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Trump to Cancel Student Visas of Pro-Hamas Protesters
The executive order is directed toward international students who participated in pro-Hamas protests.
Texas Republicans May Redraw Congressional Maps Thanks to Redistricting Win
Several minority “coalition” districts could be redrawn this year to help the GOP maintain a U.S. House majority in 2026.
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.
Killeen ISD Teacher Resigns Over Alleged Misconduct With Student
The teacher has not been named but has been scrubbed from the school district’s website.
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Rambo Running Hard Against Bonnen
LAKE JACKSON, Texas—A longtime Texas House lawmaker is facing his first re-election challenge this decade as a local conservative activist seeks to hold him accountable. State Rep. Dennis Bonnen (R–Angleton) was first elected to the Texas House more than twenty years...
Cook Campaigns Against Freshman Failure
LIBERTY, Texas—A conservative activist has decided to run for office herself after her hometown lawmaker failed to fight for conservative values in the Texas Legislature. Emily Kebodeaux Cook, the general counsel for Texas Right to Life, announced her campaign against...
RPT Officially Censures House Speaker Joe Straus
AUSTIN, Texas—After months and months of effort, grassroots activists scored a major victory Saturday when the Texas GOP’s executive committee voted to concur with efforts by the Bexar County Republican Party to hold one of the state’s most powerful elected officials...
Middleton Moving Towards March 6th Victory
MONT BELVIEU, Texas—Activists across one of state’s most conservative districts are rallying behind a conservative business leader as he challenges an establishment lawmaker with a weak record. Conservatives in House District 23 have been through the wringer when it...
Starr County Voter Fraud Probe Reveals Non-Citizens Registered to Vote
Non-citizens are getting registered to vote in Texas, an ongoing investigation of voter fraud in the Rio Grande Valley has confirmed. "We can confirm for sure that there have been persons, that there are persons, who are registered to vote who are non-U.S. citizens,"...
Police Report: Candidate Assaulted, Injured Student While Working as Teacher
After questions were raised about a past arrest for assault, one East Texas candidate for state representative is claiming he was the victim. But police reports uncovered by Texas Scorecard refute his account. In 2005, Ted Kamel was working as a math teacher at Robert...
Timmerman Shows True Colors in HD8
In the open race for House District 8, one candidate’s associations make it clear she’s no friend to conservatives. Linda Timmerman, one of three Republican candidates vying for the seat being vacated by State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana), posed for a...
Liberal “Business” Group Endorses Against Conservatives
Today, the liberal Texas Association of Business released their 2018 endorsements and, in a list that typically shuns conservative lawmakers, the endorsement of Angela Paxton in Senate District 8 is raising eyebrows. While conservatives rallied for tax reform,...
Austin Giving Away Taxpayer Money With No Oversight
The City of Austin is not only collecting increasingly more of its citizens’ money, but a new audit shows they’re spending it without any oversight. At the city’s Audit and Finance Committee meeting Wednesday morning, city auditors presented a concerning report about...