INDEPENDENT TEXAN, IT'S REDUNDANT!

Wouldn't the country benefit if we could figure out why 50% of the electorate has no power and what we can do about it? LIV co-founder,...

A reasonable person might think that once the DA's investigation came up with a nothingburger, the recall would be dropped by petitioners.

The great debate on war and U.S. Foreign Policy is going viral. The debate is between "offensive realism" espoused by the inimitable...

We remained till the end of Tuesday night's Bastrop City Council meeting to witness the City Manager Sylvia Carrillo 's handpicked...

September 13, 2024 : It's Friday the 13th for the Bastrop City Council Members led by John Kirkland who gathered 850 of the 1600...

The risks for big energy investors in the massive expansion of Texas gas plants is minimized off the backs of ratepayers.

Bill Bunch and Bill Aleshire teamed up as client and lawyer, respectively, to boot Austin's 13 charter amendments off the ballot.

Bill Aleshire has been a very busy man! Friday's big win against the City of Austin's violation of the Texas Open Meeting Act in...

Opal Lee is much more than the symbol as grandmother of Juneteenth. She is a force, an educator and an organizer of us all.

The Bastrop City Council members who have dogged Mayor Lyle Nelson for the last year failed to correct deficiencies in their petition.

We are sharing this blog post by Carol Spencer , a respected Republican in Bastrop County. We don't always agree on things, but LIV...

The story of how the gold rush on development and water in Texas can also bring in bad political actors is laid out in this article about...

Note! LIV has no plans to endorse in this election. BUT, we are encouraged by more people paying attention to national, state, and local...

Bastropians for Open Government (BOG) Don’t Bog Transparency Down! Please visit the BastropBOG.com website for lots more! Mission...

We're glad former President Donald Trump is OK. We're not OK with fist-pumping for us to fight, fight, fight.

Bucking the status quo entails knowing what you're talking about. LIV wants to hold many more and better-organized educational forums on...

SAWDF (the nonprofit Simsboro Aquifer Water Defense Fund) is not known to engage in hyperbole. So, their news is alarming. Read the full...

Kinky Friedman’s death today at age 79 is well-covered in the Texas Tribune and on Kinky’s Wikipedia page. LIV sends its condolences to...

Should political independents let the two-party U.S. war machine grind down our economy, along with hundreds of thousands of Ukraine's...

Independent Texans PAC also played a minor role in two high-stakes State Rep GOP runoffs. Gary VanDeaver talks about the "quiet war" on...