Texas Public Policy Foundation

TPPF CEO @gsindelar talks with Texas State Senator @TanParkerTX about his Fort Worth upbringing in a civically minded family, his early passion for politics inspired by Ronald Reagan, and his decision to run for office. texaspolicy.com/multimedia/art…

As Texas goes, so goes the nation... and the world.

High housing costs create structural barriers to Texas family formation, new @TPPF report finds thetexasdispatch.com/high-housing-c…

More on Justice Thomas’s call to our founding principles 👇 texaspolicy.com/the-eternal-ap…

On America's 250th anniversary, Justice Thomas reminds us: Our nation was born on the Declaration's self-evident truths and we must NEVER lose sight of them.

More on the civic education restoration efforts 👇 texaspolicy.com/multimedia/art…

Higher education abandoned civic education and replaced it with anti-American values. The University of Texas at Austin is working to restore this standard, starting with its School of Civic Leadership.

Watch the full episode and tell us — how high do you think this corruption goes? 👇 texaspolicy.com/multimedia/art…

After the deaths of 2 CIA officers in Mexico, the US Ambassador visited Sinaloa and signaled something big: accountability for narco-politicians is coming. Subpoenas. Indictments. Investigations. We broke this down on the latest Hard Country. Link below.

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@TPPF is his speech available online?

In Austin, Justice Clarence Thomas proclaimed that the moral principles expressed in the Declaration of Independence—that all men are created equal and that our rights come from God, not government—are the genius of the document. 🧵

More on Yale finally saying the quiet part out loud 👇texaspolicy.com/yale-finally-s…

A new Yale report reveals nothing new: It owns up to self-censorship, grade hyperinflation, administrative bloat, and eroding trust. While Yale admits its problems, they are system-wide. Without real reform, trust in higher ed will only get worse.

Islamic radicalization is growing in Texas. An Imam, who also ran a school in Austin, Texas, made his hatred of our country, our constitution, and our freedoms clear.

In 1987, Marshall’s speech was regarded as visionary, while Thomas’s address, fifty years later, is deemed controversial, even dangerous. TPPF's @sylvester1630 contrasts the two speeches in a symposium by @CivitasOutlook 👇 civitasoutlook.com/symposium-arti…

Marshall declared that the work of the founders “was not particularly profound,” and viewed the founding documents as compromised from the outset. His speech provided an extensive justification for ongoing judicial activism to correct flaws and failures in the Constitution.

@CivitasOutlook TPPF's @sylvester1630: Thomas said our calling as Americans is to live the Constitution’s principles, not revise them. civitasoutlook.com/symposium-arti…

Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, delivered an address at the University of Texas at Austin on April 15, 2026, on America’s Declaration. It has since been widely viewed and read, garnering responses from leading figures in our country. It is only fitting that Civitas Outlook offer our readers a collection of responses to Thomas’s remarks. Read the reflections of our 10 contributors here: civitasoutlook.pulse.ly/vkhyprqhxa

@gsindelar sits down with Rep. @ColeHefnerTX to discuss his East Texas upbringing and his journey from family businesses and county commissioner to the Texas House texaspolicy.com/multimedia/art…

By prohibiting hostile foreign entities from obtaining land, Texas has taken a bold and necessary step to protect our land, our economy, and our national security from foreign adversaries.