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This opinion piece was originally published in the American Reformer HERE. It is being republished with permission of the author. Following this week’s election results, hopefully a few civic realities that have been lurking in the background have reemerged as the...
On the final day of the 2026 Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston, Texans for Fiscal Responsibility’s Destin Sensky sat down with Jace Yarbrough,1 the Republican nominee for Congressional District 32 in North Texas. Their conversation ranged across the...
We have already reported1 on James Talarico’s votes against adding an income-tax ban and a death-tax ban to the Texas Constitution. Those votes, however, are not the whole story. While campaigning for the U.S. Senate as a champion of “affordability,” the Austin...
State Rep. Tony Tinderholt (R-Arlington, HD 94) earned a 97% on TFR’s 2025 Fiscal Responsibility Index,1 one of the strongest scores in the Texas House. His career rating is an A+, with A+ scores in 2015, 2017, and 2023 and A- ratings in 2019 and 2021. Those grades...
The Texas Association of School Boards is not looking for a new direction. It is looking for a better lobbyist. On September 22, TASB’s board named former State Rep. Gary VanDeaver of New Boston, Texas, as its next executive director, effective October 1.1 VanDeaver...
Vikki Goodwin wants to be Texas’ next lieutenant governor. For taxpayers who want to know what she would do with one of the most powerful offices in state government, they need only look at what she has done with the power she already holds. The record is remarkably...