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Ben Leman Takes Campaign Cash from Toll Road Construction Company
As election day nears for the special election in House District 13, one candidate’s donor is raising some serious eyebrows. Ben Leman, who is running for the seat vacated by former State Rep. Leighton Schubert (R–Caldwell), shows on the most recent campaign finance...
Arrington: Limit Terms To Drain The Swamp
A freshman lawmaker from Texas wants to enact strict term limits for Congress. Lubbock’s Jodey Arrington and other first-term lawmakers recently met with President Trump on term limits. Arrington wants to restrict individuals from serving more than 12 years in...
UT-Austin Campaign Aims to Redefine Masculinity
A new program run by the University of Texas is aiming to expand the definition of “what it means to be masculine,” and it’s using taxpayer dollars to do it. The campaign, which goes by the name MasculinUT, began to gain attention on social media with the launch of a...
Why Is A ‘Republican’ Helping Democrats Oppose The GOP?
After suffering two defeats in a row at the hands of Republican primary voters, former State Rep. Bennett Ratliff is working with a liberal South Texas billionaire to defeat conservatives around the state. Ratliff served with little distinction for one legislative...
Paxton Joins Suit Against Austin Sick Leave Policy
Last week, a group of businesses and statewide organizations announced a lawsuit against a new ordinance by the City of Austin which mandates that every business within city limits provides sick pay for its employees. Now, the State’s top lawyer is joining in. Texas...
State Authorities Investigating More Voter Fraud in South Texas
Another probe of voter fraud in the Rio Grande Valley is underway, this time in Hidalgo County. Texas Rangers are investigating allegations of illegal voting in the city of Edinburg in the November 2017 election, local ABC affiliate KRGV reports. One woman admits she...
Houston ISD Board Falls Deeper Into Turmoil
Texas’ largest school district has seen better times. Houston Independent School District is mired in a number of very real and very concerning problems from budget shortfalls to school closures numbering in the double digits, to name a few. These are issues the...
Texas Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Verify Voters’ Citizenship
Non-citizens are registering and voting in Texas elections, and current election procedures are inadequate to prevent it. One state lawmaker is taking steps to change that. State Sen. Don Huffines (R–Dallas) said this week that he’ll file legislation in 2019 requiring...
Major Victory for Texas Voter ID Law
Texas’ photo voter ID law is nondiscriminatory and must be reinstated, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the state’s revised voter ID law in a split decision, saying the lower court was guilty of...