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Texas Teachers’ Retirement System Funded Chinese Firms
State agency hides how much it has indirectly invested in Chinese businesses.
Report: Texas Must Secure ‘Critical Infrastructure’
Texans face a rapidly changing battlespace.
Report: Divest From America’s Enemies
American states—including Texas—have invested a total of $68 billion in China.
Texas Tech Class Encourages Critical Race Theory in Human Resources Departments
The class includes assignments based on readings that peddle critical theories surrounding race, gender, disability, and religion.
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Texas A&M Offers Leftist ‘Gender & Society’ Course
Texas A&M offers a course this academic year that pushes the left-wing perspective on sex. Intro to Gender & Society is described on the Texas A&M course website as a class focused on the “sociological analysis of gender in relation to social structure.” A...
Texas Tech Business College Offers DEI Course
Texas Tech’s business college is offering a diversity, equity, and inclusion class for the 2024-2025 academic year. After learning about a “Queering Agriculture” seminar on-campus in June, Texas Tech leadership reiterated their position that university faculty follow...
TAMU-Commerce Offers DEI Certificate Under Different Title
Texas A&M-Commerce is offering an undergraduate justice, equity, diversity and inclusion certificate in the 2024-2025 academic year. For the past few years, Americans have grown skeptical of the divisiveness of diversity, equity and inclusion ideology. In response...
The Chinese Threat to Texas’ Power Grid
Communist China is a growing threat to the United States. The nation also threatens Texas’ power grid. John Ratcliffe, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, warned about the threat of China. “They are both an adversary and a competitor, but they should be...
Foreign Threats to Texas’ Power Supply
Texas’ electrical grid is vulnerable to attack. It can be protected, but public servants haven’t done so yet. This investigative series has been viewed from the lens of Miriah Sachs and her family of four’s plight during the February 2021 blackout. Five days without...
Texans Electric Bills Are Rising
Miriah Sachs and her family of four moved to Cypress, Texas from Nebraska in 2020. Months later they endured something they didn’t expect: the February 2021 winter blackout. They, like millions of other Texans, found themselves without power. For the Sachs, it was...
Is Nationalizing the Power Grid the Answer?
Miriah Sachs and her family of four endured five freezing, powerless days during the February 2021 blackouts. Those five days resulted in nine days without water. When the water came back on, it busted their pipes. That gave them nine weeks without a kitchen...
Days of Freezing: One Family’s Trial With Unreliable Energy in Texas
Even before the statewide blackout in February 2021, life has not been easy for Miriah Sachs. She has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition that has compromised her bones and joints. “I actually broke my pelvis when I was pregnant with my last baby. So walking...
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Karl Rove’s Pro-gambling Wife on Texas A&M PAC Board
Texas A&M University System, a supposedly conservative institution, has a gambling lobbyist on the board of their political action committee. Rachel Horton, a member of the State Republican Executive Committee, posted to X about Texas A&M’s political action...