A Texas Perspective
Daily update | Tuesday, July 08, 2025
An Educational Newsletter
To get an idea of who and what President Donald Trump is doing in office, you have to go back and look at his different political affiliations. Trump has run for office four(4) times, but his first run for the White House displayed exactly who he was and still is. In 2000, Trump ran for president for the Reform Party:
“The Reform Party of the United States of America (RPUSA), generally known as the Reform Party USA or the Reform Party, is a centrist, ‘the range of political ideologies that exist between left-wing politics and right-wing politics on the left–right political spectrum.’ The party was founded in 1995 by Ross Perot. Perot believed Americans were disillusioned with the state of politics as being corrupt and unable to deal with vital issues. After he received 18.9 percent of the popular vote as an independent candidate in the 1992 presidential election, he founded the Reform Party and presented it as a viable alternative to Republicans and Democrats. As the Reform Party presidential nominee, Perot won 8.4 percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential election. While he did not receive a single electoral vote, no other third-party or independent candidate has since managed to receive as high a share of the popular vote.”
He also considered running in 1988. 2012. and 2028.
If you read the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ you can see some centrist items in it . . . . The One Big Beautiful Bill, which President Donald Trump signed on Independence Day, ushers in significant changes to Americans’ personal finances. Spanning nearly 1,000 pages, the legislation locks in Trump’s 2017 tax cuts and introduces new tax breaks—including deductions for tips, overtime pay, and auto loan interest—while also offering a special $6,000 deduction for seniors who receive Social Security. Read more
In The News
The latest on the floodwaters that devastated Central Texas on July 4, 2025, is that 104 people died in those raging waters, 10 girls from Camp Mystic are still missing, and in the aftermath of the high death toll, families in Dallas are grieving their relatives . . . . The floodwaters that ravaged Central Texas have, so far, claimed more than 80 people, with far more unaccounted for, state and local officials said Sunday afternoon. It was just three days after early Friday morning flooding hammered a stretch of the Guadalupe River near Kerrville, which is dotted with RV camps, riverside cabins, and popular summer camps with names like Camp Stewart, Camp Mystic, Heart o’ the Hills, La Junta, and Waldemar. Read more
These two girls lost their grandparents in the flood, but they held onto each other’s hands as they both succumbed to the raging waters . . . . Two sisters killed in the devastating Texas Hill Country floods were found with “their hands locked together,” grieving family members said as they continue to search for the girls’ missing grandparents. Blair and Brooke Harber, 13 and 11, died while on a family trip in Casa Bonita, a gated community in the town of Hunt that was struck by the devastating deluge early Friday. The rushing water woke up the girls‘ father, RJ Harber, around 3:30 a.m., his sister Jennifer told KLOU, and the rain was pounding so hard outside that it was nearly impossible to hear the water pouring through their cabin door. Read more
Sade Perkins is catching hell over her discription of Camp Mystic being an all white camp, but then and again, I haven’t seen any Black victims . . . . Houston Mayor John Whitmire said he is working to “permanently” remove a former member of the city's food insecurity board after she made racially charged comments about Camp Mystic, a Christian all-girls camp in Kerr County that has been particularly devastated by the flooding in the Texas Hill Country. The nearly century-old camp along the Guadalupe River announced Monday that 27 of its campers and counselors had died in Friday’s floods, while others remained missing. Among those unaccounted for are two elementary school students from Houston. Read more
Contrary to the installed belief that descendants of slaves are due, or owed reparatoions has been firmly implanted into the minds of Blacks, and in some instances, politicians have even campaigned for such, but the overall opinion of reparations this late in generations is just a damn lie . . . . The effort to get American taxpayers to pay African Americans reparations to atone for slavery in America has been around for many years. The premise for these efforts is a belief that descendants of slaves deserve reparations to compensate them for the harms of slavery their ancestors endured, and the residual discrimination they experience to this day. Is this really a good thing, or simply woke posturing that stokes race division and seeks to bankrupt America? How do you establish eligibility? What will it cost? There are more questions than answers. Read more
Message from the publisher:
A Texas Perspective is designed to be informative, historical, and educational, reflecting the ever-evolving political cultures in the country that no longer prioritize voters' interests. We have become a country that no longer knows where it came from, and as such, we're embarking upon that journey again without knowing it.
Thanks,
Don W. Allison/Editor, A Texas Perspective
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