Chip Roy and Dan Crenshaw lost their primaries last night.

[Swede]

Chip Roy and Dan Crenshaw lost their primaries last night. It is schadenfreude that is more delicious than I can imagine. Yes there are two fewer pathological liars in the house only to be replaced by two other putrid scumbags.
Neither of these men accomplished anything in their entire time in congress. Crenshaw was a Navy SEAL and is hated like no other man in the former community he was part of. There are no brothers he can count as friends now after he threatened to file a lawsuit against another SEAL. Instead he flew like a coward. I don't think any SEAL can be a coward but I have never met a pathological liar like Crenshaw who was not a pants-shitting coward when put to the question.

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[2naSalit]

1. YAY!!!

[Bettie]

2. I would think that was good

but, I imagine that both of their primary opponents are probably worse than they are, given how Republicans operate.

[newdeal2]

3. Even as a non-Texan, I don't get too much satisfaction

I know they'll be replaced by something equal or worse.

[chicoescuela]

4. Nice to see Chip out. He is a dope.

[Kaleva]

7. He wasn't running

[underpants]

5. Chip Roy?

I see he’s running for Attorney General. He’s headed to a runoff because no one got more than 50%

[FascismIsDeath]

6. Chip Roy wasn't even running for his seat again. He is headed to a runoff for Texas AG.

[ABC123Easy]

8. Dip Roy and Pirate Dan

I'm particularly glad to see Pirate Dan ousted. Can't stand that lying, POS.

[ToxMarz]

15. I wish Patel would wear an eye-patch

or two.

[ABC123Easy]

20. I second that!

[D_Master81]

9. Celebrate however

Just know that while we celebrate their losses, if they were beaten it’s because their voters don’t think they’re MAGA enough. Their replacements will be far worse.

[herding cats]

10. Troth, who beat Crenshaw, is way worse.

I realize that's difficult to imagine, yet it's sadly true.

[Aviation Pro]

11. Shawn Ryan gets the last laugh

….

[ChicagoTeamster]

12. MAGA attracts pathological liars.

[GoCubsGo]

13. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Not that I expect the winners are any better...

[flashman13]

14. Without incumbency, a fractured MAGA and a war no one wants, Dems have a good chance of picking up these seats.

[Renew Deal]

16. Getting rid of Roy is a win for Trump, Johnson, and House Leadership

He is a loose cannon

[Fil1957]

17. Crenshaw lost not because he was a scumbag, but because he stood up to Trump and didn't go along with the Big Lie.

In today's Republican party, if you're an asshole, but you happen to have integrity on just one single issue, you're out. And yeah, Toth will be worse.

[33taw]

18. I think this title is misleading. Chip Roy is headed to a runoff in the race for Texas Attorney General

[kentuck]

19. Could this be a pattern?

Republicans want to clean house?

[JI7]

23. Clean house of people that refuse to spew Trump's election lies ?

[UTUSN]

21. K&R for, excellent!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. MaddowBlog-Why Texas' Crenshaw became the first member of Congress to lose in 2026

The GOP congressman might have been a Republican lawmaker wedded to party orthodoxy on most issues, but he wasn’t MAGA. It cost him his career.

Remember when Dan Crenshaw arrived on Capitol Hill and was seen as a “rising star”?

Seven years later, the Texas Republican lost his primary — not because he failed to vote with his party, but because he just wasn’t MAGA enough.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-03-04T16:44:19.911Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/why-texas-crenshaw-became-the-first-member-of-congress-to-lose-in-2026

The vast majority of members of Congress will learn in November whether they’ve been re-elected, but some won’t have to wait quite that long. The Texas Tribune reported:

State Rep. Steve Toth beat incumbent U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw for the Republican nomination in Texas’ 2nd Congressional District, coming one step closer to representing the Houston-area seat.

Toth opened a wide lead in the Republican primary on Tuesday as results came in and declared victory hours before The Associated Press called the race in his favor.

When Crenshaw arrived on Capitol Hill seven years ago, countless reports included the words “rising star” in the same sentence as his name. The New York Times described the young Texas Republican as “a charismatic, Harvard-educated retired Navy SEAL who wore a distinctive eye patch after losing his right eye during a deployment.”

The question at the time wasn’t whether he’d climb the ranks in GOP politics, but rather how high he’d go....

Except that didn’t happen — at least not in terms of his voting record. Crenshaw was as doctrinaire a member as the average House Republican, toeing the party line throughout his career on practically every major bill that reached the floor. As MS NOW’s Sydney Carruth explained during Tuesday night’s live-blog coverage, “His background is awash with support for conservative legislation, Trump’s harsh immigration policies and a proposal to end Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care for minors. Crenshaw’s X profile promotes a hard-line approach to fighting Mexican drug cartels, a priority frequently touted by the Trump administration.”

The Texan did, however, make some intraparty enemies: Crenshaw had a habit of mocking the House Freedom Caucus (he called its members “performance artists”); he distanced himself from Trump-fueled election conspiracy theories and election denialism; and he made no secret of his disagreements with right-wing media personalities such as Tucker Carlson.

For many on the right, this sealed the congressman’s fate: Crenshaw might have been a Republican lawmaker wedded to party orthodoxy on most issues, but he wasn’t MAGA.

That cost him his career.