Spirit of Texas

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

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

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