The City Council is expected to approve a jobs ordinance that will push conversations about felony convictions later in the hiring process. (Article by Hannah McBride, republished from https://www.texasobserver.org/austin-poised-ban-the-box/) Update, March 24: After two hours of public testimony, Austin City Council passed the fair chance hiring ordinance, with council members Don Zimmerman and Ellen Troxclair voting against […]

AUSTIN—Texas election laws are not being followed in many counties. Without this consistency, and with the “it’s the way we do it” attitude, this has greatly opened the door to fraud. The true intent of the Legislature was to ensure voter integrity at the highest expectation is achieved. Unwarranted waivers allowing election officials to ignore […]

While no state and no set of state leaders are perfect purveyors of liberty, there are definitely some that are better at it than others. Most states on the left and right coasts have long been dominated by socialists, Marxists and other Left-leaning authoritarians who tend to pay more attention to the Constitution when it […]

Public universities in Texas cannot ban guns from dorm rooms, despite efforts to do so at the University of Texas at Austin. Beginning in August of next year, license holders (you must be 21+ years old to obtain one) may carry a concealed handgun on university campuses. The new campus carry law, S.B. 11, was […]

The feds have decided to send more Syrian refugees to Texas, just two days after it sued the federal government and a refugee resettlement nonprofit, alleging that both were violating the Refugee Act of 1980. So far, 31 states have expressed opposition to the resettlement of Syrian refugees in their regions, following the Nov. 13 […]

Texas officials no longer have to issue birth certificates to children of illegal immigrants born on U.S., also known as “anchor babies,” according to a ruling made by a judge late last month. The judge’s decision was in response to a lawsuit filed in June against the Department of State Health Services’ Vital Statistics Unit on […]