Valentina Gomez ran for Missouri secretary of state this year, repeatedly using slurs and hateful rhetoric as part of her failed campaign. Now she’s in Texas, and she’s running for Congress. She continues to use extreme anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, but she is also now trying to profit off of her social media presence.

“I’m running for Congress in Texas and I’m taking down a RINO and a dinosaur once and for all because Congress is full of crooks like Speaker [Mike] Johnson who is just a little man with no balls that funds Ukraine,” she says in a video posted to her social media. “And Dan Crenshaw, who is only good at betraying his fellow Navy Seals.”

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Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) represents Texas’ Second Congressional District, which includes Houston’s north and east suburbs. A “RINO” is a “Republican in name only,” a term Republicans throw around when they want to accuse each other of being insufficiently conservative.

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Gomez didn’t explain how she’s running in Texas so shortly after running for office in Missouri, but she did promise that she’s “coming to Texas to speak the truth, cook the crooks, and save the children.”

“Buckle up, Texas, because this ain’t my first rodeo,” she concluded. Her “first rodeo” is probably the GOP primary for Missouri secretary of state earlier this year, where she came in a distant sixth place.

In a video she posted to X just yesterday, Gomez announced that she is accepting subscriptions on the platform, where people can pay her for access to exclusive content. She promised that “0% of the profits will go to an LGBTQ cause.” She said that she would be “catching a pedophile” and shooting a gun, among other things, while wearing a shirt that said, “Don’t be weak and gay.”

Earlier in the week, Gomez said that “the LGBTQ is a terrorist organization,” even though “LGBTQ” doesn’t refer to an organization at all.

“If they can’t groom your children, they will kill them,” she claimed. “Pedophiles that hide under the LGBTQ flag are the next mass shooters.”

“Christians are being hunted and killed and now multiple kids in a Christian school are dead.”

She explained that she was referring to the Madison, Wisconsin, school shooter from earlier this week. The shooter is not LGBTQ+ in any way. In fact, the shooter’s social media activity now suggests that she was being influenced by neo-Nazis and other members of the far-right.

Gomez frequently used anti-gay slurs during her run for Missouri secretary of state, recently saying anyone who didn’t vote for her is a fa**ot. 

One of her main campaign slogans was “Don’t be weak and gay,” but she got online attention earlier this year when a video of her running in a Kevlar vest went viral.

In the video, she said, “In America, you can be anything you want. So don’t be weak and gay. Stay f**king hard.”

She also lost her job with Nestle Purina after her numerous anti-LGBTQ+ stunts. In a video talking about her no longer working with the dog food company, she claimed, “Today, I fired them. No amount of money, stock, or bullying will make me compromise my values. So I will never support a company that wants to empower and protect pedophiles and groomers in our schools and libraries.”

She grew increasingly unhinged as she got closer to the primary, calling LGBTQ+ people “pedophiles” regularly. She even made a video this past week calling LGBTQ+ people “fa***ts” and claiming that unnamed people tried to poison her dogs before calling Vice President Kamala Harris “an Indian hoe” and saying that Democrats are all “gay, vaccinated, and cannot reproduce.”

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