Pratt on Texas

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 problem and Secretary of State needs to step in immediately. Even if the failures observed were of human error, that is still a systems problem than must be corrected before actual ballot counting begins.

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Can convicted felons who are in Texas prisons vote in the Lone Star State?Yes, some of them can and it is an area that legislators need to clean up.

U.S. Supreme Court to take up several key cases in its new term:

Texas oil & gas drilling rig count has another positive week.

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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 the “11 most shocking revelations in new DOJ filing” and yet none of them are particular shocking at all and nothing on the list comes close to being anything that is a crime.

To buy into any of this one must take the position that working within the constitutional system to challenge, slow down, investigate, or correct an election is somehow a crime. Where was this philosophy when Democrats tried to steal the presidential election with Al Gore by recounting Florida ballots until they knocked off enough hanging chads on punch card ballots to win?

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Kamala Harris lies, outright lies, about what is need to got our border and immigration system under control – all that is needed is to enforce existing law. Why is it not impeachable and a serious threat to democracy that she and Biden refuse to enforce American law?

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Big Pharma Drug Manufacturers and Pharmacy Benefit Managers for Conspiracy That Increased Insulin Prices by 1,000%.

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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 and get to the kind of work it took to win that dominance?

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Texas sales tax collections up but actually down when considering inflation.

The Alamo visitor center project, and more, kicked off this week in San Antonio.

Vice Presidential candidates debated last night – a full review. And, if you want to see what a different universe many on the Left live in, read this.

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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 around man-child Beto Pancho O’Rourke had Republicans working but this time around we don’t see the same work ethic yet Allred is polling better than did Beto.

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Texas manufacturing down; service sector okay but relative flat, and; retail continues its contraction.

The longshoreman strike shows what is, and has always been, wrong with the labor union movement: Unions have always been as greedy as they and their allies have painted business owners or “capital” to be. Press reports say that ILA [union] members currently have a base salary of $81,000, but large amounts of overtime can allow some to reach $200,000 for manual labor jobs.

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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 “deep cuts” scare tactics.

Note this: “Galveston County Commissioners Court passed a budget for FY 2025 based on a property tax rate below the NNR rate. According to Galveston County Judge Mark Henry, this is the 14th year in a row the county has lowered property taxes.” Why that is not possible according to fake Republican Parrish!

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

The mostly unreliable federal judge Xavier Rodriguez rules against the 2021 Texas law that limits illegal ballot harvesting. It’s a ridiculous ruling and we should all hope that the Fifth Circuit sets things straight.

As Things Stand Now, Dade Phelan Needs Democrats to Stay Speaker – which is how he became the House speaker to begin with.

Texas lost a cultural giant: RIP Kris Kristofferson.

“Jawdropping,” utterly astonishing numbers reveal the Harris / Biden administration has let 650,000 criminal aliens and suspects loose to roam the country.

Elon Musk says Democrats are using illegal immigration to create ‘one-party state’.

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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 Club president Diana Hartmann about a fraudulent voter registration story local media is mostly ignoring even though there has been an official press release from the Taylor County elections administrator.

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Texas up one rig in the oil & gas rotary drilling rig report.

Texas State Fair can ban guns Supreme Court rules, reproaching Paxton.

Anti-Wimp update: Shovel vs. Gun – Harris Co. homeowner prevails with gun.

More Texas Democrat fraud in Fort Bend County leads to new indictment: Democrat County Judge K.P. George indicted in fake social media posts scandal.

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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 at playing party politics instead of at the hard work needed to ensure statewide victory. Work that should have kicked off in August is not being done and we are already in late September. It’s as if these folk, who have no idea how much work it took to turn this state from a Democrat swamp into a GOP stronghold, are sitting around thinking the Trump turnout will be enough to win it all. Let us pray they are right because there isn’t much work being done to ensure massive, city offsetting, turnout in the places in Texas that give Republicans solid statewide wins.

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Jonathan Turley’s column shows that there is no longer any hiding of the Democrat plan: Literally destroy, do away with, the U.S. Constitution to obtain absolute majoritarian tyranny of the Left.

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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.

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After saving Lubbock County taxpayers from a big tax increase, commissioners Corley and Rackler have to deal with petty political retribution from Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, lameduck Kovar, and admitted Democrat Flores. Commissioner “No Tax Increase” Corley tells us about it.

Appeals court turns down A.G. Paxton’s lawsuit over licensed concealed carry at the State Fair of Texas. Frankly, this is an issue for legislators next session and it’s time once again for them to prove their Second Amendment loyalty by eliminating most of the remaining restrictions to personal safety.

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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.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

Two Lubbock Commissioners Stop County Tax Increase. Lubbock County adopts smaller budget [than requested, still higher than current year] as commissioners continue walkout. Lubbock commissioners approve budget funded by no-new-revenue rate.

Republican Texas House members gathered Friday to come together for a candidate to challenge Speaker Phelan. They settled on Rep. David Cook. Here is the best write-up on the matter: House Reformers Call Their Shot

Lubbock’s Rise Academy Charter School named National Blue Ribbon School. Governor Abbott Celebrates 31 Texas National Blue Ribbon Schools.

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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:

Merrill Matthews, Ph.D., is a health policy expert and regular columnist at The Hill. He has worked with the Institute for Policy Innovation, a research-based, public policy “think tank” in the Metroplex for many years.

Dr. Matthews is a past president of the Health Economics Roundtable for the National Association for Business Economics, the largest trade association of business economists. Dr. Matthews also served for 10 years as the medical ethicist for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center’s Institutional Review Board for Human Experimentation, co-author of On the Edge: America Faces the Entitlements Cliff, and has contributed chapters to several books, including Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate and The 21st Century Health Care Leader and Stop Paying the Crooks (on Medicare fraud).  

He has been published in numerous journals and newspapers, including The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Barron’s, USA Today, The Hill, Forbes magazine and the Washington Times. He was an award-winning political analyst for the USA Radio Network.  

Dr. Matthews received his Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.

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