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EXCLUSIVE: Anti-ICE Protestors Delay Construction in Pflugerville
A law enforcement officer told Texas Scorecard that the protestors were delaying road construction.
Texas Students’ Test Scores Shrink as Spending Grows
An economic analysis shows declining returns on investment for states’ increasing education dollars.
Texas Officials Criticize Proposed $500 Million in Corporate Welfare to Movie Industry
The pushback follows the release of a commercial featuring Matthew McConaughey and other actors advocating more funding for the industry.
Texas Joins Fight Against Taxpayer-funded Gender Mutilation Surgeries for Criminals
Alongside 23 other states, Texas is attempting to prevent a mandate forcing taxpayers to fund the surgeries.
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Ector County Election Results
Ranging from county judge to justice of the peace, Ector County Republican voters were faced with four local contested races this election and will now face a runoff election in May. Of the four races, none of the candidates running for Justice of the Peace Precinct 2...
Voter Fraud Case Reveals Deceased Texans Still Voting
Dead men don’t vote, but someone has been voting in South Texas in the name of a deceased voter for years – and it took a federal lawsuit over dirty voter rolls for local election officials to discover the problem. Recent reviews of Starr County’s voter rolls revealed...
Election Season Continues for Midland County
For Midland County, election season isn’t over. Of the four local contested races in the Tall City, one failed to produce a single-candidate winner: Midland County Judge. The three-way race resulted in James Beauchamp receiving 40 percent of the vote, Terry Johnson...
Texas AG Prosecuting Voter Fraud in Nueces County
Texas is finally starting to crack down on voter fraud. The state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Wednesday that his office is prosecuting three Robstown residents on nine counts of voter fraud committed in Nueces County during the 2016 elections. A grand jury...
Republican Voters Choose Limited Government in Landslide
Across the Lone Star State, Republican voters re-nominated the party’s leading conservatives as their candidates to face off across from Democrats on the November ballot and also let them know which issues they wanted them to focus on after they are re-elected. On...
Hall Defeats Burkett and Austin Establishment
Despite being challenged by establishment State Rep. Cindy Burkett (R–Mesquite) in the Republican primary, State Sen. Bob Hall (R–Edgewood) won Tuesday night’s election in a victory for conservatives in Senate District 2. Entering the legislature after defeating...
RPT Chairman James Dickey Announces Bid for Re-Election
Republican Party of Texas Chairman James Dickey announced today he would be seeking re-election at the party’s convention in June. In an email sent out to his supporters this morning, Dickey highlighted his success in strengthening the party’s infrastructure statewide...
By Narrow Margin, Seliger Secures Another Term
“Every vote counts” can often sound like a cliché, but the nail-biting, three-way race for West Texas’s Senate District 31 proved otherwise. With 80,636 total votes cast in the Republican primary race, about 340 votes made the difference between a single-candidate...
Grassroots Conservative Wave Sweeps Montgomery County
The decades long rule of Montgomery County’s “good old boys” club came crashing down in the March 6 primary, with voters sending a clear message that they are fed up with the county’s crony politics. State Rep. Mark Keough (R-The Woodlands) handily...