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Get our free mobile app Texas House Democrats know they are going to lose. Maybe not this week. Maybe not next week. But at some point, they will have to vote on voter integrity legislation and they will lose. They know this and the media knows this. Yet, the Democrats are willing to kill other pieces of legislation that would help so many, just so they can vacation in Washington and be seen on CNN and MSNBC. While all the focus has been on Democrats killing voter integrity legislation, there are other pieces of legislation that are less partisan that will die if Democrats decide to hold up i...

Get our free mobile app As expected, House Democrats broke quorum on Tuesday. In order for the the House to start business, they must have two-thirds, 100 members, present. Because so many House Democrats fled to Washington, D.C., only 80 members were present on Tuesday. That led to the House voting to bring back lawmakers, even if they must be arrested. They can only be arrested if they are in Texas, however. The vote to bring back the House Democrats passed 76-4, with four Democrats opposed. According to the Texas Tribune, a Call of the House was also voted and approved 76-4:

Texas House Democrats Say They Will Stay In D.C. Texas House Democrats have fled Texas and they have no plans of coming back anytime soon. More than 51 House Democrats, enough to break a quorum, packed up and left on Monday. They boarded charted buses and flew on private plans to Washington, D.C. all to avoid voting on legislation dealing with Voter Integrity. Democrats claim the bill amounts to voter suppression. If there aren't enough lawmakers for a quorum in the House, than no work can be done. No bills can be passed and work will come to a close. Eyes are also on the Texas Senate as Demo...

Get our free mobile app A few weeks ago, the Texas Supreme Court ruled, rightly so, that victims and their families would not be able to hold Academy Sports and Outdoors responsible for the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas in 2017. Academy Sports and Outdoors did everything right. They ran Devin Kelley's background check, and it came back clean. There was nothing stopping Academy from selling Kelley a firearm. There was no way for the retailer to know that the sale would lead to a church shooting and the deadliest mass shooting in Texas. While the shooter bears the main responsib...

Millions of Texans Are Traveling This Weekend Get our free mobile app Have you noticed there aren't as many people at the office today? If your office is anything like the radio station this afternoon, it's a ghost town, and I think I found where everyone went. According to AAA Texas, millions of Texans are hitting the road and the air beginning today for the Independence Day weekend. Lucky. Yesterday I wrote that nationally, 47.7 million Americans are traveling this weekend. That is a huge increase in travelers from this time last year. Of course this time last year we were all being told to...