The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Lieutenant Governor and others have a ridiculous idea that Texas should spend big taxpayer dollars to import Hollywood into Texas. Not only is this wrong and nothing but corporate welfare that doesn’t payback reliably, we should have the opposite policy of keeping much of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate held hearings in which more of the scandal plagued Texas Lottery was exposed – see below. Also, the Senate passed major property tax relief. Meanwhile, a month into the 140-day legislative session, BurrowCrat chief Dustin Burrows finally named House committee…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate continues to work while House members sit around collecting generous per diem checks. Today the Senate was working hard on much need bail reform, reform that has been thwarted by the House for several sessions. Lt. Gov. Patrick spoke to the press today and ma…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate is already working on big priority items while the House, almost a month into the session, has not even appointed committees as of Noon today. While the House dawdles, a senate committee has passed out to the full senate that body’s property tax relief plan f…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Pubic education is no different from any other giant government bureaucracy, it’s full of wasteful spending, questionable priorities, and fraud and that does indeed include teachers from time to time. The Texas teacher cheating scandal grows as 60 more public school teachers …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Steven Balch, Ph.D. may be America’s original D.E.I. on campus fighter! He is also a regular Pratt on Texas listener which is a great honor to me. Today we talk about how he and others began the fightback against campus faculty Marxism and abuse in the 1980’s and the fruit of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, for the sixth time, the Texas Senate has passed a true school choice bill, SB 2. It’s now up to the House to get it passed and without mucking it up to much. Note the ignorant race-baiting and contradictory statements of Democrat senators offered against the SB 2 …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott’s proposal to require a super-majority of 2/3rs for voter-approval tax rate elections is right. I explain why one of the most common arguments against this type of clamp down on local government spending is without merit. Our Lone Star story of the day is spon…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Abbott says we’ll pass school choice without the big handout, offered last time, to the ISD bureaucracies. The governor points out that when offered billions last time around the ISDs wouldn’t play ball so too bad. But the real reason we should not hand more big money to the …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Now friendly feds deputize Texas National Guard troops to make immigration related arrests at the border in a full reversal of past federal policy. Also, Mexico responds to massive tariff threat with pledge to deploy 10,000 of its national guard troops to the border. San Anto…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important Second Amendment ruling yesterday that properly, further entrenches the historical framing required on questions of the Bill of Rights. 18 to 20 year olds are adults and the right to possess firearms applies to them as it…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Carl Tepper has a bill, HB 1453, to further protect taxpayers from local government officials who have booted integrity and obvious right-and-wrong to the curb. The abuse of C.O. bonds has happened all across Texas with the latest kick in the teeth to voters happening in…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate has already moved school choice, Senate Bill 2, out of committee – meanwhile the BurrowCrat House leadership hasn’t even appointed permanent officers OR named House committees yet! So much for the oft made insider establishment argument that they, the insider…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Cartel gunmen opened fire on U.S. officials across the Rio Grande yesterday demonstrating how right is President Trump at naming these groups terrorist organizations. Also, Governor Abbott is deploying “tactical strike teams” to help the feds roundup illegal aliens. It’s just…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Just the tiniest point of the immigration law enforcement spear has been shown over the last few days and so far, the public seems supportive. However, don’t think that the sob stories and outright propaganda isn’t coming from the press and its Leftist backers. Will Americans…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: What did Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat coalition do yesterday on adopting House rules? Don’t buy the false messaging that comes with “they banned Democrat committee chairmen” because they did and they didn’t – it’s all a big fake. If the BurrowCrats reduced the power of T…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat leadership team’s proposed House rules try a giant fake out on voters knowing local media will ignorantly report it their way. While the Burrows’ rules end minority party (Democrat) major committee chairmanships, the rules actually enhance De…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump sprint to implement policy changes goes on. Much border related news as well as Trump action on DEI and more from the 47-on-fire stack. Trump Orders 1,500 Active Duty Troops to U.S.-Mexico Border Texas Border Czar Mike Banks Sworn-in as Chief of United States Border…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much review and comment upon the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Wow, he’s working fast! A record 1,300 appointees on Day One! Trump began his term with immediate action related to illegal immigration and the border. Here is a good …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Donald J. Trump was invested with the Office of the President today in the Capitol Rotunda in the City of Washington. I’m pleased to bring you his entire inaugural address. Also, I point out Democrats used the event to lie and propagandize about this being a “democracy” which…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: This week was quite historic for private sector space flight, or “capitalism in space,” and space writer and historian Bob Zimmerman joins us to touch on the highlights. Texas is playing a huge role in this new industry. Zimmerman’s website is https://behindtheblack.com/ Our …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Are local TV stations being completely honest with you when they gin up anger and tell you the local cable, or satellite, or internet TV provider is “dropping” their channel? No, they are not telling you the whole truth and are in many cases spinning the issue opposite of tru…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New Speaker of the House, Dustin BurrowCrat, delays House Rules vote until 22 January - the longest delay since the first illegitimate speaker, Joe Straus, came into office the first time. Good or bad? Time will tell but the biggest problem we have faced each session is the H…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature was gaveled into session today. Governor Abbott attended the opening of the Senate and said he wants action on bail reform and school choice. In the House, Lubbock’s Dustin Burrows, leader of the BurrowCrat Coalition, was elected Speaker of the Hous…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature comes into being tomorrow and the first order of business in the Texas House of Representatives, or should we say investment partners, is to elect a Speaker of the House. Lt. Governor Patrick, and it now seems Newt Gingrich’s group, allege that the …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The 89th Texas Legislature comes into being next Tuesday and meets for 140 days. The House starts it off with an entirely avoidable fight for speaker laden with dishonesty, hypocrisy, and absurdity. Beyond that are many general issues to which lawmakers will giving attention …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: There are big, expensive lessons for Texas coming out of the Los Angeles urban wildfires. So far, Texas legislators, while aware of the problem for years, have not had the fortitude to fix it. We have similar problems with TWIA as California has with FAIR and it is because of…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The race is not about Burrows and his Burrowcrat Coalition or David Cook and his backers, it about putting an end to the “most pervasive, long-lasting, and heavily funded divide in the Texas Republican Party.” Incoming state Rep. Paul Dyson tells local media his name was on B…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Scorched earth,” belittling the Governor and Lt. Governor, and much more keeps coming from the Lubbock House delegation in its tantrum-style effort to gain the Texas House Speaker’s gavel. Beyond the obvious self-serving nature of the effort so far is the issue of the false …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: First order of business in the U.S. Senate under new majority leader Thune: Crack down on illegal alien criminals. Senate could vote on the bill by Friday and the House has companion legislation read to go as well. More border news: Texas Arrests Four Tren de Aragua Gang Memb…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A look at some legislation filed for the upcoming Texas Legislature, including: Capriglione Files Bill to Ban Taxpayer-Funded Immigration Lawyers for Illegal Aliens Advocates Press for a Ban on Taxpayer-funded Lobbying in 2025 Will Lawmakers Provide Property Tax Relief in 202…

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court slaps down the libs at the State Bar of Texas for going after Texas Attorney General staff over 2020 election lawsuits filed by the state. The state bar libs didn’t like the politics of Paxton’s office and so, as they’ve done in other states, went afte…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: 2024 was a good year for the Texas economy as the Texas Miracle just continues to follow good policy choices. It was a very bad year for the Texas Lottery. And, a real pain for many of us goes away in 2025. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Serv…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The case of U.S. Representative Kay Granger is emblematic of what is wrong with a culture of elected people who begin to think of themselves as entitled to power and office. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service i…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another reliable Texas electric power generation plant is going offline because Democrats are handing its owners over $ 1 BILLION of your money to bribe them into stopping use of coal generate power. Are they going to replace it with cheap, abundant, effective, and clean natu…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas colleges and universities are in need of more reform by the Legislature – but don’t forget that Governor Abbott’s appointed regents already have the power to act and stop the Leftwing foolishness and racism on campus. Why haven’t they? Why did we even need a DEI ban? Ou…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found a good angle from which to sue the NCAA over its letting men play in women’s sports – suing them for violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Read the actual lawsuit filed in Lubbock County here– no matter it’s legal claim…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Member of Burrows’ Calendars Committee for two legislative sessions, Representative Shelby Slawson, joins us to talk about the race for House Speaker. Also, State Rep. J. M. Lozano is alleging that the BurrowCrat Coalition had former, now disgraced, Speaker Bonnen spying for …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition to advance Dustin Burrows’ goal of becoming Texas House Speaker has brought us an interesting side show which demonstrates many comments I have made on the air over the past couple of years about Republican groups selling themselves out for big donati…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Putting a Thumb on the Scale: The Growing Alarm Over ISD Electioneering and What to Do About It. James Quintero of the Texas Public Policy Foundation joins us to offer up four changes legislators need to make to put teeth into election law that is flouted more and more brazen…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition posits an interesting charge: The Republican House Caucus is “broken.” The problem is that if you read Rep. Terry Wilson’s op-ed backing BurrowCrat Burrows for Speaker of the House, he never gives any evidence at all of anything “broken” in the caucus…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much news of Texas including yet another example of how wrong are the Civic Cheerleaders and others who denigrate and disparage citizens who show up, watch, and question local government. Give this story a read. How does someone in a relatively small town sit on the city payr…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com(he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space) joins us to talk about Trump’s big decision to appoint billionaire and private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA Administrator. Zimmerman hints at an essay he was workin…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition of Democrats and mostly non-conservative Republicans led by Rep. Dustin Burrows continues to make enemies. Now Governor Abbott stresses that the Speaker needs to come from within the GOP caucus by majority vote and the Lt. Governor agrees. Burrows and…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The BurrowCrat Coalition to elect Rep. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock as Texas House Speaker may prevail in the end but at this point it seems to be shedding support and making more enemies (understandable if you well know the people involved) than friends – a full BurrowCrat upda…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Among other border news items today is this: Governor Abbott says he wants to sign a law that stops Texas judges from letting criminal illegal aliens out of their parole early. Also in the border stack: Incoming border czar accepts Starr County land offered by Texas General L…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating the height of hypocrisy and a low of integrity, the Texas House Republican Caucus process of nominating a candidate for Speaker of the House (without Democrat influence) Saturday turned into a mess of putting personal ambition ahead or principle and past commitm…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House Speaker race has changed overnight: Without enough votes to win, the Austin swamp swimmer leader Speaker Dade Phelan has withdrawn from the race for re-election. His Austin swamp swimmer cabal is trying the old switcheroo in order to remain in power by running…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Houses Speaker race now appears to be an effort by the upper-echelon of wealthy lobbyists to save Dave Phelan as speaker which begs the question: What’s in it for them? Mike Toomey, an elite huge money lobbyist, is very competent but reading this story, one is force…