Austin had the largest homicide increase of any big city in the country even as murder fell almost everywhere else.
Nationally, murders are down 18% in a year and 31% since 2019, heading toward the lowest rate since 1900!
Murder rate 2019-2026:
- Baltimore down 68%
- Washington DC down 43%
- St. Louis down 41%
- Detroit down 34%
Austin's homicide rate is up 74%.
My husband was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer just nine months ago.
We fought for, and gained access to Anktiva (N-803) and natural killer cell therapies. The results have been extraordinary.
A month ago I stood before the FDA and pleaded with them to honor President Trump’s 2018 Right to Try Executive Order.
Yet this American-made, life-saving technology is still not widely available here at home. It is being approved and used overseas while American patients are left waiting.
How do we fix this? We must demand faster access, cut the bureaucracy, and put patients first. Right to Try cannot just be words on paper.
Share if you believe American innovation should save American lives first. #UnleashANKTIVA #RightToTry #FDARefrom
AUSTIN MAN shoots a guy in the chest over a joke, and Travis County DA lets the case quietly die.
Dec 2023: Ellis Henderson is making rap music with a guy named Ortiz. Ortiz, sitting cross-legged on the floor with his iPad, makes a joke -- riffing that there's a $50,000 price on Henderson's head. Henderson stands over him and fires a single round into his shoulder. The bullet shreds a lung, snaps three ribs, and fragments inside him. Ortiz survives surgery with pieces of it still in his body.
APD charges aggravated assault. Then the case dies as Henderson sits in jail with no indictment, bond slashed from $100,000 to $20,000. In April 2025 the DA drops it cold.
Henderson was no stranger to Austin’s prosecutors. A cocaine felony downgraded to probation. In 2016, he went on a rampage on UT campus -- accosted a female student, beat the parking officer who stepped in, tried to steal his car, then fought the cops so hard they had to tase him. His robbery and escape felonies both got quietly knocked down.
Paying no consequences, he drove north and kicked down an elderly couple's front door in Killeen, storming in with his fists up.
Unlike Travis County prosecutors, Bell County prosecutors didn't blink. They took his priors and put the floor at 25 years, and planned to use the same 2016 UT attack Austin ignored to push a jury toward 40. He didn't risk it and pleaded guilty the morning trial began. 25 years.
The county next door built its case out of the crimes Travis County wouldn't touch.
Steak ‘n Shake is not only waiving franchise fees for Veterans – it’s partnering with VA to expand outreach to Veterans so they can get the care and benefits they’ve earned!
🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...
...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY
He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."
His name is Rishi Sharma.
He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.
He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.
He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...
...FOR FREE
So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.
Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.
He does it out of pure gratitude.
In his words:
"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."
As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:
"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."
THAT is America.
250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...
God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Are you sitting down?
America in the last 55 years…
Welfare Programs: 900% increase
US National Debt: 11,000% increase
Foreign Born Population: 300% increase
Illegal Immigrant Population: 4,900% increase (at least)
A planned demolition.
Immigration is everything.
Sick.