The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Forbes says 88 of the 989 billioniares in the USA are in Texas, including the world’s richest. A run down on who are some of these people.

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Funniest story of this last week spills over into this week: Lina Hidalgo says Houston rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute. Now, Harris Co. Commissioner Tom Ramsey calls for Judge Lina Hidalgo to resign.

Harris County Commissioners to Consider Pro-Union Policy for County Employees. Another job for legislators – stop this for all local governments.

Lubbock city council races set for May 2nd election. A special election will be needed for District 4 from which Brayden Rose resigned. Our old friend Gary Boren has announced he will run for the District 4 seat.

A great piece on the crown prince of Iran’s Lubbock connection. He was living in Lubbock when the Islamic revolution took place.

Texas Lottery scandal followup: How Australian gamblers took down the Texas lottery for $US95 million. Gambler ‘The Joker’ confirms he bankrolled 2023 Texas Lotto operation.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Because Trump announced it, the Hearst newspapers are down playing, even belittling, the planned $300 billion, yep, with a “B”, refinery at the Port of Brownsville. Such a massive investment is transformational for the Rio Grande Valley as well as Texas and it will mainly refine West Texas Intermediate crude. It would be the first new, and modern tech, refinery in the county in almost half a century. But note how hard the Houston Chronicle goes to downplay it all: Trump’s $300B Texas refinery project draws skepticism from experts. (Note how light the story is on these supposed “experts!”)

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

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Local sales tax numbers are in for the March report. Look up your city here.

Funniest story of the week and yet I will likely not have time to cover it on the show: Lina Hidalgo says rodeo revoked her ex officio title after dispute.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: John Cornyn has defended support from Texas pastors directly linked to a major recipient of Soros money that has lobbied massively for near complete amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S.

I told you that Paxton was clever in his offer to withdraw. Cornyn and his swamp buddies just can’t bring themselves to pass something as simple as nationwide Voter ID in elections with federal offices on the ballot: Cornyn Flip-Flops Again on Filibuster After Promising ‘Whatever It Takes’.

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Tilman Fertitta’s Houston company aims to buy Caesar’s in $7B deal. “Caesars, headquartered in Reno, operates more than 50 resorts, including Harrah’s and Circus Circus, as well as properties branded as Caesars.”

Lubbock County Expo Center project comes with [more] strings attached before county borrows money, as approved by oversight board. Boren changes vote to “yes.”

Everything you need to know about this weekend’s IndyCar race in Arlington: When it starts, what tickets cost and free events surrounding the race.

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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 for a space industry (and government space program) update.

Some the items we discuss are:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Talarico Tales are proliferating across media as I predicted. Here is one of several today: Rising Texas Dem Talarico faces backlash for ‘creepy’ remark about trans kids.

Today I bring you a column from The Federalist by Chris Bray that is a Talarico Tale also involving the truly damaged, by TDS, David French: David French Suffers An Apparent Brain Injury Over James Talarico.

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Oracle denies Abilene AI data center expansion reports. Watch the wording carefully because the expansion issues was not as presented. The issue was whether the expansion would be for OpenAI and its Oracle partnership. I think there are real problems. Compare the stories I covered yesterday, below, with the email from competitor AWS I received today.

From yesterday’s show: “Oracle’s spending on AI data centers has the company in a pinch, layoffs expected. The giant Abilene Stargate data center proposed expansion may, or may not, happen as Oracle and its OpenAI customer are backing out. However, Meta may step in for that project.”

ExxonMobile may move legal headquarters from New Jersey to Texas. Governor Abbott Statement On ExxonMobil Redomiciling In Texas.

Here is the story involving our friend Cassie Daniel: Friends remember beloved Austin woman shot and killed in Houston. This is Cassie’s firsthand telling of it via facebook.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Oracle’s spending on AI data centers has the company in a pinch, layoffs expected. The giant Abilene Stargate data center proposed expansion may, or may not, happen as Oracle and its OpenAI customer are backing out. However, Meta may step in for that project.

Meanwhile: Texas expected to be world’s largest data center market by 2030. Stop complaining and ride the boom!

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Steve Toth beat RINO Dan Crenshaw for Congress and now explains why he is endorsing Ken Paxton in the Texas GOP U.S. Senate runoff.

RIP: The legendary Texas musician Augie Myers, last of the original Texas Tornados, had died at 85. We honor Myers and the sound with most of today’s show bumper music.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: TX23’s Rep.Tony Gonzales gives it up but he sure doesn’t sound very repentant to me in his official statement. That makes Brandon Herrera the TX23 GOP nominee. This adds to other races that move Texas’ GOP congressional delegation more conservative.

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If you missed it, go listen on this Alamo Day: Rick Range: What really happened to David Crockett at the Alamo? – Pratt on Texas 12/18/2025

Paxton’s offer on national Voter I.D. hands Trump a much bigger lever over Senate leadership and he’s already using it. Could this gift to Trump play in his senate race endorsement decision?

Oil and gas rig count rises in Texas but not elsewhere.

Sheets is promising to do something that is as unethical as he claims Sid Miller would do: Sheets promise to fire “every one of the cancerous people that were pro-Sid” in the Texas Dept. of Agriculture. That statement goes well beyond the traditional few at the top that normally change.

Trump administration signals change in course on Big Bend border wall. Appeasing the rich and influential at our expense?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump tries to take the vote choice from Texas Republicans in the U.S. Senate race prodded mostly by the Cornyn and DC Swamp insiders. Paxton says he’ll run even if Trump backs swamp-swimming Cornyn but cleverly says he might step out, but only if the Senate passes the SAVE Act AND ends the filibuster which is something Cornyn and his buddies do not want to do at all.

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TX23’s Rep. Tony Gonzales sees his world crumbling around due to finally admitting, after vehement denials, that he did indeed have a sexual affair his staff member who later committed suicide. The top House leadership has now asked Gonzales to withdraw from the primary runoff. Rep. Luna files censure resolution against Tony Gonzales over affair allegations.

Texas Bullion Depository goes for the gold, winds up in court.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Full Texas Primary Elections review. Runoffs abound, a few upsets transpired, and now President Trump thinks it is his job to pick one of the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates (Cornyn or Paxton) and do away with our votes in the primary runoff to select our own nominee!

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Democrats once again, like with Voter ID, essentially say a large amount of their base is too ignorant to know how and where to vote. The Texas Supreme Court put a stay on their little trick.

James Talarico takes down firebrand Rep. Jasmine Crockett in bitter Democrat Texas Senate primary.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Even after a deadly attack in Austin by an Islamist terrorist, Texas Democrats don’t want to deal with the subject. Instead they want to talk about inanimate objects that, without human agency, do nothing. It is neither bigoted or racist to demand that visitors and immigrants to a county, any country, share the basic values of a country and adopt much of its culture.

And, will Crocked Crockett be the gift that keeps on giving after today’s primary? Or, will we be treated to milktoast little James Talarico’s false use of religion to push what is, at its essence, an anti-religious movement from the Left?

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A potential Lubbock district court juror found out the hard way that the world does not always conform to each person’s wants. Juror jailed over disruption and refusal to hear evidence.

There is more and more reason to move to close the Texas Republican Primary Election to Republicans only. Here are two of stories out of today’s press review:

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