Newsletter Archive

• 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