06/03/2026
Nathan Seltzer from our Center for The American Future breaks down how the Texas Association of School Boards and the Texas Association of Counties are fighting to stop government transparency for taxpayers.
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06/02/2026
Most Americans think of Iran as a threat confined to the Middle East. But what if some of the networks advancing Iran's revolutionary agenda were operating openly here in Texas?
In a new op-ed, TPPF Senior Fellow Sam Westrop examines a network of Pakistani Shia Islamist organizations, clerics, charities, and institutions with ties to Iranian regime-aligned movements and individuals linked to designated terrorist organizations.
The article raises serious questions about foreign influence, terror financing, visa vetting, and the enforcement of existing federal laws. It also highlights how some of these organizations have built connections and fundraising operations within Texas communities while maintaining ideological and organizational links to Iran-backed movements abroad.
Read the full article linked in the comments.
06/02/2026
Texas regulators just approved $33 billion in new power lines — without a single legislative vote.
The lifetime cost to ratepayers? Nearly $100 billion.Your share? About $150 more on your electric bill. Every year.
The plan is called STEP — the Strategic Transmission Expansion Plan. Texas landowners are already receiving notices that their property may be seized to build it.
So what do Texans get in return?
According to independent research from Life:Powered — almost nothing.
These lines move electricity. They don’t create it. Experts say building gas generation closer to actual demand could deliver a more reliable grid for roughly the same cost — without taking anyone’s land.
So who actually benefits? 💰 Transmission companies collecting an estimated $25 billion in guaranteed returns🏭 Large industrial consumers chasing corporate emissions targets
This isn’t about Texas families. Texans deserve to know who this plan actually serves.
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06/02/2026
Texas regulators have approved $33 billion in new high-voltage transmission lines, a project whose total lifetime cost could approach $100 billion for Texas ratepayers.
In new research, Life:Powered's Brent Bennett examines independent modeling that raises serious questions about whether these lines are necessary.
The research finds that the proposed 765-kV transmission plan would do little to reduce electricity prices, would primarily enable additional wind and solar development, and could be replaced by natural gas generation near growing demand centers in West Texas at no additional cost.
The authors also explore concerns about how the project was approved, the demand forecasts used to justify it, the financial incentives driving transmission expansion, and the impact on Texas landowners facing potential eminent domain proceedings.
With billions of dollars at stake and Texas ratepayers ultimately paying the bill, this debate deserves far more public attention.
Read the full op-ed at the link in the comments.
06/02/2026
Mexico's narco-state model is simple: the state provides the cartels with official protection and access to public goods in exchange for finances, votes, and deniable actors when needed.
Now, in the wake of two CIA officers being killed in Mexico, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is struggling to find a formula to sideline the narco-political class that never regarded her (a true ideologue and radical) as one of their own. She is also likely resolved to never give a single one of them up to the United States.
An American-led security order is emerging across the hemisphere, and Mexico will be in it. It is in Mexico’s profound interest to codify it by deliberation and treaty, a security counterpart to USMCA’s role in trade. It is not in Mexico’s interest to have it emerge by reaction and fiat, but that is what is happening now.
President Sheinbaum can claim "soberanía" is non-negotiable, but Mexico is hardly even fully sovereign. That isn’t because of the Americans, but because of choices the Morena regime made long ago. The state shared its sovereignty with the cartels, and it is reaping what was sowed.
06/01/2026
How do young men become men?
Part of it is biology. A large part is culture.
But how can young men be cultivated in a culture without the existence of true role models?
06/01/2026
Since Woodrow Wilson’s presidency, there has been a major shift toward delegating powers to the executive branch. Congressional gridlock exacerbates this by shattering Americans’ faith in the legislative process.
05/30/2026
The Texas Scholars Program High School Policy Fellowship is your chance to get in the arena and learn how to defend liberty. Through a semester-long initiative, you’ll engage with policy experts, legislators, and media professionals, gaining hands-on experience and mentorship. Applications close June 30th for Fall 2026.
If you’re a high school junior or senior ready to take on the challenge of shaping the future, apply now at texaspolicy.com/tsp
05/29/2026
Follow this "success sequence" and you're more likely to reduce poverty and promote family success:
🎓Graduate high school
💼Get a job
💍Get married before having kids
05/28/2026
Iran’s proxy war isn’t coming. It’s already here.
Two days after testifying before Congress, the DOJ charged a senior commander of an Iranian-backed militia with plotting attacks on American soil, including a synagogue in Manhattan.
He allegedly coordinated through Mexican cartel smuggling networks to carry out those attacks.
This is exactly what I warned Congress about.
Iran doesn’t fight conventional wars. They use proxies, criminal networks, and cartel corridors to maintain plausible deniability — while the violence gets closer to home.
Our southern border isn’t just an immigration issue. It’s a national security vulnerability, and our enemies know it better than most Americans do.
The Al-Saadi case is a warning. Every day we ignore this threat, it grows.
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