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The Republican Party of Texas (RPT) is the affiliate of the United States Republican Party in the state of Texas. It is currently chaired by Abraham George, succeeding Matt Rinaldi who finished his term in 2024. [1] The party is headquartered in Austin, and is legally considered to be a political action committee.
The national Republican Party has tacked harder right in recent decades, but in Texas, the shift has been supercharged by spending from three West Texas billionaires, Tim Dunn and the brothers ...
The Texas Republican Party’s platform — its statement of beliefs and policy proposals — always gets a ton of attention. This election year is no different. The platform is nonbinding, and ...
The party's social conservatism includes support for gun rights outlined in the Second Amendment, the death penalty, and other traditional values, often with a Christian foundation, including restrictions on abortion. [6] In foreign policy, Republicans usually favor increased military spending, strong national defense, and unilateral action.
After President Joe Biden signed Cornyn’s gun control bill into law, Republican delegates stood, booed, jeered and shouted at him at the 2022 Republican Party of Texas Convention in Houston.
Andrew Jackson believed the national debt was a "national curse" and he took special pride in paying off the entire national debt in 1835. [56] Politicians ever since have used the issue of a high national debt to denounce the other party for profligacy and a threat to fiscal soundness and the nation's future. [57]
The Texas Republican Party fully embraces Donald Trump's agenda for a return to the White House and wants a national ban on abortions. ... including harming property values of our neighborhoods ...
For about a hundred years, from after Reconstruction until the 1990s, the Democratic Party dominated Texas politics, making it part of the Solid South.In a reversal of alignments, since the late 1960s, the Republican Party has grown more prominent.