Who Will Fight to Cut Spending and Property Taxes in Tarrant County?
Tarrant County taxpayers will see several candidates with varying experience in state and local government on the upcoming November ballot. While there will be a plethora of candidates and races facing residents, we’ve highlighted several candidates whose records or...
Huffines Blocks Flock Camera Funding
Texas Comptroller Don Huffines signed an executive order on October 13 barring the use of grant money administered by his office to buy or contract for Flock cameras, automated license plate readers, and other vehicle-identification systems that turn license plate...
Cy-Fair ISD Fuels Affordability Crisis with Massive Proposed Tax Increase & New Debt
The Bottom Line Up Front If taxpayers approve Cypress-Fairbanks ISD’s proposed Maintenance and Operations tax-rate increase and bond package on November 3, northwest Houston taxpayers will face an 18 percent M&O rate hike and roughly $3.2 billion in new...
Cleburne Asks Families to Approve a 9.2 Percent Tax Rate Increase for New Bond
The mayor and council put a $62.5 million public-safety bond on the November ballot after borrowing for the design. Cleburne families are being asked to hand City Hall a 9.2 percent increase in the city property-tax rate for a building the mayor and council have...
Crosby ISD’s $208 Million Bond: A Poor Record and Discrepancies
Crosby ISD voters will decide on November 3 whether to authorize $208.28 million1 in new school bonds. The sample ballot lists the measures as Proposition A and Proposition B, and comes at a time when the district only has two cents of borrowing power left under the...
Talarico’s Broader Record: Anti-Taxpayer
We have already reported1 on James Talarico’s votes against adding an income-tax ban and a death-tax ban to the Texas Constitution. Those votes, however, are not the whole story. While campaigning for the U.S. Senate as a champion of “affordability,” the Austin...
Dallas County Asks Taxpayers to Approve a 22 Percent Tax Rate Increase
Commissioners adopted a county tax rate 22.02 percent above the no-new-revenue rate. The median homestead bill would rise from $558.97 last year to $666.52 if voters approve the higher rate on November 3. Dallas County voters will decide on November 3 whether to...
Huffines on the Move: Ending a Hidden, Double Tax
On September 30, Comptroller Don Huffines continued the implementation of his Taxpayer First Project with the signing of an executive order1 aimed at a tax Texans never voted for: sales tax on the fee a seller, a restaurant, or a gig worker pays a platform, stacked on...
Tony Tinderholt’s Record: Fighting for Taxpayers
State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington, HD 94) earned a 97% on TFR’s 2025 Fiscal Responsibility Index,1 one of the strongest scores in the Texas House. His career rating is an A+, with A+ scores in 2015, 2017, and 2023 and A- ratings in 2019 and 2021. Those grades...