by Jeramy Kitchen | Nov. 1, 2021 | State
As Texas parents are discovering explicit and pornographic material being distributed in school libraries, Gov. Greg Abbott has now responded by writing a letter. On Monday, Abbott sent a letter to the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Executive Director Dan...
by Jacob Asmussen | Nov. 1, 2021 | Local
AUSTIN — As a pivotal election fight unfolds in Texas’ capital city, Tesla CEO and California refugee Elon Musk is urging Texans to prevent their state from decaying into the place he just fled. “Austin should be its [own] city, not a San Francisco copycat,” Musk...
by Erin Anderson | Nov. 1, 2021 | Local
Republicans in one of the most conservative counties in Texas are calling on Gov. Greg Abbott to audit the November 2020 general election. On October 19, members of the Collin County Republican Party’s executive committee adopted a resolution demanding Abbott “act...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Nov. 1, 2021 | State
Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed Austin lawyer Evan Young to the Supreme Court of Texas today to fill the unexpired term of Eva Guzman. Guzman resigned to challenge Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton in the GOP primary. Young is a lawyer for Baker Botts, one of the...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Nov. 1, 2021 | State
On Friday morning, Nubia Devine—a longtime religious freedom activist, former legislative staffer, and wife of Texas Supreme Court Justice John Devine—announced she is running for state representative of the newly drawn Texas House District 19. She joins two other...
by This Week in Texas | Nov. 1, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Texas Heartbeat Act The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the two legal cases filed against the Texas Heartbeat Act. One legal case is brought by the federal government. The other case is brought by abortion providers. It’s likely a ruling will not be...
by Brandon Waltens | Oct. 29, 2021 | State
On Friday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he has filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration, taking aim at the president’s plans to implement COVID vaccine requirements for employees of businesses that have contracts with the federal government....
by Thomas Warren | Oct. 29, 2021 | Local
City commissioners in Canyon are considering creating a new tax increment reinvestment zone (TIRZ) downtown. According to the City of Canyon, commissioners will be holding a public hearing on the topic of creating a downtown TIRZ during their meeting on Monday,...
by Sydnie Henry | Oct. 29, 2021 | State
As news surfaces around the state that a sexually explicit graphic novel entitled “Gender Queer” by Mala Kobabe can be found in school libraries, State Rep. Jeff Cason (R–Bedford) is calling for its removal, as well as potential criminal charges on schools that...
by Emory Martin | Oct. 29, 2021 | Local
Parents at the center of the mask mandate lawsuit with Fort Worth ISD knew there could be some backlash. However, the parents did not think they would be attacked on social media and doxxed. They were further shocked to find out that the bulk of the social media...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct. 29, 2021 | State
On Friday, State Rep. Kyle Biedermann (R–Fredericksburg) announced he would not be seeking re-election to the Texas House of Representatives. Biedermann was first elected in 2016, ousting the incumbent liberal Republican Doug Miller. He currently represents Texas...
by Erin Anderson | Oct. 29, 2021 | Local
A group of politically engaged Allen residents has exposed the sources of cash funding a controversial campaign to lengthen the city’s term limits for elected officials. “We have all been curious as to who was aiding the mayor in the deceptive attempts to extend the...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Oct. 29, 2021 | State
Deck Starts to Shuffle and Opportunity Emerges for Texas Conservatives Every election cycle provides an opportunity to reshuffle the proverbial deck of lawmakers in the Texas Legislature. This cycle will be no different, with the addition of the potential to replace...
by Don Huffines | Oct. 29, 2021 | Commentary
Each month brings a dangerous new record of illegal immigration to our southern border. While much of the blame lies with President Joe Biden, an appreciable amount of it also lies with the waffling and ineffective policies of Texas Governor Greg Abbott. Under Abbott,...
by Reflections on Life and Liberty | Oct. 29, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
The residents of the simple town of Gamla held off the strongest military the world had ever known for more than a year. The townspeople had become reluctant “rebels” in the cause for Jewish independence from Rome, but they fought hard to defend their families and...
by The Headline | Oct. 29, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts, Texas Scorecard Video
This week Brandon Waltens is joined by Michael Quinn Sullivan to talk about vaccine mandates and the effectiveness of Governor Abbott’s mandate ban.
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Oct. 29, 2021 | Commentary, Life
Almost by definition, the stories of great battles are the stories of soldiers specifically trained to carry out the art and science of war. With the balm of time and physical distance, the horror of a battle is sanitized by telling ourselves that – even when the...
by Erin Anderson | Oct. 28, 2021 | State
Democrats and their allies on the left are deploying an army of attorneys to fight against Texas Republicans’ newly enacted election integrity law, hoping courts will do what they couldn’t accomplish via the legislative process. It was a foregone conclusion that...
by Brandon Waltens | Oct. 28, 2021 | gov2022, State
In the first of what is expected to be many such forums over the next several months, three Republican challengers vying to be the next governor of Texas met in Decatur on Wednesday evening to answer questions about what they would do if given the opportunity to lead...
by The Liberty Cafe | Oct. 28, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Our Triune God laid down the first law–“of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat”–to Adam and Eve to protect them from idolatry. On Episode 54 of the Liberty Café, we’ll examine how God’s law has brought liberty even to disobedient man and how...
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