​​​​​​​“Given our strategic location on the Gulf Coast, ensuring our ports are running efficiently and at full capacity benefits us all,” said hard-working Congresswoman Mayra Flores (TX-34) while announcing that the U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded the Port of Harlingen a discretionary grant totaling $3,937,500 to renovate the port’s main dock and related facilities, as well as provide necessary resources to re-compact critical uplands areas.

At a 0.0% tax rate, the government would collect zero revenue. As the tax rate rose above zero, the government would collect some revenue. At a 100% tax rate, people would earn zero reported income and the government would collect zero revenue. Voila: we’ve just proved the Laffer Curve.

Last week in New York City, career criminal Argenis Rivera punched a woman who was pushing her 2-year-old in a stroller, and then began choking her while screaming "white bitch." Liberals think public safety's a Police vs. Criminals sporting event: If the guilty don't have a shot at getting away with it, where's the fun? But if you don't want criminals controlling the streets, destroying neighborhoods, committing violent crimes in parks and subway stations, vote Republican on Nov. 8th.

In a move intended to limit the political fallout, and eliminate news coverage of the startling & record-setting numbers, the Biden White House waited until just before midnight Friday evening to release its Annual Report on the number of illegal border crossings and “encounters” at the U.S. Southern Border – which shattered previous monthly and annual records already set under Mr. Biden’s watch.

For 38 consecutive weeks a majority of voters have said they believe "The country is on the Wrong Track." Now, Americans are continuing to express deep – and in fact growing pessimism about the economy and rising inflation as Early Voting's begun and the nation has moved into the final two weeks of the decisive 2022 Mid-Term Election. More than 90% of voters are concerned.

The Texas Attorney General's "Election Integrity Team" has a primary function to serve as a resource for election officials and the public. With agency lawyers, investigators, support staff, as well as resources to ensure the election – which began with early voting on Monday, October 24 – is run transparently and securely, the agency will also monitor alleged violations of the Texas Election Code.   

"Regardless of race, background, or political party, I want all people of faith to know that I will approach the responsibilities of this office with a servant’s heart and be a Land Commissioner for all Texans,” said Senator Dawn Buckingham after the Baptist Ministers Association of Houston & Vicinity endorsed her for Texas Land Commissioner.

"These jobs pay among the highest wages in Texas, and directly contribute to our country's national and energy security," said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association after data was released by the Texas Workforce Commission indicating that the upstream oil and natural gas industry's employment ranks grew by 900 jobs from August to September.

So few of the Biden White House's economic policies comport with basic common sense that I'm asked the same question over and over and over as i travel around the country: "Is Biden intentionally trying to take a wrecking ball to the economy?" Here's the answer...

Pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) are corporate administrators of prescription drug benefit programs and serve as the intermediary between drug companies and pharmacies. But state oversight of PBMs is needed to protect consumers. State-level protections have helped safeguard consumers from anti-competitive and abusive trade practices PBMs have engaged in before.

"Designating this important monument as a National Historic Site will ensure the stories and memories of Blackwell students are never forgotten,” said Cong. Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23) at a gathering to commemorate the legislation he & Sen. John Cornyn passed and helped get signed into law to designate the Blackwell School a National Historic Site under the National Park Service.

In President Biden's and the Democrat's America, every state in the nation has become a border state thanks to Joe Biden's open-border agenda White House. Fentanyl is now the #1 Killer of young people in America, and its plague in communities continues to escalate across the nation – and Texas.

The Texas economy has added 721,800 positions since September 2021, and state unemployment declined slightly to 4.0%. “With more than half a million job ads posted right now in Texas, the Texas Workforce Commission remains dedicated to ensuring job seekers have the skills employers need to fill those positions,” said TWC Chairman Bryan Daniel.

Gas & Grocery Inflation. Perversion in Schools. Open Borders. Criminals Running Wild, literally. Unfortunately these factors all intensified last week. ​​​​​​​The liberal media's cheerleaders have begun hedging their predictions, walking back their official optimism to avoid total humiliation as their narrative's begun to turn to ashes. Are the ranks breaking? The front shattering? The rout beginning?

As 45% of Likely U.S. Voters say they "Strongly Disapprove" of Joe Biden's job as president, and just 22% ‘Strongly Approve,’ Mr. Biden’s Approval Index Rating as of Friday, Oct. 21st is a -23% according to Rasmussen Reports' Daily Presidential Tracking Poll. And, he is impacting down-ballot races in the six key battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin.

“The CDC continues to make recommendations that ignore science, erode public trust, and target Americans’ healthcare freedom. Sadly, too many states will wield this recommendation as a mandate to force children to receive the COVID vaccine in order to attend school. The CDC knows this, but doesn’t care," said Sen. Cruz after the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention voted to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the immunization schedule states use to require routine vaccinations for children to attend school.

“It’s hard to imagine a more dangerous & radical policy than the Biden White House’s decision to allow violent criminals to roam freely in our communities. Congress has mandated that the Executive Branch must detain specific criminal aliens, and when Congress requires the Executive to act, the Executive lacks the authority to disregard that instruction.,” said Texas' Attorney General Ken Paxton.

As part of the statewide Texas Clear Lanes initiative, the $418 million segment aims to increase mobility, reduce congestion, and enhance safety for Loop 1604 drivers through roadway improvements on more than 2.5 miles at the highly traveled Interstate 10 interchange in northwest Bexar County.