OPINION: Christian Denominations Must Do More To Confront Predatory Gambling
This article originally appeared as an opinion piece at the Center for Baptist Leadership.1 The original article may be found HERE.2 It is being republished with permission of the author. It's time for the SBC to turn resolutions into results in our opposition to...
Jon Rosenthal’s Record: A Poor Pattern Texans Should Know
Jon Rosenthal, the Democrat representing Texas House District 135 in Northwest Houston since 2019, has built a legislative record defined by opposition to tax relief and a consistent alignment with activist priorities over the interests of everyday Texas families. Now...
Texas Leaders Call for Fiscal Restraint, but Will Real Cuts to State Spending Be Enacted?
State spending in Texas has swelled by leaps and bounds in the last decade, growing 42% over the last four years alone. But for the first time since 2020, state leaders have signaled that fiscal restraint is necessary ahead of next session. But is it enough? The...
Court Upholds Ban on In-State Tuition for Illegal Immigrants, Delivering Win for Texas Taxpayers
Texas taxpayers received welcome news this week after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the end of Texas’ decades-old policy granting in-state college tuition to illegal immigrants.1 The ruling leaves in place a federal district court’s 2025...
Fiscal Discipline is Essential to the Property Tax Problem
If Texas is serious about eliminating property taxes, government at every level must first learn to spend less. Speaking at a campaign stop in Bullard, Texas, Governor Greg Abbott emphasized that reducing the tax burden requires fiscal discipline from the state...
Texas Needs Municipal Receivership
When a city repeatedly wastes taxpayer dollars, refuses to enforce state law, allows violent crime to spiral, or ignores its financial responsibilities, the people who suffer most are the taxpayers, families, and hardworking citizens left to clean up the mess and pay...
America 250: The Enduring Virtues That Sustain Our Liberty
This Independence Day, as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, Americans across the nation reflect on the profound courage, faith, virtue, duty, responsibility, and sacrifice that gave birth to our republic. The immortal words of the Declaration of...
ABBOTT: Property Tax Overhaul Has the Votes to Pass the House
A plan to enact the most substantive overhaul of Texas’ broken and skyrocketing property tax system may have the votes necessary to pass in the Texas House. At public campaign events in East Texas this week, Governor Greg Abbott announced he has commitments from more...
TFR Calls for Entirety of Federal Reimbursement to be Returned to Taxpayers
(Austin, TX) Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (TFR) Friday officially called on State Leaders to prioritize Texas taxpayers and families by committing the entirety of the State’s Border Security Reimbursement submission towards the elimination of property...