The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Election integrity bill passes the House at 3 a.m. but with all the amendments pushed mostly by Democrats, it will be Senate and House conferees almost fully rewriting the bill.

Austin operative Todd Smith arrested on corruption charges related to Hemp licenses from TDA.

Democrat Dutton, House Public Education Committee chairman, not only ressurects the bill to keep boys from playing in girls sports, he votes for it!

Baker Hughes oil & gas drilling rig count.

WuFlu numbers very low 8 weeks after Texas removing most restrictions.

ERCOT and the fees you’ll be paying forever. Lubbock folk, do you still think this move to ERCOT will save ratepayers money?!

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House passes fetal heartbeat bill to save the lives of babies but the Leftwing Quorum Report callously refers to such as “Republicans creating causes of action.” Well yes, I guess that’s right given we oppose the evil of Roe vs. Wade and the only way to get the issue of legal baby murdering back before a court is to protect those babies so the Left will sue.

Texas Senate amended and passed Constitutional Carry against the same old arguments of the Left which are based on a false premise.

Tons of other news from the Legislature including passage of bills on reforming CPS, use of CO bonds by local governments, election law, and a ban on camping on public property to restrict the bum camps.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Census shows Texas leads in the nation in population growth and Texas had been the leader in job creation for over two decades. Why then do Texas Democrats, media included, despise the very culture and policies to which millions are flocking? A major leader in "green energy" of all things says they are targeting build out in Texas because of the states limited regulation and business friendly environment!

Tons of news from the Legislature including passage of the Fetal Heartbeat Bill in the House.

Federal judge says CDC had no business imposing an eviction moratorium on landlords nationwide.

Texas sues Biden Administration, again, for a very good reason.

All about Cinco de Mayo!

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: New York Times, and helped by the Texas Tribune, ignores clear context and tries to start political war between Texas Governor Abbott and Attorney General Paxton. It is "fake" news, or if you give them any credit for honest, it is ignorant reporting.

Tons of news from the Legislature including an update on Republican Party of Texas legislative priorities.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Across Texas, state and national media did not get the stories they were hoping for in Saturday's elections. From San Antonio voters going with police; Austin saying no more craziness in bum camping; anti-Trump candidate washing out in TX6, and; Lubbock handily voting for a pro-life, anti-abortion city ordinance, the press was left with nothing to signal a wider trend Left in the Lone Star State.

Comptroller Hegar revises Biennial Revenue Estimate higher giving legislators more money to spend.

The Left's nasty bigotry and racism on display in comments about Senator Tim Scott and more from the political news stack.

Business news about Furr's, Alderson Auto Group, Exxon and more.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas, and national, media stick with the blatant lie that election integrity legislation in Texas is putting in-place “restrictions” on voting but nothing of the sort is happening in Texas bills.

Tons of other news from the Texas legislature as bills move.

DPS says no crime committed in case of allegations of the Austin lobbyist using a date-rape drug against a capitol staffer.

The world is in worse shape that our neighbors want to admit. A pastor in the UK was arrested for saying that marriage is between a man and a woman. And, Jeopardy! winners and others go nuts over what they stupidly claimed was a “white supremacy” sign shown by a recent winner.

A WuFlu, COVID-19, update with Dr. John Thomas.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Was the "lobbyist" framed in supposed date-rape drug scandal? And other capitol sex scandal and attempt to cover it up. It is important to understand that there is a group of those who "serve" in order to live it up big and engage in all types of bad behavior while in Austin.

Tons of news from the Texas legislature as bills move. From alcohol-to-go to more uses of cannabis and slowing Leftist indoctrination in our schools, legislators move bills that affect our lives.

Biden's mendacious address to the nation in which he advocates MAPA - Making American Poor Again policies.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden names anti-enforcement Texas sheriff to be chief of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE!) Harris County sheriff, Ed Gonzalez, has a history of opposing enforcement of immigration law and Senator Cornyn says he’s “disturbed” by sheriff’s record.

Governor Abbott now publicly backing Constitutional Carry, big Senate committee hearing is tomorrow.

Tons of news from the Texas legislature including an unwarranted attack in Rep. Dustin Burrows.

Over 23,000 voted early on Lubbock’s Sanctuary City for the Unborn ordinance. A TTU law professor calls Roe vs. Wade “good law” seeming to forget it is not law but a court decision.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: “Heated” House committee hearing shows the ideological divide on history and monuments and how people choose to react to such. The Alamo fight has made for some interesting alliances.

U.S. Census data on Congressional reapportionment is unsurprising with Texas gaining 2 seats.

Texas service sector growing but numbers are still way behind the WuFlu lockdown damage; retail sector too.

Wide open Texas and Florida report fewer WuFlu cases than locked down Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York demonstrating again that masking and lock-downs have little to no real-world effectiveness.

Action needed to support Constitutional Carry in the Senate.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas capitol gets two scandals over the weekend. First, RINO state Rep. Huberty drives drunk and crashes his Corvette under a mini-van near Porter. Then word gets out that a capitol staffer believes a well known lobbyist with mega lobby firm Hillco Partners used a date rape drug on her.

Why Texas legislators’ rush to create a big fund to pay for rural broadband-speed Internet is a wasteful idea way too late to matter – except to allow for some old style entities to pocket a bit of our cash.

U.S. Supreme Court turns down a hearing of Texas’ case against California over it enacting a state-funded travel ban to Texas simply because Texas allows church-based adoption services to opt out of placing children in homosexual households.

SCOTUS justices agree to take a key gun and self-defense related case out of New York.

Jack County commissioner quits over threats to his life over issue of ending tax abatements for electricity wind “farms,” plus the news of Texas.

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