- Rugged good looks
- Unruly single curl that occasionally escapes his dark, lush locks to fall across his forehead
- Cleft chin
- Dancing, humor-filled eyes
- Long, tall sip o' water
- Married, with children
- Wickedly sharp and rapier quick with it
Graham Platner, right?
Democrats can only fever dream and try to wishcast their lumpy, testosterone-challenged assortment of 'male' specimens into actual men, let alone an American male of the species out of Central Casting.
As Republicans, we're pretty blessed to have a benchful of such examples at every level of government, from, say, the amazing former Virginia state legislator Nick Freitas, to Senator Tim Sheehy in Montana, and my personal favorite urbane verbal assassin, our Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. I mean, jeeps - I could go on for paragraphs.
There is one newcomer lately who seems to be emerging from the backbenches who has really come on like gangbusters. It has been a real pleasure watching him...literally and figuratively.
Brandon Gill is a first-term congressman from Texas, representing the 26th District. After being born on an Air Force base while his officer father was still on active duty, Gill grew up on a ranch in Texas and then attended Dartmouth College. While there, he ran The Dartmouth Review and, when he graduated (after a short stint in finance), he founded and ran an online paper called the D.C. Enquirer in 2022.
By 2017, Gill had also met and married Dinesh D'Souza's daughter Danielle, and they now have two children.
Gill moved back to Texas, and to the 26th District, a year before the longtime incumbent, Michael Burgess, announced he was retiring. Even with ten other candidates on the primary ballot, admittedly after some pretty hefty endorsements, including President Trump and Ted Cruz, Gill avoided a run-off by capturing 58.4% of the vote, well above the threshold required. He then thumped his Democratic opponent 62% to 35% in the 2024 general to become the youngest sitting Republican in the current Congress.
He caused some progressive hankies to fly to heaving, outraged chests almost immediately. Remember Daniel Penny being charged with murder and then being acquitted?
Gill had them swooning in their seats from horror even before he had officially taken his.
Incoming House Republican: ‘We need a lot more Daniel Pennys’
Rep.-elect Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said the nation needs “a lot more Daniel Pennys,” calling the Marine veteran who was found not guilty of homicide in the New York City subway trial Monday a “patriot.”
“I don’t know about you all, but I think we need a lot more Daniel Penny’s in this country, because we have far too many Jordan Neely’s,” Gill said at a New York Young Republican Club event Sunday evening.
Gill had always been upfront about wanting to be a part of the Freedom Caucus if he was elected to the House, and, now that he has made it there and some of the older flamethrowers are gone, he is being tagged by progressives as one of the new agent provocateurs to beware of.
Granted, he is easier on the eyes than Chip Roy.
5 members to watch as the Freedom Caucus transforms
Members like Andy Biggs and Chip Roy are out. Provocateurs like Andy Ogles and Brandon Gill are waiting in the wings.
After more than a decade at the center of GOP politics on Capitol Hill, the House Freedom Caucus is suddenly confronting an unsettled future.
Several of the hard-right bloc’s most prominent members are leaving Congress next year after seeking higher office — including a former chair, Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, and several media-friendly voices such as Reps. Chip Roy of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida and Ralph Norman of South Carolina, among others.
“We’re losing a lot of talent — there’s no doubt about it,” Rep. Eli Crane of Arizona said. “So it’s just kind of like a next-man-up mentality.”
But which man is very much in question. The current chair, Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, is term-limited, and a new generation of combative ultraconservatives is ready to step in just as the caucus comes to terms with a potentially changing role on Capitol Hill.
...Brandon Gill
Rep. Brandon Gill of Texas, a freshman and the youngest sitting House Republican, is already seen as a rising star inside the House GOP. He has said he wants to emulate Jordan and has a seat on Judiciary, the committee his governing idol chairs.
Gill has made a name for himself through provocative social media posts, regular appearances on Fox News and splashy legislative moves such as seeking to impeach James Boasberg, the federal judge who ruled against some of Trump’s deportations last year.
He does not, however, break with GOP leaders as often as some other Freedom Caucus members and could encounter internal doubts as to whether he’d be willing to play internal hardball in the same way as prior chairs.
He's been having some clashes lately, thanks to his committee's investigation into the Somali fraud scandal.
His 'hateful rhetoric' almost made one Ohio state senator cry, which helpfully saved her from having to answer a question she couldn't.
Me: "Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?"
— Brandon Gill (@realBrandonGill) June 3, 2026
Ohio State Senator: "I was almost brought to tears just now because of the level of hateful rhetoric."
Me: "They're defrauding your state at an astounding rate!" pic.twitter.com/TPfinpCJYN
WAAH
Gill went for the jugular in a primer on Somali fraud afterward.
Somalis rank among the most welfare-dependent groups in the United States, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 11, 2026
Six countries. Same result. Every single time.
This is a pattern, and American taxpayers are paying for it.
81% of Somali immigrant households… pic.twitter.com/cBNgkLDoId
...81% of Somali immigrant households receive welfare. Even after being in the US for 10 years or longer, 78% are still on welfare. For native households, that number is 21%.
They aren’t living the American dream. They are getting free stuff. And we are all paying for it.
Moreover, mass Somali immigration is making our communities less safe. According to researchers writing in City Journal, Somali immigrant men have an incarceration rate more than twice that of men born in the United States.
An immigration system that endangers our own people is one that needs thorough reform.
Last week, my Task Force held its first hearing on Ohio’s Medicaid fraud scandal. I asked a Democrat State Senator one question:
“Has Somali immigration been good for Ohio?”
She said my question almost brought her to tears because of the hateful rhetoric.
Democrats don’t have an argument against the facts, so they attack the people who find them.
Luke Rosiak testified that 100% of the suspect Medicaid fraud companies he investigated had Somali, Bhutanese, or other African origin names. 100%.
The facts are clear: mass Somali immigration has been a catastrophic failure for American taxpayers, American communities, and American safety.
That is exactly why I introduced legislation to ban immigration from Somalia.
Exchanges like these, where the young Congressman is not only thoroughly prepared but does battle in an engaging but ruthless fashion, have primed him to be a media presence as well.
I have seen him more and more on Fox and other broadcasts, and what really caught my attention was a pissing contest a Democratic member of Congress tried to start with Gill yesterday over comments he made.
It started during an interview with Gill, where he talked about Americans wondering what had happened to their country.
THEIR COUNTRY
Powerful: Congressman Brandon Gill - "Americans just want their country to still feel like their country.
— Blue Lives Matter (@bluelivesmtr) June 17, 2026
Instead they’re watching foreigners come here and steal their money, while their kids get force-fed garbage in public schools."@RepBrandonGill says he's sick and tired… pic.twitter.com/aR36QFKiRO
That would really hack progressives off on its own.
The Congressman then expounded during a Fox News interview on, as Gad Saad calls it, the creeping 'suicidal empathy' that, if unchecked, would lead the United States into an even darker place than the British Rape Gang Inquiry had revealed, which had been released just that morning.
He said we cannot allow it, or it will be an unspeakable future for our children.
Rep. Brandon Gill: "This is something that if we don't stop now, it's gonna be my daughter and daughters across the country who are going to be going to public schools wearing burkas." pic.twitter.com/SSVttMCSdl
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 17, 2026
"This is something that if we don't stop now, it's gonna be my daughter and daughters across the country who are going to be going to public schools wearing burkas."
An Arizona congresswoman, whose parents fled to the US in the aftermath of the 1979 Iranian revolution, took exception to Gill's concern.
Brandon Gill might be the most racist (and useless) Republican in Congress, and that’s saying something. https://t.co/6aK40cBvpe
— Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari (@RepYassAnsari) June 18, 2026
Gill shot back immediately with the most powerful image possible - the words of a rape gang victim.
YOUR LYING WORDS NO LONGER HAVE ANY POWER HERE
It was a masterful riposte to a timeworn, scurrilous, and frankly lazy slander.
We need so much more of it, but the fact that we are seeing it constantly now warms my heart.
Gill also released the entire MINUTE of his segment, because it completely changes the framing of the artfully edited-for-outrage segment Xweeted by Rupar and used for effect by Ansari.
Do listen to it.
Leftists slander anyone who recognizes incompatible cultural differences between the West and Islam.
— Congressman Brandon Gill (@RepBrandonGill) June 18, 2026
And working class girls in Great Britain paid the price for it.
We cannot let that happen here. pic.twitter.com/uU675R4Rf7
If you point out what's happening here, if you're truthful about what mass Islamic immigration has done to Great Britain, you're an Islamophobe. You're a racist. You're uncouth or unfit for dignified, civilized society.
When the impact of that type of suppression of speech means that working-class people have been brutally raped and tortured. And that's something that we deal with in the United States on a smaller level, but something we deal with now.
If you speak out against mass Islamic immigration, you are denigrated and labeled a racist, and we have to be able to be truthful about these issues. And straightforward that when you bring in large numbers of people, from cultures that hold values that are entirely incompatible with our own. In this case, the belief that Muslims have more dignity and are superior to non-Muslims, that child marriages are okay, that Muslims can essentially subjugate other people, including young children sexually.
If you speak out against that, you're Islamophobic and we have got to get over that. Because you can see what the price is and those working class girls are the ones who paid the price here.
#NoLiesDetected
How uncouth of me.
I like the cut of his jib so far.
