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Stories of people who reach the here, the near, the hard, and the far. The vision of Acts 1:8, put into practice "But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” Acts 1:8
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Episode 3500: UT poll: Majority of Hispanics now support mass deportation | Castle Hills woman wins at SCOTUS – Pratt on Texas 6/20/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: 76-year-old Sylivia Gonzalez of Castle Hills gets the backing of the U.S. Supreme Court to pursue her claims of political retaliation against Castle Hills officials for what was, in my opinion, a dastardly deed done to her for flagrant political retaliation. Here is a top-dra…
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Episode 3494: Podcast Extra: Blacklisted Americans update with Robert Zimmerman – 6/20/2024
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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com. Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.” See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/ Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra bl…
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Episode 3499: FBI/DOJ harass nurse alleging illegal Medicaid billing for child sex changes at Texas Children’s Hospital – Pratt on Texas 6/19/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s not just the surgeon, Dr. Haim, now Biden’s politicized DOJ and FBI is intimidating a Texas nurse for blowing the whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital illegally using Medicaid funds for child sex changes. See: Biden DOJ Sends FBI Agents to Harass Nurse After She Blew the…
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Episode 3498: Biden’s latest Democrat vote buy: 500,000+ illegals made legal & more DACA benefits! – Pratt on Texas 6/18/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden’s latest big vote buy will let half a million illegal aliens have “temporary” work permits, obtain permanent resident status (green card), and then obtain U.S. citizenship. Plus he plans to hand out more benefits under DACA despite the Fifth Circuit holding that the pro…
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Episode 3497: McBrayer talks blow-out win for Lubbock mayor | Texas school test scores are double trouble for Dems – Pratt on Texas 6/17/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: An historic blow-out election hit Lubbock Saturday in the mayoral runoff. We visit with Lubbock’s new mayor, Mark McBrayer, about what the election margin means to council policy and his efforts to prioritize basic services. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Alli…
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Episode 3496: El Paso “hides the ball” from taxpayers | Abilene mgr hyperbolizes for tax hike | Big court rulings – Pratt on Texas 6/14/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether liars or just incompetents, local government officials mislead often but sometimes it becomes extremely overt in “hiding the ball” from taxpayers which is the case in El Paso. (James Quintero joins us to talk about his El Paso discovery.) Other times they simply overs…
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Episode 3495: Local marijuana ordinances | Operation Lone Star costs questioned | SCOTUS abortion pill decision – Pratt on Texas 6/13/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Senate interim committee hearing gets to the right question on the extravagantly funded Operation Lone Star: When can we reduce funding? It can’t go on forever. Also, an important piece on Mexico’s new president and political situation. Our Lone Star story of the day …
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Episode 3493: Podcast Extra: Blacklisted Americans update with Robert Zimmerman – 6/13/2024
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Another update on the blacklisting of Americans from author and historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com. Blacklisted Americans is Zimmerman’s term for victims of what is currently called “cancel culture.” See all Blacklisted Americans stories here: https://behindtheblack.com/blacklisted-americans/ Find other Pratt on Texas Podcast Extra bl…
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Episode 3492: Drag queen led “Queering Agriculture” seminar for Texas Tech | Big Title IX victory in federal court – Pratt on Texas 6/12/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From the I-told-you-so file: A Texas Tech science related program hosted a “Queering Agriculture” seminar led by a drag queen – last week! This stuff is embedded almost everywhere and citizens must get past their self-deception that it’s mostly “somewhere else” if they are to…
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Episode 3491: Scornful hypocrisy of Texas House’s GOP caucus | AG Paxton fighting Biden on sex-change HHS rule – Pratt on Texas 6/11/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The disingenuous, risible Texas House Republican Caucus continues to show why it and its leadership can’t be taken seriously as a GOP policy body but only as an insiders’ tool for manipulation to get more power. Others in Texas House GOP Caucus Violates Their Own Bylaws I als…
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Episode 3490: Houston ISD state takeover showing good results | Efforts to remove Soros-backed DA fizzling out – Pratt on Texas 6/10/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Despite massive vilification of the Texas Education Agency takeover of Houston ISD in the Houston Chronicle and from Democrats and the teacher unions, efforts of Mike Miles and the board of managers are already paying big dividends in the states largest public schools system.…
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Episode 3489: Texas Democrat speaker lineup shows all | Biden’s goons attack whistle blowing Texas surgeon – Pratt on Texas 6/7/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Biden’s D.O.J. pulls another political persecution move and indicts the Texas surgeon who was the whistleblower on Texas Childrens’ Hospital continuing its child sex change work after telling the public it had stopped. The good doctor is right: “They wanted to intimidate me i…
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Episode 3488: From Texas, Space X made history today, Bob Zimmerman comments | D-Day’s 80th anniversary – Pratt on Texas 6/6/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From just south of Brownsville at Starbase all the way to the Indian Ocean, the Space X 4th Superheavy rocket and Starship test flight was an historic success this morning! Famed space historian Robert Zimmerman of Behindtheblack.com joins us to discuss this achievement as we…
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Episode 3487: Legislature should make this abuse illegal | Texas Stock Exchange likely on the way | Abilene handouts – Pratt on Texas 6/5/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: There is a practice that is prevalent, especially in our Rio Grande River border counties, that needs to be made illegal by the Legislature. Why? Because it converts taxpayer dollars into campaign advertising for serving Texas politicians. I covered this in detail many years …
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Episode 3486: Biden’s border order is ballot box fakery | May sales tax | A.G. Paxton fighting on many fronts – Pratt on Texas 6/4/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Bumbling Biden’s border order is fakery for the ballot box – only morons and those who have been in a coma the past three years can take it seriously – as the A.P. does! “Why now?”: Biden’s new immigration policy to limit asylum seekers faces quick criticism in Texas Border E…
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Episode 3485: Texas lawmakers ready to crack down on cannabinoid retailers | More election fraud in Texas – Pratt on Texas 6/3/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Senator Charles Perry and other legislators are ready to crack down on cannabinoid retailers this next legislative session. Also in the Senate state affairs committee: Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs Authorizes Subpoenas on “Big Tech.” And Lt. Governor Dan Patri…
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Episode 3484: Brant O’Hair on problems at Lubbock’s appraisal district | Texas abortion law upheld | Anti-Wimp – Pratt on Texas 5/31/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Brant O’Hair joins us to talk about the need for reform at the Lubbock County Appraisal District and his runoff race for Place 3 on the newly formed appraisal district board of directors. Lubbock County, Harris County and many others have runoffs in these races for the new ap…
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Episode 3483: Lambert on key happenings at the Texas Republican Convention | NRA wins big over NY at SCOTUS – Pratt on Texas 5/30/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Tim Lambert joins us to discuss the major happenings at the Republican Party of Texas Convention 2024. Along side electing new leadership, delegate passed Rule 46 which establishes a “closed primary.” Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services p…
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Episode 3482: Texas primary election runoff results review | Oliverson says speaker race starts today – Pratt on Texas 5/29/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Result review of yesterday’s party primary runoff elections. There was, overall, good news on statehouse races for conservatives but a few disappointments. With the help of Jefferson County Democrats, the Dem sheriff was a big backer, Drinker of the House Dade Phelan got a na…
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Episode 3481: Texas GOP has new leadership; adopts closed primary rule | Review of today’s key runoff races – Pratt on Texas 5/28/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It may be quiet where you are but in some places this is a BIG election day – it’s party primary runoff day. The direction of the Texas House and more may be set today. I review some of the key races to watch around the Lone Star State. Our Lone Star story of the day is spons…
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Episode 3480: Cornyn running again in ’26 | Gambling PAC pouring money into runoffs | Rutherford’s 3 Indy 500 wins – Pratt on Texas 5/24/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaking to a caucus gathering at the Republican Party of Texas Convention in San Antonio, Senator John Cornyn says he is definitely planning to run for re-election in 2026. Gromer Jeffers, Jr. at the Dallas Morning News broke the story. Our Lone Star story of the day is spon…
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Episode 3479: Ignoring culture wars is recipe for disaster, DEI as an example | Ballots not secret? – Pratt on Texas 5/23/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Senate hearing showed how horrible it is for legislators to ignore the culture wars. All tax and regulatory policy, through the reps elected by voters, ultimately flows from the culture and that must be remembered. The hearing showed that DEI is “deeply embedded” in t…
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Episode 3478: Israel proves fallacy of DEI | FERC pushes policy that imperils all electric grids, raises electricity costs – Pratt on Texas 5/22/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Israel proves the fallacy of DEI and CRT fundamentals and of Progressive political ideology and that’s why progressives so hate the Jewish state outside of issues of antisemitism. It’s never been put better and more succinctly than in this piece: Why progressives hate Israel.…
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Episode 3477: Why some want Tx House status quo | Loss for Palo Pinto Co. bosses | RPT chairman hopeful Ben Armenta – Pratt on Texas 5/21/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Local government good ol’ boy bricks-for-brains running Palo Pinto County decided to infringe on political speech at election time as they are still upset that their buddy, state Rep. Glenn Rogers, was beaten in the GOP primary. The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals has told them …
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Episode 3476: Global warming isn’t behind insurance rate rises | Trump defends 2A, says Paxton would make good A.G. – Pratt on Texas 5/20/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Has your insurance company blamed skyrocketing rates on “global warming” to the media? Like with most such claims, the data doesn’t support the assertion. Texas legislators should include clear language that blaming price hikes, denial of coverage, reduction of coverage, etc.…
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Episode 3475: Gov’t will not protect your child from sexual perversion | Press flips out on Daniel Perry pardon – Pratt on Texas 5/17/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: As I said yesterday, don’t expect an honest media narrative on Abbott’s pardon of Daniel Perry who was wrongly convicted of murder in Travis County for defending himself against a “Black Lives Matter” protester. Dems fume! And, Texas Monthly takes the prize as the most outrag…
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Episode 3474: Judge finds illegal voting in Harris Co. 2022 General Election | A&M caught again | Big pardon – Pratt on Texas 5/16/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After more than two years, a judge has substantiated claims of substantial illegal voting in the 2022 General Election in Harris County and declared a do-over for a state district judge race. Holly Hansen at The Texas has the story. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored…
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Episode 3473: Critical that 5th Circuit get Galveston redistricting right | Abbott hits back at Dems on school funding – Pratt on Texas 5/15/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The entire 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, en banc, heard arguments on Galveston County’s redistricting case yesterday. At issue is whether the Voting Rights Act can be perverted to allow for “coalitions” of minorities. It is a major case that stands to greatly affect most of T…
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Episode 3472: Biden’s IWBC wants to seize island Texas took from cartel ops | Hemp hype left problems for Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/14/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Biden Administration, through the IWBC, is claiming that it owns Texas’ Fronton Island in the Rio Grande from which drug cartels were working their evil. Texas secured the island from the cartels but Biden’s folks now want Texas to remove its work and effectively hand it …
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Episode 3471: 3 take pleas in DOJ’s Rep. Cuellar bribery case | A border win in Panama? | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted by the Biden DOJ. Now two former Democrat Party “political consultants,” a.k.a. swamp swimmers, are taking a DOJ plea deal to cooperate in the prosecution of the Cuellars. Also, a woman from Azerbaijan who lives in Houston,…
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Episode 3469: Matt Crow on working for Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Part 2 of 2 (Repeat)
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Today’s special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview, 2 of 2, about our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how he became part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term. (This is not a repeat, this is the first airing.) Matt also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 admin…
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Episode 3468: How Matt Crow ended up working for Ronald Reagan, Part 1 of 2 (Repeat)
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Today’s special edition of Pratt on Texas is an interview, 1 of 2, about our good friend, true conservative, and guest host Matt Crow and how he became part of the Ronald Reagan re-elect effort (1984) and then the administration in the 2nd term. Matt also served in both the Bush 41 and Bush 43 administrations. Matt is a native of the San Francisco …
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Episode 3467: Cully Stimson on “Rogue Prosecutors and the Rise of Crime” – Pratt on Texas 5/8/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Charles “Cully” Stimson on “rouge prosecutors and the rise of crime” from the March 2024 issue of Imprimis. It’s about the George Soros backed district attorney candidates who, once elected, choose to go to extremes to NOT effectively prosecute criminals. Listen to the June 2…
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Episode 3466: Heather Mac Donald: How “disparate impact” thinking is destroying our civilization – Pratt on Texas 5/7/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: At the center of what is going wrong in America is the use of Marxist “disparate impact” thinking throughout society. Heather Mac Donald covered the Imprimis, February 2024 issue. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best ser…
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Episode 3465: Former RNC member from Texas Tim Lambert on efforts for a closed GOP Texas primary - Pratt on Texas 5/6/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Former RNC member from Texas Tim Lambert talks about efforts for a closed GOP Texas primary. 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. Listen on the r…
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Episode 3470: Henry Cuellar indicted by Biden DOJ | Austin passes pro-mutilation resolution | Randy Travis sings again – Pratt on Texas 5/2/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Congressman Henry Cuellar and his wife have been indicted by the Biden D.O.J. Cuellar denies wrong doing and plans to continue to run for re-election. There is reason to wonder if such is legitimate or simply part of the ongoing effort from DC leftists to get rid of the so-ca…
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Episode 3464: Lubbock’s pot election key to statewide passage | Outsiders leading campus sheeple in occupations – Pratt on Texas 5/2/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A feature story at Texas Tribune today focuses on Lubbock’s pro-pot election and how important it is statewide from a political perspective. It’s a repeat of what I have told you all along. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing th…
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Episode 3463: Guns, other weapons found at UT protest site | Texas fights new Biden ATF rule | Poll: Cruz leading – Pratt on Texas 5/1/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas and A.G. Paxton to lead coalition of states to fight the latest anti-gun rights ATF rule coming out of the Biden Administration. The rule puts people in jeopardy of prosecution for private sales and goes well beyond what Congress defined as a gun “dealer.” Our Lone Star…
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Episode 3462: State reps: “We stand with Israel” | Majority arrested Monday weren’t UT students | Scarcity con – Pratt on Texas 4/30/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Rep. Carl Tepper (HD84) rounds up state legislator support countering the pro-Hamas leftists on Texas college campuses – students and faculty. Signed letter reads, in-part: “Israel has a fundamental right to defend itself and should use any and all means necessary to destroy …
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Episode 3461: Reagan on campus protest | Texas sues over Title IX perversion | NM has border problem too – Pratt on Texas 4/29/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Violent and disruptive student protests are nothing new but Leftists in the press romanticize such which often gives more coverage than such deserve. The pro-Hamas anti-Israel protests on our campuses are sometimes held within the proper bounds of protest and expression but i…
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Episode 3460: Property tax reduction real in Texas | Harris Co. DA angers Dems | Vacuous college protesters – Pratt on Texas 4/26/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Study of the Texas Republican efforts at property tax reduction over the past 3 legislative session, from a not-friendly-to-Republicans source, shows tax reduction has generally been very successful statewide. Read it here: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/04/26/texas-proper…
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Episode 3459: Schools caught not obeying law on campaign finance | Danger to grid from solar, wind, battery | Lynn Co. hospital bond – Pratt on Texas 4/25/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Carl Tepper (HD84) joins us to discuss a major story out today from ProPublica and the Texas Tribune which shows that school districts are not complying with the law that says local governments must post candidate campaign finance reports online. Of the 35 district…
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Episode 3458: Texas wins best for business, again | Nastiness in Granbury ISD bond election – Pratt on Texas 4/24/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: An elected Democrat County Court-at-Law judge in El Paso let go the 100+ rioting illegal aliens that tried to breach the border wall claiming there was no probable cause for their detention! Fortunately the El Paso district attorney immediately took the cases to a grand jury …
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Episode 3457: Lubbock’s pro-marijuana proposition & lies of legal weed | Harris Co.’s cash handout scheme blocked – Pratt on Texas 4/23/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock faces a pro-marijuana use proposition (Prop. A) on the May 4th ballot. What of all the libertarian and other promises of the benefits of legal weed? Three words: Up in smoke. Read: Americans are watching legal weed’s promise go up in smoke. Our Lone Star story of the …
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Episode 3456: Removal effort of Travis Co. DA not GOP-tied | Lubbock’s pivot point election – Pratt on Texas 4/22/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Travis County’s far-left, Soros-backed, district attorney could be the first to face possible removal under last session’s HB17. And despite the Lefty DA claiming it’s all “MAGA Republican” partisanship, it turns out that the petitioner appears motivated by her experience wit…
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Episode 3455: Mark McBrayer, Lubbock mayor candidate | Kerrville demands permit for political speech; Fort Worth discriminates based on speech – Pratt on Texas 4/19/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock is facing a big mayoral election that will either further empower the tax and spenders or, will restore discipline and trust at City Hall. I talk with candidate for mayor Mark McBrayer about the issues including why big money developers are working to elect his tax ra…
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Episode 3454: Lynn Co. hospital election, interview | Democrat sues GOP to be a precinct chairman – Pratt on Texas 4/18/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A longer look at the unethical election for bond debt, with a huge tax increase, by the Lynn County hospital district. Lynn County citizen Jennifer Ritz joins us to express the frustration of many in the county that sits just south of Lubbock. Our Lone Star story of the day i…
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Episode 3453: 100 grand-a-day fine blocked | 5th Circuit gets library vendor law wrong | AG’s risible spin on DeVilliers case – Pratt on Texas 4/17/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A slew of court related items involving Texas dominate the news today and I provide commentary on all: Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Unanimous SCOTUS Win on Texas Property Rights Case – ridiculous spin and I explain why Both sides claim victory after Supreme Court rules…
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Episode 3452: Lynn Co.’s unethical election | New Tx polling | DeVillier wins | Judge Jack should fine self – Pratt on Texas 4/16/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The old fossil federal judge, Janis Jack, is at it again – thinking she can just mandate, fiat, that a giant government bureaucracy work the way she wants. Jack demonstrates much of what is wrong with liberal Democrats. Texas fined $100,000 daily in foster care abuse lawsuit.…
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Episode 3451: Runoffs: Slimy VanDeaver & Hagenbuch | Trump’s trial debases the nation; similar is going on in Texas too – Pratt on Texas 4/15/2024
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Rep. Gary VanDeaver (R-New Boston) was a paid consultant for a lobbyist group representing public schools while in office and serving on education committees. VanDeaver’s two-timing the taxpayer is an example of what is grossly wrong in Austin and hopefully voters will …
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