Libertarian Party of Texas

06/07/2026

Most government expansion doesn't arrive with headlines.

It arrives through small exceptions, temporary programs, overlooked regulations, and decisions that seem insignificant at the time.

A little more authority here.
A little less accountability there.

Before long, the original purpose had grown into something much larger.

That's why details matter.

Jessi Cowart believes Texans deserve leaders who pay attention before problems become permanent. Responsible government isn't just about what happens today—it's about understanding where today's decisions lead tomorrow.

Because scope creep is still creep.

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06/07/2026

Brown received more than 267,000 votes in the 2024 Senate race, a record for a Libertarian candidate. He sees an opening this year with Republican voters who are reluctant to support the party’s nominee for the November election, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

06/07/2026

Freedom means respecting your neighbors' choices as much as your own.

A healthy community isn't built by telling others how to live. It's built on mutual respect, personal responsibility, and the understanding that people can live differently while still being good neighbors.

That's the simple idea behind "Live and Let Live."

Jessi Cowart is running for Texas House District 15 because government works best when it protects individual liberty, treats people fairly, and stays focused on the issues that matter most to our communities.

Freedom works both ways.

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06/06/2026

Is this still a parody site?

"That's the plan, and we're sticking to it." https://buff.ly/O6bVBGW

06/06/2026

American higher education is watching its customer base shrink. New international enrollment fell 17% this autumn, the first overall decline in four years, while nearly 16% fewer adults started college for the first time compared to last year, and a demographic cliff from the 2007-2009 birthrate drop is set to hit enrollment in fall 2026. In any normal market, a supplier facing falling demand cuts prices to keep seats filled. That is not what colleges are doing.

Instead, sticker prices climbed again for 2025-26 across every category: public four-year in-state tuition rose 2.9% to $11,950, out-of-state 3.4% to $31,880, and private nonprofit four-year 4.0% to $45,000, all before inflation. Projections show the increases continuing into 2026-27. Prices are going up while the number of buyers goes down, which only makes sense if the people paying the sticker are not the ones actually footing the bill.

That is exactly the situation government subsidies create. Federal Pell Grants, which jumped 19% in a single year, and government-backed student loans pump third-party money into the system and let schools raise prices without losing enrollment, because the demand signal never reaches them the way it would in a real market. When Washington guarantees the loans and writes the grant checks, colleges have no reason to compete on price and every reason to keep raising it. The subsidies meant to make college affordable are the same thing keeping it expensive.

06/05/2026

Happy Killdozer Day to those who celebrate!

06/03/2026

June is Men's Mental Health Month, so let's talk about it.

Almost 49,000 Americans took their own lives in 2024, about 3 out of 4 were men. Men die by su***de at roughly four times the rate of women, and a major factor is that we raise men to bottle it up, tough it out, and never ask for help. That silence is killing people we love.

A huge chunk of that loss falls on the men who served our country. More than 6,300 veterans died by su***de in 2023. That's about 17 every single day. Veterans kill themselves at roughly double the civilian rate. The veteran population has shrunk by almost a third since 2001 and that rate still hasn't dropped. We send these men off to fight and a lot of them come home to lose a silent war nobody sees. 61% of the vets who died in 2023 weren't even getting VA care.

Here's the part nobody in power wants to say out loud. Every war we start builds a fresh batch of broken men. Trauma, brain injuries, the kind of grief that doesn't heal. You can't keep manufacturing that and then act shocked when the funerals pile up. If you actually want to prevent veteran su***de, the most powerful thing we can do is stop making veterans. End the forever wars. Bring our people home. Stop trading other people's kids for wars that pad the wallets of politicians and defense contractors while doing nothing for Texas.

Peace isn't weak.

06/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month, Texas.

Pride is in June for a reason. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York, the same kind of raid that had humiliated and arrested LGBTQ people for decades. Simply being gay was a crime in most of the country back then. But this time the people inside refused to scatter, and they held their ground for nights. One year later they marched, and that first march became what we now call Pride.

Strip away the politics and that fight was about one simple idea: what consenting adults do in their own lives is none of the government's business. That happens to be an idea Libertarians have championed from the very beginning. We were making the case for marriage equality back when it was politically radioactive, while both major parties stayed opposed for years; as recently as the 2008 election, the major-party presidential tickets still wouldn't back it. And we hold that standard consistently: the same logic that protects your church, your guns, and your business also protects your right to live and love as you choose. Freedom isn't freedom if it only applies to the people the government happens to approve of.

We don't believe your rights come from a government, a politician, or a permission slip. They're yours. All of them. So this month we celebrate the people who stood up to a government that wouldn't leave them alone, and we keep standing for the same principle today.

Live free, Texas. 🤠

06/02/2026

🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month.
Long before it was popular or even safe, Libertarians stood for the radical idea that what consenting adults do in their own lives is none of the government's business.
The Libertarian Party endorsed gay rights in its very first platform in 1972, while both major parties were still decades behind. And the case that struck down laws criminalizing private intimacy across America? Lawrence v. Texas, born right here in the Lone Star State, with libertarian legal minds helping make the winning argument.
We don't believe rights come from a government, a politician, or a permission slip. They're yours. All of them.
Live free, Texas. 🤠

06/01/2026

This predates Trump, but it’s difficult to reconcile MAGA’s pro-privacy stance during the campaign with its complete reversal after the win.