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Gates of Eagle Pass Park Reopen After One Year of Lockdown
This comes as the Trump administration continues to secure the southwest border.
Texas House Advances Record $337 Billion Budget
The Senate unanimously passed its version of the budget last month, with a proposal largely similar to the one advanced by the House.
Texas Senate Approves Establishment of Homeland Security Division in DPS
The new division within the Texas Department of Public Safety would coordinate efforts among federal, state, and local law enforcement and jurisdictions.
Senators Focus on Protecting Students From Sexual Predators in Schools
School-based law enforcement expert Matt Antkowiak told senators that Texas’ educator misconduct laws allow abuse to hide in plain sight.
State Archive
Unethical Judge Falls Upward
As voters head to the polls in February, they should beware of an unethical judge who is running away from his local voters by “falling upward.” Collin County District Judge Chris Oldner, who appears to have violated numerous ethics rules in orchestrating the...
Straus Marks Farney for Protection
For those interested in fixing the public education system in Texas, they now have their number one target. According to sources, Gordon Johnson, the top political advisor to liberal House Speaker Joe Straus, has informed Straus’s vendors that Georgetown Republican...
Houston Chronicle Blogger Caught in Blatant Lie
A politician fighting for his political life and a duplicitous Austin blogger who has been cozying up to the Houston Chronicle have been caught in blatant lies thanks to video footage received by Empower Texans. On October 30th, State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana)...
Susan King Reenters Senate Race at Eleventh Hour
There’s no denying the emotional and physical exhaustion that comes with running a campaign, especially one with seven candidates and twenty-one counties. However, Susan King (R-Abilene), who suspended her campaign for Senate District 24 due to mental health...
TEC Bureaucrat Attends Anti-Free Speech Conference
Last week the TEC’s top bureaucrat attended what some are calling a “funeral” for the Wisconsin speech regulator that abused conservatives in the Badger state. Natalia Luna Ashley, Executive Director of the Texas Ethics Commission, was identified as a speaker at the...
Empower Texans to TEC: Drop Your Suit Now
With the Texas Ethics Commission admitting in federal court filings this week that they do not have the authority to regulate non-profit organizations that speak out on policy and political issues, the president of Empower Texans has called on the agency to drop its...
Cook Plan for Illegal Aliens Becomes Campaign Issue Statewide
Over the past two sessions, State Rep. Byron Cook (R–Corsicana) has pushed a legislative proposal so bad that it has not just harmed his political future, but the future of any representative voters perceive to have supported it. In 2013 and again in 2015, Cook pushed...
Sanctuary Cities Hearing Turned into Attack on Conservatives
When House Speaker Joe Straus (R–San Antonio) and State Affairs Chairman Byron Cook (R–Corsicana) called a committee hearing on Thursday to discuss sanctuary cities and “undocumented immigrants,” conservatives knew to expect inaction. Indeed, Cook has repeatedly...
Oops! Straus Political-Cover Operation Brands Democrats “Effective Conservatives”
At the start of the 84th legislative session, liberal Republican House Speaker Joe Straus engaged in a lame attack on Empower Texans, decrying organizations that produce “scorecards” as a mechanism of informing voters about the difference between politicians’ campaign...