INDEPENDENT TEXANS PAC 

Contacts:  Debra Medina, We Texans, 512.663.8401, Linda Curtis or Jessica Ellison, Independent Texans, 512.657.2089 and 512.653.9179, Julia Trigg Crawford, 713.443.8789, Laura Ehrlich, Jim Hightower & Associates, 512.477-5588 Cross-Partisan Coalition Calls on Lt. Governor and House Speaker for Interim Study and Full Public Hearings on Eminent Domain Abuse Starting in East Texas, to include Public Safety Concerns Related to Potential Water Threats from Tar Sands Crude and Hydr

We now have a page up for the hearing next Monday, July 23rd, in Austin.  Please COME to Austin for this hearing! We will be available starting at 9 a.m. in the Capitol Grill (Room E1.002),  The hearing starts at 10 a.m. in Room E2.012.  Go here for details on parking, etc. Now, whether or not you can make it next Monday, please call your state representative today about the following.  It appears that the speakers for this hearing on Monday are “by invitation only”.  This is

There is a growing call for public hearings from  Texas landowners and residents in NE Texas who are facing potential eminent domain seizures of their land for the Keystone XL/TransCanada pipeline.  The following organizations are doing this together:  Independent Texans, We Texans, Texans for Accountable Government, Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom. Please sign this petition/letter to State Representative and Chair of the Land and Resource Management Committee, Rene Oli

A coalition of groups including Independent Texans, We Texans (founded by Debra Medina), Texas TURF (founded by Terri Hall), and Texans for Accountable Government, are standing up for Texas property rights and to put a stop to the continued abuses by foreign corporations and the refusal of our legislature to truly reform eminent domain laws. You may have seen the news coverage yesterday about the bullying tactics used by TransCanada to grab private property in NE Texas for th

Independent Texans is now part of a growing statewide coalition, along with We Texans (founded by Debra Medina), Texas TURF (founded by Terri Hall) and Texans for Accountable Government (Jessica Ellison is their liaison).  We are helping landowners in NE Texas who are having their land seized through eminent domain by TransCanada as they move to build the Keystone XL pipeline.  And, yes, this is despite the Obama administration’s rejection — for now — of the TransCanada permi

*  After hearing your input, we have decided to join with We Texans, TURF (Texans Uniting for Reform and Freedom) and TAG (Texans for Accountable Government) to call for hearings of the Land and Resource Management Committee in the Texas House on the plan to bring the Keystone XL (TransCanada) pipeline across the NE portion of our state.  We have questions, not yet answered, about the use of eminent domain to seize private property for this project.  We also have serious conc