Supreme Court Lets Texas Resume Voter Citizenship Checks Through Federal Database
The Supreme Court restored DHS's expanded SAVE citizenship database, which Texas used to check all 18 million registered voters. Travis County told the Court the data flagged citizens as noncitizens.
Texas Health Agency Proposes Ending 12 Programs to Meet 3% Budget Cut
HHSC's plan to meet the 3 percent budget cut would end 12 client-service programs and cut $205.5 million in general revenue, while 74 percent of its base was exempt for Medicaid and CHIP.
Daily Briefing: Saturday, September 26, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court refuses to recognize a Pakistani divorce obtained without notice, the Port of Corpus Christi wins the last permit for its Harbor Island desalination plant, a Texas House member presses ERCOT on the load figures it used to justify three Permian power lines, and Britain’s prime minister rules out referendum powers for Wales.
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Abbott Halts Data Center Permits Until Texas Knows What They Will Draw
Abbott told TCEQ on September 21 to issue no permits to data center projects until ERCOT and the Texas Water Development Board finish auditing their power and water use. ERCOT is holding about 474 gigawatts of connection requests, roughly 90 percent of them data centers.
IN THE MEDIA
A Historian Predicts Texas Independence, and Says the Hard Part Is Already Done
Historian and podcaster Brion McClanahan told his audience this week that Texas will become independent, and credited the groundwork already laid: when the moment comes, he said, they "already have it set. They don't have to go through real disruption."
Daniel Miller Makes the Fiscal Case for Texit on The Chris Salcedo Show
On The Chris Salcedo Show, Daniel Miller laid out the Texas Nationalist Movement's new fiscal case for independence: the eighth-largest economy on earth, roughly $68 billion a year overpaid to Washington, and a federal ledger the government is projecting into insolvency.
Secession Speakeasy Sizes Up TNM’s Advances Inside the Texas GOP
A pro-independence show walks its audience through the Partisan's report on the Texas Nationalist Movement's gains at the 2026 Republican convention.
A Historian Reacted to the New York Times’ Independence Story, and Reached for Daniel Miller’s Question
The New York Times ran a long feature this...
Daniel Miller Makes the Texit Case on The Logical Podcast
On The Logical Podcast, a national, non-partisan show that...
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Washington Shorts Texas on the $11 Billion Border Bill, and the New Mexico Hearing Opens a Door for a Texas Vote
Texas spent more than $11 billion doing the federal government's job on the border during the Biden years. This week Washington announced it would reimburse about $7.5 billion of it, plus a chance to apply for a little more from a separate fund. Daniel Miller put the odds of a full reimbursement at about zero. Texas taxpayers eat the difference, and Texas remains one federal election away from the same open border. He paired it with a Congressional Budget Office report that dropped right before airtime: federal debt held by the public goes from 101 percent of GDP this...
Commentary
The Ship of Theseus
The man who wants the Constitution enforced is asking for the ship to be repaired. Nearly every plank in it has already been drawn out and replaced, most of them without anybody being asked, and Texas can still produce the receipts on its own timber.


