Top Story: The ‘We the People’ Reform Party

 A Texas Perspective

Daily update | Wednesday, July 09, 2025

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Today’s Perspective

The question is, who is Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., also known by his initials RFK Jr.? Well, he's an American politician, environmental lawyer, author, conspiracy theorist, and anti-vaccine activist, serving as the 26th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services since February 2025. RFK Jr. He created a political third party ‘We the People’ in January, 2024 and decided that would get him into the White House, and although he was failure as a presidential candidate, President Donald Trump appointed him Secretary of Health and Human Services, but what he stands for, and his actions doesn’t represent what ‘We the People’ stand for:

"We the People" are the first three words of the Preamble to the United States Constitution. These words signify that the power of the U.S. government originates from its citizens. The phrase emphasizes the concept of popular sovereignty, where the people hold the ultimate authority and legitimacy of the government. 

‘We the People is also a political reform movement that ‘advocates for various reforms, including those related to campaign finance, lobbying, and democratic participation. The name itself is derived from the opening phrase of the U.S. Constitution, emphasizing the principle of popular sovereignty.’

If the reform party was to be a government by the people, for the people, his actions since being appointed as the Secretary of Health and Human Service disproves that when he advocate for dictating what the people can eat, but that’s only the beginning, his attack on banning Big Pharma advertising, again, oversteps his authority . . . .  I've been impressed by RFK Jr. since he made the switch from renegade Democrat to loyal Trump supporter. However, this does not mean I agree with every position he's taken related to healthcare, which is his job as Secretary of Health and Human Services.  As background, I spent more than twenty-five years working in marketing administration and management in a variety of hospitals, for-profit hospital companies, and hospital trade associations.  This has given me a more-than-layman's perspective on RFK Jr.'s views and positions, especially in the realms of hospital, healthcare, and pharmaceutical advertising and marketing. Read more

In The News

The number of people missing from the Hill Country flood has went up again, and a devastating reality is that the number of deaths attributed to the flood will increase also . . . . Search and rescue teams are looking for 161 missing people in Kerr County, possible victims of the July 4 Hill Country flood whose death toll has climbed to 109 victims, according to an update from Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday afternoon. "We will not stop until every missing person is accounted for," said Abbott, who toured the areas impacted by the flooding on Tuesday. Read more

After the National Weather Service issued the warning of the flood, officials are trying to piece together what officials in Kerr County three hours and 21 minutes . . . . Three hours and 21 minutes. That’s how much time passed from when the National Weather Service sent out its first flash flood warning for part of Kerr County to when the first flooding reports came in from low-lying water crossings. The weather service says that the first warning triggered one of many automatic alerts to cell phones and weather radios, telling people in the area of the danger. But if any local officials got those warnings, and if so, whether they activated in any meaningful way in those 3 hours and 21 minutes remains a black box. Read more

The Hill County flood has produced some painful memories with the loss of a loved one, but this one will create a tear, or two . . . . Prominent Houston criminal defense attorney Randy Schaffer is mourning the loss of his wife, Mollie Schaffer, after the couple was swept up in the catastrophic Hill Country floods over the July 4 weekend. The couple had been attending their 46th annual reunion with law school friends at the River Inn Resort and Conference Center in Hunt, Texas, when disaster struck. At around 3 a.m. Friday, a manager knocked on their door, urging them to evacuate immediately as the Guadalupe River surged. Read more

Pointing the finger in the aftermath of this horrific flood will continue long after the cleanup and restoration of Kerr County . . . . Several months after the meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather Service’s Houston-Galveston office opted for early retirement, the federal agency overseeing the weather service has appointed a replacement. Matt Moreland is taking on the role, according to a Monday announcement by Todd Lericos, the acting meteorologist-in-charge at the Houston-Galveston office. Read more

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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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Top Story: The Reform Party Has Claimed Republicans

 A Texas Perspective

Daily update | Tuesday, July 08, 2025

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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

There's more in today's issue of A Texas Perspective Magazine.