Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day:  More reporting is out bolstering all I have told you about the demise of those so-called “fraud” charges against Ken Paxton that were held onto for 8-years without trial.

Be familiar with the entire history with my assembled links 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 down this week.

Ted Cruz is up over Allred in recent polling and there are interesting Trump numbers for Texas too.

Risible: Dade Phelan says it’s ‘Not Appropriate’ for candidates to announce for Texas House Speaker now!

Another caravan headed to the border. Former top ICE official sides with Texas Gov. Abbott over Biden in ongoing border battle.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day:  Political goals trump justice for much of the state’s leftwing media as well as many politicians – a sinful shame. Headlines such as “Ken Paxton is Not Vindicated” and “This is Ken Paxton’s Texas” show the media going nuts over the dropping the spurious charges levied against Paxton way back in 2015.

There never was a case worthy of a trial and once the special prosecutors had a firm court date, a thing they’d worked for years to avoid, they dropped the charges. See enough story links to the Paxton ordeal to be among the most informed 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.

Dallas Fed: Modest growth continues in Texas service sector, retail sales continue to fall.

Fifth Circuit continues block on Texas immigration law.

Governor Abbott Fights Antisemitic Acts At Texas Colleges, Universities. “Acts” yes, speech “no.” The answer to speech we don’t like is more speech. Greg Abbott orders colleges to revise free speech policies.

We remember the Massacre at Goliad, this day 187 years ago with Brian Burns great song “Goliad.”

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  A MUST LISTEN SHOW! For well over a decade, I have covered the charges lodged against Ken Paxton over the so-called “securities fraud,” which was never fraud by the way.

All that time, the evidence has shown it all to be a political revenge issue and I have said that the reason it didn’t come to trial was because it was being used by Paxton’s enemies as a political weapon.

I said that the case would fall apart on appeal even if a guilty verdict was obtained before a Democrat jury. It didn’t even come to that – as soon as a judge finally set it for trial, the case, which was nothing to begin with, fell apart and the prosecutors dropped all charges today.

I’ll give you a full refresher going back to 2014 with some items as far back as 2004. Here are some, not all, of the stories I reference: (for story list and links, click here: https://prattontexas.com/2024/03/26/paxton-charges-dropped-ill-give-more-in-1-hour-today-than-youll-get-from-all-the-state-press-pratt-on-texas-3-26-2024/

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Our Lone Star story of the day:  Dr. Mary Talley Bowden, a Texas WuFlu heroine, is still fighting and has won a big victory over the Food and Drug Administration that tried to frighten Americans away from treating COVID-19: Houston Doctor’s Lawsuit Forces FDA to Remove COVID-19-Related Ivermectin Posts.

Remember the FDA’s B.S. on Ivermectin: FDA publications and actions cited by plaintiffs include a 2021 post with pictures of a horse captioned, “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y’all. Stop it,” and a link to an agency article entitled, “Why You Should Not Take Ivermectin to Treat or Prevent COVID-19.””

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.

Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing sector back in the negative in March.

Great news for Longview and East Texas: Eastman Chemical to invest $1.3 billion in Longview expansion facility.

Texas, New Mexico officials investigate mystery dairy cattle illness.

Texas AG Ken Paxton could settle his securities fraud case with deal. I will cover in-depth if an announcement of such comes as predicted in this story.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott repeats the goal of eliminating public school M&O property taxes at TPPF summit. Lt. Gov. Patrick gets standing ovation for committing to passage of school choice.

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.

Pro-homosexual and trans-sexual political action committee formed in Denton ISD and I kid you not, it’s the SODPAC!

Rig count remains flat in Texas.

Texas continues to have low unemployment and to set employment records. Job growth “surged” in February.

How things work under Democrat bail or criminal justice reform: 26-year-old woman given 16 bonds in about a year accused of seriously injuring fast food employee.

Border news:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Middle-of-the-pack, voting wise, Republican state Representative Tom Oliverson has announced a very public run to be the next Texas Speaker of the House. It is a practical admission that Phelan is finished as speaker even if he wins his runoff election. I’ve much about the announcement and run in today’s show.

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.

U.S. Supreme Court hears case of Texas grandmother thrown in jail after criticizing city government in Castle Hills. Amy Howe provided a very good summary of the case. Here is Howe’s follow-up after the hearing.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftist “wokeness,” a common mental and moral deficiency, will not go away even with Texas history. The Marxist-style attempts to rewrite Texas history continue with a new group being hosted by U. in Fort Worth – that’s TCU which has long been said to be where the “C,” as in Christian, is silent and now maybe the same should be said of the “T” for Texas!

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.

The court ping pong on SB4, Texas’ new border bill, continues with one panel of the 5th Circuit seeming to step on the work of another. Appeals court raises doubts of legality of SB4. More, from a Leftist perspective.

The Jew-haters in Texas also hate American values of free speech and appear to hold the values of murderous and totalitarian Hamas:

State Rep. Craig Goldman’s fundraising for Dade Phelan may be a violation of federal election law – Goldman is a federal candidate at the moment.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: After extending the pause on Texas SB4 border enforcement bill yesterday, today the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Texas arrest and prosecute for illegal entry law to take effect while the case makes its way through the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals!

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’ Permanent School Fund pulls $8.5 billion from ESG advocating investment fund BlackRock.

Why would a Texas public secondary school have lessons on CRT-based political thought such as the having immigration law is oppressive? They do and they have many other lessons on political rotgut that belongs, if anywhere, in voluntary higher education not compulsory public education. Where would secondary and elementary school teachers even get trained in this political-based curricula?

That is the real story that matters that others have missed in the story of the Texas Tech professor suspended over his pro-Hamas, anti-Israel statements. The real story is that TTU, and other public, colleges of education have profs teaching “decolonial studies,” “ethnography,” and studies on teachers “teach about activist and student movements.”

The problem is not that Tech has an Israel hating professor, it’s that it has such programs, not over in the political science department, but in the college which exists to train primary and secondary teachers. This is a window into how extremely political, and Leftist/Marxist, the teacher training programs in the state colleges have become.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Big Lie: “Working with Democrats” requires empowering Democrats in Texas. That and much more of the mess regarding the Phelan runoff and how the self-anointed Austin Aristocracy are rushing to help the Drinker of the House hold on to his seat.

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.

San Antonio police group backs Attorney General Paxton’s new reporting rule for large county district attorneys.

Here’s why rural Republicans are finally beginning to shift and support school choice.

Public officials can be held liable for blocking critics on social media.

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The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: If you are Hispanic, or any other so-called “minority,” and do not follow your Democrat Party “masters” orders to vote as they instruct, you are akin to a “Jew for Hitler” in NAZI Germany! That is the opinion of a Democrat Texas Congressman and it’s an example of the racism and bigotry that underpins much political action from the Left in the United States.

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.

Wildfires lead to the predictable: Calls for more government regulation for utilities; the cost of which get passed on to you and the benefits of which are generally non-existent. Even worse, the contents of the story do not even support the contention that more regulation would help.

Positive oil and gas rig count news.

Frisco ISD officials alleged to have kept politicking with public resources even after a restraining order was placed by a judge.

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