The City of Austin recommended revised 2026 Budget is out. This is a revision and decrease due to the failed Prop Q tax increase election. +$4 million increase in Homeless spending & -$11.5 million decrease in Emergency Medical Services and Parks and Recreation.

In less than 10 months the Harris County Treasurer Carla Wyatt has been arrested for burglary, arrested for DWI and now is cited for causing a 4 car accident ramming into the back of another vehicle on the HWY. Sounds more like a menace to society than an elected official 🤦🏼

KUT locked down the comments to their post here. What legit news media does this😂

Surely Sunny Hostin wouldn't lie about being the lone hold-out juror on the Rakowitz case, would she? According to an article in the Daily News published on February 23, 1991, the hold-out juror was identified as being an unemployed man. Juror Valerie Holmes is quoted as calling him determined and manipulative, saying he wanted to keep collecting his $15/day juror stipend. In the same article, juror Asuncion Cummings (Hostin) said, "Yes, we believe he did it. I believe he butchered the body and almost committed the perfect crime. He knew what he was doing." Sure doesn't sound like she was a hold-out juror. Does it?

I’m here at Austin City Hall, where the City Council is about to approve $800,000 for services for illegal immigrants. I’m calling on @GregAbbott_TX , who said at the 2026 RNC that there are no sanctuary cities in Texas, to step up and address Austin’s sanctuary policies.

We are constantly told that the Travis County District Attorney’s office is serious about gun violence 🙄@KirkPWatson

LAST CHANCE: THE AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL WILL VOTE TODAY ON ATP’s OUTRAGEOUS TAXPAYER-FUNDED $19.5M DOWNTOWN OFFICE ACTION ALERT FOR ASAP THIS MORNING: Demand the Austin City Council Reject the Austin Transit Partnership’s Outrageous Budget Request for $19.5M in Downtown Office Space - - - This past Monday morning, the board of the Austin Transit Partnership, which was created to implement the voter-approved Project Connect urban rail project, UNANIMOUSLY approved a proposal for a $19.5M downtown office for 60-65 employees. The City Council will consider the proposal, and likely approve it, ATG TODAY’S CITY COUNCIL MEETING. TELL CITY HALL: NO $19.5 MILLION DOWNTOWN OFFICE DEAL Austin Transit Partnership is back with another downtown office request. And their Board of Directors UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED this plan. Now City Council will likely RUBBER STAMP another outrageous waste of taxpayer dollars unless we RISE UP TO OPPOSE THIS. They dressed it up as “cheaper than last time.” It is still a taxpayer raid. Here’s what was on the ATP board agenda that passed on Monday, ahead of today’s Austin City Council meeting: Item 3.11 — Lease 54,000 square feet at 201 and 203 Colorado Street for 48 months, not to exceed $13.5 million, with WC 3rd and Congress, LP. Item 3.12 — Pay CBRE up to $6 million to finish out, improve, and equip that same space. Total: $19.5 million. For about 60 employees. That is 900 square feet per person and roughly $83,000 per employee, per year. The rent alone is about $62 per square foot per year ($40 rent + $20 operating + $2 commission) — before the $6 million remodel. The City of Austin leases space outside downtown in the $20–$30 range. ATP wants to pay double to triple that rate, on property-tax money sold to voters as trains. They do not need to be downtown. They should be in existing City or CapMetro space. Mayor Watson already told them that. But now he’s on board with this office plan, and voted to approve it as ATP Board vice chair. Kill items 3.11 and 3.12. - - - THIS IS THE SAME MOVIE. NEW PRICE TAG. In April, ATP tried to lease Class A space at 100 Congress: $32 million lease + $15 million build-out = $47 million. Watson called it “inappropriate.” Council Member Paige Ellis called it “tone-deaf.” Public pressure killed it. Five months later they are not in CapMetro’s unused offices. They are not in cheaper city-owned space. They are asking to stay downtown, expand into the building next door, and spend another $19.5 million so a 60-person shop can occupy a floorplate built for a corporation. Do the math they hope you won’t: 54,000 sq. ft. ÷ 60 employees = 900 sq. ft. each (a typical public-sector desk is a fraction of that) $19.5 million ÷ 4 years ÷ 60 people ≈ $81,000–$83,000 per employee per year just to house them At a normal $25/sq. ft. city-suburban rate, that same 54,000 feet would cost about $5.4 million over four years — not $13.5 million, and not another $6 million to CBRE Project Connect already takes about 21% of the City’s operations-and-maintenance property tax. FY26 that stream is roughly $186 million. That money was promised for rail. It is being spent on downtown desks, operating expenses, and a broker finish-out. ATP’s own adopted budget funds 65 full-time positions. They do not need a 54,000-square-foot downtown campus. WHAT WE DEMAND 1. City Council should REJECT ATP’s EXTRAVANAGT TAXPAYER-FUNDED OFFICE. No $13.5 million Colorado Street lease. No $6 million CBRE build-out. 2. Park ATP in unused CapMetro or City-owned space before another dollar of Project Connect tax is spent on private downtown landlords. 3. Publish the alternatives analysis Watson asked for in April and again in August — CapMetro HQ, the Guadalupe Transit Store, other city inventory — with real per-employee costs. 4. Cap ATP administrative real estate. Put the savings into the project voters were sold, not into 900-square-foot desks. - - - TAKE ACTION ASAP (The ATP Board Meets This Morning, Council Will Consider This Week) 1. Email the Mayor and every Council Member. TAKE ACTION: You can do so here (app.onevoiceapp.io/act/sanpa…) in less than 30 seconds. We’ve developed 635 unique emails opposing this outrageous waste of taxpayer money so far. Can we get it above 1,000 by TODAY at 10am when the council meeting starts? You can also call the offices, especially your own Council Member’s office: > Mayor Kirk Watson (ATP Board Vice Chair) — 512-978-2100 > City Manager TC Broadnax — 512-974-2200 > D1 Natasha Harper-Madison — 512-978-2101 > D2 Vanessa Fuentes — 512-978-2102 > D3 José Velásquez — 512-978-2103 > D4 José “Chito” Vela — 512-978-2104 > D5 Ryan Alter — 512-978-2105 > D6 Krista Laine — 512-978-2106 > D7 Mike Siegel — 512-978-2107 > D8 Paige Ellis — 512-978-2108 > D9 Zo Qadri — 512-978-2109 > D10 Marc Duchen — 512-978-2110 2. Show up at City Council TODAY at City Hall at 10am. Speaker registration has now closed. But you can show up! 3. Forward this to five neighbors. Offices don’t ride the train. You pay for them. 4. Take this section of the newsletter and share it. Post it on LinkedIn. Post it on NextDoor. Post it on Facebook. Post it on X. P.S. Our outside audit charter amendment (Prop I -- vote AYE for Prop eye) will require an outside performance audit of the Austin Transit Partnership. Visit ATXaudit.com for more info. @JenRobichaux @NewsRadioKLBJ @ToddandDon @LoewyLawFirm @data_atx @PoliticoBurner @austinreforms @austintexaslisa @_TeddyBrosevelt @saveaustintx #ATXcouncil

Has anyone heard @GinaHinojosaTX's plan to lower property taxes? No - because she doesn't have a plan & has voted >40 times to raise your taxes.

Greg Casar is really milking this illegal being shot evading capture. Meanwhile comrade Greg has never said a peep about any of the thousands of American killed by illegals. He cares more about and puts illegals over taxpaying citizens 🤬

There were 3 separates homicides in Austin the past 24 hours but you never hear a word about it from @KirkPWatson or City Council about the violence. You only hear about it from them when they can grandstand and gaslight you blaming republicans or Trump.

James Talarico is doing fundraisers with drag queens who want to flip Texas through "Black, queerness, and transness" Texas, is this what you want,

Vote for Prop I because they lie! Demand the External Audit! Vote no on all other Props. No on Bonds! No more money for their reckless spending

The Homeless Industrial Complex ECHO in Austin discriminates against white people. So Mayor @KirkPWatson not only spends our tax dollars on illegals but also homeless orgs that hate white people 🤦🏼

BREAKING: DHS releases a bullet-point list of what they say are false claims about the shooting of a Venezuelan illegal alien in Austin, TX. They say claims that he was legal and had a valid work permit are false. Per DHS: “CLAIM: ICE refused to remove the bullet from the illegal alien’s body. FACT: This is false. ICE does not and would not advise, nor be the authority on, a medical procedure for an illegal alien at a hospital.  CLAIM: The illegal alien had a valid work permit. FACT: This is false. The illegal alien’s work permit expired in 2025. Furthermore, a work permit does NOT grant legal status. CLAIM: The illegal alien was ordered removed in absentia. FACT: Yes. This is why aliens must show up to their removal proceedings. Legal obligations do not end because someone’s address changed. CLAIM: This illegal alien is here legally. FACT: This is false. This person is in the U.S. illegally. He entered illegally under the Biden Administration. The illegal alien had no valid work permit, had no protective status, and had a final order of removal from a Department of Justice (DOJ) Immigration Judge. CLAIM: This illegal alien has received no pain medication. FACT: This is false. This illegal alien is receiving medical care around the clock, including pain medication. CLAIM: The illegal alien has been forced to sleep on the floor. FACT: This is false. This alien was released from the hospital and arrived at the detention facility just a few hours later, where he slept on a bed. Aliens in ICE custody receive a higher standard of living than most prisons that hold U.S. citizens. CLAIM: This illegal alien was indiscriminately targeted by ICE. FACT: This is false. This illegal alien was the subject of a targeted vehicle stop. What makes someone a target for immigration enforcement is whether or not they are illegally in the U.S. DHS Sec. Mullin statement: “Sanctuary politicians and the mainstream media have wasted no time in spreading lies about an ICE officer-involved shooting of an illegal alien in Austin, Texas,” said Secretary Markwayne Mullin. “Contrary to their claims, this person is an illegal alien who has no legal status to be here and has been given some of the best medical care he’s ever received in his life. No amount of smears and false narratives will slow down ICE from doing its job by removing dangerous illegal aliens from our communities and making America safe again. Sanctuary politicians may continue to shamelessly protect illegal aliens, but the Trump Administration will remain focused on protecting the American people.”

Responding to our reporting, Texas House Speaker says the chamber's oversight committee will examine local governments spending taxpayer money on non-essential items at its September 30 hearing. Austin's deportation lawyers, its race-sorted construction bids, and its race-restricted arts grants would be a reasonable place to start.

American man remember what you are fighting for.

Strong Answer from D8 candidate @Bowen4Austin on what 1 thing residents will see if he is successful at the end of his 4 years Answer: Homeless out of the greenbelts

This illegal alien entered the country using the CBP 1 App in 2024 which was basically a perverted way for illegals to enter a southern port of entry in order to NOT show the chaos of millions of border crossers on the southern border during the Biden Regime. approx. 904,500 invaders used this program. He then applied for asylum within the year in order to gain the system and apply for a federal work authorization ID card for $450 dollars. He would then be issued a drivers license and social security card in Texas and can begin working for Uber Eats or Doordash. Wilber then skipped his asylum hearing and didn't care about his "due process". (during the Biden Admin over 2.9 million asylum applications were filed in total.) The DOJ judge ordered a final removal order in absentia (no appearance because 92% of these type of application are fraudulent.) There are over 1.4 million invaders in our country with final removal orders. ICE targets these foreigners and works to arrest and deport this category of illegals every day in America.

On Thursday, the Austin City Council is expected to approve another $854,872 in city money for lawyers to fight deportations. In immigration court, defendants have to pay for lawyers themselves. But Austin is just bankrolling anti-deportation lawyers through Austin taxpayers. In March, a city advisory commission voted 8-0 to expand "deportation defense," and another asked the city to guarantee $750,000 a year. Only one council member (Mackenzie Kelly) has ever voted against funding deportation defense, but she lost the vote 10-1. Thursday's vote is buried in the consent agenda, which means it will likely get no debate or news coverage.

The district 8 city council debate sponsored by the League of Women's voters is tonight, Monday September 21.  Austin public library Hampton branch, 5125 Convict Hill Road,  6:30 pm. Hope you can make it tonight.

BREAKING: I investigated SOMALI DAYCARES in the Seattle metro and uncovered over $5 MILLION of potential misuse of taxpayer funds. When I knocked on doors, no one answered. Neighbors told me they have never seen any kids! These individual daycares are receiving $40,000 - $70,000 per month.