What We Stand For End Taxpayer Funded Lobbying: Bans local governments from using taxpayer funds for lobbying activities or paying dues to lobbying associations. Dismantle Education Cartel: Prevents school districts from using cooperatives and investing in pools run by nonprofit associations engaged in lobbying. Ban Ranked Choice Voting: Codifies a ban on ranked-choice voting to prevent cities from adopting...
The Healthy Texas Initiative is restoring affordable, high-quality healthcare with patient control and choice, bypassing entrenched monopolies. By increasing price transparency, allowing access to catastrophic coverage options, and empowering informed health-focused choices, we prioritize care over coverage and competition over consolidation. TPPF’s Legislative Action Agenda for Healthcare includes: Transparent Healthcare: Create transparent choices for patients and...
The Family Success Project is dedicated to promoting flourishing marriages and families, recognizing that the common good of Texas depends on the common good of each and every Texan household. We strive to develop policies that encourage stable marriages, equip parents to best raise their children, and support the holistic growth of the next generation...
What We Stand For Uniform VATRE Threshold: Proposes setting a uniform voter-approval tax rate election (VATRE) threshold of 2.5% for all political subdivisions to align with school district limits. Reining in Local Spending: Caps city and county spending growth to population plus inflation to control local government expansion. Property Tax Relief and Pathway to Elimination: Continues buying...
We’re holding the federal government accountable for its responsibility to secure the border and we offer additional state options to rein in the border crisis.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation now has a production and broadcast studio at its location in Austin, TX. The studios feature professional video, audio, and lighting equipment, as well as an editing studio with the latest tools and software. The production and broadcast studios features three “stages” that can be used for various backgrounds and...
Better Tech for Tomorrow champions a bold, conservative approach to technology, innovation, and cultural issues. Our mission is to develop technology policy that promotes morality and civic virtue; protects the privacy, safety, security, autonomy, and dignity of Texans; and preserves Texas culture and values. Better Tech for Tomorrow believes that: Technological innovation and policy should...
What We Stand For Tejano values are Texas values. Empowering Hispanics to advance the principles and values of a free Texas through legislative action; preserving the legacy of our Tejano patriots; and promoting the achievements and contributions by Hispanics that continue to add richness to the Texas story. Find Your Lawmakers Texas House Public...
Results-Based K-12, Higher Education, and Workforce Development Solutions The Next Generation Texas campaign focuses on reforming K-12 and higher education, empowering parents with more and better options, and developing the next generation workforce to keep Texas the world leader in job creation. NGT has worked on several successful reforms such as improving curriculum transparency and...
Ensuring election integrity is vital, not only for our form of government but for our way of life. The most fundamental feature of a representative democracy is the citizen’s right to vote. It is key to the basic structure of our government that guarantees the rule of law, popular sovereignty, and individual freedom. The Texas...
States Trust, a project of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, exists to restore the states as a key voice in federal policymaking, under the framework of the Tenth Amendment. Our work focuses on the revival of sovereignty in its proper homes: first in the people, then in the states, and then in the federal government....
Life: Powered will ensure that Americans continue to benefit from abundant, reliable, safe, and clean energy. It is the essential building block that touches all our lives and influences everything from the world economy to the kitchen table. Energy powers life. From living longer, reducing poverty and improving our quality of life, the advancement of the human condition has coincided with our willingness to harness the benefits of abundant, reliable and affordable energy resources.
Right on Crime is a national campaign of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, in partnership with the American Conservative Union Foundation and Prison Fellowship, that supports conservative solutions for reducing crime, restoring victims, reforming offenders, and lowering taxpayer costs. The movement was born in Texas in 2007.
The purpose and vision of the Liberty Leadership Council is to foster meaningful relationships among young professionals who share the values of individual liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise and to engage these individuals in the mission of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
In the spirit of Booker T. Washington, one of America's great activists for education, entrepreneurship, and self-reliance, this project uses detailed data analysis to uncover what really causes prosperity and its opposite: poverty. The Texas Public Policy Foundation proposes to redefine the debate on poverty, wellbeing, and opportunity, debunking the idea that taxation, government programs, and invasive policy solutions can truly help our nation's poor to escape their burdens.
The Center for the American Future defends the Constitution through legal opposition to government overreach.
Texas government spending has increased substantially faster than the growth in inflation and population since 2004, at a cost to Texans of $15 billion this two-year budget cycle. That's an additional $1,000 burden on the average Texas family of four, just to fund state government. The Conservative Texas Budget Coalition was formed for precisely that reason: we can't afford the consequences of more spending.
SeeThruEdu champions the case for collegiate civic education, because higher education must be more than job training. It must also instruct students in the political, moral, and philosophic foundations of the democratic republic in which they find themselves and of which they shall in time become the leaders. In accord with this, we share Jefferson’s conviction that any nation that expects to be both “ignorant and free … expects what never was and never will be.”
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