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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Hughes, the Lt. Governor, and others are falling prey to pro-abortion Democrats plan of incrementally making abortion legal with a new bill to “clarify” Texas abortion law. It does not need clarification, it is clear on its face and evidence supports such.

Breaking today: Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Arrest of Houston-Area Abortionist and Crackdown on Clinics Providing Illegal Abortions

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Texas continues to lead the nation in job growth.

Texas “quietly” pulling law enforcement out of the border zone now that crossings have dropped dramatically; “unwinds Operation Lone Star.”

China’s Communist Party very unhappy with Panama Canal port deal.

Kenneth Hall, record-setting Texas high school football star known as ‘The Sugar Land Express,’ dead at 89.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Senator Bryan Hughes is working to get Texas back to sanity with its Attorney General’s office prosecuting election crimes as it did since 1951 before a stupid, ignorant ruling from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in 2021. This is greatly needed but will a good bill move in the Texas House? The same crowd is in charge in the House to setup the sham impeachment of A.G. Paxton and nothing indicates those folk have stopped their efforts to politically destroy the conservative attorney general.

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Wind, wind, and more wind. Xcel turns off power to 17,000; vehicle accidents; canceled flights, and; Lubbock’s airport recorded an 81 mph gust at 7:15 a.m. Where is the windiest city in the US? Texas claims 5 of top 10. Lubbock is not #1.

Oil and gas rig count unchanged in Texas but Canada has an epic pullback!

Trump’s Dept. of Education has launched a much needed investigation into 50 universities, including Rice and UNT, over racial discrimination. Texas Tech Health Sciences Center has reached of settlement of engaging in racial discrimination.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Senate moving fast and Lieutenant Governor Patrick has released another batch of “priority” bills. Senator Charles Perry also announced filing of his big water infrastructure package, SB 7 and SJR 66.

Meanwhile, tomorrow, Friday, 14 March, is last day for bill filing which is the 60th day of the 140-day session and the Texas House has passed nothing.

Democrats and other leftists are not happy that Texas wants to ensure that only citizens, those legal to vote, get to register to vote!

Rep. Gerdes files HB4814, FURRIES Act, to stop public schools from letting deranged and confused children and youth from pretending to be animals at school.

And thinking of schools, Rep. Tinderholt can’t get the TASB rep. to admit that TASB is taxpayer-funded lobbying! They aren’t afraid to take the money and pay huge salaries to their team of lobbyists so why be afraid to admit it is what it is?

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Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Investigation into Dallas for Open Borders Sanctuary City Policies that Violate State Law. Meanwhile: ICE’s Dallas Team Arrests Mexican National Who Walked Free After Grisly Murder.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislative leadership has clear corruption that needs rooting out and once again, Rep. Charlie Geren, enforcer/hatchetman for Straus, Bonnen, Phelan, and now Burrows, appears to be involved – no surprise is that! This issue is emblematic of all that is wrong in our country – a group of people who, once elected or in a position of perceived power, see themselves as a sort of American Aristocracy – that it inherently unAmerican.

Other news from the legislature:

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Degenerate libs are in a huff because U.S. Rep. Self will not call a man a woman. Good on ya Congressman.

Local sales tax receipts up $1.1 billionover March of last year but, it’s a really mixed bag just as was February. Look up your city here.

Remember the Battle of Refugio.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislators in the Texas House are finally hearing the HB3, school choice legislation, in the public education committee today. Expect nothing but lies from the Democrats and the long line of “witnesses” they’ll have. Start with State Rep. James Talarico, a committee member, who claims that 70-percent of public school parents oppose school choice. Even the Left-leaning polls have shown overwhelming support for school choice in Texas.

Texas Senators have a good point and good timing: Message to President Trump is to get Texas’ water from Mexico while all the hardball negotiating is going on.

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Illegal immigration and border news:

Following the outsider gutting of Neiman-Marcus, the same types are destroying Southwest Airlines: Southwest Airlines abandons famous free checked bags policy.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislators did a half-job last session and now must get the other half fixed as the problem is still a whole and it is unethical and costs taxpayers big. Read more:

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Dade Phelan’s horrible anti-political speech bill gets the top attention of the House State Affairs committee, as it finally gets to work this session, and it’s a bill that would make any Leftist European EU official proud because it is fundamentally un-American.

Over in the Senate, which has been at work since the session began, Bettencourt has a very good bill that corrects a stupid, and costly to taxpayers, mistake from last session on election vote centers.

Breitbart: Trump’s Deportation Raids in Texas Lead to 200 New Federal Criminal Cases. A good start but at the current pace Trump will be out of office before 5%, yes 5 percent, of the goal is reached.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Finally, an opening in statewide office, all thanks to the Aggies! Texas A&M has selected Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar as sole finalist for Aggie system chancellor. The Guv will appoint someone to finish out the term once Hegar resigns and the office will be on next year’s ballot. Don Huffines and Christi Craddick say they are running for Comptroller.

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The Texas House, finally, turns over previously secret expense records from its political setup impeachment of Paxton debacle.

Texas wins Site Selections’ Governors Cup for the 13th year in a row with more than twice the total number of projects than the second-ranked state.

From Closet Station: Texas Aggie Democrats Host ‘Day of Drag’ Protest. How’s this for demonstrating that our “best and brightest” at top schools are undereducated dolts: “[Drag queens] are a vital part of our culture,...” said one of the student protestors. I wonder if the student has even a small clue as to what “vital” even means.

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Roy Maynard joins us for a Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra to discuss his great column: AP’s Argument Against Being Booted From WH Event Is Laughable Given Its History.

More background:

The fact is that previous administrations have let the press insiders, the correspondents association, decide who does and does not have White House credentials and access to the press room, etc. This insider dealing has ensured that conservative leaning press outlets, including some with very large audiences, have not been given access. The administration taking over access granting is how it should be irrespective of the AP’s situation.

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Administration began building border wall in Texas today. Tariff increase on Mexico delayed until 2 April. And this: Texas GOP lawmakers want to tap local law enforcement for immigration duties. First, this is a misleading headline as the main bill in question simply require Texas sheriffs to cooperate with ICE, and it is much needed. Second, the last section of the story we see in almost all stories – all about people being afraid. Guess what?! There are many times when it is appropriate that people are afraid and having broken the law and entered our country illegally is one of those times.

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.

New polling, from Lefties in Texas, repeats what other polls show: Texans overwhelmingly want school choice and, they favor true universal school choice as the Senate plan provides over the income limitations in the House approach.

New Tesla “megafactory” appears to be slated for near Katy in Waller Co.

Much Texans in space news today, keep up with Firefly, Intuitive Machines, SpaceX, and more at: https://behindtheblack.com/

We remember the fall of the Alamo today:  

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Ancient, grimacing, doom-scrolling, witless, and worse describe what today’s Democrat Party looked like as President Trump addressed Congress Tuesday night. Politically impotent describes what we say too.

Crazier than placeholder Al Green, who got himself thrown out, ever was, Rep. Jasmine Crock’d walked out of the speech and demonstrated her great intellect and education with this quote alone: “He up there, he spewing all kinds of nonsense… and bull [expletive] let me just be real, and we wasn’t going to sit for that [expletive],” Crockett said. “If he had some sense, then maybe we would’ve been about that life, but y’all know he ain’t got no sense.”

RIP: Sylvester Turner, one of the few respectable Democrats from Houston.

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USAID case: A Supreme Court Setback for Trump in the USAID Dispute May Not Be the Last Word.

U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument over a nuclear waste site in Andrews County of NW Texas.

Vice President Vance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited the Texas border with Mexico today. Also, from Breitbart:  Trump Shutting Down Biden’s Texas-Based Soft Sided Migrant Detention Centers, Says Source.

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