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Happy Holidays to all our Texas Federation of Republican Women. I wish people a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy New Year, and so on, but sometimes I want to say Happy Holidays. Wishing your fellow American a Merry Christmas or Happy Holiday has become a debate that is both religiously and politically charged. Personally, I am tired of linguistics politics during this joyous season, and I do not say Happy Holidays to be politically correct nor do I succumb to the...

  Do you remember talking about how shameful it was that Texas was 47thin voter turnout?  We really wanted Texans to participate in the voting process this election cycle and boy did we get it, only in some counties across the state it did not quite play out as expected.   This election cycle seemed to be all over the place, I would not know where to begin, my take on the election is that there are as many reasons Republicans did not...

Our organization is called the Texas Federation of Republican Women, emphasis on Republican. We are team Republican, and after the primaries and all the runoffs, we are only team Republican. I am sure somewhere in the bylaws it even spells out that we support Republican candidates. We are Republicans; we are a Republican organization which makes our mission “to elect Republicans into office.” Since election season is also in the middle of football season, let’s use sports as an analogy. Alamo...

  Our youngest son is a senior at a small liberal arts college in Memphis. The Newton children attended very liberal leaning institutions and graduated with their conservative ideological beliefs still intact, a task not so small and one of which I am very proud. Recently, Joe and I were in Memphis for our very last parent’s weekend, a weekend filled with seeing our son, his friends, and the new friends we made over the past four years. We shared meals...

Mona is a graduate of Baylor University, with a degree in Education and Foreign Languages, and accompanied her husband, Colonel (ret.)  Bill Bailey, around the world for 30 years during his Air Force career.  Upon his retirement, she went to work for Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and retired from there in 1999 as an Interdivisional Relationship Manager. She immediately became active in the Tarrant County Republican Party upon her retirement, calling TFRW to find out the nearest RW Club!  Since then...

Have you ever googled “why men do not run for office?” Nothing comes up except articles related to why women do not run for office. There were several articles about the increase in female candidates this year, but mostly Democrat female candidates. Where are all the Republican women? We know the talking points to answer the question ‘why women do not run;’ we talk about it all the time. The typical answers are: Women need to be asked to run, Women are...