Texas Is Helping Musk Do What California Wouldn’t

Texas Is Helping Musk Do What California Wouldn’t

While the national news can’t stop talking about Elon Musk’s every post on X or his influence in Washington, D.C., something else is happening down in Texas. Quietly, Musk and his companies are scoring win after win thanks to business-friendly policies that many conservatives say should be a model for the whole country. This...

What’s Going on With Elon Musk’s Texas Town?

On May 3, 2025, Starbase, Texas, was officially created as a brand-new Type C Texas municipality after SpaceX employees rallied for, led a petition drive, and voted 212 to 6 to incorporate a small town that occupies approximately 1.6 square miles along the Gulf of Mexico coast in Cameron County. The town was created to be a self-sufficient city that serves as SpaceX’s headquarters and a site used to build, test, and launch spacecraft as part of …