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Internal Texas A&M Email Advising Aggies To Report ICE Sightings Triggers Backlash
Provost Alan Sams asks faculty, staff, and graduate students to call university police if federal law enforcement is seen on campus.
Nearly $2 Million of Cocaine Seized at the Southern Border
A total of 140 pounds of cocaine was seized in a matter of two days at two separate ports of entry.
Texas House Democrats Threaten Quorum Break Over Redistricting
If Democrats follow through on their threat to flee the state, it would mark the third time in two decades that they’ve done so.
Texas Attempts To Tax VELO Nicotine Pouches as Tobacco
VELO contends the pouches are not a tobacco leaf product in a battle going before the Texas Supreme Court.
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Kamala Harris Lies Repeatedly in Houston Speech to Teachers Union
In a speech at the American Federation of Teachers conference in Houston, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed the Biden-Harris administration has forgiven student loans, that Donald Trump wants to cut Medicare and Social Security, and that conservatives are banning...
Study: Legalized Gambling Comes With High Financial Risk
Following a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2018, many states rushed to legalize online sports gambling. Now, the impacts of these policy decisions are starting to come into focus. A study from the University of California San Diego reveals that legalized gambling is...
US Rep. Roy Slams Biden Administration for Flying Illegal Aliens to South Texas
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy called out the Biden administration for flying hundreds of illegal aliens from California to Texas each week and for wanting to continue to send more, according to the New York Post. “It’s offensive as a Texan,” Roy (TX-21) told The Post. “We’ve...
Farm Bureau Defends Right of the Chinese Communist Party to Buy Up Texas Land
At a hearing in the Texas House, the Texas Farm Bureau defended the practice of farm land being sold to individuals and entities closely affiliated with the Communist Party of China. A measure to stop those sales passed the Texas Senate in 2023, but were blocked by...
El Paso County Asks Gov. Abbott for Millions to Cover Operation Lone Star Incarceration Costs
El Paso County is asking the State of Texas for millions in financial assistance to cover jailing costs for those arrested under Operation Lone Star. County commissioners unanimously authorized El Paso County Judge Ricardo Samaniego to send a grant application to...
A Texan in Israel
Dallas-born and raised Simcha Geller is a Texan's Texan. He’s an Eagle Scout and, at 20, a devotee of both conservative politics and Republican activism. Yet, he’s now considering spending his life under a Lone Star flag that isn’t the same one with which he grew up....
Texas Taxpayers Foot the Bill for a Democrat PAC’s Voter Registration Program
Powered By People, a Democrat political action committee, has found a loophole in the Secretary of State’s website allowing it to send unlimited, unsolicited voter applications to its targets at the taxpayers' expense. In a text exchange obtained by Texas Scorecard,...
Chinese National Charged in Massive Fentanyl Importation Case
A four-count indictment was levied against a Chinese national on Monday—alleging that he was involved in a drug trafficking conspiracy to import and distribute one of the largest shipments of fentanyl in American history. The alleged criminal is named Minsu Fang, 48,...
Texas Apprehends More Than 516,000 Illegal Aliens Since Operation Lone Star’s Inception
Border security efforts by Gov. Greg Abbott, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Texas National Guard have led to more than 516,300 illegal alien apprehensions, more than 45,300 criminal arrests, and more than 39,400 felony charges the governor's office...