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New Legislation Targets Legal Loophole Allowing Self-Managed Abortions
Brent Money said the bill serves three key purposes: clarifying right and wrong, deterring individuals from seeking abortions, and ensuring justice by applying Texas’ murder statutes evenly.
Austin Business Forced To Pay 250K In Labor Trafficking Settlement
The company was sued by Attorney General Ken Paxton back in 2021.
School Choice Front and Center in First Senate Education Committee Hearing
State Sen. Brandon Creighton fielded questions about how families with students enrolled in co-ops, learning pods, and micro-schools would fit into the program.
Aggressive Lottery Ticket Offers Join Ongoing Texas Lottery Controversies
Questions continue to rise as more light is shone on the Texas Lottery Commission and the state lottery.
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Paxton Weighs In on BBQ Battle
In an opinion released Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is weighing in on Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller’s interpretation of recently passed legislation, saying his department’s authority over weights and measures does not extend to barbecue restaurants....
Should State Lawmakers Start Making Local Housing and Land Use Policy?
As big-city affordability crises continue to sweep the nation, the voices insisting that it is time for state governments to intervene grow in numbers, and louder by the day. In calling for last summer’s special session of the Texas Legislature, Gov. Greg Abbott...
Straus Questions Corporate Handouts He Approved
Last week, outgoing House Speaker Joe Straus reportedly sent a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott to express “concern” over the use of one of the state’s prominent corporate handouts known as the Texas Enterprise Fund (TEF). Created in 2003, the TEF exists “to help attract...
Texas Senator Calls for end of “Debtors’ Prison” Driver Responsibility Program
State Sen. Don Huffines (R-Dallas) has joined the Senate Finance Committee in the fight against the ineffective and counterproductive Driver Responsibility Program, or DRP. Established in 2003 with the intent of raising money for roads and trauma centers, the DRP...
Texas Democrats: Criticize Trump, Go to Jail
Texas Democrats—traditionally big proponents of onerous campaign finance regulations—may be rethinking their position in light of recent Federal Election Commission rulings that could see them jailed for criticizing President Trump or other federal candidates. Eric...
Cook’s Kangaroo Committee Contradicts Conservative Voters
Today, the House Committee on Economic Competitiveness released an interim report deriding legislative efforts to keep men out of women’s bathrooms and locker rooms. The committee, chaired by departing State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana), was formed by retiring House...
Texas GOP Affirms Support for Second Amendment
At the State Republican Executive Committee held in Austin this past weekend, the governing body of the Republican Party of Texas unanimously passed a resolution affirming the party’s support for the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. The resolution notably...
Swamp Spending
Congressional Republicans and Democrats actively colluded last week to spend even more of your money in Washington, D.C. in the omnibus funding bill. The swamp has declared war on taxpayers. It is sickening to think that the Democrats got more spending out of a...
Abbott Treasurer Endorses Liberal Democrat
When Gov. Greg Abbott took the extraordinary step of endorsing conservative challengers to establishment lawmakers, John Nau III, Abbott’s campaign treasurer, undermined those efforts by sending campaign contributions to the liberal Republican lawmakers Abbott had...