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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...