In the first half of fiscal 2024 – from October 2023 to March 2024 – Border Patrol Agents on the U.S.-Mexico Border caught 24,214 Chinese illegal immigrants who had come into the country by walking through unfenced areas. An already frightening, and growing surge of illegal Chinese immigrants have replaced individuals from Hispanic countries as the largest group crossing into the United States – and its triggering another National Security concern in the Nation's Capitol.

“No SEAL should ever have to choose between the needs of their children and the needs of their country – and no matter where we are in the world, family is always at the forefront of our minds," said Master Chief Navy SEAL (Ret.) Jon Echols, marking April's "Month of the Military Child" designation while the SEALKIDS Organization joined communities across the nation to support the most vulnerable of the Military Community – its children.

After reports surfaced last week that State Representative Gary VanDeaver received thousands of dollars in donations from pro-Taxpayer Funded Lobbying Supporters in Austin – while voting against legislation to ban lobbying by taxpayer-funded government entities such as Cities or Counties – Mr. VanDeaver (HD-1) has now been hit with two new ethics complaints while in the middle of a hotly-contested Primary Run-Off Election in Northeast Texas.

"It's been humbling to receive the support I did from voters in the March primary,” said candidate Trey Wharton, adding, "House District 12 represents the birthplace of Texas, it consists of hardworking men & women who want their conservative values protected, and now we must make sure we get all our voters out plus those who supported John Harvey Slocum – who came in third but has since endorsed my candidacy,” said Wharton, announcing a new list of endorsements supporting his effort.

The Kids Online Safety Act, or "KOSA" as its called – began as a bipartisan bill meant to help protect the nation's youth from predators and inappropriate content on the internet. To accomplish this goal, the original bill gave enforcement powers to each of the Nation's 50 States via each State's Attorneys General. This quickly, however, caused an uproar within the LGBTQ+ community.

“Secretary Mayorkas took an oath to protect the country from enemies – both foreign and domestic,” said Texas Cong. Michael McCaul during a historic & dramatic House Homeland Security Committee hearing this morning, just hours before joining a select group of House leaders who officially delivered Articles of Impeachment against Mr. Mayorkas to the U.S. Senate shortly after 2:30 p.m. for repeatedly violating his oath, for defying our nation’s laws, and for failing to protect its citizens.

A confidential internal memo circulated among top Democrat Party donors nationwide last week has revealed serious concerns about the amount of support Donald Trump is pulling from the party's usually reliable, but now fractured base. "If we're to blindly register non-voters and get them on the rolls, we would be distinctly aiding Trump’s quest," said the internal memo – reflecting a growing level of panic within the party over its "non-partisan" Voter Registration efforts.

An official at Texas A&M was caught on tape saying that DEI programs were simply being “rebranded.” At the University of Texas-Tyler an administrator said they were getting around SB 17 by “being creative.” At Texas Tech an administrator said DEI Programs were now all operating under the "Campus Access & Engagement Program." These frantic administrators seem unaware that the biggest indictment against DEI is – it doesn’t work. Sen. Creighton's right to remind university leaders across the state – it is Texas law.

The Democrat New York State Supreme Court Judge overseeing yet another Trump-related trial has refused to remove himself for conflicts of interest following news reports that disclosed his daughter and her Political Consulting Firm made millions working for past & present clients such as Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential Campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris's Campaign, as well as Congressman now-California Democrat Senate candidate Adam Schiff – a clear conflict of interest.

This time next year I’ll be graduating from High School, preparing to head off to college. I have friends a few years older who are planning weddings, and friends ahead of them who are settling into their first home – with their first child. The November Election will decide the future my generation grows up in – that we'll raise a family in. The stakes could not be higher, and it's too pivotal a time to keep the reigns of our nation in the hands of a “well meaning elderly man with a poor memory.”

Denver has “received too many migrants,” and has run out of resources. “New York gives you more, Chicago gives you more – so I suggest you go there, where there's longer-term shelter. There are also more job opportunities there. If you stay here, you're going to suffer,” said Andres Carrera, the so-called “Newcomer Liaison” in the "Sanctuary City" of Denver, caught on video imploring a group of illegal aliens in the Mile High City to leave. “The opportunities are over,” he said, speaking in Spanish.

"It is quite shocking – in the midst of a crisis at our Southern Border and an unprecedented crime wave – that the Biden Administration has chosen to expend tax dollars and vital law enforcement resources on a program that risks bloating state voter rolls with ineligible and non-citizen voters. It is not proper for the Federal government to push partisan groups into the voting process in Mississippi, or any other state," said Mississippi Secretary of State Michael Watson.

With a majority of Mainstreet businesses in Texas grappling with an uncertain economic climate and the deadline to file this year’s taxes, we could use another round of common sense, pro-innovation tax policies. And in a Congress that's taken few steps forward on legislation of any kind, "The Tax Relief for American Families & Workers Act of 2024" provides a glimmer of hope. Many Texans could use some relief from the economic woes they’ve endured under the Joe Biden White House.

Accidental opioid overdoses are on the rise in Texas. In fact, 1-in-4 Texans has personally experienced an opioid overdose – or knows someone who has. Emergency Room visits for opioid misuse among seniors rose 220% in 2021, and Veterans of Iraq & Afghanistan are at increased risk of being prescribed opioids for pain. Since the best time to break a habit is before it starts, it’s been encouraging to see Congress heed the call to make non-opioid pain medications more available & affordable.

“Despite Secretary Mayorkas finally admitting there's a border crisis after three years of lying to Congress – and to the American people – he continues to incentivize unlawful entry into our country with his mass Catch & Release and mass-parole programs,” said House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green, after the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security reported more than 256,000 "encounters" with unauthorized migrants in February, the worst February on record.​​​​​

“They’re goin’ to put y’all back in chains!” Joe Biden threatened a group of Black voters back in 2012 – when he was running for re-election as vice president. Luckily, Donald Trump is a new kind of Republican who's not afraid to point these things out. Yet once again, Democrats and the sock-puppet political press has spilled their bloody entrails over the often-colorful language Mr. Trump uses to vividly describe the dramatic doom America will be in if Mr. Biden has four more years in the White House.

"Heinous crimes committed by the Tren de Aragua – like the rapes of multiple children and the murders of retired police officer José Luis Sánchez Valera and nursing student Laken Riley – must stop," said Cong. Tony Gonzales, as he joined with U.S. Senator Marco Rubio & Rep. María Elvira Salazar in demanding that President Biden formally designate the vicious "Tren de Aragua" Venezuelan prison gang as a Transnational Criminal Organization.

​​​​​​Just as Midwestern Voters soured on liberals in the 1980s and started supporting Ronald Reagan's Blue-Collar Republican message, so too are settled-in Mexicans seeming to sour on today's leftist-liberal excesses – and moving over to the GOP. In California's recent primary, Democrats cast 59% of the total votes, and Republicans cast 39% – down from Biden's 63%-34% primary margin over Trump in 2020. That suggests gains for Republicans in the Hispanic & Asian Communities.

“District Attorneys who choose not to prosecute criminals appropriately have created unthinkable damage across Texas," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, announcing his proposal of a new rule to enhance the reporting requirements for Texas' District & County Attorneys who preside over counties with a population of more 250,000.

The soft drinks are gone, "but 3-gallon jugs of Arizona Green Tea are still on the shelves." The good stuff – Dawn Dish Soap, L’Oreal Shampoo, Clairol Root Touch-Up hair kits, DayQuil, NyQuil, diapers, Cetaphil & Neutrogena – they're all either behind Plexiglass, available only at the counter – or under Lock & Key. "Other shelves, stretching entire aisles, are totally empty."