Texas Comptroller Don Huffines is reminding shoppers they can save money on clothes and school supplies during the state’s sales tax holiday on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 7-9. State law exempts sales tax on qualified items — such as clothing, footwear, school supplies and backpacks — priced below $100, saving shoppers about $8 on every $100 they spend. The dates of the sales tax holiday and list of tax-exempt items are set by the Texas Legislature.

Recently the Trucking Association Executives Council (TAEC) released a progress report documenting significant federal and state action to remove illegal operators, strengthen regulatory oversight and restore fairness for trucking companies and professional drivers that follow the rules. The Texas Trucking Association (TXTA) is a member of TAEC, and TXTA President and CEO John D. Esparza serves on the action committee that helped develop the report. 

Let's play a fun little game of "what does 'sign' actually mean," shall we? Because Dr. Anthony Fauci just spent a Senate hearing invoking the Fifth Amendment 111 times — one hundred and eleven, an Olympic gold medal in constitutional dodging — and buried underneath that spectacle is a question that's far more interesting than anything Fauci actually said, which was, of course, nothing. Was his blanket pardon from Joe Biden even valid in the first place? And if it wasn't, does the Fifth Amendment even apply to a man who might not be pardoned at all?

Governor Greg Abbott today announced Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO) will establish a new strategic hub in Austin to drive innovation, emerging technology, and the next phase of the firm's growth. The hub will incubate new and emerging businesses across Apollo's asset management and retirement solutions platform, intended to represent meaningful capital investment with significant job creation.

Democrats have proven that they will stop at nothing to block attempts at passing voter ID laws. CA attorney general Bonta had originally described Proposition 39, as a measure to "establish additional voter identification and citizenship verification requirements." But his new description reads: "PROHIBITS CITIZENS FROM VOTING UNLESS THEY PRESENT GOVERNMENT-ISSUED IDENTIFICATION." Bonta is required by law to provide a "true and impartial" title and summary. His change makes a mockery of that duty.

U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights, chaired a hearing titled Hidden in Plain Sight: Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood Network in America. The hearing examined the Muslim Brotherhood’s efforts to seize influence inside American nonprofits, political organizations, universities, courts, taxpayer-funded programs, and other American institutions.

Only 25 years after the September 11 attacks on the United States, a major political party has fallen in with people who view that attack as deserved and the attackers as righteous. If it were parody, no one would accept it because good parody is based in truth and the truth is this fall of the Democratic Party is not believable. Sure, they’ve expressed sympathies for enemies of the United States before, but always for political advantage only; now they appear to mean it or are so afraid of it they won’t say anything to the contrary. Democrats have gone from being wrong to being an existential threat to the country.

Reality for the Democrats isn't pretty right now – which is the main reason they don't spend much time in it. The Democrat Party is in free-fall – and things aren't going to be getting anytime soon. The "Democratic Socialists of America" (DSA) have brought the Democrat's deep-rooted Commie-Leanings out in the open. Party elders would like to put the Hammer & Sickle cat back in the bag before the midterms and pretend that none of this ever happened – but, the pesky Nouveau Stalin Kids in the DSA are... just getting louder. 

Texas Comptroller Don Huffines announced today that the state’s record-setting education freedom program is giving Texas parents a choice to enroll their children in the school that best fits their individual educational needs. Over 85,000 students have already confirmed participation for the 2026-2027 school year in the Texas Education Freedom Account (TEFA) program according to the first-annual report to the Legislature on student participation released by Huffines.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) introduced the Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act. This legislation prohibits the use of federal funds for research or publications that promote dangerous, life-altering, and irreversible gender transitions for minors.

For most Texans, three things reign supreme: Football, Oil & Gas, and the Rule of Law. Early last month, a Bexar County judge ruled on two of the three, ordering San Antonio's CPS Energy to pay nearly $400 million to honor natural gas contracts it agreed to during Winter Storm Uri in 2021. The message was clear: CPS Energy must pay its bills just like everyone else, but the ruling goes well beyond CPS’s unpaid invoices.

Executive Director Wei Wang welcomed RRC inspectors to the Austin headquarters for training on advanced fire prevention and electrical safety codes. To enhance inspector expertise and ensure safer field operations, the RRC has partnered with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service to introduce a new fire-prevention training program. This initiative is designed to equip oil and gas inspectors with practical skills to identify and mitigate wildfire risks and electrical hazards.

As many of you may know, I was singled out by Anthony Fauci in his diary for trying to stop the lockdowns in early 2020.We now know, thanks to Sen. Rand Paul's doggedness and Anthony Fauci's supreme arrogance, which he freely expresses in his diary, that almost every decision made by the medical-industrial complex was exactly the wrong thing to do. COVID-19 was a traumatic experience for our families, small businesses, schools, and country. Understandably, people don't like thinking or talking about it. But we must.

Governor Abbott has championed the Texas Stock Exchange since its announcement. In September 2024, the Governor celebrated its creation during a press conference at the Governor’s Mansion. The Governor congratulated the exchange upon receiving SEC approval in September 2025. On July 6, 2026, as trading operations began, Governor Abbott welcomed the opening of the Texas Stock Exchange and the greater competition and opportunity it brings to American capital markets.

We've long wondered why states have been happy to disregard federal law on marijuana (we have always been in favor of legalization), but not use of other medicines and drugs. A state that insisted on asserting its sovereignty to allow people to buy and sell any medical product they wish, with informed consent, would become a mecca for innovation and freedom and better health. Montana has taken the first step in that direction.

Huffines previously served in the Texas Senate, where he built a reputation as one of the Legislature's strongest defenders of taxpayers and individual liberty. He helped pass legislation protecting the Second Amendment, strengthening border security, defending the sanctity of life, expanding free markets, increasing government transparency, and safeguarding private property rights.

The Texas General Land Office (GLO) posted Amendment 22 to the Hurricane Harvey $5.6 Billion State Action Plan for a federally required 30-day public comment period. The proposed amendment updates funding allocations and administrative language to better align available resources with current program needs, support the effective and strategic expenditure of federal disaster recovery funds, and ensure continued implementation of Hurricane Harvey recovery programs.

These "mainstream" leftists are angry with the DSA because they are not hiding the fact that they are Marxists. They are overtly professing their allegiance to the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. These mainstream leftists are closet, covert Marxists and prefer to use deception to still attain their goals. As Vladimir Lenin said, "the goal of socialism is communism," the two economic and societal models of Marxism.