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USAA Scorns Its Trump-Voting Members By Debanking The Lawyer Who Defended Him

USAA was ‘founded on military values.’ Now it embraces leftist ideas, transgender ideology, and corporate cancel culture. Mention the word “debanked,” and some might think you stuttered or misspoke. Explain what debanking is — financial institutions canceling a customer over his politics — and most will think you’re paranoid. Yet from oil and gas service firms...

April 25, 2024
Criminal Justice

Too many Houston crimes go unsolved. Here’s how to change that.

The latest HPD scandal underscores a national problem. Commit a crime, get caught and go to jail — directly to jail. It’s the justice lesson we learned growing up, but it’s far from reality in cities across the nation, where clearance rates are abominably low. News out of Houston is compounding the issue of unsolved crimes after the Houston...

April 24, 2024
K-12 Education

Who Were Texas’ Highest Paid Superintendents in 2023-24?

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) has just released some revealing new data on public school superintendent salaries—and the detail has already prompted a bit of minor outrage online. The dissatisfaction appears rooted in the fact that, despite lackluster student outcomes and a persistent affordability crisis, the top-end of the superintendent salary spectrum grew to astounding...

April 23, 2024
Higher Education

Texas Media Covers DEI Like NPR

Conservatives weren’t surprised by National Public Radio (NPR) Senior Editor Uri Berliner’s recent whistle-blowing account showing how NPR is actively involved in pushing a progressive agenda. Berliner detailed how the taxpayer-funded news outlet simply stopped asking questions and instead took a partisan side on most issues. During the pandemic, NPR declared that to suggest that...

April 22, 2024
Local Government

Back to Work

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.  While some of us may still be recovering from the last legislative session and the subsequent hard-fought special sessions, the pre-season of the 2025 89th Legislative Session is officially underway....

April 22, 2024
Energy & Environment

The Potential of Nuclear Energy

Recently France, a leader in nuclear energy, dropped targets for renewable energy in favor of prioritizing nuclear energy. The French government’s continued investment into nuclear energy allows us a glimpse its potential should we decide to follow the same path. We once saw the ability to power our society with the power of the atom...

April 22, 2024
Border Security

Washington at its Worst

This week, we are seeing DC operate under a façade of panic and urgency to pass mass amounts of foreign aid, roughly $95 billion worth, and at the same time grandstand about securing the border. It’s true the House may vote on a border bill, but the whole situation is a sham. You can see...

April 19, 2024
Other

9th & Congress: Winners & Losers – April 19, 2024

We have to shift the focus off Texas for a minute to declare that the week’s big winner is Israel. The weekend attack on Israel directly from Iran finally made it clear to foggy thinkers in both America and the world that what is going on in the Middle East is a war against Western Civilization. Israel...

April 19, 2024
Public Safety

Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Liberty

Thirty-one years ago today, a fire broke out in Waco and killed 76 people—including 25 children. This fire was not the result of a tragic accident or a homicidal arsonist, but rather the final act of 51-day siege by the FBI and ATF. The government investigated itself and cleared itself of wrongdoing. It determined that...

April 19, 2024
Technology

Stalin Would Have Killed For The FISA Bill Congress Just Passed

Stalin didn’t need warrants, but he would have wished for the U.S. government’s ability to buy American citizens’ data from data brokers. We lost the battle on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which federal agencies have used to surveil Americans without warrants, in the House of Representatives last week — barely. A group of liberty-minded...

April 18, 2024
Election Integrity

Georgia’s State Elections Board Needs to Let Go of Lobbyist Ed Lindsey

Voter confidence in Georgia is at an all-time low, especially in certain counties with a history of election integrity issues. And yet, a recent article by the Federalist details the extent to which Ed Lindsay serves as  both a paid lobbyist for key counties and as a voting member on the state board charged with...

April 17, 2024
Foreign Policy

Biden never wanted Israel to have missile defense. Now he just wants them to stand down

Reagan promoted missile defense and Biden opposed it in the Senate. But it’s what is defending Israel. Iran fired more than 320 warheads at Israel on Saturday. The explosives were carried by about 170 propeller-driven drones of the kind Iran has sold Russia for use against Ukraine, more than 30 cruise missiles, and more than 120 ballistic...

April 17, 2024
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