Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Good, bad, and ugly from the Texas Capitol as a key deadline for hearing House bills passed last night.Big victory on ETJ reform returning power to the peopleBig moves on a House version of school choice todayGun control bill that got out of committee misses deadline, appears deadDems waste most of Tuesday night to kill Texas Border Force bill, HB20, but Rep. Schaefer manages to pull victory from defeat by hanging onto another bill, HB7Hearing on Banning DEI in Texas Public Universities Draws Crowd at CapitolOur 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.Finally someone on the national stage with strong border credentials joins me in calling out Abbott’s mistruths: Former Trump official slams Gov. Abbott’s ‘BS’ claim Texas border force is ‘repelling’ migrants. There is hope as one small video this week shows Texas forces stopping aliens from entering in one very small spot. This is the first evidence in years and over 4 billion spent by Texas we’ve seen this. Be aware that many other videos show aliens crossing unimpeded, in huge numbers, elsewhere even in more urbanized areas. Local sales tax collections reported by Comptroller.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House votes to expel a member, Rep. Bryan Slaton, for the first time since 1927. Also, Speaker Phelan shows he is too thin skinned for high political office in using lawyers to try and stop a legitimate political ad running in his district. Those stories and many more from the 88th Texas Legislature:As I covered Friday: Texas House passes bill to implement pilot program creating mileage taxTexas House Passes Bill Reforming Anti-Life 10-Day RuleBill would place Gov. Abbott over Texas-Mexico border surge, pulling duties from DPS chiefTexas Senate committee considering proposal for new digital currencyChild Gender Modification Ban Blocked for a Second Time by Texas House DemocratsNRA-ILA: Call and email your state representatives urging them to oppose HB 2744, a gun control bill that got out of committee.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.From the stench of local government stackRoosevelt ISD, in Lubbock Co., under civil rights investigationLubbock Co. District Attorney’s Office dealing with severe prosecutor shortageGalveston ISD Superintendent ousted over “sexists” remarksThe border crisis worsens but we again read Texas officials saying they will stop illegal crossing between ports of entry – they’ve not done it yet. Gov. Abbott promises to bus thousands more aliens to sanctuary cities in coming weeks. Meanwhile Congressman Cuellar rips the Biden Admin. on the border pointing out that we only see people coming in but none going out. And, Border Patrol union rips DHS for warning of ‘targeted enforcement’ in Texas.Just How Many Illegal Immigrants Have Entered the U.S. Under Biden?  More than the population of 33 states and territories!And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: It is time the credentialed, smarter than the rest of us, liberals explain one off their shibboleths: How does it work? How does the existence or availability of a firearm turn a non-murderer into a murderer? How does a specific style of weapon (that works just like others such as an AR-15 style rifle) magically influence a human being to commit murder? I’d really like to have this explained given that mostly it’s the only answer liberal offer up to murder and mass murder: That it is because (the causal agent) a certain type of gun is available.Clearly an SUV can kill just as many people as happened in Brownsville Sunday as can a rifle in Allen so why is Range Rover not blamed for those deaths in the Valley while a gun is blamed, more than the murderer it seems, in Allen?And why are liberals, and the Godless, sin-celebrating, and nihilistic society they have championed never, never at fault for anything? Clearly they despise discussion of God, His law, and His mercy. The anti-gun crowd can’t even allow for a church prayer vigil to take place without an attack.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.Rep. Bryan Slaton resigns before the Texas House votes on expelling him.Voters in San Antonio and El Paso reject far-Leftwing city charter propositions.Abbott ups border presence with another claim intercept, repel and turn back migrants.” Fine but so far that has not happened despite previous claims.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

For this Podcast Extra, I invited Reverend Daniel Hinton to discuss the transsexual (transgender) movement and how Christians should react when pressed to approve of the issue at work and in life.This is Part 2 of 2.Hinton is pastor for Christ Lutheran Church in Lubbock (an orthodox Missouri Synod Lutheran church.)The online audio bible series I mention is found by clicking this link.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Vast majority of GOP state representatives join Democrats to vote to recreate a version of the failed Chapter 313 school district property tax break program. If the problem is school property taxes being so high that such deter economic investment, then work on lowering those taxes. Instead they vote for a scheme that transfers more local burden onto existing businesses and individual taxpayers. See: Chapter 313 Replacement Tax Incentive Program Gets Initial Approval in Texas House.And worse, in a vote that makes a mockery of any claim to support limited government and personal freedom, enough putative Republican reps joined Democrats to fund a pilot program testing the state monitoring your driving to charge you by the mile. Lubbock’s Dustin Burrows voted for this monstrosity as did Abilene’s Lambert – it’s a program environmentalist-radicals worldwide have been pushing to get take people’s freedom to drive away!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 drilling rig count plummets in Texas.Colin Allred (Allbad) has another stumble in his effort to take on Ted Cruz for U.S. Senate.Border situation worsening in Texas:Mumps, Measles, Tuberculosis and other diseases throughout downtown El Paso’s flood of aliens living on the streets.San Antonio is bracing for a surge in migrants as resource center is over capacity.Rep. Gooden blasts Biden’s immigration ‘lies’ after four-time deported migrant arrested for murder.Border chaos eroding CBP, ICE morale, watchdog warns agency practices ‘unsustainable’And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Travis County’s leftist George Soros-picked district attorney, and the county attorney, refuse to prosecute the person charged in House Gallery protest that resulted in it being cleared.The state’s media has mostly downplayed what happened but the Center Square reported how bad the transvestite activists behaved.This two systems – one for conservatives and one for the Left – will lead to more civil disorder if not stopped.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.Democrat Allred’s senate campaign against Ted Cruz begins with a stumble.Border news gets worse and worse. Meanwhile Governor Abbott gets credit for showing the hypocrisy of America’s leftist “woke” mayors.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

For this Podcast Extra, I invited Reverend Daniel Hinton to discuss the transsexual (transgender) movement and how Christians should react when pressed to approve of the issue at work and in life.This is Part 1 of 2. The second part will be posted in a few days.Hinton is pastor for Christ Lutheran Church in Lubbock (an orthodox Missouri Synod Lutheran church.)The online audio bible series I mention is found by clicking this link.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Vulgar transsexual backers, those who think it good to attempt to “transition” children and youth from their God-given sex, put on a typical display in the Texas House yesterday resulting in a clearing of the gallery.The Dems were able to stop the bill protecting children, a high priority of theirs for some evil reason, on a technicality but it has already returned to committee, been voted out again with the fix, and Calendars Chairman Burrows says it will be back on the House floor this week. Will the vulgar people wanting to harm children be back, showing their backsides, as well?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.Polling shows overwhelming support for school choice in Texas as well as support for the illegal idea of denying constitutional rights to citizens 18- to 20-years of age.Why has Texas A&M getting massive money from the government of Qatar (almost half a billion dollars) and how did it setup a degree conferring campus in the terrorist-tied country without legislative approval?UT-Austin caught, again, officially pushing Leftwing political dogma. Officials have now deleted the resource.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House is busy now has stalled on so much that many GOP priority bills will not get a vote. Lt. Governor Patrick continues putting the pressure on for action. Interestingly, the House has found time for some Democrat bills to get through committee and get a House floor vote so why not core Republican-backed bills? Examples:Election Security Legislation Stalls in Texas HouseTexas House passes bill to decriminalize marijuanaProposed ban on corporal punishment in Texas schools fails againTexas Lawmakers Slow to Act on Child Gender Mutilation BanOur 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 sales tax collection over $4 billion in April.The Left is doing all it can to kill off capitalist-based private space development and more specifically to kill off Space X work in Texas. You could count on such failing except that the Biden Admin. shares the similar goals. Famed science writer Bob Zimmerman joins us to discuss the latest effort of Leftists suing the FAA to stop all Space X launches in south Texas.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Outrage from Democrats and the Left over the mass murder in Cleveland, Texas but not over the fact that the murderer was an illegal alien and had re-entered the country 3 (maybe 5) times. Nope, Democrats are hopping mad that in offering a huge reward to capture the guy, he used the term “illegal immigrants” in a tweet. They are also angry over the type of gun used as if an AR-15 style rifle works any differently than any other semi-automatic rifle (it doesn’t.)Also in this story we learn how being unarmed and relying upon a police response in time to stop murder is often fruitless.And if that was not enough, we see our oh-so-professional FBI put an innocent family at risk by wrongly putting out another Texas man’s photo as the wanted man.Meanwhile thousand per day cross our border illegally because there is no effective control, people who have been previously deported like this wanted man, and Democrats, media liberals, and other Leftists call us bigots, xenophobes, racists, and more just because we favor a controlled national border!Biden Admin Releases Migrants into South Texas — Again21K Venezuelan Migrants in 12 Days Crossed Border into One Texas SectorEl Paso mayor declares state of emergency in anticipation of Title 42 endingBrownsville Migrant Influx Contradicts DHS Secretary’s Border ClaimsOur 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 House passes bill to decriminalize marijuana. The leadership of Speaker Dade Phelan found time for an early vote on marijuana and a host of other Democrat priorities such as last week’s vote on banning corporal punishment in schools, while Republican priorities including stopping D.E.I. on campus, other border security bills, and a host of other key legislation will either not even get a vote or, will be heard at the very last moment and pushed into the calendar so late that much will not get a vote as time runs out.Meanwhile Phelan talks of vacation and even let the House out early last week because severe storms were forecast for Dallas – when do we not have severe weather all across the state in the Spring!?Trump weighed in over the weekend against the Texas House’s property tax relief plan and in favor of the Senate plan. Called the speaker “California Dade.”And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com