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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.
Texas House Approves Former Speaker Dade Phelan’s Meme Regulation Bill
Punishment under the legislation could result in up to a year in jail.
Gov. Greg Abbott Pushes Bail Reform Constitutional Amendment
Abbott spoke at a roundtable with Houston Crime Stoppers and the families of victims murdered by criminals who were out on bond.
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Texas Tech Medical School Postpones ‘All Ages’ Drag Queen Show—For Now
The problem isn’t just the public health school’s adult entertainers show or that they marketed it for “all ages”—it’s also where they wanted to funnel the money. Recently, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center planned to host a free “Spring Queening” drag...
What Texas Can Do About the Border Crisis
As the Biden administration prepares for the repeal of Title 42—which removes the Border Patrol’s ability to turn back illegal aliens at the border due to the pandemic—thousands are expected to converge on the Texas-Mexico border. Gov. Greg Abbott instituted Operation...
Parent Petitions to Close Legal Loopholes Allowing Obscenity in Texas Schools
A Texas parent concerned about schools exposing children to sexually explicit materials has started a petition urging lawmakers to close legal loopholes that are allowing obscene books into students’ libraries. Obscenity is not protected free speech, and making...
Illyes: Radical K-12 Reform
What if we just cut through the morass of programs and take all the money being provided at the federal and state level, then put it into individual student endowment accounts? The late 1970s in the United States was a time of surprising deregulation. It was the...
Texas Library Association to Feature Drag Queens at Annual Conference
As taxpayer-funded school officials across Texas face backlash for LGBT ideology and pornography in schools, they’re sending librarians (paid by citizens) to a conference that also celebrates hazardous sexual behaviors. The Texas Library Association—the largest state...
Abbott and Phelan to Honor Disgraced Former Speaker of the House
Dennis Bonnen, the former speaker of the Texas House, only served one term in the position before being ousted in a public abuse of office scandal. Now Gov. Greg Abbott and current House Speaker Dade Phelan are set to headline an event honoring the disgraced former...
In Their Own Words: Runoff Candidates on the Border Invasion
As Texas prepares for the onslaught of illegal border crossers following the Biden administration’s repeal of Title 42, Texas Scorecard reached out to all the Republican candidates in the runoff election for the state legislature to ask whether they would support...
Dickson: Abilene Council to Vote on Ordinance Outlawing Abortion
On Thursday, April 14, the city council of the City of Abilene, Texas (population 124,407), heard from residents regarding the passage of an enforceable ordinance outlawing abortion within their city limits. The ordinance, which requires two readings, was on the...
High Taxes Are The Cost Of Betraying Our Heritage
Those who impose taxes are quick to plead righteousness of the levy, as though it were a divine sacrament. We’re told we should feel some sort of patriotic zeal for bearing the burden of a bloated government that far exceeds its constitutional size. When the ruling...