Pratt on Texas, the news and commentary of Texas.
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Episode 3606: Abbott says no tuition increases | Fox soft-soaps far-Left open borders advocate | Trump Team – Pratt on Texas 11/14/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: When building a foundation for something, why mix the cement poorly from the beginning? More Trump Team commentary including questions about Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best servi…
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Episode 3605: Early Texas bill filing shows issue direction | Cornyn loses in D.C. | Trump Team news – Pratt on Texas 11/13/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Tuesday began early bill filing for next year’s Texas Legislature and much was filed. Here are a few good rundowns: School Choice, Other Education Bills Filed for Upcoming 2025 Legislative Session Chinese Land Ownership, Border Security, Gender Privacy: Legislative Filing Ope…
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Episode 3604: Cornyn deep-sixing Paxton as Trump’s AG? | DACA illegals get subsidized health insurance | New lone stars in Texas – Pratt on Texas 11/12/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump’s new Chief of Staff has it right: Trump has a window of opportunity of only “two years” to change the federal government for the better. This time he is getting good people in place early. Trump selects Lee Zeldin to head the EPA Former Trump Energy Sec, Dan Brouillett…
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Episode 3603: Trump makes move on border leadership | Anti-Wimp update | School choice in Texas – Pratt on Texas 11/11/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Border news and Trump’s 2nd administration news is all wrapped up together. Plus, what are the items with which Congressional Republican leaders have been working with Trump for immediate action? I sure like this item: Trump pushes for national concealed carry reciprocity. Ou…
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Episode 3602: Mandates must be nurtured & kept | Texas Democrat Party chairman resigns | Border news – Pratt on Texas 11/8/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Mandate, D-EXIT, or whatever you term it, the real question is if Trump, and at this point Vance, can keep it. Or, do they do as happened in other cases and turn to inward DC deal making in such a way that the people no longer perceive the fight to be on their behalf? Our Lon…
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Episode 3601: Trump, Cruz win Latino vote in Texas | School choice | Dem influence in Texas House – Pratt on Texas 11/7/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Some Democrats just don’t know what hit ’em Tuesday and others, our college babies, can’t cope very well with not getting their way. The inroads into the Hispanic vote in Texas, made by Trump, helped Senator Cruz and others. The real question is: How ignorant and insulated mu…
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Episode 3600: Republican gains across Texas reverse recent Democrat gains | Local sales tax collection numbers – Pratt on Texas 11/6/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A full election review today which includes Republican gains across Texas, rolling back recent gains made by Democrats. Senator Cruz wins big and both the Texas House and Senate see GOP pickups as well as Republican judges winning back court benches in Harris County. About th…
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Episode 3599: Key Texas races to follow as election returns come in tonight – Pratt on Texas 11/5/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A review of the key races across Texas to watch as election returns come in. Will the GOP make gains in South Texas and the RGV? Will a young Leftist beauty queen upset a longtime state representative in Richardson? Will Amarillo be the first Texas city to fail to pass a sanc…
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Episode 3598: Texas’ top numbers guru Derek Ryan on what Early Vote turnout tells us | Election 2024 – Pratt on Texas 11/4/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024 including a visit with Texas’ top numbers guru Derek Ryan on what the Early Vote turnout predicts for the election in Texas. Texas Tells Biden-Harris Admin ‘No’ to Federal Polling Place Monito…
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Episode 3597: Judge allows lawsuit against Abbott’s campus antisemitism order proceed | Election 2024 news – Pratt on Texas 11/1/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Federal judge says lawsuit brought by CAIR can move forward against University of Texas and University of Houston systems over Governor Abbott’s order against anti-semitism on state colleges and campuses. I explain why this is correct and why part of Abbott’s order is likely …
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Episode 3596: Vote stats for Texas | Garbage? Trump turns issue on Dems | Cruz/Allred race & more – Pratt on Texas 10/31/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024. Trump Humiliates Biden by Riding in a ‘Make America Great Again’ Garbage Truck in Wisconsin Orange Vest-Wearing Trump Tells WI Crowd Hilarious Story of How Garbage Truck Ride Came to Happen T…
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Episode 3595: More schools caught electioneering | Election 2024 news | Paxton calls on Rep. Leach to resign – Pratt on Texas 10/30/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024. Sadly, part of the story is that more Texas school districts are blatantly violating the law by using taxpayer money to advocate for passage for their tax rate and bond election. Turkey-Quitaque IS…
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Episode 3594: Huge Texas teacher certification scandal exposed | Rep. Leach broke rules in death penalty case – Pratt on Texas 10/29/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A huge teacher scandal uncovered by the Harris County District Attorney: Dishonest “teachers” from around the state, well over 400, have paid big money to have a proxy take their official Texas teacher certification test. The ring is said to be led by a longtime Houston ISD b…
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Episode 3593: New polling in Cruz race | Voting turnout numbers | Effort to recall an entire city government – Pratt on Texas 10/28/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A new New York Times / Siena College poll shows Ted Cruz up over Allred just after a Dem-backed poll, made to help raise money, claimed the two were tied as of Saturday. Gromer Jeffers, Jr., of the Dallas Morning News, sure has it right: After spending the entire campaign act…
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Episode 3592: No “Christmas” at Neiman Marcus | Texas Early Voting numbers fall off; what does it mean? – Pratt on Texas 10/25/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The local story from El Paso that I brought you earlier this week about the heavily Democrat city being down on Early Voting is now part of a bigger story that could be a good sign for Republicans. This explains why Harris left the battleground states to come to Texas for a b…
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Episode 3591: Paxton’s office points out lies from Roberson advocates | Trans issue hurting Dems in Texas – Pratt on Texas 10/24/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Office of Attorney General catches up to Pratt on Texas and calls state Reps. Joe Moody and Jeff Leach liars over their propaganda in the Roberson death penalty case. Court records back up the A.G.’s claim and match what I have been telling you. These records show that ad…
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Episode 3590: Harris: Full pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens | Coverage of Roberson case one-sided, nonrational – Pratt on Texas 10/23/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Roberson capital punishment case shows why traditionalism and conservatism often lose: Even when evidence supports the conservative position, one-sided presentations based in emotionalism (the Donahue or Oprah style complete with much omission) seems to turn off the skept…
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Episode 3589: Save Democracy? Democrats mostly oppose law & order as well as protections of democratic processes – Pratt on Texas 10/22/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists claim they are trying to “save Democracy,” but at about every policy point they oppose law and ordered government so what are the saving? Nowhere is this more flagrantly hypocritical than on illegal immigration* and also with voting integrity. *The Left, inc…
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Episode 3588: Gov. Abbott, A.G. Paxton, Rep. Tinderholt make case that Tx House committee, Supreme Court out of bounds on Roberson case – Pratt on Texas 10/21/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Friday I explained what an overreach the Texas House Jurisprudence Committee has made in the Roberson death penalty case. Today, Governor Abbott says why; Attorney General Paxton says why, and; even another member of the Texas House says why: Governor Abbott’s amicus curiae b…
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Episode 3587: Skepticism matters: Full review of the Roberson execution debacle in Texas – Pratt on Texas 10/18/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether guilty or not, the cause celebre of the case of Robert Roberson’s ordered execution has gone off the rails. Media stories and advocate assertions so not tell the full story. I cannot summarize 40 minutes of analysis here so listen to the show and you’ll hopefully get …
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Episode 3586: Tx House committee goes too far | Harris essentially claims Trump has run the country for a decade – Pratt on Texas 10/17/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas House committee has gone too far in trying to interfere with an official execution in Texas. This is exactly the type of thing Democrats will do for most everything if they win back control of Texas government. Here is an example: State Seeks Recusal of Judge Cornelio…
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Episode 3585: The problem with campaign debates & media coverage | 5th Circuit leaves SB1 election integrity rules in place – Pratt on Texas 10/16/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cruz / Allred “debate” has an interesting lesson on how even when there is what seems to be hard questioning for both, there is still Leftwing bias in media driven debates. An additional problem with all the political debates is that because the questions come from, and t…
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Episode 3584: New Cruz/Allred polling | TWIA bailout? | Child sex trafficking reports triple under Harris/Biden – Pratt on Texas 10/15/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A new Texas-based poll shows the Cruz vs. Allred race right where I said it should end up – but only if Republicans do well at getting the vote out. Cruz and Allred to face off in Senate race’s only debate tonight. Also, “Is Ted Cruz Blowing His Re-Election Race in Texas?” – …
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Episode 3583: 3 new court decisions affect Texas | Smyers on SpaceX launch | Amended game room rules pass Lubbock Co. – Pratt on Texas 10/14/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Three big court decisions affect Texas in different ways. First, the Fifth Circuit has overruled a contempt charge and fine against Texas over its foster care system; more importantly the court has removed activist, biased Judge Janis Jack from the case! This is a huge win fo…
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Episode 3582: Jason Corley on Lubbock County “game room” regulation effort | New polls | Border news – Pratt on Texas 10/11/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Now that Fort Worth says the legal avenue to outright ban so-called “game rooms” is clear, will Lubbock County finally move Commissioner Jason Corley’s simple game room regulatory proposal forward Monday? Commissioner Corley joins us to bring us up to date on the year and a h…
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Episode 3581: Texas Democrats backed by uber-radicals | End the Texas Lottery | Texas Voter ID controversy – Pratt on Texas 10/10/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Should the State of Texas be in the gambling business? The Texas Lottery contributes very little to public education despite being sold to the public as a big funding mechanism for much. I believe that the social costs of the lottery far outweigh any benefits and that it shou…
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Episode 3580: Texas’ director of elections needs firing | Fort Worth to shut down “game rooms” | Sales tax turns down – Pratt on Texas 10/9/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I was right in my speculation about the Denton County story on letting those with non-citizens state ID’s vote but only partly. Now that we’ve learned more, it is much worse. In my informed opinion the Secretary of State’s elections chief is either too stupid to do the job or…
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Episode 3579: Is Denton Co. going to let non-citizens vote? | Harris says she’d do nothing different from Biden – Pratt on Texas 10/8/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Allred outraised Cruz in Q3 but didn’t say how much cash-on-hand he had. Kamala Harris told ABC’s “The View” today that she would do nothing different from Joe Biden. And, one report claims the Denton County elections administrator is insisting that non-citizens who are regis…
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Episode 3578: Dastard Democrat double standard on disaster response | Court wins for Texas on elections & life – Pratt on Texas 10/7/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Media, Democrat double-standard on full display over Hurricane Helene and the federal response to the disaster. There is a fundamental, anti-progressive, lesson in it all showing why you should never order a society to depend upon “experts” and bureaucrats but instead upon a …
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Episode 3577: Dallas GOP says county election system failed tests | SCOTUS taking up key cases this term – Pratt on Texas 10/4/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Dallas County Republican Chairman, Allen West, says that Dallas County elections equipment failed required tests and that the elections administrator did not note the failures observed in the public test on the required attestation statement. If true, this is a major prob…
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Episode 3576: More border security lies from Harris | There’s nothing “shocking” in latest election interference refiling – Pratt on Texas 10/3/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The so-called “shocking” and “bombshell” accusations in Jack Smith’s revised “election interference” indictment of Donald Trump are anything but shocking or bombshell. The media just expects you to read the headlines without examining the charges. MediaIte lists what it calls…
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Episode 3575: Texas voter registration tops 18 million, will it help Dems? | VP debate review | Battle of Gonzales – Pratt on Texas 10/2/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas voter registration now tops 18 million and key races get closer and closer by the cycle. Will Texas return to an electorally competitive state? Many say it is happening now – what will it take for those who became active only in an era of strong GOP dominance to wake up…
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Episode 3574: Cruz & Allred polling neck & neck | Union greed as bad as any | Dallas Fed reports – Pratt on Texas 10/1/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is interesting and shows that Texas Republicans could lose the U.S. Senate race. Democrat liberal Colin Allred is polling neck and neck with Ted Cruz. I give a full rundown of the detail of the poll done by Public Policy Polling. All the free media publicity aroun…
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Episode 3573: Astonishing criminal alien numbers | Budget exposes Parrish’s lies in Lubbock | RIP Kris Kristofferson – Pratt on Texas 9/30/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another county adopts the No New Revenue Tax Rate without causing the sky to fall. New figures out today from Lubbock County’s newly factored No New Revenue Tax Rate budget shows what an outright unmitigated liar Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, and his other allies, was with the…
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Episode 3572: More Texas Democrat fraud leads to new indictment | Anti-Wimp update: Shovel vs. Firearm – Pratt on Texas 9/27/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe the media makes sure, at the story source level, that there is little “widespread election fraud” on which to report by making sure many of the stories get little press coverage – that will certainly fool the search engines! Today we talk with Abilene Republican Women’s…
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Episode 3571: Texas Senate race is in play; too many in GOP are busy playing at party politics, not working to win – Pratt on Texas 9/26/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Ted Cruz, Colin Allred race is tight meaning Texas’ U.S. Senate seat is in play and yet, with some notable exceptions, the local GOP apparatus in the key counties to offset the liberal city vote, as well as the state Republican Party, is full of young people who are busy …
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Episode 3570: Petty political retribution in Lubbock Co. punishes citizens not officials | Campaign news – Pratt on Texas 9/25/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump will be in the Midland/Odessa next week for a deep pockets fundraiser and many other stories from the campaign stack. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and al…
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Episode 3569: Thoughts on “Trump Train” verdict | Lubbock Co. saved from tax increase | Tx House Speaker race – Pratt on Texas 9/24/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After hearing much testimony, jurors felt they had to rule against someone for something in the so-called “Trump Train” trial. I understand fully juror sentiment in the case that I have followed closely but even so, they were wrong to use the Ku Klux Klan Act in so doing. Tex…
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Episode 3568: Merrill Matthews on Kamalanomics, “freedom” = mandates, & the folly of “Evangelicals for Harris” – Pratt on Texas 9/23/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. Merrill Matthews joins us to talk about the 2024 presidential election and we work from several of his columns that have recently appeared in The Hill, including: For Democrats, ‘Freedom’ is Just Another Word for Mandate Are You Ready for ‘Kamalanomics?’ What ‘Evangelical…
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Episode 3567: Lubbock County’s Bowtie Bully tries deceiving public in tax rate presser | Texas workforce keeps growing – 9/20/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County’s Bowtie Bully, Curtis Parrish, held a press conference in which he did little but offer deception to the people about what it means to adopt the No New Revenue Rate, meaning no tax increase for next year, by commissioners Rackler and Corley properly using a pr…
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Episode 3566: Elitism pervades all-should-vote mantra, ignores freedom of choice | A Harris/Biden border cover-up – Pratt on Texas 9/19/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Voting Deserts,” voter registration rates, turnout, and other nonsense of the Left take up much political coverage and discussion time by people on all sides and do so to the exclusion of something few harping on the matters ever think about: Individual freedom. Most of this…
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Episode 3565: Haitian hoards & voter reality | NBC’s tearjerker on UNT Health Sciences Center’s use of corpses – Pratt on Texas 9/18/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It was 3 years ago today when the nation saw the unrestricted hoards of Haitians crossing the border into Texas from Mexico. “There was a lot of asylum fraud going on there. Most of the Haitians we talked to admitted they had been living & working in Chile & other South Ameri…
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Episode 3564: Dems’ lying racist rhetoric | DOJ still hunting Paxton | FBI conflict of interest in new assassination case – Pratt on Texas 9/17/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating, once again, what lying race pimps (dangerous rhetoric!) they are, Texas Democrats along with others went all out liar on Texas DPS Director McCraw yesterday. It all relates to Governor Abbott’s presser in Houston at which he announced the designation of the Tre…
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Episode 3563: Democrat, media script on political violence is deceitful projection | Two more in Tx speaker race – Pratt on Texas 9/16/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The “scripted” responses from Democrat officials, and predictably wrong media narrative, over yet another assassination attempt of Donald Trump should, but sadly won’t, awaken all Americans to the big lie that has been Leftist projection on so-called rhetoric and political sp…
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Episode 3562: State Bar’s lawfare on AG officials heard at SCOTX | 3 Stench of Local Government stories – Pratt on Texas 9/13/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The lawfare case against Brent Webster, Texas First Assistant Attorney General, by the leftists at the Texas Bar Association was heard by the Texas Supreme Court yesterday. It’s a plain and simple case of using the courts, and in this case a regulatory body, to punish people …
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Episode 3561: Did they expect no reaction to erecting a 90-foot tall idol? | Odd Tx court decision on campaign law – Pratt on Texas 9/12/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has taken what I think to be an odd ruling on campaign violations, the Texas [un]Ethics Commission, and local prosecutors. It is almost as if the majority is trying to implement in Texas the administrative state problem we have with federal…
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Episode 3560: Trump vs. Harris/ABC skirmish appears to favor Trump with undecideds | Local sales tax #’s – Pratt on Texas 9/11/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Harris skirmish on ABC reminded voters how biased is their media and despite the propagandists claiming Harris “won” the debate, or “did enough”, post debate polling and interviewing by the New York Times and Reuters showed it favored Trump. I comment on many other …
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Episode 3559: Rep. Frank files for Speaker, would he fix the problem? | 2 Lubbock commissioners protecting taxpayers – Pratt on Texas 9/10/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Representative James Frank of Wichita Falls announced a run to challenge Dade Phelan for Speaker of the House bringing the total to 4 challengers, 5 in the race. Rep. Frank is a good conservative on most issues, though my own column in 2017 reminds that he can stray, bu…
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Episode 3558: Has Texas Tech installed Leftist leadership for its College of Agriculture? Sure looks that way – Pratt on Texas 9/9/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New reporting as well as personal experience shows that it is likely that Texas Tech has put its Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources in the hands of dedicated Leftists. Ag. College at Texas Tech Offers ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Agriculture Course – th…
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Episode 3557: Lubbock Co.’s petulant & peevish game to intimidate, ruin those fighting big tax increase is afoot – Pratt on Texas 9/6/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The backroom work to intimidate, and even ruin, two Lubbock County commissioners – all for working to stop ballooning county spending and a big tax increase – is underway from several fronts. The latest item that is in public is beyond petty – it is juvenile and petulant poli…
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