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...
Every Friday morning at 8:30AM, I join Cardle & Woolley show, Talk 1370 Radio, in Austin to pick the week’s Winners & Losers. It runs the gambit from public policy and political trends to sports and culture in Texas, America and the world. The last week in May, 2024, includes major winners and losers who...
The Lost Creek neighborhood in Austin, Texas, is charting a way for communities to band together and break up with abusive city governments. It’s not often that a low-key municipal election makes international news, but one recent contest in an affluent Austin suburb has people excited about its result — and its potential implications for...
Once again, Texas’ Medicaid disenrollment is in the headlines and the mainstream media is turning to its usual scare tactics to paint Texas as the bad guy. As far back as September, The Texas Tribune ran a headline that 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid, and painted a grim picture of children, new mothers, and disabled adults...
President Trump has been and will continue to be a target of political persecution. If history tells us anything, it will continue to trail him indefinitely. It would certainly shock any American to hear that “use of deadly force” was authorized against you and your family, just as it did Tuesday for former President Donald Trump. As...
Great public schools need a great curriculum—and great teachers need time for teaching, Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath explained in a recent interview with TPPF’s Greg Sindelar. A new state law should help, Morath said, as the State Board of Education begins the public review and comment period for new instructional materials. Some of these...
Last week, the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) filed a lawsuit on behalf of Julie Adams, a Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections (BRE) member, against the Fulton County BRE for interfering with Adams’s duty to review and ensure the integrity of elections under the Georgia election code. A core element of the lawsuit focuses on...