Texas Constitutional Enforcement is proposing to the Republican Party of Texas (RPT) 2026 State Convention Legislative Priorities Committee that it adopt three legislative priorities for presentation to the RPT state convention delegates:

• End Federal Overreach  (PDF   Word)
• Don’t Sharia Texas   (PDF   Word)
• Assist Deportation    (PDF   Word)

Our philosophy is that each priority should normally be balanced as a sufficiently broad area to allow multiple bills for implementation. We think the opening statement of each priority should explain the concept of the priority and then use the word “including” to give bill ideas.

I note that at the end of the committee meeting at the last state convention, the End Federal Overreach priority was modified to help medical freedom and freedom to travel, but it was done in a way that made it difficult for the End Federal Overreach Legislative Priority subcommittee to figure out what bills to support. We grappled with whether we should support medical freedom and freedom travel bills that really had only to do with state level policy.

The linked structure and text of each proposed priority (and the text of each down below) explain their scope and ideas for implementation. Here are comments on each proposed priority:

End Federal Overreach – This priority broke through to the priorities last cycle during the dark days of the lawless, tyrannical Biden administration. We only got 30% of the bills endorsed by the subcommittee passed in 2025. As you can see from the suggested bill ideas in the priority, we still have LOTS of work to do in the area, despite Trump currently being in office.

There are two reasons why shoring up Texas sovereignty should continue to get the focus of Texans. First, even with Trump in office, we face an entrenched minority of establishment Republicans in the Senate who are warring with and thwarting Trump’s agenda.  The Senate is warring with and thwarting Trump in his appointments, the SAVE ACT, not repealing the vehicular kill switch, caring about getting money for Biden spying on them, but not the J6 tyranny visited upon innocent Patriots, and refusing to fund Homeland Security. This is a strong case that we DO need Texas to defend Texans against federal and globalist violations of the rights of Texans.

Second, 2027 is the last session before a post Trump America. Nehemiah knew that in the lull between attacks from the enemy, you build defensive infrastructure Texas should always be planning for the contingency of a radical takeover of the federal government.

Don’t Sharia Texas – This is a new area of defense of the Constitutions for Texas Constitutional Enforcement.

The biggest question facing the committee is whether to craft a priority that is focused on Sharia, or whether to focus on Islamic domination that uses the inextricably interwoven Sharia as its cudgel. I advocate following the lead of the Texas State Republican Executive Committee (SREC) in its formulation of our ballot proposition and the Sharia-Free Caucus in the Texas House to focus on the competing, seditious, enemy of our Constitutions  -- Sharia -- instead of Islam.

Although I recognize that Sharia overarches and is inextricably embedded in Islam and see value in stating that truth, I think we will more easily pass legislation – and even more importantly – survive judicial scrutiny if we focus on constitutional fidelity and stay away from the swamp of questions of religious liberty.

I have talked to many who want to argue that Islam is not a religion, but an aggressive ideology that masquerades as a religion. If that is true, then discrimination against Islam is not suppression of religious liberty, but protection of liberty just as much as discrimination against communism. But that is a much harder argument to make in court, and even to the general public and legislators.

There is no question that Sharia violates religious liberty and freedom of speech recognized in the First Amendment; the rights to bear arms in the Second; the right to be secure in one’s papers and effects in the Fourth; the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth; the prohibition of slavery in the Thirteenth; and equal protection under the law in the Fourteenth. And there is no question that Sharia is a competing, seditious, enemy of our Constitutions. We should fight on a battlefield on which we can more likely win.

Assist Deportation – I advocate that this priority be presented to the delegates as a replacement for and instead of the existing Border Enforcement priority. There is a broad consensus that the federal government is now actually doing its job on stopping more illegal migration and trafficking. The battle and the urgency has now shifted to deportation of illegals. Texas needs to do everything it can to encourage self deportation and to assist the feds as they go about deportation. See in the suggested priority language the biggest part of the priority (and part of the previous two cycle’s Border Enforcement priorities) – stopping taxpayer services to illegals, which would not only help with self-deportation, but would enable large property tax cuts, as well.

In addition to the linked PDF and Word versions of the proposed priority language above, here is the text of those proposals:

End Federal Overreach

Texas government should resist unconstitutional federal acts and the use of financial pressure by globalist institutions that seek to destroy everything Texans hold dear and usurp the political power inherent in the people of Texas.  Such resistance should include:

• Creating a process to formally identify and unify Texas to resist unconstitutional federal acts as exemplified by the Texas Sovereignty Act;
• Limits or prohibition of out-of-state direct or in-kind donations -- both individual and PAC -- to Texas state and local candidates;
• Resisting woke federal transportation mandates that restrict Texans’ freedom to travel, including the federally mandated vehicle kill switch;
• Defining areas of intrastate commerce that are immune from federal regulation;
• Passage of a Currency Choice amendment to the Texas Bill of Rights to resist Central Bank Digital Currency;
• Passage of state law banning high altitude geoengineering spraying of substances damaging to human health and the environment, whether done by the federal government, globalists, or globalist institutions;
• Bifurcate elections and voter rolls for presidential electors, state office, and Texas subdivision office from U.S. House and Senate to ensure that Texas elections have no interference or corruption from DC.;
• Criminalize and restrict weaponization of federal law enforcement against conservative Texans;
• Resist ESG and DEI discrimination by companies doing business in Texas;
• Stop Texas agencies and subdivisions from receiving federal funds that have strings attached;
• Texas refusal to automatically implement federal or global entity health emergencies and to act independently to protect Texans; and,
• Protect the Texas National Guard.

Don’t Sharia Texas

Texas government should stop Sharia law in the following ways:

• Declare that Sharia law is an incompatible, seditious, subversive, competing enemy of the Texas and U.S. Constitutions, and that its advocacy or implementation is a seditious and treasonous criminal act, worthy of criminal punishment; disqualification for public, military, and law enforcement service; denaturalization; and deportment;
• Formally request that the federal government denaturalize and/or deport advocates of Sharia law, and prohibit federal public, military, and law enforcement service for advocates of Sharia law;
• Taxpayer funds may not be granted, contracted, disbursed, or otherwise provided to any organization, school, contractor, grantee, or program that promotes, seeks to implement, or advocates allegiance to a foreign legal system, religious legal system, or extremist doctrine such as Sharia law that conflicts with the Constitutions of Texas or the United States;
• Stop any economic or residential development that discriminates on the basis of advocacy of the implementation of Sharia law or discrimination against those who do not support that aggressive, competing ideology that is incompatible with our Constitutions and the way of life bequeathed us by our framers;
• Modify the Texas terroristic threat statute to make clear that threatening violence for violations of Sharia law such as criticizing or not honoring Islam, for converting from Islam, for insisting that Texans restrict their dietary habits, respect ritualized slaughter of animals, or limit their enjoyment of their pets are included in the criminal act of terroristic threat;
• Stop religious and/or educational institutions in Texas from receiving funding from foreign or domestic sources that have any affiliation with any organization that advocates Sharia law or has been designated as a Foreign Terror Organization or Transnational Criminal Organization;
• Enforce Texas sedition law against advocacy of Sharia law, and rigorously enforce other Texas law that criminalizes aspects of Sharia law such as female genital mutilation, animal cruelty, terroristic threat, domestic violence, rape, polygamy, and pedophilia. Include elimination of taxpayer assistance to women who in reality are wives under Sharia law;
• Stop Texas public schools and other taxpayer funded institutions from mandating that provided meals or services be served in compliance with Sharia law.

Assist Deportation

Texas government should assist the federal government in deportation and support employment for Texans, including:

• End taxpayer services for illegals in schools and universities and at the state and county level, and vigorously challenge the Supreme Court decision of Plyler v. Doe.
• Codify ineligibility for occupational licenses for illegals.
• Codify Texas government and its subdivision not using H1-B visas.
• Tax disadvantage use of H1-B visas by Texas employers.
• Mandate private and governmental Texas employer use of E-verify.
• Expand requirement to implement 287 g agreements to Texas city jails.