The win marked the first time the region has been represented by a Republican in more than 100 years.

Republican Mayra Flores, who flipped Texas’ 34th Congressional District by beating Democrat Dan Sanchez, is now “the first GOP candidate to represent that area of the Rio Grande Valley since 1870,” the Houston Chronicle reported, and she will be “the first congresswoman born in Mexico.”

Bienvenido In Action, a grassroots organization dedicated to mobilizing patriotic Latino leaders, said that the election sent the country a “powerful message.”

“By electing Republican Mayra Flores to Congress, Hispanics are telling the rest of the country that we are fed up with reckless liberal policies and want change,” the group wrote. “Mayra won because she ran a campaign rooted in our community’s values: God, Family, and Country.”

“Meanwhile, Brain-Dead Biden and the Democrats have made life more expensive for Hispanics, our neighborhoods less safe, and a mockery of our culture,” the statement continued. “While gas prices go through the roof and families struggle to find baby formula, Biden and the left have weakened our communities, radicalized our school curricula


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