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Texas was born in defiance. If government can tax your home until you lose it, you do not own it. HD-5 voters decide whether Texans remain free.

By LTC Dewey Collier (Ret.) Candidate for Texas House District 5 For nine years, House District 5 has had the same Representative. For nine years, he has asked to be sent back to Austin. For nine years, rural Texans have watched water planning expand, reservoir proposals advance, and eminent domain remain untouched at its core. Now, as the Marvin Nichols Reservoir gains renewed attention, we are finally hearing that it is “a problem.” But acknowledging a problem is not the s

Branding vs. Remedy There is a difference between saying you’re fighting  and actually drafting solutions. At the recent censure presentation of Cole Hefner, Rains County Republicans laid out specific votes by the incumbent that they believe conflict with Republican legislative priorities — including Democrat vice chairs with subpoena power, record-setting budgets, new state-run funds, and expanded bureaucratic programs. Then Dewey stood up and did something different. He di

Why Is the Government Funding Halal — But Charging Soldiers for Scripture?

Across Texas and across the country, people are waking up to the same problem. But they often see it from different angles. Judicial reform advocates see rogue courts rewriting laws from the bench. Parents and school activists see ideological indoctrination replacing education. National security advocates see foreign legal systems attempting to reshape American governance. Fiscal conservatives see government spending and taxation expanding far beyond constitutional limits. Th

Texas SB-2 redirected billions into Education Savings Accounts. What could that money have done for property tax relief and teacher healthcare parity instead?

Let’s say this plainly. Certified classroom teachers are not the problem. The system above them is. For years, politicians have hidden behind teachers while protecting the administrative machine that keeps expanding, keeps mandating, and keeps driving property taxes higher. When voters demand relief, they’re told: “You can’t cut that — it hurts teachers.” That’s manipulation. Because what keeps growing isn’t teacher pay — it’s bureaucracy. While teachers manage overcrowded cl

Brittany McGlone was murdered in 2007. Her family has lived with that absence, that silence, and that unanswered question for nearly two decades. Justice delayed in a murder case is not just a statistic — it is a wound that never fully closes. I want to explain something clearly and carefully. If the Sword & Shield Acts were law in Texas today, they would not predetermine the outcome of Brittany’s case. They would not force a conviction. They would not dictate prosecutorial s

2026 Texas House District 5 sample ballots graphic featuring Camp, Rains, Smith, Titus, Upshur, and Wood Counties with “Know Before You Vote” messaging

Most Texans have never read a case on sovereign immunity — but many have felt it. When courts dismiss cases before legality is tested, accountability disappears. What does immunity actually look like in real life, and who is supposed to be sovereign in Texas?

The 2026 Republican Primary ballot includes several propositions addressing property taxes, border security, public safety, education policy, and parental rights. You can review the full list here: 👉 2026 Republican Primary Ballot Propositions But the real issue isn’t what voters signal. It’s what legislators actually build. Property Taxes Eliminating school Maintenance & Operations (M&O) taxes statewide would cost roughly $40 billion per year if spending were frozen . That

by Dewey Collier Samuel Adams settled this argument before there was even a United States. In 1748, he warned that powerful men would twist language — that they would redefine “loyalty” to mean obedience to a person, rather than fidelity to a constitution. He wrote: “It is a very great mistake to imagine that the Object of Loyalty is the Authority and Interest of one individual Man.” That sentence should be engraved over every legislative chamber in Texas. Because what we are

At its core, the Marvin Nichols project exposes a fundamental constitutional inversion—one that Texans should no longer accept. What is the Marvin Nichols Reservoir? The Marvin Nichols Reservoir is a proposed water project that would permanently flood hundreds of thousands of acres in Northeast Texas to supply water to the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, despite existing conservation and demand-management alternatives. When the State forces one citizen to surrender land so that

Yes—and that is precisely why they matter. For decades, the Marvin Nichols Reservoir has hovered over Northeast Texas like a permanent storm cloud. It is not funded. It is not permitted. It is not under construction. And yet, because it remains embedded in the Texas State Water Plan, it continues to pose a real and ongoing threat to rural landowners. With the Marvin Nichols Reservoir still embedded in the Texas State Water Plan, the question is no longer theoretical: what, i

Voters across East Texas tell us the same thing again and again: it feels like Austin listens to insiders more than the people back home. That concern isn’t abstract. It’s rooted in how lobbying works at the Capitol — who hires lobbyists, how political funds are used, and how clearly those relationships are disclosed to the public. That’s why our campaign has been taking a hard look at lobbying in Austin and its impact on everyday voters . How lobbying disclosure is supposed