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Whoever Is For Us…

In politics and culture, the crony establishment uses division to consolidate power. We must fight it through addition.

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Texas Business Groups Oppose Texas Lawsuit to End DACA

A coalition of Texas business organizations including the Texas Association of Business and the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, have declared their opposition to a federal lawsuit filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that seeks to end the Deferred...

Free the Market: No Taxpayer Subsidies, No Carbon Taxes

Since being sworn-in as our 45th President of the United States, President Donald Trump has implemented an America-First energy strategy that has de-fanged an overreaching EPA, ended the Clean Power Plan, and removed us from the one-sided Paris Climate Accord, which...

Put Your Money Where Your Values Are

Empower Texans has partnered with Patriot Mobile, a national cell phone provider, to offer an alternative to “Big Mobile” providers, that largely donate to organizations that oppose constitutional values. Patriot Mobile donates a portion of its users’ monthly proceeds...

Hollow Hack-Jobs Reveal MSM Contempt for Average Americans

When President Donald Trump announced he would be nominating DC Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, it was expected that Democrats and their allies in the media would attack him. After all, Kennedy often...

Regarding Gov. Abbott’s Proposal to Address Gun Violence

Regarding Gov. Greg Abbott’s proposal to address gun violence in our society, the rest of the nation is likely to follow Texas’ lead, for better or worse. It is critical then – in addition to improving public safety while protecting our liberties – that Texas gets...

Supreme Politics

President Donald Trump’s choice of U.S. Circuit Judge of the DC Court of Appeals Brett Kavanaugh to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy will likely fundamentally change the 2018 Senate election cycle. With Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell...

Summer Brings Higher Temperatures, Tempers, and Property Taxes

“Summertime, and the living is easy.” Those lyrics from the famous Gershwin song conjure up memories of long lazy days, hanging out at the pool, fishing holes, baseball games, 4th of July fireworks, and burgers on the BBQ. But summertime is also the time when local...

Now What?

Each Independence Day I think of my ancestor Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Two centuries and numerous generations later, I take great inspiration from what he and his colleagues did in the summer of 1776. Just imagine how different the...

Texas Must Stand Up to TSA’s Abusive Procedures

With the Independence Day holiday falling in the middle of this week, many Texans will be taking to the skies to travel and visit loved ones, friends, or just vacation in what is expected to be one of the busiest travel seasons on record. But before being able to...