State
ANALYSIS: State Speech Police Vote to Target Citizens
Political speech on social media may now land Texans in hot water.
Poll: Majority of Hispanics Now Support Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens
Multiple polls from UT Austin show that the number of Hispanics in favor of deporting illegal aliens has increased since last June.
“Grooming Grounds”: How a Statewide Network Seeks to Sexualize Students
The organization promotes secrecy.
Gov. Abbott Blasts Biden’s Illegal Alien Parole Scheme as ‘Pandering’
The new “parole-in-place” scheme would allow illegal aliens already in-country and married to U.S. citizens to attain immigration benefits, according to the Center for Immigration Studies.
State Archive
Democrat Praises Straus for Hiring Democrats
The liberal Republican speaker of the Texas House is hiring more democrats, prompting praise from the political left. Last week, Texas House Speaker Joe Straus promoted Patricia Shipton, his “strategic legal advisor” and a former lobbyist, to Chief of Staff after...
On ‘Sanctuary Cities,’ House Reaction Is Inaction
After recent exposure for killing immigration enforcement initiatives over the past several sessions, and doing nothing on the issue since it heated up this summer, the Texas House is belatedly responding to citizens’ frustrations with “sanctuary cities” by holding a...
YCT Releases Legislative Ratings
Another conservative group is out with ratings of the 84th Texas Legislature and they confirm many Texas Republicans are not what they claim to be on the campaign trail. Young Conservatives of Texas today released the 21st installment of their ratings of the Texas...
Sen. Uresti Exposed in Shocking New Video
For one Texas senator, there may be some difficult explaining to do around the Thanksgiving dinner table thanks to an undercover video released today by the American Phoenix Foundation. APF revealed during the latter part of the 84th legislative session they had been...
Rep Blames Cook for Failure of Illegal Immigrant Tuition Bill
Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana) has long been responsible for killing legislation aimed at addressing illegal immigration. Now one of Cook’s colleagues in the House is blaming Cook for the death of a bill designed to stop Texas public universities from giving in-state...
Justice Massengale Earns Endorsement of Texas’ Largest Taxpayer Group
While many voters focus on legislative and executive races, the judiciary — particularly the Supreme Court of Texas — wields profound influence over the state’s economy and the lives of all Texans. For that reason, Texas’ largest taxpayer group today endorsed Michael...
National Spotlight on Texas Ethics Commission
The misdeeds of the speech regulators at the Texas Ethics Commission are beginning to draw the attention of national media. J. Christian Adams is out today at PJ Media with a story exposing how bureaucrats at the TEC are working with speech regulators from a list of...
Abbott Acts to Rein-in Bureaucrats on Gambling
After another state agency tried to abuse their legislative authority, Gov. Greg Abbott is reminding the state’s lottery commission to not to exceed their authority and illegally expand gambling in Texas. The state constitution forbids the expansion of gambling...
Funding Pravda
Conservatives sometimes joke that major media outlets are as biased as Pravda, the infamous state-run newspaper of the Soviet Union. But in Texas, we literally have taxpayer-funded media outlets. A search of state records show that taxpayers paid $111,195.85 and...