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Senate Prepares for Paxton Impeachment Trial
The process is expected to last around two to three weeks.
Who Are the House Managers Leading the Paxton Impeachment?
The voters in Texas may or may not be drifting to the left, but those who we elect are already well on the way.
Embattled Tarrant Appraisal District Chief Resigns
Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare says the new chief appraiser must be pro-taxpayer.
Texas Passed Hundreds of New Laws—None Provide Significant Border Security
Lawmakers ignored public outcry about securing the border.
The Archive
Association Goons Trail Empower Texans PAC Employee
On Saturday we received news straight from the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up file. Empower Texans PAC employee Gregory Harrison informed us that he and a Cullen Crisp for State Representative campaign manager, Justin Newman, were being “tailed” around Cisco, Texas, by...
The Plot to Drain Possum Kingdom and Lake Granbury
Today residents of Granbury are suffering from historically low lake levels that are devastating local property values. Citizens living around Possum Kingdom Lake are not faring much better. The Brazos River Authority blames the ongoing drought and claims that they...
Voters Should Beware Lobby Front Groups
As the primary election season pulls into the home stretch, voters are being bombarded with information from a host of campaigns and groups. Unfortunately some of the information they will see this cycle is pure bluster – created to mislead voters into supporting...
Jim Keffer: Reaching Across the Aisle and Into Your Wallet
As we’ve often seen in Washington, D.C., the business of serving oneself over constituents is a bipartisan vocation. Straus-lieutenant Jim Keffer, Republican state representative from Eastland, has proved that cronyism is a popular bipartisan vocation in Austin, too....
Mr. Opiela’s Opus
In the crazy campaign season where every nook and cranny of a person’s life and statements about the most obscure things are brought out in TV ads, mailers and social media posts, I find it incredible that the wreckage left behind by Eric Opiela is scarcely mentioned...
Spring Brings New Debt Props in DFW
Last fall, Texans were faced with billions of local debt propositions on their November 5th ballot. In total, more than $7 billion of additional debt was requested from voters across the state, including Prop 6 which would remove $2 billion from the State’s Emergency...
Vigilance At Every Level
There are compelling reasons why Texans need to be vigilant in holding their local officials accountable. Thanks to Congresswoman Kay Granger and F-rated Charlie Geren (Fort Worth), the Tarrant Regional Water District can now legally bully private landowners using...
Blurred Understanding
Turn on the TV, listen to the radio, or read a news article online, and odds are you’ll encounter something about healthcare in America. The Affordable Care Act. Obamacare. Medicaid expansion… they’re all terms at the forefront of people’s minds, and rightfully so....
Quacks Call Ratliff Conservative
Voters in House District 115 last Thursday were greeted at their mailbox with a piece oddly adorned with pictures of little rubber duckies proclaiming F-rated Representative Bennett Ratliff to be a “conservative leader.” To call Bennett Ratliff a “conservative,” the...