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ByJohn P. David Maxwell spent five decades as a Texas lawman and nearly six years as Ken Paxton’s director of law enforcement. Paxton fired him for reporting him to the FBI. Now the lifelong Republican is endorsing James Talarico.
ByJohn P. “Every politician is bought and paid for” is a testable claim, because campaign money is public record. I pulled both donor ledgers in the Talarico-Paxton Senate race, ran the healthcare money through the FEC’s own data, and compared. They are not the same.
ByJohn P. His companies took $38 billion from taxpayers, his corporation pays a 0.4% tax rate, and he wants you to believe your food stamps are the problem.
ByJohn P. The “wall of separation” wasn’t built by atheists. It was built by Baptists with whip scars, and their heirs are tearing it down.
ByJohn P. In 1971 the SBC officially supported abortion access. Their own press praised Roe. Then politics happened, and they spent fifty years and billions erasing it.
ByJohn P. Market turbulence caused by the president’s own controllable decisions, 1990 to 2026 I don’t know about you, but sometimes I open up my investments…
ByJohn P. Cool. Let me walk you through your morning. Your alarm goes off. You check the weather, produced for free by a federal agency using…
ByJohn P. On January 24, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a citizen by the name Alex Pretti witnessed an ICE agent violently shove a woman to the…
ByJohn P. Way back in 1943 the US Army Signal Corps was putting out “AntiFa” messaging, because people actually understood and loathed the thought of fascism…
ByJohn P. Finding individuals who have genuinely recanted their views on the January 6th attack, specifically those who admit they were misled by Donald Trump, is…
ByJohn P. The stability of a nation is not defined by its rhetoric, but by the integrity of its underlying structures. When those structures begin to…
ByJohn P. Recent political rhetoric has targeted Afghan and Somali immigrants with vitriolic language, labeling them as “garbage,” claiming they are “terrorizing” our communities, and suggesting…
ByJohn P. There has been a tremendous, and increasing, amount of discussion about recent reports of the US ordering the destruction of small boats alleged to…
ByJohn P. In Alabama, the prison system operates a work release program, which sounds great. But there are some serious issues with the system that make…
ByJohn P. My buddy Steve sent me a link a while back to Derek Thompson’s blog post about the most interesting things he’s come across in…
ByJohn P. Before we get started, I hope we can agree that the value of a person is not measured by how much they personally financially…
ByJohn P. I’m not a Donald Trump fan. But credit where it’s due. He showed the world something incredibly important for every American voter, and honestly…
ByJohn P. The U.S. Trade Deficit: A Complete Logical and Economic Analysis One of the key themes in the last presidential election, and the dominant story…
ByJohn P. Have you seen the claims on social media that Nebraska will be “bankrupt within six months”? Here’s a compilation video with nearly 400,000 views…
ByJohn P. During Trump’s State of the Union address last night he claimed, “The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others, but…
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