Most Tuesday mornings, the Texas Minute—our weekday email publication—includes the One-Click Survey. It’s almost always a question about policy or politics, oftentimes tinged with a bit of humor. We ask readers to not only “click” an answer, but to then reply with...
Parents are asking the Texas Legislature to enshrine into law their right to seek a second opinion in cases where a child abuse pediatrician—“doctors with special training, experience, and skills in evaluating children who may be victims of some type of abuse or...
A bill that would protect “non-offending parents” from having their children removed by Child Protective Services—and, subsequently, force CPS to place children with family if removal is warranted—has moved closer to a vote in the Texas House. Meanwhile, two other...
Update: State Sen. Larry Taylor (R–Friendswood) and State Rep. Lyle Larson (R–San Antonio) confirmed to the Dallas Morning News that they were among the lawmakers in attendance. While citizens are being told to stay home and contend with shutdowns and mandates in...
Voters in solid-red Collin County went to the polls in record numbers to vote in Tuesday’s presidential election and again selected all Republicans, from President Donald Trump all the way down the ballot. Republican U.S. Rep. Van Taylor defeated Democrats’ heavily...
NOTE: Since this article was published, yet another Republican –Geanie Morrison of Victoria – reportedly filed for the speakership. It has been updated. What GOP insiders hoped would be a quiet race for Speaker of the Texas House got suddenly heated on Thursday, with...
As Texans start heading to the polls today, incumbent Republican lawmakers in one of the state’s reddest counties are defending against heavily funded Democrat challengers looking to flip the Texas House in the November 2020 election. State Reps. Matt Shaheen of Plano...
Collin County voters who went to the polls in the March 3 GOP primary election saw just a handful of contested races on their ballots, even though every partisan-elected office in the county is held by a Republican. Yet voters and candidates alike packed an election...
Dear Reader, I want to share with you our New Year’s Resolutions at Empower Texans. Communications experts say you should never repeat an accusation that is made against you. I hold to that as a good practice, but let me this one time repeat the accusation many in the...
UPDATED December 18. On the final day to file for a place on the March 2020 primary ballot, a couple of last-minute challenges and a legal fight over a candidate’s eligibility shook up Collin County’s mostly uncontested Republican races. Republicans currently hold all...
Three Republican Texas House members aren’t playing hooky but are rather recusing themselves from an important meeting in Austin this weekend. State Rep. Matt Krause (Fort Worth), a Republican member of the Texas House Investigating Committee, released a statement on...
Results of the 2019 Fiscal Responsibility Index, released this week, show Texas lawmakers representing Collin County performed somewhat better than their peers, in what most conservative activists have deemed a disappointing legislative session. The entirely...
Republican lawmakers should be very concerned. Come November 2020, Texans will be showing up to vote for the greatest promise-keeping politician in modern U.S. history. Love him or hate him, President Donald Trump has been a man of his political word. Taxes cut,...
Voters in conservative Collin County did their part to “Keep Texas Red” on Tuesday, turning out in droves to elect and re-elect Republicans up and down the ballot. Republicans there swept the board. Not a single Democrat won a partisan race in the county. Collin...
UPDATE: A few hours after this article, Madden moved to reconsider the Cook resolution. Brought before the temporary committee again, Madden and others changed their vote to the affirmative and the resolution passed 18-11. Despite being a hue of red that counties...
Meetings of the State Republican Executive Committee are always contentious affairs, but Saturday’s gathering was even more compelling than normal with members considering the first application of party rule 44: the censure. But despite having the support from a...
Candy Noble is officially a candidate for Texas State Representative in House District 89. The Collin County Republican has been considering a run since the district’s current state representative Jodie Laubenberg (R-Murphy) announced last month that she isn’t seeking...
