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As investigations into higher education continue to reveal college professors using their positions to push leftwing ideologies, today's One Click Survey asks readers about the practice of awarding tenure in Texas' colleges and universities.

This is the Texas Minute for Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan 

Secretary of State Moves to Keep GOP Primary Open

• Secretary of State Jane Nelson is officially opposing the Texas GOP’s legal effort to keep Democrats from interfering in the Republican primary. Sydnie Henry has the details.
    
• The Texas GOP is suing in federal court to force a change in the way party nominating contests are handled in the Lone Star State. Currently, Democrats can participate in the GOP’s nominating contests without registering as Republicans, and vice versa. Already implemented in states like New York and Florida, closed primaries would allow only registered Republican voters to select Republican nominees. 
     
• Nelson, an appointee of Gov. Greg Abbott, is arguing that the party’s lawsuit is premature. She asserts that the GOP rule calling for a closed primary should not be considered until after the 2026 Republican convention. In her filing, Nelson said lawmakers should first have the opportunity to make the change legislatively.
       
• A measure to close the GOP primary was filed in 2025 but never given a hearing.
       
• The Office of the Attorney General has sided with the Texas GOP in asking a federal court to let Republicans exercise their constitutional right of association by preventing Democrats from meddling in the nominating contests.

Dallas Sued for Enforcing Ordinances in Violation of Texas Constitution

• Dallas residents are suing the city for enforcing 89 ordinances that the city itself admitted are in violation of the Texas Regulatory Consistency Act and the Texas Constitution. Travis Morgan explains the case.
      
• The Texas Regulatory Consistency Act—referred to by critics as the “Death Star Bill” when it was enacted in 2023—is designed to rein in out-of-control local governments and protect Texans from tyrannical local regulations. It preempts local governments from adopting, enforcing, or maintaining ordinances related to agriculture, business and commerce, finance, labor, natural resources, occupations, and property.
       
• Earlier this year, the Texas Public Policy Foundation identified 133 illegal city ordinances and threatened legal action should Dallas not repeal or amend them. The city acknowledged two years earlier that the ordinances were problematic, but continued enforcing them.
      
• Now, three Dallas residents who have been impacted by the city's actions are suing, with TPPF acting as their legal counsel. 

Houston City Council Pushes Through $16 Million Homeless Hub

• Michael Wilson reports that the Houston City Council has approved a $16 million plan to create a homeless “super hub” east of downtown—despite objections from nearby residents who say City Hall shut them out of the process.
      
• City documents show the property is valued at roughly $6.7 million, with the remaining funds set to cover renovation. Ongoing costs are projected between $10 and $14 million per year. It is envisioned to be a 24-hour, “low-barrier” navigation center designed to direct homeless individuals to housing, health care, psychiatric treatment, and substance-abuse recovery programs.
     
• Neighborhood residents have criticized the project, saying the city council pushed the project forward and ignored community feedback. They worry the 24-hour nature of the hub will create new public safety problems rather than solving existing ones.

More Lawsuits Filed Over School Locker Room Recordings

• More families are suing Celina Independent School District, accusing the district of gross negligence for enabling a middle school coach’s alleged illicit locker room recording of student athletes while the boys were undressed and showering. As Erin Anderson reports, a criminal investigation is already underway.
   
• The coach accused of making the secret recordings, Caleb Elliott, is the son of the district’s head football coach and athletic director, Bill Elliott. The lawsuit asserts that “nepotism and willful blindness” enabled the predatory behavior of the coach on two different campuses.
     
• The lawsuits allege the district was not only aware of Caleb Elliott’s prior predation of young boys, but deliberately covered it up—possibly to protect the legacy of Celina ISD’s famed football program.
    
• Families in the case are seeking relief under a new law designed to hold school districts accountable for failing to protect students from sexual predators by eliminating districts’ sovereign immunity from civil liability in sex abuse cases.

OTHER CELINA SCHOOL NEWS

Mansfield ISD Coach Arrested for Sexual Assault of Child

• Jared Trevor Young, a teacher and coach in the Mansfield Independent School District, is accused of multiple felony sex crimes involving an underage student in another district. Among the charges are sexual assault of a child, possession and transmission of child pornography, and improper relationship between educator and student.
     
• Young is a science teacher and freshman football/basketball coach. He has held a Texas teaching certificate since 2020.

Today In History

On Nov. 3, 1796, John Adams was elected the second president of the United States of America under the Constitution.

Quote-Unquote

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

– J​ohn Adams

One Click Survey

For many years, colleges and universities have awarded tenure to professors, giving them job security and autonomy unprecedented in the rest of American culture. Investigations into higher education are finding college professors using that shield to push leftwing ideologies.

Should Texas' taxpayer-funded colleges and universities continue to offer tenure to professors?

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