Texas State Representative Gene Wu’s December 2024 interview resurfaced on February 8 when the End Wokeness account highlighted his call for racial coalition-building against white Texans. “We are the majority now,” Wu told the Define America podcast. “We can take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”
The post sparked immediate backlash. Conservative commentators called for Wu’s denaturalization and deportation. The video drew millions of views within hours. Wu’s framing of Texas politics as racial warfare—whites versus everyone else—isn’t new. But it’s now explicitly stated by the man leading the Texas House Democratic Caucus.
Wu won that chairmanship on December 5, 2024, defeating incumbent Trey Martinez Fischer 35-24. The position gives him institutional power to coordinate Democratic strategy across the Texas Legislature. When he speaks about “taking over,” he’s not just a backbencher fantasizing. He’s the strategist running the caucus, blocking and organizing against Texas interests.
His record proves the pattern. In August 2025, Wu led 50 House Democrats out of state to deny a quorum and block a Republican congressional redistricting map. The walkout stalled all legislation—including flood relief following catastrophic flooding that killed at least 136 Texans.
“We’re not walking out on our responsibilities,” Wu said at the time. “We’re walking out on a rigged system that refuses to listen to the people we represent.” Translation: The Legislature doesn’t belong to all Texans. It belongs to Wu’s coalition. Everyone else can drown waiting for disaster relief.
Governor Greg Abbott filed an emergency petition to remove Wu from office. Attorney General Ken Paxton threatened court action to declare the seats vacant. The Texas Supreme Court ordered Wu to respond to Abbott’s claim that the quorum break forfeits his seat. Wu and the other walkout Democrats faced fines of $9,354.25 each, which were allegedly imposed in January 2026.
Wu remains defiant. His legal team is preparing responses. His caucus members defend the action as “fulfilling constituent demands.” And the racial grievance rhetoric continues.
This isn’t Wu’s first authoritarian threat. On January 27, 2024, Wu posted on X/Twitter in response to an AR15.com forum thread titled “It’s Boogaloo Time in Texas.” His contribution to the discussion in the now-deleted post: “until someone eats a drone fired Hellfire missile. LOL.”
The context matters. Wu was responding to Texans discussing armed resistance to federal overreach. His reply wasn’t a joke. It was a threat wrapped in mockery. The same tone he uses when discussing racial coalition-building: dismissive of opposition, confident in power, willing to use force.
Wu was born in China and immigrated at age 2. He’s previously spoken on the House floor about his family’s suffering under Chinese communism. Many of the attacks on Wu’s Chinese ties miss the real problem.
Wu doesn’t need ties to Beijing. He’s already implementing their playbook. The Chinese Communist Party built power by dividing society into oppressor and oppressed classes. Wu uses the same formula: whites are the oppressor, non-whites are the oppressed, coalition victory means “taking over.” Replace class warfare with race warfare. The mechanics are identical.
The federal system enables this. Washington redistributes Texas wealth to buy loyalty from interest groups. Politicians like Wu offer racial grievance as political currency. Federal grants, mandates, and programs create dependency that rewards division over unity. The Austin Swamp operates on the same principle: divide Texans against each other to maintain institutional power.
Wu represents District 137 in southwest Houston, which he estimates contains one-third undocumented residents “if not higher.” He’s running for re-election to the Texas House in 2026—not for Attorney General as some reports claimed. His district’s demographics shape his politics. But his rhetoric shapes Texas politics broadly.
When the chairman of the Texas House Democratic Caucus explicitly frames politics as racial conquest, he’s declaring that coalition-building means coalition warfare. Not persuasion. Not compromise. Not shared Texas identity. Just demographic math leading to power seizure.
This is why independence matters. The federal system’s diversity-and-division politics can’t coexist with Texas Nationalism. You either believe in Texas as a nation of Texans or you believe in Wu’s Maoist race-based power struggle imported from federal politics. You can’t have both.
Texas elected officials increasingly face a choice. Sign the Texas First Pledge and commit to bringing the Texas Independence Referendum Act to a vote. Or continue playing federal identity politics that treats Texans as demographic categories to be mobilized against each other.
Wu made his choice in December 2024. He’ll keep making it as long as the federal system rewards that strategy. The only question is whether Texas voters will keep rewarding him.
The Texas Nationalist Movement offers a different vision: Texas as a nation, governed by Texans, for Texans. Not as a battlefield for racial grievance politics. Not as a laboratory for CCP-style divide-and-conquer. As a sovereign republic where political power belongs to all Texans equally.
Join the movement at tnm.me. Because the alternative is letting politicians like Gene Wu define Texas’s future through division and threat.
