Texas Public Policy Foundation

09/04/2026

BREAKING: The Texas State Board of Education just voted in favor of stronger high school history standards that restore Western civilization, America’s founding principles, and the full context of our nation’s exceptional story to Texas classrooms.

This victory matters far beyond one curriculum or one state. It is about whether future generations will understand the civilization and nation they are tasked with preserving for their posterity.

If we want young Americans to defend freedom, they must first understand it. If we want them to protect our Constitution, they must know why it matters. If we want them to take pride in America, we must teach them the extraordinary history that made America possible.

Protecting that history — and passing it faithfully to the next generation — is not merely an educational responsibility. It is our patriotic duty.

09/04/2026

Is marriage still worth it?

Modern culture tends to view marriage as a sacrificial loss.

But studies show: married couples consistently report higher emotional well-being than their single peers.

09/03/2026

Quantum computing’s “ChatGPT moment” is coming, and it might catch us off guard. 👀
 
IonQ CEO Niccolo de Masi breaks down why the leap from research curiosity to “oh goodness gracious, what just happened” could happen faster than anyone expects, and why the gap between us and our geopolitical rivals matters more than people realize.
 
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09/02/2026

Defeating Islamist radicalization isn’t optional.

It’s a direct threat to Texas and incompatible with Western civilization.

Texas is ready.

09/01/2026

Mexico’s ruling party is publishing imagery of Americans as insects. Joshua Treviño breaks down the propaganda Morena is feeding its own people — and what it actually means for the US-Mexico relationship.
 
If any American politician published something even close to this about Mexicans, it would be the only story on every network. So why isn’t anyone talking about this?

08/31/2026

Your next steak might be funding a cartel. 🥩
 
800,000 head of cattle are smuggled into Mexico’s legitimate beef supply every year by Cartel Jalisco New Generation — and by the time that beef reaches American feed lots and grocery stores, the paperwork is so corrupted nobody knows where it actually came from.
 
You could be sitting at Texas Roadhouse right now funding a foreign terrorist organization and not even know it.
 
Jesse Kelly sits down with Ammon Blair of the Texas Public Policy Foundation to expose what’s really inside America’s food supply.

08/28/2026

Your property taxes are supposed to go towards your public schools, instead 60 cents on the dollar are being steered out of the classroom into, among other things, the pockets of superintendents who are making more than the governor. There is an Education Cartel in Texas and the Texas Association of School Boards sits right at the top of it.

08/27/2026

A Houston doctor was advertising in Mexico to coach illegal aliens into free hospital care.
 
Rep. Tom Oliverson, MD witnessed it firsthand — and TPPF’s Brooke explains who actually pays the bill.
 
This is what “uncompensated care” really means.
 
Full episode on the TPPF Spotlight podcast on YouTube

08/26/2026

The current state of local government bureaucracy and regulation has led to swelling budgets. This places an increasing tax burden on Texans in a time where affordability across nearly every sector is a major issue. The Texas legislature should expand the scope of the Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office from state agencies to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse at the local level.

The current state of local government bureaucracy and regulation has led to swelling budgets. This places an increasing tax burden on Texans in a time where affordability across nearly every sector is a major issue. Key points: The federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has used a wide a...

08/26/2026

561 superintendents in Texas earn more money than the governor. 16 make more than $400,000 a year, that’s higher than the salary of the President of The United States.