Big Blue Cities Threaten Red-State Liberty. Do GOP Voters Care?
Just look at what is going on in Louisiana ...
Joseph Ford Cotto | July 16, 2026
In ruby-red Louisiana, a disturbing power play exposed how far a rusting Democratic machine will reach to undermine lawful state government.
From the isolated blue stronghold of Orleans Parish, which is New Orleans itself, local officials defied the state legislature. They basically claimed home rule trumped all, then indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill, a Republican, for the “crime” of enforcing Louisiana law.
This was no routine dispute. It was illegal retaliation from a shrinking political island desperate to reclaim influence it lost at the ballot box.
The situation is wheels within wheels. Within wheels.
Orleans Parish long maintained separate civil and criminal clerks of court, a relic unique among Louisiana’s 64 parishes. This year, Republican-led lawmakers passed Act 15, folding the criminal clerk’s duties into the existing civil clerk’s office. Voters had elected Calvin Duncan, recently freed from a long, wrongful prison stretch, to the now-eliminated criminal post. Instead, Chelsey Richard Napoleon, the civil clerk, would assume the combined role.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/07/big-blue-cities-threaten-red-state-liberty-do-gop-voters-care/
