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Houston ISD Teacher Incentive Allotment: Incentive To Obey
Empowering, not demeaning teachers helps to achieve student success.
Gates of Eagle Pass Park Reopen After One Year of Lockdown
This comes as the Trump administration continues to secure the southwest border.
Misplaced Priorities: Where’s the Outcry for Georgetown Kids?
Rallying cries sound for a rebellious school librarian, but silence is ongoing for student safety.
Texas House Advances Record $337 Billion Budget
The Senate unanimously passed its version of the budget last month, with a proposal largely similar to the one advanced by the House.
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Fiscal Responsibility Index: Dallas County
With one notable exception, Texas lawmakers representing Dallas County performed poorly on key taxpayer issues this legislative session, with most scoring worse than their peers on the 2019 Fiscal Responsibility Index. The Index is a tool for taxpayers to measure...
Johnson Wins Dallas Mayor’s Race in City Runoffs
Dallas voters chose Democrat State Rep. Eric Johnson to be the city’s next mayor over progressive four-term city council member Scott Griggs in Saturday’s municipal runoff elections. Johnson bested Griggs 56-44 percent in the June 8 runoff. Johnson and Griggs were the...
Commentary: Democrats Offer ‘Faux Compassion’ on the Border, Says Texas Rep
As Texans go, Michael Cloud is more down to earth than boisterous. The freshman member of Congress is reserved and deliberate, answering questions with a soft drawl and a quick smile. Before coming to Congress in a special election last year to replace Rep. Blake...
House Speaker Dennis Bonnen Draws Early Primary Opponent
Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen will not run unopposed in the 2020 Republican primary election next year. Rhonda Seth, an emergency room nurse and Lake Jackson resident, has announced her candidacy for state representative in Bonnen’s district as grassroots'...
San Antonio Votes for Higher Taxes & Discrimination
San Antonio citizens may have just given themselves even higher taxes and more discrimination. This weekend, the city’s residents voted to re-elect Ron Nirenberg as their mayor in a narrow 51-49 split. The heated runoff election had more votes than any municipal...
Texas Joins California, Others in Raising Smoking Age to 21
Though legislation to raise the legal age of tobacco sale is being pushed in the U.S. Senate, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is beating them to it, signing into law Senate Bill 21—a bill to raise the age that adults in Texas can legally purchase tobacco products. Current...
Staff Blog: How to Defeat Carbon Taxes
A winning plan exists for conservatives in Texas who want to protect hard-working, tax-paying Americans from disastrous climate change policies. Seeing Republicans like U.S. Sen. John Cornyn of Texas embrace the climate change cult is disconcerting, especially...
Bao, Williams Win Plano Runoffs
In a victory for local grassroots over outside special interests, citizen-backed candidates won Plano’s contentious city council runoff elections Saturday, defeating the mayor’s endorsed candidates who were bankrolled by big developer money. Challenger Shelby Williams...
Nelson Thibodeaux: Leaning Local
Since the late 1960s, Nelson Thibodeaux has dedicated himself to fighting in local elections to advance conservative, pro-liberty policies. For his efforts, he was recognized with Empower Texans’ Conservative Leader Award in 2018. Born in Beaumont, Texas, Thibodeaux...