Hearing Voices of the Young at Conservative Conference

With the mid-term elections less than two months away, elected officials and candidates descended upon a Houston, Texas, church over the weekend to educate teens attending the 4th Annual Texas Youth Summit.

“They are important because I’m a mom and my kids are ages 19, 22 and 24,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). “I just believe their generation, especially the kids younger than them, are under attacks that we never grew up with.”

Greene was among the politicians who mentioned border security during her lecture after news emerged on Sept. 15 that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis relocated about 50 illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts.

“I’m a big believer in deporting people that break our laws and come into our country illegally,” she said. “I can’t comprehend why we’re not deporting people.”

Although not yet old enough to vote, the young people aged between 12 and 17 years old were awakened to the political divide between Democrats and Republicans.

“Coming here has opened my eyes to what’s happening in the world,” said Susanna Garcia who is 13 years old. “What I love about politics are people expressing themselves and interesting topics like Democrats are sugarcoating a lot of dangerous things like castrating kids.”

Garcia was among the hundreds of teens who milled about the Grace Woodlands Church on Sept. 16 and 17.

They learned about gender reassignment and the reversal of Roe v. Wade through politicians, such as Greene, Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Rep.Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

“It’s young people who are most getting screwed by today’s leftist agenda,” Cruz said. “It’s their future, their freedom, their careers, and their hopes that are being sold down the river.”

At just 13 years old, Jonathan Shtyrkalo is already longing for