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We have so many elections—and with campaigning now a year-round activity, it’s tough to tell what we’re voting on. This November, Houston residents will have a ballot before them allowing them to decide on leaders at the local level—the level of government that has the most immediate impact on our lives. “This municipal election is important because whoever is mayor in the city of Houston in 2020 is really gonna have some say,” Mayor Turner recently said. And he’s right. The mayor has over 10 challengers, ranging from former and current Houston City Council members to a professional wrestler. In...

Hope you have an extra $12,000 in your checking account. That’s how much the Green New Deal could increase the average Texas households’ annual electricity bills, according to new research unveiled by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF). An in-depth analysis of Texas electric utility data shows that transitioning Texas to 100% wind and solar electricity generation by 2030 would cause yearly costs to increase nearly tenfold. For a resolution that claims to fight economic injustice as well as climate change, the Green New Deal isn’t much of a deal after all. TPPF researchers found that if the Green New...

Democrat media/government operatives have pivoted to feigned shock and surprise as the Mueller report dropped Friday without a single new indictment or any other action that would support the long-proffered narrative that the “walls are closing in” on President Trump and his supposed band of ne’er-do-well Russian traitors. If they were genuine, then they would be sub-sentient in cognitive ability. In reality, they are corrupt and it is long past time to indulge their petty fantasies of revenge for 2016. The investigation was never going to find success in ensnaring the Commander in Chief. Democrats and media pundits were aware...