{"id":293209,"date":"2026-05-14T17:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293209\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T17:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T17:43:14","slug":"paxton-rittenhouse-headline-fort-worth-night-of-action-ahead-of-gop-runoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/293209\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton, Rittenhouse Headline Fort Worth \u2018Night Of Action\u2019 Ahead Of GOP Runoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"83\" data-end=\"348\">Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kyle Rittenhouse, and several Republican candidates appeared at a Fort Worth \u201cNight of Action\u201d event focused on Christian political engagement, Republican unity, and voter mobilization ahead of the May 26 primary runoff elections.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"350\" data-end=\"636\">For Liberty &amp; Justice hosted the May 9 event at Mercy Culture Church in Fort Worth. The event page described the gathering as an <a href=\"https:\/\/for-liberty-and-justice-464552.churchcenter.com\/registrations\/events\/3473051\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opportunity<\/a> for Christians to \u201ccome together, get equipped, and take action alongside others who care about the future of the church and of our communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"1023\">The speaker lineup included Paxton, who is running for U.S. Senate against incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas); state Sen. Mayes Middleton (R-Galveston), who is running for attorney general; Texas Railroad Commission candidate Bo French; Agriculture Commissioner Republican nominee Nate Sheets; outgoing state Rep. Nate Schatzline (R-Fort Worth); Rittenhouse; and Kambree Nelson.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1025\" data-end=\"1084\">Early voting for the May 26 runoff elections begins May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers Urge GOP Unity<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1115\" data-end=\"1229\">Several speakers urged Republican voters to unite behind the party\u2019s nominees after the runoff elections conclude.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1231\" data-end=\"1375\">Sheets told attendees that Republicans need to support the party\u2019s nominees even if their preferred candidate loses, Fort Worth Report <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/05\/11\/republican-officials-urge-unity-voter-mobilization-in-tarrant-ahead-of-primary-runoffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1377\" data-end=\"1520\">\u201cOnce the runoffs are done, whether it\u2019s your guy or not your guy, get behind whoever the nominees are, and let\u2019s go in together,\u201d Sheets said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1522\" data-end=\"1610\">French, a former Tarrant County GOP chairman, urged attendees to focus on voter turnout.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1612\" data-end=\"1710\">\u201cYou can win if you just mobilize the people who think like you to get out and vote,\u201d French said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1712\" data-end=\"1838\">Rittenhouse pointed to President Donald Trump and Paxton as examples of political figures willing to fight through opposition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1840\" data-end=\"2136\">\u201cI see the headlines every day of President Trump getting attacked, but he doesn\u2019t stop fighting,\u201d Rittenhouse said, according to Fort Worth Report. \u201cThose are the leaders we should aspire to elect when we go to vote, who is going to put America first and who is going to help save this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Event Focused On Christian Political Action<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2187\" data-end=\"2394\">For Liberty &amp; Justice was founded by Schatzline in 2021 and aims to equip Christian voters to run for office and become active in local government through Campaign University, according to Fort Worth Report.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2396\" data-end=\"2571\">Carlos Turcios, a Republican precinct chair and director of For Liberty &amp; Justice\u2019s Tarrant County chapter, told attendees the event should energize them for political action.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2573\" data-end=\"2852\">\u201cI don\u2019t want everyone here to be discouraged,\u201d Turcios said, according to Fort Worth Report. \u201cI want everyone here to be energized, to be fired up, because we got a country to save, we got a state to save, we got a city to save, we got a county to save, we got America to save.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2854\" data-end=\"3024\">The event also included information on local political and community involvement through For Liberty &amp; Justice, church partnerships, and Republican-aligned organizations.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"3026\" data-end=\"3225\">Groups present included Turning Point USA DFW Young Professionals, Republican Women of Greater North Texas, Tarrant County Young Republicans, North Tarrant Republicans, and Faith and Freedom America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Kyle Rittenhouse, and several Republican candidates appeared at a Fort Worth \u201cNight of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27167,107107,25566,116,118,117,107105,107106,1967,75279,30641,16807,5143,65871,3270,122,292],"class_list":["post-293209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-bo-french","tag-christian-voter-mobilization","tag-for-liberty-justice","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-gop-runoffs","tag-kambree-nelson","tag-ken-paxton","tag-kyle-rittenhouse","tag-mayes-middleton","tag-mercy-culture-church","tag-nate-schatzline","tag-nate-sheets","tag-republican-party","tag-tarrant-county","tag-texas-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}