Hello, I'm Natasha Froes and today we're going to be hearing three of the articles from

this week's magazine. We've got Douglas Murray on Hispanic Conservatives in US politics,

Katia Hoyer on East Germany, and Lara Prendergast on why sex parties have become an open secret.

First up, Douglas Murray.

If you had to take a guess on which American political party would produce the first Mexican-born Congresswoman, which one would it be? The Democrats or the party of Donald Trump?

As though to prove that nothing in American politics today is predictable, it is indeed the latter.

Two weeks ago, Myra Flores flipped a Democrat-friendly Texas congressional seat

in a special election and became both the first Republican Latina representative from the state of

Texas and the first Mexican-born member of the House. She even thanked Trump for her victory.

Everything about her win bucks the expectations of the country that now exist outside its borders.

For instance, consider the campaign against her. For the foreign press, the Democrat Party is presumed to be the party of

anti-racism, right? The party that wouldn't fall into any nativist traps and start talking about us and

them. Well, here is what Flores' Democrat opponent in the upcoming November elections said about her last week.

In an interview, Vincente Gonzalez attacked Flores for being a pawn of the Republican Party.

I wasn't born in Mexico, he said. I was born in South Texas, the son of a Korean War veteran.

I didn't come here through chain migration. I didn't come through asylum or amnesty or whatever, he continued.

The message from Gonzales is clear. He is the real American. Flores, by

contrast, is a foreign interloper, one of these terrible migrants we hear so much about. It is a curious

line of attack for a Democrat to take, not least under a government which is allowing

almost a quarter of a million illegal migrants to cross the southern border every month. What exactly

is the Democrats' thinking here? Whatever it is, Flores and a new generation of Republican politicians

like her keep showing up the deepest presumptions of the Democrat Party. Because over recent

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