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Our Lone Star story of the day: We begin with a look at the success for the United States in pivoting to a free enterprise, private sector model for space flight with noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com . (He really did write the Encyclopedia of Space !)

After our look as spaceflight, Bob gives us another “Blacklisted Americans,” and “pushback” update. See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/

Items we cover include:

Colorado legislature lifts its ban of clothing with political messages
Google monitors and censors Gmail and Googlegroup emails for political content it dislikes
Pushback: Former police chief who illegally raided local Kansas newspaper criminally charged
Pushback: Jury awards former BlueCross researcher almost $700K for firing her vindicatively for not getting the “vaccine” shot
Marvel bans all Jewish or Israelis characters

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today we will talk with conservative movement warrior Jim Pfaff and get us all reacquainted with one of the oldest and most prestigious conservative organizations – it turns 50 this year – The Conservative Caucus . Many of you will remember its weekly television show, Conservative Roundtable , hosted by founder Howard Phillips – I was a viewer.

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About issue polling versus candidate and party support: Data shows me that a very large plurality of voters, in this case in swing states, really have little to no idea of the positions and action of parties and candidates on the issues those same people say are most important. Here is the detailed survey data I was working from and here is the data from the North Carolina polling.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, we debunk, for the umpteenth time, the big lie spread around on Texas school funding. Hint, it’s double what advocacy groups say. State Rep. Harrison Busts School Funding Myths, Pushes for Fiscal Responsibility .

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More on the Lubbock County fight to stop a big tax increase . Some media get it right, others let the pompous Curtis Parrish feed a misleading line. And while Parrish says it would be terrible to not raise taxes, Tarrant County has already passed a big tax cut . Now, the City of Fort Worth has told the city manager to redo the budget and provide a tax cut there too !

Also from Tarrant County, public schools show they are about greed for money above all – claim the move to appraise residential property every two years, instead of every year, would destroy them and harm children!

Dallas Fed: Texas service sector growth modest; retail still in decline .

Temporary win for Americans, Texas, Paxton, et. al. over another Harris/Biden policy to encourage illegal immigration and fraud . Paxton’s statement .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lies from the dais in Lubbock County! For almost two decades I have spoken and written about the lies told to voters by local officeholders, often then repeated by local media, about property taxes. There are many who still do not believe me that elected officials openly lie about who it is that raises their property taxes and try to finger the appraisal districts as the primary culprit.

Today, as the courageous fight kicks off by Lubbock County’s only two conservative commissioners to stop yet another big tax increase, a longtime Lubbock County commissioner, Gilbert Flores of Precinct 3, told the big lie to those present, the lie I have been documenting for nearly twenty years!

I also interview Lubbock County Commissioner Jordan Rackler about the proposed tax increase and his push back on it.

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In business-related news:

Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing sector remains weakened .

Big AP story on the status of the Kroger takeover (merger) of Albertson’s .
Fifth Circuit Vacates DOL’s 80/20/30 Rule for Tipped Employees

Texas Supreme Court upholds the creation of the new 15th Court of Appeals for the state, Dallas loses challenge.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear an expedited appeal from Attorney General Paxton in the case of the church-affiliated Annunciation House in El Paso. This is the group that has fought to keep its records secret related to its work with illegal immigrants.

And, Texas is leading 16 states in suing the Biden/Harris Administration over its rule on immigration that is well outside the bounds of what the law allows that further incentivizes and rewards illegal immigration into these United States.

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Texas House Speaker, for now, Dade Phelan makes huge move to save his speakership ; brings in Texas top lobbyist (and top casino gambling lobbyist) to be his Chief of Staff. My opinion is Mike Toomey isn’t giving up millions in annual income for sacrificial service but to save the big-business lobby’s key man Phelan. It may very well work.

DNC Fail: Viewers Rage After False Reports of Beyoncé Performance — ‘F-ing Liars Lied to Get People to Watch’ . Also, Texas DNC delegate robbed at gunpoint by suspects in ski masks in downtown Chicago .

North America rotary drilling rig count from Baker Hughes.

Another piece using bad language (“dress coded”) and the self centered nature of America’s younger generation: Woman sparks online debate after wearing shorts to job interview, recruiter sends her home .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reports abound, investigations launched , actions taken – all for a story that didn’t read as legit from the beginning . My first take was why the heck aren’t Republicans out registering voters too!?

There is nothing illegal about registering voters outside of a DPS office and it doesn’t matter if they could have registered inside as well. And, how in the heck would an observer know if the claimed groups were engaged in registering non-citizens? Even the original, very flawed and wrong report, did not make that allegation, it simply said “immigrants.” Some of the hardest working Republicans I know are immigrants including my wife.

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Texas press tries to rope-a-dope you on Trump versus Harris polling in the Lone Star State. Take this headline: Kamala Harris cuts Donald Trump’s lead in Texas in half, poll finds . The actual re-polling covered, and best covered in the WFAA version , shows Trump gained half-a-point in support after Harris was announced .

The Dem convention in Chicago is one of the world’s largest gathering of oddballs and kooks and yet speaker after speaker calls Trump and Republicans “weird.” I’m proud to be such from the point of view of nutcase Leftists!

Federal Judge sitting in Dallas strikes down Biden Administration FTC all-out ban on worker ‘noncompete’ agreements . This is a very important and good ruling.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats shoved poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Joe Biden out of Prime Time at their convention in Chicago, all so they could let other poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Democrats speak.

Democrats Shove Biden Out Of DNC Primetime For Last Gasp Of Presidency
Joe Biden’s DNC Swan Song Reflects His Life: Poorly Informed, Vindictive, and Dishonest
Biden Returns to Hoaxes at DNC: ‘Fine People’; ‘Suckers and Losers’; ‘Bloodbath’
Dems Celebrate Walz’s Stolen Valor At DNC

Walz Praised Chinese Communism as a System Where ‘Everyone Shares’ (to high school kids in his care)

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Jury makes right decision and finds parents not liable for school shooting violence at Santa Fe (Texas) High School in 2018 .

So-called conservatives in many of our counties can’t do it but conservatives running giant Tarrant County can : A real tax cut, higher homestead exemption, and a budget spending $50 million less than last year’s budget!

In Lubbock County, Judge Parrish argues that voters have asked for annual tax increases and if you don’t want to pay more, “move.” Here is the audio:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After the home town RINO whiner, Rep. Glenn Rogers, was defeated in the Republican Primary this year, his Palo Pinto County commissioners court pals passed a slate of “electioneering regulations” designed to restrict active conservative opposition in the county. Conservatives sued and the courthouse kings got an early win in U.S. District Court but now the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has handed the county a big loss, for now:

“For the reasons herein, we conclude that the district court erred in denying Plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. We thus VACATE the district court’s judgment and order, GRANT a preliminary injunction of the Regulations in their entirety, and REMAND for further proceedings consistent with this opinion.”

The 15-page order is very much worth reading for those involved in political campaigns and activism : https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/unpub/24/24-10432.0.pdf

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A very long story with a grabbing headline that actually doesn’t present much of anything new: Texas GOP making inroads with Latino voters in big cities .

In a story that should remind that simply passing a law mandating things isn’t often a full solution when it comes to results: Houston ISD vows to repair automated external defibrillators that are not working after student’s death . I wonder how many of these lifesaving devices are unworkable.

Texas leftists to be big part of the Democrat Convention in Chicago .

Circle K owner Couche-Tard seeks to buy $31 billion owner of 7-Eleven stores .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today’s press review has a perfect example from one Texas county how all the property tax levying local governments’ just-a-little-more-per-month tax increases add up . Try about $1000 per year more for just the “average” taxpayer !

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Administration Over Rule Forcing Private Businesses and States to Implement “Transgender” Policies

Texas oil and gas rig count falls.

Texas unemployment rate remains below national average; labor force records 7th consecutive month of growth.

Here’s evidence of what I have said about Democrats and teacher unions not really being interested in improving public schools: 1 in 3 Chicago Public-School Teachers Keep Their Kids out of Public Schools .They are all members of the union and yet sacrifice financially, almost a third of them, to keep their children out of the public schools they staff and run!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The insider political deal all those years ago to indict Ken Paxton on securities fraud and then work to never let it come to trial was a political hit that blew up. Now, it has also blown up on the private lawyers that were uniquely brought in to prosecute, maybe persecute is the better word, and promised a fat, unusual billing rate for their time .

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Denton ISD school leaders admit guilt to avoid trial on illegal electioneering charges but could come out with no record and Denton ISD already promoted one of the pair!

In case you missed it: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish says you want annual tax increases from the county and, should you be one of the few who do not want tax increases annually, you should “move!” Listen here:

Other Election 2024 news.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The rightful indignation over the State Fair of Texas deciding to ban licensed concealed carry holders from having their guns at the fair, over an incident that demonstrated the need for such, is warranted by all involved.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is right to go after the City of Dallas over the issue and legislator are right to push the State Fair board to get back to the right policy of allowing licensed concealed carry.

What bothers me is state Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock leading the rhetoric in this matter in the state press when his home town’s large and historic Panhandle-South Plains Fair adopted the exact same policy several years ago. Where is all the pressure and press from Burrows on the same situation in Lubbock? One might think that getting more state press notice to move up the leadership chain in the House might be more important to Burrows than actually dealing with issues at home.
Click to see a photo of the South Plains Fair signs .

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A reminder of Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish arrogance telling citizens who don’t to pay more in property taxes that they should move – as well as saying that we all, or most of us, want to pay more taxes.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues General Motors for Unlawfully Collecting Drivers’ Private Data and Selling It To Several Companies, Including Insurance Companies

Comment on the City of Lubbock budgeting, taxes, and more. Also on the bait and switch tax break from the City of Dallas .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish tells citizens they should “move” if they do not want to pay higher property taxes every year . He also tells Commissioner Jason Corley that the commissioner is only hearing from a small minority of voters opposing tax increases; Parrish says that Lubbock County voters want annual tax increases because paying more every year equates to “good government.” Frankly, if you listen to all of Parrish’s language in the court hearings, he speaks as a Progressive Democrat.

If you want, watch the entire hearing here . Time marks for the items I covered in the compilation come from about 2:13:35, 2:16:50, and 2:17:10.

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Numerous legislators write to State Fair of Texas board to protest it’s decision to begin banning licensed concealed carry at the fair.

Anti-Wimp Update : Armed teacher saves girl from sexual assault .

Leftwing Austin judge once again blocks release of public school A to F grades to the public .

One school superintendent, also a listener wrote:

"So, once again, public schools will duck accountability for a second straight year because some judge agrees that the STAAR tests are flawed and unfair. What’s unfair is keeping parents and the public in the dark about school performance.
"It’s true that the tests are more difficult, and some material is misaligned to the appropriate grade levels. Nevertheless, we need to know where schools stand in terms of accountability, however imperfect that rating system is."

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Dishonest Democrat Colin Allred, the Left’s nominee to take on Ted Cruz for Texas’ U.S. Senator, is running an advert on border security trying to put his party’s border policies on the shoulders of Senator Cruz. It’s another in a long line of examples of how Democrats treat voters as being exceptionally ignorant and stupid. And, on the subject of the border and voting, Fox News carried this interesting piece: Texas sheriff candidate ‘shocked’ by growing Trump support in blue Hispanic border county .

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How did Texas do in the Olympics? Extraordinarily well!

Good words from former U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison on the National Athem: Let’s honor our national anthem with a traditional rendition .

About calls for Republicans to boycott the Leftist Texas Tribune’s little political festival in Austin – go where the people most need to hear our message. It reminds me of the long controversy of Bill Buckley’s writings appearing in Playboy Magazine .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Coalition media” is not just one-sided biased, its members are often players in the political game as I’ve long explained. Sherry Sylvester writes about a Texas story that I covered that demonstrates this activism by media propagandists – a story on school choice.

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Webb County’s tax assessor office closed by the state for retraining – the office has been at high risk status for several years not following state law on vehicle title and related processes.

RIP: Kathleen Hartnett White – a good servant of Texas and dedicated Christian.

Oil and gas rig coun t rises slightly in Texas.

Gov. Abbot orders hospitals to track and report expenses for providing healthcare to illegal aliens .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A big stack of the “stench of local government” stories all out of today’s press review (there are so many I’ve set aside over the last couple of weeks that we could do hours on the subject:)

City of Abilene adopts budget that raises taxes for FY 2024-2025
Taxes will go up for Taylor County residents after budget approval
Lubbock Advisory Committee proposes $110M street bond for improvements throughout city
Proposed Dallas charter changes get poor reviews from City Council, police chief
Dallas City Manager’s Travel to Left-wing Events Costs Taxpayers $13k
‘I don’t know what happened to that money’: Investigation into missing Wichita County funds underway by sheriff’s office

Odessa College Board of Trustees is moving forward with the new $355 million dollar bond – a massive tax increase for no clear benefit

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Texas A.G. Ken Paxton’s inves­ti­ga­tion Into Act­Blue yields coop­er­a­tion on donor cred­it card identification . More . More .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much campaign news today including a big Democrat endorsing Ted Cruz for re-election ; another Democrat name changer to appeal more to Hispanics on the ballot ; Abbott makes a prediction on picking up Texas House seats , and; more on what a Leftist disaster is Kamala Harris and her incompetent V.P. pick Tim Walz:

Kamala Harris & husband Funded Anti-Cop Effort Last Year
Walz’s First Executive Action As Guv Was Establishing ‘Diversity, Inclusion, And Equity’ Council
Walz’s Minnesota: Lower Growth, Higher Crime, More Migrants, Trans Surgery for Kids
Walz Pushed Green Energy Mandates More Aggressive Than Gavin Newsom’s California!
‘Patently Anti-Religious’: Walz Has History Of Restricting Faith-Based Institutions
Walz Wants To Ban Guns He ‘Carried In War’ – But He Never Saw Combat
Hillary Clinton Whitewashes Walz’s ‘Common-Sense Policy’ of Providing Tampons to Boys

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Local city sales tax numbers are out.

More evidence Texas Dems and teacher unions have no true interest in improving actual public education .

Judge overturns Hidalgo Co. Democratic Primary election .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: If Texas were still its own country, it would be in the Top 10 in the world in Olympic medals at this point of the Paris Games! Great piece at WFAA: How many medals have Texas athletes won at the Paris Olympics?

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Local government officials and local media outlets continue the property tax disinformation campaign as governments propose new tax rates for next year’s budgets. Lubbock’s city manager and KCBD’s story is typical as is the KRBC piece on Taylor County .

More than you’ll get from legacy media on Kamala Harris’ leftist Veep pick:

When the Nation Called, He QUIT: Letter from Soldiers Who Served With Tim Walz Shows Us Who He REALLY Is
Seven Things to Know About Radical-Left Tim Walz
Ilhan Omar Elated with Harris’s Walz Veep Selection: ‘Let’s Go’
Tim Walz’s Dept. of Education Let Somali Migrant Fraudsters Steal $250 Million from Needy Kids

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Houston Chronicle and its editorial board used Hurricane Beryl as a platform and reason to disparage Texas Republican leadership going so far as to saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick failed the people. Today, in a very long four-page editorial, those same Houston Chronicle liberals do something you rarely see: They admit they were wrong, very wrong .

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The lawsuits and push to get air conditioning in all Texas prisons continues. The comments of the head of TDCJ may, or may not, win favor with legislators .

Just in time for the election: Biden Administration Pauses Federal Parole Program Flying Foreign Nationals Into U.S.

A fine example of the fact that the lies of society are just that, lies. Our top performing people are church goers and believing, practicing Christians: One Church, Two Astronauts. How a Texas Congregation Is Supporting Its Members on the Space Station .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are beginning to tarnish the Texas Miracle as they incrementally roll back fiscal discipline one legislative session at a time. Club for Growth’s new report shows what many of us have noticed but legislators don’t want to hear: Spending discipline has gone lax in both the Texas House and Texas Senate .

Texas Public Policy Foundation has a good summary of what the latest Legislative Budget Board report says: Bigger in Texas: Sizing Up the State’s Finances .

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California’s Democrat policies finally force native-Chevron to leave the once Golden State for downtown Houston, Texas .

Oil & gas rig count falls and Texas sales tax collections remain flat, growth less than the inflation rate, signaling economic slow down.

Key ruling on redistricting and the Voting Rights Act from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Galveston County case will slow Leftist moves to systematically put Texas under Democrat control.

Comment on why voters were ready to abandon Joe Biden but willing to support the same policies with Cackling Kamala Harris.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two wins for Texas (and the country) on the border and illegal immigration front: New York’s state supreme court tells New York City that it cannot stop Texas , or anyone else, from bussing migrants to the city citing well-known precedent from SCOTUS in Edwards v. California. Secondly, Texas has prevailed over the Biden-Harris Administration requiring the Executive Branch to carry out the law duly enacted by Congress, and funded, to build the border wall and other barriers .

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Texas sues the feds over the ridiculous decision to put the dunes sagebrush lizard on the endangered species list.

Another example of who Democrats are and how they lie: Even though the state takeover of Houston ISD is already showing measurable signs of improvement for poor and minority students, Texas Democrats and teacher unions want it all stopped and everything returned to its failed status but with more money of course .

Remember: Annual property tax misrepresentation season is underway !

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Politicians dig in deeper on CenterPoint Energy and its alleged poor performance after the last hurricane to hit Houston. There is much too this story and a big part of what is missed is the problem of non-competitive government sanctioned monopolies; the PUC and the type of people appointed to it, and; the pass-through cost system all tied up in utility regulation.

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The “weird” campaign of 2024 and Democrat hypocrisy on “Democracy!”

Report: DNC Manager Asserts ‘Weird ly Unpopular’ Kamala Harris Cannot Win in 2024
MN Gov. Walz Doubles Down on ‘Weird ‘ Label
The Actually Weird Left is Obsessed with the Lunch Habits of Barron Trump

Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! – Ummm, Coronation Complete: Harris Sole Candidate to Qualify for DNC Roll Call

Democracy! Democracy! Democracy! – Harris Campaign Blocks Reporters From Speaking To Voters

They’re back again in Lubbock: Same overfunded people claiming the city needs a Visitor Center and justifying such by how many visitors are coming regularly . If they already come then why do you need a glorified free bathroom facility for them? They’re already there! It’s like spending big money to reinstall payphone boxes all over town.

Houston’s closed-case police scandal shows what you get when you run government with identity politics, or DEI. It also shows why all bureaucracies need constant watching, monitoring, and auditing.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas scores a huge, $1.4 billion, settlement victory with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc) over data privacy but there is so much more that needs doing. Google is monitoring Gmail and it’s Googlegroups for political speech it doesn’t like and, the Chinese communists are mapping our infrastructure and gaining intel through apps the likes of which no one has ever seen . Texas has the tools to fight, and is doing so, but needs to do even more.

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Landowners decry Muleshoe Niational Wildlife Refuge ‘land grab’ despite manager of federal agency’s assurances . I explain how this is neither a big immediate threat as it is voluntary, nor is it benign because it is part of the anti-private land ownership movement.

Biden and Democrats suddenly don’t like how the Supreme Court works after almost of a century of getting their way ends. Biden talked Supreme Court “reform” in Austin yesterday and his supporter Jonathan Turley takes him to task for it .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Darn it! The anti-school choice crowd is getting frustrated in Texas. They can’t even design a big poll that skews results to opposing school choice! In the latest attempt pollsters found that even when respondents agree with anti-school choice arguments those same folks still favor school choice . Read it yourself here .

By the way, the poll and the Tribune story are an example of blatant propaganda that is common today. Both use the term “voucher” because that word is used by opponents of school choice and has been well demonized. Texas’ proposed program is not a voucher program but one using educational savings accounts. Vouchers are actual things.

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The Art Mob : The political squabbling in Lubbock over funding for the First Friday Art Trail misses most of the key elements that should be addressed for good public policy. I explain several.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The media’s attempt to cover up who Kamala Harris is, is blatant and going at full pace. The problem they have? She is so much of a say anything Leftist that there is too much out there to successfully hide.

The media is currently rewriting history in an effort to help the Harris campaign
Kamala Harris’ direct connection to Bidenflation: a tie-breaking Senate vote for stimulus package – inflation went from 1.4% to 7%!
Kamala Harris Praised ‘Defund the Police’ Movement in June 2020 Interview
Brazen media gaslighting of VP Harris’ border czar role
Kamala Was Made ‘Rural Broadband Czar’ Overseeing $42bn Program That Has Yet to Connect Anyone to Internet.
Kamala Harris championed sanctuary city policies

Kamala Harris’ ‘Drag Race’ cameo draws mixed reviews: ‘this might have broken the cringe-o-meter’ – we ain’t talkin’ about cars here!

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman said he wish he’d made Trump an ‘actual martyr’ day after assassination attempt . Hoffman, or is it Slobman?, is among Harris’ biggest money bundlers . Hoffman visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island and Harris slept her way to office with a married man and yet people think she honors women!?

Always stressing “democracy” Democrat Party chooses to select it’s presidential nominee by “virtual” process – fits a pattern doesn’t it?

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Kroger’s takeover of Alberston’s delayed .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden blatantly lied to the American people about border crossing numbers in his free prime time campaign address from the Oval Office. And, El Paso County’s commissioners want money to jail illegal aliens arrested under Operation Lone Star – because it’s interfering with their money haul deal housing federal detainees..

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Abilene officials appear to be pushing a tax increase while pretending that not building pickelball courts and demolishing two recreation centers is serious cutting back of expenses.

Another look by Lubbock County Commissioners at regulating so-called game rooms . Judge Bowtie-Parrish said we’d have the ordinance at this time a year ago but then let it slide into the do-nothing pile as he originally wanted.

Showing just how extremely Leftwing is Kamala Harris, the Statesman reports on three Texas names talked about as a running mate – all three are radical Left.

The favors to Democrats continue : GovTrack Deletes Website Ranking Harris as 2019’s ‘Most Liberal Senator’ .

Business news:

Why Southwest kept its open seating policy for decades – until now
USAA announced top management shakeup
Red Lobster to be bought by an affiliate of SPB owner Fortress
Zachry Holdings, Golden Pass LNG settlement gets court approval
As temperatures soared in July, natural gas kept air conditioners running while wind failed

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Did you know that hapless V.P. Kamala Harris was NEVER the Biden Administration’s “border czar?” She was but the gaslighting media is now saying she wasn’t . Why the change? That’s obvious. Read this great piece: Nolte: Desperate Media Seek to Erase Kamala Harris Failed ‘Border Czar’ Role . And the one visit she made to the border, El Paso, was a “sanitized” setup .

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Lubbock’s city council, with it’s new leadership, made a right decision to drop the taxpayer funded subsidy of the longtime and well established First Friday Art Trail . Councilman Glasheen and Mayor McBrayer are right in objecting to the promotion of homosexuality through the event but there is an even bigger reason it should not be subsidized with taxpayer funds.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: As predicted , Democrats fall in line with Willie Brown’s lover to be that broken political party’s nominee for President. What about all that “democracy” they change about? What about nominating a candidate who actually fixes the problem the party had with Biden? Putting in Harris lends credibility to the “palace coup ” talk because it does little to nothing to make the ticket stronger against Trump.

Kamala Harris’s Mark Kelly Delusion
July Polls: Trump Crushes Harris in 13 National Surveys
Poll: Just 37% Say Kamala Harris Should Be Democrat Nominee
How Kamala Harris Silenced Dissent, Demonized Conservatives
Succession by defenestration: How Biden’s withdrawal could trigger a 25th Amendment fight

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After disastrous hearings in the U.S. House, the feckless DEI pushing director of the U.S. Secret Service resigns .

With Lubbock-based Brandon & Clark, TPPF challenges EEOC rule violating Quorum Clause of U.S. Constitution . The suit revolves around the idea that Congress violated the Quorum Clause in allowing its members to vote by proxy, and not in person, on a spending bill which authorized the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act – one tenet of which is that employers must accommodate employees seeking an elective abortion.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: With Joe Biden out of the the re-elect race, announced on X by the way , what will Texas delegates to the Democrat convention do? I speculate that there is so little authentic thought diversity (factions) in today’s party that there is little chance of any real showdown between factions – they’ll follow the far Leftist agenda whether or not it’s good for them electorally . For example, why would a Democrat delegate want to pick a nominee (Harris) with a worse record than Biden on the border chaos when that issue is top of polling as a concern? And yet, that’s exactly where Willie Brown’s ex-lover is – worse than Joe Biden .

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After lying to the American public from top levels , the U.S. Secret Service now admits Trump campaign’s request for more security . The damnable fact that opens all this up to conspiracy ideas is this : “Trump was receiving a lesser level of protection afforded to former presidents and major party presidential candidates when 20-year-old gunman Matthew Thomas Crooks opened fire at the Republican presidential nominee’s campaign outdoor rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday.”

Austin insider and lobbyists’ friend, former RINO state Rep. Jim Pitts has died at 77 . And longtime Houston Congresswoman, TX18, Sheila Jackson Lee has died . She’s lauded in the press but was an example of repeated ignorance and meanness .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Tribune has a big “social justice” story out on Lubbock and it’s full of half truths, utter ignorance, and even a lie or two. There are many things ignored by these people, the biggest of which is that people can choose to live anywhere they want and choose to build any type of house they want, and thousands upon thousands do so in Lubbock – of all races, creeds, and ethnicities. Also missed is how freeways run through South, Southwest, West, and Northwest Lubbock too so, why are those not racist constructs? Why are people in the newest areas wanting and waiting on a new freeway, an outer loop? So much of these ideas presented are solely constructs of victimhood that pretty much all this group advocates should be ignored.

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Oil & gas rig count unchanged this week.

Texas’ Civilian Labor Force Exceeds 15.3 Million , unemployment rate remains at 4.0 percent.

RIP: Comedy genius Bob Newhart who did his first standup in Houston.

RIP: Childress-native, and legendary broadcaster, Lou Dobbs . We talk with a friend of the show to whom Lou Dobbs was a mentor.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott talked tough at the Republican National Convention, see speech , and it has Democrats and other lib groups going nuts – with their limited knowledge and ability they once again compare us to Nazis ! I have a question to turn around on one of these groups that appear to support unlimited illegal immigration.

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Senator Ted Cruz told the Texas delegation this morning the truth : Dems could win the Texas U.S. Senate seat if complacency rules the day.

Austin-based Chuy’s being acquired by Darden ; LNG port backing up ; Conn’s looking at huge downsizing and bankruptcy , and; more from the business news stack.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ RINO’s, Democrats, and big businesses, especially TAB, often claim that conservative pro-family and decency legislation (those “social” issues) will hurt business in the Lone Star State. However, the last decade has shown the opposite and now two of the world’s most renown firms are moving to Texas because of a lack of pro-decency governance. Elon Musk is moving the corporate HQ of the world’s preeminent space launch company, SpaceX, and the world’s most used messaging service, X.com or Twitter, to Texas. Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com comments on the move in his inimitable style.

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Comptroller Glenn Hegar says no revision of the Texas Revenue Estimate is needed .

Lt. Gov. Patrick creates special senate committee on Hurricane and Tropical Storm Preparedness, Recovery, and Electricity . Note the “electricity” part – surely to enable a big push back on CenterPoint.

Dallas’ mayor Eric Johnson told the Republican National Convention that the catalyst for his move to the GOP was because Democrats were silent when BLM setup outside of his home to intimidate his children and wife . “Today’s woke Democratic Party is with the criminals, not with the victims. Democrats are good at using safe words, but terrible at building safe neighborhoods and safe cities,” Johnson said. https://youtu.be/OhJq2UvFlV8?si=Vg1gLQ_Bi6nquU84

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Excuses from the U.S. Secret Service chief, the big Leftist DEI proponent, for the agency’s deadly failure Saturday now reach a level of extreme absurdity .
If a very slightly sloped barn roof is too big of a “safety” issue for the Secret Service then we don’t need this particular agency because it will have become worthless from a practical sense. Maybe it’s just the DEI hires of U.S. Secret Service Chief Kimberly Cheatle that can’t stand on an easily walkable roof. See also: Secret Service Blasted: ‘Go After DEI, You End Up With DIE’

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton pushes forward investigating El Paso NGO Annunciation House his office accuses of directly aiding illegal immigration. Mainstream press stories decrying Paxton’s investigation have left out much of the story including: According to Annunciation House’s in-court admissions, its employees enter Mexico to retrieve aliens, including aliens who have been denied entry by Border Patrol, to bring them into the United States.”

The pros and cons of VP J.D. Vance – The Spectator World.

Elon Musk to donate $45 million a month to new Donald Trump super PAC .

Abbott campaign breaks fundraising record with over $51 million cash on hand .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I explain why my immediate personal re-action to the attempt to murder, to assassinate, President Trump was not one of shock or surprise – differing from even close friends. It has much to do with the Soviet-style bizzaro opposite world in which we’ve been living.

Roger Kimball said it almost the same way in a column as I would have in a written piece: Who’s the real threat to democracy? – The Spectator World .

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Trump picks Ohio’s U.S. Senator J.D. Vance for his vice presidential running mate . This is an interesting story leading up to the pick: Donald Trump Jr. Is Battling Rupert Murdoch Over VP Pick .

Judge Tosses Documents Case Against Trump ; Jack Smith Appointment Unconstitutional . Leftist McQuade: Judge Cannon’s dismissal ‘Blessing in Disguise,’ case can be appealed immediately .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reuters, and much other press, is factually wrong carrying Biden’s propaganda that his administration is deporting more illegal aliens than did the Trump administration . Not only is it not close, the data also shows the Biden is specifically coddling, benefiting criminal aliens.

I also comment on Biden’s staged press conference from last evening. And from that, you must see: WHCA President Says Press Doesn’t Coordinate With WH (People Have Questions and Pics.)

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Great news for wanna-be bootleggers – well sort of: U.S. ban on at-home distilling is unconstitutional, Texas judge rules . Beware it isn’t legal yet!

Carroll ISD Wins Preliminary Injunction Against Title IX Rule Protecting ‘Gender Identity ‘. A.G. Paxton wins similar case in different federal court too!

Sit ALL the Way Down! Ted Cruz Shuts DOWN Climate Change Loons Who Try Protesting Him – from Twitchy.

Kamala Harris’ Sorority Sisters Get Homosexual Men Evicted From Dallas Hotel . Despite how media descriptions try and tone it down , “Daddlyland” is an all out sex party and this Crowne Plaza Dallas Downtown hosts it often. Isabel and I made the mistake of entering that hotel once when such an event was wrapping up. It was grotesque to say the least.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Man was I right?! CenterPoint, and Entergy to a lesser extent, are becoming the public scapegoat for the unpleasantness following weak Hurricane Beryl. Interestingly, the Houston Police Dept. did not even think it needed to go on full mobilization until 24 hours after the hurricane hit and I agree with them, it wasn’t needed.

Clearly the move up and East for landfall made it very difficult to have private sector crews stationed in the right places. And, let’s think about the criticism that would have come from the same quarters if the storm had rapidly intensified and recovery crews and their had become casualties.

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Biden Campaign Deathwatch: Frenzy behind the Scenes . Will he bow out this evening?

University of Houston’s Satan statue beheaded during the hurricane – officials and media blame pro-lifers – that’s a blame I’d be happy to carry all the way into the courthouse!

Despite rumors to the contrary and Ken Paxton saying it was so, it doesn’t look as if the Texas House Star Chamber is actually meeting next week to launch another impeachment attempt . This story does get the background of the shameful House Investigative Committee right .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Biden woke up long enough to do an “exclusive” interview with the leftwing Houston Chronicle in which he claimed he had tried hard but could not reach Governor Abbott or Lieutenant Governor Patrick about FEMA relief for Hurricane Beryl. It is a lie and also, we haven’t needed the FEMA supplies yet .

Also, a review of the media shows that CenterPoint is being branded, rightly or wrongly, the scapegoat for problems with the hurricane . There is much more than the story I provided but I have to laugh at the idea that their online outage map is such a big deal. Yes, it is nice to have but it has nothing to do with how quickly the firm works to get power back on. We didn’t even have such things a few years back and yet today, you’d think an outage map was the central issue to saving lives and property – it’s preposterous.

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Local sales tax collections in July report are down statewide . Look up your city here .

U.S. House Judiciary Committee shows anti-trust style collusion between major advertisers to kill off media that even slightly leans conservative . Quotes also show that the movement is more generally anti-United States and its exceptional constitutional protections .

New report gives a much better look at how United Supermarkets, West Texas, and New Mexico will be treated if the Kroger takeover of Albertson’s goes through.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A federal judge asked great questions of the Biden Administration’s lawyer, and had a perfect retort, in hearing the case Carroll ISD has brought against the Department of Education and its new perverted Title IX rules. Kim Roberts at The Texan had the write-up .

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Coleman County is another caught in audit undervaluing property for taxing purposes but correcting such does not, as the press reports, automatically mean tax increases. See: Annual Property Tax Misrepresentation Season Begins . And more: Columns and more on Texas property taxes .

Pew study says GOP has its first-ever advantage over Democrats in party identification .

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In this Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra, I interview marine biologist turned entrepreneur Bart Reid about his new book, out from Texas Tech University Press, about his successful, then not successful, efforts at commercially raising shrimp in the trans-Pecos desert of West Texas.

This is one of the most enjoyable and interesting interviews I have done in many years and I’m sure you’ll find it so as well.

This is a link to the local news story I mentioned in the interview : https://www.newswest9.com/article/news/local/staying-afloat-last-shrimp-farmer-in-west-texas/513-50237083-448f-4339-bd1c-7b0748455333

Order for Kindle or paperback from Amazon here . (It helps the show a tiny bit financially when you use my link to Amazon to order.)

You may also order Shrimping West Texas: The rise & fall of the Permian Sea Shrimp Company from the TTU Press here: https://www.ttupress.org/9781682832110/shrimping-west-texas/

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Senator Hughes right, does Texas’ abortion law need “further clarity” in the next legislative session ? No, and the data demonstrate that Hughes is wrong . Like many he’s falling victim to politicized hospitals and pro-abortion doctors who want little more than to loosen Texas abortion laws that are now saving the lives of tens of thousands of innocent human beings and effectively protecting the health of pregnant women. It’s Senator Hughes who needs “further clarity.”

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A Texas-based rocket firm had a successful launch last week: Firefly’s Alpha rocket launches eight smallsats into orbit . Also, SpaceX has released more video from the latest Starship and Superheavy test launch.

Is a new poll a worry for Senator Ted Cruz and Texas Republicans or, is it an outlier to be ignored? Either way it’s time Texans learn how Leftwing is Democrat Colin Allred .

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacates panel’s previous order pushing dirty books back into Llano County’s public library and announces it will hear the case en banc .

Oil and gas rig count up last week. See the Baker Hughes Rig Count here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: We don’t have a shortage of water in Texas, like most places we have too much water in some places and not enough in others – just like with milk, oil, bread, etc. Which is more likely to assure plentiful, properly priced distribution of water: Government programs or, a free market of water resources? Read: Water Markets in Texas

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The effective loss of a Texas legend? Saks owner to purchase Neiman Marcus for $2.65 billion, according to reports .

Biden’s election year deal to close the Darian Gap is B.S . The new president of Panama ran on closing the Gap , it’s not a Biden effort.

Cameron County touts SpaceX’s economic impact – it’s huge!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: At the current rate of construction, the Texas state border barrier, which is not even a wall in places, will take 30 years to complete and billions of dollars. Is it worth it given the restrictions on where the state barriers are placed and how effective it can be?

Also, more on the Democrat judge in El Paso ruling that the Attorney General cannot investigate an El Paso charity that has been accused of aiding illegal immigration.

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Another story on the Texas [un]Ethics Commission is out as a hit piece on Ken Paxton as you might expect . It’s really much ado about nothing in one sense and in another its a hint at why the state has rarely, for decades, gone after people to force payment of fines levied by the agency.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The not-so-conservative Texas Association of Business, TAB, which holds great lobbyist sway in the legislature, issued a report claiming Texas’ fight against the Leftist E.S.G. movement is costing local Texas taxpayers big money . Well even if it is, it is still worth the fight but not to TAB whose members are very large corporations which often support Leftwing social movements. But worse for TAB’s questionable reputation, is that the group has not amended it’s report even after learning it was based on incorrect data. Read all about it here: Estimated $700 Million Cost of Texas Anti-ESG Laws Based on Faulty Data, New Report Asserts . Also see: Texas Anti-ESG Laws are Working as Intended .

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Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick want more money for the new low interest loan program for building new dispatchable electric power generation. ERCOT growth projections have leaders properly spooked .

More Supreme Court moves involving Texas and Texans:

US Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Texas Age Verification for Online Porn

US Supreme Court Rejects Teen Sex Abuse Victim’s Bid to Revive Snapchat Lawsuit – Justice Thomas is quite right about the abuse of Section 230.

And this great ruling: Judge Sides With 16 States, Putting on Pause Biden’s Delay of Consideration of LNG Export Projects

Texas sales tax collection is flat , with growth maybe lower than inflation.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I read and marked up the full 119 pages of the Presidential immunity, Trump v. United States, decision from the U.S. Supreme Court today . It is NOT what liberal Leftists, politicians and press, say. Nor is it a free pass to Donald Trump as some early conservative leaning outlets implied . The ruling is a Separation of Powers ruling and is mostly what all Americans considered to be the case for over 200 years.

Two other court decisions discussed as well:

Netchoice v. Moody and Netchoice v. Paxton

Justices uphold laws banning camping on public property with criminal penalties . No, the Supreme Court Did Not Make It a ‘Crime to Be Homeless’ .

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Always extraordinarily arrogant, has defeated state Rep. Glenn Rogers gone completely loopy? He’s penned yet another screed essentially trashing voters.

Governor Abbott names Robert Black, an old Rick Perry hand, Chief of Staff – a good move.

Texas A&M University Chancellor John Sharp , the last of the old elected Democrats standing, to retire in June 2025 .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s all courts today, including the court of public opinion.

A big win at the Texas Supreme Court to protect children

Former Uvalde school police chief Pete Arredondo and another former officer indicted over school massacre .
Indictment says former police chief’s response to Uvalde shooting endangered 10 students who survived.

Supreme Court strikes down Chevron, curtailing power of federal agencies and the administrative state – among the most important rulings, and corrections, in more than a generation. Congressman Pfluger (TX11) to file bill codifying decision .

Justices rule for Jan. 6 defendant – important.

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Oil and gas rig count falls.

Trump vs. Biden debate a debacle for Democrats. Here is a bit of particular good review:

Trump ‘fired up, on a mission’ after debate victory – Washington Examiner

Joy Reid: The debate reaction among Democratic operatives is ‘approaching panic’ – Washington Examiner – it tells us much about liberals, at high levels, that this is news to them given that it can be seen in almost every Biden appearance. They don’t investigate, they believe what their Leftist masters tell them to believe or else no one would be slightly surprised.

Biden’s Bad Night: Mumbles, blank stares and big bumbles at debate give Trump a path to finish line | Just The News

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Travis County Attorney has dismissed all trespassing charges against pro-Hamas murderer, Jew hating protesters at UT-Austin . UT is not pleased and neither should we be. Also see: What Happened to UT’s Outside Agitators?

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Texas Secretary of State election division sends an advisory that puts Texas back on track with properly numbered ballots . The problem was with ES&S systems; Hart systems are without the problem.

It appears Biden’s politicized DOJ and FBI are still going after Attorney General Ken Paxton . Anyone who thought the DC Leftists would stop trying to get to the nation’s most effective attorney general at fighting the Obama/Biden/DC Democrat machine is a fool.

Texas wins another Golden Shovel Award .

Good court rulings:

U.S. Supreme Court pauses federal smog control plan
Supreme Court Curtails SEC’s Administrative Judge Enforcement Powers
Texas’ top court rejects appeal made by former Angelina County judge who violated open meetings law
Criminal appeals court denies Travis Co. district attorney’s attempt to reverse Daniel Perry pardon

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A fine from the so-called Texas Ethics Commission of Harris County’s leftist Judge Lina Hidalgo demonstrates well how political and UN ethical is the body that parades around with ethics in its name. All it takes is a comparison of Hidalgo’s fine, for doing something that is also a Class A misdemeanor in the state’s Penal Code , to that handed down to a local pastor who ran for office in Abilene . Unethical, capricious, and disgusting. The TEC should be done away with in the Sunset process next year and reformed with a proper name such as the Office of Campaign Finance Rules.

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Other problems for Lina Hidalgo and friends in Harris Co: Lawsuit Alleges Harris County Commissioner Adrian Garcia Illegally Holding Two Public Offices .

U.S. Supreme Court puts a fundamental aspect of American Exceptionalism in jeopardy by dismissing Big Tech free speech case on standing . Alito makes it very clear that standing was easily identifiable.

Overspending is what hinders Texas public school district budgets , not funding which has grown massively.

Comment on Abilene’s budgeting and suggestion of a property tax increase . The city manager is using the TML taught scare tactic claiming that police cuts will have to be made without considering any of the other ample city bureaucracy.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas pro-baby killing abortion people, media included, have “mislead” on a Texas infant-mortality study . What’s even more perplexing is how those who favor elective killing of babies, abortion, have also been the folks decrying high infant-mortality rates . It’s crazy that a baby killed in the womb doesn’t count as infant-mortality.

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Feeble Biden backs out leaving Texas State University without the Presidential debate it has spent big money to host . “Co-chairs of the commission [on Presidential Debates] say the Biden-Harris campaign will not agree to debate under the sponsorship of the commission this year.”

Texas named Best Business Climate in the nation, again . And while it is the best all is not coming up roses due to the Democrat/Biden mismanagement of economic policy and overspending. Dallas Fed: Growth in Texas service activity moderates; Texas retail sales continue falling .

Key business-related court actions : Federal Judge in Texas Skeptical of Biden Overtime Pay Rule and federal judge in Lubbock accuses labor department of doing “violent damage to the Constitution” in Davis-Bacon Act expansion by rule .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much talk and action about the primary Texas electric grid, ERCOT, and our ability to adapt to accommodate massive growth in the state . But, on that very subject, the Houston Chronicle editorial board shows most all that is wrong with Democrats on issues of business and economics – the same error that has existed my entire life. I explain on the show.

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Dallas Fed report shows no improvement in the Texas manufacturing sector .

U.S. Supreme Court to take up challenge to ban on sex-change drugs and procedures for youth and children , minors, in the next term .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court issued two bad rulings today. One is a rejection of Texas and New Mexico’s negotiated settlement of Rio Grande River water issues . The second is about the Second Amendment . It is a ruling most ignorant and shallow will think right but it is not – as Justice Thomas clearly pointed out in dissent.

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Oil and gas drilling rig count falls .

Texas sets another monthly employment growth record ; unemployment remains at 4 percent statewide.

Lieutenant Governor Patrick names members to the Sunset Advisory Commission . Let’s hope they actually work to sunset some government instead of using the process to achieve internal political goals only.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: 76-year-old Sylivia Gonzalez of Castle Hills gets the backing of the U.S. Supreme Court to pursue her claims of political retaliation against Castle Hills officials for what was, in my opinion, a dastardly deed done to her for flagrant political retaliation.
Here is a top-drawer summary of the case: https://amylhowe.com/2024/03/19/texas-city-council-member-argues-retaliatory-arrest/

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Back to the border:

UT-Austin Poll: Majority of Hispanics Now Support Mass Deportation of Illegal Aliens – funny how the legacy media in Texas, which normally does much reporting of the UT polls, has been silent on this.

Nearly 80K DACA recipients admitted to US in first 5 years of program had arrest records: USCIS . They were all just innocent and wonderful children and youths we were told! Over 10% let in during the first 5 years of 12-year-old DACA had arrest records.

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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com .

Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s not just the surgeon, Dr. Haim, now Biden’s politicized DOJ and FBI is intimidating a Texas nurse for blowing the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital illegally using Medicaid funds for child sex changes. See:

Biden DOJ Sends FBI Agents to Harass Nurse After She Blew the Whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital’s Sex Change Program
Texas doctor accused of illegally obtaining child health information

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The clown court known as the Texas [un]Ethics Commission adopts a rule to require disclosure for social media posts when being paid by a campaign to make the posts. The rule is inline with Texas law on disclosure but it seems ripe, the way it is setup, to become a nightmare tool used to intimidate citizen political speech.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden’s latest big vote buy will let half a million illegal aliens have “temporary” work permits, obtain permanent resident status (green card), and then obtain U.S. citizenship . Plus he plans to hand out more benefits under DACA despite the Fifth Circuit holding that the program is illegal .

Meanwhile, illegals and advocates for illegal immigration are crying about not being “respected” even though they show zero respect to this country by entering illegally – what’s got ’em hopped up at the Texas Tribune is that Texas is now firing pepper balls to try and deter illegal border crossing!

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Much other news and comment on statewide headlines.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: An historic blow-out election hit Lubbock Saturday in the mayoral runoff . We visit with Lubbock’s new mayor, Mark McBrayer, about what the election margin means to council policy and his efforts to prioritize basic services.

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The new appraisal district board of directors races are important , and next time, conservatives across the state need to be ready with a slate of candidates who will work to make Appraisal Review Boards focused on what’s right for property owners instead of just what benefits tax takers.

Texas Education Agency released test scores on Friday and it isn’t a good report card for our highly funded public schools. Worse, for the teacher groups and educrat lobby, is that Mike Miles approach in the state takeover at Houston ISD bucked the trends statewide and regionally to produce higher results.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether liars or just incompetents, local government officials mislead often but sometimes it becomes extremely overt in “hiding the ball” from taxpayers which is the case in El Paso. (James Quintero joins us to talk about his El Paso discovery.) Other times they simply overstate to panic citizens into accepting more spending and higher taxes, as we see in Abilene . Or, in the case of Lubbock, we see government handing out taxpayer money to private individuals for projects that are nowhere near “economic development .” Kuddos to David Glasheen for getting this right.

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Baker Hughes oil and gas drilling rig count falls in Texas.

Several big court decisions:

US Supreme Court Backs Texas Man’s Challenge to Federal Ban on Gun ‘Bump Stocks’
Texas Supreme Court denies case that could have imperiled IVF
Texas Supreme Court Sides With Public Utility Commission in Post-2021 Blackouts Electricity Pricing Cases
Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Secures Stay from Texas Supreme Court Stop­ping Har­ris County’s Unlaw­ful ​ “ Guar­an­teed Income” Scheme
Texas Supreme Court Grants Review of Polit­i­cal­ly Moti­vat­ed Law­fare Against OAG Leadership

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Senate interim committee hearing gets to the right question on the extravagantly funded Operation Lone Star : When can we reduce funding? It can’t go on forever.

Also, an important piece on Mexico’s new president and political situation .

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State’s marijuana lawsuit against Austin is dismissed by Democrat activist judge in Travis County – just as I said would happen. Don’t worry, it was always a case to be decided at the appellate level and it could be the new 15th Court of Appeals hearing it .

Don’t be fooled by the press take on the Supreme Court’s abortion drug decision today – it was completely on the issue of standing. The issue of the drug is still open to challenge .

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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: From the I-told-you-so file: A Texas Tech science related program hosted a “Queering Agriculture” seminar led by a drag queen – last week! This stuff is embedded almost everywhere and citizens must get past their self-deception that it’s mostly “somewhere else” if they are to have any chance of beating it back.

Related: Pflugerville Public Library Hosts ‘Trans Clothing Swap and Social’ for Minors . Also, 24 Hour Fitness’ Woke Employee Dress Code Exposed .

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton wins big victory in federal court over the Democrats’ effort to pervert Title IX into a program that harms females instead of protecting them. Read more .

Local sales tax numbers released ; look up your town here .

Lesson from a Lubbock judge: Jurors should listen and obey the judge lest they end up in jail !

Injunction granted against ATF’s ‘firearms dealer’ rule for 4 states, 4 groups (includes Texas.)

Ignorant and weak kneed, Amarillo’s city council rejects Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance . Disgusting.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The disingenuous, risible Texas House Republican Caucus continues to show why it and its leadership can’t be taken seriously as a GOP policy body but only as an insiders’ tool for manipulation to get more power.

Others in Texas House GOP Caucus Violates Their Own Bylaws
I also explain how they’ve violated the no-Democrat-influence rule on speaker elections too, ever since the rule was adopted.

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Texas is going to court to stop Biden from forcing, by HHS rule, healthcare providers to perform attempted sex-change / trans procedures . Also, more evidence that UNT’s Fort Worth-based health sciences center is promoting DEI and trans matters .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite massive vilification of the Texas Education Agency takeover of Houston ISD in the Houston Chronicle and from Democrats and the teacher unions, efforts of Mike Miles and the board of managers are already paying big dividends in the states largest public schools system . Don’t expect too many Dems to admit it. Read also: Rod Paige: The HISD experiment matters to the entire U.S.

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The first effort at using a new law to remove a Leftist/Soros district attorney in Texas looks to be fizzling out. From this report it also looks as the outside prosecutor didn’t do much real investigation .

Houston company to construct new refinery at Port of Brownsville . This is the first major refinery planned in 50 years. Wait and watch how hard the Democrat radicals and their front groups work to frustrate the effort.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden’s D.O.J. pulls another political persecution move and indicts the Texas surgeon who was the whistleblower on Texas Childrens’ Hospital continuing its child sex change work after telling the public it had stopped. The good doctor is right: “They wanted to intimidate me into silence using every technique the federal leviathan had at their disposal. But they failed,” Dr. Haim wrote Thursday on X. “The only way to lose is to submit to corruption. It’s time to fight back harder than ever!”

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Texas Democrats begin their convention in El Paso and their highlighted speakers list shows how far Left the party is in Texas : Killing babies, taking away gun rights and the ability to effectively defend yourself and your family, pro-cross dressing “drag queens,” and a sheriff who wrongly fired a deputy for attending a Trump rally in D.C.

Compare the Dem-agenda to the results of Texas Republicans’ convention and its list of legislative priorities released today .

Oil and gas rig count from Baker Hughes and reaction to the latest Biden move to kill off the oil and gas industry .

Much border and illegal immigration news including:

Statement from Attorney General Ken Paxton on Border Litigation Against Biden Administration
Open Borders Conference: Only Racists Want Border Security
Law Enforcement Says No Change in Illegal Crossings Following Biden’s Order
First Texas 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrant Arrested Just over 24 hours since Governor Abbott launched Texas’ 10 Most Wanted Criminal Illegal Immigrants List

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Our Lone Star story of the day: From just south of Brownsville at Starbase all the way to the Indian Ocean, the Space X 4th Superheavy rocket and Starship test flight was an historic success this morning ! Famed space historian Robert Zimmerman of Behindtheblack.com joins us to discuss this achievement as well as the work of Texas-based Firefly which has just won a big launch contract from Lockheed Martin.

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We remember D-Day on this 80th anniversary.

President Ronald Reagan: (VIDEO) “REMARKS AT A CEREMONY COMMEMORATING THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NORMANDY INVASION, D-DAY,” POINTE DU HOC, FRANCE (6 JUNE 1984). See written version here .
Inside Battleship Texas’ historic comeback, 80 years after D-Day

Texas U.S. Reps. Keith Self, Dan Crenshaw, and Ronny Jackson to parachute over France as part of D-Day remembrance .
Rudder’s Rangers and the Boys of Pointe du Hoc: The U.S. Army Rangers’ Mission in the Early Morning Hours of 6 June 1944

Here is Gen. Eisenhower’s storied D-Day message to troops – he was born in Denison , Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a practice that is prevalent, especially in our Rio Grande River border counties, that needs to be made illegal by the Legislature. Why? Because it converts taxpayer dollars into campaign advertising for serving Texas politicians. I covered this in detail many years ago with an example in Alpine wherein public money was spent to advertise a Democrat state representative on a public edifice. Once again, Laredo and Webb County is using public money to aide state Senator Zaffarini. The story is here and note how many other public assets carry her name in Webb County .

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Texas launches a Top 10 Most Wanted Illegal Immigrant list .

If the SEC approves it, Dallas will be home to a new stock exchange: Texas Stock Exchange . It’s backed by big money.

Universal Studios theme park announced for Frisco , right off Dallas North Tollway.

I love the products of AbiMar Foods and go out of my way to buy them but why is Abilene’s economic development organization handing out taxpayer money for a successful company to upgrade software and renovate buildings ? Just remember the “everybody does it” reasoning next time your child tries the line on you!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Bumbling Biden’s border order is fakery for the ballot box – only morons and those who have been in a coma the past three years can take it seriously – as the A.P. does !

“Why now?”: Biden’s new immigration policy to limit asylum seekers faces quick criticism in Texas
Border Expert Exposes Biden’s ‘Unserious’ Executive Order
DHS Fails to Monitor 77,000 Immigration Parolees; Can They Handle 1.1M Others?

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Texas sales tax collection up over May of last year .

Much news from Ken Paxton’s Office of Attorney General :

Attorney General Ken Paxton Successfully Stops Unlawful Attempt By The Biden IRS To Impair Texas Child Support Programs
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden Department of Labor for Attempting to Revive Illegal Obama-Era Mandate
Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Data Privacy and Security Initiative to Protect Texans’ Sensitive Data from Illegal Exploitation by Tech, AI, and Other Companies
OAG Asks Texas Supreme Court to Review Politically Motivated Lawfare Against Attorney General Paxton and OAG Leadership

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Our Lone Star story of the day: State Senator Charles Perry and other legislators are ready to crack down on cannabinoid retailers this next legislative session. Also in the Senate state affairs committee: Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs Authorizes Subpoenas on “Big Tech.”

And Lt. Governor Dan Patrick praises the “Overwhelming Response to the Texas Energy Fund Loan Program .”

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Governor Abbot, Saturday, welcomed the first soldiers to Texas’ new forward operating military base on the border with Mexico . Also related to the border, see yet another Democrat bait and switch operation to let illegal aliens stay in the county illegally: Biden admin offers ‘mass amnesty’ to migrants as it quietly terminates 350,000 asylum cases .

More of that “rare” election fraud found in Texas, this time in Bee County . Funny how we find so many cases but the Left claims it is so rare as to not be a significant matter.

UT professors fight, with lawsuits, Biden’s perversion of Title IX. Good for them, we’ve all got to fight in every way we can, at every level, to save our society.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Brant O’Hair joins us to talk about the need for reform at the Lubbock County Appraisal District and his runoff race for Place 3 on the newly formed appraisal district board of directors . Lubbock County, Harris County and many others have runoffs in these races for the new appraisal boards. These races are very important.

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The Texas Supreme Court rightly upholds Texas abortion law and in the opinion counters the constant lie found in media reports pushed by the pro-abortion crowd. “Under the Human Life Protection Act, a woman with a life-threatening physical condition and her physician have the legal authority to proceed with an abortion to save the woman’s life or major bodily function, in the exercise of reasonable medical judgment and with the woman’s informed consent,” Justice Jane Bland wrote in the majority opinion.

Baker Hughes oil and gas drilling rig count flat this week.

Anti-Wimp update : “Hail Satan” intruder shot by Thrall homeowner .

As expected, state Representative Shelby Slawson of Stephenville announces a bid for Texas House speaker .

Commentary on the Soviet-style show trial in New York that “convicted” Donald Trump.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Tim Lambert joins us to discuss the major happenings at the Republican Party of Texas Convention 2024. Along side electing new leadership, delegate passed Rule 46 which establishes a “closed primary.”

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NRA wins big at the Supreme Court in the Vullo decision , no surprise really, and can take up its case against NY officials for using the power of government to interfere with the NRA’s First Amendment right to political speech and viewpoint. You can read Amy Howe’s summary here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Result review of yesterday’s party primary runoff elections. There was, overall, good news on statehouse races for conservatives but a few disappointments.

With the help of Jefferson County Democrats, the Dem sheriff was a big backer, Drinker of the House Dade Phelan got a narrow win – that’s somehow appropriate for a man committed to empowering Democrats in the Texas House and who won the speaker’s gavel by doing a deal for Dem support.

Rep. Tom Oliverson says the race for speaker begins today .

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Dallas Fed report: Growth resumes in Texas service sector, but outlooks continue to worsen .

Coverage of more storm damage across Texas last night.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It may be quiet where you are but in some places this is a BIG election day – it’s party primary runoff day. The direction of the Texas House and more may be set today. I review some of the key races to watch around the Lone Star State.

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Dallas Fed report: Texas manufacturing activity weakened in May .

The Republican Party of Texas has elected a new chairman and vice chairman as well as adopted a rule for closed primary election . More . Congratulations to new chairman Abraham George and vice chairman D’rinda Randall .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaking to a caucus gathering at the Republican Party of Texas Convention in San Antonio, Senator John Cornyn says he is definitely planning to run for re-election in 2026. Gromer Jeffers, Jr. at the Dallas Morning News broke the story .

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Once a big investment has been made in certain politicians, it is costly to have one of them lose re-election and the gambling lobby knows it. Las Vegas Sands is pouring money into saving the race of Speaker Phelan as well as other incumbents .

Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 will remember Texan Johnny Rutherfords first, of three, wins at the Brickyard . Fort Worth Report has a great story on the speedy Texan .

Oil and gas drilling rig count falls .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Senate hearing showed how horrible it is for legislators to ignore the culture wars. All tax and regulatory policy, through the reps elected by voters, ultimately flows from the culture and that must be remembered.

The hearing showed that DEI is “deeply embedded” in the personal and world view of Texans in our colleges. I posit that such couldn’t happen just at college; they must also be experiencing such in public school before college. Read this coverage of the hearing from Sherry Sylvester and then you should realize that ignoring culture/social issues is a recipe for failure for Republicans and disaster for our country.

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The Texas GOP convention is underway in San Antonio and the pressure on the lobby’s boy, Drinker of the House Dade Phelan, began early .

I comment on a story (more ) about how one can circumvent a secret ballot in Texas . Statement from the Secretary of State .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Israel proves the fallacy of DEI and CRT fundamentals and of Progressive political ideology and that’s why progressives so hate the Jewish state outside of issues of antisemitism. It’s never been put better and more succinctly than in this piece: Why progressives hate Israel .

“In other words, Israel is a threat because it challenges the tenets of modern progressive dogma. It is easier for them to believe instead that Israel’s successes – its stellar human rights record, its diverse and vibrant democracy, its flourishing economy – are somehow due to thieving and immorality than it is to admit that triumph over adversity is possible on a personal, national and cultural scale.”

This links directly with the fraud of DEI that has now been shown to have been a major cancer in our Texas state institutions .

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Uvalde taxpayers to pay $2 million to families of school shooting victims . Why? And that’s not enough: Today, Uvalde victims’ families sue Texas state police officers . I’ve much to say on the subject.

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is doubling down on policies that have put all electric grids in peril of failure and is driving up electricity costs . Leftist ill-founded dreams have real world costs.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Local government good ol’ boy bricks-for-brains running Palo Pinto County decided to infringe on political speech at election time as they are still upset that their buddy, state Rep. Glenn Rogers, was beaten in the GOP primary. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has told them to stop it! Details can be found here: 5th Circ. Halts Texas County’s Electioneering Rules – Law360.

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There is a very long story at the Texas Tribune headlined: Texas’ Republican old guard mobilizes to protect Dade Phelan from the far right . For all the quotes and analysis given, the writers and so-called experts miss the real reason why some mega donors want to preserve the status quo in the Texas House, which at present means Dade Phelan. I will tell you exactly what that reason is that others seem unable to grasp.

We visit with Ben Armenta , chairman candidate for the Texas Republican Party.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Has your insurance company blamed skyrocketing rates on “global warming” to the media? Like with most such claims, the data doesn’t support the assertion . Texas legislators should include clear language that blaming price hikes, denial of coverage, reduction of coverage, etc. on the politically loaded idea of climate change is a form of consumer fraud in Texas.

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Important: Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Temporary Restraining Order Against Biden Administration, Stopping Unlawful ATF Rule from Taking Effec t.

Trump says Texas A.G. Ken Paxton would make good U.S. attorney general . And, Trump directly addressed the threat to the Second Amendment in his talk to the NRA annual meeting in Dallas this weekend . Governor Abbott spoke as well .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: As I said yesterday, don’t expect an honest media narrative on Abbott’s pardon of Daniel Perry who was wrongly convicted of murder in Travis County for defending himself against a “Black Lives Matter” protester. Dems fume! And, Texas Monthly takes the prize as the most outrageous and stupid reaction I saw in general press review: Why Did Greg Abbott Pardon a Racist Murderer?

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Comment on the race for chairman of the Republican Party of Texas . If you’re a delegate to convention, this is a great resource: In Their Own Words: The Six Candidates for Texas GOP Chair – Texas Scorecard

Across the nation, and even here in Texas , don’t expect government to protect your children from sexual perversion, pornography, or homosexual recruitment . Sadly government is helping spread the sin . “But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.” — Matthew 18:6

Texas oil & gas rig count up by one .

Texas employment number set yet another record with the unemployment rate falling in all Texas MSAs .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After more than two years, a judge has substantiated claims of substantial illegal voting in the 2022 General Election in Harris County and declared a do-over for a state district judge race. Holly Hansen at The Texas has the story .

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Governor Abbott , upon recommendation from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, has issued a pardon for Daniel Perry who was wrongly convicted of murder in Travis County for defending himself against a “Black Lives Matter” protester. Don’t expect an honest media narrative on this one!

Anti-Wimp update : Armed deacon stops Beaumont burglar .

A&M’s Sharp calls news stories wrong but only after being caught ! (By the way, this link from KBTX is a full rewrite from the earlier version that I used on the show.) The evidence plainly shows that Texas A&M was working rapidly to implement Biden’s perverted changes to Title IX to let men play girls sports. If the reports weren’t true then why is the A&M Title IX chief now suspended ?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The entire 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, heard arguments on Galveston County’s redistricting case yesterday . At issue is whether the Voting Rights Act can be perverted to allow for “coalitions” of minorities. It is a major case that stands to greatly affect most of Texas. If the Left prevails, it will lead to further Balkanization of the country and further empower Leftist revolution in our society.

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Governor Abbott hits back at Democrats claiming that public schools are in a budgeting “crisis.”

An interesting story on the happenings related to the prosecution of a man accused of slaying a Lubbock County deputy sheriff in Levelland .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Biden Administration, through the IWBC, is claiming that it owns Texas’ Fronton Island in the Rio Grande from which drug cartels were working their evil . Texas secured the island from the cartels but Biden’s folks now want Texas to remove its work and effectively hand it back over to the cartels. It makes you wonder if the administration, like that of Mexico, is now directly working to help the murderous cartels. Suing over ownership is one thing, but demanding Texas remove barriers and other works which stopped the island from being a cartel asset raises serious questions.

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Democrat, at campaign event, says that Speaker of the House Phelan met with Dems before they acted on busting the House quorum . The implication was that Phelan essentially gave them a free hand so to do.

The Hemp hype has proven to be what I said it was from an agricultural point of view but the negatives from the rush to legalize its growing continue to plague Texas. Lt. Gov. Patrick is attempting to fix much of that .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted by the Biden DOJ . Now two former Democrat Party “political consultants,” a.k.a. swamp swimmers, are taking a DOJ plea deal to cooperate in the prosecution of the Cuellars. Also, a woman from Azerbaijan who lives in Houston, has taken a plea deal as well .

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Anti-Wimp update: Pizza delivery driver uses firearm to stop robbery .

Local government sales tax take report for May is out . Lookup your city here .

Much in the illegal immigration and border stack:

Mexican Government Provides Buses, Trucks to Aid Migrant Caravan’s Trek to U.S. Border
Conservative immigration law enforcement crusader wins Panamanian presidential election
Dem Senate candidate, Colin Allred, attends event where illegal immigrants were informed on how to evade law enforcement
GOP Legislation to Exclude Noncitizens from Census Draws Opposition from Texas Democrats
El Paso Democrat Judge Dismisses 211 Border Rioting Charges Filed Against Migrants

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Today’s special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview, 2 of 2, about our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how he became part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term. (This is not a repeat, this is the first airing.)

Matt also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations.

Matt is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area who went to college at Nevada-Reno and got to Texas as soon as he could, but it took a while.

He worked on Capitol Hill for a decade as a communications director and when he just couldn’t it take anymore, he came to Lubbock – and we are all glad he did.

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Today’s special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview, 1 of 2, about our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how he became part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term.

Matt also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations.

Matt is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area who went to college at Nevada-Reno and got to Texas as soon as he could, but it took a while.

He worked on Capitol Hill for a decade as a communications director and when he just couldn’t it take anymore, he came to Lubbock – and we are all glad he did.

www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Charles “Cully” Stimson on “rouge prosecutors and the rise of crime” from the March 2024 issue of Imprimis . It’s about the George Soros backed district attorney candidates who, once elected, choose to go to extremes to NOT effectively prosecute criminals.

Listen to the June 26, 2023 Podcast Extra interview I did with Stimson on his book on this subject .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: At the center of what is going wrong in America is the use of Marxist “disparate impact” thinking throughout society. Heather Mac Donald covered the Imprimis, February 2024 issue .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Former RNC member from Texas Tim Lambert talks about efforts for a closed GOP Texas primary.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife have been indicted by the Biden D.O.J . Cuellar denies wrong doing and plans to continue to run for re-election. There is reason to wonder if such is legitimate or simply part of the ongoing effort from DC leftists to get rid of the so-called “moderate” Democrat. Time will tell.

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Austin passes resolution to ignore state law and support sexual mutilation of children . A.G. Paxton responds.

Attention leftists: Encampments are Not Speech . A clear distinction that is not mentioned by most media coverage.

After stroke left him in terrible shape , Randy Travis releases a new song today. Listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh8-g8seeig

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A feature story at Texas Tribune today focuses on Lubbock’s pro-pot election and how important it is statewide from a political perspective. It’s a repeat of what I have told you all along.

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More on the pro-Hamas terrorist efforts to occupy college campuses. New York’s mayor says it is the same there as it was Monday at UT : Many of these people have no ties to the universities, they are professionals come to lead the sheeple students to do the bidding of the terrorist regimes.

Texas sales tax revenue down over April last year; factor in inflation and it’s down even more than 3.2 percent.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas and A.G. Paxton to lead coalition of states to fight the latest anti-gun rights ATF rule coming out of the Biden Administration . The rule puts people in jeopardy of prosecution for private sales and goes well beyond what Congress defined as a gun “dealer.”

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Ted Cruz has double-digit lead over liberal Collin Allred in UT polling .

The Dallas Morning News has published a long story trying to make something of nothing: Federal elections regulator from Texas has Ted Cruz campaign sign in front yard . All of this may sound bad until your ignorance is wiped away and you realize the FEC is governed specifically by partisan appointees – people assumed to be politically active in partisan politics.

More pro-terrorist, anti-Jew protests . Why are so many brainwashed? CRT, DEI on campus teaches this horrible bigotry.

Gun, other weapon caches found at anti-Israel protests at UT Austin
Pro-Palestinian protestors establish encampment at UT Dallas

Postcolonial Drama on Campus | National Review

The DEI Jihad. Anti-Semitism on campus and DEI evangelism are cut from the same cloth .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Carl Tepper (HD84) rounds up state legislator support countering the pro-Hamas leftists on Texas college campuses – students and faculty. Signed letter reads, in-part: “Israel has a fundamental right to defend itself and should use any and all means necessary to destroy terrorism, which includes wiping Hamas from the face of the Earth. We stand with Israel.”

I wonder if the Texas Tribune will write a story about it questioning their right to express such an opinion. The leftwing news outlet is already trying to change the narrative from lawless agitator led student occupations to one of hypocrisy from Republicans.

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Commentary on the stupid scarcity agenda pushed by liberals at Texas monthly and the actual headlines of the day:

Texas Developers Love Big Thirsty Lawns. That’s a Huge Problem for the State’s Water Supply .
North Texas lakes full, Trinity River high after heavy rain

Urbanism causes heat islands, turf cools such and cleans the air so, let’s penalize liberals who live in cities and give rural residents huge checks for living in the country!

Dallas Fed: Texas service sector stalled; retail sales continue to fall .

U.S. Supreme Court deals pornographers a defeat, for now, in Texas age verification law .

Interesting story on Big Spring ISD’s bond election . And, Amarillo citizens force the issue on being a Sanctuary City for the Unborn.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Violent and disruptive student protests are nothing new but Leftists in the press romanticize such which often gives more coverage than such deserve. The pro-Hamas anti-Israel protests on our campuses are sometimes held within the proper bounds of protest and expression but in some cases what is attempted is a take-over and shutdown of campus activities. I review much Texas press over actions at the University of Texas at Austin.

And just to remind you of what manly leadership is like, I play Ronald Reagan addressing the very issue many times over an almost 30-year period. Thanks for the Daily Caller for putting together the montage.

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Dallas Fed: Mixed signals from Texas manufacturing sector .

Texas sues the Biden Administration over its radical perversion and gutting of Title IX .

If you lived in New Mexico you’d think the only Mexican border problems were in Texas and Arizon a and were greatly exaggerated by Republicans in those states. That’s because Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is a fellow Biden Leftist and pretends publicly it isn’t a problem. However, leaked audio tells a very different story: ‘For The Love Of God’: Leaked Audio Reveals Dem Gov Ripping Biden Admin Over Border Security .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Study of the Texas Republican efforts at property tax reduction over the past 3 legislative session, from a not-friendly-to-Republicans source, shows tax reduction has generally been very successful statewide . Read it here: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/26/texas-property-tax-cuts-analysis/

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Harris County District Attorney Ogg infuriates Houston’s Democrat Party political machine by preserving justice in handing a key case to the Texas Attorney General’s office .

More on the despicable pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT-Austin and elsewhere:

UT president called DPS for help
Charges dropped by Dem judge and DA against most UT Austin protesters
Associated Press under fire for calling antisemitic anti-Israel demonstrations ‘anti-war’ protests
Clueless Columbia student at NYU rally: ‘Why are we protesting?’
Hamas Loses Its Grip: Gazans Speak Out against It

Lubbock’s voter turnout is almost double any May election for 20 years . Conservatives must get out and vote. See my Lubbock voter recommendations here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Carl Tepper (HD84) joins us to discuss a major story out today from ProPublica and the Texas Tribune which shows that school districts are not complying with the law that says local governments must post candidate campaign finance reports online. Of the 35 districts spot checked, NONE, were complying with the law and worse yet, it seems many candidates in local elections haven’t even been submitting campaign finance reports.

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Press reports what many of us already knew: Wind, solar, and battery on the Texas ERCOT power grid could cause “immediate catastrophic grid failure.” This report is about the inverters these vendors use and how such systems have simply tripped off-line putting the entire grid in danger.

More on the arrests and breaking up of the Anti-Israel, pro-Hamas demonstrations at UT Austin.

Lynn County hospital district bond issue: A Pratt on Texas Listener Club member has provided me with the hospital’s latest audit which showed “material” and “significant” weaknesses in its accounting.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: An elected Democrat County Court-at-Law judge in El Paso let go the 100+ rioting illegal aliens that tried to breach the border wall claiming there was no probable cause for their detention ! Fortunately the El Paso district attorney immediately took the cases to a grand jury and that jury issued indictments against the invaders .

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Texas named best state for business for a record-breaking 20th year – in a row!

Texas wins over state and national Democrats at the Supreme Court over universal mail-in voting as the justices refused to take up the case for consideration.

The filthy stench of “local government” is on full display in Granbury and Hood County in the Granbury ISD bond election .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock faces a pro-marijuana use proposition (Prop. A) on the May 4th ballot. What of all the libertarian and other promises of the benefits of legal weed? Three words: Up in smoke. Read: Americans are watching legal weed’s promise go up in smoke .

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The Texas Supreme Court has issued a temporary block on Harris County’s lottery-style “guaranteed income” welfare scheme . The Attorney General is right about the unconstitutional nature of the program but many believe, and I’m one of them, that the same prohibition makes our “economic development programs” questionable too. There is nothing charitable about forced charity.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Travis County’s far-left, Soros-backed, district attorney could be the first to face possible removal under last session’s HB17 . And despite the Lefty DA claiming it’s all “MAGA Republican” partisanship, it turns out that the petitioner appears motivated by her experience with the DA’s office on a sexual assault case in which she was the victim .

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Lubbock is facing a big mayoral election that will either further empower the tax and spenders and those who think their business deals more important than the property rights of working citizens or, will restore fiscal discipline and trust in fairness at City Hall.

When combined with the pro-marijuana use proposition on the ballot, this election could be the pivot point of a generation in Lubbock sending the state’s largest strong Republican vote city into the abyss of urban Leftism. On the other hand, if voters install true conservative leadership at City Hall and reject, by a wide margin, the pot-prop the city could add years to its success in not falling down the urbanism slide to leftism.

See my Lubbock voter recommendations here .

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock is facing a big mayoral election that will either further empower the tax and spenders or, will restore discipline and trust at City Hall. I talk with candidate for mayor Mark McBraye r about the issues including why big money developers are working to elect his tax raising opponent.

(By the way, McBrayer properly, in his own, requested air time the way all candidates must . No other Lubbock mayor candidate has wanted to appear on the show and some are even afraid to appear at local forums! I’m always amazed at people who run for office but are afraid to be questioned.)

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Texas sets more employment records , unemployment rate falls .

Oil and gas rig count goes up by 2 this week in the Baker Hughes report .

Two stories from the stench-of-local-government stack:

Fort Worth cancels community center reservation for groups holding event discussing the dangers and tragedy of the transsexual movement. It’s a 100% viewpoint, speech content, move by Cowtown.

City of Kerrville passes an ordinance requiring a government license to engage in electioneering – like block walking or passing out political material. On the face of it this is blatantly un-American!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A longer look at the unethical election for bond debt , with a huge tax increase, by the Lynn County hospital district . Lynn County citizen Jennifer Ritz joins us to express the frustration of many in the county that sits just south of Lubbock.

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Judge issues TRO against City of Austin’s public comment restrictions .

California to Texas: Largest state-to-state move in the US, Texas Realtor report says .

Democrat Sues Tarrant County GOP for Place on Executive Committee . Another sign of the general lack of ethics and integrity of our society.

Long-Lost First USS Enterprise Model Is Returned to ‘Star Trek’ Creator Gene Roddenberry’s Son

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A slew of court related items involving Texas dominate the news today and I provide commentary on all:

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Unanimous SCOTUS Win on Texas Property Rights Case – ridiculous spin and I explain why
Both sides claim victory after Supreme Court rules Texas rancher can sue state over flooded lands
Supreme Court allows Winnie ranchers to sue Texas over flooding
Appeals court blocks $100K daily fine against Texas in foster care suit

Appeals court knocks down Texas school book-banning law – what a terribly biased and factually misleading headline!
Adult entertainment industry [pornographers] asks Supreme Court to block Texas age-verification requirements for porn sites

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More comment on the current, inaugural, election for public members to Appraisal District Boards of Directors across Texa s . Story shows how ignorant some legislators are: Houston voters to elect property tax board members for first time .

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