A new car today costs $47,870 – versus $40,857 in January 2021 – and the total annual cost to operate that car has soared. The average home that cost $303,900 in January 2021? In August 2024 it cost $416,700 – and then don't forget to add on Homeowner’s Insurance, your average annual Electric Bill, and the average annual Natural-Gas Utility Bill. Congress needs to restrain spending, stop illegal immigration, reduce regulatory burdens, and let working families keep more of their income to build their dreams.
As Veterans Day approaches on Monday, I’m filled with gratitude for the brave men and women who’ve proudly worn our nation’s uniform. As a Combat Veteran myself, I know the sacrifices made, the courage shown – and the dedication it takes to serve. For veterans like me, this day is not just about looking back on our service, but about honoring our brothers and sisters who made the ultimate sacrifice. That’s why I’m pushing innovative treatments, emerging therapies, and game changing programs to help them truly recover.
Which races will be audited? What polling locations will be audited? And when will the audits happen? “This year’s audit will be the largest conducted in the state, and underscore Texas' commitment to transparency," said Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, announcing that the audits will check the results of "designated races through a hand-count process count" – and will be much larger and more expansive than previous efforts. They will also include multiple offices, and additional polling places for investigation.
Governor Greg Abbott announced the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Task Force (SASTF) issued its third Biennial Report to the Texas Legislature. The report includes policy recommendations for the 89th Legislative Session and summarizes task force activities since the last report, including the launch of a Forensic Nursing Coaching Pilot Program with the Texas A&M Health Center of Excellence in Forensic Nursing, a quarterly SASTF Webinar Series, and new trauma-informed trainings for law enforcement and hospital emergency room staff.
During World War I, Texas General Land Office Commissioner J.T. Robison suggested that Veterans returning from war could be supported with land. His idea did not come to fruition however, until after World War II. History notes that 70 GLO employees left to serve in WWII, and two made the ultimate sacrifice. Commissioner J. Bascom Giles recognized these brave Veterans, and supported a Constitutional Amendment to create a fund to purchase land for resale to Veterans at very low interest rates, with generous repayment schedules.
This presidential race was not unpredictable – as the once again discredited polls swore. Republicans had made massive gains in Voter Registration after 2020 when Donald Trump lost by only a few 1,000 strategically placed votes in a handful of Swing States. It was then that Republicans began to master non-Election Day balloting themselves – first engineered by Democrats under the pretext of COVID-19. This year the GOP not only exceeded their early/mail-in voting goals, but by Election Day, they often vastly outpaced Democrats.
What seemed unthinkable right up until early, early Wednesday Morning, is now in fact reality. It's brought shock and self-degradation from seemingly stunned Democrats – and euphoria from Republicans who can't believe the size and scope of Donald Trump’s "historic" victory. The clear-cut results and resounding defeat of Joe Biden’s vice president has quickly reset the political landscape in Washington, D.C. – its upended the national media's narratives, the pollsters predictions, and Democrat Party elite's desperate hopes.
"School choice is wanted by all demographic groups in Texas. Hispanics and African Americans across the state of Texas, they strongly support school choice – those parents want an option. They know their child better than any government employee does, and they want to put their child on the pathway toward success," said Gov. Greg Abbott earlier today, touting the growing support for parents to have school choice and the freedom to choose the best school for their children while in Tyler, Texas.
I hope the Democrats are miserable now. But then again, they had a miserable candidate – far and away the most incompetent person to ever be a candidate for President of the United States. And her running mate, he was even more miserable than she was. Looking at the results of this election, Americans have come to realize the Democrat Party is just a miserable party, full of miserable people, with a miserable ideology, who did a miserable job of running the country. It made all of us miserable for four years.
"It's my honor to work on behalf of all Texans and bring solutions to the table to benefit our great state," said Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham, announcing that the Red River Boundary Commission – with the help of the General Land Office’s (GLO) Surveying Team – has redrawn the Texas-Oklahoma Boundary under North Texas' Lake Texoma to ensure that the security and availability of around 30% of the drinking water supply for more than 2 million people in the area continues.
The Republican Party is now firmly committed to putting American interests first. And Tuesday voters sent a clear message they want their government run for the benefit of its citizens, not for foreigners – and not for ideologies unconnected to their belief in America. An entrenched liberal-elitist, Democrat Ruling Class has been roundly rejected, and the depths from which Americans of all political stripes rose to defend themselves is both a searing indictment of Democrat's leftward lurch, and a demand for the country's problems to be fixed.
"31 states in this country have Voter Registration by Political Party – and in the past four years, 30 of them have seen movement toward Republicans. We’re missing something, and its because they give us the same polls over and over again,” said Republican consultant Alex Castellanos, who's previously worked for Jeb Bush & Mitt Romney. “What they’re missing is a massive shift in Voter Registration underneath all of this," he said. Two out of every three days since roughly early October, Democrats and Kamala Harris have lost ground in polling forecasts.
“Another family’s worst nightmare has come to pass, and it’s directly because of Biden & Harris’s reckless, open-border policies," said Cong. Michael Cloud, as he, Sen. Ted Cruz and Texas State Rep. Stan Gerdes condemned the White House after yet another Texan was killed by an illegal drunk driver. The suspect had previously been deported twice, once by the Obama administration, and again by the Trump administration – but was able to illegally re-enter the country under the Biden-Harris Administration.
Texas law does not permit federal “monitors” inside a polling place or central counting station. So after Att. Gen. Paxton said, “Texans run Texas elections, and we will not be bullied by the Department of Justice," the U.S. Dept. of Justice agreed to not to enter Texas Polling & Central Count Locations just hours after Paxton sued the DOJ over its announcement that it would send federal agents to "monitor" Texas elections. "The DOJ knows it has no authority to monitor Texas elections, and backed down when Texas stood up."
“Texas again leads all states with the Top Business Climate in America for the second year in a row,” said Governor Greg. Abbott. “As the 8th Largest Economy in the world, Texas is the No. 1 destination for businesses to come here, succeed here, and create more good-paying jobs here for hardworking Texans. Texas offers advantages no other state can claim: a business-friendly climate — with no corporate or personal income tax."
Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced an initial award of about $18.5 million in grant funding benefiting 17 counties across the state as part of the Texas Broadband Pole Replacement Program. This initial funding will support the deployment of broadband to rural, unserved areas by partially reimbursing grant awardees who’ve replaced more than 11,000 poles that support retail broadband services.
Without the Electoral College, eight to 10 large states – and even just a handful of the nation's largest cities, frankly – would determine the election. The Electoral College assigns power to every state – and safeguards the primacy of the states. It is critical to our system of federalism. America is unique in the world in our system of checks and balances, decentralized government power, and protection of the rights of the minority. Did you know that California has a larger population than nine small states – combined?
"Saturday Night Live" may have been crushing her for months with satire & jokes about her inability to answer questions from the press, but allowing Democrat Kamala Harris to appear on the last show before Tuesday's Election has many questioning NBC Entertainment's scheduling of the appearance. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr said Harris' appearance on "SNL" alongside her on-screen doppelgänger was a "clear and blatant effort to evade" the rule that's designed to "avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct."
