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February 10, 2025

Texas Senate passes bill to create education savings accounts, bill heads to House floor next

Texas State Director, Genevieve Collins joined KSAT to discuss the Senate Passing SB2, the Texas Education Freedom Act. Watch the full story here.

November 14, 2024

School choice expected to be a big priority for 89th Texas legislative session

Texas lawmakers can officially file proposals to change Texas law before they return to Austin for their legislative session in January. One likely change may overhaul every school district in […]

AFP
September 9, 2024

AFP-Texas Launches New Website for 2025 Agenda, Grassroots Push (Opens in new tab)

Americans for Prosperity-Texas (AFP-TX) and its sister organization The LIBRE Initiative-Texas unveiled a new website today for their new multi-year grassroots recruitment and advocacy push, “Freedom is Bigger in Texas,” featuring the organizations’ new agenda for the 2025 legislative session.

AFP
September 6, 2024

AFP enlisting a “visual force” next session and beyond (Opens in new tab)

After the success of “the grassroots” in sending a message to Texas House Republicans this year, Americans for Prosperity-Texas and its sister organization, the LIBRE Initiative-Texas, will hard-launch a campaign on Monday to recruit 100,000 “ambassador” activists to support its policy priorities into 2026.

Election Day Signs EG 05
August 19, 2024

It’s not just South Texas. Republicans are making gains with Latino voters in big cities, too. (Opens in new tab)

For years, Carmen Cavazos’ neighborhood in southeast Houston has voted reliably for Democrats up and down the ballot. In 2016, Hillary Clinton won 68% of the vote in Cavazos’ voting precinct, a mostly residential enclave of about 3,000 people near Hobby Airport.

July 30, 2024

Grossman addresses El Paso County Commissioners Court about proposed $173.8M certificate of obligation (Opens in new tab)

Yesterday our Chief Instigator, returning from work in Italy, called the El Paso County Commissioners Court from Newark Liberty International Airport to comment on agenda item 9A, which was a discussion about issuing $471.7 million in new debt, including $173.8 million in certificates of obligation.

July 29, 2024

El Paso County considers bond changes amid taxpayer concerns (Opens in new tab)

El Paso County Commissioners Court on Monday discussed potential changes to their upcoming November bond despite taxpayer pushb

Priorities
July 25, 2024

Examining VP Harris’ record of support for education after winning teachers’ union endorsement (Opens in new tab)

Vice President Kamala Harris is in Houston to speak at the American Federation of Teachers convention.

Fox news
July 17, 2024

Become Bilingual: Free ESL Classes Available at Southern Careers Institute (Opens in new tab)

The Libre Institute and Southern Careers Institute (SCI) have announced a partnership to provide free English as a second language (ESL) classes to the community.

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