Jack of Harts

President (Impeached) Samuel Mateo Lopez returned home to Texas to a greeting he had not expected to find. Texans had voted overwhelmingly to return him to the Presidency, despite the other party declaring him ineligible to run for the position again. That had been expected. What surprised him was that they had gone behind his back and run a stealth campaign for him while he was touring the rest of the nation to support other candidates. He found out on Election Day that they voted to bring him back as Governor of Texas once more. And many of his White House staffers, campaign consultants, and department heads won elections of their own throughout Texas. It was a Texas-sized non-subtle response to the decades-long prison sentences most of them faced thanks to the new federal administration’s many investigations and charges. And when federal law enforcement demanded they be extradited for trial in Washington, Texas gave them another suitably Texan response. “Come and take them. If you have the cojones.”