State
Austin & Houston to Eliminate Meat and Dairy Consumption by 2030?
Both Austin and Houston are part of ‘C40 Cities,’ an alliance of mayors seeking to impact climate change and “cut their emissions in half by 2030.”
Dan Patrick Appoints New Counsel for Paxton Impeachment Trial
Patrick’s previous choice declined the offer after campaign finance reports revealed a close relationship with those seeking to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton.
Texas DPS Officer Sounds Alarm on Border Invasion
Lt. Christopher Olivarez said Texans “can’t be deceived” by illegal entry numbers.
Child Gender Mutilation Ban Set to Go Into Effect Despite Lawsuit
The Office of the Attorney General has appealed to the Texas Supreme Court.
State Archive
Conservatives Win Big!
Tuesday night's results made for a very good morning for conservatives in Texas. A few fast facts about last-night’s Republican primary: The most liberal Republican in the Texas Senate lost. Conservative ranks in the Senate are swelling. Every House conservative won...
Texas Independence Day!
On March 2, 1836, Texas’ founding fathers declared independence from Mexico. In those early days, things looked pretty bleak. The Alamo fell just a few days later, and the revolution suffered more setbacks than wins. Yet just a few weeks later, on April 21, 1836,...
Liquor Store Owner Has History of Giving to Democrats
With the backing of some of the local political establishment and an array of Austin lobby groups, West Texas liquor store owner Austin Keith is campaigning to succeed Tryon Lewis as the State Representative for District 81. But why is Keith running as a Republican...
Andy Cargile and the Full Lie
Sometimes as voters we grow weary as politicians tell half-truths about their opponents in an attempt to slime them. But it is relatively uncommon for a candidate to go for the full lie: something so verifiably false that there’s not even a peg of truth to hang it on....
Association Goons Trail Empower Texans PAC Employee
On Saturday we received news straight from the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up file. Empower Texans PAC employee Gregory Harrison informed us that he and a Cullen Crisp for State Representative campaign manager, Justin Newman, were being “tailed” around Cisco, Texas, by...
Voters Should Beware Lobby Front Groups
As the primary election season pulls into the home stretch, voters are being bombarded with information from a host of campaigns and groups. Unfortunately some of the information they will see this cycle is pure bluster – created to mislead voters into supporting...
Jim Keffer: Reaching Across the Aisle and Into Your Wallet
As we’ve often seen in Washington, D.C., the business of serving oneself over constituents is a bipartisan vocation. Straus-lieutenant Jim Keffer, Republican state representative from Eastland, has proved that cronyism is a popular bipartisan vocation in Austin, too....
Quacks Call Ratliff Conservative
Voters in House District 115 last Thursday were greeted at their mailbox with a piece oddly adorned with pictures of little rubber duckies proclaiming F-rated Representative Bennett Ratliff to be a “conservative leader.” To call Bennett Ratliff a “conservative,” the...
TV Ad Jim Keffer Doesn’t Want Voters To See
-- NEW INFORMATION ADDED AT END -- AUSTIN, Texas [Empower Texans PAC] -- A member of the Texas House is trying to stop voters from learning about his record in the state legislature. State Rep. Jim Keffer of Eastland this week demanded that local cable companies...