Mayra Flores' lesson for Americans

It's stunning that a Mexican-born American is teaching lifelong Americans what it's like to be a patriotic American. According to James Freeman's latest column, that's exactly what's happening. Representative-Elect Mayra Flores was born in Mexico but moved here legally at the age of 6. Last week, she won the special election for the TX-34 seat in Congress, making her the first Mexican-born member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Freeman starts his column, saying "'God, Family, Country' may sound like a slogan from a bygone era, but it seems that many voters of all backgrounds still kind of dig it. Perhaps they feel that society’s largest institutions are too often waging war against all three. Like so many of our nation’s most patriotic citizens, the candidate who rode that message to a historic election win on Tuesday was not born here."

That's because Democrats have politicized virtually every institution in the U.S. The Democrats' latest project is to politicize the institution known as the Supreme Court. Virtually nightly for the past week, Democrat special interest groups have paraded in front of justices' homes, including Brett Kavanaugh's home and Amy Coney Barrett's home.

Republican Mayra Flores won a special election Tuesday night to represent a Rio Grande Valley congressional district, flipping the longtime Democratic stronghold and soon making her the first congresswoman born in Mexico...

Flores celebrated her win at an Election Night watch party in San Benito. She is the first GOP candidate elected to represent this area of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870.

Tuesday’s win will give Flores just a few months in Congress as she completes the remainder of U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela’s term. Vela, a Brownsville Democrat, stepped down from the seat in March to take a job at a lobbying firm, prompting the special election.

Here's Ms. Flores' interview with Sean Hannity:

Democrats are crowing that this is a short-lived victory:

As for Tuesday’s winner, plenty of media folk are adding the asterisk that Rep.-elect Flores will have to run again in November for a new full term and, due to redistricting, it will be a much more Democratic seat.

Here's why I don't think that's true:

Flores, 36, was born in Burgos, Tamaulipas, Mexico. She immigrated to the United States when she was 6 years old and became a citizen at 14. She started working at 13, picking cotton with her parents in the Panhandle town of Memphis, to pay for her own school supplies and clothes.

Now the mother of four young children and the wife of a Border Patrol agent, she often starts her pitch to voters the same way: Soy el sueño americano. I am the American dream.

As such, immigration is a deeply personal issue. She supports heightened border security, immigration reform and a legal path to citizenship.

"If we really care about immigrants and children, we wouldn't want them to cross that dangerous river," Flores said in March. "We wouldn’t want them to come across dangerous criminal organizations. If you really care about them, we’re going to have to help them come in through the door."

The times, they are definitetly changing. I don't know that this seat flips back Democrat, even if they work hard. Mayra Flores is charismatic and she's got a compelling story to tell. Rest assured that this is one of the races I'll be watching this fall. It'll tell a lot about how many seats the GOP will have a chance of winning.