The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas DPS appeals federal court decision allowing 18 to 20-year-olds to carry a handgun. This is a wrong decision by DPS as Texas doesn’t have 2nd Class citizens. Also, Robert Henneke makes the case that “raising age to buy rifles in Texas won’t prevent mass shootings.”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.Biden’s War on Texas is not just about damaging the energy industry, now he’s going after efforts to desalinate sea water.To some, if you don’t agree to sexualized shows for children you are the “radical” and maybe even a “Christian fascist.”More sloppiness and lying by omission at Reuters.And, other news of Texas.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: From cancelling Dilbert cartoons to Univ. of North Texas firing a math professor for an extremely mild bit of free expression, “woke” culture is an abuse of everything that underpins freedom. Now Texas school board members and administrators are being trained, with your money, to support, hide, and defend woke brainwashing in our public schools.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.Anti-Wimp update.Governor Abbott putting the focus of Operation Lone Star where it should be, because it can be most effective without federal interference, on dismantling the Mexican terrorist cartels.More polling shows Republican leads growing statewide.And, other news of Texas.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: Back to the border, again.Jonathan Turley takes apart the much hyped class-action lawsuit against DeSantis for flying illegal aliens from Venezuela to Martha’s Vineyard. “The complaint is stronger on rhetoric than supporting facts or law,” Turley wrote.Governor Abbott’s Operation Lone Star continues to cost huge money while suffering complete failure at deterring illegal crossing, something the Governor specifically stated it would do, and suffering court loss after court loss mainly due to poor planning. There’s really no excuse for these legal problems except shoddy planning given that Abbott is a former Supreme Court justice and attorney general.Texas Monthly writes a long hit piece on an Hispanic female Texan, just named head of Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valle, because she dared support what the Left calls “Trump’s Family Separation Policy.” They seem upset that under Biden she was promoted. So much for the Left championing the advancement of women and minorities!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.And, other news of Texas.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: First LULAC puts out a bounty on a private citizen then, Bexar County's sheriff says he's investigating but has no specific suspects or knowledge of what, if any, crime has been committed. The Democrats have become unhinged over shifting a tiny percentage of the illegal alien problem from Texas to their northern playgrounds. I'll tell you who is being "lured," it's these Dems being lured by DeSantis and Abbott into showing their top-to-bottom hypocrisy!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.Big ruling against the overtly political State Bar of Texas' attempt to go after Attorney General Paxton and his staff for filing lawsuits over the 2020 election the libs at the Bar don't like.Judge rules one can purchase a firearm while under felony indictment which federal law currently prohibits. In arguing the case the government inadvertently shows why this is actually no big deal from a public safety standpoint.And, other news of Texas.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: The campaign stack is full from ridiculously early speculation that Rep. Ronny Jackson of Amarillo is planning to run for Senate in 2026 (the Cornyn seat) to a new poll out that shows Republicans solidifying and expanding statewide leads over Democrats. Also troubling for the Left is that a majority favors real school choice in 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.Texas Attorney General Paxton gets a big win against Big Tech censorship at the 5th Circuit.LULAC appears to be going after a private citizen in Texas, offering up a bounty, $5,000 reward, for the identification of a woman it claims committed crimes in getting illegal aliens to agree to fly to Martha’s Vineyard!Petition to remove El Paso’s district attorney moves forward.And, other news of Texas.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: You’ll be surprised at the ballot box this fall when you don’t see people you expect to vote for on the ballot. Another bad change in the big election integrity bill has been found out and it needs fixing in the next legislative session. Lubbock Co. treasurer and former Lubbock Co. Republican Party chairman Chris Winn discusses.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 1995.7-year-old politically motivated case against Ken Paxton from political enemies to see depositions taken in late November.Surprise, surprise: Making ethanol to put in our gasoline pollutes more than just keeping it all petroleum!The societal sewer we are in is well exemplified by Amarillo’s civic leadership. Don’t blame Washington when you fertilize and grow the same at home.And, other news of Texas.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: Does Texas need a “digital bill of rights?” I’m skeptical of the effectiveness of such and most people volunteer their information in return for free software and services. What the latest disclosure, from D.O.J. whistleblowers, about Meta/Facebook tells us is that while the companies are bad actors it is government most able to truly hurt us in misusing our digital information.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 random act of journalism happens in the Houston Chronicle forcefully admitting that “gun buy backs” do not affect crime. And if you read the story you’ll note that Harris County’s program is the same old trick of the powerful: Disarm the weak, poor, and those most likely to need SELF defense.Stench of Local Government: More local government misleading taxpayers over property taxes. This time from Midland.Border news.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

In the last decade Gun Owners of America has become active "on the ground" in Texas. It's new Texas state director is Brady native Wes Virdell.In this interview we talk about GOA's troubling past, troubling to me and others who were on the ground working for gun rights, its new activism in Texas, and what the primary legislative goals will be next year for the organization.www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: It began with two newly elected Lubbock County commissioners who actually bothered to read the law but fell apart in that supposedly conservative county as one commissioner chickened out the next time around. Now Harris County’s two Republican commissioners are again following that great Lubbock example and saving the people from a huge Democrat tax increase by denying a quorum at the meeting to set the property tax rate for next year. The hypocritical Democrats are fighting back hard to not lose their big grab of the people’s money.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.R.I.P. Judge Kenneth Starr.Two new statewide polls are out showing slim but firm GOP leads.Texas Monthly publishes another excruciating long story in which the writer implies that when only accusations are made at a conservative Republican, A.G. Ken Paxton, it means he is guilty and how dare voters keep supporting him. Funny how that viewpoint doesn’t exist when it’s Dems accused, and sometimes convicted or caught red handed, breaking the law.And, other news of Texas.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: Fighting the Left's modern implementation of racial and ethnic segregation, a UT-Austin professor has filed suit against a program at Texas A&M that appears clearly to violate federal law and discriminate against white and Asian males. Even the name of the program gives it away: Accountability, Climate, Equity and Scholarship Faculty Fellows Program, or ACES. Yes, Texas A&M has become a hotbed of Leftism from the top down and like other state systems, Governor Abbott appears to have done little to nothing to change regents into those who will work to block Leftist activism with our money and our young people.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.R.I.P. Lowry Mays, a great Texan and founder of Clear Channel.City of El Paso ups its spending on busing aliens to New York City and much more from the border news stack.The satellite launched by SpaceX Saturday was a made-in-Midland device.And, other news of Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com