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Our Lone Star story of the day: Media and its Democrats keep saying the ICE operations to arrest and deport illegal aliens is going to kill Republicans in the mid-term elections – but what does polling actually say? Do American really oppose aggressive immigration enforcement? A major poll has numbers that grossly contradict the leftwing narrative: More than 60% of midterm voters support deporting illegal immigrants, poll finds.

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Texas Democrats get about a day to gloat over their surprise Senate District 9 special election victory before they devolve into a race war in their U.S. Senate primary contest:

Many Texas public schools seem to be supporting students leaving class for leftwing agitation events. This has to stop whether Left or Right, class time is class time. They can learn all their First Amendment rights outside of school hours.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Saturday’s special election in Texas Senate District 9, a heavily Republican district, saw an AFL-CIO trained “union leader” beat Trump, Abbott, and Patrick endorsed Republican activist Leigh Wambsganss. Florida’s Ron DeSantis is right, we cannot just ignore this, the weather effected both sides and Republicans generally vote higher in early voting than Democrats. Dems did organize big, and spend big money, for this special election as a morale booster but the defeat should be taken very seriously.

Democrat Christian Menefee wins Texas’ 18th Congressional District runoff against Amanda Edwards. Will face Edwards AND old cane knocker Al Green in the upcoming primary for the same district.

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Much on immigration enforcement which includes:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: First slate of Texas Senate interim charges have been released today by Lieutenant Governor Patrick – it’s mostly a list reactive to recent headlines.

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Libs, RINOs, and others who mostly care what other libs will think about them, go crazy over Texas A&M ditching its women and gender studies program. That’s a program that should be absent from most every university. Many serious scholars have long argued that these programs are ideological in nature and somewhat illegitimate. Here’s the typical reaction of someone who thinks he is conservative but really isn’t.

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

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Senate Bill 2 from the 88th Texas Legislature (2023) required the election of 3 public members to appraisal district boards in counties with 75,000 or more in population. Micah O’Hair, director, Place 1, Lubbock Central Appraisal District, is one of these inaugural elected appraisal district board members. What he has seen, heard, and experienced is exactly what led the legislature to create these elected positions – and he says it justifies having a fully elected board.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A look today at the Republican Primary race for Texas’ 19th Congressional District made on open seat with the retirement of Jodey Arrington. We visit with candidate Jason Corley.

Candidates, to appear on the show request time here (just as Corley did.)

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We visit with Mary Hernandez, Republican Primary candidate for Lubbock County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3.

Texas still led the nation in population in 2025 but growth has slowed somewhat. I say a bit of a slowing is good so that infrastructure and the housing market can catch up.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott has said that ICE needs to “re-calibrate” after Minnesota problems. That may or may not be true but this is certainly naive of Abbott: “to make sure that respect is going to be re-instilled.” Since when has the modern activist Left had any respect for law enforcement when it enforces laws on the books with which leftists disagree?

That brings us the more important fundamentals of the issue expressed as well by Daniel McCarthy at The Spectator: The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob.

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Dallas Fed: Growth resumes in Texas service sector activity.

Abbott: Texas Leads Nation For 2025 Job Gains.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The AFL-CIO hosted debate between the two Democrats running for U.S. Senate, Jasmine ‘Crocked’ Crockett and Little Jimmy Talarico, showed that both are equally extreme Leftists – Talarico is not even a smidgen more moderate than big-mouthed Crocked.

Devil-head James Carville wants Crockett out because she actually admits to her radicalism and that’s bad at the polls. Carville likes Talarico because he, like him and his boy Clinton, is comfortable misleading voters about who he really is and what he believes.

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Dallas Fed: Texas factory activity expanded solidly in January.

A Leftwing lawsuit filed against Leftwing Harris County over closing Early Voting for two days due to weather, in the TX18 special election runoff, demonstrates the truth of the Slippery Slope argument and why some good ideas need opposing because of what such will become.

Tano Tijerina says Hispanics are ready to buck the Democratic Party.

Governor Abbott wants H-1B visa data from Texas public schools and universities.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. John Lott has done some of the research for which is is famous (and hated by the Left) on ICE enforcement which shows the current media narrative to be false propaganda. He compares Obama’s ICE record versus that of Trump’s: How Trump’s ICE enforcement record blows Obama’s out of the water— by a lot.

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The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board finally officially repeals the In-State Tuition policy for illegal aliens.

Oil and gas rig count from Baker Hughes.

Another Taiwanese electronics firm, Pegatron, announced a new Texas-based plant will be operating soon.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A bill authored by a freshman state representative passed the Legislature and it is important to us all. It makes removing local do-nothing or corrupt office holders easier by reforming the petitioning process. Read more here: Getting rid of ‘corrupt’ county courthouse and school board members just got easier.

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Webb County sheriff, Martin Cuellar, and his former First Deputy have been indicted on bribery charges related to COVID. Read:

Coach Joe Kennedy joins us. Coach Joe was fired for praying on the field after games and almost a decade later won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Coach Joe is taking part in an event for Liz Case for HD71 on Tuesday, 27 January at 201 Mesquite in Abilene.

Why we can’t get rid of recapture (Robinhood) or have full local control and funding for Texas public schools: The Edgewood decision, part of today in Texas history.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Finally, on the even of the primary elections, Texas House leadership issues fines to Democrats for breaking quorum last summer ($9,354.25 each.) This should have been done in September; doing it now is actually a campaign gift from the insiders to the Democrat incumbents up for re-election as well as for some weak Republicans. I explain.

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After oral argument, full Fifth Circuit “wary” of Ten Commandments laws’ challengers. As expected.

HD88’s Ken King (the casino gambling lobby’s man in NW Texas) did more to stop mainstream conservative legislation than anyone in the House this past year. Why did Burrows give him such a powerful committee to run knowing he’s a Straus anti-conservative? To get elected Speaker of course!

WFAA: “Protesters in Fort Worth decry recent ICE arrests, cite fears for personal freedoms.” This has to be among the most shallow, clueless, and plainly stupid quotes from these type people yet: “…we’re just people who love our country, and we don’t want to see it taken away from us.” Well, it isn’t the country of those here illegally and how does anyone not see that accepting millions upon million of illegal aliens into our country isn’t itself giving away our country?!

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