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Under the outstanding leadership of State Affairs Committee Chairman Byron Cook (R-Corsicana) and with help from Texas State Senator Tommy Williams (R-The Woodlands), Texas roadways are one step closer to being made safer as the committee voted a committee substitute version of the "Safe Driver Bill", HB 3206 out of committee. With the cooperation of the bill's author, Rep. Roberto Alonzo (D-Dallas), Sen. Williams and

"The Texas Democratic Party is no longer the party of Texas," according to Texas State Rep. J.M. Lozano. "They are the party of San Francisco." These are comments from Texas' newest Republican state legislator during an interview with TexasGOPVote about the changing politics of South Texas.

During the past couple of years, South Texas has been moving more and more to the Republican party as its residents begin to understand the Democrat

The following interview with Texas Representative Marva Beck is one of a series of interviews conducted by VOCES Action and TexasGOPVote with members of the Hispanic Republican Conference in the 82nd session of the Texas Legislature. In 2010, Marva Beck was elected to her first session in the Texas House of Representatives serving District 57, which includes Falls, McLennan, Leon, Robertson, and Madison Counties.

Rep. Beck was very cordial and engaging, and her office was the most beautifully decorated office of the state representatives' offices I have seen.   Read more »

Thirty-eight years ago the Supreme Court made a terrible decision that imposed abortion-on-demand in America. Abortion affects ALL Americans and certainly affects the Hispanic community in America.

According to a recent poll, the majority of American Hispanics oppose abortion.

The following is a letter in support of Joe Straus written by President of Texans for Life Coalition Kyleen Wright.

Why I signed the letter for Speaker Straus

A charge has been leveled that Speaker Straus and his lieutenants killed the sonogram bill last session. This is categorically false, and I am disappointed about this and other claims, as well as the tenor of this race.   Read more »

Results for the 148th Texas House District between Democratic incumbent Jessica Farrar and Republican Fernando Herrera:

Precincts reporting: 100%   Read more »

Early voting across Texas has closed with record numbers of voters (for a non-presidential election) taking the option to vote early.  In Houston over 450,000 voted early or by mail.  It is estimated that over 65% of the total vote for this election cycle may have already been cast.   Read more »

For many months now I have been following the campaign for the 148th District of the Texas Legislature pitting two distinctly different candidates against one another.  The race features a liberal incumbant Democrat Jessica Farrar against a strong Conservative, first-time candidate, Fernando Herrera.  Months of hard work are coming down to the wire, but with victory within grasp Herrera is facing the ugly challenge of voter fraud.   Read more »

For the third time this week, problems are reported at the Ripley House early voting location. This location is in the heart of the area where fraudulant voter registration was alleged to have occured, so members of the voting public are very vigilant about irregularities that could effect the outcome of a very close election between Republican

After two days of early voting it is clear that voters in Texas are fired up and coming to the polls in VERY heavy numbers. Interestingly enough we are also starting to hear of problems at polling places. Some of these can be attributed to possibly innocent human error, while in some other cases there is potential evil intent in action.   Read more »