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Investigation Finds Potential Donation Laundering on Democrat Platform
Attorney General Ken Paxton is requesting the Federal Elections Commission create a rule to stop these questionable donations.
Houston ISD Assistant Principal Charged With Sexually Assaulting Former Student
Assistant Principal Bryan Tigner was placed on leave after the district learned of the incident.
Logic and Accuracy Tests Cleared Dallas County Voting Machines
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirms significant progress made in Dallas County election integrity investigation.
Ag Commissioner Miller Signs Executive Order To Use Water From the Rio Grande
The executive order allows the agriculture industry to take water from the Rio Grande.
The Archive
HB304 Targets Vote Harvesting in Texas
On Tuesday, March 1, the House Select Committee on Voter Identification and Voter Fraud will begin hearing testimony on the Voter ID bill that passed the Texas Senate two weeks ago. While this is definitely a good start at combating those who wish to skew the will of...
Don’t Tap Rainy Day Fund
The Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee, made up of 13 tea party organizers from around the state, have issued a unanimous call to the legislative Tea Party Caucus and statewide elected leaders to hold the line on spending the State’s Rainy Day Fund. In a letter...
Liberals Flip Out Over Wisconsin Budget
Once again liberal hypocrisy is on full display and in such a beautiful way in Wisconsin. Due to a multi-billion dollar budget deficit, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has decided to take on the unions who are burdening his states budget by temporarily cutting pay and...
Dr. Z’s Bad Meds
Some pretty nasty medicine was prescribed by State Rep. John Zerwas, MD, that he thinks will "dull the edge" of the current budgeting process. Sorry, doc, but yours isn't a very sound diagnosis. In an interview earlier today, Rep. John Zerwas staked out a position in...
Leave Payday Loans Alone
Too often ideas for government action are pushed with the excuse that the poor dumb citizens who built this country are in need of protection from their own stupidity. A fine example of this is the move, backed by many otherwise conservative Republicans and being led...
Voters Still Saying CUT
No matter how liberals try to spin it, Texas voters say in a new poll they clearly want the state’s budget balanced by spending cuts. As our own poll found, those same voters won’t be happy with legislators who do anything else. A University of Texas/Texas Tribune...
Loving Co. grows & so should ISD consolidations
Loving County, east of the Pecos River and just southeast of the Guadalupe Mountains, has long been the least populated county in Texas, and for the last 10 years, the smallest in the U.S. of A. But, this time around Loving County grew. It picked up 15 residents which...
Don’t Bet Budget On Gambling
Enticing whispers are floating through Capitol halls that Texas can have it all: more revenues, lower taxes and balanced budgets. All that – and more! – would come simply by expanding legalized gambling in Texas. Such promises might look good under flashing neon at...
Eltife’s Crazy Budget
Well, you should give State Sen. Kevin Eltife two points for consistency. It seems that his knee-jerk reaction to principled, fiscally responsible public policy is to decry it as "crazy" and "insane". When Sen. Eltife, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, was...