Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas 19th Congressional District Republican runoff candidate Abraham Enriquez joins us for half of the show to discuss his race against Tom Sell. His website is here: Abraham Enriquez for Congress.

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Oil and gas rotary rig count from Baker Hughes rises again in Texas.

Paxton vs. Cornyn: Another poll this week shows Paxton with a commanding lead over Cornyn in the GOP primary runoff election. Read the summary here.

Bad news!: You won’t be able to get Fredericksburg peaches this year.

Texas Tech paid $3.5 million for adjacent historic house for its new chancellor, $1.2 million more than the estimated market value. Always easy to negotiate soft when you are using other people’s money!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Queer Raiders and others hold a fake “funeral” for “academic freedom” at Texas Tech because they are so queered-up they don’t realize that they are simply reminding the public of how, even at Texas Tech, so-called academic freedom has strayed from scientific Truth.

Dr. Steven Balch well explained on yesterday’s show what academic freedom was defined as by the AAUP – it isn’t anything like what today’s perverts and Leftists claim it to be.

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.

Local sales tax receipt numbers released, it’s up 7.7 percent of same period last year. Look up your city here.

Attorney General Paxton investigating several school districts over compliance with SB10 & SB11. Lubbock ISD, Abilene ISD, Wichita Falls ISD, and many more are on the list.

Two Muslim related stories: One is correct action by the state for breaking the law, the other is not and yet it is being praised by many of short sight.

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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!  Today we talk about this term “academic freedom” that so many on campus are throwing about, claiming such is under attack by new laws in Texas and elsewhere.

Two, of many, recent stories I had in the stack are the background for the interview:

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.”

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.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out on the Texas Republican Primary runoff election and there are few surprises but one thing of big interest to me: The “Latino” vote doesn’t seem to follow the old RINO idea that we should comprise our conservatism to gain Hispanic votes. See the full poll here.

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.

Texas sales tax revenue for April grew almost 10 percent over April of 2025.

53,000 More Texas Students Awarded School Choice Funding Based on Income.

About Cinco de Mayo and why it’s good to celebrate a little!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Election notes:

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Anti-Wimp update: Driver saves women & children, shoots carjacker in Garland.

Texas wins again, this time its a “triple crown”: Texas Wins 2026 Prosperity Cup As Top State For Job-Creating Business Investment.

Some bad news on the pro-life front today: Supreme Court temporarily restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies. Pro-Choicers recognize that abortion is too evil to even describe; watch Rep. Brandon Gill in action.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas apparently has a problem with process servers who lie and it is a serious issue. Now there is a call for more regulation and stronger licensing rules but those things will not stop the dishonest. Fix it with very strong civil and criminal penalties and make it easier to prosecute them for dishonesty but don’t grow government over the issue.

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.

The Texas Supreme Court has slammed the door shut, a door which should never have been opened, on the retail get-high drug business by ruling on the Delta-8 drug loophole. Too bad this couldn’t have come a few years ago.

Oil and gas drilling rig count climbed this week in Texas.

Too bad local area media will not do the job but at least the Houston Chronicle is willing to tell the Toby Neugebauer story: This Texas billionaire’s nuclear-powered data center company faces collapse (Fermi America.)

Pope Taps Former Illegal Alien and a DEI Warrior As Leading US Bishops.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: More on the collapsing race-based political system the Democratic Party has used to gain power. A follow-up on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision that was discussed here.

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Talarico leads Cornyn, Paxton in Senate matchups, UT poll finds. Full polling detail.

Governor Abbott demands Teacher Retirement System of Texas further lower Medicare Advantage costs.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The U.S. Supreme Court made another step toward stopping Leftwing Democrats from perverting our nation’s foundational principles of non-discrimination. The court ruled against drawing political district lines for racial purposes – and the liberal Democrats are furious. Here is the best summary of the decision in the case of Louisiana v. Callais.

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.

The Texas Tribune and Votebeat published a long feature story on Texas political party primary elections that, while containing much accurate information, is based on a falsehood, a false premise.

Attorney General Paxton sues Houston-area “Birth Tourism” center for exploiting birthright citizenship by unlawfully facilitating the invasion of Chinese nationals into Texas for the sole purpose of giving birth.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: When is it ever a time not to spend more money and create more specialty positions in public schools? One would think that declining enrollments, including from illegal immigration which increase the need for hard to find and expensive bilingual specialists, would be a time for public school districts to catch their fiscal breaths. But no, it’s just another crisis that needs more money despite the fact declining enrollments vastly lower expenses.

Plus other border and immigration news:

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Dallas Fed reports: Texas service sector resumes growth in April.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas gets two big court decisions. First, the U.S. Supreme Court formally puts Texas’ newest Congressional district maps in service. Second, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals allows Texas’ SB4 to go into effect allowing state arrests of illegal aliens in certain situations and state court orders for deportation. The court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of the law but is allowing it to go into effect while the battle is waged a the district court level.

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.

Dallas Fed survey: Texas manufacturing expansion strengthens in April.

Related to the latest nutjob Leftist trying to murder the president and top officials:

Illegal migrant ‘cannibal’ attacks 3-year-old in San Antonio park, the Biden admin fumbled ‘completely preventable’ assault.

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