Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Beware more the AI techno-lefties and their political ploy on government regulation than AI itself, at least at this stage. Two excellent summaries of what is happening (and there are many more out there who spotted this ploy and reported on it.)

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A shockingly good editorial from the Dallas Morning News: Don’t worry about Texas losing professors.

Who are the Texans on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list? Go here, and select Texas in the state box.

Texas Democrat PAC funded by Soros, the Texas Majority PAC, is paying people to take an online voter class via Zoom. A now fired manager said it was really a workaround to pay people to vote.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Texas Democrats, through a Soros-funded PAC, effectively paying people to vote? One of the group’s own managers says “Yes!”

Also, more alarming anti-moral, anti-Christian items coming from little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico’s Austin so-called “church”:

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.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick calls on ERCOT to reverse $150,000 retention bonuses for its board members. Why the heck are they paid beyond meeting expenses to begin with? What happened to civic service?

For the informed, Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish’s statement today on his phantom commissioner pay scandal is worthy of tremendous derision. He created the problem, involved Meurer in it, made sure the pay checks didn’t stop after a court ruled Meurer is not the commissioner, and now acts as if it all just happened and we are to feel sorry for Meurer when it is Parrish who created the entire affair.

Texas Teacher Misconduct Reports Triple in 2026 reports Erin Anderson of  Texas Scorecard.

Get updates on Texas Wildfires here. The Forest Service responded to 8 active wildfires yesterday.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: After investigations of the larger raw numbers of data mismatches, the Texas Secretary of State identified 117 cases of likely non-citizen illegal voting and has referred such to the Office of Attorney General. Meanwhile, A.G. Paxton’s office has announced the arrest of 7 for illegal voting that it has already been working on.

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.

Lubbock Co. payroll scandal: Demonstrating that I’ve gotten it right from the beginning, Mr. Meurer releases a statement claiming Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish encouraged his getting paid as a county commissioner even when he was not serving as such. Think about what Parrish was effectively telling Mr. Meurer. He was saying that Meurer is entitled to full-time pay for the many months, could be years, Meurer was NOT serving as a county commissioner, due to court order, if he were to prevail eventually in the legal case. This exposes Bowtie Bully’ extreme lack of ethical standards.

Once again, someone too lazy to simply do a quick search and check, says I reported something “false and deserves correction and apology.” Sorry there Listener, but it is you who got it wrong. I did not talk about the halftime interview but what happened at the end of the UT game with Sarkisian and Holly Rowe.

Get updates on Texas Wildfires here. The Forest Service says it responded to 13 new wildfires yesterday!

ERCOT says Texas grid handled record-setting summer demand. Also: ERCOT reverses $6.4 million CEO contract after Dan Patrick objects. He’s right to object.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The answer to how the Lubbock County phantom commissioner pay scandal came about is quite simple and it wears a bow tie everyday. The Bowtie Bully’s arrogance and political treachery that started, and has continued, all the mess is rooted in his disregard of taxpayer interests. All of this comes from his desire for revenge on Jason Corley for repeatedly being effective at stopping property tax hikes.

Bowtie Bully Parrish’s tepid defense over this is that the legal matter is not over. So what?! Is he endorsing the idea that his handpicked accomplice, Mark Meurer, should be paid $70,000 while not serving as a commissioner, even if because of a temporary court order? 

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.

Off the cuff, little Jimmy “the Creep” Talarico was instantly able to name his favorite Texas drag queen! Talarico instantly names favorite Texas drag queen — a performer who says he ‘works with children’

Abbott threatens data center owners who don’t report water usage to the Texas Water Development Board.

Governor Abbott Creates Leadership Team To Bring United States Space Academy To Texas – Historic investment made for Colorado City water infrastructure by data center companies.

Rep. Drew Darby tears into oil and gas commissioner for defying order to appear at Capitol. Typical RINO Darby at work. It appears he is at fault for changing the meeting time but the real story here is that the hearing was going to be used as a campaign booster for committee member Rosenthal, the Dem nominee for a seat on the Railroad Commission.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, a Bo French social media post gives every anti-Republican ammunition to label conservatives and Republicans as racists and/or bigots. Bo French is condemnable as much for his political stupidity as he is for the apparent bigotry of his online post BUT, don’t buy into the media attempt to get you to vote for the Democrat over this. Big Media has been pushing outright bigotry and racism for years including Marxist Critical Race Theory and D.E.I. racism that includes a call for racial discrimination against Caucasians, Asians, etc.

Ken Paxton Responds to James Talarico’s Call to Condemn Bo French. Paxton is right on this. All these leftist Dems are race focused in almost everything they do.

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.

In the Texas House, James Talarico said that parents who disagree with their own child over “gender identity” or homosexuality are engaged in child abuse. He voted against protecting parents from abuse liability for such and voted for an amendment in a bill that specifically would say that  “rejecting a child’s gender identity or sexual orientation is abuse” and “should be treated as such under Texas law.” [See more on Talarico’s real record here.]

Lubbock Lights has learned, county paid two commissioners for same precinct job. Well, Lubbock Lights did learn it, as well as did I, and is writing about it. I mention a thing or two not in the Lights’ story as of mid-day. Much more will be coming out I’m sure. This is ALL Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish from the beginning and the pay problem appears to have been at his hand.

Texas Stock Exchange gets another listing: Texas Capital Bancshares Inc. leaving Nasdaq for the new Texas exchange.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas featured a protester moment that shows how actually stupid, and I mean it, low-IQ stupid, so many are whom we see involved in protests, riots, etc. in this country. What type of moron do you have to be not to realize that with the vast majority of Americans you work against your own interest when you protest here by flying the flag of another country?

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 from Baker Hughes.

TikTok Lied About Harmful Content for Minors, Texas Judge Rules. Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Historic Victory Making Texas the First State in the Nation to Hold TikTok Liable for Harming Children.

A full 11 September 2001 remembrance in our look at today in Texas history. Remember, the President at the time was our former governor and West Texas-native George W. Bush.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas: Schedule and live stream. Today is the final day. I give a review of yesterday’s speeches and the press coverage of such. Also, Lubbock Co. Republican Party Chairman Ken Adams joins us from Dallas to give his thoughts on the proceedings.

I liked Tom Emmer’s speech so much, I play it on the show today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wziPGz4Lijg

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Comptroller Huffines Distributes $1.3 Billion in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments. Top 20 Cities. Look up your city here. Look how much most of these cities are up year-to-date in sales tax revenue and then ask why they passing tax raises.

Energy Transfer, Sunoco and others confirm switch to Texas Stock Exchange from NYSE – woo hoo!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas: Schedule and live stream. It began today at 3 p.m. and runs through tomorrow night. President Trump is set to speak later tonight.

On the Texas front, Abbott and others begin to tell voters just who the Democrat nominee for governor really is:

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’s hard hitting trade fight keeps paying generational dividends for Texas: Global Stakes in Texas Energy: South Korea’s $23 Billion Natural Gas Investment. Korea Picks $22.3 Billion Texas Power Plant as First U.S. Investment Project.

City of Lubbock passes bloated budget with big tax increase with “conservatives” supportive so that firefighters can work about 90-days per year. Dear Mayor, money going to “public safety” doesn’t actually equal an increase in public safety. Paying firefighters more to work less is not an increase in fire protection.

Harris County residents to pay highest tax rate in modern history. Great headline but the Houston Chronicle, both in the news pages and editorially, has pushed for the election of the very Democrats who have mismanaged county (and city) budgets as well as has supported most all the big spending programs.

Taylor County judge discusses tax cuts, data center concerns.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The old “establishment” non-conservatives of the Republican Party get the chastisement they deserve from Scott McKay at The American Spectator: John Cornyn Is Owed No Revenge at the Expense of His Own Party. An absolute MUST READ and kudos to Senator Cruz for sparking this issue.

Who are these self-entitled people willing to let win to salve their own overblown egos?:

Meanwhile, Tump’s MAGA Inc. comes with with $10 million for Paxton & Elon Musk’s PAC spending big for Paxton as are others.

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.

What to Know About the GOP’s Unusual Midterm Convention – starts tomorrow in Dallas, runs through Thursday night. Reuters lies in this piece staying Trump “falsely called Democrats “communists” this year…” Falsely? That is opinion being published as news.

Congratulations Regan Hutsell! The Houston woman was crowned Miss America 2027 – only the 4th Texan to win.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today, Jonathan Turley posted a column that echoes my coverage yesterday: Talarico brings a touch of Trotsky to the Texas Senate race.

I wrote and covered yesterday: Democratic Socialists are, in their own words, dedicated to establishing the USA as communist state. DSA members and adherents are soldiers of the Cold War on the Soviet side, they are traitors to our country. More are noticing that James Talarico has long expressed DSA values even agreeing that our free capitalist system needs replacing with communism. No wonder the Chinese Commies love him. Another story: Talarico’s ‘proud capitalist’ about-face collides with resurfaced call to ‘dismantle’ capitalism.

HD37: Texas Democrat House candidate sponsored march with socialists, tied in tightly to the communist DSA.

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Baker Hughes rig count shows Texas up one drilling rig this week.

Massive Jobs Blowout: U.S. Economy Added 162,000 Jobs in August.

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