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Harris County Joins Lawsuit to Block Trump Administration DOGE Cuts
A federal judge ordered the reinstatement of some probationary federal employees laid off by DOGE.
Texas Senate to Congress: Keep Supreme Court at Nine
Senators are asking Congress to prevent any potential undermining of the Court by future elected officials.
Attorney General Paxton Investigates Dallas Over Potential Sanctuary City Policies
Paxton seeks documentation and communications between the City of Dallas and the Dallas Police Department about immigration enforcement.
Senator Seeks To Stop School Electioneering on Taxpayers’ Dime
State Sen. Brian Birdwell’s bill aims to prevent misuse of public resources to influence elections.
The Archive
Commentary: Beware of Trash Masquerading as News
There have been a couple of publications put out in the last few days which require a response concerning Shelley Luther's case. I'm not going to name them, but I do want to respond to what I've seen as honest questions resulting from them. I have known at least one...
Commentary: Export Bans and the Reemergence of the Nation-State
The COVID-19 pandemic has served to upend many long-held policy assumptions, but none so clearly as the theory that international trade rests purely on economic incentives, and that those economic incentives will always override a country’s more base instincts to act...
Small Businesses Cope With Texas’ Coronavirus Closures
For the past several weeks, Texas small-business owners and their employees have been among the hardest hit by the state’s coronavirus closures. Many employers have been shut down completely as the government deemed them and their workers “non-essential.” Those who...
Central Texas County Extends Stay-at-Home Order Until Mid-June
AUSTIN — As Texans across the state suffer and struggle to provide food for their families under prolonged government-ordered shutdowns (even with the governor’s trickled reopening of businesses), one Central Texas county is continuing their lockdown into the summer....
Commentary: Same Song, Different Verse; Liberal Assault on Texas Elections
In 2016, with the aid of a willing media, the left pushed one Russian-boogie-man trope after another to mislead the masses and manipulate the election. Then, following their defeat, they retread the narrative to thwart the will of the electorate. Only this week,...
Runoff Review: Francis Fights to Keep District in Conservative Hands
Perhaps the most hotly contested runoff race in the state is being held in between the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and West Texas, where conservatives are fighting to keep a Texas House seat from falling back into establishment hands. Encompassing eight counties...
Real People, Real Lives
It’s easy to miss today, as it would have been 2,000 years ago. Just another set of doors on an anonymous street filled with vendors in the heart of the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City. This archeological site, some 19 feet below the current street level,...
Runoff Review: Sheffield Faces Uphill Battle in Runoff with Slawson
A runoff election rarely bodes well for an incumbent lawmaker, the logic being that once someone has held office, if they can’t get more than 50 percent of the vote during a primary race, they likely won’t win the ensuing runoff. That could ultimately end up being the...
Texas Supreme Court Orders Release of Dallas Salon Owner Shelley Luther
After spending two nights in a Dallas jail, salon owner Shelley Luther was ordered to be released by the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday. Since April 24, Luther’s business—Salon A La Mode in Dallas County—has been open, despite shelter-in-place orders from Texas Gov....