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PRINCIPLED CONSERVATIVES is a Lincoln-Project-Anti-Trumper-Establishment rebrand that won’t work. This wing of the party is a sub 5% minority fated for the trash heap, a.k.a. panel appearances on CNN and scrawling WaPo editorials.
It’s funny after the hand wringing over Trump defecting and forming a new party that would (clutch those pearls) fracture the GOP and empower Democrats that the doughy loser middle is actually contemplating such a move.
Many of the saber-rattlers aren’t elected officials, and the ones that are couldn’t bring themselves to vote for impeachment for fear of being thrashed in a 2022 primary contest. Watch out; these guys are real warriors.
GOVERNMENT EDUCATION in Texas is irrevocably broken.
In truth, it’s been breaking for some time. Still, the pandemic has revealed just how much of a hollowed-out wasteland the unions and their lackeys in the academic, administrative bureaucracy have left Texans.
It’s for the kids, except it’s really not.
This year testing won’t be administered to large swaths of students, and the TEA is considering funding schools that haven’t taught students because they were “missing.”
If public education in Texas were for the kids, it would fund educating kids instead of funding a system that may or may not (increasingly not) be doing any educating.
Republicans like Reps. Hugh Shine and Sam Harless have joined an irresponsible call by Democrats and unions to fund government education not tied to educating.
THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE in Austin makes it easy as they ramp up attacks on upcoming needed election integrity bills.
The progressive news outlet Texas Tribune regurgitated content yesterday from 2016 suggesting Voter ID laws in Texas passed and litigated between 2011 and 2015 were aimed at suppressing votes.
Studies of the effect of Voter ID on turnout and participation have shown that there is “no negative effect on registration or turnout, overall or for any group defined by race, gender, age, or party affiliation.”
Additionally, according to polling conducted during the last legislative session by the Texas Lyceum, the common-sense policy is popular with most Texans.
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