A Closer Look

What to know: The Texas Attorney General has launched an investigation into Austin ISD’s annual Pride Week celebration, which may be in violation of “a 2025 Texas law restricting districts’ ability to sponsor clubs or deliver instruction related to gender identity or sexual orientation.”

The TPPF take: If Austin ISD has willfully violated state law, then there should be consequences.

“School districts don’t get to pick-and-choose which state laws to follow. They must follow the rules the same as everyone else,” says TPPF’s James Quintero. “Instead of putting time and resources toward social controversies, Austin ISD—and every other like-minded district—need to get back to basics and help kids master reading, writing, and arithmetic.”

For more on Austin ISD, click here.

Down in Mexico

What to know: Two CIA officers were killed in Mexico last week, while taking part in a raid on a suspected drug lab.

The TPPF take: Those fallen Americans, killed in the line of duty against Mexico’s cartels, are a sign of a crisis in relations between the U.S. and Mexico.

“It is a crisis created by Mexico’s regime, which has cooperated for too long with its own cartels and must now reap the predictable result as Americans act to protect themselves,” says TPPF’s Joshua Treviño. “When Americans crack down on cartels, they aren’t doing it only for American interests; they’re also protecting the Mexican majority that yearns for a defense against the cartels.”

For more on Mexico, click here.

Surrogates

What to know: A Chinese billionaire has fathered more than 100 children through surrogates, and arranging for them to be born in the U.S. to gain “birthright” citizenship.

The TPPF take: The elites are weaponizing child surrogacy and gene selection.

“This is a symptom of an increasingly common worldview — one that treats babies as dehumanized units rather than as precious lives knitted together by a purposeful creator,” says TPPF’s David Dunmoyer. “Consider again the Chinese businessman. His goal is not to create life for its own sake, but to achieve a measurable outcome — a successor with the right aptitude, personality and intelligence. From there, the next step is obvious — genetic engineering, the intentional manipulation of genes to produce desirable traits.”

For more on surrogacy, click here.