Hello everyone- my name is Nick Wenker, and I am a twenty-three year-old immigrant and political conservative that grew up (and currently lives) in Fort Bend County. While I was a senior at the University of Texas in 2008 I started a website called www.redhottexans.com in order to get more young Texans active in politics and in order to give young people a bigger say in the conservative movement. Today's article will hopefully be the first of many as a community blogger for Ultimate Fort Bend under the auspices of "Red Fort Bend", a county-centric offshoot column from Red Hot Texans.

This past Saturday I went to the annual banquet and fundraiser for Foundation For Life, a Houston-based pro-life organization that offers support and services to mothers considering abortion.

Of all the places in Houston they chose the beautiful Sugar Land Marriott at Town Center to host their event, which was probably a good thing considering the overwhelming turnout from all over the city and the state.

I remember moving to Fort Bend with my family from Switzerland in 1993, and back then we considered to be "the boonies" living on the edge of Houston civilization.

Now a few years later (and after one #3 ranking for nicest place to live in the US for Sugar Land by CNN) we're slowly increasing in relevance and importance to Houston and Texas, which are themselves growing in national stature. It's an extremely exciting time to live in Fort Bend.

There were numerous local Catholic organizations and pro-life Catholics in attendance, including the keynote speaker, famous pundit, blogger, and author Michelle Malkin.

You might remember her from her time at MSNBC and now on Fox News, or for her smash-hit blogs michellemalkin.com and hotair.com. Although she lives in Colorado now, she was willing to come out all the way to Fort Bend for the banquet and even told the audience that she and her husband had almost moved their family to Sugar Land!

She gave a long speech that was excellent from start to finish and hit on many eye-opening points. You can see the first of three parts of her speech embedded below.

I spoke with a number of Hispanic Catholics from Fort Bend and Houston about the role of faith in the pro-life political movement, and it got me thinking about the role that cultural and religious backgrounds will continue to play in future votes and elections in Texas and in the country.

In fact, as the evening went on, Nancy Pelosi and her far-left base in the US House barely snuck through a late-night passing vote on the health care bill, 220-215. It only passed at all because of an emergency last-minute amendment pushed by pro-life and Catholic Democrats in the House...an amendment that far-left members are now swearing to remove in backroom committees after the vote has passed.

If this trend of inner conflict between Blue Dogs and far-left Liberals continues I think we will eventually see a big re-alignment of value voters within Texas and in moderate swing districts all across the country.

For more in-depth commentary on the event and the politics surrounding it, more photos of the evening, and the rest of the videos of Michelle's speech, please take a moment to visit:

www.redhottexans.com