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Sep 23, 2026
Emily JashinskyHOST
He has been leading in every single poll that RCP has indexed, every single one of them, since August, and it looks like the gap is getting bigger when you have polls like this heading into October, uh, showing a f- a 50% number for Talarico.
Emily JashinskyHOST
It is the first poll since a Tex- Texas Public Policy Foundation poll in late August that had 50% for Talarico.
Emily JashinskyHOST
That poll also had 50% for T- for Paxton, but no other poll has had either of them at 50%.
Emily JashinskyHOST
So that is, uh, I agree with you, a very significant benchmark to see, and it's very, I think, clear when you compare this race to 2018 Beto O'Rourke, which is a pretty good comparison because you have a donor-friendly, high-profile opponent, uh, to, uh, I guess, uh, one difference is Cruz was an incumbent and Paxton's not an incumbent, but th- this is-
Laura Beth LatimerHOST
Hello and welcome to Rightly Decided, the mostly original originalist takes of the litigators of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Laura Beth LatimerHOST
I'm Laura Beth Latimer and I'm here today with our director of litigation, Chance Weldon, and special guest, Judge Kevin Yeary of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals.
Kevin YearyGUEST
Hello.
Donald TrumpSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Matt GaetzHOST
Joining us now, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Aman Blair.
Matt GaetzHOST
Aman, what is the scene in Austin unfolding to look like?
Ammon BlairGUEST
Uh, to be honest, it's the same thing that we're, we saw in Minnesota and everywhere else where we have, um, unfortunately, anti, uh, immigration, the Red Army, uh, inside of Austin.
Mark TeixeiraGUEST
Go to a bunch of events.
Mark TeixeiraGUEST
Texas Public Policy Foundation, would go to some of their forums.
Mark TeixeiraGUEST
And, um, you know, you, you get close enough and it's like, "Let's go."
Josh HolmesHOST
Yeah.
Harvey KronbergGUEST
I think he netted out about 1.8 billion.
Harvey KronbergGUEST
Uh, but he has slowly and methodically taken over the state Republican Party, and the, the, uh, the, the mouthpiece of the party, which is the Texas Public Policy Foundation, kind of like the Heritage Foundation up in DC.
Harvey KronbergGUEST
And they have, um, um...
Harvey KronbergGUEST
Generally, uh, they challenge Republicans in the primary.
Tony KennettHOST
Border Patrol intelligence as well.
Tony KennettHOST
An excellent guy over at the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Tony KennettHOST
Thank you for giving us a couple of minutes here.
Tony KennettHOST
And we're going to have you back very soon because I can't think of many more topics that deserve this kind of attention.
Michaela EstruthHOST
The nation's second largest state has more than 5 million public school students.
Michaela EstruthHOST
The new standards, approved by the Texas State Board of Education last week, make Texas the first state in the nation to implement a classically inspired, comprehensive, and chronological approach to social studies in the classroom, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
Michaela EstruthHOST
The revised curricula weave Christianity and religious influence throughout world history, U.S. history, geography, and government curricula.
Michaela EstruthHOST
Topics included in these new standards include Jesus, early Christianity, the persecution of Christians, and the biblical origins of America history.
Isaiah MitchellPANELIST
It is a local government issue, but it's one that spans the state generally.
Isaiah MitchellPANELIST
And something interesting that we learned at the meeting, James Quintero from TPPF told us that Texas actually ranks second nationally for number of local governments.
Isaiah MitchellPANELIST
And I think Illinois is first, you know, home of Chicago.
Isaiah MitchellPANELIST
And so we actually just have quite a bit of cities, counties, and school districts across the state.
Ginny GentlesHOST
Well, Mandy, how can people read your book when it comes out? How can they access it? How can they follow your work now?
Mandy DroginGUEST
Well, they can find me at TexasPolicy.com, and you can see all of the great things that we're working on.
Mandy DroginGUEST
I have a podcast called Parent Empowerment with Mandy Drogon.
Mandy DroginGUEST
We talk about a lot of the issues that we're talking about today.
Ryan PuzyckiGUEST
We have the Catholics were interested in a particular, what was it called? Yes, in God's backyard bill to allow churches to develop housing.
Ryan PuzyckiGUEST
We have, you know, Democratic groups, Republican groups, you know, from like the Texas Public Policy Foundation, which is very conservative to Texas Appleseed, which is an environmental group.
Ryan PuzyckiGUEST
And all of these were part of our coalition.
Ryan PuzyckiGUEST
And so when we would have a bill making its way through, you know, the sausage making factory that is the legal system here um we could dispatch you know the environmental guys to talk to the democrats about why this bill is important or we could you know send the conservatives to talk to you know the Republicans.
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