Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: Nathan Johnson, the Democrat nominee for Texas Attorney General, pledges to abandon Texans and leave them victim to the Left’s cultural revolution if elected in November. What “governance” is he talking about? Clearly he doesn’t understand that most everything, all from his side of the aisle, from trying to sex change children to banning gas stoves, are day-to-day issues that none of us should have had to have been facing over the last decade. These are the very things he callas “partisan” that Paxton has fought to protect us from and that Middleton will also fight hard to counter.

Talarico Tale: Second Capitol Staffer Confirms Past Relationship With Talarico; Talarico Faces Questions About Relationship With Former Staffer, Abortion Lobbyist .

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New World Screwworm issue worsens in Texas:

WATCH: Leftist Groups Attempt to Breach Police Line at Turning Point USA Event in San Antonio. This goes way beyond “protest.”

Texas Tech QB Brendan Sorsby Defeats NCAA, Regains Eligibility to Play Football – despite breaking the rules and placing about $90,000 in gambling bets on sports!

Court: Texas hemp ban (regulation) can be enforced while drug dealers’ legal battle challenging the state plays out.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Fourteen Texas Democrats missed the May 5th deadline to pay their fines for trying to tank “Democracy” by breaking quorum in the Texas legislature. Some who did pay wrote vulgarisms on their checks which is a reflection of who they are.

Meanwhile, Democrat media is wondering if the extremely liberal, and on the record as such over and over for years and years, Austin-centric Dem ticket is that good of an idea for November (a little late, no?)

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Texas Justices Toss Cities’ Challenge to Cable Franchise Fee Cap – great!

Texas Tribune cries that Republicans might further reduce the scope of local governments’ power and this story is a good example of why it’s not a bad idea: Harris County electronic monitoring program doesn’t track defendants who become fugitives. They don’t track those who cut off the monitors!!! What’s the point of the program then?

Oil and gas rig count shows Texas adding more drilling rigs. Meanwhile Chevron and Exxon/Mobile execs warn of a disastrous price spike possibility.

Alamo renovation moving along.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Is D.E.I. gone from Texas state colleges and universities because a law mandated such? Don’t bet on it. The Texas Scorecard has a big piece out on the Texas Tech Health Sciences Center and its career homosexual and DEI organizer and advocate (and transsexual) who holds the senior position on institutional “culture.” Just remember, whomever sets defines the measurements, or metrics, controls who is recognized as having merit.

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Texas sales tax collection was up in May significantly over May of last year.

The fight over giving subsidized in-state tuition to Texas colleges to illegal aliens was heard at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals this morning.

Lubbock leaders mostly claim to be conservatives but the City of Lubbock is hosting, at taxpayer expense, a “World Environmental Day Celebration” tomorrow.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Ultra-pompous Texas native, a Dan Rather clone, Scott Pelley fired by CBS News. He and his forerunner Rather embody most everything that has gone wrong with the legacy news media. I recommend these stories:

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Texas has the most Fortune 500 company headquarters of any state in the new list.

Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson Stepping Down After Three and a Half Years as Head of the Agency.

Paxton at the White House with Dan Patrick and President Trump last night.

National Democrats target Texas House seats but not enough to gain a majority.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: The Daily Caller headlined it this way: Texas announces new tool to keep illiterate foreigners away from driver’s seats. There is more to it than that but it is about being able to comprehend English to operate a commercial vehicle.

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Want evidence of the utter stupidity of today’s leftist credentialed class? Just take this editorial: Trump’s messy mass deportations hurt American workers. By this reasoning a shortage of workers leads not to higher wages from demand pressures but to more unemployment!

Decision take: The historic Downtown Dallas flagship Neiman Marcus to be closed at the end of September by bankrupt Saks Global.

National Republican Senatorial Committee to back Paxton the same as all others.

Judge cancels Ken Paxon’s public divorce trial – because bother parties are coming to a settlement without a trial.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: We go to court today as numerous court decisions are rendered which involve Texas and Texans:

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City of Denton sued for violation of the Texas Women’s Privacy Act related to homosexual “Big Gay Swim Day” at a city owned pool where the event expressly advertises it will be for all ages and that changing rooms will be “gender-neutral.” Denton failed to stop the violation despite having been put on notice.

Oil and gas drilling rig count calmed down last week, Texas added only one rig.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Can taxpayers and electricity rate payers be the victors, as opposed to the victims, of the data center boom in Texas? Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union, says such can be the case, especially if the local deals are properly structured.

Read and study the piece: Data Centers: Taxpayers Can Be Victors, Not Victims, in the AI Revolution

And note, Mr. Sepp said the NTU can help local activists/taxpayers to have the right information to use with local elected officials to do this right.

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Police: Man threatened to kill Erika Kirk at upcoming San Antonio event. Read it, it’s a serious threat. Evil is with us.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: Does Texas state law allow for too much local control for local governments? If not, then how does a relatively small school district amass more than $1 BILLION in debt that is payable by taxpayers for generations?

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Lubbock Central Appraisal District: Are accusations that company played property tax process to gain advantage a one-time issue or burgeoning problem? Yes, there are statewide problems with the way the appraisal side of the property tax system works but that’s not what is really at issue here. In this case it seems more of a mattter of integrity of LCAD officials: If you give one firm a deal, you should give the same deal to the other firms representing taxpayers.

Hearst’s Chron.com lashes out at a Lubbock TV anchor implying he made “racist” statements on the air.What shoddy work by the reporter who neither shows how the comments are in any way racist or that what was said was demonstrably untrue. It is the reporter and media outlet that needs to issue an apology to the Eppler unless it can present actual information. And if Eppler was wrong on the statement, all that needs is an on air correction, it certainly isn’t a racist or bigoted comment in and of itself.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is post-primary runoff election day and I’ll review all the big races that matter from around the state. Incumbents lost, in both parties, fresh matchups are set for November, and the Hearst newspapers editorial boards beg Cornyn to become a full out Democrat in the rest of his term in order to salvage his political reputation and get revenge on Trump. Here are two of those editorials:

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Dallas Fed: Texas service sector expanding at the same rate it did in April.

Governor Abbott: Texas college tuition remains frozen for 2026–2027.

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Our Lone Star story of the day: It is primary runoff election day across Texas. Will Cornyn survive? Will Dems nominate any candidates that can win with normal people voters?

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SpaceX completes a largely successful 12th orbital test flight of Starship/Superheavy. ‘I haven’t cried in years’: SpaceX fans travel across country for 12th Starship launch.

Texas factory output growth slows to a moderate pace, outlooks stable.

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