Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a push from the Trump camp for Texas to consider mid-decade redistricting to aid in picking up more Republican seats in Congress. The rumor that such might be considered has been around for a while but now there has been a meeting of Texas Republican members of Congress to discuss such. At present there is not much enthusiasm for such and it comes with big risks. At present, under current conditions, I don’t expect much to come of it but, if Governor Abbott were to get aboard, he’d be the one to set it in motion with a Special Session call which would need to be in July, or the very earliest days of August fit time constraints.

The New York Times broke the story: White House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains 

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City of Abilene officials looking to make home ownership that much more out of reach with another property tax increase. Has anyone actually run the numbers to demonstrate a total net savings, over principal and interest costs, from the proposed “energy improvements?” Most often these things do not produce a net savings.

So much of the reporting on arrests by ICE is cleverly misleading propaganda. This Houston Chronicle story is an example: ICE agents arrest 3 people at southwest Houston immigration court. I explain why it is misleading to most as well as why the objections are silly.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Non-assimilating immigrants, illegal and legal, are showing the American people who they are and why it is dangerous to life and property, as well as society and our country, to not have strict, effective border enforcement.

The rally this weekend in San Antonio shows two things: One, who is organizing these rally/riots. And two, how LULAC has fallen and needs to drop the “C” from the end of its acronym. The group seems to have abandoned the last word in its name: Citizen.

Related: Texas Marine vet fighting for life after being shot, paralyzed by illegal migrant. Note how the Leftist San Antonio and Bexar County machine did little to nothing about the illegal alien despite multiple encounters with law enforcement and violating bail and probation.

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Gina Ortiz Jones wins San Antonio mayor race. Another Leftist Democrat emerges from the Bexar Co. political machine ticking the woke boxes of homosexual, minority, woman, and likely many others.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: One of the key issues that Rep. Ken King and the BurrowCrat House leadership made sure did not get record votes was one overwhelming supported by Democrat and Republican voters in Texas: Banning taxpayer funded lobbying.

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Oil and gas drilling rig count falls.

Prompted by this story (New $10.5M Houston Police Department Training Center Will Not Require Taxpayer Funding,) and this, I talk about the fallen morality and integrity of so-called civic and business leaders who, instead of doing it themselves, often force their “vision” of a city, its downtown, and many other things onto the shoulders of taxpayers whom, in many cases, simply cannot afford to pay for things no matter how wonderful.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump Administration sues Texas and wins over Texas’ unfair and “unconstitutional” in-state tuition for illegal aliens program. It all happened fast yesterday evening. I have opposed this program from the beginning and it has been terribly frustrating that the House has continually stopped the repeal of the program. Catch up on it all:

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Special guest Eddie Dixon joins me in-studio to discuss recent and current projects including the mounted Quanah Parker piece now at the famed Briscoe Western Art Museum in San Antonio (click this link for a brief bio of Dixon and a photo of the installed piece.)

Here are photos of the clay model from Eddie’s studio before it was cast. Thanks to “great” photographer Jody Smyers for the light painted photo. 

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Report shows that despite all the rhetoric from Governor Abbott and other state leaders, Texas itself is not participating with ICE under 287(g) agreements. This despite a bill that was just passed, SB 8, that sort-of (with no teeth) makes the state’s sheriffs participate. What a flim-flam on all of us. Read the story, even DPS testified again the the bill.

“According to Texas DPS data, more than 443,000 criminal noncitizens have been booked in Texas jails, The Center Square reported. Yet DPS and TDCJ have signed no MOAs with ICE.
By contrast, Democratic-led Arizona’s Department of Corrections and Massachusetts Department of Corrections are participating in the JEM.”

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Gun rights, Second Amendment bills that passed the Legislature.

Texans will no longer be able to use food stamps (SNAP) to buy candy, soda. And, no “lab-grown meat” in Texas.

Governor Abbott signs the bail reform measures that passed – not enough did including the most important related measures in SJR 87.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Taylor County Republican Party Chairman Ryan Goodwin joins us to explain why the TCRP has begun a Rule 44 censure process against HD71 State Representative Stan Lambert of Abilene. A formal meeting the public may attend is set for Monday, 9 June 2025 at 7 p.m. at  the MCM Elegante hotel.

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State sales tax collections come in strong for May.

Nolte: Sen. John Cornyn’s Reelection Poll Numbers Worsen. More hints from voters that Cornyn should retire.

Key items, not previously covered, out of the 89th Legislature:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Today endeth the 89th Texas Legislature as the 140 days have come to an end. Three big bills that were thought to be likely to pass did not. One of them puts election integrity in Texas in peril and is a handout to the “community organizers” of the Left; another is a big surprise to the public school folks as the effort to end the STAAR test failed at the last moment, and; the third is that a much needed judicial pay raise bill failed all because the old problem of legislators having linked their substantial pensions (yeah, I know you thought they didn’t really get paid) to that of the state’s judges.

But, they did manage to spend a bunch of money and provide a meaningful property tax relief package (it could have been much larger.)

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Bad news: U.S. Supreme Court declines to hear GOP activist’s lawsuit challenging Texas Ethics Commission’s lobbying fine.

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Major Victory Against Border NGO Allegedly Harboring Illegal Aliens. The ruling from the Texas Supreme Court is very interesting, read it here.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: More coverage from the final days of the 89th Texas Legislature which must end on Tuesday, 2 June.

Election integrity still in jeopardy; a bill passes stripping school districts of asserting Sovereign Immunity in sexual abuse cases, and; much more including:

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Governor Abbott names student regents for state universities.

Oil and gas rig count.

Border and illegal immigration news including:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Bills that have passed; bills still in play, and; bills that were killed or failed – another update in these closing days of the 89th Texas Legislature.

Also, you’ll hear from Senator Bettencourt and Lieutenant Governor Patrick on the successful property tax relief package that has passed. We are very fortunate that the House decided to largely go along with the Senate’s focus on increasing the Homestead Exemption. You can watch the full press conference from this afternoon here.

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Houston Ends Traffic Stop Quotas in Unanimous Vote

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A big deadline for the Texas House passed this morning and as usual, many good bills died because leadership waited until the very end of the session to get to work hearing and voting on bills. I review key items that failed and passed including:

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Dallas Fed report on the Texas Service Sector and retail sales.

Space historian Robert Zimmerman of BehindtheBlack.com joins us to explain what went right and wrong in yesterday evening’s SpaceX Starship & Superheavy launch test from Starbase, Texas.

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