Thomas Paine brought the American Revolution from debating halls to the conscience of everyday Americans through thunderous writing and a fearless sense of right and wrong. He was immigrant who quickly adopted America as his home and the colonial cause as his own.

"I must study war and diplomacy so that my children may study mathematics and science so that their children may study art and philosophy." - John Adams

Our annual Department of Defense (DOD) budget is approaching $1 trillion; but our military equipment is drastically aging. Unfortunately, it takes years to manufacture an adequate quantity of new sophisticated weapons.

“Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us,” wrote Dr. Benjamin Rush. Rush was one of the leading scientific and medical minds of the colonies, alongside Ben Franklin.

Why, in 2026, are we still fighting for rights already won — the right to vote, equal pay, the Equal Rights Amendment Congress refuses to recognize as ratified?

Alan Turing, perhaps, did as much to personally win World War II as anyone alive then.

Children are doing without in the richest country in the world. Now that is a real disgrace.

In 1789, President George Washington appointed Alexander Hamilton, already a successful lawyer, banker, and veteran as the first Secretary of the Treasury.

Over the last three and half years our elected County Judge has learned little from the people he has served in Fannin County.

Alexander Hamilton, whose influences include savings bonds, newspapers, and even the U. S. Constitution, pushed through new and controversial ideas to a skeptical nation that still impacts America more than two centuries later.

U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman arguing that closing the Texas Republican primary would be a mistake for the party and our nation's democratic republic.

Sam Rayburn once observed, “Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a carpenter to build one.”