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Conservative Lawmakers Warn Texas House Is Running Out of Time To Pass GOP Priorities
As the regular legislative session heads into its final weeks, conservative House members say leadership needs to move quickly to address Republican priorities.
Houston Approves $11.4M to Overhaul Failing Solid Waste Department
The funds will go toward new vehicles and equipment.
House Committee Prioritizes Controversial ‘HPV Plan’ Over National Security Measures in Higher Ed
A Republican-controlled committee is pushing a pro-Big Pharma proposal while a measure to better protect higher education from national security threats lacks key enforcement.
Camp Becomes 8th County in Texas To Outlaw Abortion & Abortion Trafficking
The ordinance passed unanimously.
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Federal Court Deals ‘Huge Win’ for Texas’ New Life-Saving Law
As a massacre unfolds in the state (more than 53,000 Texans were killed through abortions in 2020), the new life-saving Heartbeat Act has survived recent legal challenges and remains in effect to protect children in Texas. On Tuesday, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of...
Texans Can Fight Their Property Tax Bills by Protesting Appraisals
This month, appraisal districts across the state began notifying Texans of their home’s updated yearly appraisal value. Now, in addition to battling rising grocery costs and high gas prices, Texas residents face continually skyrocketing property tax bills. Every year,...
Federal Judge Temporarily Blocks Biden Administration From Removing COVID-era Immigration Rule
As a politician-created humanitarian crisis continues on the U.S.-Mexico border, federal Judge Robert Summerhays announced a temporary restraining order against President Joe Biden’s administration. On Monday, Judge Summerhays stopped Biden from discarding Title 42, a...
Central Texas Kindergarten Teacher Endorses ‘Transgender’ Mutilation Surgeries for Youth
Austin-area taxpayer-funded teacher Lisa Pilgrim is only the latest public school official to promote hazardous LGBT sexual behaviors—and mutilation experiments—to young Texans. Pilgrim, a kindergarten deaf education teacher in the already scandal-plagued Round Rock...
In Their Own Words: Runoff Candidates on Pornographic Books in Children’s School Libraries
As parents across the state speak out against sexually explicit materials in school libraries, Texas Scorecard reached out to all of the Republican candidates in the runoff election for the Texas Legislature to ask whether they would support closing the legal...
Homeschool Surge Continues in Texas
Texas leads the nation in the number of homeschooling families, and those numbers continue to grow as more parents seek alternatives to the state’s increasingly politicized public education system. This past weekend, hundreds of current and prospective homeschool...
Dickson: Marquez Becomes 43rd City in Texas to Outlaw Abortion
On Wednesday, the City of Marquez, Texas (population 313), became the 43rd city in Texas (and the 48th city in the United States) to pass an ordinance outlawing abortion. The passage of the measure also made Marquez the fourth city to have outlawed abortion in Leon...
Texas Attorney General Sues Biden Administration to Keep COVID-era Immigration Rule
As a humanitarian crisis continues on the U.S.-Mexico border, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit to stop President Joe Biden from discarding a pandemic-era deportation policy. At issue is Title 42, a rule enacted by the Trump administration in March...
Contested Runoff Election: State Rep. Candidate Troxclair Secures ‘Rare’ County Party Endorsements
Former Austin City Councilmember Ellen Troxclair has received new support in her runoff race against Austin police officer Justin Berry for a Central Texas-area state representative seat. Three county Republican Party executive committees—Blanco, Burnet, and...