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Texas Sues Biden Administration Over Rule Forcing Doctors to Perform Gender Mutilation Procedures
This is Texas’ latest effort to fight back against radical gender ideology.
AG Paxton Secures Injunction Halting Biden Administration’s Title IX Rewrite
The rewritten rule undermined Title IX protections for girls in K-12 schools by mandating compliance with radical gender ideology.
Former Teacher Admits to Downloading Child Abuse Pornography Since 1995
According to court records, he was in possession of between three to four terabytes of child porn.
House GOP Caucus Censures Four Members for Supporting Conservative Challengers
The caucus did not expel the members, but condemned their conduct “in the strongest terms.”
State Archive
An Ideology of Elitism
The United States of America is unique in human history for its founders’ experiment in self-government – the belief that educated people did not require rulers to order their lives but were capable of ruling themselves. The framers of the Texas Constitution announced...
Cutting Around the Edges
How effective would your budget be if you controlled only 17% of your discretionary spending? Under the current legislative appropriations process, Texas lawmakers do just that. It might seem puzzling to legislators or citizens who have the impression...
Structured Against Transparency
A lack of program-level transparency in the biennial state budget prevents legislators and citizens from knowing exactly what programs an agency supports in each appropriations cycle. Often, the only folks who know this information have an incentive to keep it from...
Ken Paxton Sworn in as Attorney General
This afternoon, conservative champion Ken Paxton was sworn in as Texas' 51st Attorney General today before a crowded chamber of conservatives including U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, Governor Perry, Lieutenant Governor-Elect Dan Patrick, and Governor-Elect Greg Abbott....
Rolling Stone
Thanks to big-spending legislators’ creative accounting and over-eagerness to spend your money, the 83rd legislature increased appropriations 26% over the previous legislature. Even though this represents a major increase, it would shock many taxpayers to know that...
Experts and Yes Men: The Making of the Budget
In little over a week, the 84th session of the Texas Legislature will begin. Chief among the legislature’s responsibilities is the passage of a biennial state budget—even though a vast majority of legislators have no role in its formulation. Under the...
Introducing The Series
In a six-part series beginning on Sunday, Jan. 4, Christopher Paxton will explore Texas' biennial budget process. His series will provide insight on how the state's budget is drafted, how much input lawmakers really have, and how citizens can be more engaged in the...
Transportation Diversions Are the Enemy of Transparency
Lazy politicians maintain that Texans should pay higher taxes, fees and tolls if we hope to meet roadway demand spurred by population growth. However, they fail to mention the gas tax revenue we already pay is diverted to unrelated programs with billions more spent by...
THSC Looks To Score On Access
While most states allow home school students to access athletic programs in their local schools, Texas does not. Saying that those taxpaying parents should be allowed to access the extracurricular programs offered through the schools, the Texas Home School Coalition...