A special edition of Pratt on Texas from the Gonzales Memorial Museum sitting 10 feet from the “Come and Take It” cannon with museum director Gary Schurig. Recorded in May of 2022.

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats in DC engineer a so-called government shutdown and it appears to be motivated by an insider struggle between factions of the Democratic Party. The public face of it is over funding for Medicaid but the Dems don’t want you to know it’s about giving illegal aliens Medicaid access.

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.

“Academic Freedom” has been perverted to mean things it never historically covered and teachers have been taught a false idea of what their freedom is in a public classroom. See:

Democrat Talarico raises $6.2 million in first 20 days of US Senate campaign, out doing Colin Allred.

Democrat rhetoric causing ‘innocent lives to be lost,’ says Latina leader. Bobby Pulido has a long history of nasty talk.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas A&M continues to be exposed as an institution that has not only coddled Leftists and Leftist ideology but as an institution that may be damaging to national security. Is this latest issue with money from Qatar an example of institutional money laundering? Maybe non criminal but certain non ethical.

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.

We meet Texas Agriculture Commissioner GOP Primary challenger Nate Sheets.

Audit: Texas Inconsistent with Federal Commercial Driver’s License Requirements. DPS Suspends Issuance of Certain Commercial Driver Licenses.

Say what!? U.S. to Accept Immigrant Dreamer DACA Requests After 4-Year Freeze. Accepting applications better not be the same as granting such. Why is this program created by Obama, not Congress, still around!?

Business news:

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Corrected: The proper audio for 29 Sept. 2025. (The previous Friday's show audio was incorrectly loaded.)
Thanks to Listener Club member David for letting me know. 
Robert

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Supreme Court, tentatively, set to peel back the Leftwing American Bar Association’s control over legal education in the state. “The court itself would determine which law schools are “approved” under the state’s lawyer admissions rules, according to the preliminary order,” Reuters reports.

This is very good and a long time in coming. The private, Left-leaning group has no business deciding who can sit for the bar exam in Texas.

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.

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Helps Make Critical Development in 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Quadruple Homicide Case. Austin yogurt shop murders cold case suspect identified after 34 years. Austin yogurt shop murders: How authorities solved the cold case. HBO documentary dives into Austin’s Yogurt Shop murders 30 years after – worth watching. There is much to learn from all angles on this case, especially now that we are mostly certain of who was the guilty person.

Texas’ oil and gas rig count jumped up 4 last week.

Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing still growing but slower than in August.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com(he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space) joins us to talk mostly about our political and social problems with a Left that celebrates even murder of those who well express ideas Leftist find difficult.

Some the Zimmerman essays to which we allude are:

In the last segment we talk about SpaceX and Firefly which are both based in Texas.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Examples from everyday life of the disintegrating virtue of our society and most of it is not even noticed by most people. Just a few from this week’s press review:

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A long story worth every moment to read: How out-of-towners are moving to ‘take over’ a rich West Texas county (Loving County)

The Dallas shooting was a political act– The Spectator World & Gun Control Talk Won’t Save Them | National Review

Teen accused of threats toward Charlie Kirk vigil in San Antonio – really Hearst, a “teen”!? As police reminded him, he’s a 19-year-old man.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: More murderous terrorism on our country today committed in Dallas. The murderer is dead, identified, and early evidence shows it is likely more Leftist violence against law and order.

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DC Swamp wants you to know that Cornyn is their man for Senate: Cornyn nabs endorsements from 15 former GOP congressmen.

Republican Party of Texas to consider censures of 10 lawmakers made by county party organizations.

A strong win for private property rights in Texas over avaricious local government officials. You can’t take it just because you might need it in the future.

$6.5 billion+ investment and more than 600 new jobs in Harris County from new Eli Lilly facility.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Commissioner Cary Shaw points out what few have wanted to let voters know:

via facebook: Today [Monday] we finished the budget. Is it as low as I would like, no but it is a good start. For all the hollering about budget cuts I want everyone to know just what is going on. The budget has grown over 80,000,000 dollars in the past 5 years. That is 80 million. We keep being told a growing county has to have more money. Well during this time 1 year population growth was 1.3 percent and 3 years it was 1.2 percent, and 1 year it is projected to drop a hundred or so. At the rate it was going 16 million average per year 6 more years it would have doubled what it was in 2020. This is not sustainable for the people in Lubbock county. The judge said it is a sad day for Lubbock county but I say it is a great day for Lubbock county residents.” [emphasis added]

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Bob Albritton and other Texas A&M regents just will not stop pushing the Leftist agenda and reverse discrimination at A&M. Now, Aggies name a DEI supporter as acting-president for Texas A&M.

Abbott’s THC regulation is a mess:

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Bob Albritton and other Texas A&M regents just will not stop pushing the Leftist agenda and reverse discrimination at A&M. Just as Obama General, Mark Welsh, finally resigns as Texas A&M president over his long pushing of DEI and similar, Albritton and the other regents go and name a new president with a similar Leftwing advocacy background to be president of A&M Victoria, a campus they are taking over from the University of Houston System. Tone deaf? Dumb? Closet Leftists? Or, just proving true all the “dumb Aggie” jokes we’ve heard all our lives.

It ain’t Texan or All-American at A&M these days folks: Controversial Curriculum at Texas A&M: Feminism, LGBTQ Studies, and Marxism.

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.

HD71: City councilman, Blaise Regan, withdraws from race before filing ever opened. Also, Liz Case interviews with local TV stations pointing out (truthfully) that she’s been doing much of the job for local voters without the title.

Tarrant County schools sued over Texas Ten Commandments law. On a related note, can we band together and start suing for separation of Leftism and government or Freedom from Leftist B.S.?

Tarrant County Democrats fail to use quorum denial to stop a tax cut! Yep, that’s what they wanted, to stop a tax cut in Tarrant County – today’s Texas Democrat with whom government is always more important than the people it was created to serve.

Legendary West Texas songwriter Sonny Curtis has died, aged 88-years. We remember with song. It was a pleasure to have spent a bit of time with Sonny, a very kind man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWOB9GBqJAA

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