Independent Journalism Driving Political Change
Current Revolt at the forefront of positive political change.
The more time I spend time talking to Texans the more I find that they’re no longer getting their news from traditional mainstream news sources. YouTube, Twitter/X, Facebook, and non-traditional news sites now make up the bulk of how people get their news.
Texans have long known that they cannot relate to the messaging that traditional news outlets put out every day. Many of these outlets aren’t even hiding their left-leaning slant anymore.
The Dallas Morning News recently published an op-ed admitting their reporting is tainted by their left-leaning bias.
Some readers think bias taints our news report. They’re right.
-Stephen Buckley, Public Editor Dallas Morning News
Texans, especially right-leaning ones, have turned to other outlets for right-leaning or even just neutral news reporting.
Outlets like The Dallas Express or The Texan continue to provide news of very high caliber while maintaining either a conservative or neutral tone, allowing readers to decide how they feel about topics or to simply have a right-leaning view that is so often missing in any form of mainstream media nowadays.
And then there’s outlets like us.
Current Revolt will be four years old next month. For those who have watched us since day one, you’ll know we’ve hit some bumps in the road and have done a lot of growing up to be where we are now.
Recently, two stories we’ve broken in the last year have been at the forefront of triggering change in Texas. Something I find myself incredibly proud of when looking at what our team here at Current Revolt has accomplished.
Transparency
In July of last year, we broke the story that online influencers were promoting selective political messaging and ideas without disclosing they were being paid by special interest organizations.
Citizens were concerned about who was funding these paid-promotions and the potential for foreign entities to interfere in American politics. There is also desire to know if political movements are organic, or in some cases, fake and paid-for.
X-users we surveyed overwhelmingly wanted disclosure by influencers for their paid promotion:
After our reporting, The Texas Ethics Commission moved forward with a rule directly addressing influncers and their undisclosed paid-political-promotion.
With this change, there will be an active requirement that those paid to post political messages on social media disclose it, similar to that required already by the Federal Trade Commission for the commercial private sector. Violators of this disclosure requirement can be fined up to $4,000 by the TEC.
The rule isn’t perfect, unsurpsingly, and enforcement will be rare and unlikely, but it’s a step forward in transparency for those who desire it.
Election Integrity
Last month we published an article exposing the fact that Texan’s ballots aren’t always secret.
After breaking this story, a meeting was called by The Texas House Elections committee and the Texas Secretary of State admitted to an issue with ballot secrecy.
Additionally, the Texas Attorney General and Secretary of State issued some statements and direction addressing the ballot secreacy issue. We expect more changes and the issue to be addressed by txlege in the future.
A win for Texans and election integrity.
Over the years, we’ve published a lot of amazing stories, and CR has been at the forefront of breaking news and Texas political drama.
CR isn’t beholden to a millionaire donor. We aren’t controlled by some political organization or PAC. Because of this, all of our work is almost exclusively funded by paid subscriptions. If you’re reading this now, the biggest thing you can do to support us is to subscribe and share our articles.
The second biggest way you can help us is by donating. You can make a direct donation here.
I’m proud of the team here at CR, I’m proud of our readers who continue sending us tips and information, and I’m proud of our great state and the potential Texas has to set an example for the rest of the US.
Thanks for reading.
-Tony Ortiz
Publisher of Current Revolt
Never stop (currently) revolting
God bless Texas! Keep up the fantastic work, Tony. We are the media now.