State
Report: School Choice Could Ease Financial Pressure on Public Schools
EdChoice’s new report shows that school choice could save the state money in the long run.
Texas Senators Seek Solutions to Stop Noncitizen Voting
Election integrity advocates told legislators that noncitizen voting is a “huge concern.”
Despite Critics, Data Shows Texas Law Tackling ESG Is Working
Researchers presented their findings defending Senate Bill 13 before the Texas Senate on Thursday.
Dallas HERO Calls on Senate Committee to Hold City Governments Accountable
The group’s executive director says lawmakers need to look into reforms to prevent local governments from undermining citizens.
State Archive
TEC Asks for Bailout After Squandering Money on Legal Fees
This week the Texas Ethics Commission revised its budget request to ask lawmakers next session to give the agency even more tax money to defend itself in court. The move comes after the commission squandered its current appropriation defending laws the commissioners...
Shining a Light on Money in Texas Politics
For everyday Texans, wading through campaign finance reports to learn who is funding their representative can be a difficult task. But a new website is hoping to change all of that by making existing data easy to search and by removing confusing political jargon....
Seliger Pushes Bureaucrat, D.C. Staffer for TEC
A West Texas state senator with a track record of hostility towards the First Amendment is asking the governor to appoint either an education bureaucrat or a former Washington D.C. staffer to the Texas Ethics Commission. In 2013, State Sen. Kel Seliger (R–Amarillo)...
TEC Lawyer: Ethics Commission is Like Grand Jury
At a hearing before the 3rd Court of Appeals on Wednesday, a lawyer defending the Texas Ethics Commission compared the agency to a permanent grand jury handing down indictments. In response to questions about the amount of evidence that is required before the...
Paxton Sues to Protect Taxpayers
Though property taxes in Texas are already out of control, some local school districts are seeking to use the state’s 2015 property tax cuts as an opportunity to collect even more taxes. Fortunately, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is going to court to fight them....
Commissioner Defiant as Patrick Signals “New Direction” for TEC
Hearing the call of conservative grassroots demanding reform, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is calling for a “new direction” at the Texas Ethics Commission. According to a statement released Wednesday, Patrick said it was his goal to "make sure the Commission operates with the...
Patrick: COS is a Legislative Priority
With the governor making it central to his 2017 legislative priorities, Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he made it clear he supports the national movement of state legislatures to limit the power of the federal government. Gov. Greg Abbott has made the Convention of...
Criminally Unethical
For more than a decade, an appointed member of the Texas Ethics Commission issued fines and promulgated rules designed to silence citizens while lavishing legislative offices with gifts on behalf of his “day job.” That’s illegal, on multiple fronts, and for it Tom...
Federal Court Suspicious of SEC Claims In Paxton Case
A woefully unprepared prosecutor for the Obama Administration’s Securities and Exchange Commission exposed in federal court the frailty of the politically driven charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Following a complaint mirroring the trumped up...