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Republicans Flip Two South Texas House Seats
Denise Villalobos and Don McLaughlin have flipped longtime Democrat seats in South Texas.
Republicans Defend Two Bexar County House Seats
Two House seats in the San Antonio area will remain Republican.
Republican Monica De La Cruz Secures South Texas Congressional Seat
The Republican incumbent faced off against her 2022 Democrat opponent, Michelle Vallejo, in a rematch.
Sen. Ted Cruz Beats Colin Allred for US Senate Seat
Cruz will now serve his third consecutive term.
The Archive
Debra Medina: Comptroller Candidate, Straus Supporter
After months of speculation that she might run for office, Debra Medina – who finished in third place in the race for the Republican nomination for Governor in 2010 – threw her hat in the ring for Comptroller. Her bid had been the subject of much speculation,...
Freedom’s Unlikely Enemy
The free society has many adversaries hell bent on discrediting it. The most pervasive examples are found in government institutions, political circles, academia and media outlets. Arguments against freedom are fundamentally based on the fallacy that a select group...
Terribly Liberal Republicans
As we have come to expect, advocates of big-spending corporate cronyism are rushing to the aid of liberal Republicans. They may have succeeded in the past, but taxpayers won’t be fooled again. A new group called “Texas Future Business Alliance” is mailing into the...
Government Feeding Frenzy
If all you watched were national news networks, you’d be led to believe that, in the absence of hundreds of federal bureaucracies planning your life, America would be reduced to anarchy. The facts suggest otherwise…Texans live under countless layers of local...
How Out of Touch is Sen. John Carona?
John Carona has been in Austin for a long time. He was first elected to office in 1990. But how out of touch with his district is Carona, really? So out of touch that he put the wrong district map up on his Facebook profile. It is going to be very hard for Senator...
Disappointing Attack
Yesterday, Texas Lt. Gov. candidate Todd Staples issued a press release misrepresenting the record of his opponent, Sen. Dan Patrick, on the Fiscal Responsibility Index. In 2007, Sen. Patrick voted against the bloated budget and had the fourth-highest rating of all 31...
A Good Steward…When Caught
Mireya Villareal, a CBS investigative journalist, recently uncovered an astonishing multi-million dollar abuse of funds by officials at the DFW International airport. In 2012, airport officials spent over $2.2 million on travel expenses to domestic and international...
Sullivan & TFR to TEC: ‘Nuts’
In response to a secret settlement offer sent from the Texas Ethics Commission, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility and Michael Quinn Sullivan gave a one-word answer: “Nuts.” TFR refuses to surrender even as another elected official seeks to use the TEC as a weapon...
Wendy Davis’ words support Greg Abbott’s charge
After officially filing for a place on the Republican Primary ballot seeking the Party’s nomination for Texas Governor, Greg Abbott is reported by the Texas Tribune to have said: “Texas is not ready to go down the pathway of this ultra-Washington, D.C.,...