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The growing Texas conservative grassroots movement MUST survive this contentious Republican Primary in order to defeat a common enemy — the Red-Green Revolution — fueled by millions in foreign money. We are Providentially here in this time and place to SAVE TEXAS. You will need your brother and sister — and they will need YOU! Don’t lose sight of that!
114th District Court Judge Austin Reeve Jackson, Federalist Society member, and Roy Maynard: Executive Editor, Associated News Service Senior Writer, Texas Public Policy Foundation; editor for The Cannon Online; writer for The Daily Signal and The Federalist.
Grassroots America raised the alarm on the stalled 2017 & 2021 Road Bond projects nearly a year ago!
When the County Judge and senior Commissioners continued to sidestep the issue, we pushed for a full forensic and compliance audit in November — and publicly presented our findings in December.
SEE the posts:
The Judge, Commissioners, and their legal counsel had two full months to prepare for yesterday’s vote on audit firm criteria. Commissioner Drewry came ready to work – with solutions. Others arrived with “unexpected” legal questions as yet another reason to stall. Meanwhile, your tax dollars keep flowing out and our roads keep deteriorating.
💥 Smith County taxpayers deserve better. **We won’t stop fighting for answers.**
Grassroots America filed a Public Information Request on November 6 to inspect existing Road Bond documents — records the public is legally entitled to review. What followed has been a masterclass in delay.
Timeline of Stalling:
And then… nothing. Not one word from the County Engineer — the person responsible for coordinating our inspection of the road bond projects’ engineering and construction records. Zero communication. Zero transparency. Zero accountability.
These road bond documents have NO legal exemption. They should have been available weeks ago. This isn’t just slow — it’s obstructive.
The public deserves answers, not stonewalling. The law requires access, not excuses. And we’re done waiting. Tick tock.
No matter where you live in Smith County, a Justice of the Peace works for YOU!
Job Description for Justices of the Peace:
Listen carefully to the answers regarding office hours. We increasingly receive complaints from citizens across Smith County about Justice of the Peace offices being closed all week during Christmas, at noon, and/or closing before 5PM on weekdays. This is a public service job. It exists to serve the people — many of whom have their own jobs and limited hours to take off. For the two races with incumbents – JP 2 and JP 4, you decide if the current officeholder’s answer is sufficient, or if a change is needed. Also note what they say about the backlog of cases they have in their courts since COVID-19. Folks, that was FIVE years ago!
On 10/1/25, a pay increase took effect for the JPs. This increase DID NOT go through the normal Commissioners Court public budget process like all other spending requests. Instead, the JPs landed an $8,000 backdoor pay increase. The salary of a Smith County Justice of the Peace is now $92,249. Listen carefully to what the incumbents had to say about the pay raises.
The Commissioners Court should NEVER have approved an $8,000 pay raise for the JPs without public discussion of the productivity of each office and sufficient notice to the public. The incumbents should have appeared before the entire Commissioners Court (not just to the unelected budget officer and the County Judge) to make their case. Such backdoor, backroom conspiracies are — at a minimum — unethical. Commissioner Drewry tried to put the brakes on long enough for the JPs to come before the Court to make their case, but the other three Commissioners and the County Judge wouldn’t support her citizen-first transparency effort.
Incumbent – Andy Dunklin
Challenger – Shawn Scott
Current JP is retiring
– Roderick Langlinais
– Timothy McDonald
– Kyle Stowers
Incumbent – Curtis Wulf
Challenger – Sam Griffith