A 16-Year-Old Texas Kid Just Taught Jamie Raskin Something About America

May 24, 2026 Cat2, The Media
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Jamie Raskin has spent decades calling himself one of the top constitutional lawyers in Congress.

A Texas high school sophomore just made him look like a fool on national television.

Now the same kid is telling Congress he received death threats for doing it – and he's not backing down.

What Marco Hunter-Lopez Saw at His Own School

Marco Hunter-Lopez is 16 years old and the president of the Republican Student Club at Wylie East High School outside Dallas.

On February 2, he walked into school and found something that had no business being there.

Four adult women from an organization called "Why Islam?" had set up a booth during school hours – handing out hijabs to female students, distributing copies of the Quran with conversion instructions, and passing out a pamphlet titled "Understanding Sharia."

No parental consent.

No notification.

No permission slip.

Hunter-Lopez recorded it and posted it to social media.

It went viral almost immediately.

But what came next was worse than the booth itself.

"I had people saying that they were going to be at my house waiting for me to get home and they were going to shoot me," Hunter-Lopez told Congress last week.

Death threats.

For filming something that happened in his own school.

The Double Standard Hiding in Plain Sight

Here is what makes this story so much bigger than one incident at one school.

Wylie ISD called the February booth a "procedural breakdown" – a campus staff error that let an outside group through without completing the required approval process.

Rep. Keith Self, R-Texas, doesn't believe a word of it.

"This was not a procedural breakdown as the school has said," Self told Fox News Digital. "It was intentional, it has happened before, and they just got caught by a young man who was not going to let it happen without pushback."

Hunter-Lopez backed that up with something the school can't explain away.

His principal – the same administrator whose school allowed the Why Islam booth – wore a hijab two years running during World Hijab Day and promoted it on social media.

The school library at McMillan Junior High in Wylie ISD offers a Quran but no Bible.

And the Republican Student Club that Hunter-Lopez founded?

School officials initially denied it for being "too political."

They took down his posters.

They imposed security protocols on his club that no other student group faced.

The organization passing out Qurans and Sharia pamphlets to children had documented ties to CAIR, ICNA, and the Muslim Brotherhood – groups that Texas Governor Greg Abbott has officially designated as terrorist organizations with ties to Hamas.

The school let them set up a booth during lunch.

Raskin Tried to Make Him Look Small. It Didn't Work.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, came into that hearing ready to lecture a high school sophomore about constitutional law.

He left having been corrected by one.

Raskin pressed Hunter-Lopez, asking whether anyone believed America needs special laws targeting specific religious populations – a classic setup designed to make the entire hearing look like bigotry.

Hunter-Lopez answered without flinching.

He pointed out that 56 of the 57 signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, church-attending Christians.

Raskin pivoted – citing Jefferson's letter to the Danbury Baptists as evidence of a secular founding.

"That's a letter, not a law," Hunter-Lopez said.

Raskin kept cutting him off.

The clip hit over a million views on X.

Conservatives watching it saw exactly what Hunter-Lopez saw: a career politician trying to bully a teenager out of a truth that inconveniences the left's entire narrative about America's founding.

It didn't work.

"I believe that he thinks that he was going to catch me off guard by calling me out," Hunter-Lopez told Fox News Digital. "But it didn't. I took the fight."

This Isn't One School in One Suburb

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, who invited Hunter-Lopez to testify, put the larger picture in stark terms – over 300 mosques operating in Texas, proposals for Muslim-only cities, and Islamic ideology spreading through public school systems that simultaneously shut down conservative student clubs.

Roy and Self launched the Sharia-Free America Caucus in December. By March, it had 60 members from 25 states.

This is a national pattern.

Earlier this year, students from Kingwood and Atascocita High Schools were taken on a taxpayer-funded field trip to an Islamic cultural center that has spent years promoting the idea that Latino students' roots are in Muslim Spain.

CAIR – the same organization Abbott designated a terrorist organization for its ties to Hamas – has been confirmed as a speaker at MSA events inside those same public schools.

Hunter-Lopez said it himself before Congress: "If Sharia can be introduced this easily in the small suburban town of Wylie, it can happen anywhere."

He's right.

Hunter-Lopez said that after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, he expected students to go quiet.

The opposite happened.

"After that, instead of being scared to speak up, I actually saw more students brave to speak out," he said.

Think about what that means.

A teenager took death threats to the face, flew to Washington, and corrected a seasoned congressman on live television – and came home more resolved than when he left.

Meanwhile, the school principal is still celebrating hijab day on social media.

CAIR is still getting invited into classrooms.

And the library still has a Quran where the Bible used to be.

Someone needs to answer for that.

And it shouldn't take another teenager to make them.

Sources:

  • Kristine Parks, "Texas teen tells Congress he received death threats after revealing Islamic booth at high school," Fox News, May 20, 2026.
  • "From Wylie to Washington, Marco Hunter-Lopez Makes His Mark," Texas Scorecard, May 2026.
  • C. Douglas Golden, "Priceless Video: Jamie Raskin's Plan to Bully Teen Testifying on Sharia Law Backfires," Western Journal, May 14, 2026.
  • Marco Hunter-Lopez, Written Testimony, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government, May 13, 2026.
  • "Texas Children Targeted: Taxpayer-Funded School Trip to Controversial Islamic Dawah Center," RAIR Foundation, March 26, 2026.