Protecting Our Families

I'm in the midst of updating daily what happens in our Texas capitol. I see the thousands of bills that are filed during this session and how our legislators vote on the bills that make it to the floor for a vote. I see the trends. I can, by volume, compare the legislators to each other. I can isolate our Republican legislative priority bills and see the action/inaction on those bills.

At the end of session, working with Grassroots America and with their approval, I'll release that information to Texas. Texans deserve to know whether their legislators perform - or don't perform - to the expectations that Republicans have. In Republican districts, it is, after all, Republicans who elected those legislators.

I've come to see that a person who is elected has a choice. They can either side with their colleagues and defend them, or they can side with their constituents and protect them.

We all see that we live in turbulent times, but only the threatened act. We the People feel threatened. Congress has freely spent $36T+ that remains unpaid and breaks down to $112K per person in the US. We're handing bankruptcy to our children and grandchildren.

Our Texas government has a budget that is over $80B larger than it was just four years ago, and yet our Lieutenant Governor works to assure us that this is a conservative budget. Going from $250B to $330B conserves nothing but bigger government.

Our municipalities seek bond after bond and act behind closed doors too often against the will of the people. They refuse to get our school and public libraries to remove vulgar books from the reach of children.

Only the threatened act. The freight train is coming at us. But those in office don't feel threatened by anything in our economy or culture. They refuse to act with urgency. They only seek to make bad actions look better to a public that is short on attention due to just trying to make a living.

The elected are out of touch with the concerns of those they represent.

Objectively, America is worse than it was twenty years ago. Worse than it was forty years ago. The majority of those elected care little about anything but protecting the seat they won at election against either no one or against a single person. In a race of two, your odds are good of winning, and once won, remaining the winner increases with time.

Being inside the government protects the elected. During COVID, it wasn't the government worker who lost their job. It was everyone else who was threatened with losing their job, and too many did. What's worse, our government caused COVID to happen by funding the research and then wrecked the lives of millions by removing the inexpensive treatment of ivermectin from access, causing countless to die.

That's the government we're supposed to trust.

Thomas Paine said well that government is evil. But few in our government believe that to be true. Why? Because on the inside, they're protected. Random judges work to prevent our president from actually reducing government, and lawmakers do little to stop it. Because government protects itself, and not our families.

It's our job to see clearly those in office who move with no urgency to protect our families. It's our job to protect our families, and sadly, we must protect our families from a government that invites itself into every aspect our lives, inflating our cost of living with every regulation and new program. Good intentions bankrupt our children.

No one is charitable when they're spending other people's money.

Me, I can't wait to tell truth. I aim to provide transparency in every way I can, and tell the story.

I wish those elected were heroes who fight alongside us to protect our families. Regrettably, they're not. They're generally attacking our families by pilfering our hard-earned dollars and pushing more and greater government onto us.

So, you are forced to choose between protecting your family or protecting those in government. The government itself has made that a hard line and pushed you to decision.

Choose well.

7 Comments

Kim Weber (Apr 26, 2025 6:01 AM):

Thank you Brett Rogers. Once again, You nailed it! To add insult to injury is all the gaslighting coming from the TX House. It’s nauseating! The Burrowcrats blatantly lie on social media because most people aren’t paying attention. I’m super excited about The House of Bad Cards. What a creative way to wake people up!

MaryAnne Aiken (Apr 26, 2025 7:14 AM):

I'm praying that people will wakeup & take a stand!

Carol Milder (Apr 26, 2025 7:29 AM):

Protecting our families requires us to find Patriot candidates to replace the smug smugglers of liberty and informing hard working Republican voters not to trust every “R” on the ballot.

PJ Jackson (Apr 26, 2025 7:54 AM):

Brett, this Texas session has certainly opened my eyes wider than ever before. I’m appalled with the majority of our Republican legislators and their blatant arrogance.
Has the entire Republican Party flipped as surely as the Democrat party has it’s Conservative branch find themselves left without a party to represent their values? The Texas Republican machine is likened to the national Republican machine and it’s getting increasingly ugly - and dangerous.

Beth Counts (Apr 26, 2025 10:12 AM):

Thanks Brett, I'm looking forward to getting the names and stats on our officials. We must question thier votes and hold them accountable, so they know we are paying attention. I didn't move here to lose my freedoms, I moved here to keep them. Super disappointed these days.

Roy Getting (Apr 26, 2025 10:56 AM):

Thanks Brett!! I look forward to your analysis. Our legislators need and must be held accountable.

Michael L Bonn (Apr 27, 2025 2:13 PM):

A big "Thank You" Brett for the hard work you do to make the "work they do" so transparent and easy to keep track of.
Even more your clear eyed opinion papers put it into easily digestible focus for all of us, Thank You again!!