Our Lone Star story of the day: An AI James Talarico stars as sex-change doc operating on girl in conservative PAC $10M ad blitz and the group is right to point out his positions on this issue while he and his campaign lie trying now to say he doesn’t support such perversion.

Here also more hypocrisy on capitol staff philanderer and rich people hater Talarico: Talarico goes to rich people playground Nantucket with is girlfriend.

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Oil and gas rig count rises this week in Texas.

Why maybe legislators should ratchet down more on so-called “local control”:

• City of Austin if facing a huge budget shortfall, proposing a huge tax increase, and yet puts a non-essentials bond election on the ballot.
• Harris County commissioners vote to pay their 8 county constables over $305,000 per year!
• Harris County to fund local $2.5M investigation into ICE killing of Lorenzo Salgado, commissioners vote. It’s out of their jurisdiction at this point and if it becomes their matter why can’t it be funded out the regular budget like all other matters? Because this is using taxpayer money for a political war.

Both sides rest in Corpus Christi Mayor Paulette Guajardo removal hearing on Day 4

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Our Lone Star story of the day: An update on Talarico’s fake “Republican Moms” shows it is even more fake that reported yesterday. Jasmine ‘Crocked’ Crockett not convinced Talarico is leading, says the GOP money will be a better indicator. And this: Talarico Wants to Abolish the Agency Fighting Gangs and Human Trafficking. (Note he’s also not friendly to voter ID.)

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Texas counties say new law adding another weekend of early voting will strain their budgets – it’s much worse than a budget issue. We do not need more days of early voting but fewer, budget and personnel wise.

Federal Judge in Texas Takes Sledgehammer To National Firearms Act – well, sort of. Judge rules National Firearms Act can no longer apply to some weapons.

And this: Court rejects Texas AG effort to overturn state fair gun ban. This is easily fixed by Speaker Burrows and Lt. Gov. Patrick if they have the commitment they have claimed. Require concealed carry be allowed on ANY property owned by a government or quasi-government even if it is a private business or group operating on the property. If you want to deny self-protection then buy your own property outright.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico’s “Republican Moms” turn out not to be. And, Talarico voted for five elections registered at his parents house after having bought his own home nearby – pure hypocrite for attacking Paxton for voting one time registered at the home he previously shared with his ex-wife.

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Abilene set for a self-powered data center from PowerPlay AI & Sharon AI.

Comptroller Don Huffines Reports State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $4.6 Billion in July, 10.1% more than July of 2025. Huffines expects Texans to save $142.5 million in the back to school Texas Sales Tax Holiday, Aug. 7-9.

DCCC adds Texas’ 23rd Congressional District to target list.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A new poll on Texas statewide races is the first in a while to reflect on-the-ground political reality, or come close to such, for Texas. Talarico is up by two over Paxton and other statewide Republicans are up about five points over Democrat challengers. The best write up is at The Texan. The Texas Tribune seemed only interested in “black voters” and Talarico.

Here is the actual poll results: New Poll: Senate Race A Toss-Up, With Narrow GOP Leads in Other Races

Other campaign stories I covered:

• Texas Republicans campaign with urgency despite decades of dominance
• In Texas, a Political Group, Somos Votantes, Bets $6 Million on Latino Voters Coming Back to Democrats
• Texas GOP cuts ticket prices to Trump’s unconventional convention
• Gina Hinojosa makes big ad buy in effort to unseat Gov. Greg Abbott

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Texas A&M System sued over limits on race, gender teachings. See also: A&M Officials Discussing ‘Race and Ethnic Studies Institute’ With Attorneys .

New federal lawsuit filed against Texas by the get-’em-high THC drug industry.

Old Liberal Lon Burnam gets carried out of the Tarrant Co. Commissioners Court meeting by deputies. It was all grandstanding. Notice the old white guys with their communist fist salute in the photo!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, as bad as Laredo’s, we get county leadership and media engaging in deception on property tax “rate” setting designed to make voters think local politicians have not been raising their property taxes. This time it’s from KWTX and McLennan County leadership: McLennan County proposes first property tax rate increase in years, citing public safety and rising costs.

For the 10,000th time: Talking about a “tax rate” for the coming year in comparison to a previous year’s “tax rate” is meaningless. The new rate only has meaning when compared to the No New Revenue Tax Rate, formerly the Effective Tax Rate. Learn more here. Learn a lot more here.

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Texas has a new Comptroller of Public Accounts as Don Huffines took office on Saturday. Hopefully Huffines will put pressure on local governments to stop lying about tax rates in relation to tax increases or decreases.

In what reminds me of California a few decades ago, due to political pressure from afraid of growth and investment people, Governor Abbott has put up yet another hurdle in front of investment in Texas to build computing centers. It may just be reporting but it raises the cost of investing in Texas and does not fit the Texas Miracle model.

Austin could gain 40,000 aerospace and defense jobs in coming years. This is a very good story and is mostly focused on space focused industry.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Fox News releases a poll showing Paxton behind by 3 points in the U.S. Senate race. I discuss what the detail in the poll tells us about a little cadre of sour grapes Republicans and about the confusion over what is character.

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Gary Boren discusses his race to fill an unexpired term on the Lubbock City Council – election day is tomorrow. I fully endorse Gary in this race as I have said many times on the air. This is a balance of power election for Lubbock.

Texas finds some registered voters wrongly flagged as noncitizens, reports the Texas Tribune as if this is some scandal. Of course that is the case. That’s how it works: Those that don’t match up get notified by their county and can then clear up the matter. Democrats complain that keeping voters rolls clean is somehow discriminatory but the only reason one would not keep such rolls clean and proper is if election cheating is the goal which, brings us back to why Democrats oppose cleaning the voter rolls.

Johnson County’s sheriff found himself back in jail today.

Oil and gas drilling rig count up this week in Texas but not my much.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas SB 37 clamping down on the excesses of our public colleges and universities is doing some work at reining in Marxist and radical left-wing indoctrination in state universities.  The law has successfully empowered regents to better oversee and direct the work of our schools. I cover the subject working from: How SB 37 is changing college classes and degree programs in Texas.

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More Talarico Tales emerge proving that little Jimmy ‘The Creep’ Talarico is a complete Leftwing, perverse nut job:

• James Talarico mocked over 2021 Fauci action figure Christmas post – he plays with dolls!
• Talarico praised ending “over-policing” & Austin’s defund police move – demonstrating just how blatantly he is lying now.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Showing just how embedded Marxist and racist activism of the Left is into public education, Texas has had to demand that the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards revise its materials. Read this Dallas Express story and be sure to read the short section of examples of what needs revision, the second section of the story. Just to be a certified teacher from this national group, you are supposed be engaged in indoctrinating students into Leftist political theory and turning them into Leftwing activists. This isn’t made up stuff from conservatives, it is in the groups standards.

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Governor Abbott Reappoints Ten Judges To Texas Business Court. This is a very interesting story about the new business court system and how it works with the governor appointing and reappointing its judges.

5th Circuit Court of Appeals uphold the age verification part of the Texas SCOPE Act but leaves on hold the requirement for companies to monitor and filter content for minors.

Texas Judge Extends SCOTUS Admission Case to Municipal Contracts. More: Houston’s minority business contracting program ruled unconstitutional. Be sure and note the last section of the Chronicle story.

Federal judge declines to reinstate Muslim woman as Fort Worth ISD campus principal. She was never harmed and the district acted because of serious threats that could jeopardize the safety and operation of the school.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling shows Talarico up 5 points of Paxton – but the same poll also shows low name recognition Democrat gubernatorial candidate within the margin of error of beating Gov. Abbott! I warned about the group publishing the poll when its first came out – it is a Democrat group designed to suck more national money into Texas Dem activists’ pockets and fire up the base.

But wait, there is more: Talarico now says he’s learned as much about his Christian faith from “Islamic mystics” as he has from Christian authors. Wow! That explains a lot about his many non-Christian beliefs.

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Lubbock’s fake Republican county judge, the Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, whines about all four commissioners not giving elected officials a pay raise.

Here comes the useless local reporting on local government property tax rates being set by local officials. Know the truth: Dishonest elected officials, bad media reinforce public confusion on property tax rates.

Citizen journalist files rivil rights lawsuit Against Midland County Judge Terry Johnson who allegedly retaliated against criticism by publishing the man’s personal identification information including social security and driver license numbers.

Dallas Fed: Solid growth in Texas service sector activity continues. Plus much more business news including: Meta and BlackRock form $14 billion El Paso data center venture.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick released additional Senate interim committee study charges today. One item has the Leftist press in a heightened tizzy; like this: Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to study ways to further ingrain religion into public life. That is NOT what the study charges say at all. In fact, on it’s alternate headline for RSS, the Tribune tells the truth with this: “Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to expand religious liberty.” That’s a BIG difference between the two headlines for the same story!

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RIP: Tom Luce. A great Texan with more influence on the Texas turnaround and Texas Miracle than most will ever know.

13th Starship/Superheavy launch goes almost perfectly from Starbase, Texas on Friday evening. ‘I was speechless’: Thousands cheer as SpaceX’s Starship Flight 13 finally launches after delays.

Texas manufacturing output growth accelerated in July.

IRS migration data show Texas gained $5B as NY, CA lost billion. The key part of this story that has the most positive meaning is the part about productivity increasing in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: In 2021, I recommended Texas voters vote against Constitutional Amendment Proposition 2. Now a court has ruled that the ballot language did not properly inform voters and, unless the ruling is changed on appeal, the adoption of Prop. 2 will be overturned. It was a bad idea from the beginning and all you need do to see such is to see that Harris Co. is using it to build a new headquarters for The Texans NFL football team.

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Chip Polk joins us to discuss the fabulous patriotic play (and concert) Soldier Come Home. All should go, especially veterans and families with veterans. Get full information here.

Oil and gas rig count actually falls this week in Texas.

Abilene voters could allow firefighters to cheat them, the citizens, out of their power of the vote.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Here it comes again!, as I have predicted time and again for two decades. Midland ISD votes to sue the state over the public school finance system and justifies such with selfish half-truths and general ignorance of the fact that the courts have made clear what the outcome must be no matter how often the legislature reshuffles the deck chairs. No system reshuffle will change the equity of funding issue and, any that fixes the equity issue will mean less control for local districts and will still take from districts like Midland. You better be careful what you wish for. This is the fundamental problem with all socialist-style government programs: You must have a general equity and history shows that always means the lowest level of equity, not the top. For example, the state cannot build roads with smooth lanes for use by only people with cars registered in certain counties, the more property wealthy counties, and then require people registered in other counties to drive only on the other rough, pothole filled lanes.

• Midland ISD votes to sue Texas over school funding system
• Midland ISD Sues Texas Education Agency Over ‘Robin Hood’ Recapture System

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Texas grants to Elon Musk’s Starlink face scrutiny – this is preposterous. Frankly all the money should go to Starlink because it immediately provides “rural broadband” for every person without such service whereas the others are long term construction build outs that may or may not actually reach customers.

22nd Texas county, Scurry County, outlaws abortion and use of roads for abortion trafficking.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much ado about non-citizens voting with the latest scandal in Democrat New Jersey where a bunch of them have been voting. The real question is why are so many vehemently opposed to move that will improve the integrity of our elections – especially the perception of integrity held by members of the public? Why should flaws, even if not exploited often, not be fixed?

• Non-Citizen Voting Scandal Gets Worse: Software Giant Blames Election Officials, CA Gets Dragged In
• Hundreds of non-citizens voted in NJ elections since 2023 — but Dem gov still blames Trump 
• Texas Public Policy Foundation: How to Ensure That Only Citizens Vote
• Texas Voter Suit Continues Despite Trump Verification Overhaul

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The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Just Issued a Major Ruling on Illegal Aliens.

Gary Boren, candidate for city council in Lubbock’s District 4 special election runoff, joins us.

Editorial: Travis County district clerk should challenge $27,000 juror payouts – no kidding!

Hood County Officials Denied Immunity in Meme Arrest Lawsuit – very good.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: As Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico gets funded by the very “Epstein Class” billionaires he frequently decries, Texas Democrats find themselves with two creepy candidates. TX15 is a congressional district Dems hope to flip to their Leftist side this election but their nominee, singer Bobby Pulido, is himself a pervert of the top rank.

Also, far from a reformer, Talarico shows he’s the same old white Democrat by telling upset black Dems in Houston he’ll throw $25 million into black voter turnout. No doubt many in the room would pocket big parts of that and from whom would he get it? Probably the likes of fellow creep Hoffman.

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Midland County Judge, Terry Johnson, has gone too far in my opinion and should resign his post: (Isn’t that “local control” great?!)

• Midland elected official calls for County Judge Terry Johnson’s resignation
• Midland County Judge Posts Critic’s SSN on Facebook!

San Antonio ISD hires superintendent with past cheating scandal [El Paso ISD] to fix budget deficit, avoid state takeover. (Isn’t that “local control” great?!)

Governor Abbott Issues Executive Order Cracking Down On Birth Tourism Scheme – carefully note the wording. My guess is that none of what the hospital(s) have done is actually “unlawful.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is dangerous cultural and media double standard regarding law enforcement and illegal immigration.  Texas media and the Democratic Party reflexively victimize illegal aliens while indicting American citizens and law enforcement – with little to no evidence for either action. U.S. Attorney Aaron Reitz details what it appears, based on real evidence, happened in the ICE shooting in Houston.

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Governor Abbott appoints Robert Howden as the 116th Texas Secretary of State.

Texas Job Market Grows by More Than 177,000 Positions Over the Year. It’s another month of record employment in the Lone Star State.

Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas.

Starship/Superheavy launch aborted at T-0; launch scrubbed. Possible retry next week.

More hypocrisy from Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico: Leftist billionaire Reid Hoffman gives $10 million to pro-Talarico super PAC.

Texas Tech throws aside history for a renaming of Jones Stadium – it’s now Galaxy Stadium.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Who controls the classroom? The Daily Signal asks the key question that arises from the professors’ union against Texas Tech. It is a mystery to me how these employees can believe that they have the right to determine the boundaries and curricula of their employer.

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The Dallas Morning News’ liberal editorial board excoriates Texas Democrats and their nominee for governor: Gina Hinojosa’s call for $1,500 checks smells of desperation.

Paxton campaign says it will engage in a debate with little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico.

Texas Tech chair donated $275K to Paxton before he intervened for Sorsby. Much ado about nothing. The AG simply reminded other parties that a Texas court, not the AG’s office, had made a ruling in the case and that they should respect Texas jurisdiction.

Prostitution suspects indicted as details emerge about complexity of scheme in Goldely, Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Abbott’s H-1B visa freeze real? Texas Tech doesn’t appear to think so: Did Texas Tech Just Violate Abbott’s H-1B Freeze? If Texas Tech can’t find its own graduates to fill this basic level job then it should shut its doors!

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Governor Abbott to propose the Legislature create a fund to help Texans get roofs up to “Fortified” status to help with runaway insurance rates. He, the Lt. Gov. and the House Speaker also direct agencies to prepare budgets 3% smaller for next biennium.

ICE and Houston: 

• FBI obtains warrant to search Salgado’s van for drugs.
• Abbott says Texas Rangers will investigate Houston ICE shooting
• Houston immigration lawyer who accused ICE of abuse charged with strangling. Please no contest to domestic violence charge today. It gets worse: Former employee questions attorney representing men in ICE shooting as felony cases proceed.

Gary Boren, Lubbock city council District 4 special election candidate joins us. Early voting in the race begins Monday, July 20 and runs through Tuesday, July 28 with Election Day on Saturday, August 1st.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: CNBC is rightly being mocked for its bias that is so obvious as to be counted as stupidity in its rankings of “worst places to live.” Housing costs and population shifts show the legacy media oulet’s absurdity but, don’t think there are not plenty of Democrats in Texas trying to turn Texas into a Leftwing hell hole. Take this latest bit of housing cost increasing policy from the City of Houston.

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Leftist Democrats have yet another problem with pro-life crisis pregnancy centers: They may be helping save babies! Yep, now it is wrong to help a mother keep her baby if she changes her mind after attempting chemical abortion!

NASA switches launch provider from ULA to SpaceX for its SunRise solar mission. Frontier Airlines picks Space X’s Starlink for inflight Wi-Fi. FAA seeking comments on SpaceX’s request to expand Starship’s landing zones.

With Lubbock County’s sheriff, all the needs for more money are a moving target.It’s laughable except that it shows poor executive leadership and costs taxpayers’ their money. And by the way, his use of “critical mass” is language nonsense, it is meaningless.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Railcar company TTX wants to build out a large maintenance facility in Slaton. Lubbock County Commissioner Jason Corley explains and gives his side to why a property tax break should be given.

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Thursday is the target date for the next test flight of SpaceX’s SuperHeavy booster topped with Starship from Starbase in South Texas.

They’re coming for you next!: Democrat running for Texas attorney general wants to investigate Musk if elected. Good on Bob to pickup on what a liar Nathan Johnson, and other media outlets, is on this issue.

UNT Appoints Critical Race Theory Scholar as Interim Provost. Why after many years, way before the DEI scandal, has Governor Greg Abbott not done anything effective with regents at University of North Texas to stop its wallowing in the far-Leftist abyss?

TX19 Democratic Party executive committeewoman, Kim Gonzalez of Lubbock, publicly celebrated death of Senator Lindsey Graham. Not a far stretch from already supporting the mass murder of babies.

TX13’s Ronny Jackson running for top GOP spot on Armed Services pane.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas and the Trump Administration rightly win at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on the long unjust issue of illegal aliens getting in-state tuition in Texas.

“Put another way, if some U.S. citizens or nationals, regardless of residency, are ineligible for reduced in-state tuition rates, then all illegal aliens must be ineligible to receive the same benefit based on residency. U.S. citizens or nationals must be treated no worse than illegal aliens,” wrote Judge Smith.

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The abuse of our country by foreigners is almost infinite and so much of it has been right under our noses in plains sight – especially on the “birthright” citizenship issue. Rep. Hillary Hickland reported: “It’s been exposed that hospitals in South Texas are actively advertising ‘birth packages’ in Mexico, encouraging people to come to the U.S. solely to give birth and secure citizenship for their children. This is illegal, it is predatory to our already strained healthcare system, and it is a complete abuse of America’s hospitality. Shockingly, these discounted packages for non-residents are often far cheaper than what our insurance companies and Texas taxpayers are billed.”

Oil and gas drilling rig count for Baker Hughes.

More Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico creepy hypocrisy – he clearly supports some of the most horrific and sinful things in which our society’s Left believes.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Hearst owned and operated Houston Chronicle has published an editorial that invites, before there is any evidence to evaluate, riots and unrest of the type we’ve seen in Leftwing cities across the nation over the past many years. The editorial is irresponsible from the headline down. Additionally, it continues the odd narrative that illegal aliens are somehow exempt from following our laws and simple common sense (unless of course the editors, before seeing any evidence, believe it impossible that the man who was shot did anything wrong.)

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From the campaign stack:

• Jasmine Crockett on Talarico Win in Primary: It Was a Racist Race’
• James Talarico outraise Ken Paxton by 3-1 margin in US Senate race
• Ted Cruz warns Talarico has “real chance” to beat Paxton – of course he does and I talk much about what worries me about today’s Texas GOP leadership.
• Soros Continues To Pump Money Into Efforts To Turn Texas Blue

Here’s what you get with Soros-backed politicians: ‘My life mattered’: Travis deputy says sentence for teen who nearly shot her was too lenient. The 17-year-old received probation in a plea deal defended by Soros-backed DA José Garza.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The shooting of an illegal alien, and he was despite having lived here 35 years, in Houston by ICE has the media and all the other Leftist groups in an uproar. The problem is that the Mexican man caused the situation. Why should he be exempt from the laws and customs to which all of us are held?

• ICE says agent shot and killed Houston driver, FBI investigating
• LULAC demands Houston police investigation into ICE shooting death
• Protests call on Houston leaders after ICE agent shoots driver
• Houston mayor backs federal probe, won’t launch city ICE investigation
• Read the condemnations of law enforcement, not of the illegal alien who refused to stop and tried to run them over, by Democrats.

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Local sales tax receipt numbers released. Look up your city here.

Texas Tech sued over restrictions on race, gender teachings. The employees defining for the employer what their jobs are – it’s absurd and not a First Amendment case of merit.

Talarico tales: It’s clear that mutilating children to pretend to change their sex is now, like abortion, a fundamental “sacrament” of the Democratic Party – no matter what they say to get elected.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court denies the tech industry and allows Texas’ App Store Accountability Act to be enforced while legal challenges play out in the courts. Funny how these people are so opposed to age verification and parental control; you might even think they have something to hide! More.

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Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico gets creepier, says “drag queens” are an industry that needs protection! He claimed that Texas produces “some of the best drag queens in the nation.”

Governor Abbott Directs HHSC To Investigate Birth Tourism Packages To Foreign Nationals. State lawmakers to explore banning foreign nationals from using Texas surrogates.

Texas sales tax revenue totaled $4.2 billion in June, up 4.2%.

Toyota, in $3.6 billion move, shifting Tacoma production to Texas from Mexico.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Abortion if illegal in Texas but abortion trafficking is not. So why are some cities and counties, including rural areas, refusing to pass bans on abortion trafficking? Often these are electorates of very conservative pro-life people but their commissioners and city council folk are hostile to the pro-life movement. Are they just more fake “Republicans” who claim the title simply to gain office?

We spend the show talking with Mark Lee Dickson, the undisputed leader in Texas of advancing the Sanctuary City and County for the Unborn effort.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Charles Perry appeared at the Lubbock ISD trustee meeting to inquire why a vulgar book was returned to school library shelves – it became a lesson on what is wrong with most bureaucracies: focus on process over a focus on results. Senator Perry joins us today on Pratt on Texas. Read more here.

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Hancock quits, Governor Abbott names Don Huffines as Texas comptroller.

Baker Hughes: Texas gains more oil and gas drilling rigs.

Pratt commentary: At 250 our allies are not the same as friends.

Texas Regulators Approve Plan To Manage Large-Load Requests, Including Data Centers. Oklo’s Texas Nuclear Test Reactor Clears Major DOE Safety Milestone.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A midterm election Republican National Convention, really a rally, is coming to the American Airlines Center in Dallas on 9 and 10 September. A “Trumpapalooza” it is being called.

And related to the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court has corrected its very bad older ruling on candidate and political party coordination: Justices strike down campaign finance law.

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It’s sort of a mega-flip-flop: Gov. Greg Abbott calls for ban on data center development in rural Texas neighborhoods. Beware the wording as most of what he says “they’ve gotta do” is stuff “they” are already doing. Plus, what is a “rural neighborhood” anyway?

From the Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico stack:

• Nolte: James ‘God Is Non-binary’ Talarico Loses Lead in Senate Race – all the media is on the “he’s tied” or only a point or so down. Nolte is right, the big trend, is that Talarico has gone way down in polling.
• Talarico Insults Military Families With ‘California Transplant’ Attack
• Obama, Harris advisor warns ‘betrayed’ Black voters could be Texas Senate candidate’s kryptonite

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Our Lone Star story of the day: More court and legal news today:

• Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship – Alito is right.
• Gov. Abbott: Supreme Court decision is a missed opportunity to restore the original meaning of the 14th Amendment.
• Clarence Thomas Goes Nuclear on SCOTUS Majority Over Birthright Citizenship Ruling
• Court rules that states can exclude transgender athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams
• High Court Passes On Texas Ban On Paid ‘Vote Harvesting’
• Trump Taps Just Confirmed Judge For 5th Circuit 
• War Department Moves to Order Military Lawyers to Be Immigration Judges

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Dallas Fed: Texas’ Service Sector expanded at an increased rate in June.

Shock poll: Talarico ties Paxton in Texas Senate race, threatening GOP stronghold. The race will be fairly tight but I think this poll over sampled Dems or Dem-leaning “independents.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much court and legal news today:

• Court allows Trump to fire FTC commissioner and overturns major restraint on presidential power
• Court prevents Trump from firing Fed governor – but only without “cause” and that case will move forward
• SCOTUS Permits Counting of Mail-In Ballots that Arrive After Election Day; Justice Alito Warns Mail-In-Ballot Ruling Leaves Giant Opening For Voter Fraud
• Justices Reject UT Austin Professor’s Anti-DEI Speech Retaliation Case
• Justices Turn Away Pharma, Compounder Unfair Competition Fight
• Texas Supreme Court rejects lawsuit by survivors of Uvalde school shooting
• Texas Supreme Court orders Harris Co. to stop using taxpayer funds to protect illegal aliens from deportation 
• Texas Secures Nearly $34 Million in Settlement Agreement with Big Pharma Company AstraZeneca for Giving Illegal Kickbacks to Providers to Prescribe Its Drugs to Texans

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Texas ranks as “Best Business Climate” for fourth year in a row in report from Business Facilities magazine.

Dallas Fed: Texas factory growing but growth slows.

Texas (Del Rio) sisters charged with stabbing mom of 5 to death. Sickening footage shows Texas sisters Cookie and Kitty grin as they’re busted for allegedly hacking mom of 5 to death.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds a lower court ruling in Texas that significantly affects homeowner property rights, neighborhoods, and short-term rentals.

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Fort Bend County Judge Chaos: Some Legal Considerations. Background: Is Daniel Wong Out as Fort Bend County Judge? Fort Bend commissioners call for interim county judge to vacate office. Daniel Wong pushes back against claims he no longer has authority as Fort Bend County judge.

TPWD confirms established population of invasive Zebra Mussels in Lake Meredith; says lake is “infested.” The lake a major water source for Amarillo, Lubbock, and cities of the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority.

Oil and gas drilling rig count jumps this week in Texas. Oil and gas expansion gains momentum; outlooks improve but cost pressures grow.

SBOE passes much, delays highschool standards to September.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Big wins at the U.S. Supreme Court on two border/immigration issues.

• Supreme Court rules Trump can turn back asylum seekers at US border in major immigration win
• Supreme Court Sides With Trump Administration on Two Key Immigration Cases

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Gary Boren talks about his race in the special election for Lubbock City Council – Saturday is Election Day.

Texas Democrats and their media allies talk constantly about rebuilding the party to attract Texas voters and then what do the morons running the Democrat Convention show do? They invite radical socialist Vermont Yankee Bernie Sanders as their keynote speaker; New Jersey’s Cory Booker; Illinois slob J.B. Prtizker, and; New Mexico’s lameduck pro-abortion mill governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. And remember, they didn’t even invite all of their own Texas Congressional people to speak. Who, with any political competence, thinks Sanders and this lot positively influences Texans, outside of their weirdo base, to consider Democrats!?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Not only is Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico a far Leftist, he claims to “hate Christianity.’ No doubt he does hate all of the clear teachings of Christianity that contradict his secular-humanist Leftist beliefs – the bulwark of his political philosophy. John Nolte at Breitbart covers this best:  James ‘God Is Non-Binary’ Talarico Admits He’s a ‘Christian Who Hates Christianity’

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TDI prioritizes transparency by making home and auto insurance data public.

SBOE approves new elementary social studies standards. Texas to pay $8.4 million to fix errors in its new Bluebonnett curriculum. Sounds like a lot but developing curriculum is very expensive. My guess is that Texas taxpayers are still going to come out massively ahead by the savings of thousands of districts from not paying very expensive licensing fees.

Europeans Visiting U.S. for World Cup Fall in Love with America: ‘The Most Wonderful People in the World’

City of Austin Residents’ Municipal Audit Petition Officially Certified

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The press has run stories and photos of what appeared to be hateful bigotry at the Texas Republican Convention directed at a few Muslim attendees. It was a setup! These supposed Republicans were not such, they are recent donors to Democrats.

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June Poll Finds a Competitive U.S. Senate race in Texas amid continuing economic concerns, data center backlash. I hit on a few highlights others will not. I’ll discuss more in coming days.

Much from the courts:

• Supreme Court Determines ExxonMobil Can Sue Communist Cuba for Confiscated Property
• Texas asks court to leave in place age-verification and parental-consent law on apps
• Justices issue orders on murder-for-hire case involving social media influencer, the role of race in seizing persons, and the execution of a Texas man claiming to be intellectually disabled 
• Supreme Court agrees to hear case on the ability to sue federal officials
• Full Fifth Circuit to Decide Two Texas A&M Drag Show Bans
• Texas Judge Blocks Biden-Era DOJ Rule on Migrant Removals
• Texas Files Multistate Lawsuit Alongside National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors to Challenge California’s Plastics Act and Protect Businesses from Costly Regulations

AI startup Partly plans hundreds of Austin hires after HQ move from New Zealand. And, Axiom Space, headquartered in Houston, redomiciles in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats never seem to learn that the bubble in which the live isn’t often representative of the voting public. Their nominee for Texas governor is out running against school choice and against public school reforms that have improved schools massively (think Houston ISD takeover by TEA.)

Meanwhile, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is talking about things that motivate voters like bringing the school property tax freeze down from 65 to 55 year of age.

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Texas Parks and Wildlife data breach affects 3 million license holders. “Social Security numbers, dates of birth and financial information, including credit card data, were not compromised in the breach, officials said.” And while the state has immunity, it is going after the private sector for a smaller breach.

Jeramy E. Heintz Appointed Texas Securities Commissioner.

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for project Kilby data center in Pecos.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Monday is a big day for the State Board of Education and Democrats are trying to keep school students ignorant by working to block the vote on new, better social studies standards.

By the way, this story details “Biblical references,” read it and tell me, by commenting below, which are objectionable in your opinion. If find none are and think there are many others that should be included.

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Texas sets yet another jobs record! Employment numbers and this week’s oil and gas drilling rig report from Baker Hughes.

Democrats and Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico are trying to make a disgusting Waco plea bargain an issue in the race for U.S. Senate. I’ve followed the story from the start and will tell you why it’s not what they claim.

Texas’s Camp Mystic Had No Evacuation Plans on Night of Deadly Floods, Report Finds. Remember that Uvalde ISD had top level plans for a school shooter situation but paper in a file is just that, paper in a file.

Texas Supreme Court rejects beach closure lawsuit against SpaceX.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A gun right decision today from the U.S. Supreme Court; Soccer’s FIFA in the USA; European anti-American propaganda (it is projection), and; Britain’s serious cultural problems all rolled up into one.

• Supreme Court sides with challenger to law banning drug users from possessing guns in Texas case
• The Post: It’s Called Soccer
• English World Cup fan in oversized cowboy hat delivers perfect verdict on Texas brisket ahead of Croatia match
• Londoner Pub in Dallas temporarily shut down after crowd causes damage and ‘drank the place clean,’ source says

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Texas Democrats have a bigger problem with “unity” than do Republicans – they didn’t even invite their open-seat Congressional candidate Colin Allred, T33, who was their top of the ticket nominee just two years ago!

Texas can’t claim immunity from public taking repurchase claims.

Utility Commissioners Hit Pause on Extra-High-Voltage Line Case.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A horrible story in the Big Country of Texas that should be remembered by voters when it comes to the next election. We visit with Jeremy Newman, Vice President of the Family Freedom Project, about this ridiculous case of utter injustice: Texas Judge Greenlights CPS Reports Based on “Perceived Autism”.   Help the Family Freedom Project here.

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Suspended Fort Bend County Judge KP George removed from office, gets jail time, probation in felony money laundering case. This story is misleading as it makes it appear George was a Republican. He was a Democrat, involved in other Democrat scandals, and only became a Republican last year as a ploy to survive prosecution.

Texas win another Golden Shovel, its 13th, for outstanding job creation and business investment.

Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico officially supported group working to destroy the production of oil and gas in Texas. He’s as much of a “centrist” as Karl Marx.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Sorsby saga appears to end at Texas Tech but not without some trying to do a department store beauty job on a pig they created. It’s good to stand behind and help a man, it’s not good to pretend the consequences of bad action do not matter. Integrity matters, at least to some.

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Republican National Committee planing midterm convention in Dallas. “While unusual in modern politics, midterm conventions are not without precedent. Democrats held a series of midterm national conventions during the 1970s and 1980s, using the gatherings to rally supporters and shape the party’s message heading into congressional elections.”

RIP: Vincent Kickerillo, dead at 97. He is the type of Texan we should emulate in many ways. “Rather than declaring bankruptcy [after the great Texas bust], Kickerillo made it a point to pay back his debtors… After getting out of the banking business by the late 1980s, he renewed his focus on homebuilding.”

Hearst trying to play the New World screwworm invasion and problems with readiness as a political blame game between Trump and Biden. The problem they have is that the fly migration came with millions that crossed the Darien Gap through Panama during Biden’s open border program.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Big 12 athletic conference has filed a lawsuit against Texas Tech and the State of Texas: “The lawsuit is not seeking financial damages, nor is it seeking to overturn the judge’s decision approving Sorsby’s eligibility to play this season. Instead, the lawsuit asks that a court allow the league to sanction Texas Tech for putting Sorsby in the lineup, without the league, in turn, being sanctioned by the Texas Attorney General’s office,” Breitbart reported.  More: Big 12 doesn’t back off Sorsby ruling despite Pax­ton threat.

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Gary Boren joins us to talk about why he is running in a special election to return to the Lubbock City Council – early voting begins today.

Getting past social medial posts, podcast interviews, and similar Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico simply cannot deny his record at work and in the Texas House as a radical Leftist. This is a must read and share story: James Talarico Worked As ‘Equitable Education’ Consultant at Left-Wing Firm Developing DEI Plans for Texas School Districts. None of his actual record square with his new reinvention of himself as a centrist.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are in convention in Houston and have elected a new state chairman, defeating the incumbent. D’Rinda Randall has been elected the new head of the Republican Party of Texas and David Covey has been elected as vice chairman. Also, the report of the temporary committee for Texas legislative priorities has reported a list of 15 priorities that will likely be reduced to about half by the convention. In the #15 item on AI, this could come right out of the Democrat Party’s platform anytime over the last 40 years!

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DPS Releases Details in Midland Shooting.

Attorney General Paxton ruling rightly declares that so-called ‘skill’ gaming machines can still violate Texas gambling laws.

Governor Abbott partly grandstand on directive making data centers pay their own infrastructure expansion (electric grid) costs. They, and every other industrial customer, generally already does this. Maybe he’ll achieve a small incremental gain with this?

Bill Clinton appointed, McGovern supporting federal judge in Massachusetts says Texas cannot sue the Dem money machine ActBlue because it helps Paxton’s campaign. By that logic, this judge’s order help’s Talarico’s campaign so he’s wrong.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas A&M start its statewide polling like an Aggie joke by putting out wrong numbers. I’ll bring you the corrected numbers and you can see the numbers here. Beyond that, we find that the “Platner Paradox” explains much about Texas Dems nominating Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico – and excellent read.

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Texas Judges Refusing Same-Sex Weddings Get $950,000 in Fees – good.

Even when liberal media people get somethings right, they get basics wrong! They may fix it before you see it but the Dallas Morning News Editorial Board got a foundational fact wrong in their otherwise good editorial on the Texas Tech gambling QB saga. The judge was not a hometown judge but a judge from their patch, Tarrant County. The Sporting News got it right days ago.

City of El Paso’s environmental franchise fee illegal, appeals court rules – Pickett sued and has won at trial court and the appellate level that the fee is an illegal tax.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I speak briefly, in relation to the conviction of Karmelo Anthony yesterday, to how unfair it is to so many “Black” people in this country that the liberal media very often amplifies race agitators of the most ignorant and stupid type as “Black leaders.” Well beyond the arena of bigotry or racism, much of what gets amplified as black leadership often leads people, not just “White” folk, to distrust and even hold in contempt, black people. I think it really shows that the Left/liberals are not really the supporters of minorities they claim, but actually the people who push narratives, in a sideways and often subtle style, that damage minorities.

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Local sales tax distribution for June was 7.4% more than in June 2025.  Look up your city here.

Texas high school students show gains across all subjects on STAAR test.

Texas Tech’s gambling quarterback issue is disgusting in that it shows how easily some will set aside obvious right and wrong – and for something is inconsequential as possible football champion ship. I think Cedric Golden’s piece especially good: Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby should never play football again. Also worth noting is this: NCAA’s Charlie Baker eviscerates Brendan Sorsby reinstatement decision. The bit about courts and judges is correct, it’s partly how we got to this point. This is interesting too: What to know about judge who granted Brendan Sorsby’s injunction.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Little Jimmy ‘The Creep” Talarico trans!? He sure is transitioning his positions on issues 180-degrees! Just as it is a lie to be a man but tell yourself and others you are a woman, Talarico blatantly lies.

• James Talarico Calls Biden’s Border ‘Utter Chaos’ In Attempted Immigration Rebrand
• Trump Aligned Group Drops Six Figures On ‘Talafreako’ Ad In Texas
• Democrats’ Acceptance Of Sex Changes Nosedived By Double Digits In One Year, Poll Shows
• New pro-Talarico super PAC courts GOP voters in Senate race
• Texas Rep. James Talarico blasts conservative blogger who published name of his girlfriend -t his leftwing press outlet admits it covered for Little Jimmy.
• Talarico Faces Questions About Relationship With Former Staffer, Second Capitol Staffer Confirms Past Relationship With Talarico

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Karmelo Anthony found guilty of murdering Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet by a Collin County jury. The sentencing phase began after a brief recess.

The real world effect of DEI: Real crimes become less important that “thought crimes” which actually diminished “justice” for everyone: House Report Finds Minnesota Officials Ignored Fraud To Avoid Racism Accusations.

Houston ISD sees dramatic grade improvements after Texas state takeover. Demonstrating that the Democrat front groups really do NOT care about “the children.” According to them, it is racial discrimination to improve the education of minority and poorer students.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Nathan Johnson, the Democrat nominee for Texas Attorney General, pledges to abandon Texans and leave them victim to the Left’s cultural revolution if elected in November. What “governance” is he talking about? Clearly he doesn’t understand that most everything, all from his side of the aisle, from trying to sex change children to banning gas stoves, are day-to-day issues that none of us should have had to have been facing over the last decade. These are the very things he callas “partisan” that Paxton has fought to protect us from and that Middleton will also fight hard to counter.

Talarico Tale: Second Capitol Staffer Confirms Past Relationship With Talarico; Talarico Faces Questions About Relationship With Former Staffer, Abortion Lobbyist .

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New World Screwworm issue worsens in Texas:

• New World Screwworm case confirmed in dog in Andrews
• Second case of flesh-eating parasite reemerges in South Texas cattle, Ag. Secretary Rollins warns
• Texas Governor Wants to Speed up Work on a Fly-Breeding Factory to Fight a Cattle Parasite– recommended reading
• Gov. Abbott Deploys State Resources To Combat New World Screwworm

WATCH: Leftist Groups Attempt to Breach Police Line at Turning Point USA Event in San Antonio. This goes way beyond “protest.”

Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby Defeats NCAA, Regains Eligibility to Play Football – despite breaking the rules and placing about $90,000 in gambling bets on sports!

Court: Texas hemp ban (regulation) can be enforced while drug dealers’ legal battle challenging the state plays out.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Fourteen Texas Democrats missed the May 5th deadline to pay their fines for trying to tank “Democracy” by breaking quorum in the Texas legislature. Some who did pay wrote vulgarisms on their checks which is a reflection of who they are.

Meanwhile, Democrat media is wondering if the extremely liberal, and on the record as such over and over for years and years, Austin-centric Dem ticket is that good of an idea for November (a little late, no?)

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Texas Justices Toss Cities’ Challenge to Cable Franchise Fee Cap – great!

Texas Tribune cries that Republicans might further reduce the scope of local governments’ power and this story is a good example of why it’s not a bad idea: Harris County electronic monitoring program doesn’t track defendants who become fugitives. They don’t track those who cut off the monitors!!! What’s the point of the program then?

Oil and gas rig count shows Texas adding more drilling rigs. Meanwhile Chevron and Exxon/Mobile execs warn of a disastrous price spike possibility.

Alamo renovation moving along.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is D.E.I. gone from Texas state colleges and universities because a law mandated such? Don’t bet on it. The Texas Scorecard has a big piece out on the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and its career homosexual and DEI organizer and advocate (and transsexual) who holds the senior position on institutional “culture.” Just remember, whomever sets defines the measurements, or metrics, controls who is recognized as having merit.

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Texas sales tax collection was up in May significantly over May of last year.

The fight over giving subsidized in-state tuition to Texas colleges to illegal aliens was heard at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals this morning.

Lubbock leaders mostly claim to be conservatives but the City of Lubbock is hosting, at taxpayer expense, a “World Environmental Day Celebration” tomorrow.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Ultra-pompous Texas native, a Dan Rather clone, Scott Pelley fired by CBS News. He and his forerunner Rather embody most everything that has gone wrong with the legacy news media. I recommend these stories:

• ’60 Minutes’ star Scott Pelley fired from CBS News after blasting Bari Weiss in heated showdown
• Scott Pelley’s Departing Statement Contains the Most Cringe-Inducing Quote Ever From a Lib ‘Journalist’ – Twitchy
• CBS Fires Professional Prevaricator Scott Pelley – PJ Media
• Scott Pelley’s out at CBS News. His historic career started in Lubbock
• Exclusive | What CBS staffers are really saying about Scott Pelley’s brazen attack on new ‘60 Minutes’ boss
• Terry Moran Crashes Out Defending Scott Pelley … Demands Martyrdom for the Idiot Who Got Himself Fired
• Related: CBS’s Margaret Brennan Tries to Paint America as a Nation in “Darkness” — Medal of Honor Heroes Shut Down the Narrative with Powerful Defense of American Greatness
• Nolte: Bari Weiss Accused of Killing ’60 Minutes’ After Pelley Firing (Let’s Hope So)

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Texas has the most Fortune 500 company headquarters of any state in the new list.

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson Stepping Down After Three and a Half Years as Head of the Agency.

Paxton at the White House with Dan Patrick and President Trump last night.

National Democrats target Texas House seats but not enough to gain a majority.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Daily Caller headlined it this way: Texas announces new tool to keep illiterate foreigners away from driver’s seats. There is more to it than that but it is about being able to comprehend English to operate a commercial vehicle.

• DPS Announces Changes to CDL Knowledge Testing
• Texas lifts ban on CDLs for temporary agriculture workers
• Texas Begins Enforcement of Commercial Automated Vehicle Requirements

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Want evidence of the utter stupidity of today’s leftist credentialed class? Just take this editorial: Trump’s messy mass deportations hurt American workers. By this reasoning a shortage of workers leads not to higher wages from demand pressures but to more unemployment!

Decision take: The historic Downtown Dallas flagship Neiman Marcus to be closed at the end of September by bankrupt Saks Global.

National Republican Senatorial Committee to back Paxton the same as all others.

Judge cancels Ken Paxon’s public divorce trial – because bother parties are coming to a settlement without a trial.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: We go to court today as numerous court decisions are rendered which involve Texas and Texans:

• Fifth Circuit Lifts Block on Texas Age Requirements for Apps, Paxton Secures Major Victory Protecting Children Online By Requiring Age Verification and Parental Approval for Minors’ App Downloads
• Texas Supreme Court Denies Review Of Heartbeat Act Procedure
• Court Clears Way for Texas to Enforce Migrant Arrest Law
• Attorney General Paxton Secures Emergency Court Order Forcing Discord to Protect Texas Children and Stop Lying to Parents
• School Trustees Can Bypass Education Bureaucracy To Force Records From ISDs

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City of Denton sued for violation of the Texas Women’s Privacy Act related to homosexual “Big Gay Swim Day” at a city owned pool where the event expressly advertises it will be for all ages and that changing rooms will be “gender-neutral.” Denton failed to stop the violation despite having been put on notice.

Oil and gas drilling rig count calmed down last week, Texas added only one rig.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Can taxpayers and electricity rate payers be the victors, as opposed to the victims, of the data center boom in Texas? Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, says such can be the case, especially if the local deals are properly structured.

Read and study the piece: Data Centers: Taxpayers Can Be Victors, Not Victims, in the AI Revolution

And note, Mr. Sepp said the NTU can help local activists/taxpayers to have the right information to use with local elected officials to do this right.

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Police: Man threatened to kill Erika Kirk at upcoming San Antonio event. Read it, it’s a serious threat. Evil is with us.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Does Texas state law allow for too much local control for local governments? If not, then how does a relatively small school district amass more than $1 BILLION in debt that is payable by taxpayers for generations?

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Lubbock Central Appraisal District: Are accusations that company played property tax process to gain advantage a one-time issue or burgeoning problem? Yes, there are statewide problems with the way the appraisal side of the property tax system works but that’s not what is really at issue here. In this case it seems more of a mattter of integrity of LCAD officials: If you give one firm a deal, you should give the same deal to the other firms representing taxpayers.

Hearst’s Chron.com lashes out at a Lubbock TV anchor implying he made “racist” statements on the air.What shoddy work by the reporter who neither shows how the comments are in any way racist or that what was said was demonstrably untrue. It is the reporter and media outlet that needs to issue an apology to the Eppler unless it can present actual information. And if Eppler was wrong on the statement, all that needs is an on air correction, it certainly isn’t a racist or bigoted comment in and of itself.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is post-primary runoff election day and I’ll review all the big races that matter from around the state. Incumbents lost, in both parties, fresh matchups are set for November, and the Hearst newspapers editorial boards beg Cornyn to become a full out Democrat in the rest of his term in order to salvage his political reputation and get revenge on Trump. Here are two of those editorials:

• John Cornyn was humiliated by Ken Paxton. He still can leave a legacy.
• Dear Sen. Cornyn: Your defeat could be your redemption

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Dallas Fed: Texas service sector expanding at the same rate it did in April.

Governor Abbott: Texas college tuition remains frozen for 2026–2027.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is primary runoff election day across Texas. Will Cornyn survive? Will Dems nominate any candidates that can win with normal people voters?

• Texas Democrat’s Campaign Launches Whites-Only Volunteer Program
• TX35: Trump-backed Texas veteran mocked for disability in rival’s primary campaign ad
• Cornyn insists he can overcome Trump endorsing Paxton
• Republicans worry Texas’ ugly Cornyn-Paxton runoff leading to deeper fractures in the party – typical B.S. story run every time.

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SpaceX completes a largely successful 12th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy. ‘I haven’t cried in years’: SpaceX fans travel across country for 12th Starship launch.

Texas factory output growth slows to a moderate pace, outlooks stable.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A big Texas school district, its board, and administrators, demonstrate what is all too commonly wrong in the management and governance of Texas school districts, counties, and cities. The ridiculous behavior is enabled only because these entities have access to your wallet and life savings.

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New TEA measurement tool shows an average of over 200- Texas public school employees, per month, are arrested or have updates to their criminal records!

Oil and gas drilling rig count jumps this week by a big number.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Just what should “due process” look like in immigration cases, especially illegal alien cases? Should those who broke the bargain of living under the Rule of Law really be able to further clog up our federal courts, depriving citizens and the law abiding of swifter justice, or should the immigration system itself serve as due process? It seems to me that if an illegal entrant to the country goes through the process and is under a deportation order, that person has experience due process no matter what the open borders tear jerker crowd claims.

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Are Soros funded groups behind the ginning up much of the hysteria surrounding the build out of computer data centers in Texas?

Lubbock County Justice of the Peace GOP runoff candidate Mary Hernandez joins us.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Democrat Congresswoman unwittingly makes the argument for why majority-minority districts do not well serve those minorities. Also, the crazy sex therapist Democrat in a runoff for TX35 turns out to not be must nutty but also a raging Jew hater.

• Railroad Commission of Texas Chairman Jim Wright elected to IOGCC leadership
• Progressive [far left] justice reform groups go dark in Bexar County DA race
• Chip Roy gets multi-million cash infusion from Amarillo businessman
• Border Patrol union president endorses Abraham Enriquez in TX19 runoff

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Lubbock judge recuses from TTU QB Brandon Sorsby’s case against the NCAA. Brandon Sorsby’s gambling habits exposed by Texas Tech QB’s NCAA lawsuit.

Governor Abbott Appoints University Student Regents, Representative To Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

Texas justices dismiss challenge to COVID-19 election law.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After stringing it out for far too long, President Trump issues an endorsement in the GOP race for U.S. Senator from Texas. Trump fully backs Paxton, points out that Cornyn was “very late” in backing him and “not supportive.. when times were tough.” Liberals at the Dallas Morning News editorial board try to tell Republicans, who they want to lose in November, how to win! They are right that Texas is “in play” but not because of Paxton or Cornyn in the race but because of a general apathy this race by the GOP base to turn out. That will likely change by the fall.

Court of Criminal Appeals Candidate, Alison Fox, Faces Criticism Over Event Hosted by Attorneys in ICE Attack Case. Her comments in this story are spot on, this is ridiculous.

Jim Wright gets big money from Texas Sands PAC and the fake outrage is ridiculous. The RRC has nothing whatsoever to do with gambling. Adelson, who is Jewish, and her late husband have long been one of the biggest GOP donors in the country. No doubt it is true that Bo French’s seemingly anti-Semitic “rhetoric” is the motivator here.

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SpaceX’s Upgraded Starship V3 Ready for Debut Launch Ahead of IPO – launch is likely tomorrow. SpaceX’s IPO to Mint Millionaires in Poor Texas Border Town – Brownsville is a city and all there are no poor!

NY Post story: Brandon Sorsby’s gambling habits exposed by Texas Tech QB’s NCAA lawsuit. His comments in the story show that despite being off to rehab, he doesn’t yet take the gambling addiction as a serious problem.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling demonstrates the Cornyn campaign’s big lie about him being better with voters than Paxton in opposing Little Jimmy “the creep” Talarico. And, a rumor about TX19 GOP candidate Abraham Enriquez, that goes back years well before he ran for office, finally hits the press.

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Governor Abbott names nine to the the Texas Bicentennial Commission.

Phillips 66 bets on growing demand for natural gas chemicals with new Texas projects.

Feds cite national security to stall 54 Texas wind projects – good, it’s about time this very real threat was taken seriously.

Harris County Seeks $90k No-Bid Contract with Former Newsom Aide.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A slew of important Texas stories get report and comment today:

• Texas Lottery Commission and former director criminally charged in connection with 2023 Lotto scheme
• Federal judge blocks some SB4, Texas’ controversial deportation law. State can still arrest people seen to enter illegally.
• Attorney General Paxton Makes History by Securing a Landmark Healthcare Fraud Settlement that Creates the Nation’s First-Ever Detransition Clinic and Secures $10 Million from Texas Children’s Hospital for “Transitioning” Children
• Texas Supreme Court rejects Abbott’s bid to oust Rep. Gene Wu from office
• A big win for the Texas Citizens Participation Act (TCPA) and for a pro-life activist at the Texas Supreme Court.

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Sends Letters Prohibiting Over 130 Texas Cities from Illegally Raising Taxes After They Failed to be Transparent With Taxpayers.

Anti-Wimp update: Man escalates situation, homeowner neutralizes threat with firearm.

Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Warns Dallas Judge Over Courtroom Mask Mandate.

Oil and gas drilling rig count rises again in Texas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: SB4: Texas migrant deportation law likely to be halted again by federal Judge David Ezra. I explain why the law isn’t exactly the way it is portrayed.

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Our official dentist for Pratt on Texas is here – in studio! We visit with Dr. Silvia Zuñiga about the family of Pratt on Texas listeners that has developed since listeners have been going to her for dental care in Costa Rica going back to 2014.

Abbott expands DPS repeat offender task force to D-FW, Dallas police chief supportive.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Our official dentist for Pratt on Texas is here – in studio! We visit with Dr. Silvia Zuñiga about the family of Pratt on Texas listeners that has developed since listeners have been going to her for dental care in Costa Rica going back to 2014.  https://prattontexas.com/dento-care/

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Texas Tech gets a procedural win in federal court in the case of the law school lefty who is alleged to have celebrated the murder of peaceful conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

You know what you get with little Jimmy “the creep” Talarico as a Senator? You get more of terrible Obama from the open border to the soft on crime policies. Obama campaigns for Talarico in Austin.

Interesting: Ex-Texas Lottery Director quietly indicted – then unindicted.

We remember the great Bob Wills. He died this day in 1975.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Campaign news including new polling in two big Houston-area Congressional runoffs; Cornyn flips on gas tax reprieve; Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna considering a bid to run for chairman of the Republican National Committee – she’s a Trump ally and among the more conservative members of Congress, she also is strongly opposed to TX19 GOP runoff candidate Abraham Enriquez.

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Thanks to Attorney General Paxton the City of San Antonio is now following the law when it comes to licensed concealed carry at city hall.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The GOP primary runoff race for Texas Railroad Commissioner has an element to it of which voters should be aware: The challenger is being bankrolled by folks angry at a specific decision taken by the RRC. A Houston Chronicle story gets it about as accurate as can be: Railroad Commission runoff exposes bitter divide in Texas oil industry. If you read it you can tell that it’s not a 50/50 split but most against a few.

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Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar faces removal attempt following indictment.

May 11th is a big day for Texas tornado history:

• The great Lubbock tornado of 1970 – westernmost F5/EF5 tornado recorded in the United States.
• 1953 Waco tornado outbreak – On the same day as the Waco disaster, a high-end F4 tornado struck San Angelo, causing catastrophic damage.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas 19th Congressional District Republican runoff candidate Abraham Enriquez joins us for half of the show to discuss his race against Tom Sell. His website is here: Abraham Enriquez for Congress.

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Oil and gas rotary rig count from Baker Hughes rises again in Texas.

Paxton vs. Cornyn: Another poll this week shows Paxton with a commanding lead over Cornyn in the GOP primary runoff election. Read the summary here.

Bad news!: You won’t be able to get Fredericksburg peaches this year.

Texas Tech paid $3.5 million for adjacent historic house for its new chancellor, $1.2 million more than the estimated market value. Always easy to negotiate soft when you are using other people’s money!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Queer Raiders and others hold a fake “funeral” for “academic freedom” at Texas Tech because they are so queered-up they don’t realize that they are simply reminding the public of how, even at Texas Tech, so-called academic freedom has strayed from scientific Truth.

• Wake For The Woke: Texas Tech Funeral For Gender Programs
• Texas Tech students plan on-campus funeral for academic freedom
• Texas Tech’s targeted grad research warnings draw concern – this story is quite ridiculous as it tries to claim doing the action correctly with the most personalization is somehow terrible.

Dr. Steven Balch well explained on yesterday’s show what academic freedom was defined as by the AAUP – it isn’t anything like what today’s perverts and Leftists claim it to be.

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Local sales tax receipt numbers released, it’s up 7.7 percent of same period last year. Look up your city here.

Attorney General Paxton investigating several school districts over compliance with SB10 & SB11. Lubbock ISD, Abilene ISD, Wichita Falls ISD, and many more are on the list.

Two Muslim related stories: One is correct action by the state for breaking the law, the other is not and yet it is being praised by many of short sight.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Steven Balch, Ph.D. may be America’s original D.E.I. on campus fighter!  Today we talk about this term “academic freedom” that so many on campus are throwing about, claiming such is under attack by new laws in Texas and elsewhere.

Two, of many, recent stories I had in the stack are the background for the interview:

• Former Texas Tech professors criticize course content changes, cite academic freedom concerns
• Left-Wing Faculty Association Threatens To File Complaints with TAMU, Texas Tech Accreditor

Dr. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Balch received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1964. He received his master’s degree (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science from the University of California in Berkeley. It was during the Berkeley riots that he became a conservative and he is now a Republican. 

Dr. Balch was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at the White House on November 15, 2007. The award cited him “for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions in higher education,” and went on to say that “his work on behalf of reasoned scholarship in a free society has made him a leading champion of excellence and reform at our nation’s universities.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out on the Texas Republican Primary runoff election and there are few surprises but one thing of big interest to me: The “Latino” vote doesn’t seem to follow the old RINO idea that we should comprise our conservatism to gain Hispanic votes. See the full poll here.

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Texas sales tax revenue for April grew almost 10 percent over April of 2025.

53,000 More Texas Students Awarded School Choice Funding Based on Income.

About Cinco de Mayo and why it’s good to celebrate a little!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Election notes:

• Republican Brett Ligon easily wins the special election for Texas Senate District 4.
• Lubbock re-elects McBrayer mayor by 70%. An Obama Marxist organizer got over 40% of the vote in Lubbock’s District 3 (Bruegel won it with 54%)
• Abilene has a runoff for city council Place 4 between Tammy Fogle and Benjamin Bailey. (Fogle is a friend of the show.)
• Dallas ISD voters pass $6.2 billion in bond debt on themselves
• Fort Worth voters double mayor and council member salaries
• Texas Supreme Court further humiliates Lubbock Co.’s Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish.
• National Democrats are making moves in TX15 and TX35.

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Anti-Wimp update: Driver saves women & children, shoots carjacker in Garland.

Texas wins again, this time its a “triple crown”: Texas Wins 2026 Prosperity Cup As Top State For Job-Creating Business Investment.

Some bad news on the pro-life front today: Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies. Pro-Choicers recognize that abortion is too evil to even describe; watch Rep. Brandon Gill in action.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas apparently has a problem with process servers who lie and it is a serious issue. Now there is a call for more regulation and stronger licensing rules but those things will not stop the dishonest. Fix it with very strong civil and criminal penalties and make it easier to prosecute them for dishonesty but don’t grow government over the issue.

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The Texas Supreme Court has slammed the door shut, a door which should never have been opened, on the retail get-high drug business by ruling on the Delta-8 drug loophole. Too bad this couldn’t have come a few years ago.

Oil and gas drilling rig count climbed this week in Texas.

Too bad local area media will not do the job but at least the Houston Chronicle is willing to tell the Toby Neugebauer story: This Texas billionaire’s nuclear-powered data center company faces collapse (Fermi America.)

Pope Taps Former Illegal Alien and a DEI Warrior As Leading US Bishops.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: More on the collapsing race-based political system the Democratic Party has used to gain power. A follow-up on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that was discussed here.

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Talarico leads Cornyn, Paxton in Senate matchups, UT poll finds. Full polling detail.

Governor Abbott demands Teacher Retirement System of Texas further lower Medicare Advantage costs.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court made another step toward stopping Leftwing Democrats from perverting our nation’s foundational principles of non-discrimination. The court ruled against drawing political district lines for racial purposes – and the liberal Democrats are furious. Here is the best summary of the decision in the case of Louisiana v. Callais.

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The Texas Tribune and Votebeat published a long feature story on Texas political party primary elections that, while containing much accurate information, is based on a falsehood, a false premise.

Attorney General Paxton sues Houston-area “Birth Tourism” center for exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals into Texas for the sole purpose of giving birth.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: When is it ever a time not to spend more money and create more specialty positions in public schools? One would think that declining enrollments, including from illegal immigration which increase the need for hard to find and expensive bilingual specialists, would be a time for public school districts to catch their fiscal breaths. But no, it’s just another crisis that needs more money despite the fact declining enrollments vastly lower expenses.

Plus other border and immigration news:

• CBS report marvels that once-chaotic southern border crossing has gone quiet under Trump crackdown
• Trump Immigration Agenda Upends West Texas US Attorney’s Office
• Mexican Navy Cracks Down on Gulf Cartel’s Fuel Smuggling Operation near Texas Border
• State Department Warns About Cartel Violence in Mexican Border City Following Commander’s Arrest | Reynosa Wakes to Narco Blockades After Capture of Regional Metros Officer

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Dallas Fed reports: Texas service sector resumes growth in April.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas gets two big court decisions. First, the U.S. Supreme Court formally puts Texas’ newest Congressional district maps in service. Second, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allows Texas’ SB4 to go into effect allowing state arrests of illegal aliens in certain situations and state court orders for deportation. The court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of the law but is allowing it to go into effect while the battle is waged a the district court level.

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Dallas Fed survey: Texas manufacturing expansion strengthens in April.

Related to the latest nutjob Leftist trying to murder the president and top officials:

• Barack Obama Is Still Annoying | National Review
• First Lady Melania Trump Blasts ‘Coward’ Jimmy Kimmel, Urges ABC to Pull the Plug
• “You Should be Ashamed of Yourself” – Trump Blasts ’60 Minutes’ Anchor Norah O’Donnell to Her Face For Reading WHCD Shooter’s Manifesto

Illegal migrant ‘cannibal’ attacks 3-year-old in San Antonio park, the Biden admin fumbled ‘completely preventable’ assault.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Seventh Court of Appeal for Texas slapped the City of Lubbock hard in a unanimous decision in favor of Gary Boren’s ability to run for city council. Once again (we’ve been through this before), it appears that taxpayer are paying, and paying a lot, for a substandard city legal department that is delivering a bad work product. Looks like yet another area of needed reform in the Hub City. Gary Boren visits with us about the unanimous ruling in his (and our) favor.

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Cornyn ran Spanish language advert in 2020 calling for amnesty for all under Obama’s illegal DACA program – pulled the ad off of YouTube when it was noticed recently.

Baker Hughes oil and gas rotary rig count rises in Texas.

Houston gets back to being right with ICE cooperation, Dallas and Austin are on the way with Gov. Abbott moving their deadline for compliance until Monday. Holly Hansen tells the story very well at The Texan.

Texas Supreme court removed injunctions stopping the state from investigating families trying to medically change the sex of their children.

Two gun rights issue in the news:

• Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Legal Victory to Protect Gun Owners from Federal Overreach by Blocking Biden-Era Gun Sale Rule
• Texas AG Paxton Loses New Try to Override Dallas Gun Ban – legislators need to get this fixed in the next session.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A viral cut and past Facebook post on property taxes in Texas gets some general things right but perpetuates the biggest misunderstanding there is: Who raises your property tax burden?

Here’s the post:

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
 If I bought my property outright for $120,000 in 2001
 Now the county says it’s worth $499,100.
 Did I sell it? No.
 Did I make a profit? No.
 Did I get a check for $499,100? No.
 But my taxes jumped like I did.
 That’s the problem.
 This isn’t income.
 This isn’t cash.
 This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
 If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
 If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
 So why does owning a home work differently?
 Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
 A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
 You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
 This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
 It’s about being charged for value you never received.
 And people are starting to notice. 
 COPY & PASTE this to Your page, this needs to be on everyone’s mind…

With few exceptions, the increased appraised value of your property did NOT raise your property taxes, local politicians did. They get away with it year after year because people think it was the appraisal that did it – and many politicians expressly lie to the public to perpetuate this blame shifting. Read more here.

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Governor Abbott tells Houston PD it had better get with the ICE program and until it does, the money is “no longer flowing.”  And, the City of Austin also changed its policing policy with ICE and is facing big money losses. It is negotiating with Gov. Abbott.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas wins at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal on its Ten Commandments in the public school classroom law. The decision makes a strong point that more citizens should understand about the “Establishment Clause” and reaction shows more of the hypocrisy of the Democrat left on “exposure” of things to children.

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Chip Roy, in a GOP runoff for Texas’ attorney general, is praised by a Leftist Soros funded group for blocking a key pro-law enforcement bill in Congress.

Judge Albright, Texas Patent Magnet, leaving bench in August.

Mayor Whitmire, Houston council pass amendments to ICE policy as Greg Abbott threatens funding.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s victory day for Texas, San Jacinto Day!  We review the story of this battle that was “but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences!” And, thanks to a good article at The Texan, we remember one of the heroes of San Jacinto: Henry Millard who laid out and named Beaumont.

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Texas restaurant owners sounding alarm over immigrant labor shortages – what utter hypocrisy.

Tanker Arrives at Golden Pass Texas Facility for Inaugural LNG Export.

Michael and Susan Dell make huge gift to the University of Texas to establish an AI-native medical and research center.

Governor Abbott, LCRA announce the Timmerman Power Plant is fully operational, a month early!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: For years non-liberal media reporting has shown serious problems, even potential crimes, by the Democrat funding machine ActBlue – even its lawyers admit the organization was untruthful. Now Texas, through Attorney General Paxton, is suing ActBlue.

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Texas wins again! 22nd year in a row ranked as the Best State for Business. Other Lone Star State business news:

• Blue Orgin’s New Glenn ruins Midland-based AST SpaceMobile’s launch of BlueBird 7
• Fermi co-founder and CEO Toby Neugebauer out, new management takes over. (from the I-told-you-so file.)
• American shoots down United merger talk

Anti-Wimp update: Prepared Texan stops home invasion in Houston.

Houston Mayor Whitmire calls Greg Abbott ICE fight futile; experts disagree. Whitmire says city may “amend” ordinance instead of repeal.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton sues Houston over its new sanctuary city for illegal immigration rules. Mayor Whitmire cancels today’s special council meeting and moves it to next week. And, Governor Abbott sends an official letter to the City of Dallas threatening its grant funding over the same issue.

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Fundraising totals for key Texas Congressional runoffs, including TX19, and November races: The Texan and The Texas Voice.

Governor Abbott doubles down, calls on Texas Supreme Court to remove Rep. Gene “BooHoo” Wu from office over 2025’s House quorum bust.

Baker Hughes oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.

Texas Economy Hits Record $2.9 Trillion.

Texas emerges as the top destination for companies leaving blue states– the new part of this is the “whole package” coming with our court system reforms.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two Stench of Local Government stories today and one is a repeat we’ve seen time and again across the state. It is astounding how much money and how much time local government bureaucrats can spend when allowed free reign so to do. About all we can do to choke it down is to force adoption of the No New Revenue tax rate so that increases in income are a bit more limited.

• City of Dallas looks to regulate churches, nonprofits distributing free food
• Austin interim police chief got $766K payout under unusual deal

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John Cornyn outraises Ken Paxton as Senate runoff looms. Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico way outraised both of them, as reported yesterday.

Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the University of Texas yesterday:

• Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas warns of polarization’s impact
• At UT lecture, Clarence Thomas says America’s values under are threat

Two more immigration sob stories from today’s press review, such are in the media daily, and in both cases, we discover that no, they didn’t follow the law.

• After a month in detention, a Venezuelan family self deports
• Longtime immigration court interpreter arrested by ICE at South Texas airport

Attorney General Ken Paxton victorious in suit against Live Nation in court.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Enforcing America’s longstanding immigration laws – why is such a basic thing so controversial, especially with Texas cities? Polling shows majorities support enforcing these laws and political history shows that even Democrats, when they control the Congress and Executive Branch, have not done much of anything to change the laws. But we’re in a media propaganda storm telling all that most everyone is against enforcing immigration law.

• Texas cities try to address citizen anger over immigration crackdown without riling state leaders
• Abbott eyes other Texas cities’ ICE policies after threatening Houston
• Ugly fight breaks out at City Hall as police union and council trade blows

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Ken Paxton’s work as attorney general nets two very important wins for Americans:

• Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Win Alongside the FTC to Stop Advertising Agencies that Conspired to Censor Conservative Commentators, News Agencies, and Social Media Platforms
• Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Win Alongside The Daily Wire and The Federalist by Defeating Media Censorship Attempts by the Corrupt Biden Administration

Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico raises a bunch of money from fellow creepy anti-American leftists.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton and Governor Abbott push Houston into reversing its newly adopted limits on police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mayor Whitmire is clearly pleased – will the council make the reversal in a special meeting this Friday to save $110 million in public safety grants?

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Travis County-based District Judge put the discriminatory HUB program back on track, sets a trial date to determine if “Acting Comptroller” Kelly Hancock had the authority to gut the program. May turn out to be yet another Hancock bungle.

Kristin Tips deep-sixed as chairwoman of the Texas Funeral Service Commissionfollowing several years of agency troubles.

TX23’s Tony Gonzales resigns from Congress over sexual improprieties. How he and Swalwell’s resignations affect the U.S. House balance of power.

Lubbock city council race news: Gary Boren says city hired Fort Worth law firm to handle simple appeal response to his case over ballot denial. Word is that the city had on its own website, until recently, that one only needed to be a resident upon filing to run for city council – exactly Boren’s legal argument.

“Higher” education news:

• Texas A&M Regents Name New TAMU Presiden: Susan Ballabina
• Texas Tech law student sues over discipline for Charlie Kirk reaction
• Baylor to host homosexual ‘Christian’ speakers at TPUSA counter event

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Charlie Geren’s House Admin. committee finally gets around to voting to fine House Democrats who broke quorum last summer. But wait, there’s more: They don’t owe it until officially served with notice of the vote and given how long it has taken to get the vote, who knows how long that might take. Even if quickly, Dems may not pay with personal funds rendering the penalty much ado about nothing. In responding BooHoo Wu qualifies as a Captain Obvious contestant.

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Another edition of Talarico Tales: Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico says that police in schools enhances a culture of violence; sought to force hiring of 4 social worker counselors for every one police officer at a public school campus. This guy is not just a nutjob, he’s the whole fruit basket of crazy.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declares 158-year-old U.S. home distilling ban unconstitutional. It’s a panel of the court and the decision may be appealed. It only applies to states, like Texas, that are in the 5th Circuit at present so I’d wait a bit before firing up that still at home.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: As much as $111.5 million of your money is being spent by local governments in Texas to lobby the Legislature – often for things contrary to your interests. The amount of taxpayer funded lobbying has doubled in the last decade and involves over 1000 lobbyists. The Senate has passed bills to limit this egregious practice but it’s in the House, including under BurrowCrat Speaker Dustin Burrows, that the good reform bills die.

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Baker Hughes oil and gas drilling rig report.

Anti-Wimp update: Car burglar stopped by armed Arlington owner.

San Antonio’s big Northeast ISD may face takeover due to refusal to fully implement cellphone ban.

Several DEI-related stories today involving Texas state universities:

• Texas Tech system to cut sexual orientation and gender identity degree programs
• Professor Who Manufactured ‘Plato Censorship’ Hoax Resigns from Texas A&M; liberal SMU takes him aboard.
• Undercover Video Shows Continued DEI at UNT. Attorney General Ken Paxton investigates UNT officials over DEI policies, calls for firing staff member who bragged about illegal teachings.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: At the State Board of Education meeting, Democrats show they are dead set against teaching our History and show their hypocrisy over so-called “experts.” Our friend Don Frazier and Schreiner University are now suspect because the school received a grant from a conservative think-tank. Dems have never had a problem with university “experts” fully funded by Leftwing grant money!

And also as you’d expect, advocates of Islam are upset that radical Islamic terror is tied to, well, Islam in the history curriculum! Plus, they want Islam portrayed, quite wrongly, as being influential in American and Texas History.

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Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick says that the Texas House of Reps. could have a Democrat takeover this cycle. Dems have gained big in the past in certain cycles but Patrick doesn’t provide any evidence that Dems could pick up the seats needed to take the majority this time around. Would Burrows remain Speaker if they did? He was elected such by Democrats.

Record oil production in West Texas helps stabilize U.S. supply amid Iran war. Yes, and this is by Republican design and only exists because we have fought back the Democrats policies to hobble production and refining.

Will Abilene’s mayor and council members commit to adopting the No New Revenue Rate for this next year, avoiding another property tax increase? Report shows the city flush with revenue.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Demands Documents from Over 1,000 Municipalities as Part of New Effort to Stop Cities From Illegally Raising Taxes.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas congressman calls out yet another DC attempt at mass amnesty for illegal aliens; Houston trims its police cooperation with ICE due to Democrat pressure; El Paso County sues for information related to a big immigration detention facility the feds are building, and; Chip Roy wants Obama rule changed related to collecting immigration data in public schools – but why now and not years ago? Well he wasn’t in a GOP runoff for Texas attorney general back then.

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Local government sales tax collection report for April released. Look up your city here.

Texas Tribune’s dishonest headline and reporting picked up by large amount of state’s media: Texas to pay $700 million in SNAP penalties to the feds. No, Texas isn’t to pay $700 million per year. Texas will only have to pay if it doesn’t reduce a specific error rate to under 6 percent by 2027.

Acclaimed Taylor Sheridan to produce & direct Alamo Battle film for new Alamo museum.

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  Texas local property tax appraisal notices are out and roiling households across the state. Often appraised value increases are wrong but, Texans need to understand the other side of the property tax system to put blame for tax increases where such belongs: on local elected officials.

• Texas cities with the biggest property tax burdens
• Lubbock homeowners see property appraisals increase as the city continues to grow – growth doesn’t mean higher values in all cases.
• O’Hair: Lubbock’s appraisal district management antagonistic toward taxpayers, full board needs electing
• Pratt on Texas columns and more on Texas property taxes

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Once again, after being proven wrong time and again, the Left claims that work requirements for food welfare, SNAP or food stamps, will kill tens of thousands of people: Report: More than 2,500 Texans could die as result of new SNAP requirements.

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  TX23’s now disgraced Tony Gonzales has long been held up by the RINO establishment of what a congressman should be. But it turns out he has been a sexual creep and adulterer the entire time he’s been in Congress with new evidence showing he was up to it all during his first campaign.

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New City Hall shenanigans in Lubbock to keep taxpayer friendly Gary Boren off the ballot in an upcoming special election. The city secretary appears to be completely wrong on this matter (remember the secretary is hired directly by the council and thus is subject to political pressure.)

New LNG export facility in East Texas, Golden Pass LNG, has its first “train” coming on line at the right time market-wise.

Texas sales tax collections were up 10 percent in March report over March of last year. Texas employment boom continues: The Lone Star State added 40,100 jobs in January.

Our friend Richard Meek gets big write-up in Texas Tech publication.

Follow NASA’s Artemis II mission at behindtheblack.com.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Reverend Daniel Hinton joins us to talk about Good Friday, Holy Week, Easter, and about worship using the liturgical calendar

Hinton is pastor for Christ Lutheran Church in Lubbock (an orthodox Missouri Synod Lutheran church.)

(Originally ran on Good Friday, 2024.)

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  Following up yesterday’s show, I speak with Lubbock County Commissioners Jordan Rackler and Jason Corley.

Do local elected officials get honest, correct information on budgeting in order to set a tax rate? Do they get the information that would let them know they could be fine with setting the property tax rate at the No New Revenue Rate or, are they numbers they are given skewed to support more spending, by those presenting the numbers, who have a stake in more local government spending?

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Oil and gas drilling rig count rises slightly. $100 oil is back. Why aren’t Texas oil companies drilling?

We get an update on NASA’s Artemis II rocket launch from noted space historian Bob Zimmerman. Keep up with all at behindtheblack.com.

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  While the headline plays to the bad and regular soap opera style of reporting, the story and the financial facts reported show that I, and others, have been right in our opinion all along: Lubbock County’s auditor, with support from Judge Curtis “Bowtie Bully” Parrish, has been misleading officials as well as has been pushing policy decisions she has no business chiming in upon. The question becomes: Is it form ignorance and incompetence or, is it to push the Parrish dream of substantially larger county government.

Make no mistake, this misdirection from the auditor effected GOP runoff races in both commissioner precinct one and four races.

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More developments in Texas Killing Fields murders:

• Texas Killing Fields: Man indicted in Laura Miller, Audrey Cook deaths
• Tim Miller says man charged in Texas Killing Fields reached out to him

TDCJ’s estimated cost to fully cool Texas prisons rises to $1.5 billion – coverage of the bench trial.

Watching the launch of the Artemis-2 mission.

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  A story about a judge in Harris County set me off. We have become such a weakling, pansy society that we will not be able to take out the directed energy of China and other competitors unless our populace decides to grow up and toughen up. Headline: Harris County judge’s harsh treatment of IT worker goes viral. What “harsh” treatment? This is nothing, nothing!

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TX9 GOP runoff: Mealer gets backing of Don Huffines.

A big piece in the Texas Tribune on the GOP Railroad Commission runoff. I backed Jim Wright and stand by that. Bo French is talking nothing about the oil and gas business or anything else that has anything to do with the Railroad Commission.

Texas Service Sector was steady in March according to the Dallas Fed report.

Big growth in the Rio Grande Valley:

• Cowen: SpaceX has generated roughly $99 million in tourism-related economic impact; $13 billion into the regional economy. I sent this to our friend Bob Zimmerman and he had an important political point to make.
• Cowen: Port of Brownsville contributing an ‘astounding’ $11.9 billion to Texas’ GDP

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ $1.3 Billion Fix to Cool Deadly Hot Prisons Goes to Trial – these lawsuits are ridiculous as Texas is spending huge money to address the problem. Pitman and other federal judges too often want the cache of controlling the states. And even at the most inflated number estimating deaths in Texas prisons due to, or exacerbated by, heat, is that number actually any greater than that of the non-prison population?

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Student dead after shooting teacher at Hill Country Preparatory College High School in Comal ISD.

Texas manufacturing continues to grow according to the Dallas Fed.

The Texas Supreme Court rightly ends 2021 winter storm litigation against power generators.

Paxton wins CPAC poll more than 3 to 1 over Cornyn, gets CPAC endorsement in U.S. Senate GOP runoff race. In speech, Paxton says he’ll be more like Senator Ted Cruz and look out for Texas as opposed to Cornyn’s DC values.

TX19 Runoff: Several former candidates endorse Tom Sell.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much to detest about the Flock surveillance camera company and its odd utopianist founder as well as many reasons governments should not allow the private firm’s cameras to be recording all of our movements. Why would anyone believe the firm takes seriously data privacy when it didn’t even care enough to be properly licensed in Texas? Texas says Flock surveillance violated state law over licensing issue.

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Oil and gas rig count falls despite high prices.

Lieutenant Governor Patrick releases more charges to interim Senate committees.

Perry’s Steakhouse Ordered to Pay $21.2 Million for Tip Theft– and Mr. Perry himself is on the hook, no corporate veil protects. All business that involve tips should read this.

Dallas County jury awards $1.1 billion in child abuse case against stepfather tied to early Humble Oil fortune.

We remember the massacre of Texans at Goliad. For podcast listeners, here is Brian Burns’ great song Goliad.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Census Bureau has released new numbers and while Texas urban areas continue to grow, a bit slower, Dallas County actually lost residents. People, and businesses, keep choosing to move to the exurban areas over the Democrat dominated, and poorly run, core cities. “Among some of the largest metro areas, the fastest-growing counties tended to be on the outer edges, a pattern especially pronounced in Texas,” the Census Bureau reported today.

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Texas House of Reps. leader, founder of the BurrowCrat coalition, Dustin Burrows released a very long list of interim study charges for House committees. He also created three new committees – and the unwieldy bureaucracy of the Texas House just grows and grows so that enough members get fancier titles and a little more budget money.

Embattled Johnson County sheriff to be arrested for aggravated perjury in connection with sexual harassment allegations.

Wichita Falls lawyer among those discipline by the Texas Bar.

Fifth Circuit revives homebuilder’s Sherman Act antitrust suit against Mansfield. Mansfield has acted as a monopoly outside its own city limits in the often abused extraterritorial jurisdiction.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the campaign stack today including:

• Aaron Reitz Endorses Mayes Middleton in Attorney General Runoff – so do I
• Democrat whines at not being included on interim committees
• Cornyn says he will not speak at CPAC as he’s busy with his work in Washington– CPAC is being held in Texas where Cornyn has been campaigning for over a year and which he supposedly represents! He really is just a man of the DC Swamp.
• Cornyn Camp Slams Paxton Over Alleged Misuse of Taxpayer Funds– where, what, when? There is nothing here but saying something of some type might have happened.

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Enmity between Hancock (Chief Clerk!) and Paxton blows up. (more) Frankly, Paxton’s office gave Hancock what he wanted and now he’s casting stones at the AG’s office for his own failure – I explain in the show.

The Corpus Christi water debacle gets saltier; effort begins to remove mayor.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out in the Texas Republican primary runoff race for U.S. Senate between Ken Paxton and ol’ John Cornyn. One might say about it: The more things change, the more things remain the same. Paxton is leading Cornyn and as expected has picked up the majority of Wesley Hunt voters. See the full breakdown from Quantus here.

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Anti-Wimp update: Incident leads to home invasion; homeowner was ready for action.

Federal court in Texas strikes down FinCEN’s horrible real estate surveillance rule that burdened title companies with big expenses and fines. Hub City Title’s Lee Williams discusses the issue with us.

Microsoft to rent data center expansion in Abilene from which Oracle backed away.

TEA orders public schools to suspend instruction and activities related to the nasty Cesar Chavez. Also, new leadership for Fort Worth ISD announced.

UNT to cut its leftwing Women’s and Gender Studies minor.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Democrat voters in San Antonio and Bexar County racists? Didn’t they know that they are supposed to vote in the Democrat primary election according to DEI principles? I examine the liberal hand wringing over Dems voting against black judges in Bexar County.

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Oil and gas rig count falls despite rising prices.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick announces new chairmen of Senate standing committees, fills vacancies, and creates interim select committees. Patrick also sets up select committee on religious liberty.

Musk Says SpaceX and Tesla to Build Advanced Chip Factories in Austin.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: I recently mentioned the recent Forbes magazine story on Michael Novogratz who ended up owning the little data center in very rural Dickens County. Well, it’s in the news in a big way today: Massive $3.5 BILLION expansion planned at data center in Dickens County owned by Novogratz’s firm Galaxy.

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More Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico Tales: Talarico called out for suggesting men in women’s sports is ‘far right conspiracy’ – said it wasn’t happening in Texas but of course it was.

More on the bursting of the César Chávez bubble. Lubbock’s Democrats want to rename the street after Huerta who was César Chávez’s enabler! (As I well covered in yesterday’s show.) Gov. Abbott says Texas will not honor the state holiday (that should have never been passed) and lawmakers should take it off the calendar.

4 Islamic schools admitted to Texas school choice program after suing.

Texas traffic stop under scrutiny after video shows woman’s arrest. In this case it appears, after watching all video, she is 100% in the wrong and is the one who “escalated” the situation needlessly.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the campaign stack including more little Jimmy Talarico Tales:

• Talarico faces backlash over viral anti-meat, pro-vegan comments
• Talarico insists that white people are inherently racist, spread “virus” of racism
• Talarico’s Dangerous Record on Taxes: Opposing Income Tax and Death Tax Bans
• TX32: Jace Yarbrough is GOP nominee in North Texas congressional district after second-place finisher bows out
• TX15: Democrat Bobby Pulido faces scrutiny over controversial music video, posts
• Deadline to withdraw from runoff passes, neither Cornyn or Paxton withdraws while Trump still plays with an endorsement

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Texas Education Agency Investigating Islamic-Tied Charter School.

In Leftism, the ends always justify the means. They take such straight from Marx and in the César Chávez SCAM Dolores Huerta knew! Don’t give her victim status, she knew what ol’ C.C. was about and didn’t tell because it might hurt the “movement.” Scum all around. Texas Values had the best take on the scam’s disclosure: Texas Values Calls for Austin ISD to Restore Good Friday; Cancel Cesar Chavez/ Dolores Huerta Day Amid Child Sex Abuse Allegations.

Lubbock to get Chick-fil-A distribution center. Abilene regains United Express flights. Will connect to Denver and Houston.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The scam that was, and is, César Chávez, has come home to roost! Tear down those street signs that capitulating ignoramuses allowed themselves to be bullied into a few years back. The Left never cared that he was violently against both legal and illegal immigration, but now they care that he appears to have used his position of power to have sex with young girls and women. Chávez and his group were never anything other than power and money seeking thugs and that was long known to any who would look, even Leftists.

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Preposterous: Democrats and their front groups are upset that Texas is finally concurring with a Clinton-era law and refusing to issue occupational licenses to people who are not actually legal to work in the USA! They say it “punishes immigrants who try to work with the system.” That is beyond ridiculous as anyone here illegally or trying to work illegally is inherently themselves working outside of our system.

School choice in Texas has proven very popular as judged by applications for the funding slots. A judge has just ordered the application window remain open through 31 March due to a lawsuit filed by Muslims. Oddly, Pre-K seems to be a big demand which I think is often just parents wanting free childcare.

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