Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: First order of business in the U.S. Senate under new majority leader Thune: Crack down on illegal alien criminals. Senate could vote on the bill by Friday and the House has companion legislation read to go as well. More border news:

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The Hill: Texas GOP’s civil war nears climax as Speaker’s race heats up. And: Texas Speaker of the House Race Polarizes Republicans. (Not really, it simply extends an old polarization unnecessarily.) I plan, if I am able, to discuss this in a big way tomorrow, Tuesday.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: A look at some legislation filed for the upcoming Texas Legislature, including:

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Oil and gas drilling rig count for the week from Baker Hughes.

CEO and co-founder of HealthCare2U, Andy Bonner, joins me to talk about the fantastic membership-based direct primary care program I have been telling you about. I also did a long form Podcast Extra with Mr. Bonner and you can here that at this link.

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I visit with Healthcare2U’s co-founder, president and CEO Andy Bonner about how the firm, based upon providing high quality membership-based direct primary healthcare, came to be and how it works.
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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court slaps down the libs at the State Bar of Texas for going after Texas Attorney General staff over 2020 election lawsuits filed by the state. The state bar libs didn’t like the politics of Paxton’s office and so, as they’ve done in other states, went after lawyers on “disciplinary” charges that were spurious and unmerited. Read the full decision here.

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The late Richard Cavazos, General of the U.S. Army, is being posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on the battlefield in Korea. He was a graduate of Texas Tech and his brother Lauro was president of Texas Tech as well as Secretary of Education under President Reagan.

Texas sales tax revenue was $4.1 billion in December, an increase below the general inflation rate.

The Dallas Fed releases the Texas Service and Retail Sector report for December.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: 2024 was a good year for the Texas economy as the Texas Miracle just continues to follow good policy choices. It was a very bad year for the Texas Lottery. And, a real pain for many of us goes away in 2025.

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“Texas should be leading the fight against Planned Parenthood – not employing them,” says Rep. Brian Harrison in a letter to Governor Abbott.

Texas DPS outage closes driver’s license offices until at least Thursday.

2024’s big press hoaxes were all pro-Democrat, pro-Biden, and anti-Republican – and don’t think that is about to change. Our friend Merrill Matthews has is list of biggest Democrat lies in 2024 here.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The case of U.S. Representative Kay Granger is emblematic of what is wrong with a culture of elected people who begin to think of themselves as entitled to power and office.

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DEI training requirements imposed for licensed Texas Counselors on Abbott’s watch. Rep. Harrison exposes that the medical director for the Texas Medical Board is also employed by Planned Parenthood.

December’s Texas Manufacturing Survey is out.

Big bragging on border wall court decision appears to be political puffery. It is important but turns out it doesn’t matter much.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Another reliable Texas electric power generation plant is going offline because Democrats are handing its owners over $ 1 BILLION of your money to bribe them into stopping use of coal generate power. Are they going to replace it with cheap, abundant, effective, and clean natural gas? Nope. The coal fired reliable power plant will use over a billion dollars of your money to put in solar panels and batteries!

Note: New climate research debunks CO2’s ability to warm the atmosphere, even as other research shows CO2 greens the Earth.

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Latest update: Fifth Circuit reverses course, blocks government enforcement of burdensome Beneficial Ownership Information reporting for small businesses.

Oil and gas rig count is down this week.

Anti-Wimp update: Boys try armed robbery, and get shot. This and other stories beg the question: Where are the parents?!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas colleges and universities are in need of more reform by the Legislature – but don’t forget that Governor Abbott’s appointed regents already have the power to act and stop the Leftwing foolishness and racism on campus. Why haven’t they? Why did we even need a DEI ban?

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.

A reminder of how the census and illegal immigration are being used to achieve political gains for Democrats and to thwart the will of the American people.

Lubbock Lights story: Hundreds may have lost millions with troubled local company after criminal case extends to Lubbock from San Antonio.

Another story that reminds us of the folly of those who claimed “campus is safe” and “campus is a special place” when opposing concealed carry on campus several years ago. Legislators need to peal back most all restrictions on places in which one cannot legally carry a gun – the criminals certainly don’t obey such laws!

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has found a good angle from which to sue the NCAA over its letting men play in women’s sports – suing them for violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. Read the actual lawsuit filed in Lubbock County here– no matter it’s legal claims, it has a great history of the NCAA and the issue of men playing in women’s sports.

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List of this year’s Texas high school football state champions.

Where has Congresswoman Kay Granger been? Last vote was in July.

Paxton teases a run against Cornyn at AmFest.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Member of Burrows’ Calendars Committee for two legislative sessions, Representative Shelby Slawson, joins us to talk about the race for House Speaker.

Also, State Rep. J. M. Lozano is alleging that the BurrowCrat Coalition had former, now disgraced, Speaker Bonnen spying for them in House Democrat caucus meetings. Lozano questions the trust and ethics of such as it pertains to Burrows. I ask: Why should he care? He breached the body’s trust before and all it did was lead to a step up the ladder for him.

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 unemployment rate goes up but so does the number employed in the Lone Star State – another record month.

Oil and gas rig count up.

Economist Vance Ginn, and I, explain why Texas public school spending per student is closer to $50,000 than to the $10 to $15 thousand most often cited.

Texas House committee denied its one-sided extra-judicial show trial of death row inmate Robert Roberson. More, more.

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