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What Flock Actually Sells

The Pole Is Not the Product Flock did not sell Texas a camera. It leased cities a searchable graph of other people's cars. People keep arguing about a black box on a pole. Police chiefs hold up recovered trucks and missing children. Opponents hold up 1984. City managers hold up a vendor invoice and a transparency portal. All three groups talk about a camera because a camera photographs well and fits on a council agenda. Here is the thing the agenda never quite names. Flock Safety did not become a national fixture by selling poles. It sold a searchable graph of…

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Voter Citizenship Checks

Privacy Protections or Roadblock to Election Integrity? On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked key federal tools meant to help states verify whether people on the voter rolls are actually U.S. citizens. The ruling in League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security vacates the 2025 updates to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, better known as SAVE. For those of us who’ve spent years watching how government systems either protect or undermine self-government, this isn’t just another administrative-law skirmish. It strikes at the heart of federalism, election integrity, and whether outdated privacy statutes from the Watergate era…

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Why Ken Paxton Crushed Cornyn

Washington Turned John Cornyn Into an Establishment Figure Ben Domenech, who once worked for John Cornyn, cut straight through the spin on Laura Ingraham’s show just prior to polls closing in the Texas GOP Senate runoff: “Washington sucks it all out of you. He’s more establishment now. I wish he was still more conservative.” That one line is the perfect epitaph for Cornyn’s long political career in the upper chamber. On Tuesday, Ken Paxton didn’t just beat him: he destroyed him. Paxton cruised to a decisive 64-36 victory in the runoff after Cornyn had barely edged him out in the March…

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The Battle of San Jacinto, 190 Years On

18 Minutes That Changed History Imagine the muggy afternoon of April 21, 1836, along the banks of the San Jacinto River. Tall grass swayed in the breeze as nearly 900 Texian soldiers, many still raw volunteers, silently prepared for battle. Across a short stretch of prairie, Santa Anna’s army of about 1,400 rested in camp, confident that the fleeing Texans posed no immediate threat. Then, at 4:30 p.m., the order came: “Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!” In just 18 furious minutes, the Texas Revolution would be won. This is the story of San Jacinto, the stunning victory that secured Texas independence…

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The $38 Million Red Flag

How Foreign Money Triggered a Full Compliance Meltdown When ActBlue’s own board chair, Kimberly Peeler-Allen, told the New York Times in early April 2026 that “less than 1 percent” of the platform’s 2024-cycle contributions showed “signs” of foreign origin, the math should have stopped everyone cold. ActBlue processed billions in small-dollar donations that cycle. One percent of that haul is $38 million, money that carried internal red flags for potential illegal foreign-national contributions under federal law. That isn’t a rounding error. That is real political oxygen: enough to bankroll ad blitzes, field offices, and turnout operations in multiple tight races. Yet…

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The Runaway Scrape

Terror, Mud, and the Flight for Life, 190 Years On Imagine the panic sweeping across Texas settlements in late March and early April 1836. News of the Alamo’s fall and the Goliad Massacre traveled faster than any courier. “Santa Anna is coming; he will show no mercy!” Families abandoned homes in haste, loading wagons with whatever they could carry while burning crops and cabins to deny supplies to the enemy. Rain turned roads into rivers of mud. Children cried. Women drove oxen through flooded crossings. Disease stalked every camp. This was the Runaway Scrape, the desperate eastward exodus of thousands of…

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Remember Goliad: Palm Sunday of Sorrow

The Goliad Massacre and the Battle of Coleto Creek, 190 Years On Imagine the cold gray dawn of Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. Nearly 400 Texian prisoners, many still nursing wounds from battle, marched out of Presidio La Bahía in three columns, believing they were being paroled, exchanged, or sent home. The air was crisp, the grass wet with dew. Then, a half-mile from the fort, the guards halted. Commands rang out in Spanish. Muskets rose. In an instant, the prairie erupted in gunfire, smoke, and screams. This is the story of the Goliad Massacre, the darkest chapter of the Texas…

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Texas Enforces the Covenant

Texas Enforces Sovereignty on Licenses While Washington debates the full rollout of The Great American Covenant, the solemn national pact built on the Assimilation Act, SCAM Act, and SAVE America Act, Texas isn't waiting. We're already putting the principles into practice at the state level. “Entry by merit. Citizenship by character and probation. Voting by verified Americans only.” That vision isn't just federal legislation anymore; it's Lone Star policy right now. The recent Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation (TDLR) crackdown on professional licenses and the 2025 gutting of in-state tuition for illegal aliens show exactly how the Covenant works on…

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Fisking French

David French’s “MAGA” Smear Proves He Doesn’t Know Texas A 25-year Texas politico reads the latest New York Times lecture on Christian character, and finds the same old outsider blind spot. I’ve been active in Texas politics for more than a quarter century: knocking on doors, phone banking, running precincts, serving as a Presiding Election Judge, and watching this state transform from a purple battleground into the solid red powerhouse that keeps delivering Republican supermajorities. So when David French, the Connecticut-based New York Times columnist, parachutes in with his Sunday piece “James Talarico Is a Christian X-Ray,” I recognize the familiar…

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The Fall of the Alamo

No Quarter: The Fall of the Alamo – Dawn of Sacrifice, 190 Years On Imagine the bone-deep exhaustion inside those battered adobe walls on the night of March 5, 1836. For twelve straight days the Mexican artillery had thundered without mercy, day and night. Bugles blared, regimental bands played taunting marches, and the relentless cannonade kept every defender on the walls or jumping at shadows. Then, suddenly, as darkness fell on the twelfth night, an eerie silence descended. The guns fell quiet. The music stopped. For the first time since the siege began, the Alamo slept. It was a trap. This…

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