Republicans Move From Warnings To Policy: ‘Don’t Sharia Our Texas’

Texas Republicans are turning years of warnings about political Islam into a state policy campaign focused on foreign money, land, financial practices, public institutions, private tribunals, and terrorism laws. The Republican Party of Texas made “Don’t Sharia Our Texas” one of its official 2026-2028 legislative priorities on June 13. The party is calling for new investigations, expanded attorney general authority and laws aimed at organizations and practices it says could establish a competing political and legal system inside Texas. Republican lawmakers carried that effort into the True Texas Project’s August 1 conference in Fort Worth. The official program included sessions...