INDEPENDENT TEXAN, IT'S REDUNDANT!

Tonight, Monday, February 16, at 8 pm, LIV will hold a strategy meeting for members and donors only to discuss primary races that we think deserve independent voters' attention. These are the hot contests.

It's not news, but deserves tp be said, Texas is facing a water crisis that's been brewing for year The Texas House Natural Resources Committee held a nearly 7-hour interim session hearing on Tuesday, February 10, focused on Texas groundwater.

Check out Bettencourt's letter to Attorney General Ken Paxton HERE. It was shared with the Hood County Commissioners Court just before the Commissioners were about to vote on a 6-month moratorium (a pause) on a data center (the first of six facing Hood County) until they received answers to their questions.

The fight between the Ds and Rs on immigration related to DHS/ICE funding decision has, for the moment, led to a partial shutdown. The only good news is that America is figuring out how we got into a booby trap with the butt ugly "One Big Beautiful Bill" (OBBB). The administration's step-and-fetchers in the GOP locked and loaded a new paramilitary style Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agency (ICE).

In light of very recent events involving the DHS/ICE funding vote deadline on Friday the 13th by Congress, we are opening up tonight's online meeting at 8. Members and nonmembers are invited!

The League of Independent Voters (LIV) is, to our knowledge, the only membership association for independent voters in the country, despite that we are a 45% plurality of American voters.

YouGov plc is an international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm headquartered in the UK with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Asia–Pacific. Great news! The Trump Administration has so botched our immigration policy with politics, they may have managed to convince 46% of Americans to support abolishing ICE. And you thought that was just the leftists, right?

Golf Course Design By Phil Cook   The Bastrop City Council and senior staff are studying the feasibility of building a 9-hole, par-3 golf course on a 15-acre plat of dedicated park land that it owns.   The plat is adjacent to Chestnut Street and the BISD Performing Arts Center to its west, Cedar Street to its north, Farm Street to its south, and several residences with frontage on Hwy. 95 to it’s east. Gills Branch borders the park land to the east.   Building, operating and

In this Edition of LIV News: Bastrop Forum Wednesday! Y'all Come! We have three wonderful and well-prepared speakers to hone in on the city of Bastrop's governance problems that led to a game of hide and seek of their public notice to issue public debt -- in part -- for a golf course without public support. It's also to start Bastrop Independents, a nonpartisan group to do ongoing work for open government. Don't Be Jackasses, be independents . Is an independent fusion movem

Yesterday, a decommissioned power plant went up in flames in Texas City, Texas. Don't worry, it's just smoke, says ABC News.

What’s going on for Texas independent voters? Is it a Texas fusion movement or a risky fizzle? It’s probably not yet a full-blown independent breakout as seen in Ross Perot’s 1992 race when he stood a real chance of winning the presidency. But it’s at least a start.

This documentary by More Perfect Union News -- Could Texas Run Out of Water? Wall Street Is Betting Big On It -- is circulating across the nation.

Letters of support to GMA-12 to maintain current Desired Future Conditions  SAWDF urges you to write your GCD general manager and tell them that you support keeping the current DFCs for your GCD and the use of GAM run PS4-2 by GMA-12 to support that decision. 

Independents broke for Trump in 2024. We explain why and what we want as we move away from the GOP and the President.

Here's the deep dive on all 17 Amendments from the Texas Legislative Council, with pros and cons,

We're not sure Davy actually said this, but it was too good not to use. Summary : What Does This Mean For Aquifer Protection in Bastrop? At this time, no one, including Austin Water, knows whether their bosses on the Austin City Council will give them the green light to engage with a group that does not have the participation of any elected body other than Aqua Water Supply Corporation. Please note that all the politicians in this report are Republicans, so this is not a part

On Tuesday, October 21, the Bastrop City Council voted to issue $15,000,000* in certificates of obligation (CO) bonds that include a golf course. A complaint filed on the bonds with the Texas AG is awaiting review, filed by The League of Independent Voters of Texas (LIV) on Monday, October 27. (See complaint link below). Linda Curtis , a co-founder of LIV, Advisor, and chief organizer, said today, "We are challenging the City's bond issuance in a complaint filed with the At

Austin homeboy, world traveler, local commercial real estate investor, and activist extraordinaire for planet earth and all its critters, Brian Rodgers, recently hit a home run in the Boston Globe.

Update: October 24, 2025 : We are updating this original LIV article posted in February 2023. LIV is not opposed to all ASR projects, such as San Antonio's ASR. However, Austin's ASR poses particular threats to our aquifers. We rely on our water policy leaders for guidance on the complex science of groundwater, especially the Lost Pines Groundwater Conservation District (LPGCD) that represents Lee and Bastrop counties, and two nonprofit organizations: the Simsboro Aquifer Wa

So this techie guy in Austin by the name of Nathan McGuire, puts up this website, at the unceremonious URL, austintaxrateelection.com. The site explains in common, nonpartisan and clear language how local Austin Proposition Q, involving a significant tax hike, works against its own claims by the proponents that they "love Austin."