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Affordability Takes Center Stage as Lawmakers Clash Over What's Driving Higher Costs

As Americans continue to grapple with rising grocery bills, housing costs, child care expenses, and utility prices, one issue is...READ MORE

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Rep. Troy Nehls: "The Fraud Ledger allows Americans to see the waste, fraud, and abuse the Trump Administration has rooted out of our federal government. The Trump Administration is winning the war on fraud."

Rep. Wesley Hunt: "Communism has failed everywhere it’s has been tried. If the Democrat Party wants to embrace the Democratic Socialists of America, they’ll have to answer for the results."

Rep. Vicente Gonzalez: "Sixty one years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Today, extremists in Washington are hellbent on eroding these protections and turning the clock back on freedom. Why? To rig the system and stay in power."

Rep. Lizzie Fletcher: "A vote to confirm Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is a vote for an Attorney General who promises to deny reproductive health care access in all 50 states and to deny Americans the freedoms and rights that the Department of Justice was established to protect in the first place."

Anthony Fauci Faces Contempt Vote by Lawmakers — By Texas Politics' Payton Anderson —A Senate committee is set to vote today on whether to hold former COVID Czar Anthony Fauci in contempt of...

Affordability Takes Center Stage as Lawmakers Clash Over What's Driving Higher Costs— By Texas Politics' Raeylee Barefield —As Americans continue to grapple with rising grocery bills, housing costs, child care expenses, and utility prices, one issue is...

Brandon Gill Warns Democratic Socialists Are Taking Over the Party— By Texas Politics' Payton Anderson —Democratic Socialists continue to take over nearly every conversation about the Democratic Party, and Representative Brandon Gill (R-TX) is not...

EPA Grants $500K to Revitalize Southwest Houston and Ford Bend Communities— By Texas Politics' Raeylee Barefield —Congressman Al Green (D) announced a $500,000 EPA Brownfields Assessment Grant that will help identify...

Ted Cruz Warns Muslim Brotherhood Has Built Network Inside U.S. Institutions— By Texas Politics' Raeylee Barefield —Senator Ted Cruz (R) is raising alarms over what he describes as a decades-long effort by the Muslim Brotherhood to...

Heelstone Acquires 188 MW Solar Project in East Texas— By Texas Politics' Raeylee Barefield —Heelstone Renewable Energy has acquired the Cypress Pointe Solar Project in East Texas, adding...

 

LONESTAR is written by Javier Manjarres and Raeylee Barefield

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