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Y’All Answered: Voted Early?
Readers offer their insights and experiences.
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Train Up Your Child…
Modern education is designed to produce serfs, not champions of liberty.
Y’All Answered: Should Lawmakers Profit Off State Contracts?
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Don’t Get Angry, Get Active
Move from passive recipient to active participant.
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How Democrats are Passing Radical Climate Policies in the Republican House
When Democrat Texas State Rep. Erin Zwiener of Driftwood filed a measure to place the state of Texas under a mandatory climate action plan, many across the aisle cried foul. "That’ll never happen in Texas. We’re an oil and gas state." But the radical policies that...
Y’All Answered: Which Tax Plan?
Three "plans" have been floated to deal with Texans' horrible property tax problem. One by Gov. Greg Abbott, one by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, and one by House Speaker Dade Phelan. The Patrick and Phelan plans are actually in motion. Gov. Abbott said in 2022 he wanted to...
What I Learned On the Border
In March, two members of Texas Scorecard's studio team and I traveled down to the border to capture interviews and images of life in Del Rio (Val Verde County), Eagle Pass (Maverick County), and Bracketville (Kinney County)––some of the most highly trafficked areas of...
Stones and Dry Bones
Not long ago I was chatting with a fairly well-known conservative personality. He was lamenting that he “had” to be in the fight. As he talked about all the other things he thought he would “rather” be doing than be engaged in the cause of liberty, my thoughts turned...
Texas Must Take the Lead
Let’s start with a quiz. In our constitutional Republic (attention Democrats/RINOS: we’re not a “democracy”), what is the most powerful branch of government? Congress? The Supreme Court? The presidency? Tell you what, go research that and we’ll come back to that...
Y’All Answered: Use Eminent Domain To Build The Wall?
State Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe) has proposed legislation allowing Texas to exercise its powers of eminent domain to build a wall along the border with Mexico. In yesterday's One Click Survey, we asked readers if they agreed with the proposal. Do you want to...
It’s Time for Change in Fort Worth ISD
Fort Worth Independent School District is in dire need of transformational change on May 6. On this day, voters in Fort Worth ISD will be able to vote out incumbents from the three FWISD school board districts that have caused so much chaos and failed leadership for...
Victory Against The Odds
Defeat usually begins in one of two ways: believing success to be impossible, or assuming your victory is assured. On April 21, 1836, the Texians achieved independence at San Jacinto because they were willing to fight a last-chance, impossible battle against an enemy...
Y’All Answered: Who Is Working Harder?
In Monday's One Click Survey, we asked readers who seemed to be working harder to advance the priorities of Texas' grassroots Republican activists: Dade Phelan and the House, or Dan Patrick and the Senate. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to...