Some news: I'm excited to announce that I am now the VP of Communications for The @Heritage Foundation. Heritage remains at the center of the policies and ideas that will shape America’s future and I’m excited to join such a talented team. Full release 👇

Texas has defeated the following ranked teams since joining the SEC: -1 -3 -6 -9 -10 -12 -14 -16 -18 -18 -20 -25 NO ONE has performed better against ELITE competition than the Longhorns.

The 765KV transmission project in Texas is the Green New Deal‘s best friend. This project will further our dependence on unreliable wind and solar generation. @ERCOT_ISO cooked the books to make it so, tried to make Pablo the $6M man, @PUCTX rubber stamps the deal and hard-working Texans pay the bill. @SecRollins, these lines trample private property rights to advance a radical climate agenda right here in your home state. Join us in opposing this project and call for a pause until the people’s representatives take this up in the 90th #txlege

My opening statement at Harvard last night where I argued that DEI policies have done great harm to the people who supposedly benefit from them, to the social cohesion of the academic community, and to those who deserve to participate in higher education.

Good timing for this event, as we’re seeing yet another example—this time from prominent DEI activist Nikole Hannah-Jones—that racial diversity for its own sake is not a meaningful driver of academic success. Looking forward to this conversation. I hope you’ll tune in.

The Texas Legislature has increased property tax exemptions for families and small businesses, but when local governments turn around and hike taxes to pay for non-essential expenditures, it undermines the progress we've made. And Texans are left with the burden. On September 30, the House Select Committee on Governmental Oversight will take a close look at the misuse of taxpayer money at the local level and discuss ways to strengthen oversight, promote local fiscal responsibility and better protect Texans’ pocketbooks. #txlege

State-administered death is now more common in Canada than gun homicide is in the U.S. That didn’t happen by accident.

🚨EXCLUSIVE Is "neurodiversity" the new DEI in education? @CourageHabit highlights how American School Counselor Association roots "neuro-affirming counseling" in critical race theory and queer theory. 🧵1/7

This sounds like how prison works.

This is the data point everyone in the party needs to sit with. A 30-point swing among young men in two years isn't noise — it's the family affordability warning coming true in real time. Trump won 18-24 year old men by 15 points in 2024 because they believed a change was coming — on jobs, on cost of living, on the chance to actually build something: a career, a home, a family. Two years later, that same demographic is now projected to break for the party that spent this whole cycle talking about socialism instead of delivering on any of it. This isn't young men becoming socialists. It's young men who took a chance on a promise of affordability and putting American Families First, watched other priorities take precedence, and are now willing to listen to anyone who at least sounds like they're fighting for them.

There seems to be an emerging (perhaps orchestrated?) consensus around the idea of an independent, "third party" watch dog for frontier AI models. Setting aside the fantasy of a global watch dog, what would a truly independent domestic one look like? Here's my list:

Texas stood firm when Washington failed to secure the border—and Texas taxpayers carried the cost. TPPF has long been proud to support Texas’ efforts to secure our border and defend our sovereignty. Thank you to Gov. Abbott and Secretary Mullin for their leadership, and to President Trump and Congress for delivering this historic reimbursement and much-needed relief to Texas taxpayers.

I don’t think folks are understanding this properly. What @realDonaldTrump has done is cancelled the USG subscriptions for these outlets. When you go into senior positions they bombard you with “exclusive” content subscriptions for tens of thousands of dollars a year. Apparently the Biden administration put us on the hook for $8 million worth of this nonsense that should be pretty worthless to people who ostensibly have access to the highest levels of classified information and is just a subsidy for the fake news. Well done.

Here’s the thing: if you’re the kind of person who can’t tell the difference between a man or woman, or thinks one can become the other, or believes the state should be able to groom and then kidnap my child, then I couldn’t care less about your position on taxes or trade or Ukraine. You have no business being in any position of political leadership. Lots of people feel that way and that’s why the issue works.

Critically important documentary that @Heritage was proud to be a partner in producing. Not only should you make time to watch it, but you should also share it with those who might not appreciate how serious a threat mass migration, whether legal or illegal, poses to Europe and the United States.

I just returned from Dallas, and I’m shocked by how quickly the city has changed. I barely recognize it. While many of us have been focused on the damage leftist policies have done to California, we haven’t paid enough attention to what’s happening in Texas. The state has been transformed by a massive invasion, and Dallas is a striking example. 🚨

⚕️America has some of the most advanced medical technology in the world, yet chronic illness continues to rise. The question isn't whether we can treat disease. It's why so many Americans are getting sick in the first place. @Realalexclark

Lotta stuff happening in front and behind the scenes — throughout the election, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on races, messaging, momentum, what’s going right, what’s going wrong. — Young voters aren’t drifting left because they’ve been won over by central planning. They’re drifting left because they can't afford a house, can’t afford to start the family they say they want — and right now, only one party looks like it’s even talking about it. The polling should scare everyone in the party, not just the candidates on the ballot this fall. Third Way has Democrats up 30 points on the generic ballot among young men — 61 to 31. Two years ago that demo broke hard for Trump. Rasmussen: voters want a more populist, pro-worker economic agenda over the status quo by 2-to-1 — but by 20 points, they say Democrats, not Republicans, are the populist party. That’s not a gap you close with warnings about socialism. Here's what should give the GOP hope, if it acts: young men still say they want to marry, provide, and build something — and they still associate those goals with conservative values more than progressive ones. These voters aren’t lost. They’re watching us not deliver. Look at the numbers behind the discontent. First-time homebuyers are now pushing 40 years old. The median down payment blew past $40,000 last year — more than the net worth of the average American under 35. Marriage has gone from over 70% of American households in 1970 to under half today. The U.S. fertility rate hit a record low of 1.57 in 2025. And yet Gallup finds Americans’ ideal family size hasn't been this high in over 50 years. Translation: young people are not rejecting marriage and kids. They're doing the math on rent, child care, and a down payment — and concluding they can't afford the family they actually want. That’s a policy failure. Policy failures can be fixed. There's a real, conservative, pro-family agenda sitting untouched in Congress right now. Home Affordability Savings Accounts — HSA-style accounts to help young couples actually save for a down payment. That should be a headline GOP bill, not a paper nobody in leadership has read. The Supporting Newborn Parents Act would put a $2,000 credit in new parents’ hands at the hospital — not buried in next year's tax refund. Add marriage-penalty relief, real help on child care and health costs, and a serious reckoning with the sound-money policy we abandoned in 1971 — and you have an agenda that actually answers the affordability question. Instead, Republicans keep letting this agenda sit — betting that “the Democrats are scary” will carry swing districts one more time. It might. For one more cycle. But if Republicans lose the House and the Senate this November, the postmortem will be simple. It won’t say the party failed to warn voters loudly enough about socialism. It’ll say the party that could have owned affordability chose to talk about everything except the thing actually driving voters away. And here's the part conservatives need to sit with: every year we dodge this fight, we hand the socialists their best argument for free. Mamdani didn’t win because Queens read Marx — he won because he offered something, anything, to people priced out of a life they were promised. If we won’t offer a real answer, don’t be shocked when they take his. We don't beat Zohran Mamdani and Hasan Piker by out-yelling them. We beat them by out-building them: a housing policy, a tax code, and a sound-money agenda that lets a 28-year-old today do what his grandparents could do at 23 — get married, buy a house, start a family without waiting on a government check to do it. There’s still a window to get this right before November, but it’s closing fast. The party that finally takes affordable family formation seriously wins the next generation of American politics. Republicans can still be that party — if they choose to fight for it instead of just fearmongering about Leftists who beat them to the punch.

What have they given us? Freedom. Agency. Choice. Security. Maybe the problem is Ron’s idea about the purpose of government.