Investigations
State Agency Paid Millions in Real Estate Lease to Speaker Phelan’s Company
$2.3 million in state taxpayer monies was paid from 2017 to 2023.
Den of Degeneracy: Pushing Trans at Texas A&M
Aggies are being exposed to medically unsound dogmas.
Den of Degeneracy: Texas A&M’s Decline
Young Texans are under threat of indoctrination from a once trusted institution.
Audit: “Unsatisfactory” and “High Risk” Issues Found in State Anti-Trafficking Unit
The agency unit tasked with fighting human trafficking was in such disarray that it appears to have been disbanded.
Investigations Archive
Austin, Investigations, Local, State
Pushing Hate: Wokeness Invades Texas
A cultural virus has mutated and infected Texas’ governments at the state and local level. It is breeding bigotry, anti-citizenship, and hostile work environments. Previously, Texas Scorecard reported on a cultural virus’ infestation in the private sector and the...
Pushing Hate: ‘The Woke Mind Virus’
A poisonous cultural virus is infecting Texas. Its damage—and warning—is well catalogued elsewhere in America. “Woke” was once just the past tense form of the word “wake.” In modern times, it means something completely different: being a social justice warrior. In...
Investigations, Local, Metroplex, State
Life or Death: Power Outage at the Lynn W. Ross Detention Center
Texas’ elected public servants and bureaucrats are continuing down a path of making energy in the state increasingly unreliable and unaffordable. The experience of roughly a hundred youths at a detention facility in North Texas during the February 2021 blackout casts...
Life or Death: Making Texas Energy Unreliable and Unaffordable
Actions speak louder than words. Despite the established narrative, public servants are making Texas’ electrical grid more unreliable and unaffordable, potentially putting Texans’ lives and livelihoods at risk. The Era of Energy Liberation As previously reported in...
Life or Death: Texas’ Unstable Power Grid
Despite assurances to the contrary, records indicate that Texas’ power grid remains unstable. Electricity generation is lately taken for granted in the Western world. Few living today can imagine life without it. But it is more than just a convenience for smartphones...
Texas Mafia: Corruption Profiteers
In Texas, state lawmakers have set up a corrupt system where school boards can craft crony deals to favor some businesses with lower property taxes. This corruption has created an entire industry that profits off of cronyism. Compounding the little guy, everyday...
Texas Mafia: Supporting Wokeness
A mafia system of corruption by the Texas Legislature not only empowers school districts to extort money while granting tax breaks to a favored few, but it also helps support certain woke corporations. Throughout this series, Texas Scorecard has uncovered how school...
Texas Mafia: Formalized Extortion
“This is how it's gonna work. I'm gonna take 20 percent a week. … We're partners. You make the money, and I make sure you keep it.” These are the words of Dwight Manfredi, a fictional mafioso in the Sylvester Stallone-starring series "Tulsa King." Manfredi said these...
Texas Mafia: Schools and Corrupt Cronyism
A mafia-like system exists in Texas that empowers school districts to cut sweetheart deals for developers while the majority of taxpayers struggle. Who's being favored? An investigation of these deals revealed the types of businesses benefiting include a foreign-owned...