Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Now friendly feds deputize Texas National Guard troops to make immigration related arrests at the border in a full reversal of past federal policy. Also, Mexico responds to massive tariff threat with pledge to deploy 10,000 of its national guard troops to the border.

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Governor Abbott laid out seven legislative “emergency items” in his Sunday evening State of the State address:

Today in Texas History mentions: Paul McCartney’s Real Buddy Holly Story – see on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_ufI9gX7mE  Hear Sonny Curtis perform The Real Buddy Holly Story song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L17SueZY-eo

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an important Second Amendment ruling yesterday that properly, further entrenches the historical framing required on questions of the Bill of Rights. 18 to 20 year olds are adults and the right to possess firearms applies to them as it does to all other adults. Jonathan Turley covers is well here.

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 is a wash for Texas.

A court date has been set for July for the challenge to Texas law on certain state immigration enforcement efforts – SB4 from 2023.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Carl Tepper has a bill, HB 1453, to further protect taxpayers from local government officials who have booted integrity and obvious right-and-wrong to the curb. The abuse of C.O. bonds has happened all across Texas with the latest kick in the teeth to voters happening in Ector County. (more) Previous restrictions passed on the use of C.O. bonds was caused mainly by abuse of voters in Amarillo.

Please call and write your state representative and those nearby and ask the rep. to “sponsor” Tepper’s HB 1453. Find your rep. here.

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.

Should the Legislature redistrict Texas Congressional seats now to help protect Republican numbers in the mid-term election? Yes, but not for that reason alone. After the Fifth Circuit ruling on Galveston County redistricting, Republicans should redraw state maps under that precedent.

A pox upon Irving ISD leadership. Their statement makes it clear that they are simply angry they got caught.

Texas Tech and Texas A&M still being found to have CRT & DEI present.

Border news: DPS Finds 16 Illegal Immigrants Inside Truck Tractor. It may slow but it won’t stop until we have an enforced physical border. Alexis Nungaray says: ‘It’s a Relief’ to See Mass Deportations, I Like How We’re Moving on Immigration.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate has already moved school choice, Senate Bill 2, out of committee – meanwhile the BurrowCrat House leadership hasn’t even appointed permanent officers OR named House committees yet! So much for the oft made insider establishment argument that they, the insider crowd, are better at managing the House.

Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick lists his first round of Top 40 priority bills for the 2025 legislative session.

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Governor Abbott calls for criminal probe into Irving school district over trans athlete comments.

Much in the border stack including a laughable, shameful episode from Mexico’s Leftist government, plus more:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Cartel gunmen opened fire on U.S. officials across the Rio Grande yesterday demonstrating how right is President Trump at naming these groups terrorist organizations. Also, Governor Abbott is deploying “tactical strike teams” to help the feds roundup illegal aliens. It’s just the same thing we’ve been doing but “tactical strike teams” sound good and might net a Fox News interview!

Fun piece about CNN’s coverage of deportations from National Review by Charles C. W. Cooke: Hope This Helps.

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.

While trying not to do so, BurrowCrat Party founder and Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows admitted that his House Rules package he pushed through without debate or amendment, was written by a former Barack Obama White House lawyer!

We also learned that all the stuff about keeping House tradition is a lie from the BurrowCrats as Burrows intends to hold no vote on staff budgets, salaries, and other “housekeeping” matters. Instead, in full dictatorial fashion, he simply plans to fiat such matters. (More.)

Dallas Fed: Growth in Texas service sector activity moderates; retail sales growth “reverses” in January.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Just the tiniest point of the immigration law enforcement spear has been shown over the last few days and so far, the public seems supportive. However, don’t think that the sob stories and outright propaganda isn’t coming from the press and its Leftist backers. Will Americans keep their resolve?

Texas saw protests in the streets of Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio over the deportations of criminal illegal aliens. Why, by the way, does the Hearst paper in San Antonio not call these people fascists? The story says: “…protesters waved Mexican flags and chanted slogans such as “Que viva la raza verdadera” and “F Donald Trump.” Foreign flags and slogans? That “viva la raza verdadera” sounds far more like NAZI brownshirts than anything heard from American conservatives often compared to fascists in the press.

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.

Governor Abbott announces he will deliver the 2025 State Of The State Address on Sunday at 5 p.m. Not right guv. It’s not an emergency and so it can wait until a weekday, not on the Lord’s Day.

Senator Cruz spearheads effort to derail nuclear waste dumping in oil-rich area of Texas.

FinCEN BOI still on hold, Reuters updates their story from last week.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: What did Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat coalition do yesterday on adopting House rules? Don’t buy the false messaging that comes with “they banned Democrat committee chairmen” because they did and they didn’t – it’s all a big fake. If the BurrowCrats reduced the power of Texas Democrats in the Texas House, why did all but one Democrat vote for the rules?

I’ve asked our old friend and former guest host Michael Quinn Sullivan of Texas Scorecardto join us to discuss the big rules fake out in the Texas House.

Also, see yesterday’s show summary for more on the subject here.

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.

Do Texas abortion laws really need clarification for physicians, or are legislators falling for a narrative trick? I believe it’s the latter.

Oil and gas drilling rig count falls, again.

Senator Creighton files SB2, a good universal school choice bill.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Dustin Burrows and his BurrowCrat leadership team’s proposed House rules try a giant fake out on voters knowing local media will ignorantly report it their way.

While the Burrows’ rules end minority party (Democrat) major committee chairmanships, the rules actually enhance Democrat power by making them automatically vice chairs with new powers, enough to gum up the works. Even worse, Burrows’ eliminates some committees and then creates a bunch of standing “subcommittees” for which Dems can hold chairmanships of and even be a majority of.

That’s all bad enough but I found two spots that should show you just how badly all have been sold out by Burrows:

One section of the rules mandates mask wearing in hearings if such is simply “recommended” by Washington bureaucrats! See: CHAPTER D. ORGANIZATION, POWERS, AND DUTIES OF COMMITTEES Sec. 7. A new Rule 4, Section 8A, relating to required face
masks during committee meetings, shall read as follows: Rule 4, Sec. 8A.
Another section requires masks on the House floor!

And in a way even worse: Chapter D., Sec. 9, Rule 4, a “new rule” essentially kicks the public out of committee hearings – a longtime dream of Capitol insiders: 

“Rule 4, Sec. 12A. PUBLIC ACCESS TO COMMITTEE  MEETINGS. The requirement for all meetings of a committee or subcommittee to be open to other members, the press, and the public may be satisfied by video broadcasting the meeting in real time through the Internet. The video broadcast must be accessible from a link on the house’s Internet website.”

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.

Bad news: The U.S. Supreme Court is letting the feds go ahead with the Orwellian FinCEN beneficial owners reporting.

Leftist State Bar of Texas drops its case against Attorney General Paxton over 2020 election cases filed by the state. It was always nothing but a political hit.

A big stack of border and illegal immigration news today too.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump sprint to implement policy changes goes on. Much border related news as well as Trump action on DEI and more from the 47-on-fire stack.

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The proposed Texas budget may be “conservative” in total numbers but it is not conservative in practice. The budget grows the size and scope of government for things Republicans favor and fails to meet past promises on border security spending.

Abilene data center makes big news once it is learned Oracle is the big user.

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  Much review and comment upon the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 47th President of the United States. Wow, he’s working fast! A record 1,300 appointees on Day One! Trump began his term with immediate action related to illegal immigration and the border. Here is a good run down.

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Cold weather has Texas, and many other places, in its grip. Here is where you can see the ERCOT electricity grid situation at any moment.

Biden set a new low for Rule of Law and constitutional norms, pardons people not even under investigation. I guess he knows or suspects they are guilty of the things many have asserted.

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