Robert Henneke is Executive Director and General Counsel at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Before joining the Foundation, Robert served as Kerr County Attorney and as an assistant attorney general in the General Litigation Division under Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
Austin Collette should never have been out on bond and free to commit the murder-suicide that ended the life of his girlfriend. He had already been convicted of a 2019 murder, and had committed other crimes, as well. But a leftist judge in Harris County released him as he awaited sentencing. “Court records show Collette...
While liberals hide indoors in fear of the falling sky, the rest of us recognize it’s actually beautiful outside in a new day brought by the Trump administration. Not even Chicken Little was this committed to the program. Hours after the November 2024 presidential election, Reuters warned that “politically toxic inflation may curb Trump agenda.” In the...
Americans are getting back on the road. “I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation—a burning desire to go, to move, to get underway…” —John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America” It was 65 years ago that John Steinbeck loaded up a...
Producers at CBS, CNN and MSNBC took the time to blur the faces of child rapists, murderers and other violent criminals whose details were posted on signs lining the lawn at the White House last week. But it was a telling win for the Trump administration—because the media’s narrative of “innocent” illegal immigrants being wronged...
In its coverage of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent trip to the White House, Fox News acknowledged the shift on display. Where the Biden administration threw open our borders, and fought Texas’s attempts to enforce the law, the Trump administration is embracing Abbott’s actions. Abbott’s deputizing the Texas National Guard to help the Border Patrol is just the next...
The death toll continues to rise in the California wildfires that have burned through the Los Angeles area in recent weeks. Now it appears that a suspect arrested near one of the fires “with a flamethrower” allegedly attempting to start more fires is an illegal immigrant. What’s more, his illegal status will be to his...
We can’t let the left forget the truth — Donald Trump’s policies will make Americans safer, more secure, and more prosperous. The memo appears to have gone out, and the legacy media has pivoted in unison to launch a new line of attack against the incoming Trump administration. The key buzzword is “cruel.” Don’t let...
Industry has a history of overpromising and underdelivering. Liberals are worried: Will President-elect Donald Trump succeed in killing the offshore wind energy industry? “I believe this is a tipping point for the offshore wind industry in America,” said Robin Shaffer, president of Protect Our Coast NJ, according to The Associated Press. “They have been given a glide...
Border security must be prerequisite to any reform. President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to bring on Tom Homan, the former head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as border czar is a powerful step in the right direction for border security. Mr. Homan has a history of tough, no-nonsense enforcement, and his expertise is needed now more than ever. But...
Former President Donald Trump went viral this week for making a campaign pitstop in Pennsylvania to work the fry station and drive-through at a McDonald’s. But Trump’s visit at McDonald’s was more than a publicity stunt—it represents the core of what makes him appealing to voters and, ultimately, what will carry him across the finish line in...
The most brazen claim Vice President Kamala Harris made at the U.S.-Mexico border last week was that to fix the border, we must elect her—as if she’s powerless to do anything now. Speaking in Arizona, Harris acknowledged, “there are consequential issues at stake in this election. And one is the security of our border.” She even admitted,...
The gaslighting is being served out in super-sized doses. The latest example is the Future Forward PAC’s new Kamala Harris ad, in which she lays out an agenda completely at odds with her record. In an effort to revise recent history, the Democrats are desperately trying to regain ground in America’s heartland with ads that seek...