Russell H. Withers

General Counsel and Director of Policy at @TCCRI.

[Travis Pillow @travispillow]

Facts breaking brains of school choice critics:

1. A record shattering than 274,000 students applied for Texas Education Freedom Acccounts

2. 1 in 4 awarded students has a documented disability

3. 4 in 5 awarded students have incomes below 200% of the federal poverty level

[Russell H. Withers @RussellHWithers]

@redsteeze He, himself, is strange and unusual.

[TCCRI @TCCRI]

To place the patient back at the center of healthcare, free market values like price transparency, competition, and patient participation are key. Chairman James Frank demonstrates this in his op ed about the Select Committee on Health Care Affordability.
https://t.co/I76wzYYwGp

[Travis Pillow @travispillow]

New fact sheet with data on all of the nearly 96,000 students awarded Texas Education Freedom Accounts so far

[Ramez Naam @ramez]

Everyone who cares about climate should understand this. Texas, with no pro-climate policies, has blown passed California in clean energy. In large part because Texas has less red tape and makes it easier to build.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

This line is entirely nonresponsive to the majority position—which is that the prior statutory interpretation was incorrect, and thus that Louisiana had violated other, higher, legal provisions, also born of blood. (It’s also at odds with a lot of the rest of her jurisprudence.)

[Senator Tan Parker @TanParkerTX]

Great discussion at the @TCCRI 2026 Policy Forum in Austin with Gov. @GregAbbott_TX, @ScottJenningsKY, @RichLowry, and legislative leaders, focused on the principles that have guided America for nearly 250 years and the policies shaping Texas’ future.

As board chairman, I’m proud to advance free-market, limited government solutions that protect freedom and preserve liberty, laying the groundwork for the 90th Legislature and keeping Texas strong.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Imagine how deranged you have to be to say this in public—especially in response to a case that explicitly affirms the line that “distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people." Taney? GTFO. https://t.co/QWofHT9UkQ

[Governor Hot Wheels @GovHotWheels_TX]

Governor Abbott joined Texas legislators, leaders, and conservative champions in Austin this afternoon at the @TCCRI Policy Forum to discuss the issues that matter to Texans.

Chief among them: affordability & property taxes.
Together, we will keep Texas the GREATEST place to live, work, and raise a family, guided by the commonsense policies that make our state thrive.

[Greg Price @greg_price11]

Justice Jackson wrote a 35-page dissent in Chiles v. Salazar about how it should be constitutional to ban counselors from telling a boy he is not a girl.

It was longer than Justice Gorsuch's majority opinion and Justice Kagan's concurring opinion combined.

[James Frank @RepJamesFrank]

Come on Houston Chronicle!! There is no “charge” of anything. People simply posted Talarico’s own words on video.

“Half-baked” would be him flipping on meat or y’all pretending that playing a clip of him talking is somehow a “half-baked charge”. #txlege

[James Frank @RepJamesFrank]

It’s not an “Accusation” when it’s just a clip of the politician talking. #txlege

[Russell H. Withers @RussellHWithers]

@redsteeze Bout to downgrade from Founder level over this.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

Deep down, you know this guy uses salsa made in New York City.

[Tony Ortiz (Current Revolt) @CurrentRevolt]

Uh oh.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Whenever the topic is something the media doesn’t like, journalists all become creative writing professors. The press has done everything possible to obfuscate the facts of this story—and it has done so deliberately.

[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

@ChrisExpTheNews There are two kinds of Americans:

Those who don’t know about Wickard v. Filburn and those who are outraged by it

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Talarico's words are indicative. They point to a considered, premeditated, fully conscious extremism. A crucial test arose, and Talarico failed it. There is no justifiable reason to put him in the Senate as a reward. https://t.co/ZbpxeDT69s

[Traces of Texas @TracesofTexas]

RIP Augustus McCrae.

It was quite a party.

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

What can this mean? Emanuel leads with “Republicans are abandoning public schools with vouchers,” then says “Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana are showing us the way forward for every student.” But Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana all have school vouchers.