Of holding power to its own rules.

Otto the Watchdog is the work of one citizen with a camera, attending the meetings, traffic stops, and courthouses where the State conducts its daily business — and where, more often than not, no one has come to see whether it is conducted lawfully.

Where ordinary Texans exercise their constitutional rights, the officials sworn to protect them are required, frequently for the first time, to respond on the record. The work goes where the press release ends.

Cameras rolling. No re-write. No talking points. Just the file.

— Filed this day, in the year MMXXVI, by O. Watchdog, accredited press.