The Lone Star Conservative

Fort Bend County is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, and we unpack why it matters to anyone who pays taxes, votes locally, or thinks “it can’t happen here.” I walk through the allegations surrounding the Fort...

Four days into early voting, I’m not interested in moral lectures. I’m interested in outcomes and that starts with a plan to vote before life blows up your schedule. Waiting until the last day sounds fine right up until...

Fifty three people died in a locked trailer on a Texas road, and it forces a question most politicians dodge: what kind of incentives are we creating at the border, and who pays when the worst case scenario becomes...

700 border enforcement cases in a month sounds like a crackdown, but when you put it next to the size of the illegal immigration problem in Texas, it raises a tougher question: are we actually getting the results voters...

A cold front hits Houston and we start where Texans always start: weather, community, and what’s happening right here at home. Then the tone flips fast, because the headlines do too. We unpack a disturbing border...

Early voting is days away, and that’s when excuses, confusion, and half-finished ballots start deciding Texas elections. We make the case for a simple approach that wins close races: vote early, vote the whole ballot...

Houston’s finances are telling the truth even when politicians will not. We start with the national debt clock screaming past $40 trillion and bring it straight home to the affordability crisis Texans feel every month...

A single headline kicks the door open: President Donald Trump authorizes a military execution by firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooter. From there, we follow the story into uncomfortable territory, because...

Houston nearly chased down a $150 million federal DOJ grant, then slammed the brakes. We walk through what happened, why Mayor John Whitmire’s team says staff “prematurely submitted” the application, and how Houston...

A Texas public university paying thousands per head to “recruit” international students sounds like a niche paperwork story, until you ask the obvious question: who gets pushed to the side when schools chase enrollment...

A lot of political talk stays at the level of slogans, but real power shows up in the institutions that decide who gets to participate. We start the morning with the Paxton-Talarico race climate and the way influencers...

A city official steals money meant for affordable housing, a tax preparer plays games with payroll taxes, and the public ends up footing the bill twice. We dig into two Houston-area fraud cases and ask the question most...

Something strange happened in the gun rights world: top ATF leadership sat down at a pro-gun conference and talked like they’d actually read the Second Amendment. I’m joined by Emily Taylor from Armed Attorneys to break...

A quiet per diem change can be more than a budget tweak. When the Texas Ethics Commission floated a proposed per diem increase with little notice, the backlash wasn’t just about money, it was about how fast transparency...

Secret dinners, school threats, pesticide disclosure, and hacked surveillance cameras all have one thing in common: they thrive when the public cannot see what is happening. We start with a Texas Ethics Commission...