Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Seventh Court of Appeal for Texas slapped the City of Lubbock hard in a unanimous decision in favor of Gary Boren’s ability to run for city council. Once again (we’ve been through this before), it appears that taxpayer are paying, and paying a lot, for a substandard city legal department that is delivering a bad work product. Looks like yet another area of needed reform in the Hub City. Gary Boren visits with us about the unanimous ruling in his (and our) favor.

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Cornyn ran Spanish language advert in 2020 calling for amnesty for all under Obama’s illegal DACA program – pulled the ad off of YouTube when it was noticed recently.

Baker Hughes oil and gas rotary rig count rises in Texas.

Houston gets back to being right with ICE cooperation, Dallas and Austin are on the way with Gov. Abbott moving their deadline for compliance until Monday. Holly Hansen tells the story very well at The Texan.

Texas Supreme court removed injunctions stopping the state from investigating families trying to medically change the sex of their children.

Two gun rights issue in the news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A viral cut and past Facebook post on property taxes in Texas gets some general things right but perpetuates the biggest misunderstanding there is: Who raises your property tax burden?

Here’s the post:

Hypothetically…….. I’m being taxed on money I never made. Let that sink in.
 If I bought my property outright for $120,000 in 2001
 Now the county says it’s worth $499,100.
 Did I sell it? No.
 Did I make a profit? No.
 Did I get a check for $499,100? No.
 But my taxes jumped like I did.
 That’s the problem.
 This isn’t income.
 This isn’t cash.
 This is a number someone decided on paper — and now I’m being billed for it.
 If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell.
 If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax.
 So why does owning a home work differently?
 Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains?
 A house isn’t just an investment — it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money.
 You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it.
 This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.”
 It’s about being charged for value you never received.
 And people are starting to notice. 
 COPY & PASTE this to Your page, this needs to be on everyone’s mind…

With few exceptions, the increased appraised value of your property did NOT raise your property taxes, local politicians did. They get away with it year after year because people think it was the appraisal that did it – and many politicians expressly lie to the public to perpetuate this blame shifting. Read more here.

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Governor Abbott tells Houston PD it had better get with the ICE program and until it does, the money is “no longer flowing.”  And, the City of Austin also changed its policing policy with ICE and is facing big money losses. It is negotiating with Gov. Abbott.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas wins at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal on its Ten Commandments in the public school classroom law. The decision makes a strong point that more citizens should understand about the “Establishment Clause” and reaction shows more of the hypocrisy of the Democrat left on “exposure” of things to children.

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.

Chip Roy, in a GOP runoff for Texas’ attorney general, is praised by a Leftist Soros funded group for blocking a key pro-law enforcement bill in Congress.

Judge Albright, Texas Patent Magnet, leaving bench in August.

Mayor Whitmire, Houston council pass amendments to ICE policy as Greg Abbott threatens funding.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s victory day for Texas, San Jacinto Day!  We review the story of this battle that was “but a skirmish; but with what mighty consequences!” And, thanks to a good article at The Texan, we remember one of the heroes of San Jacinto: Henry Millard who laid out and named Beaumont.

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Texas restaurant owners sounding alarm over immigrant labor shortages – what utter hypocrisy.

Tanker Arrives at Golden Pass Texas Facility for Inaugural LNG Export.

Michael and Susan Dell make huge gift to the University of Texas to establish an AI-native medical and research center.

Governor Abbott, LCRA announce the Timmerman Power Plant is fully operational, a month early!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: For years non-liberal media reporting has shown serious problems, even potential crimes, by the Democrat funding machine ActBlue – even its lawyers admit the organization was untruthful. Now Texas, through Attorney General Paxton, is suing ActBlue.

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Texas wins again! 22nd year in a row ranked as the Best State for Business. Other Lone Star State business news:

Anti-Wimp update: Prepared Texan stops home invasion in Houston.

Houston Mayor Whitmire calls Greg Abbott ICE fight futile; experts disagree. Whitmire says city may “amend” ordinance instead of repeal.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton sues Houston over its new sanctuary city for illegal immigration rules. Mayor Whitmire cancels today’s special council meeting and moves it to next week. And, Governor Abbott sends an official letter to the City of Dallas threatening its grant funding over the same issue.

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Fundraising totals for key Texas Congressional runoffs, including TX19, and November races: The Texan and The Texas Voice.

Governor Abbott doubles down, calls on Texas Supreme Court to remove Rep. Gene “BooHoo” Wu from office over 2025’s House quorum bust.

Baker Hughes oil and gas rig count unchanged this week.

Texas Economy Hits Record $2.9 Trillion.

Texas emerges as the top destination for companies leaving blue states– the new part of this is the “whole package” coming with our court system reforms.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Two Stench of Local Government stories today and one is a repeat we’ve seen time and again across the state. It is astounding how much money and how much time local government bureaucrats can spend when allowed free reign so to do. About all we can do to choke it down is to force adoption of the No New Revenue tax rate so that increases in income are a bit more limited.

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.

John Cornyn outraises Ken Paxton as Senate runoff looms. Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico way outraised both of them, as reported yesterday.

Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at the University of Texas yesterday:

Two more immigration sob stories from today’s press review, such are in the media daily, and in both cases, we discover that no, they didn’t follow the law.

Attorney General Ken Paxton victorious in suit against Live Nation in court.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Enforcing America’s longstanding immigration laws – why is such a basic thing so controversial, especially with Texas cities? Polling shows majorities support enforcing these laws and political history shows that even Democrats, when they control the Congress and Executive Branch, have not done much of anything to change the laws. But we’re in a media propaganda storm telling all that most everyone is against enforcing immigration law.

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Ken Paxton’s work as attorney general nets two very important wins for Americans:

Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico raises a bunch of money from fellow creepy anti-American leftists.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton and Governor Abbott push Houston into reversing its newly adopted limits on police cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Mayor Whitmire is clearly pleased – will the council make the reversal in a special meeting this Friday to save $110 million in public safety grants?

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.

Travis County-based District Judge put the discriminatory HUB program back on track, sets a trial date to determine if “Acting Comptroller” Kelly Hancock had the authority to gut the program. May turn out to be yet another Hancock bungle.

Kristin Tips deep-sixed as chairwoman of the Texas Funeral Service Commissionfollowing several years of agency troubles.

TX23’s Tony Gonzales resigns from Congress over sexual improprieties. How he and Swalwell’s resignations affect the U.S. House balance of power.

Lubbock city council race news: Gary Boren says city hired Fort Worth law firm to handle simple appeal response to his case over ballot denial. Word is that the city had on its own website, until recently, that one only needed to be a resident upon filing to run for city council – exactly Boren’s legal argument.

“Higher” education news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Charlie Geren’s House Admin. committee finally gets around to voting to fine House Democrats who broke quorum last summer. But wait, there’s more: They don’t owe it until officially served with notice of the vote and given how long it has taken to get the vote, who knows how long that might take. Even if quickly, Dems may not pay with personal funds rendering the penalty much ado about nothing. In responding BooHoo Wu qualifies as a Captain Obvious contestant.

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Another edition of Talarico Tales: Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico says that police in schools enhances a culture of violence; sought to force hiring of 4 social worker counselors for every one police officer at a public school campus. This guy is not just a nutjob, he’s the whole fruit basket of crazy.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals declares 158-year-old U.S. home distilling ban unconstitutional. It’s a panel of the court and the decision may be appealed. It only applies to states, like Texas, that are in the 5th Circuit at present so I’d wait a bit before firing up that still at home.

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