The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Voting Deserts,” voter registration rates, turnout, and other nonsense of the Left take up much political coverage and discussion time by people on all sides and do so to the exclusion of something few harping on the matters ever think about: Individual freedom. Most of this…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It was 3 years ago today when the nation saw the unrestricted hoards of Haitians crossing the border into Texas from Mexico. “There was a lot of asylum fraud going on there. Most of the Haitians we talked to admitted they had been living & working in Chile & other South Ameri…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating, once again, what lying race pimps (dangerous rhetoric!) they are, Texas Democrats along with others went all out liar on Texas DPS Director McCraw yesterday. It all relates to Governor Abbott’s presser in Houston at which he announced the designation of the Tre…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The “scripted” responses from Democrat officials, and predictably wrong media narrative, over yet another assassination attempt of Donald Trump should, but sadly won’t, awaken all Americans to the big lie that has been Leftist projection on so-called rhetoric and political sp…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The lawfare case against Brent Webster, Texas First Assistant Attorney General, by the leftists at the Texas Bar Association was heard by the Texas Supreme Court yesterday. It’s a plain and simple case of using the courts, and in this case a regulatory body, to punish people …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has taken what I think to be an odd ruling on campaign violations, the Texas [un]Ethics Commission, and local prosecutors. It is almost as if the majority is trying to implement in Texas the administrative state problem we have with federal…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Harris skirmish on ABC reminded voters how biased is their media and despite the propagandists claiming Harris “won” the debate, or “did enough”, post debate polling and interviewing by the New York Times and Reuters showed it favored Trump. I comment on many other …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Representative James Frank of Wichita Falls announced a run to challenge Dade Phelan for Speaker of the House bringing the total to 4 challengers, 5 in the race. Rep. Frank is a good conservative on most issues, though my own column in 2017 reminds that he can stray, bu…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New reporting as well as personal experience shows that it is likely that Texas Tech has put its Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources in the hands of dedicated Leftists. Ag. College at Texas Tech Offers ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Agriculture Course – th…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The backroom work to intimidate, and even ruin, two Lubbock County commissioners – all for working to stop ballooning county spending and a big tax increase – is underway from several fronts. The latest item that is in public is beyond petty – it is juvenile and petulant poli…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas case out of Fort Bend County, in which a Democrat county commissioner candidate, former Dem county judge chief of staff, and Biden White House liaison has been indicted on charges of impersonation, shows how the Left and Democrats setup their own victimhood and excuse…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: False conservative city Councilwoman Jennifer Wilson leads Lubbock city council to pass a tax increase, overriding the newly elected Mayor Mark McBrayer as well as conservative Councilman David Glasheen. But wait there’s more! Wilson also appears to have successfully pushed a…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Paxton had a big week last week. I’ll talk about his push on election integrity with Bexar and Harris counties and why government has not legitimate interest in having higher, or lower, voter turnout. Harris County delays plan to boost voter registratio…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas is leading the way in voter roll clean up and has removed over 1 million ineligible voters. But nevermind all of that, Democrats and their press propagandists keep with the narrative that there is little to no corruption related to voting. The problem for Texas Democrat…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: We begin with a look at the success for the United States in pivoting to a free enterprise, private sector model for space flight with noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com. (He really did write the Encyclopedia of Space!) After our look as spaceflight,…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today we will talk with conservative movement warrior Jim Pfaff and get us all reacquainted with one of the oldest and most prestigious conservative organizations – it turns 50 this year – The Conservative Caucus. Many of you will remember its weekly television show, Conserva…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, we debunk, for the umpteenth time, the big lie spread around on Texas school funding. Hint, it’s double what advocacy groups say. State Rep. Harrison Busts School Funding Myths, Pushes for Fiscal Responsibility. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allie…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lies from the dais in Lubbock County! For almost two decades I have spoken and written about the lies told to voters by local officeholders, often then repeated by local media, about property taxes. There are many who still do not believe me that elected officials openly lie …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear an expedited appeal from Attorney General Paxton in the case of the church-affiliated Annunciation House in El Paso. This is the group that has fought to keep its records secret related to its work with illegal immigrants. And, Texas…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reports abound, investigations launched, actions taken – all for a story that didn’t read as legit from the beginning. My first take was why the heck aren’t Republicans out registering voters too!? There is nothing illegal about registering voters outside of a DPS office and …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats shoved poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Joe Biden out of Prime Time at their convention in Chicago, all so they could let other poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Democrats speak. Democrats Shove Biden Out Of DNC Primetime For Last Gasp Of Presiden…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After the home town RINO whiner, Rep. Glenn Rogers, was defeated in the Republican Primary this year, his Palo Pinto County commissioners court pals passed a slate of “electioneering regulations” designed to restrict active conservative opposition in the county. Conservatives…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today’s press review has a perfect example from one Texas county how all the property tax levying local governments’ just-a-little-more-per-month tax increases add up. Try about $1000 per year more for just the “average” taxpayer! Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The insider political deal all those years ago to indict Ken Paxton on securities fraud and then work to never let it come to trial was a political hit that blew up. Now, it has also blown up on the private lawyers that were uniquely brought in to prosecute, maybe persecute i…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The rightful indignation over the State Fair of Texas deciding to ban licensed concealed carry holders from having their guns at the fair, over an incident that demonstrated the need for such, is warranted by all involved. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is right to go afte…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish tells citizens they should “move” if they do not want to pay higher property taxes every year. He also tells Commissioner Jason Corley that the commissioner is only hearing from a small minority of voters opposing tax increases; Parrish say…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dishonest Democrat Colin Allred, the Left’s nominee to take on Ted Cruz for Texas’ U.S. Senator, is running an advert on border security trying to put his party’s border policies on the shoulders of Senator Cruz. It’s another in a long line of examples of how Democrats treat …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Coalition media” is not just one-sided biased, its members are often players in the political game as I’ve long explained. Sherry Sylvester writes about a Texas story that I covered that demonstrates this activism by media propagandists – a story on school choice. Our Lone S…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A big stack of the “stench of local government” stories all out of today’s press review (there are so many I’ve set aside over the last couple of weeks that we could do hours on the subject:) City of Abilene adopts budget that raises taxes for FY 2024-2025 Taxes will go up fo…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much campaign news today including a big Democrat endorsing Ted Cruz for re-election; another Democrat name changer to appeal more to Hispanics on the ballot; Abbott makes a prediction on picking up Texas House seats, and; more on what a Leftist disaster is Kamala Harris and …

Playwright, songwriter, and performer Chip Polk discusses his original play The Reckoning which is running at the Ragtown Gospel Theater in Post, Texas. Learn all about the Ragtown Gospel Theater here: https://ragtown.com/ www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: If Texas were still its own country, it would be in the Top 10 in the world in Olympic medals at this point of the Paris Games! Great piece at WFAA: How many medals have Texas athletes won at the Paris Olympics? Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Houston Chronicle and its editorial board used Hurricane Beryl as a platform and reason to disparage Texas Republican leadership going so far as to saying Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick failed the people. Today, in a very long four-page editorial, those same Houston Chronicle liber…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Republicans are beginning to tarnish the Texas Miracle as they incrementally roll back fiscal discipline one legislative session at a time. Club for Growth’s new report shows what many of us have noticed but legislators don’t want to hear: Spending discipline has gone l…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Two wins for Texas (and the country) on the border and illegal immigration front: New York’s state supreme court tells New York City that it cannot stop Texas, or anyone else, from bussing migrants to the city citing well-known precedent from SCOTUS in Edwards v. California. …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Politicians dig in deeper on CenterPoint Energy and its alleged poor performance after the last hurricane to hit Houston. There is much too this story and a big part of what is missed is the problem of non-competitive government sanctioned monopolies; the PUC and the type of …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas scores a huge, $1.4 billion, settlement victory with Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc) over data privacy but there is so much more that needs doing. Google is monitoring Gmail and it’s Googlegroups for political speech it doesn’t like and, the Chinese communists…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Darn it! The anti-school choice crowd is getting frustrated in Texas. They can’t even design a big poll that skews results to opposing school choice! In the latest attempt pollsters found that even when respondents agree with anti-school choice arguments those same folks stil…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The media’s attempt to cover up who Kamala Harris is, is blatant and going at full pace. The problem they have? She is so much of a say anything Leftist that there is too much out there to successfully hide. The media is currently rewriting history in an effort to help the Ha…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden blatantly lied to the American people about border crossing numbers in his free prime time campaign address from the Oval Office. And, El Paso County’s commissioners want money to jail illegal aliens arrested under Operation Lone Star – because it’s interfering with the…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Did you know that hapless V.P. Kamala Harris was NEVER the Biden Administration’s “border czar?” She was but the gaslighting media is now saying she wasn’t. Why the change? That’s obvious. Read this great piece: Nolte: Desperate Media Seek to Erase Kamala Harris Failed ‘Borde…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As predicted, Democrats fall in line with Willie Brown’s lover to be that broken political party’s nominee for President. What about all that “democracy” they change about? What about nominating a candidate who actually fixes the problem the party had with Biden? Putting in H…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: With Joe Biden out of the the re-elect race, announced on X by the way, what will Texas delegates to the Democrat convention do? I speculate that there is so little authentic thought diversity (factions) in today’s party that there is little chance of any real showdown betwee…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Tribune has a big “social justice” story out on Lubbock and it’s full of half truths, utter ignorance, and even a lie or two. There are many things ignored by these people, the biggest of which is that people can choose to live anywhere they want and choose to build…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Governor Abbott talked tough at the Republican National Convention, see speech, and it has Democrats and other lib groups going nuts – with their limited knowledge and ability they once again compare us to Nazis! I have a question to turn around on one of these groups that ap…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas’ RINO’s, Democrats, and big businesses, especially TAB, often claim that conservative pro-family and decency legislation (those “social” issues) will hurt business in the Lone Star State. However, the last decade has shown the opposite and now two of the world’s most re…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Excuses from the U.S. Secret Service chief, the big Leftist DEI proponent, for the agency’s deadly failure Saturday now reach a level of extreme absurdity. If a very slightly sloped barn roof is too big of a “safety” issue for the Secret Service then we don’t need this partic…

In the extension of the show (15 July 2025) I have more comment on the attempt to assassinate Donald Trump; cover some Texas headlines, and: cover three important stories about Space X. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I explain why my immediate personal re-action to the attempt to murder, to assassinate, President Trump was not one of shock or surprise – differing from even close friends. It has much to do with the Soviet-style bizzaro opposite world in which we’ve been living. Roger Kimba…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reuters, and much other press, is factually wrong carrying Biden’s propaganda that his administration is deporting more illegal aliens than did the Trump administration. Not only is it not close, the data also shows the Biden is specifically coddling, benefiting criminal alie…