Policy & Research

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

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

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

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

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?

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