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Texas Supreme Court Puts Harris County’s Guaranteed Income Scheme On Hold
The attorney general has labeled the program “unlawful.”
Lawmaker Seeks to Reject Federal Education Funds After Title IX Rewrite Protecting ‘Gender Identity’
The new version would add “gender identity” as a protected class, which State Rep. Brian Harrison says will put Texas students in imminent danger.
In Their Own Words: Runoff Candidates on Ensuring Election Security
Candidates shared their thoughts on how Texas can make elections more secure.
Texas GOP Releases May Local Election Endorsements
Some voters will also be asked to consider expensive bonds on their local ballots.
State Archive
Predators in Government Schools: Students Under Siege
Multiple alarms about sexual abuse in Texas government schools have gone unheeded. This problem has been with us for years. The long list of victims continues to grow. Texas’ government schools have become a hostile learning environment. One specialist said the...
Paxton ‘Whistleblower’ Says Investigating FBI Would Be ‘Insane’
As the Senate’s impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton continues this week, the “whistleblowers” trust of the FBI and refusal to investigate the agency has taken center stage. Five of those who have testified in the trial so far are among a group of former...
Foreign Homebuyers Purchase More Than $4 Billion in Texas Real Estate
A new report from the Texas Realtors shows that foreign homebuyers spent more than $4 billion purchasing Texas land from April 2022 to March 2023. The report showed that international buyers purchased 10,000 homes in Texas during that time, making up 2.8 percent of...
Huffines Accuses Gov. Abbott of Touting ‘Misleading Tax Cuts’
Former State Sen. Don Huffines of the Huffines Liberty Foundation recently accused Gov. Greg Abbott of misleading Texans regarding property tax cuts. When the Texas Legislature finally passed a property tax relief package this summer, Abbott claimed it was the...
Court Sides with Porn Industry Against Texas Age Verification Law
A federal judge agreed with porn industry claims that a Texas law to protect minors from viewing online pornography likely violates the First Amendment. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra granted a request by Pornhub and others to temporarily stop the state from...
AAF: Texas A&M Professor Decries Regents’ ‘Texan Whiteness’
In a discovery revealed exclusively to Texas Scorecard, the American Accountability Foundation (a non-partisan watchdog group) has uncovered a shocking email sent by a Texas A&M professor. The email was found as part of an open records request from UT-Austin. AAF...
Predators in Government Schools: Danger and Corruption
EDITOR'S NOTE: "A previous version of this article misidentified San Antonio ISD. It has been updated." Texas’ government schools are a hostile learning environment. Children are regularly being sexually assaulted within them. For years, predators in the government...
Bush-Connected Lawyer Hasn’t Billed Paxton ‘Whistleblowers’ for 3 Years
Testimony in the Senate’s impeachment trial of Attorney General Ken Paxton has revealed that a Bush-connected lawyer has not billed whistleblowers for his representation. Many of the impeachment charges were spurred by a group of employees of the Office of the...
Poll: Texas GOP Voters Increasingly Support Trump
With the 2024 Republican presidential primary drawing closer, Texas GOP voters are showing increasing support for former President Donald Trump. A new poll from CWS Research shows that most Texas Republicans favor Trump over other GOP candidates. The poll asked voters...