Rick Perry is threatening to shut down the criminal CPRIT investigation by vetoing funds for the Travis County Public Integrity Unit. The criminal investigation is looking at the diversion of cancer money to Perry cronies. Governor Perry would want nothing more than the CPRIT investigation to go away.Read More >>
Don't Let Texas Rubber Stamp Bad Maps! The Governor is pushing flawed maps in a process that is intentionally designed to be unfair. Sign our petition and tell your state legislators to oppose maps that dilute the voting strength of minority voters.Read More >>
Right Wing Watch has posted a video from this Sunday of Rick Perry telling the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins that the Boy Scouts must resist the pressure from LGBT activists and calls anti-LGBT activists fighting to keep the current discriminatory policies to anti-slavery abolitionists during the civil war.Read More >>
Governor Rick Perry has launched another ad campaign telling business owners to come to Texas, but the latest "Texas On The Brink" study makes it clear, we're on a sinking ship. Read More >>
Texans across the state support Medicaid expansion. It is not just individuals and families who support expansion - local government and counties, chambers of commerce, hospitals districts and associations, interfaith groups, big and small business, and legislators across the aisle support it, too.Read More >>
The powers that be at CPRIT, the cancer research fund that Gov. Rick Perry is using as his slush fund to reward contributors, would like us to forget that it remains under criminal investigation. Read More >>
A new poll shows that voters prefer Governor Rick Perry over Attorney General Greg Abbott for governor in 2014. Perry has said that he has a deal with Abbott: the attorney general won't run unless the governor steps down. Speculation has pointed to Perry making that move, but will these new numbers convince him to stay?Read More >>
A recent survey conducted by the Texas Hospital Association (THA) shows that 59% of Texans are in favor of the Medicaid expansion once they know all of the benefits that come along with accepting these federal funds. Read More >>
Thousands of parents, students, teachers and activists gathered at the Texas Capitol on Saturday to demand a greater investment in public schools, an end to high-stakes testing, and a full rejection of school vouchers. Here's a look at some of the best signs from the rally!Read More >>
The Lone Star Project has released a 30-second radio ad in California informing businesses that they are welcome to move to Texas, but they should "check the fine print" on Rick Perry's promises. The ad is airing while Governor Rick Perry is traveling in California attempting to lure businesses to Texas. Read More >>
Despite Governor Rick Perry’s irresponsible insistence that Texas will not expand Medicaid, it is becoming more and ore apparent that he's going against what the most Texans want. The slow warming to the idea of Medicaid expansion can be seen across the country in several GOP-governed states.Read More >>
In a landmark decision, Judge John Dietz of the Texas 250th Judicial District Court ruled against the state and in favor of more than 600 schools that sued after the Texas Legislature cut funding to public schools in 2011. The battle for funding is not over yet though.Read More >>
Texas Senator Jane Nelson (R-Flower Mound), head of the Health and Human Service Committee, has come out and said that Texas may not say no to federal Medicaid expansion funds as part of the Affordable Care Act after all. So what's the catch?Read More >>
Just when you think Texas Governor Rick Perry has sunk to new lows, he opens up his mouth again. This time, in an interview with the Houston Chronicle, Perry said that a chief purpose of the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas isn't just to cure cancer - but to create wealth. Read More >>
The CPRIT scandal continues to impact the state of Texas, as Governor Perry - who initially called those who challenged the integrity of the agency as "conspiracy theorists" - has now halted all grants issued by the organization. On December 20, it was the House Appropriations Committee's turn to look into what CPRIT has done.Read More >>
Three accounts controlled by Rick Perry and his appointees have come under considerable scrutiny for directing taxpayer dollars to Perry's donors. The latest to fall under a serious cloud of controversy: the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas.Read More >>
Expanding Medicaid in Texas through the Affordable Care Act is a no-brainer, which is why it's such a tough decision for Rick Perry. This should help: a new economic analysis by the Perryman Group shows that expanding Medicaid in Texas would create an economic windfall for our state.Read More >>
Governor Perry has persisted in his ideological determination to make enactment of the Affordable Care Act as difficult as possible. But Perry’s word is not the last one on Medicaid expansion -- according to a recent Washington Post article, several larger counties have started discussing the idea of accepting the federal funds on their own.Read More >>
In recent days conservatives have been rallying around Mitt Romney to defend the presumed GOP presidential nominee from questions about his controversial record at Bain Capital. What a difference a few months can make. It was only a 5 months ago that that conservatives such as Rick Perry called Bain Capital "vultures"...Read More >>
Rick Perry's failed presidential campaign cost Texas taxpayers at least $3.6 million. The real total of Perry's presidential campaign is inching closer and closer to our January estimates, and analysis by MSNBC suggests Perry's failed run could be twice as costly to Texas taxpayers as then-Governor George W. Bush's run in 2000.Read More >>
If you need any further proof that the Affordable Care Act is working in Texas, here's a simple chart that contrasts the policies of Texas Governor Rick Perry and those of President Barack Obama. Be sure to check back all week for more on how the Affordable Care Act is working in Texas, and sign our pledge to defend the ACA.Read More >>
Progress Texas Executive Director Matt Glazer discussed the Rush Limbaugh controversy and our petition asking Governor Rick Perry to revoke Limbaugh's status as an "Honorary Texan" with Scott Braddock on News 92 FM this morning. Listen to the audio here.Read More >>
There is nothing Texan, and nothing honorable, about Limbaugh calling a woman who uses birth control a slut. There is nothing Texan, and nothing honorable, about Limbaugh saying a woman who uses birth control should film herself so he can watch her. Yet Rush Limbaugh is an honorary Texan, because Rick Perry will do anything...Read More >>
Updated estimates show Governor Perry owes $3,799,132.67 to Texas taxpayers for costs incurred during his 160-day presidential run. That is a significant increase over our previous estimates, largely due to the news that it cost the state of Texas $1.1 million to cover the overtime costs for Perry's security-related travel...Read More >>
