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Report: Texas Land Still Vulnerable to Ownership by Hostile Nations
Specialists are arguing that there are flaws in systems that track ownership and land purchases.
Meet the Freshmen: Katrina Pierson
When it comes to accountability, Pierson emphasized her open-door policy and commitment to communication.
The Hidden Costs of Property Taxes: Lawmakers Call for Transparency and Reform
State Reps. Mark Dorazio and Pat Curry explain their issues with the current system and plans for reform.
4 Tren de Aragua Gang Members Arrested in Val Verde County
Gov. Greg Abbott designated the violent Venezuelan gang as a foreign terrorist organization last year.
State Archive
Austin Approves Worsened Traffic, Higher Taxes
Believing they might accomplish something regarding Austin’s growing traffic congestion, voters authorized $720 million in new debt for Austin on Tuesday. The spending spree will ostensibly go towards various transportation-related projects around the capital city....
Rinaldi Wins on Record
In a tough election cycle that claimed many of his Republican colleagues, State Rep. Matt Rinaldi (Irving) is coming back stronger than ever. By a vote of 51% to 49%, Rinaldi edged out Democrat challenger Dorotha Ocker and will continue to represent the citizens of...
Texas Universities Warned over Speech Restrictions
A national organization is warning several public colleges and universities in Texas to repeal highly restrictive speech codes that infringe on students’ rights to free speech or else they may find their university, and themselves, in court. Yesterday, the Foundation...
Paxton Defends Due Process and the Right to Life
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking extraordinary steps this week to defend Texans’ constitutional rights to life and due process. At issue is the Texas Advance Directives Act, a state law that allows Texas hospitals to pull the plug on patients who are...
State Leaders Join Lawsuit to Constrain Same-Sex Marriage Ruling
After the Texas Supreme Court initially declined to hear a lawsuit filed against Houston Mayor Annise Parker over her decision to issue same-sex benefits prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage ruling, taxpayers Jack Pidgeon and Larry Hicks have filed a...
Liberal University Administrators Attack Conservative Students
Conservative students at the University of Texas are under attack by administrators after liberal classmates disrupted their event and vandalized their property. The controversy stemmed from an “affirmative action bake sale,” an event hosted by the school’s Young...
No Support from Straus
As many predicted the 2016 election will be a tough row to hoe for Republicans across the nation. Normally a safe harbor for the GOP, Texas has moved into the “tossup” category as a tidal wave of Democrat voters threatens to turn the state a bluish shade of red for...
Rigging Elections
Turns out elections really are being rigged. And not just in far-off places like Chicago or Detroit, but apparently much too close to home It appears a massive, organized effort to sway elections has been going on right under our noses in the largest of Texas’ “red”...
Swan Song for Parental Choice Opponents
With the legislative session fast approaching, the coming fight for education reform was previewed yesterday in an interim hearing of the House Committee on Public Education. At the hearing, Randan Steinhauser, the Executive Director for Education Opportunity and a...