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Azle ISD’s “Penny Swap” Is a Backdoor Tax Increase

If voters approve Azle Independent School District’s proposed tax rate “Penny Swap” in the September 8 tax ratification election, the district will indeed get more money from the state — just know you are also voting for a backdoor tax increase that will raise your...

Middleton: No more politicians profiting off their position

Elected office is supposed to be about public service, not self-service--we are all fed up with politicians profiting off their position. Corruption is an egregious perversion of our constitutional republic and should be dealt with extremely harshly.  People are...

Fake News Media Attacks the Father of Texas

The City of Austin made a mockery of itself last week after a report by city bureaucrats recommended the city rename itself as part of a liberal campaign to purge the city of confederate symbols. But one nationwide publication went even further in demonstrating the...

Cedar Hill ISD Property Tax “Swap-ortunity”

Cedar Hill Independent School District’s Board of Trustees voted on June 11 to set a new property tax rate, which will require approval from voters. The board chose to hold the election on a special date in September, rather than on the uniform election date in...

Who Is to Blame for High Summer Water Bills?

Every summer homeowner across Montgomery County is stunned at the high bills they receive from their water company. Many residents are confused by skyrocketing summer costs and focus their ire on their water company, since they are the ones who sent the bill. But is...

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...