The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats say they are headed home and pretend they “raised awareness” on redistricting but they did not raise awareness in the way they intended. Instead, the story that got out the most was how Texas is simply playing catch-up on redistricting many big Democrat states had already grossly gerrymandered their Congressional seats to benefit Dems at the expense of Republican voters. Jonathan Turley’s column today is one of many demonstrating my claim of how Dems didn’t accomplish what they wanted.

Also, the U.S. Department of Justice is being asked to look into improper fundraising, use of funds, etc. by these AWOL Dems under federal law.

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Statement Applauding the Texas Senate’s Passage of All Bills on Gov. Abbott’s Special Session Call. If Dems are not in the House Friday, we’ll have to do it all over again in the 2nd called session.

More Trump pressure working: Mexican Government Extradites 26 Top Sinaloa, Jalisco Cartel Operators to U.S.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a district court to hold Beto Pancho O’Rourke in contempt, fine him, and detain himuntil he obeys the Temporary Restraining Order the state alleges he has violated over raising money for Democrats who fled the state to break legislative quorum.

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Speaker and Lt. Governor say they will gavel the 1st called session sine die on Friday if a quorum has not been obtained in the House. Governor Abbott will then call another special session, the 2nd called session, to begin immediately.

Texas Supreme Court sets and “expedited briefing schedule” over the case of whether the quorum busting equals an abandonment of office by Democrat legislators. Its expedited schedule is actually about a month long and seems to aid Dems in their run out the clock, again and again, strategy.

Lubbock city officials tell you not to worry, they are setting the property tax increase proposal at the maximum allowed without voter approval but it’s just to hold the public hearings – they may set a lower rate.  This is a trick. By setting it at the maximum and having the hearings, then they can come back with a bit of lesser tax increase and not have to endure public hearings.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats claimed that flooding disaster legislation should be the first priority of the called special session – then they left. Now, the disaster bills are ready for a vote and the sanctimonious Democrats are still gone, AWOL. More hypocrisy of the lowest order. (Much of the big bill, SB 1, is ineffective and simply ticks boxes of having done something.)

Paxton files to remove 13 of the Democrat AWOL legislators from office by declaring their seats “vacant.”  It will be interesting to see where this goes with Abbott, Paxton, and Cornyn putting pressure on the issue.

Paxton sued Beto Pancho’s fundraising group for raising money to fund the Democrats’ breaking of quorum. A district judge, late Friday, agreed and issued a TRO against the O’Rourke group. My guess is that group will not stop at all, it will just change some wording and continue on.

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Beto Pancho O’Rourke makes it emphatically clear: When Democrats win they will move to legalize most all illegal aliens and give them citizenship. Abilene Democrats must share the same goals as they rally behind him and his vulgar comments.

Lubbock County set to handle much of Tesla’s vehicle title issuance in Texas potentially netting millions for the flatland county.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House met to reconvene today but now quorum was attained as Democrats remain AWOL. Interestingly Paxton and Burrows have filed with an Illinois court to attempt to get help with returning the AWOL lawmakers to Texas.

I also discuss, again, why the bribery issue is worth a long term fight.

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Oil & gas drilling rig count falls again.

Harris County commissioners censure County Judge Lina Hidalgo over her stunt with children and other bad behavior. The Houston Chronicle editors are angry only that her poor behavior got in the way of bigger government and a tax hike. This is an example of how local government keeps expanding its reach into things outside its rightful purview and why local tax and spending has made the tax burdens of Texans so high.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The racism and discrimination institutionalized by Democrats into our government and culture must stop. Publicly-funded racism in Texas is still racism is a good piece by Steve Rowe at TPPF.

Also, this story gives a strong background on drawing political districts using race. The story includes the key information about the change in precedent in the 5th Circuit in “minority coalition” districts that I have told you has a big effect on Texas redistricting: Supremes to consider legality of race-based districts in possible boon to GOP redistricting effort.

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Senator Cornyn joins in on the largely hollow chest thumping with his headline getter that the FBI will help with the AWOL Texas Democrats. The problem is not that we don’t know where they are, the problem is that we cannot arrest them and return them to the Capitol outside of Texas’ borders. I hate to admit it, but that fat Illinois Leftist governor is right.

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Border & immigration news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Redistricting Fight: I will help arm you to defeat the media/Democrat narrative on this issue. Also, I’ll bring you the latest developments.

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Comptroller distributes local sales tax money to Texas cities. It was up 5.2% over August, 2024 distribution. Look up your city here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite absent without leave Democrats, work continues in the 1st Called Session of the 89th Texas Legislature:

Much more comment on the Democrat’s unfounded claim of the redistricting effort being a “corrupt process” without ever asserting what about it is actually corrupt.

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Democrats lose another one in their fight against election ballot integrity: Federal appeals court upholds Texas voter ID law for mail ballots, says they are ‘not secure’

RIP: Texas legend and true civic leader, Morton Meyerson.

Lubbock’s city manager proposes a property tax increase.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat legislators flee from Texas and go to New York, then Illinois to break the quorum needed to conduct business in the Texas House. Sadly, as an aside, they won’t stay out of Texas and will come back some day.

Governor Abbott goes fire breathing with threats and his removal from office threat is quite unlikely to be successfully implemented. The bit about bribery has more potential.

Speaker of the House Burrows gets motion, passes motion, to go after the Dems not present with civil arrest warrants. Audio is in the show.

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July Texas sales tax collection report comes in 4.9% higher than July of last year.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The problem with limiting immigration enforcement to just criminals, etc. is that it degrades, even destroys, the value of citizenship. Remember, the American Experiment is one of a republic of self-governing, sovereign citizens. Without high value citizenship, there can be no Constitutional Republic. Ammon Blair explains the problem brilliantly in this piece: At the border, the very concept of ‘citizenship’ is under siege.

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Legislative updates.

Oil and gas rig count falls again.

RIP: Texas music legend Flaco Jiménez; Dead at 86. We remember with music from the great squeezebox player. Watch and listen: https://youtu.be/qItru7hZqzU?si=sDO1CZhBY3E_JxsD

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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump’s executive order on energy and agriculture stops the planned “land grab” Biden put in motion around the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge which would have taken significant land out of agriculture production.

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Senator Cruz and others have it right. We don’t necessarily need layer upon layer of weather even warning systems. We already have a robust national system from the National Weather Service via radio and it simply needs a further build-up.

Senate passes THC ban in Second Reading.

More on Texas Congressional redistricting.

DMN libs say voters want move on from border issues but the public says it wants deportation of illegal aliens.

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