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September 08, 2025Episode 3808: Illogic surrounds 2nd Amendment opinion | Texas space business news | More DEI at A&M exposed – Pratt on Texas 9/8/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Why does so much illogic, utter stupidity, and simple blindness to practical reality surround the right to keep and bear arms? Three Second Amendment related stories today:
NRA opposes possible DOJ gun ownership ban for transgender people – of course NRA is right but who on the “Right” thought it okay to adopt this Leftist idea of denying basic rights to people for future crimes or similar?
Illinois can ban concealed carry on trains, buses: Appeals court. This is so shockingly bad that it is hard to accept that people with functional IQs could come up with it. I explain.
What a deadly game of ding-dong ditch says about Texas. Beyond the pale of ridiculous illogic. One man lies in wait and shoots kids equates to a culture wide situation with over 30 million? If he had simply jumped them from the bushes and stabbed them….?
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.

Texas 2026 GOP Primary ballot issues released.

More DEI and pro-homosexual teaching at Texas A&M exposed..

Texas space business news:
EchoStar sells spectrum licenses to SpaceX for $17 billion while buying into Starlink
Midland-based AST SpaceMobile update on its cellphone to satellite Bluebird constellation
Houston companies are betting big on space data – very interesting story that highlight numerous Texas private space companies.
Campaign news:
HD71: Hardaway says lifelong calling led him to race. Why no mention of being a Republican, about limited government, lower spending and taxes, or even conservatism?
Texas state Rep. James Talarico to launch Democratic campaign for U.S. Senate
Betts jumps into GOP race for TX 21
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September 05, 2025Episode 3807: Texas GOP sues state over open primary | Roscoe ISD an example of what’s wrong in public ed. – Pratt on Texas 9/5/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: It was in the cards from the beginning: The Republican Party of Texas is suing the state in federal court to establish Republican-only primary elections which the establishment players in Austin oppose. Other state parties have prevailed in federal court over this same issue.

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.

Business news:
Texas adds oil & gas drilling rigs for second week in a row
Lubbock-based restaurant chain Abuelo’s files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
Interlune to Create Texas-Based R&D Facility with $4.8 Million Texas Space Commission Grant
SpaceX proposes 21-acre expansion of Starbase facility
A highly recommended read on Texas’ new business court system, very well written: Texas Bid to Lure Business From Delaware Faces Trial … by Jury.
Everything that is wrong with the public education system: F-rated small school district, Roscoe Collegiate ISD, spends big money on fancy buses claiming: [The fancy buses] will boost it boosts morale—students feel valued when they’re riding in a vehicle that reflects their importance to the school community.” How about the F-rated district put the money into academics so that students earn real, lifelong “morale!”

DC Swamp allies of Senator John Cornyn try to freeze fundraising for U.S. Rep Wesley Hunt’s possible U.S. Senate bid.

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44 min
September 04, 2025Episode 3806: Legislature quits early without finishing work | Flood deaths lead Texas GOP to legislate like Democrats – Pratt on Texas 9/4/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislature calls it quits for the 2nd Called Session even though there was plenty of time left to keep working on important bills that help Texans. I guess they were too worried about running home to raise money for themselves and not worried enough about our growing property tax problem.

Flood deaths lead Texas Republicans to act as Democrats with heavy regulation, attacks on private property use, and more spending – never letting a crisis go to waste isn’t limited to Dems!

Other items from the legislature:
Texas House Cracks Down on Quorum-Busting With New Rules – but not really….
Texas Legislature fails to pass bill barring public from most police complaints – that’s a good one to not get passed.
HB 8 Passes, Replaces STAAR with 3 Tests & Restores Public School A-F Accountability
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.

Border related:
ABBOTT: Texas Truckers Should ‘Fully Comply’ with Trump’s Executive Order Requiring English Proficiency. Some background: Mexican B-1 visa truckers conducting illegal runs in US, more. And more: New Texas law combats fake international CDLs – note, we didn’t even require a work visa until 2023!
Gulf Cartel Brings Mexican Border City to Standstill After Fierce Gun Battle
Pirro Strikes Blow to Narco-Trafficking: Historic Seizure of Precursor Chemicals Exposes China–Cartel Drug Route
Attorney General Ken Paxton Appeals Flawed Injunction and Continues to Order That the Ten Commandments Be Displayed in Texas Schools

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September 03, 2025Episode 3805: Legislative update | Dallas lands big Scotiabank office | RIP John Thomas | Immigration news – Pratt on Texas 9/3/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislative update as lawmakers are trying to wind down the 2nd Called Session early:
Deal on hemp THC ban is rumored to be at hand with Texas House Public Health planning to vote in a formal meeting tonight
Legislature Reverses Course on Same-Day Voter Registration Changes
Senate Cracks Down on Abortion-Inducing Drugs
House Votes To Prohibit Fundraising During A Quorum Break – Halfway House continues to go light on the matter.
Senator Bettencourt Statement on Texas House Vote on SB10 – “Unfortunately, not a single House member who voted No contacted me as Senate Author to get information before the vote.”
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.

Illegal immigration news:
Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Reuniting Alien Kids And Parents
5th Circuit Rules Against Trump Admin on Its Use of AEA to Remove TdA Members
ABBOTT: Texas Truckers Should ‘Fully Comply’ with Trump’s Executive Order Requiring English Proficiency – but he didn’t put the legislative changes that need to be made on the session agenda!
RIP: Dr. John Thomas – a good Christian man. Operation HOPE founder, Lubbock surgeon Dr. John Thomas remembered. Hear my many WuFlu interviews with John here.

Banking giant Scotiabank is bringing 1,000+ jobs – averaging $135K – to Dallas.

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44 min
September 02, 2025Episode 3804: “Shocking” (& stupid,) conservatives block SB10 today in Austin | Trump judge blocks key Texas ESG law – Pratt on Texas 9/2/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Stupid, shortsighted, “shocking,” and more can be used to describe why a group of conservative legislators today voted with Democrats to ruin SB10 – the bill that lowers the voter approval election trigger from 3.5% to 2.5% for local property tax increases.

Also, if Burrows is for the ban on taxpayer funded lobbying, as he has long claimed, why is he allowing RINO Ken King to kill it yet again?

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 actually went up Friday.

Is Plano ISD giving direct school support to anti-Israel demonstrations? Attorney General Paxton is investigating.

From the legal stack:
It appears there is interest at the 5th Circuit to reconsider Texas’ state arrest law for illegal aliens. A rehearing has been ordered.
Federal judge blocks Texas ESG investment advice disclosure law. The Trump appointed judge is incompetent if he cannot understand who the law protects. It clearly protects investors.
All you need know about the ACLU in Texas: ACLU of Texas Seeks Legal Challenge to Texas’ ‘Parental Bill of Rights. I have a good question for the ACLU lawyer on this story.
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August 28, 2025 Episode 3803: Jason Corley on Lubbock Co. budget fight | HD71 candidate Joshua Ohlemacher | Senate hopeful Alexander Duncan – Pratt on Texas 8/28/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Why do so many “Republicans” in a conservative voting county, Lubbock County, think that constantly growing government spending, at taxpayer expense with property tax increases, is good policy and reflective of good management and stewardship? Frankly there is a lot of Washington, DC swamp thinking going on such as calling reductions in the rate of increase in spending cuts to spending. Longtime taxpayer champion Lubbock County Commissioner Jason Corley joins me to discuss this issue and why he and commissioners Rackler and Shaw have stood firm for not raising property taxes.

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.

We meet Texas House District 71 Republican nominee candidate Joshua Ohlemacher. We discussed school choice among other things.

Alexander Duncan, a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate, discusses his campaign and how previously living in, and being a police officer, in California has motivated him to love and want to protect Texas.

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August 27, 2025Episode 3802: SpaceX test 10 of Starship huge success | Tx House potheads? | Fighting the 15th Court of Appeals – Pratt on Texas 8/27/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House blew up the property tax reform bill [more] and now has to reconcile with the Senate. And, the House appears to be leaning toward Texas becoming a pothead legal drug state. Plus, the House voted to reform the public school STAAR test but Odessa’s state Rep. Landgraf makes clear his goal is to end testing all together – the great goal of the Leftist teacher unions that want zero accountability for the results achieved with taxpayers’ money.

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.

SpaceX: The most powerful rocket ever, built and financed by a private company, has a near perfect tenth test flight. Freedom!!!

Texas’ solicitor general ask the Texas Supreme Court to stop an illogical act of the 15th Court of Appeals in the Beto Pancho O’Rouke case.

Campaign updates:
DC Swamp make sure memo leaks to POLITICO trying to shore up Cornyn’s ability to raise money.
Former Amarillo City Council member announces candidacy for Texas District 13 as Democrat
Mayra Flores to challenge Vicente Gonzalez again for TX-34
Old cane stomper Al Green to Wait Until CD 18 Special Election to Declare Candidacy, After Texas Redistricting
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August 26, 2025 Episode 3801: Burrows crew goes soft on quorum busting Dems? | Texas buys the Menger & Crockett hotels (socialism?) – Pratt on Texas 8/26/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the Texas Legislature in special session including: Burrow’s leadership appears to go very soft on Dem quorum busting in GOP Caucus meeting; House passes lower percentage for voter approval requirement for local tax increases, and; Abbott adds an item to the call that makes it appear an amendment to election law in the regular session from Rep. Shaheen may have given the Dems part of their goal of same day voter registration in some cases.

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.

The State of Texas, in socialist fashion, buys the Crockett and Menger hotels that sit next to the Alamo. Why, with all the great talent in Texas, did they have to partner with a hospitality firm out of Ohio!?

Texas Service Sector and Retail reports from the Dallas Fed.

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August 25, 2025 Episode 3800: Dems thwarted; maps pass; Dem front groups file suit | Fake cops get Anti-Wimp treatment – Pratt on Texas 8/25/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats were thwarted again Friday night as new Texas Congressional maps passed the Senate. Standard Dem-front groups such as LULAC file suit nastily claiming racism in the maps. Myra Flores call the Dems out for their empty and nasty claims of racism.

Legislators are looking at new penalties for lawmaker who choose not to show up to work.

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.

Anti-Wimp update: Fake cops get the full Anti-Wimp treatment in Houston.

Media may not like it but legally, and that’s his job, Paxton is correct: Attorney General Paxton Instructs Schools to Display the Ten Commandments in Accordance with Texas Law.

Texas manufacturing sector is growing, reports the Dallas Fed. Dr Pepper to be split from Keurig and headquartered in Frisco.

Trump taps Airbnb founder Joe Gebbia, Texan, to remake federal websites.

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August 22, 2025Episode 3799: Absent Dems fined $9K+ | HD71 race | Lubbock Co. Judge & Sheriff whine over no tax increase – Pratt on Texas 8/22/2025
The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Quorum breaking Democrats have been sent a notice of fines they owe for breaking House rules. See the letter here. It comes to $9,354.25 each.

Liberals and homosexual lobby attack conservative in House hearing on the Texas Women’s Privacy Act (SB8) but DPS punishes conservative.

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.

Candidates pour into HD71 GOP primary race as RINO Lambert retires:
Liz Case enters race for House District 71
Former Abilene City Councilman, Jay Hardaway, announces
Ohlemacher joins race for Texas House District 71
Old liberal-Loyd Doggett bowing out of re-election due to redistricting.

Lubbock County’s Judge Bow-Tie Parrish and Sheriff Kelly Rowe whine like Democrats, again, over not passing a tax increase on the public. Way to go commissioners: Corley, Rackler, Dalby, & Shaw!

A.G. Ken Paxton Appeals the Politically-Motivated Attack Targeting Him and the OAG (Beto Pancho case)

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reins in the Clown Court, a.k.a Texas Ethics Commission. I had a ton of other court rulings in the stack today, you’ll need to listen to catch up.

Business news:
Oil & gas rig count.
Foxconn’s Apple and Nvidia plants in Houston to train AI workforce.
Starbase Brewing launches space beer experiment.
‘Gigabay’ project may create more than 500 new jobs in Cameron County.
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