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Time to Celebrate!
We love budget and tax cuts, of course; the Texas Legislature should take every opportunity to ease the burden on taxpayers, leaving more of their money in their own pockets.
May 3, 2021
Daily Cannon
The Fight Over Voter Fraud
Voter Fraud is Real What to know: The fight over voter fraud continues in Texas—with some still asking whether it exists. The TPPF take: Here you go! Congressman Chip Roy, in a memo obtained by The Cannon Online, documents incidents of voter fraud—and explains how to address the issue. “Voter fraud is real and failure...
May 3, 2021
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Border Crisis = Human Crisis
Human Crisis What to know: Human traffickers are avoiding the U.S. Border Patrol and moving migrants directly through the ranches and across the desert country of South Texas, NPR reports. The TPPF take: TPPF’s Ken Oliver accompanied members of Congress to the border last month and saw this happening first-hand. “The coyotes are fast—it takes...
May 3, 2021
Daily Cannon
Learning the Right Lessons
What the other cops learned instead, from those burning down buildings to demand an end to being unfairly treated as a group, is that treating police officers unfairly as a group is totally acceptable.
April 26, 2021
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Paying Them to Scold Us
Secure elections are the right of every Texas voter, and lawmakers have a duty to them—not to the insufferable scolds of the corporate world.
April 26, 2021
Daily Cannon
Special Earth Day Edition!
The facts say that this is the best time in human history to be pregnant.
April 26, 2021
Daily Cannon
We Can Fix the Crisis of Confidence in the Election System
Sen. Rand Paul was kind enough to talk with us about vulnerabilities in our election system and the role of the states in ensuring free and fair elections.
April 26, 2021
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A Home Run for Health Care
One thing notable about Healthy Families, Healthy Texas is that it makes fixes to our health care system that go beyond the usual calls to expand Medicaid coverage to more people.
April 26, 2021
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Fatal Consequences
In the last five years alone, Texas added some 20,000 megawatts of installed capacity of wind and solar while losing a net of 4,000 megawatts of coal and natural gas.
April 19, 2021
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The Damage is Real
Instead of normal, healthy human interaction, children have been left to their own devices—literally.
April 19, 2021
Daily Cannon
R-E-L-I-A-B-I-L-I-T-Y
The more dependent the entire U.S. grid becomes on unreliable forms of energy like wind and solar, the more it is increasingly at risk of blackouts.
April 15, 2021
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Texans Want Secure Elections
Even if Texas legislators get everything else right this session, getting this one thing wrong would be disastrous.
April 14, 2021