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Our Lone Star story of the day: The problem with limiting immigration enforcement to just criminals, etc. is that it degrades, even destroys, the value of citizenship. Remember, the American Experiment is one of a republic of self-governing, sovereign citizens. Without high value citizenship, there can be no Constitutional Republic. Ammon Blair explains the problem brilliantly in this piece: At the border, the very concept of ‘citizenship’ is under siege.

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Legislative updates.

Oil and gas rig count falls again.

RIP: Texas music legend Flaco Jiménez; Dead at 86. We remember with music from the great squeezebox player. Watch and listen: https://youtu.be/qItru7hZqzU?si=sDO1CZhBY3E_JxsD

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Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump’s executive order on energy and agriculture stops the planned “land grab” Biden put in motion around the Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge which would have taken significant land out of agriculture production.

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Senator Cruz and others have it right. We don’t necessarily need layer upon layer of weather even warning systems. We already have a robust national system from the National Weather Service via radio and it simply needs a further build-up.

Senate passes THC ban in Second Reading.

More on Texas Congressional redistricting.

DMN libs say voters want move on from border issues but the public says it wants deportation of illegal aliens.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: National and Texas Democrats have already overplayed their hand on Texas Congressional redistricting and the Lefty show has just raised its curtain. The truth is is opposite of this headline: Texas Republicans struggle to defend redistricting as hearings grow contentious. Almost all attendance was from the shock troops of the Leftist fringe of the Democrat Party. Those people, and many of the office holders, were so “nasty” to committee members that it has bolstered their desire to move aggressively with the redistricting effort.

A new proposed map has been released and it could give Texas Republicans five more seats (Dems five fewer) in the U.S. House – sources say the maps were easy to draw. What that really shows is that Republican leadership was too weak and gave away to many seats to Democrats in the last redistricting.

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Your money at work: TWU research on ‘re-closeting’ of older lesbians.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: From Congressional redistricting to fixing abuse of the hemp law to banning taxpayer funded lobbying, the 89th Texas Legislature has much to do in this 30-day called special session.

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Being bothered by “tense” or “heated” discussions, and real rhetorical fights, of government officials when they are debating and voting on policy is ignoring that our government, as Americans, at every level is supposed to be adversarial. When they all “just get along,” it means policy is decided behind closed doors. We need more “heated debate,” real debate, at all levels of government.

Growth resumes in Texas service sector activity, retail sales flat.

Anti-Wimp: Being drunk & ignoring family gets man shot.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The problem with the attempt to panic people over Texas’ mid-decade Congressional redistricting effort in the special called session: There really isn’t much big Democrat states can do to offset such as they’ve already done the super partisan job of drawing out Republican seats and, more importantly, they’ve lost population.

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Abilene city Councilman Regan either doesn’t understand the basics of how the property tax system works or, he is willfully misleading the public when he puts the blame for tax increases upon increased appraised values. Does he not even know what is the No New Revenue Rate?

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Senate moves forward on banning taxpayer-funded lobbying. Some of the objections to such are shallow at best, self-indicting at worst.

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Well now we know! Rep. Giovanni Capriglione Faces Allegations of Long-Term Affair, Abortion Payments. Texas Rep. Giovanni Capriglione admits affair. Video from accuser: Rep. Giovanni Capriglione Faces Affair Allegations from Texas Woman.

Anti-Wimp: Armed resident fights off 3 a.m. home invasion

Oil and gas rig count falls again.

Useless story, it tells nothing including what the headline says: Abilene City Council reduces property tax rate in upcoming budget.

Lubbock Power & Light didn’t follow the rules, faces massive fines that ratepayers will pay in one way or another. – You’d think that the years and years of public excuse making experience Matt Rose has with LP&L that he’d get better at it. ‘We didn’t know’ and ‘we reduced the fine with negotiation’ doesn’t do much for me!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Legislature is in Special Session and a Senate committee has advanced a ban on THC; banning taxpayer-funded lobbying is getting a renewed push, and; politicians who often tout “local control” are now decrying such for decisions, with which they disagree, by the Upper Guadalupe River Authority.

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State Rep. Capriglione flips, now says he will not run for reelection – lawyer letter to media outlet casts heavy shadow on situation. Who threatens a media outlet for story they haven’t even run?

Harris County Democrats have been electing super-far-leftists, did they win a few battles to only lose the war inside the local Democratic Party?

Big, long AP hit piece directed at Paxton as well as the Trump Administration may have found something important, or it might not be anything substantive at all.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the 1st Called Session of the 89th Texas Legislature:

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NEW: Local government public debt sorted by state House district.

New University of Texas system chancellor named and UT-Austin president named. From down the road in San Marcos: Texas State University Course Promoted LGBT Ideology.

Harris County Taxpayers Foot $1.1 Million Bill for Illegal Alien Legal Defense; Fort Bliss Receives $1.26B Contract For Immigration Detention Center; Mexico Lying to Trump — Cartel Bosses Work Unimpeded in Michoacan.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The first called session of the 89th Legislature is underway in Austin as of Noon today. Congressional redistricting takes the national spotlight but there is a long list of highly important items on the Governor’s call – it is probably too much for one 30-day session.

Speaker of the House Burrows, founder of the Bureaucrat Coalition, named a special committee for redistricting. On the surface it looks heavily tilted to Republicans until one realizes that the 3-vote GOP majority on the committee is offset by Burrows appointment of three of the most liberal RINOs to the committee: Geren, Hunter, and Guillen.

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Busting two common myths about Property Taxes perpetuated by politicians and  local media.

Records show DEI standards used to pressure law schools to adopt racist practices. Texas law school deans (including at Texas Tech) want to deep DEI-infused ABA accreditation!

Republican launches TX34 House bid in key Rio Grande Valley swing district GOP aims to flip in 2026 midterms – Eric Flores.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas A&M’s provost and executive vice president Alan Sams sounds like an official of Leftist universities such as NYU or Columbia? (Maybe that’s where he should be working…) Sams sent an email to faculty, staff, and graduate students telling them to report any sightings if ICE on campus to the campus cops. He also stressed how “privacy” is of the “utmost importance” in a context making it appear the A&M will not share the illegal status of a person with legitimate law enforcement.

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Jobs boom: Texas leads the nation in job creation and the unemployment rate drops.

Oil and gas drilling rig count drops in Texas. Chevron wins bit in its takeover of Hess and Hess’s part of the giant Guyana off-shore oil field.

Dems lose their challenge, on appeal, to Texas law that specifies that local government cannot pass laws that contradict state law, they branded it the Death Star bill. 

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