Speak Out Today and Tuesday

We've got two redistricting-related opportunities for you to help advance conservative values. First, there's a town hall in Arlington at 10am if you're reading this before 10am. It's at the Arlington Subcourthouse.

Second, and this is one everyone can do, online comment submission has opened for next Tuesday's commissioners' court meeting.

You can click here to submit your comment. This takes just a few minutes, and anyone can do it. We request that everyone submit a comment, as it is a very powerful and quick way to contribute to the conservative movement in Tarrant County. If you aren't sure what to say, we will provide a sample comment below that you can copy and paste. If you can show up to the Court in person on Tuesday morning, we need as many patriots as possible to do so.

If you wish to sign up to speak at the Court in person next Tuesday, you must sign up by 5pm this Monday.

You can copy and paste the statement below for online comment, or use it for in-person comment, if you don't want to create your own:

"Tarrant County has not redistricted in over a decade, and our community has changed. Our population has grown nearly 25% since our last redistricting, making change necessary. Tarrant County’s map is also an outlier, and redistricting would help to bring us better into alignment with the practice of every other Texas county.

Redistricting is necessary to ensure that our Commissioners’ Court reflects our current population and that our Court truly represents residents and voters in our county. I support Map 1 because it will be the best for my community, and I request that our Commissioners vote to adopt Map 1."

You can submit an online comment by clicking HERE.

House Deadlines Pass

Every session begins with a call for the House not to "run out the clock" and to get to work passing legislation as quickly as possible. You may remember us warning about this in January. Well, the clock has run out.

One of the most important deadlines in the Texas House has passed. Any piece of legislation in the House that has yet to pass on second reading (which includes any House Bill still in committee) is officially dead. The House is now restricted to taking up legislation originating in the Senate. If the legislation you care about has yet to pass the House, hopefully, there's a companion bill in the Senate!

You can read more about the legislation deadline HERE.

The Lottery is Dead?

This legislative session has brought months of scandal to the Texas Lottery Commission as legislators began to view the agency for re-approval. The Texas Senate has taken the largest step yet in fighting back against controversial lottery scandals by voting unanimously to shut down the Lottery Commission.

The bill is now in the hands of the Texas House. Should the House pass the bill, and Governor Abbott sign it, the Lottery Commission will be put away, and lottery operations will move - in a limited capacity - under the jurisdiction of the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. The lottery would operate with increased scrutiny for the next two years, with an option for the Legislature to then shutter the lottery entirely.

This is the biggest step ever taken in fighting corruption within the lottery. The question now is whether Dustin Burrows will allow it to pass in the House.

You can read more about the various lottery scandals HERE.

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