Lone Star Invasion. Will 'blue migration' flip Texas?
- David Lane
- May 5
- 4 min read
CBRE [formerly Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis], the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm and a trusted barometer of where capital, companies, and executive talent are headed, reports that Texas has attracted 209 corporate headquarters relocations since 2018.1
Within Texas, the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has become the state’s leading destination, and America’s premier destination, for corporate headquarters relocations, according to CBRE’s 2026 report. Since 2018, that region has logged more than 100 headquarters relocations, including 11 net interstate or international HQ moves in 2025.2
That is the good news.
The bad news is that many of those 209 headquarters came from Democratic strongholds, such as Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, New York, and Chicago. The threat is not that blue-state refugees arrive. The threat is that they come for Texas’ freedom, limited government, lower taxes, unbridled prosperity, and ethos of personal responsibility, only to vote and govern in ways that slowly destroy the very conditions that drew them here in the first place.
Nicholas ‘Nick’ J. Freitas [born 1979], the conservative former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, U.S. Army Special Forces veteran, and media host, warned last week that any red state is fooling itself when claiming that what happened to Virginia over the last 10 years can’t or won’t happen to them.3
Less than 10 years ago, Republicans held 64 seats in Virginia’s 100-member House of Delegates and controlled 7 of the Commonwealth’s 11 congressional districts. But political strength erodes when cultural decline is ignored. Since politics is downstream from culture, states that neglect moral and cultural decay long enough eventually discover that political collapse is only a matter of time.
The present fight for the soul of America against cultural Marxism cannot be dismissed as ordinary partisan bickering. It is not. It is a battle over whether a culture lives, dies, or becomes something else. And any state unwilling to act with urgency may soon discover that what happened in Virginia can also happen in Texas.
Yet, thankfully, as A.W. Pink observed in his classic The Life of David, “Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.” But God does not always or even usually act immediately when His people are brought low. No, “He waits to be gracious” [Isa. 30:18], so that our helplessness may be more fully realized, His delivering hand more clearly seen, and His merciful intervention more deeply appreciated.
In God’s Providence, He always has a Gideon or a Rahab in the wings, in training. Impotence comes when people put themselves out of communion with God.
Consider 1 Samuel 16:16. Saul’s servants, uneasy over the king’s condition and recognizing that an evil spirit from God was tormenting him, suggested that a skilled harpist be found: “And it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well.”
Such, Pink noted, is the best counsel poor worldlings can offer to those in trouble. Their remedies offer no more than symptom relief. But God was doing something much deeper than soothing Saul. He was bringing David into the palace.
And in David, we see the wondrous working of Providence again. He had been anointed by Samuel for future service, called in time to reign over Israel, but the hour had not yet come for him to occupy the throne. The unsophisticated shepherd boy needed training. So the Providence of God ordered that, for a season, he should dwell in the royal court, where he would have full opportunity to observe its ways, note its corruptions, and discover its needs.
And mark it well: this came about without scheming, manipulation, or self-promotion, either by David himself or by any of his friends.
Joseph followed the same pattern. Pastor Keith Krell notes that Joseph’s brothers sold him into slavery, and the Midianites took him down to Egypt and sold him to Potiphar, the chief executioner in Pharaoh’s service. However, Joseph’s placement there was no accident. The Lord sent him into Potiphar’s house to prepare him for the greater assignment that lay ahead: to serve as second in command in Egypt.
Before that could happen, Joseph had to learn the language, culture, business, and politics of Egypt. What looked like betrayal and bondage was, in fact, preparation by Providence.
So it is still. For the Gideons and Rahabs in America who remain in communion with Jehovah God, there is no panic in Heaven. God always has a plan, always has His servants in training, and always knows how to place them in the room before the hour of need arrives.
As for Texas, the real issue is not 2026, but 2030, 2032, 2034, and beyond. Most alarming is the absence of spiritual men and women - Gideons and Rahabs - seated on school boards, city councils, county commissions, state legislatures, courts, and election administration bodies: leaders “who understand the times and know what America should do.” [1 Chronicles 12:32]
For if Biblical men and women are not in those rooms, then who will be? Who will shape what kind of people we are to become? Who will help determine what kind of society we will build? Who will form the conduct that conforms to the Biblical standards of right and wrong for our children and grandchildren?
Somebody’s values will reign supreme in the public square. Somebody will occupy the seats of influence. Somebody will write the rules, shape the schools, order the courts, administer the elections, and define the moral boundaries of the next generation. The only question is whether the Gideons and Rahabs of this hour will step forward before the ground is lost beneath our feet.
The issue before Texas is not whether it will continue to grow, but whether it will remain Texas. If Biblical men and women do not rise now, if they do not enter the rooms where decisions are made, where laws are framed, where children are formed, and where a culture is either preserved or surrendered, then the state’s prosperity will become the instrument of its own undoing.
It bears repeating that somebody’s values will reign supreme in the public square. And if the Church will not send her Gideons and Rahabs into the battle, the nation may yet be handed over not by conquest from without, but by abdication from within.
Thankfully, Gideons and Rahabs have begun to rise.
David Lane
American Renewal Project
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