The Aggie Standard will raise the standard

Welcome to the only student-run conservative publication at Texas A&M University. At The Aggie Standard, we are raising the standard to restore balance, truth, and viewpoint diversity to campus.

For too long, The Battalion, the official newspaper of Texas A&M, has been seized by only one side of the political spectrum. In that capture, countless facts, lines of logic, and uncomfortable truths have been sidelined or quietly left out. The wisdom and virtue of our ancestors, who built this great university and our great state, have been condemned. The values of faith, family, and freedom, held by the majority of the student body of one of the most conservative campuses in the nation, according to student surveys, have been systematically ignored.

I encountered this problem head-on myself.

After a Texas A&M professor was fired for teaching the “gender unicorn,” and the university president was later forced to resign after gaslighting the student who reported it, The Battalion published an anonymous letter from a liberal professor addressed to the student body, condemning the firing. I found that letter misleading, dishonest, and harmful, perpetuating many of the very problems currently facing higher education. In response, I wrote and submitted a rebuttal to that anonymous professor (titled Dear Anonymous Professor). After two weeks of following up, The Battalion finally responded, only to reject my submission, citing that it was “polemical” and “not in line with our current editorial priorities”.

That made me suspicious, so I decided to do some research. After reading all the opinion section articles from November 2024 to November 2025, I found that The Battalion’s opinion section operates on a staggering 17-to-1 ratio of leftist to conservative content (and that’s only the opinion section!). This story was later featured by Texas Scorecard and The College Fix as their most-read article of the month.

If college is meant to be a marketplace of ideas, then even more is a taxpayer-supported official university newspaper. But when only one side is permitted to speak, that is an ideological monopoly.

But that monopoly ends now.

Welcome to the new standard: The Aggie Standard.

Gig ’em,
Justino Russell
Founder & Chief Editor, The Aggie Standard