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"The Lone Star State has a conservative history to be proud of, and proud it is. Now, with the influx of businesses and families relocating to the state from across the country, the political conversation has shifted drastically. In a historically red state, there are now far more Democratic minds with liberal ideology trying to swing the state blue. But Texas has reached its current point of success by maintaining conservative free-market policies, and according to Lt. Col. Allen West (Ret.), letting go of them will be the state's doom. West drives a hard argument for continued conservatism in Texas. In Hold Texas, Hold the Nation: Victory or Death he makes his stand, asserting that Texas is a sustaining force for America, truly embodying the founding principles of our great country."-- back cover.