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The news of Texas covered today includes:

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.

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.

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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Our Lone Star story of the day: University of North Texas, UNT, continues to lose in court over its systematic oppression of conservative thought and conservatives. Why, I have asked for years now, does Governor Greg Abbott keep reappointing the same regents who allow for this very far-Left and illegal behavior at UNT? Is Abbott really fake, as some critics charge, on these basic issues?

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.

Shallow and wrong thinking praised by Lubbock County Judge Parrish. Commissioner Dalby should know better. You cannot solve a problem until the source/cause of such is determined. Otherwise you are only fixing things downstream from the source — which is no fix.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Much reform has been accomplished on Texas’ local government property tax system but many exceptions that were needed to get bills passed need ending – especially the “hit ’em while they’re down” disaster loophole abused by local politicians. A new law takes effect next year that does tighten down the disaster loophole but only time will tell if it is enough.

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In the border/immigration news stack there is a story that is an example of anti-Trump hyperbolethat only works with voters because of decades of failed public education – it’s the proportionality problem as I’ve long called it.

Campaign finance numbers rolling in:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Will Texas Democrats once again flee the state to attempt to stop redistricting in the upcoming Special Session? If so, will leadership finally make them pay a serious political price for breaking the law and leaving?

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Told you so: Kerrville city manager says he had weather alerts turned off on his phone. We don’t have a warning system problem, overall. We have a pay attention to warnings problem. More of the same, a terrible mistake of judgement: Camp Mystic did not evacuate immediately after flood warning.

Told you so: TWIA Committee Recommends No Rate Change for 2026 Policiesdespite rates being “inadequate by 3% for residential coverage and 5% for commercial coverage.”

TX2: Steve Toth to challenge Dan Crenshaw in GOP primary – good. TX1: Former teacher educator running for East Texas seat in Congress as a ‘conservative Democrat’ – there is no longer such a thing.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: A Hearst story on a “largely forgotten” flood event says much including contradicting the media outlet’s extreme climate change narrative. I explain.

And another point to make related to all the stories like this: Before Camp Mystic expansion, FEMA took buildings off flood plain map, records show. When will people learn that government programs are rarely a reliable solution?

More heavy rain in semi-arid West Texas leads to more flooding last night and today. Many headlines.

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RIP: Great Texas artist David Adickes, dead at 98-years.

Special Session of the Texas Legislature is coming:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Warnings of warnings of warnings! How much is enough? How many systems are needed, layered on top of each other, to warn of weather and similar emergencies? At what point to individuals bear some responsibility for paying attention to known risks and warning systems that are have been in place for decades?

Government officials are not our parents or masters, well that is the Leftist view I concede, and those officials are not automatically at fault for decisions we take.

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image via facebookCity of Lubbock is facing a big budget shortfall and now, due to what I believe to be incompetent and irresponsible management in the trash department, taxpayers are out even more money!

Oil and gas drilling rig count falls, again.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott updates items on his Called Session of the Legislature list. Most are good but two are not. One is a cave to teacher unions and less accountability for public schools. The other is something that sounds good on the surface but in practice is bad policy for the public related to police.

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.

Hearst to now control the major newspapers of Texas’ four largest markets: Hearst buys the Dallas Morning News.

The wages of sin… State Sen. Angela Paxton files for divorce from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Jasmine “Crocked” Crockett Holds Healthy Lead In Hypothetical 2026 Texas Democrat Senate Race, Shock Poll Shows – she’s not even running as of yet. What a kick in the —– to Beto, Castro, and Allred! She’d be good for the Texas GOP as the Democrat nominee. More: Must Be a Day That Ends in Y: Jasmine Crockett’s Claim About Biden vs. Trump Is BATS**T Even for Her.

“Climate change” blamed for worsening Guadalupe River flooding – these so-called “experts” as well as media people who amplify them have little to no credibility. All they offer is assertions but not one model they have has ever come close to accurate predictions of what they claim thus they are closer to Druids dancing around a poll than to science.

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