The Mexican national elections held on Sunday, June 2, resulted in a resounding victory for the ruling leftist party, Morena. Claudia Sheinbaum, running under current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s banner, won the presidential contest by a thirty-point margin, and Morena secured a supermajority in both the national and state legislatures. This landslide win grants...
In 2019, the Texas Legislature passed a law (House Bill 1495) to help correct “unethical political behavior” at the local level. One key provision in the law requires political subdivisions to disclose the amount of money being spent to lobby the legislature in their proposed budgets. As more fully articulated in Sec. 140.0045 (b)(2) of...
Texas is stepping into the breach to lead the nation with a responsible, pro-innovation legislative framework for artificial intelligence. The California Legislature is right in that the civilizational implications posed by AI technology necessitate a public policy response. But the response has been a cacophony of onerous regulations, wokeism, and a fundamental misunderstanding of emerging...
President Woodrow Wilson had similar health issues to Biden while in office and that undermined national security. President Joe Biden is in serious mental decline, from the “perpetual state of confusion” displayed on his trip to France, to Washington insiders reporting that the president has performed poorly in meetings, the president’s cognitive impairment raises serious...
On May 15, 2024, Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero testified before the Senate committee on the issue of “squatter’s rights.” McCaw Property Management (n.d., para 1) defines a squatter as “somebody who is living on a land or in a building that is either unoccupied, abandoned, or foreclosed without the legal consent of the...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join the Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s top Winners & Losers. We run the gambit from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. Here’s my list for the week ending June 7. It...
Border security is a top issue with American voters. President Biden is responding by signing executive action that he claims will help secure our borders. Is this a meaningful step to rein in the chaos at our borders or political theater? I served as a U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) agent for nearly 30 years and retired as chief during...
If you don’t care about the criminal justice system, just wait until the criminal justice system cares about you or someone you love. An estimated 70 million to 100 million Americans – roughly 1 in 3 – have a criminal record and many, like former President Donald Trump, are at the mercy of acrimonious justice. Any law officer...
President Joe Biden is slated to sign an executive order today “to secure the border,” an action which he has failed to do since he came into office. Four years into the worst national security crisis the U.S. has faced since 9/11, the president now hints that he actually can do something to secure the...
All eyes are on Wisconsin as the over eighteen hundred municipal clerks prepare to administer the 2024 Presidential election this fall. On May 16th a joint informational hearing was held by the Wisconsin Assembly and Senate Elections Committees to begin investigating election integrity concerns related to noncitizens voting. One of the biggest takeaways from the...
Farmers slowly dig up their losses and face the unsettling reality that their parched dams, once a reliable water supply for irrigation, will not be replenished. These hardworking, multi-generational Texas farmers are no strangers to the ebbs and flows of the seasons. But when a crop that the Rio Grande Valley has depended on for...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. On Wednesday, Texans woke up to the good news that the Texas House will likely have a majority of school choice supporters in its chamber next session. There is still...