Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Watch the trends so you are not caught unprepared for financial downturn as are most people. The Texas sales tax report is troublesome and aligns with the many Dallas Fed Outlook Reports this year. The oil and gas rig count continues its slide as well.

It may not seem like it but the slowing economy is a big opportunity for well managed small businesses to grow and gain market share.

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Sen. Mike Lee: Schumer And McConnell Want Senators To Pass Their $106B Border Bill Without Reading It? Hell No! That and much more from the border crisis including how Lefties, like at the Austin-American Statesman, report from a perspective of fear when regular Americans gather and protest but then celebrate when the lawless, radicals protest with violence, arson, and worse.

U.S. Supreme Court will review Texas social media censorship law, House Bill 20, on 26 February.

Appeals court upholds Harris County’s 10 percent bail rule – a good ruling.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Attorney General finally files a lawsuit against local Texas cities ignoring state law and passing their own soft on drugs rules. Some cities welcome this because the ordinances were put on the ballot by petition of the pro-pot folks, others like Austin, want such degenerate policies in their jurisdictions.

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Showing a novel sense of integrity, Rep. Travis Clardy compares his active campaign website to his scrapbooks and an historical record after being sent a cease and desist letter for claiming he is endorsed by Governor Greg Abbott when, in fact, his opponent has Abbott’s backing.

Is Nikki Haley hosting bats in her belfry?

This crazy mixed up country:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It weakens our arguments on the border crisis when our Texas officials, and others, spin, mislead, overstate, or just get fact wrong on the border issue. From the beginning Governor Abbott, for example, has made it appear to millions, in television interviews, that Operation Lone Star, costing Texas taxpayers billions, was deterring illegal boarder crossing and much more. In reality the problem has grown worse during all of that spending with zero effective deterrence. We are beginning to make headway with the American people in the national political battle over the border crisis and it is time all speak plainly and truthfully about what is happening. Otherwise we hand our opponents easy ammunition to attack our credibility. Here is a perfect example: Randy Clark: ‘Texas Border Showdown’ Wrought with Political Spin and Misinformation.

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HD2 special election last night was a straight up proxy fight for the coming GOP primary. The Speaker and his TLR bankroll won, barely, but it shows that in this low voter turnout primary (no real top of ballot races to pull in voters) that conservative challengers will lose many contests if they do not fully focus on authentic get out THEIR vote – and to do so you first must identify YOUR vote.

Yesterday the Texas Supreme Court heard argument over the Texas bill banning child sex modification.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court held oral argument today on the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ actions during the big freeze of 2021. There are strong arguments for Luminant’s case, the plaintiff, and also against it. The real issue is whether Texas is to have a market based electric grid or a politician controlled grid. Two stories that will give you a good idea of what is at stake and what happened in court:

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Texas Senate District 30 candidate Dr. Carrie de Moor joins us to discuss her primary battle.

Lying RINO Drew Darby of San Angelo gets big slap down from Governor Abbott’s campaign in a cease and desist letter.

HD2 special election today is a proxy for the statewide factional divide in the Texas GOP.

Dallas Fed: Texas service sector and retail join manufacturing in contraction in January.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Washington, DC border bill talk is exemplary of how most career politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, think alike, wrongly. To them it’s always “pass a bill” but passing bills is often no solution to problems at all. What matters is what is in the bills and what those laws do but that is always of secondary interest to swamp-swimmers. Their interest is in solving, not the border problem, but the political problem that stems from the border crisis. As with most issues, they want to “pass a bill” so that it temporarily takes the issue off of the political burner for whatever election is upcoming. Some stories used in today’s lesson:

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Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey: Contraction again.

Like RINO Rep. Glenn Rogers, San Angelo’s longtime RINO state Rep. Drew Darby caught lying to voters claiming Abbott’s endorsement when, in fact, Abbott endorsed his opponent Stormy Bradley. And in the Rogers campaign, a school principal backer shows why we need the clampdown on people using public resources for electioneering.

Anti-Wimp update: Armed bystander puts down Houston robber.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Conservative activist groups get a big win at the Texas Seventh Court of Appeals for voters over a misleading Texas Constitutional Amendment item passed by voters in 2021. Legislators, smarting from a defeat on the same issue ten years earlier, pulled a fast one on voters and need to be slapped for it. Background: Grassroots Challenge ‘Misleading’ Ballot Language for Proposed Constitutional Amendment. More.

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Much for the Texas vs. Biden Administration border standoff. Just remember this: It’s a real standoff on the legal issue of a state repelling an invasion but all the rest is just the same old expensive but non-effective border security theater.

Meet the Texas billionaire becoming the new soft on crime George Soros with what is fundamentally a “Progressive Era” solution that doesn’t work just like all the other leave-it-to-science ideas.

An example of what I have told audiences for many years but is still mostly not believed – listen to hear it.

Baker-Hughes rig count falls, again.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Last week the U.S. Supreme Court heard DeVillier vs. State of Texas. It is an extremely important property rights and takings case involving a Texas farm and ranch and TxDOT with potentially wide implications. There are many press stories covering the story you can find by searching. Here is a good background story: Farmer Nightmare: Government Floods Family Twice, Kills Herd and Refuses to Pay Damage.

Robert H. Thomas, director of property rights litigation for the Pacific Legal Foundation, discusses this potentially landmark case and the hearing before the Supreme Court last week.

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Several public education and higher education stories along with my commentary on such:

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Want to sit on your county appraisal district board without being beholden to the local government tax takers? Thanks to a new law 50 Texas counties will now elect 3 citizens appraisal board members each. Deadline to file to run is fast approaching.

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Senator John Cornyn endorses Donald Trump for president. Trump is the first candidate in almost 50 years to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. Data reveals large percentage of NH Republicans won’t vote for him in ’24. The worry with open primaries continues to fester: Nikki Haley Campaign Memo Sparks Discussion of Closing Texas GOP Primary | 2024 Elections. We need a closed GOP primary in Texas but that’s a fight it will be hard to find a way to win.

San Antonio U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro is so intent on having no border security, he calls on Biden to federalize Texas National Guard to stop it from working to stop illegal border crossing. That fairly well sums up on the position of most Democrat politicians these days.

Liberal Democrat Colin Allred launches first TV ads in bid to take on Ted Cruz. He like so many other black Democrats are among the nastiest cold blooded hypocrites on the planet. They claim to be about helping blacks but then advocate for abortion on demand which is proven to effect black lives more than any others.

Texas Attorney General Says School Marshals Can Open Carry Handguns on Campuses

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Our Lone Star story of the day: There is much tough talk from many but will Texas really fight back on the bad U.S. Supreme Court decision issued yesterday related to border security? Chip Roy says the duty of state officers is to tell the Court to “Go to Hell” and move forward with protecting citizens from foreign invasion.

Attorney General Paxton points out the case from which this decision comes is still set to be argued in the Fifth Court of Appeals on 7 February.

Border Showdown: Will Feds Confront Texas National Guard?

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Desperate Lawmaker Challenges Sid Miller to a Duel: State Rep. Glenn Rogers is angry after Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller endorsed his opponent. Current Revolt has images of the items covered.

SD30 court ruling says Hagenbuch’s residency issue can go to trial but he remains on the ballot and trial would be after the election. It is time for the legislature to solve this long standing problem.

In big, open TX26 race with 11 Republicans on the ballot, Senator Ted Cruz has endorsed Abilene-area native Brandon Gill.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again we are reminded of how ludicrous is the nature of the Democratic Party’s importation, illegally, of millions of people. Not only do they get to come in while avoiding the legal pathways for immigration into the United States, they get all kinds of privileges that do not extend to U.S. citizens including in areas of national security: Biden admin lets illegal immigrants fly without valid ID and even opt-out of having their photograph taken by TSA!

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Texas unemployment rate drops and another record number of jobs added. Oil & gas rig count fell by 3 last week.

Governor Abbott jets off to India to promote Texas and himself.

More SD30 campaign news, Rep. Glenn Rogers campaign news, and more from the campaign stack.

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