by Jeramy Kitchen | Jul. 26, 2021 | State
The Texas House of Representatives has been paralyzed and unable to conduct legislative business for two weeks due to the absence of a majority of House Democrats who broke quorum after House Republican leadership enabled them to do so. One of the absent lawmakers,...
by Jacob Asmussen | Jul. 26, 2021 | Local
AUSTIN — “Over the weekend, our city had its 48th homicide of the year… To put this statistic in context, in the coming days we will break our ALL-TIME RECORD for homicides in one year.” On Monday, citizen group Save Austin Now released a statement describing the...
by Robert Montoya | Jul. 26, 2021 | State
Citizens have discovered the border wall promised by Gov. Greg Abbott is, in reality, a chain-link fence. With a shocking increase of illegal immigrants with a record of sex crimes being caught crossing the border, Texans are being called to pressure officials to...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Jul. 26, 2021 | State
Updated 7/26/2021 at 3:15pm to reflect that a civil arrest warrant had been issued in the late evening Sunday and became public after this original article was published. The Texas House of Representatives has been paralyzed and unable to conduct any legislative...
by This Week in Texas | Jul. 26, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Special Runoff Election for Texas CD6 Election Day is Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Candidates include Republicans Susan Wright and Jake Ellzey. Both candidates boast notable endorsements. Recent polling indicates Wright maintains a double-digit lead, though his lead is...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 25, 2021 | State
No, it’s not an outtake from the Allan Sherman novelty song “Hello Mudda, Hello Fadduh.” Democrat lawmakers who fled Texas almost two weeks ago in order to freeze progress on the current special legislative session are feeling a little homesick and asking supporters...
by Mark Lee Dickson | Jul. 23, 2021 | Commentary
On Monday, July 19, Eastland’s city hall was packed, with standing room only, as the city commissioners voted 4-0 on a first reading to pass an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion. In order to go into effect, the ordinance will need to survive one final...
by Thomas Warren | Jul. 23, 2021 | Local
U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson (R–Amarillo) expressed support this week for a citizen-led plan to put the Amarillo City Council’s latest push for debt in front of local voters. On Monday, Jackson released a Facebook post supporting a petition drive led by businessman...
by Michael Quinn Sullivan | Jul. 23, 2021 | Commentary, Life
William Travis famously drew a line in the sand, asking his fellow Alamo defenders to join him in putting their lives on the line for liberty in Texas. When it comes to choosing a side in an important debate, most politicians prefer to hang back and see where the...
by Reflections on Life and Liberty | Jul. 23, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
In this 50th episode of the Reflections on Life and Liberty podcast, Michael Quinn Sullivan continues from last week his look at the plains of Jericho. He says we need to be less worried about which side other people are on in a coming fight, and more focused on being...
by The Headline | Jul. 23, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts, Texas Scorecard Video
This week Brandon is joined by Texas Scorecard’s Jeramy Kitchen to talk about the week’s news.
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 22, 2021 | Federal
In the final days of a congressional runoff between two North Texas Republicans, just-released internal polling shows candidate Susan Wright maintaining a double-digit lead over her opponent. Wright and State Rep. Jake Ellzey (Waxahachie) are competing in a special...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Jul. 22, 2021 | gov2022, State
As Gov. Greg Abbott attempts to ward off Republican opponents in the 2022 primary election, one of his challengers is boasting a national endorsement in his bid to replace him. On Thursday, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R–Kentucky) announced his endorsement of Don Huffines,...
by Erin Anderson | Jul. 22, 2021 | Local
A state lawmaker shakeup is coming to Denton County next year. Voters in the North Texas county will fill at least three, and possibly four, open state legislative seats in 2022. Earlier this month, longtime State Sen. Jane Nelson (R–Flower Mound) announced she will...
by Jacob Asmussen | Jul. 22, 2021 | State
As a humanitarian disaster continues to unfold at the Texas-Mexico border, Republican candidates for governor are calling out Gov. Greg Abbott for his failure on the issue and outlining what they would do if elected. “Our border is not secure. @GregAbbott_TX has...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Jul. 21, 2021 | State
The Texas House of Representatives has been paralyzed for the last nine days due to an insufficient amount of lawmakers present to conduct legislative business, after almost all of the House Democrat Caucus broke quorum (after being enabled by Republican leadership)...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 21, 2021 | State
Last week, a group of pro-abortion organizations filed a lawsuit to attempt to strike down Texas’ new heartbeat law, Senate Bill 8, which aims to ban abortions after a baby’s heartbeat is detected by allowing private citizens to sue abortionists. But while the lawsuit...
by Jeramy Kitchen | Jul. 21, 2021 | State
If you ask a homeowner in Texas how they feel about their property taxes, odds are they will tell you that property taxes are a major burden for their family and that they hope to get property tax relief in the ongoing special legislative session. Where Texas Ranks...
by The Liberty Cafe | Jul. 21, 2021 | Texas Scorecard Podcasts
Twenty years ago Texas began its experiment allowing competition in the electricity market. Despite its great successes, it looks like competition may succumb to fearful politicians and rent-seeking generators and Wall Street bankers. On Episode 34 of the Liberty...
by Brandon Waltens | Jul. 20, 2021 | State
Though activity in the state Capitol has largely been frozen after Democrats left Texas for Washington, D.C., to stop an omnibus election integrity bill, that hasn’t stopped some lawmakers from continuing their work on conservative priorities. On Tuesday, State Rep....
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