FACT CHECK: Texas House Members Did NOT Vote to Raise Their Pensions
A recent mailer sent by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility to targeted legislative districts across Texas accuses various members of the Texas House of voting to increase their legislative pensions. The mailers, which featured imagery of the targeted lawmakers alongside Nancy Pelosi and stacks of $100 bills, claimed that the lawmakers were “profiting off [their] position” […]
Soros Continues Texas Spending Spree While GOP Fundraising Lags
George Soros, the liberal New York billionaire and prolific pollical donor who has long sought to transform the criminal justice system, made significant investments into progressive political organizations in Texas last year. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, Soros donated over $2.5 million to a handful of Democratic party organizations […]
Woke Wilks: Major Donors’ Business Promotes Leftist Initiatives
UPDATE (1/18/24): After The Texas Voice published this article on January 12, ProFrac Holding Corp. removed the “2023 ESG Progress Report” presentation from its website. An archived version of the company’s website showing the “ESG Progress Report” can be viewed here. A copy of ProFrac Holding Corp.’s now-deleted “2023 ESG Progress Report can be downloaded […]
Trump-Appointed FEC Commissioner Excoriates Rinaldi on Election Integrity
For over a week, Federal Election Commissioner James E. “Trey” Trainor has taken to Twitter to sound the alarm over a lack of an election integrity plan from the Republican Party of Texas and its Chairman, Matt Rinaldi. Trainor, an election lawyer with a long history in Texas politics, has served on the Federal Election Commission […]
George Soros Targets the Rio Grande Valley
New York-based Democratic megadonor George Soros is continuing to flood Texas with money supporting left-wing political causes. According to campaign finance reports filed with the Texas Ethics Commission, Soros has donated $100,000 to the Cameron County Democratic Party since August. Soros contributed $50,000 to the Cameron County Democratic Party on August 3, 2023, followed by […]
Censure-Mania Fizzles at Texas GOP
Over the past year, intraparty critics of the Republican leadership of the Texas House of Representatives have attempted to advance a narrative alleging that Republican voters are dissatisfied with the Texas House. This led to speculation among some that the Republican Party of Texas would widely invoke what is known as “Rule 44” to censure […]
Pro-Family Conservatives Attacked by Questionable “Family Project” Group
During the regular legislative session earlier this year, Republican lawmakers united to pass Senate Bill 14 to prohibit gender transitioning and gender modification of children in Texas. This legislation was applauded by Republican Party of Texas Chairman Matt Rinaldi in a recent fundraising letter in which he described Senate Bill 14, as well as other new conservative […]
Gregg County GOP Calls on Texas GOP to Reject Defend Texas Liberty Funding
The Gregg County Republican Party Executive Committee adopted a resolution Tuesday night condemning anti-Semitism and calling upon the Republican Party of Texas to donate funds it has received from the embattled Defend Texas Liberty PAC to “an appropriate Israeli/Jewish charity.” The resolution also calls on the Republican Party of Texas to no longer accept funds […]
Near-Majority of SREC Sign Statement Denouncing Jonathan Stickland and Condemning Anti-Semitism
Twenty-eight members of the State Republican Executive Committee (SREC), the governing body of the Republican Party of Texas, have now signed on to a revised statement published earlier this week condemning political consultant and former State Representative Jonathan Stickland. The statement, which was initially released on October 18, 2023 with the signatures of 13 SREC […]
Texas GOP in Crisis: Part 2
Since The Texas Voice’s initial report about the crisis facing the Republican Party of Texas after public revelations regarding former State Representative and Pale Horse Strategies owner Jonathan Stickland and the Defend Texas Liberty PAC’s ties to well-known anti-Semites, several significant developments have occurred. Defend Texas Liberty Donates Another $200,000 to the Republican Party of Texas After […]