Constitutional Defense

For generations, Americans have assumed that the Constitution would naturally guide the actions of government. But the truth is something our Founders understood well: The Constitution does not enforce itself.

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

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

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?

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