U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) introduced the Nodes, Enterprise Workloads, and Hybrid Operations, Resilience, Integration, Zero-Trust, Orbital Networks (NEW HORIZON) Act. This legislation establishes a Department of War pilot program to evaluate commercially available orbital data center and space-based cloud computing services for national security missions.
Governor Greg Abbott directed the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUC) and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) to take immediate steps to protect residential ratepayers from the costs of data center expansion. Governor Abbott also pledged to work with the Legislature next session to codify these protections and ensure data centers add to Texas’ electric capacity rather than merely increasing demand.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.,) has just released documents alleging that former NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci had extensive ties to the U.S. Intelligence Community dating back nearly two decades before COVID-19. Paul argues that after private emails in January 2020 showed Fauci concerned about the virus’s engineered-looking features, he helped steer the “Proximal Origin” paper toward a natural-origin explanation, and shared that narrative with the Intelligence Community during Biden’s 90-day review.
Acting Texas Comptroller Kelly Hancock today announced that Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) have reached a major milestone, with more than 102,000 students awarded accounts for the 2026-27 school year. The latest batch of waitlisted students — more than 4,100 — were awarded accounts this week. All the newly awarded students qualified for Tier 2 application priority, meaning they had family incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level ($66,000 per year for a family of four).
Character does not matter, at least in politics. People can do things that cause embarrassment or shame, or at least would have in the past, and it will not hinder their pathway to power. If Harvey Weinstein were out of prison, he could easily win another Oscar. If Jeffrey Epstein were alive, he would still be getting solicitations for meetings and donations from Democrats. The old joke about the only way a powerful politician could be taken out is if they were caught “with a live boy or a dead girl” has lost its punch, as those would likely be resumé enhancements today.
Governor Greg Abbott today announced $166 million in energy assistance funds to help low-income Texans maintain safe and affordable housing. Award funds, administered by the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), are set to begin January 1, 2027. The grant awards may be used to provide income-eligible households with utility bill payment assistance; energy-efficient heating, cooling, or refrigeration equipment; and consumer counseling and case management to help them achieve self-sufficiency.
We thought we'd read everything on the Minnesota fraud scandals in which billions of dollars were looted from federal social programs and 110 Individuals have been indicted. But yesterday, the House Oversight committee released its report titled "The Cost of Doing Nothing," detailing how a trio of power-hungry pols - Governor Tim Walz, state AG Keith Ellison and Rep. Ilan Omar - repeatedly failed to act. The testimony from nearly 30 whistleblower state employees and participants in the programs is damming.
Oil and gas regulator Wayne Christian today applauded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) decision to revoke the Endangered Species Act listing of the dunes sagebrush lizard, a move that aims to resolve litigation pursued by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of the Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC) and marks what Christian called a significant victory against federal regulatory overreach affecting American energy production.
Lately, there have been news stories expressing alarm about the rapid progress the Trump administration is making building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Whatever the stories are nominally about -- environmental objections, questions about contracting, local concerns -- their true headline is this: President Donald Trump is finally building the border wall he has promised for more than a decade.
Governor Greg Abbott today joined U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and federal and state partners at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory for a briefing and update on Texas’ ongoing response to the New World screwworm threat. During his remarks, Governor Abbott highlighted the coordinated state and federal effort underway to prevent the spread of the New World screwworm in Texas. USDA is deploying sterile flies across the infected areas and working to establish a new sterile fly production facility in Edinburg.
The U.S. Treasury Department released a new analysis finding that American families and American workers benefited the most from Republicans’ Working Families Tax Cuts. Republicans wrote this legislation for lower- and middle-class earners, the men and women who get up and start working before the sun rises and go home well after it sets, and this analysis proves those efforts were successful.
Texas has always been the home of big ideas and bigger deals. It’s where ambition meets low taxes and light regulation, where the world’s most consequential companies plant flags and make moves that reshape industries. Fort Worth-based American Airlines announced it has selected Starlink – the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX – to provide high-speed Wi-Fi on more than 500 of its aircraft, with installations set to begin in the first quarter of 2027.
Employers are complaining of a shortage of trained job applicants, which gives workers an ability to bid up salaries. There's a construction boom going on across the country driven by new spending on plants, factory equipment and road building. Manufacturing is roaring back with four straight months of expansion — the best record in four years — and the stock market's incredible run predicts future earnings and growth. Yet all this is being covered up — including Household Incomes that are up over $3,000. Why?
Governor Greg Abbott received a briefing and updated Texans on the state’s response following confirmation of a New World Screwworm (NWS) detection in Texas. The Governor also issued a disaster declaration for Zavala and Uvalde Counties. The Governor’s disaster declaration deploys all available state resources to respond to this threat and prioritizes resources to Uvalde and Zavala counties.
Representatives Brian Babin (R-TX) and Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA,) and Senators Ted Cruz, Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) have introduced the "Sustainment of Unmanned Systems, Total Force Aircraft Inventory & National Guard Protection (SUSTAIN) Act" in an effort to prohibit the Air Force from reducing its MQ-9 aircraft units or staffing levels, which is critical for providing various intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities.
On June 6, 1944, the Allied Forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to fight against tyranny and liberate Europe from Nazi occupation. This decisive operation — in which more than 2,500 brave Americans paid the ultimate price — turned the tide of the war and changed the course of history. My father, James McCaul Jr., was a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress as part of the 34th Bombardment Group, which helped prepare Operation Overlord — the code name for D-Day — by bombing the airfields around Normandy.
The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has awarded eight grants totaling more than $1.3 million to Local Workforce Development Boards through the Texas Internship Initiative. The Boards will use these grants to support local partnerships that foster new, paid internship opportunities for students, recent college graduates, and transitioning service members. The grant program focuses on internships in middle skills STEM occupations and target industry sectors.
I realize Graham Platner is never going to answer any real question from anyone who’ll follow up and not simply swallow his bovine post-digested food. But there are some legitimate questions for which voters in Maine should demand answers. They’re unlikely to get them, as the poster boy for what Democrats consider to be “masculinity” is a spoiled rich kid who doesn’t feel he owes anyone anything, and he’s also not bright enough to be able to think on his feet.
