Texas
March 31, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, Texas student, 15, may have been struggling with ‘academics’ when he pulled gun on teacher: police. The Post reports, Investigators believe the 15-year-old who shot a teacher at a prestigious Texas high school, before turning the gun on himself, may have been “experiencing academic difficulties.” The Comal County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that the unnamed teen used a .357 revolver — to shoot an unidentified female
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March 3, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From the New York Post, 3 hero Austin cops who stopped deadly bar shooting [are] expected to be dragged before a grand jury thanks to George Floyd-era policy. You read that correctly. The hero cops who kept that African immigrant (“Property of Allah”) from killing even more innocent people in his terrorist rampage are the bad guys in far-left Austin, Texas. All because George Soros hates America. The Post reports,
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March 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, ‘Indicators’ of possible terrorism in deadly Austin mass shooting: FBI. That thing that never happens happened again, this time down in super-liberal Austin, Texas. The Hill reports, The FBI says there are “indicators” suggesting a possible terrorism connection in a shooting near a popular bar in Austin, Texas, that left two people dead and at least 14 others injured. The suspected gunman is also dead, according
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February 1, 2026 — Bill Glahn
From The Hill newspaper, A federal judge in Texas on Saturday ordered the release of the 5-year-old boy and father who were transported to a detention center in the state amid the Trump administration’s immigration operations in Minnesota. The judge is based in San Antonio, Texas. U.S. District Judge Fred Biery (Clinton appointee) issued the ruling in a much-followed case. The date on the judge’s order is February 31. Everyone but a Clinton-appointed judge
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December 8, 2025 — John Hinderaker
I am so old, I can remember when Texas had a Democratic governor–most recently, Ann Richards, a vicious left-winger, who departed in 1995 after losing to George W. Bush. And a Democratic senator–most recently, Bob Krueger, who filled the last five months of Lloyd Bentsen’s term, and left office in 1993. So it has been a long drought for Texas Democrats. But hope springs eternal. To their credit, Democrats have
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November 20, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Fifth Circuit Judge Jerry Smith has issued a dissent from the the three-judge district court panel’s 2-1 ruling prelimarily enjoining the Texas redistricting plan. The Fifth Circuit majority opinion was issued without the dissent and more or less hidden from view, thought it has exploded on X. Rick Hasen has posted Judge Smith’s dissent in his post at Hasen’s Election Law Blog (it’s a group site, but Hasen is the
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September 28, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday I noted the Texas shooting at a youth baseball field in Katy, Texas. Three men — for some reason they were not described as “Texas men” — were involved in the incident that resulted in the wounding of a coach shielding the boys. The initial local press report was unable to name the three men: Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah (below). The local authorities convey
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September 27, 2025 — Scott Johnson
The September 26 edition of Tablet’s The Scroll draws attention to a story I would have missed but for its note. On Thursday, three men—Mahmood Abdelsalam Rababah, Ahmad Mawed, and Mustafa Mohammad Matalgah—were arrested after firing guns toward a youth baseball field in Houston, causing players and coaches to flee for cover, according to Fox News. One coach was shot while shielding the boys; the bullet struck his shoulder, and
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August 4, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Texas Democrats have hightailed it out of the state to deny Republicans a quorum in the state legislature. One of Joni Mitchell’s songs is titled “Refuge of the Roads.” That’s where Texas Democrats have taken refuge — on their way to Illinois. Why does Illinois get the business? They’ve got tradition going for them. Wisconsin Democrats took the refuge of the roads to Illinois for a similar purpose in 2011
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August 4, 2025 — John Hinderaker
Texas Republicans are trying to update their Congressional map in a way that will provide fairer representation for Republicans. (Fairer, in any event, in the context of the gerrymandering for which Democrats have long been notorious.) Texas House Democrats have fled the state to prevent establishment of a quorum, and thus defeat the redistricting. This is nothing new. Democrats did the same thing in Wisconsin a few years ago, and
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March 26, 2025 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the Washington Post ran a story on Rep. Jasmine Crockett under the headline “Rep. Crockett refers to Greg Abbott, who is disabled, as ‘Governor Hot Wheels’’ along with a creative variation on the obligatory “Republicans pounce” subhead. Jewish World Review runs the Washington Post story under the somewhat more entertaining headline “Crackpot Crockett refers to Greg Abbott, who is disabled, as ‘Governor Hot Wheels.'” To my purposes, the story
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June 11, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Texas has long been known for stockyards, but now it may also be known as the home of a stock exchange. The Wall Street Journal reports: Earlier this week, the [Texas Stock Exchange] announced that it had raised about $120 million to launch a Dallas-based stock exchange that would let companies save money on costs of complying with NYSE and Nasdaq listing rules. The TXSE, as it is known for
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May 29, 2024 — John Hinderaker
There are a number of states that we think of as conservative, and that are dominated politically by Republicans, but that are not, in policy terms, as much to the right as one might expect. For quite a while, Texas has been on that list. It has been effectively governed by a handful of political insiders who are not, for the most part, particularly conservative. But that appears to be
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March 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
On Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Texas cannot enforce its border control law, SB 4, because it conflicts with federal law that preempts the field of immigration. The decision is here. Jonathan Turley analyzes the issue here. Briefly, Turley thinks the panel decision is a correct interpretation of the Constitution and of case law on preemption. The constitutional issue turns on the
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February 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Great Sort is under way, as normal people move to red states and liberals move to blue states. (That last is hypothetical and hasn’t actually been observed.) When massive numbers began leaving blue states like California and New York for red states like Texas and Florida, many conservatives worried that those blue staters might bring their bad voting habits with them. Happily, that doesn’t seem to have happened. This
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January 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden Administration has dealt a devastating blow to America by opening up the southern border to all comers. The influx of illegals threatens our national security and our economy, and it has placed an intolerable burden on the border states. How intolerable, is demonstrated by the panic that seizes blue cities when they are faced with a tiny fraction of the burden suffered by communities near the open border.
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January 24, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Texas Governor Greg Abbott is standing his ground in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s dreadful ruling on Monday to allow the Biden Administration to tear down the fencing Texas put up along its southern border to effect what the Biden regime refuses to do: Control the border.
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