Sarah Rumpf

AUSTIN, Texas  — On Saturday, Texas Governor Rick Perry embarked on an economic development trip to Asia. The trip will last a week and includes visits to Japan and China. The Governor’s schedule includes a speech  to the American Chamber

AUSTIN, Texas — After months of threatening to enact immigration reform on his own via executive order, President Barack Obama announced he had changed his mind on the issue in an interview with NBC’s Chuck Todd on “Meet the Press”

AUSTIN, Texas – As Texas looks forward to the 84th Legislative Session, scheduled to begin on January 13, 2015, part of the preparations include “interim charges” released by the Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the House to study topics that

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation organized a panel discussion at the Texas Capitol to address the crisis along the Texas border. The panel was the second of a two-part series, with a similar event last week focusing

AUSTIN, Texas — Thursday at the Texas Capitol, a group of grassroots tea party activists gathered for a press conference to share the “Texas Border Crisis Action Plan” they had created after years of frustration with a government that they

AUSTIN, Texas — At the Defending the American Dream Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity last Friday in Dallas, Bob Hall, the Republican nominee for Texas State Senate District 2, gave an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas to share the

AUSTIN, Texas — In a ruling issued Tuesday evening, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans granted the motion for stay pending appeal filed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott in the litigation challenging

AUSTIN, Texas — Americans were horrified today when the terrorist group ISIS released a video that purports to show a militant beheading the American journalist Steven Sotloff, who had been held hostage since being captured in Syria in August 2013.

AUSTIN, Texas — George P. Bush, the Republican nominee for Texas Land Commissioner, gave an interview recently to Neena Satija of the Texas Tribune, in an article that also ran in the New York Times as part of their partnership

DALLAS, Texas — Friday, Judge Lee Yeakel of the  United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, ruled that parts of Texas’ abortion law, HB 2, were unconstitutional. The law was passed in 2013 after two

DALLAS, Texas — Texas Senator Ted Cruz recently spoke at the Defending the American Dream  Summit organized by Americans for Prosperity. The eighth annual Summit was the largest in the event’s history, with over three thousand attendees, and Cruz’s popularity

DALLAS, Texas — Today at Americans for Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered a speech that was widely viewed by the audience as a prelude to his presumed 2016 presidential campaign. AFP President Tim Phillips

AUSTIN, Texas — At a panel discussion organized by the Texas Public Policy Foundation at the Texas Capitol Wednesday, National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) Vice President Shawn Moran shared his thoughts about the current challenges facing border patrol agents —

AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Public Policy Foundation organized a panel discussion at the Texas Capitol to address the crisis along the Texas border. The speakers painted a picture far different from how the situation is portrayed by most of

In a speech Thursday at the Heritage Foundation, Texas Governor Rick Perry delivered remarks about the border crisis. During a question and answer session, Perry was asked whether he believed there was a serious threat that the unsecured border could allow the

AUSTIN, Texas — This morning, a conference call was organized with the legal team representing Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the indictments against him for his veto of the funding for the Public Integrity Unit (the PIU) after Travis County

AUSTIN, Texas — Yesterday on his Facebook page, Texas State Representative Jason Villalba (R-Dallas), posted an announcement that he was calling for an independent audit of the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office “in light of recent allegations that District Attorney

AUSTIN, Texas — Yesterday, several members of the Travis County grand jury that indicted Texas Governor Rick Perry last Friday had come forward to criticize Perry’s comments made in his own defense against the indictment.   Despite the fact that the

AUSTIN, Texas –Today, in a scene that more closely resembled a campaign rally than a criminal proceeding, Governor Rick Perry arrived at the Blackwell Thurman Criminal Justice Center in downtown Austin for fingerprinting and booking photos. Perry was indicted last

AUSTIN, Texas — RickPAC, Texas Governor Rick Perry’s political action committee, struck a vicious blow at his political opponents today with a new video titled, “Setting the Record Straight“: Perhaps most damaging is how the video begins: with a clip from

AUSTIN, Texas–Texas Attorney General and Republican candidate for Governor,Greg Abbott, appeared on the Fox News program Fox & Friends on Saturday to discuss the border crisis, and was also asked for his reaction to Friday’s indictment of current Texas Governor

AUSTIN, Texas — This afternoon, in a ballroom at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin hotel in downtown Austin, a press conference was held by the legal team that will represent Texas Governor Rick Perry regarding the indictments entered against him

AUSTIN, Texas — In a brief press conference at the Capitol this afternoon, Texas Governor Rick Perry responded to the indictment issued against him by a Travis County grand jury Friday. The governor was confident and optimistic, but also revealed

AUSTIN, Texas — A grand jury indicted Governor Rick Perry Friday for his attempts to remove Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg from office after she was arrested for driving while intoxicated last year in a case that made national headlines.

AUSTIN, Texas — Earlier this week, the Texas House of Representatives Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations voted 6-1 to issue a “motion of admonishment and censure” against Wallace J. Hall, Jr., a University of Texas Regent. Hall