John Cornyn has spent nearly $70 million telling Texas conservatives he is one of them.
Now he just rolled out a Faith Advisory Council and is hoping nobody looks too closely at who signed it.
And three of those pastors have George Soros's fingerprints all over them.
Cornyn's Texas Senate Runoff Faith Play Has a Soros Problem
RINO Senator John Cornyn unveiled his campaign's Faith Advisory Council featuring five Texas pastors – Max Lucado of Oak Hills Church in San Antonio, Dr. Jack Graham of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, and Dr. Gus Reyes formerly of the Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission among them.
With a May 26 primary runoff against his conservative challengener Ken Paxton closing in, Cornyn needs Texas conservatives to see him as one of their own – and a council of respected evangelical pastors is exactly the kind of signal he wants voters to remember heading into that fight.
The problem is where three of those pastors have put their names.
Lucado, Graham, and Reyes are all signatories on the Evangelical Immigration Table's "Principles for Immigration Reform" – principles that call for establishing "a path toward legal status and/or citizenship for those who qualify and who wish to become permanent residents."
That is amnesty. The word they are avoiding is amnesty because they know it’s political poison.
The Evangelical Immigration Table does not even legally exist as an incorporated entity – it operates as a front run through the National Immigration Forum, which financial records show has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants from George and Alex Soros's Open Society Foundations.
Internal Open Society Foundations board documents explicitly state that Soros's organization funded the National Immigration Forum for the express purpose of mustering evangelical support for mass amnesty legislation.
In 2013, this same operation stormed Capitol Hill and spent a quarter of a million dollars in radio ads pressuring Republican lawmakers to pass the Gang of Eight amnesty bill – legislation that would have granted legal status to between 11 and 22 million illegal aliens living in the United States.
Cornyn's Gang of Eight Amnesty Problem Didn't Start This Week
This is not an accident or an oversight.
Cornyn called Trump's border wall naive in 2016 – the same year Trump was campaigning on it.
He spent years pushing DACA legalization – the program his own statement acknowledged contravenes the Immigration and Nationality Act.
And he wants Texas voters to send him back to Washington to push mass amnesty.
Cornyn told the Washington Examiner that America's immigration system is "one of our great assets" and said he wants to keep having that conversation with the President – the same President whose voters showed up carrying "Mass Deportations Now" signs.
When the Soros-funded Evangelical Immigration Table was flooding Capitol Hill to push Gang of Eight amnesty in 2013, Cornyn was not fighting them.
He was already playing both sides of the immigration debate – a move his critics have called the Cornyn Con for over a decade.
Now, with a May 26 runoff dominated by the MAGA base, Cornyn rolled out a Faith Advisory Council designed to signal conservative credibility to Texas Christians.
He just did not mention that three of his featured endorsers signed onto a George Soros influence operation designed to move evangelicals toward open borders.
What Cornyn's Defense Tells You
When confronted with the Soros connections, Cornyn attacked Paxton – not the facts.
"Attacking pastors who have spent decades bringing people to Christ, defending the unborn, and ministering to families in their hardest moments says far more about Ken Paxton's campaign than it does about them," Cornyn said.
He didn’t dispute the financial records or explain why three of his five featured endorsers signed onto an organization that spent $250,000 trying to pass Gang of Eight amnesty. Cornyn didn’t address the Soros connection at all.
He changed the subject.
That is what you do when the facts do not help you.
World Relief – one of the Evangelical Immigration Table's leadership organizations – recently sent a letter to President Trump, border czar Tom Homan, and members of Congress demanding an end to the administration's policy of re-vetting refugees who have not yet obtained green cards.
These are the networks Cornyn is proudly associating his campaign with – networks actively working against Trump's immigration agenda right now.
Texas conservatives have ten weeks to decide whether they believe the pattern or the press releases.
Sources:
- John Binder, "John Cornyn Touts Support from Pastors with Ties to Soros-Linked Group That Lobbied for 'Gang of Eight' Amnesty," Breitbart News, March 12, 2026.
- José Niño, "Texas Senator Cornyn Endorsed by Soros-Funded Pastors," Headline USA, March 15, 2026.
- "Endorsing Cornyn Jeopardizes Trump's Legacy On Immigration," The Federalist, March 5, 2026.
- "How George Soros Uses the Evangelical Immigration Table & the ERLC to Influence the SBC," Center for Baptist Leadership, September 18, 2025.
- "National Immigration Forum Funded by Soros and the Left," Breitbart News, June 2, 2013.