Pratt on Texas

Interview with Dustin Eggleston who is running for Precinct 1 of the High Plains Underground Water District #1. This precinct covers Lubbock, Lynn, and part of Crosby counties.

Out today and so I'm re-airing this May 2021 interview: I interviewed our friend, scholar Dr. Stephen Balch, about his piece at American Greatness: Toward a National Liberation Movement | The goal isn’t civil war, it’s the redemption of our republic from alien servitude and inching obliteration.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Around the world and here in Texas, Leftists openly attack the concept and practice of free speech and expression while claiming their free expression should have no boundaries. Yes, it is absurdly contradictory but it plays out everywhere including in small town 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.It is easier than you think for county commissioners to block property tax increases each year; it only takes two commissioners to do so. So why do so few, who often talk a big game against taxes at election time, have so little courage to actually do so. Some are standing for taxpayers.What’s with all the shady “game rooms” around Texas and why do so many jurisdictions do little to nothing to shut the places down? I think that in many cases there is a certain amount of corruption among officials causing them to put enforcement low on their priority lists.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats are losing their own voters and “independents” over the border and lack of control over immigration. A majority now support building a physical wall. Also, the White House is a mess over the incompetent officials it has has running the border show. Also see last week’s show on Mayorkas.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.Trump to hold rally in Robstown at the fairgrounds this coming Saturday.Harris County judge race is among the most important of the cycle statewide. Meanwhile, Harris County’s two GOP commissioners appear to be standing firm against the property tax increase pushed by Hidalgo and the two Democrat commissioners.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: If busing migrants to DC, Chicago, NYC and Martha’s Vineyard is political theater, Democrats have decided to jump on the same stage with investigations and abuse of authority. The miscalculation they make is that they are simply bringing more attention to the border crisis which is exactly what the busing did and what made them furious. Also, how is dangling special U-Visas as in incentive to these people, and no doubt other things, not the same thing these officials are accusing others of doing?Obama’s border chief says Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas is a “scumbag!”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.Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas.A.G. Paxton says his Democrat opponent is a “human trafficking lawyer.”And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Roy Maynard discusses his TPPF piece on school choice, or parent empowerment, titled: Rural Routes and Dirt Roads: Every Child Deserves a Quality Education. There is a ridiculous but comment knee-jerk reaction that true school choice will badly damage public education in rural Texas. We talk about a few of the failures of that argument.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.Anti-Wimp update: Naked man trying to steal cat(?) shot by homeownerMuch in the campaign stack.Also, a commentary by Peter Van Buren, The left thinks social media is reality, at The Spectator World ties in well with much I've said over the years about confusing one's alternate reality with the real world. It also lines up with my election edition column for the Buffalo Gap Round-Up New about not confusing polling with actually voting.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack includes disclosure that arrogant Leftist Democrat Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins once put on blackface to scare college girls. Why does this overt racist action not end the careers of liberal Democrats? Also, back the three Latina Republicans bringing the election fight to the Rio Grande Valley. The Democrats are at war with each other and claiming the DCCC isn’t doing enough to hold the south Texas congressional seats.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.Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation discusses the discovery that Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkas deliberately allowed the American people, and world, to be mislead into believe that our Border Patrol agents, mounted on horse, had whipped illegal aliens at the Rio Grande.Local sales tax numbers are in and once again show that most jurisdictions didn’t need a property tax increase as sales tax receipts are enough to cover inflationary pressures.Harris County Republican commissioners are still standing strong to stop a tax increase.The beating of a Plano restaurant manager shows how awful our society has become and why you need to be armed and practiced everywhere.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com.Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.”In this episode we look at blacklisted Americans and those who are fighting back against this tyranny. We also discuss the sad patterns we find in all of this including an unwillingness to put a stop to such.Stories discussed include:Black playwright blackballed because he honestly told the story of racism in the Jim Crow southThe rising federal GestapoUNT professor fired for making joke wins $165K settlement from universityArrested in 2020 for letting her kids play in park, a mom is still being prosecuted by Idaho Republicans www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The campaign stack today includes gubernatorial fundraising numbers; an example of how media, in this case the same newspaper, covers a Republican event versus how it covers a Democrat event. And, the three Republican “Latinas” of South Texas are getting much national attention. There are other races too such as HD118 on the south side of San Antonio which will tell us much after the election. However, these races, whether won or lost by Republicans, will not evidence a solid trend in Hispanic voting. What we need to use them for is a study in what type of candidate and what type of campaign works best in Texas to flip these seats from Democrat to Republican.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.Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com, famed space historian and science writer, talks about the burgeoning private-sector space industry in Texas – it goes way beyond SpaceX and Blue Origin. In fact, another Texas company just got its rocket into orbit which is something Bezo’s Blue Origin has yet to do in all its years.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: What to do with the last of the “Covidians?” David Marcus covers the subject spectacularly well in this column. Also, did you catch the junk-science being reported by media that Republicans were more likely to die from WuFlu than Democrats? They conveniently forgot to tell you that Republicans tend to be older demographically than Democrats (older and wiser?) and so it only follows that GOP-leaning counties also had older populations.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.A story to which all political activists in Texas need pay much attention so you don’t end up being prosecuted and convicted of a crime.FBI massively undercounts number of times armed citizens have thwarted active shooting incidents. And the City of Houston works to make the Bayou City less safe, with its already high crime rate, by getting guns out of the hands of law abiding people who could use such to stop crime.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com