
Newsletter Archive
- Tonight -- Important Water Meeting, call in.
- If you think it's time to end the doom loop
- How I'm spending time on Dr. King's birthday!
- The Big Skim and BIG Scam
- Report from Court: SAWS Expensive Legal Tantrum, What's next for LIV
- Breaking News! SAWS Holiday Surprise to Ratepayers -- SEE YOU IN COURT TODAY
- For Immediate Release: SAWS Holiday Ratepayer Surprise -- SEE YOU IN COURT ON MONDAY!
- From the never give up Barry Klein & homegrown petitions!
- WATER ALERT - Lee & Bastrop Counties! Be on the call Wed or call us!
- Indies make TX a "Swing" State!
- SA Chamber's BIG Dark Money to stop SAWS Petition!
- Sign LIV Petition @ Change.org "Stop SAWS Profiteers!"
- Indies Split Your Ticket!
- Petitioning in the Pandemic! Yes, we are...how you can help
- SAWS Act PAC request, Sat. SA Drive-thru Petitions
- SAWS Nose Grows...Again. Homegrown petitions on the move!
- Homegrown Petition Test in San Antone as TOP endorses • Three democratic women oppose democracy - so wrong! • Don't Mess with the US Post Office, fool!
- Party Fracturing Could Cure What Ails Us • SAWS Act PAC online! • "Two-Party Doom Loop" Group - Join us • Austin Land Dev Update
- Help us reach our petition goal by July 31, San Antonio!
- SAWS Keeps Dumping on YOU • SD 14 Runoff is ON! • The Prime Act Needs a few phone calls, por favor.
- Breaking News: Vista Ridge and SAWS Face Investigation
- Breaking News on Vista Ridge -- SAWS Faces Investigation
- Ah, we just love a horse race!
- IMPORTANT Ballot by Mail Information
- Cuban Democracy Shark Out for 2020 • SAWS on the Run • SD-14 Update
- Advisory: Conference Call Tomorrow NIght on Vista Ridge & SAWS Waste
- Eckhardt v. Rodriquez forum Monday night 7 pm, Tuesday Vista Ridge Conference Call!
- Release
- Breaking News on Vista Ridge -- SAWS Deception -- dumps groundwater
- As we mourn our dead and celebrate their uniqueness: LIV News, June 3
- May 25 news
- May 20 News
- Should Mark Cuban run independent for President? Pandemic Pilfering: TxDOT/CAMPO • Watson Legacy • the Rogue SAWS
- Taking Advantage of the Crisis? Transportation Transparency Trangressions: Central Texans, call or email right now!
- Organizing indy voters for free & fair election • Have SAWS & Vista Ridge Fallen Victim to COVID-19? Take action!
- Take Action to Avert a Manmade Crisis, Vista Ridge & pro-democracy reform.
- Petition Kickoff-SAWS Accountability, come Sunday, Luby's on Main!
- Sunday San Antonio Petition Kickoff!
- San Antonio Events tomorrow and Sunday! Our water and leadership crisis!
- Vista Ridge Threat to Edwards! Urgent water hearing Wed! Spread the word!!!
- Eight Surprise Gifts from the independent movement!
- #GivingTuesday for independent action & aquifer protection in Central Texas, today #GivingTuesdayLIV
- Tuesday the Giving -- not the taking -- Season begins.
- Losers of the World UNITE! Giving not Taking Tuesday.
- #GivingTuesdayIndependentTexans
- San Antonio Meeting! Tues., Nov. 19, 7 pm, Vista Ridge Audit Here We Come!
- Manny's Problem Pregnancy • Vote, y'all! • Mark Calendars!
- LIV News: Early Voting! • LCRA Naked • Vista Ridge Stuns Elmendorf • Redistricting Hearings Houston • Indy/Third Party Lawsuit Hearing Oct. 30
- Time to pay the pied pipers -- NOT!
- A real manmade climate crisis, says conservative Murphy. Miller on how to deal best with Electoral College.
- Sept. 21 and Oct. 3 hearing
- Regional Water Coalition; First Redistricting Hearing
- Vista Ridge Audit Release
- Events! Bastrop, Burleson, Austin, San Antonio! Join us, y'all!
- Met you at FARFA -- Independent Voter Survey update!
- Independents on the Move Newsletter • SAWS CEO Way Overpaid • Grits on Pension Reform • Events and more!
- Nirenberg One-Finger Salute to Guv & SA Voter • "Responsible Growth"
- Perot Memoriam from his grassroots • Lawsuit Challenges Texas Ballot Access •Let the (2-party) games begin by Mark Miller • Food and Farm Leadership Conference, San Marcos • Vista Ridge Coalition Meets in SA, July 23
- Governor turns The Hose on SAWS - vetoes HB 1806!!!!
- Growth Machine On Run, Bringing the Parites Together Whether They Like it Or Not!
- for TEOL
- It ain't over until the Guv sings with his veto pen! Call or email now!
- NEW Veto HB 1806, call the Guv! • Hilarious! Adler enters San Antonio Mayor's Race
- Veto 1066, Kill SB 323, protect your petition rights • Stop the SAWS Buzz sas!
- Veto 1066, Governor! San Antonio tonight, Austin tomorrow!
- Pay to Play in San Antonio! Join LIV's next meeting - Monday night!
- Short video -- hit the pay to play boys and Vista Ridge in the right spot VOTE this Saturday! Share this short video, won't you?
- Texas groundwater more valuable in oil! Don't let them get away with it!
- 23 Candidates Endorse Vista Ridge Resolution! and more!
- 23 Candidates Endorse Vista Ridge Resolution!
- News! Eminent Domain, San Antonio's Vista Ridge & Support Elgin Citywide Garage Sale to protect groundwater!
- Our plans for San Antonio...join us these next few days!
- San Antonio Meeting! Monday, April 22, 7 pm -- please come!
- Sorry this is URGENT; about all Texans water future!! Please call tomorrow morning!!!
- Whole lotta shaking going on in Texas Politics; Austin, Houston, San Antonio & counties east of Austin!
- Call Your Rep NOW - vote NO on HB 1066, No California Water Model, please and thank you!
- SAWS & LCRA bringing us together! Join the stream on Saturday, make some calls, y'all!
- Call your legislators! Watch Your Water! Capitol tomorrow, San Antonio next Saturday -- or watch the streams and share this message!
- San Antonians, please come to this March 30th event and spread the word!
- SAWS uses ratepayer dollars to lobby for Vista Ridge, let's kill HB 1066 and get our water reform bills filed by Friday!
- Thanks Mark Cuban! Business shark for democracy...instead of hogs at trough seen at eminent domain hearing today.
- Bad Water Bills! Come to Capitol, Tuesday -- bad water bills!
- She's baaack II
- She's baaack! Gridzilla is all kinda wrong for Texas!
- The largest disenfrancised group in Texas! Come to March 5th Lobby! Share this video, won't you?
- Come to Bastrop, San Antonio and Austin starting this Saturday!
- March 5, come to the Capitol -- for your land, your water, your democracy!
- Oops! LCRA Water Hearing TODAY! Wed. Dec. 19, 10 am, Bastrop Convention Center!
- LCRA Water Grinch at Hearing tomorrow (Wed., Dec. 19, 10 am) Bastrop Convention Center -- get some baked goods before Simsboro goose gets cooked!
- Texas Legislature here we come -- independents on the loose!
- Simsboro Fundraiser
- Canceled Press Conference Today in San Antonio: to be rescheduled!
- Share our 1" video! San Antoino Debate on Prop A Will Go On -- then watch Ted/Beto debate together.
- Debate or Mayhem in San Antonio over ballot petitions? LIV sponsors debate, moderated by Rivard Report's Brendon Gibbons, Miller Part 3
- Release: Who Will Debate Prop A on Vista Ridge - water lawyer James Murphy for Prop A, Mayor Nirenberg Invited After SAWS' Guerra Declined
- Houston, San Antonio, Austin & Simsboro counties the Indys are coming! Beto/Cruz, we're watching you!
- W for Water, Wealth and Who's Even Talking About It? independents, WHO will decide close races!
- Reminder: Thurs. Water Pow Wow in Bastrop, SAVE DATE: SEPT. 26 HEARING!
- Release: TX Indies decide Beto/Crus, Kopser/Roy and tight races.
- Independent Voters Arise, we told you we would. Now, join us!
- Tuesday Town Hall Water Meeting: Seats are filling up, free but reserve now!
- Water Alert! LCRA is moving on Simsboro water on Boy Scouts property! Please come to this on Tuesday!
- We Can End End Op's Pipe Dream
- Lost Pines SPECIAL Meeting this Thursday, Giddings!
- TAKE ACTION NOW! End Op Appeals! Will Lost Pines let us get screwed again?
- Last Night in the Lost Pines
- Reminder: Show up tonight! It's not THAT cold...we think.
- Water Protectors Unite -- in Bastrop this Wednesday. Landowner's in today's Statesman
- Landowners Score HUGE Victory...Share this and Lost Piners show up on Jan. 17th
- For immediate release: Landowners Win in Lost Pines Grounwater District...End Op loses!
- Citizens move in on Vista Ridge...
- Bringing Down The San Antone Hose? Yes, we can, if you do this!
- Water Wars grabbers on all sides of the Simsboro -- and how we can whup them!
- Release: Judge Hears Arguments on Landowners’ Right to Protest Groundwater Export, Ruling to Come
- Tomorrow In Court! Show up Bastrop & Lee counties!
- Media Advisory: Water Wars Heat Up Monday and Wednesday!
- Wake up Bastrop, Lee, Milam & Burleson! Be at this on Monday night in Bastrop!
- SAWDF Release
- Release: Simsboro Aquifer Under Siege a Manmade Disaster Unless Abbott Intervenes
- In Post-Harvey Texas, Will the Governor Allow a Manmade Disaster?
- RED ALERT~Burleson, Milam, Lee & Bastrop -- Come to Milano -- Stop Vista Ridge Fast One!
- News from the Independent Front -- our first newsletter!
- Newsletter from the Independent Front
- Test 2col XW LIV
- The Ninny State, Abbott's Oh-so-special Session, Dump on Bastrop again!??
- Release: TML & High Ranks of Republican Party Fail Uran & Rural Texas, say Independents
- Release: TML & High Ranks of Republican Party Fail Rural & Urban Texas, say Independents
- Kill Bid Rigging Amendment & Bad Seed Bill!
- Call Sen. Schwertner to Torpedo this Amendment for the San Antone Hose!
- Action Alert – Excuse me, Legislature, but do you remember our water and land?!
- Call/email right now! Gutting Local Control with bad seed bill!
- Beware of False Profits Sticking it to us! Call NOW!
- Urgent Water Alert! Call Sen. Kolkhorst NOW!
- The Greatest Bill Since Sliced Bread Appears THIS Friday...have some fun passing this and killing some BAD ones.
- Tell Post Oak We Want MORE Groundwater Management, Not LESS!
- Call Sen. Lois Kolkhorst now or this weekend...stop this terrible water bill!
- Action alert: Electoral competition!
- Advisory: Post Oak Savannah Groundwater Conservation District Decision Tomorrow night. Please come to Milano!
- Tomorrow hearings & bill updates, Thursday Conference Call (not tomorrow), 8 pm. Reply for conference call instrutions.
- Water call-in day TODAY! If you miss this message, call anytime this week!
- URGENT water, wallet & election alert -- email & call rural-urban Texas!
- Calling for the divine intervention of Joe Straus!
- Tomorrow night (Thurs, Ap. 6) Vista Ridge Beer Summit, Blue Star Brewery, 7 pm
- Tomorrow night (Ap. 4), Another Water Meeting in Milano
- Oops San Antonio! Vista Ridge Beer Summit on Thurs. April 6th! Attend & Volunteer Request!
- California Water Model Coming to Texas...stop it.
- Legacy Farm Landowner Contests Vista Ridge Variance
- Breaking: Vista Ridge on the run
- Reminder: 5:30 pm TONIGHT! hearing in Milano
- Guess who's coming to lunch? Nitsch, Ellison, Van Os & Klein
- Y'all come Friday Indy Lobby Day Austin, Saturday Conference Cedar Creek!
- Latest on Claytie Williams...and his bud Lyle Larson?
- Great TX election change for rural-urban alliance!
- Release: Texas Populists Building Independent Rural-Urban Alliance to Protect Water, Land and Elections
- Come and Take it San Antonio Water System!
- Bathroom bill a cover for the massive wealth transfer. We humbly request that we unite, regardless of party or who you voted for.
- We met at the Women's March...are you an independent and want to do more?
- Sweet Little Victory. TX Water Board opens their conference...y'all come!
- Release: Texas Water Development Board Violating Open Meetings Law
- Breaking! Texas Water Development Board Violating Law on Open Goverment
- Water Community Meeting this Saturday for this area for where Bastrop, Caldwell, Gonzales & Fayette counties meet!
- Water Alert! Remember, the legislature, like the Alamo!
- Advisory: Lost Pines Capitulation to End Op Water Grab?
- Save the date -- Wednesday VERY important water hearing Bastrop City Hall
- Save the date! -- Show up Wed. VERY important water hearing Bastrop City Hall
- Pretending on Vista Ridge...
- Tonight's Conference all at 8 pm -- hop on for a report
- Advisory: Landowners, environmentalists and ratepayer advocates oppose Vista Ridge funding at TWDB
- Take the Texas Three Step to Drain Vista Ridge
- So many piggies at the trough, so little time...but take it, y'all!
- Release: Suits, Complaints Mount on Vista Ridge/San Antone Hose
- Release: Rep. Cyrier, George Rice and landowners release new report on risks to aquifer as water hearings begin
- Rides from Bastrop for tomorrow's event!
- Confused about events? More details!
- Advisory: Cyrier & Rice Raise Concern for risks to Landowners' Groundwater Before Natural Resources Hearing
- Wake up Texas -- a watershed moment. Be on tomorrow's conference call!
- Very Important Events! Read and share...please and thank u!
- Christmas came early, y'all!!!! Merry Christmas to our land and water.
- Advisory: Showdown on Forestar Water Grab in Lost Pines tonight - Bastrop City Hall
- Urgent! Show up Monday (tomoro), 6 pm Bastrop City Hall Forestar pushing hard for settlement!
- Media Advisory: Forestar Water Grab Settlement Showdown on Monday 6 pm in Bastrop
- Important Deadlines & Come Celebrate on Saturday!
- Urgent! Thanks Lost Pines, Meeting tomorrow canceled. Please join us (LIV) tomorrow night instead. Details.
- Urgent: Forestar Real Estate settlement in play...ask for delay. Join us on Wednesday, 6 pm Bastrop City Hall.
- Helen Smith, In Memoriam
- Troubled waters in Bastrop? Forming a countywide organization.
- The Gloves coming off...what they don't want you to know.
- Share this today before San Antonio Council votes 50% water hikes for Vista Ridge!
- This is what we mean about the Chamber of Commerce -- hogs at the public trough
- Calls today & tomorrow to San Antonio City Hall -- no 50% water rate hikes for Vista Ridge!
- San Antone - Vista Ridge is up to you!
- Rural and urban Texans United in San Antonio -- regional movement on the move! How you can help.
- Bus seats left
- Hop the bus to tread on Vista Ridge!
- Advisory: San Antonio, Nov. 10
- Step up now to stop the California to Texas Water Model
- Scary!!! Heeer's The Shining Vista Ridge!
- Region L Conference call tomorrow & Vista Ridge update!
- Advisory: New video "I Oppose the San Antone Hose" now online!
- Big punch at Vista Ridge -- watch and share the video now!
- Vista Ridge Hobbling...Bastrop cancel, Burlseon Tuesday, Giddings Wednesday.
- Video tonight in Cedar Creek, Saturday in Bastrop -- join us!
- Court Rules on End Op
- Last night in Bastrop...FOX News and more.
- If we don't see you tonight -- Saturday 10 am in Lockhart, session on eminent domain in Lockhart
- Advisory: Water war coming to head Wednesday night in Bastrop.
- Coming to a head this Wednesday…Come to Bastrop!!!
- Release: Study released shows risk to central Texas aquifer posed by Vista Ridge/San Antonio "water grab"
- Hot off the wires II, Vista Ridge will damage aquifers for next generation.
- Hot off the wires, Vista Ridge bleeding profusely.
- Be on tomorrow's conference call and read this!
- New to Brazos & Robertson counties
- HUGE Break on Vista Ridge, clarification for tonight in San Marcos, 6 pm, library.
- Next stop College Station & San Marcos...report on Lost Pines
- Lost Pines sell out...not so fast. Show up tomorrow night, 7 pm befor harming ALL central Texas.
- Media Advisory: Wednesday, Bastrop City Hall, Lost Pines sellout...not so fast!
- Lost Pines sell out...not so fast. Show up tomorrow night, 7 pm befor harming ALL central Texas.
- Thankyou Keith Hansberger. Is Lost Pines a little lost? We don't know yet but we're worried.
- Reminder: tonight in Milano
- Next Stop Milam & Houston...Indy Ponies waylayed again...
- Congrats Elgin...on to Lockhart Tues! Note: LOCATION CHANGE!
- Congrats Burleson County...get after those drunk with power...and you too!
- Independent Ponies in Burleson Tomorrow, Thursday, in your email box.
- First Vista Ridge Meeting! Burleson County this Tuesday, Elgin the following Wednesday. Y'all come!!!
- Hays Countians attend this tomorrow. Beware Sen. Campbell on Vista Ridge
- Conference call Sunday - hop on the call!
- Repeat last email to newbies
- Gonna bust Vista Ridge...with your help.
- Bastrop & Lee Events tonight & August 18th, Meet Mr. Lucky
- Regional Water Conflicts...action request
- Bastrop events - lend a hand or just come see us!
- Boomers & Millennials - the winning indy ticket!
- Coffee Dog tomorrow 10-12! Come get a sign and talk to us!
- Get your sign! Join the discussion at Coffee Dog this Saturday morning.
- Join us tomorrow night on the Colorado River in Bastrop - Independence Celebration, open mike & water wars update!
- Do You Oppose the San Antone Hose? Join us on July 2 to celebrate your independence!
- Breaking news. Forestar loses Hays County water reservation agreement. End Op up tomorrow night!
- Advisory: Forestar down on water luck in Hays County, End Op up tomorrow night in Bastrop.
- Come on out starting Wednesday or bring us to your community.
- Lots o' plans underway to stop the San Antone Hose! Come on Wednesday or forever hold your water!
- Urgent: Conference Call Sunday at 6 pm
- So, did you feel like this during the legislative session?
- Defend your water Lee & Bastrop counties!
- Gridzilla, wounded Memorial Day, creeps to Senate. Call your Senator!
- We won today! More tomorrow to do, so join us on the conference call!
- URGENT ALERT! Dirty tricks bring Gridzilla back! Call or email tonight now!
- Here's the Deal; no deals yet...keep taking action!
- Advisory: Coalition Emerges to Protect Right to Petition by Ditching House Bill 2595
- Urgent Update Alert!...Anti-petition bill moves. Go to the TOP DOG now!
- ALERT! Water Gridzilla, Eminent Domain & your rights to petition - all up next week! Be in Austin Monday, SHARE THIS!
- Broad Coalition Calls on Texas Senators to Reject Boondoggle Water Project
- ALERT! Petition rights threatened.
- Gridzilla to stalk the Senate - call your Senator today!
- Gridzilla's fate & Petition rights monkey business.
- Gridzilla comes to House floor, Thurs. Make 1 more call, y'all!
- I'm from San Antonio, I'm here to steal your water...and...
- Senate Bill 1907/HB 3298) Gridzilla Update!
- Wed, 6 pm, Lost Pines Groundwater District Meets, Bastrop City Hall
- What to expect tomorrow: SB 1907
- Second Mailing -- no TTC
- Release: California water model comes to Texas in SB 1907
- Make 1 call today, No on SB 1907, "Trans-Texas Water Highway" study.
- ALERT!!! Water Grid Bill likely to hit Senate floor on Tuesday - how you can help.
- Urgent Call Now! - Mama said they'd be days like this
- Please make these calls
- Don't use the tea party to attack property rights!
- Water on the Brain, Food in the Tummy -- do this tomorrow, please
- Conserve Now, Convey Later or move to California!
- Tomorrow-Thurs! TCEQ in LaGrange
- Press Conference in DFW tomorrow
- California Model here we come...for Texas?! Call tomorrow & action items.
- Water Alert: California Model coming to Texas, NOT! Action please.
- ALERT: Hide your wives & children and be on Saturday's call -- seriously!
- Come to Austin on Monday & Call Your Legislators Now!
- Change Saturday Plans! - Just Call-In 3:30 Saturday
- Action! Tomorrow Conference Call; Monday hearing at Capitol on eminent domain reform bill
- Updates! Water wars heat up; Mark your calendars!
- Are coming on Saturday? Building a Rural-Urban Coalition for Local Control
- Reminder! Important Water Meetings Tonight! Go to one of these please!
- Be on Saturday Conference Call!
- Incredible news!!!
- Canceling Tomorrow due to weather!
- Come to Wimberley this Saturday or we quit!
- Come! Wimberley, Sat. Nov. 22 - Remember the Ogallala, Remember Vista Ridge!
- Flush Vista Ridge & be on Saturday's Call!
- Thank you San Antonio City Council...now we know
- Vista Ridge tomorrow -- do this, it's quick!
- Breaking...Villarreal pivots to run for San Antonio Mayor
- Vista Ridge Vote this Thursday. What you can do and please do!
- Slow Vista Ridge! Please call San Antonio Mayor Ivy Taylor NOW
- TxDOT meeting tomorrow 5 pm, Bastrop Convention Center
- Correction! Giddings Meeting 6:30 pm tomorrow - Oct. 21st!
- Remember Vista Ridge! Action y'all!
- Bastrop County Urgent Meeting this Saturday!
- Vista Ridge Update! Tomorrow, Sat., 9 am conference call!
- Quick! Tonight we'll be in San Antonio, 6 pm
- Better Letter to San Antonio City Council - please sign and forward!
- Email: Tale of Two Endangered Aquifers
- Release Tale of Two Endangered Aquifers
- Bus for San Antonio NEXT Wednesday...We have a hearing...sorta
- Release: SAWS $3.4 "Deal" - take AND pay or the Trans-Texas Water HIghway or both?
- BIG NEWS & San Antonio delayed!
- Advisory - SAWS Contract
- Urgent: Tomorrow 9 am Special Conference Call!
- San Antonio Water Grab Imminent - Reply Requested!
- Fayette County
- Quick Updates! Save the date! Oct. 2 Come to San Antonio
- Advisory: Location Change for critical Lost Pines Water Meeting tomorrow night -- Giddings NOT Bastrop
- ALERT! Changed for Lost Pines Water Meeting - spread the word!
- Meeting Location Changed for Lost Pines Water Meeting!
- Central Texas Landowners Join Forces
- Labor Day
- By next Monday: sign letter/petition to Railroad Commission on eminent domain pipeline rules
- Why do these people hate local control?
- Advisory: Landowner Hearing!
- Bastrop & Lee counties: Show up this Wednesday for Water Hearing! Bastrop Convention Center 7 pm
- Very Important Events & Quick Updates!
- Upcoming Events, Stars THIS Sunday!
- Correction! & Conference Call Tomorrow!
- Reforming the hogs gone wild! Call 9 am this Saturday & Calendar events!
- Eminent Domain Conference Call this Saturday. Sign the petition!
- Sign the petition - the Texas green tea party & Happy Independence Day!
- Apologies & urgent updates!
- Why is the Railroad Commission hiding from the public, asks Calvin Tillman
- Railroad Commission ORR Release
- This is independent success! Join our conference call tomorrow or every other Saturday.
- Breaking news: fracking and water. See you in Bastrop or bring us to you!
- Ain't No Water League
- Ain't No Water Here
- Tea Party Takeover
- RoundUp
- For Immediate Release: Marvin Nichols Reservoir Battle a fight for all Texans' local control.
- Correction! Mt. Pleassant Hearing Today, Arlington Tomorrow - Like and Share & Send Comments to TWDB
- Marvin Nichols
- Advisory: Famous Denbury Case Back to the Lower Court today in Beaumont!
- Advisory: Famous Denbury Case Back to the Lower Court today in Beaumont!
- Breaking! Court rules for Holland an open hearing! Come Beaumont 1:30 tomorrow!
- Followup on AG Letter to Abbott
- Reminder - Please sign & share! AND Statewide Conference call NEXT Saturday, 10 am
- Send this letter now to Attorney General Greg Abbott before Keystone XL starts Jan 22! Please pass this on.
- Release - Online Letter to Abbott
- Texas Supremes Order TransCanada Respond to Texas Landowner, Julia Trigg Crawford
- Hearing Canceled Tonight in Bastrop
- Media Advisory: East Texas Citizen Hearings Round Two