain restaurants. It was the kind of unapologetic, name-naming content that makes consultants and career politicians sweat.

Gomez was the only candidate in the race saying it out loud. And now she's gone. Banned from party events before Election Day, potentially missing from ballots, and sitting on video evidence she says will land her in prison. Whether she lost fair and square or whether the establishment RINO machine decided she was too dangerous to let win, one thing is clear: they were a lot more comfortable with an 84-year-old fossil who "never did anything."