The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The new national Democrat boss is putting Texas high on the list for action so what’s different this time? He seems to understand what matters most – redistricting.

Meanwhile the far Leftist Democrats in Austin squabbling and it is no surprise – Soros-backed district attorneys, purposefully soft on violent crime, are a disaster nationwide. However, Senator Sarah Eckhardt is just as guilty as D.A. Garza because she has spent a lifetime pushing the radical agenda of the Marxist Left.

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Texas lottery scandals are ballooning so it is a wonder that Gov. Abbott seems uninterested in addressing such. I wonder if legislators, despite any bloviating on the subject, actually have the guts to let the lottery die in Sunset Review this session. Here is a bunch of reporting on the scandals.

Oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.

Border news includes a really stupid report from the so-called “Human Rights Watch” blaming the Texas DPS for actions of the smugglers. Also, ICE raided a South Texas bakery that was knowingly employing illegal workers and the Leftist media acts as if it has never happened before. Heck, not that many years ago I remember reporting on the giant Shipley Do-nuts of Houston being raided for such.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate has now passed real Bail Reform, again. Once again, it will be up to the House to pass the much needed reform.

Also, the House has finally filed its school choice bill while the Senate has already debated and passed its version. There are differences.

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Another “science” person needs to be corrected. I comment on this opinion column: Lubbock area measles outbreak was preventable.

Trump Orders Agencies to Stop Taxpayers’ Funding for Illegal Migrants.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas electricity ratepayers are paying huge amounts of money more than they should because of the variability (unreliability) of wind and solar electricity generation.

Brent Bennett, Ph.D. explains in detail the three “buckets” of cost from wind and solar variability and what needs addressing by the PUC and the legislature. You can find the full report on this matter here.

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Senator Creighton introduces ‘Texas Teacher Bill of Rights’ with pay raises for teachers.

Senator Kolkhorst files bill that would prohibit hostile foreign entities from purchasing land in Texas, reworked from last sessions poorly developed bill.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A little-reported, yet, news story out of free China, Taiwan, is huge for Texas’ future. Also, as predicted Saks is destroying the Texas-based culture of Neiman Marcus by closing the corporate offices in Texas and closing the flagship store in downtown Dallas!

Also in the key for Texas business stack: Texas Oil Export Port To Get Trump Team’s Blessing.

And much Texas space news including:

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Did Lubbock’s state rep. Dustin Burrows use our taxpayer money to buy the Democrat votes he used to become Speaker of the House? That question and others are being asked today of the Republican elected by a majority of House Democrats and a minority of House Republicans.

Texan Brooke Rollins, the new U.S. Secretary for Agriculture, is looking to reform SNAP welfare with Robert Kennedy, Jr. in a great way sure to cause much distress from the Left.

Much border and illegal immigration related news in the stack today including: New head of Border Patrol swears in National Guard, DPS who can arrest immigrants.

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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 Hollywood machine out of Texas!

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Odessa’s mess foisted on it by the non-conservatives and civic cheerleaders.

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Ken Pax­ton Stops Rad­i­cal Abor­tion­ist from Unlaw­ful­ly Sup­ply­ing Dan­ger­ous Drugs to Kill Unborn Babies

Oil and gas rig count rises.

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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 committees (that leaves much of the power in the hands of the same old Straus/Bonnen/Phelan crowd) and then the body voted to take another “vacation!” But don’t think they did absolutely nothing in the House, they found time to meet for 48 minutes on Tuesday and hosted a Pagan “prayer” from one of the Leftist members.

Lottery scandal:

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TPPF Secures Victory in Money v. San Marcos at the Fifth Circuit for property owners.

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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 made it clear that this is an item that is of top importance to him and the Senate and for which he is willing to play “hardball.”

Also, related to the Legislature: High costs of wind and solar electric generation variability are being passed on to us, ratepayers, instead of those who cause the costs.

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There are some extremely surprising numbers and variability in today’s local city sales tax numbers. Top 20. Look up your city here.

Harris County’s jail remains out of compliance since 2022 and the Commission on Jail Standards wants the attorney general’s office to force compliance. Note that Harris County’s Democrat leadership has money for all types of welfare and other projects but none for the basics of government.

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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 for the 89th Session.

Also we take a look at Senator Sparks’ bill on moving all bond debt elections to the November uniform election date.

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Anti-Wimp update: Breaking into ex’s apartment proves fatal in Fort Worth.

More illegal immigration news including extreme hypocrisy from the socialist Roman Catholic pope, Pope Francis.

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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 are added to an already big list of those being investigated for cheating to become certified teachers. More.

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How did very conservative Smith County (Tyler) become an unlikely sanctuary county for illegal aliens? By local Republicans electing Sheriff Smith, that’s how: “They Make Bond, They Get Out” Texas Sheriff Defies Abbott, Won’t Turn Over Illegals to ICE.

Under pressure from President Trump, Texas’ BurrowCrat Coalition founder, Speaker of the House Burrows, says the Texas House will pass school choice. Most everyone already expects that but the real question is: How much will the BurrowCrats muck up the good bill already passed by the Senate. Also, when will the House get to work on this or any other issue as Burrows hasn’t even appointed committees as of this morning.

State Sen. Creighton Slams Anti-School Choice ‘Rhetoric.’ Creighton, with help from other Republicans, attempted to correct the record on taxpayer-funded lobbying, per-pupil funding, and other topics related to school choice.

Oil and gas rig count up by one last week in Texas.

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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 that labor that is beginning to be seen around the country.

Dr. Balch is an American conservative scholar and higher education reformer. He was the founding president of the National Association of Scholars from 1987 to 2009. Balch received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Brooklyn College, City University of New York, in 1964. He received his master’s degree (1967) and Ph.D. (1972) in political science from the University of California in Berkeley. It was during the Berkeley riots that he became a conservative and he is now a Republican. 

Dr. Balch was awarded the National Humanities Medal from President George W. Bush at the White House on November 15, 2007. The award cited him “for leadership and advocacy upholding the noblest traditions in higher education,” and went on to say that “his work on behalf of reasoned scholarship in a free society has made him a leading champion of excellence and reform at our nation’s universities.”

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