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Texas A&M Sends Left-Wing Professors To Advise Accreditation Agency
The Commission for Public Higher Education is intended to counterbalance left-wing ideological capture.
Texas Voters OK Billions in School Property Tax Increases
More than a hundred school districts put bond propositions and permanent tax rate increases on the November 4 ballot.
Casino Cash Fails to Sway North Texas Voters in Senate District 9 Special Election
Las Vegas Sands had bet big on former Southlake Mayor John Huffman, who finished third.
All 17 Texas Constitutional Amendments Approved by Voters
The passage of all 17 amendments brings the total number of changes to the Texas Constitution to 547 since it was adopted in 1876.
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‘Do Not Comply’: Activist Teachers Plot To Defy Texas’ New Ten Commandments Law
As Texas prepares to implement its new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom beginning September 1, some teachers are already vowing to ignore it. On the Reddit community Texas Teachers, with more than 17,000 members,...
Texas House Regains Quorum as Democrats Return From Walkout
For the first time in two weeks, the Texas House was able to gavel in with a quorum on Monday after enough Democrats returned from their out-of-state quorum break. The chamber had been unable to move forward with legislation since Democrats fled to Illinois and other...
Texas Investigates AI Chatbot Companies for Deceptive Mental Health Service Aimed at Children
Texas is investigating AI chatbot platforms Meta AI Studio and Character AI for deceptively marketing themselves as mental health tools. Attorney General Ken Paxton said that both platforms have gone beyond offering general therapeutic advice, and instead come across...
Pro-Late Term Abortion Organization Gave UT-Austin $2.5 Million
A UT-Austin research project on “self-managed medication abortions” received funding from an abortion advocacy group. The payments, discovered via an open records request, span from late 2018 through 2025 and were made from the Society of Family Planning Research Fund...
Paxton Seeks To Shut Down Beto O’Rourke’s Political Organization
Attorney General Ken Paxton has escalated his legal fight against Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, filing an amended petition to strip the corporate charter of his group Powered by People. Paxton says the organization been deceptively fundraising and doling out “Beto...
Gov. Abbott, Secretary Rollins Announce Major Actions To Combat Flesh-Eating Parasite
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, alongside Gov. Greg Abbott, announced the USDA’s plans to invest $750 million to build a sterile fly production facility in response to the New World screwworm, a pest that officials warn is a threat to Texas’...
UNT Regents Change Rules To Comply With New State Laws
Following an overhaul of higher education governance during the regular legislative session, the University of North Texas System Board of Regents amended its rules to reconstitute faculty senates across the system’s campuses and to adjust on-campus free speech...
Texas Tech Regents Re-Constitute Faculty Senates To Comply With State Law
LUBBOCK—Regents of the Texas Tech University System voted to maintain faculty senates while curtailing their authority consistent with a new state law. The rule change came at the board’s quarterly meeting, held August 14 and 15 in Lubbock. The move was necessary due...
Audio: Gambling Executive Boasts About Rigged Texas Jackpot
Newly surfaced audio of Greg Potts, chief operating officer of Lottery.com, suggests the company was intimately involved in the controversial April 2023 Lotto Texas event, which guaranteed a $95 million jackpot win for a single buyer. The audio bolsters Lt. Gov. Dan...