From the beginning of the legislative session, conservative Texans demanded action, the Texas House delivered delay, dysfunction, and disgrace.

Despite holding a Republican majority, the House failed to advance many core GOP legislative priorities this session — and it wasn’t because of Democrat resistance alone. It was because so-called “Republican” leadership repeatedly handed power to Democrats, wasted valuable time, and chose leisure over legislating.

This week’s chaos capped off a session defined by mismanagement. On Thursday — the final day for House members to give preliminary approval to their own bills — lawmakers were forced into a frantic, nearly 14-hour sprint to work through more than 400 proposals. Only about half of those bills made it across the line before time ran out. That means hundreds of Republican-backed bills are now effectively dead, and the blame lies squarely at the feet of House leadership.

The GOP-controlled chamber had every opportunity to succeed. But instead of using the session’s limited time to advance conservative policies, the House took repeated five-day weekends — choosing to gavel out on Thursdays and not return until Tuesday afternoon.

And while the clock ticked down, Republican leadership allowed Democrats to control the tempo. Speaker Dustin Burrows — who has continued the controversial practice of giving committee chairmanships to Democrats — has shown more concern for appeasing the minority party than fulfilling the mandate of the voters who gave Republicans their majority.

Important bills on border security, election integrity, eliminating property taxes, and other Republican priorities were pushed aside or delayed while the House burned daylight.

Texans didn’t elect Republicans to take long weekends and hand over the reins to Democrats. They elected them to lead, to fight, and to deliver. Instead, conservative priorities were shelved while Democrats and moderate Republicans slow-walked the session to a standstill. It’s time for voters to clean house. Literally.