“My point is just this: when cities come to citizens with a value proposition, it is possible to have voluntary annexation and no need for involuntary annexation.”

Kolkhorst’s conscience protection legislation falls squarely in the Texas GOP legislative priority of protecting religious liberty.

Taxpayers again were patient and polite in waiting for their time and delivering their message.

State Rep. Jonathan Stickland has built a bipartisan coalition of 68 Republican and 34 Democrat coauthors on legislation to preemptively ban the use of red-light cameras statewide.

Special interest groups, labor unions, and various lobbyists groups came and testified in favor of measures that would further tie the hands of job creators and entrepreneurs in the state.

Democrat lawmakers in the Texas Capitol—along with leftist organizations across the nation—continue to wage war on speech they disagree with.