State
Appeals Court Sides With Taxpayers on Debt-Raising Constitutional Amendment
The 7th District Court of Appeals says a 2021 statewide constitutional amendment failed to inform voters of its tax implications.
Texas Officials Slam Biden Administration as Standoff Over Border Security Continues
This comes as 25 states are standing in solidarity with the state of Texas.
Glenn Hegar Stands Out as a Texas Official Not Endorsing Donald Trump
The comptroller was endorsed by Trump in both 2018 and 2022.
Texas Gun Rights Endorses GOP Primary Candidates
Texas Gun Rights is showing support for candidates who emphasize Second Amendment freedom.
State Archive
Texas Universities Warned over Speech Restrictions
A national organization is warning several public colleges and universities in Texas to repeal highly restrictive speech codes that infringe on students’ rights to free speech or else they may find their university, and themselves, in court. Yesterday, the Foundation...
Paxton Defends Due Process and the Right to Life
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking extraordinary steps this week to defend Texans’ constitutional rights to life and due process. At issue is the Texas Advance Directives Act, a state law that allows Texas hospitals to pull the plug on patients who are...
State Leaders Join Lawsuit to Constrain Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
After the Texas Supreme Court initially declined to hear a lawsuit filed against Houston Mayor Annise Parker over her decision to issue same-sex benefits prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, taxpayers Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks have filed a...
Liberal University Administrators Attack Conservative Students
Conservative students at the University of Texas are under attack by administrators after liberal classmates disrupted their event and vandalized their property. The controversy stemmed from an “affirmative action bake sale,” an event hosted by the school’s Young...
No Support from Straus
As many predicted the 2016 election will be a tough row to hoe for Republicans across the nation. Normally a safe harbor for the GOP, Texas has moved into the “tossup” category as a tidal wave of Democrat voters threatens to turn the state a bluish shade of red for...
Rigging Elections
Turns out elections really are being rigged. And not just in far-off places like Chicago or Detroit, but apparently much too close to home It appears a massive, organized effort to sway elections has been going on right under our noses in the largest of Texas’ “red”...
Swan Song for Parental Choice Opponents
With the legislative session fast approaching, the coming fight for education reform was previewed yesterday in an interim hearing of the House Committee on Public Education. At the hearing, Randan Steinhauser, the Executive Director for Education Opportunity and a...
Pay Raise For Politicians
Apparently the Texas “Ethics” Commission thinks taxpayers are feeling generous, because they voted to give legislators a 15 percent pay raise heading into the spring legislative session. Texans didn’t vote to make the Texas “Ethics” Commission the regulators and...
Complaint Against Empower Texans Officially Dismissed
After staff members at the Texas Ethics Commission recommended dismissing all actions against Empower Texans last month, the commissioners made it official today. By a vote of 7-0, with Straus appointee Steve Wolens abstaining, the TEC dismissed its complaints against...