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The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Would Texas liberals and Democrats support pro-gun rights or pro-life crosswalks and street branding? Of course not but they have no problem with turning public property and official traffic markings into signs that promote their leftwing viewpoints. Worse is how the Texas media can’t even play this story straight.
Montrose rainbow crosswalk officially removed, protesters arrested
Houston officials float legal action over rainbow crosswalk
LGBTQ+ board wants San Antonio to fight state to keep rainbow crosswalk
Neighbors, city leaders in Houston’s Third Ward concerned of possible removal of George Floyd & BLM tribute
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.Lubbock’s sheriff named chairman of the Texas Commission on Jail Standards and a Pratt on Texas friend, Monica McBride, named to the commission.Abilene’s personnel director, Pamela Williams, appointed to Texas Municipal Retirement System Board Of Trustees.Don’t be fooled by the headlines, Texas did not find 2,725 illegal aliens on the state’s voter rolls.More reason to support Formula 1 and the U.S. Grand Prix: Exporting Texas culture, including gun culture, around the world!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: Early Voting is underway for 17 proposed changes to the Texas Constitution. I review and give recommendations.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.The billionaire funded “no kings” rallies were big in some parts of Texas but overall it was a laughable display of old white baby boomers and circus-like folks dressed up for early Halloween:
“Coup d’Flat”: Billionaire-Funded ‘No Kings’ Color-Revolution Turns Into White Liberal Boomer Parade As Dems Become National Laughingstock
The ‘No Kings’ Protests Against Democracy Itself
San Antonio Church, Neighborhoods Tagged with ‘No Kings’ Vandalism, Graffiti
Why Are the Teachers Unions Backing the ‘No Kings’ Protests?
Wilbur Wright College Staffer Calls For ICE Agents to ‘Get Shot and Wiped Out’ During Chicago ‘No Kings’ Protest
‘No Kings Day’ Street Theater Meets Shutdown Politics: A March for Democracy or a Midterm Ad Buy?
VIDEO: Interviewing Texas No Kings Protestors
Who teaches the teachers?
Illinois University Teaching Assistant Mocks Jesus As He Flips Turning Point USA Table on Campus
UT Austin professor dismissed over ‘ideological differences’
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The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The City of Lubbock is being run by folks who are either pro-crime tax increase money grubbers who think the people they are paid to serve are stupid or, they themselves are too stupid to hold the positions taxpayers pay them to hold.I explain why the excuse for a new $50 per year fee (tax) to have an alarm system is pro-crime, and has nothing whatsoever to do with addressing the problem of “false alarms” officials say is behind the nasty scheme. I had high hopes for the new police chief but respect has diminished greatly.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.Follow up to last Friday’s show: 60% of young liberals approve of political violence. What have our leftist infused schools and culture wrought?!Oil and gas rig count falls, again.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: A Texas-sized embarrassment took place this week with some Texas National Guard troops being pulled from deployment for not meeting mission standards. Secretary of War Hegseth has lowered the gauntlet over fitness standards in the military but this is not a new issue. Back in the regular session of the Texas Legislature, a bill was pushed to help with a real fitness problem for Texas National and State Guard members but was opposed by the Texas Military Department – seems to me they now have egg on their faces.Ammon Blair, a senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins us to talk about the issue, what was in the bill, and why the brass opposed it.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.Attorney General Paxton successfully uses the Texas Health and Safety code to frustrate Malcolm Tanner’s effort to recruit people to Loving County for a political takeover.Much change has been made but the folks at the Alamo Trust are still woke leftists lying in wait to destroy Texas heritage. Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham goes after the woke bunch at the Trust after those folks posted an “indigenous peoples” day message.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: As expected, union lawyer and far-Left Democrat Gina Hinojosa announced she would seek the Democrat nomination for Texas governor to take on Greg Abbott. She’s locked up most of the insider support already and why not? She is as Leftwing radical as any of them.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.The conflict between Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and the USDA over the New World Screwworm fight is mostly mischaracterized to make it appear that Miller is fighting the Trump Administration. That’s nonsense, Miller is clearly wanting to simply do more than USDA is willing to do to stop this situation that could decimate ranching and is pushing up beef prices for us all.Snyder ISD abuse case certainly make it appear that Scurry Co. has a weak on crime district attorney. Even if that is not the case, nothing excuses the DA’s refusal to meet with local families in the matter.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: How did the week of hearings before a panel of three federal judges in El Paso over Texas’ congressional district map redraw go? Travis Morgan, for the Texas Scorecard, covered the entire ordeal and has written this analysis. To see the daily hearing coverage, click here. Links to each day’s coverage is at the bottom.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.The U.S. Supreme Court is putting us all in the sites for Leftist lawfare by not accepting the appeal of Texas-based talk host Alex Jones. Few want to write about this topic as they don’t want to be seen as defending Alex Jones. I understand that but they better start defending the issue because it is self defense.SpaceX had a wildly successful test flight, test 11, from Starbase, Texas on Monday evening. Space historian and writer Bob Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com joins us to summarize what happened.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: As expected the Republican Party of Texas executive committee did not vote to ban anyone from the ballot in the big meeting this weekend. The committee did concur with local censure resolutions of five state legislators and did not do so for five others.Also in a development for the RPT, Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined Texas Republicans, as A.G., in urging the court to allow the party to conducted closed primary elections. This leaves the Secretary of State to fight to keep legislator control of Texas GOP primary elections.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 oil and gas rig count plunges.Texas State Teachers Association parent union, NEA, sends three million members map that completely ‘erases’ Israel. “The email also linked to shocking material that defended Hamas’ depraved Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people and led to another 250 being kidnapped to Palestine, according to NAVI.”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: Has Leftist violence become mainstream, acceptable? We examine the issue from a very well written Douglas Murray column from The Spectator.Violent periods in American History are more common than many think but, does the country have the will to make a course correction now? Or, are too many institutions like the press and Democratic Party, as well as economic sectors, willing allies of the bad, violent actors?
Van Duyne wants to treat Antifa like the mafia amid crackdown
Musk Says “Far More Than $100 Million” U.S. Taxpayer Funds Funneled Into NGOs Fueling Chaos; Trump Briefed On Dark-Money Networks
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 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: City of Dallas faux pas shows that taxpayer funded lobbying may be an even bigger problem than we know. It’s time we get action, not just words (acta non verba) from Speaker Burrows and the legislature and fully ban the practice of local governments using our money to hire lobbyists to lobby against our interests. More, more.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.Why is Lubbock ISD’s superintendent under TEA investigation? More importantly why has local media not been covering the issue?Cause celebre Roberson execution and “shaken baby syndrome” is back with a stay issued by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Victim’s Brother Pushes Back on Claims of Innocence for Convicted Killer Robert Roberson.Poll: John Cornyn, Ken Paxton tied, Wesley Hunt third in GOP primary; Why someone not yet running leads the Democratic pack in Senate race.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: There is much hubbub about the Republican Party of Texas executive committee meeting this weekend and Rule 44. This Tribune piece gives a good background of how Rule 44 came to be and has evolved. I give my overall take on the issue on today’s show. Don’t trust the self-interested who want to use a Party for their own advancement, trust those who work with the party to advance the interests of its members.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.Local sales tax numbers are out. Click here to look up your city.Campaign stories I mention:
Cornyn boast $10 million in his campaign account as GOP race heats up – not hard when your are a DC Swamp functionary who helps control the money machine!
Why Wesley Hunt Entered the Senate Race – this is the Q&A that I spend much time talking about.
Greg Abbott’s campaign fundraises off Texas National Guard deployment – and who is that new?
SD9: Casino Lobby Bets Big on John Huffman in North Texas Senate Race
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The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: A story in the Texas Tribune, picked up by media outlets across the state, makes one wonder if a lot of the Texas Tech faculty is intelligent enough to hold the cushy jobs they do. Also, these folk need a reminder: The people own state institutions, not the faculty and other employees. Those institutions should reflect the values of the people, as expressed through their representatives, not the values of the staff.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.Another ridiculously stupid statement from a public school administrator to justify debt and big spending. 40-years is not old for a building and if you can’t maintain buildings day-to-day, they why is it responsible to give you more money to build new ones – that you also will not maintain. (Merkel ISD)Texas picks firm to administer the new school choice program.These Texas school districts ordered Bible-infused lesson plans – a typical, and ignorant, slant to the curriculum that simply recognizes that the Bible plays a huge foundational and cultural part in our history and who we are.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: Governor Abbott volunteers the Texas National Guard for duty in Oregon and Illinois where cities are in revolt and rebellion over the enforcement of longstanding U.S. immigration law. But, a Trump-appointed federal judge stupidly says “no” to it all and the media and Democrats do what is essentially a 180 degree turn from the previous praise of using the national guard to enforce federal law in states and local jurisdictions where such is interfered with.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.Campaign news:
Wesley Hunt joins GOP Senate primary against John Cornyn, Ken Paxton
TX21: Texas Republican lawyer Trey Trainor running for Congress
TX10: Elon Musk PAC’s Lawyer Files for Congressional Seat in Texas
Border news:
Mexican Cartel Hangs Narco Banners to Threaten FBI Director Kash Patel, U.S. Citizens To Be Targeted
Narco Terror: Mexican Cartel Uses Drones to Bomb Rival’s Airstrip, Steals 4,000 Pounds of Cocaine
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The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: The ever present stench of local government: Evil in Albany and tax hikes in Odessa.
City of Odessa responds to Attorney General Paxton’s warning over property tax rate increase – not much of a response
Odessa city council finalizes property tax increase for 2026
Albany mayor doesn’t appear to support open government
Albany City Officials Decry Public Information Request About ‘Sanctuary City for the Unborn’ Ordinance – I find the appearance of collusion with the local newspaper most humorous. It’s what I’ve said all along about why property tax increases are so often reported as anything but – it’s all the same group of friends: media and town leaders.
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.Sales tax take up over September of last year. Oil and gas rig count is down and much other Texas business news.How bad is the Democrat-run court system in Harris County? This bad: Harris County Criminal Court Judge Accused of Issuing a False Bench Warrant Now Elected Administrative JudgeListen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com
A special edition of Pratt on Texas from the Gonzales Memorial Museum sitting 10 feet from the “Come and Take It” cannon with museum director Gary Schurig. Recorded in May of 2022.
The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats in DC engineer a so-called government shutdown and it appears to be motivated by an insider struggle between factions of the Democratic Party. The public face of it is over funding for Medicaid but the Dems don’t want you to know it’s about giving illegal aliens Medicaid access.
Schumer’s Shutdown Another ‘Desperate’ Attempt To Fend Off Upstart Far Left, Analysts Say
Vance slams Dems over shutdown, sets record straight on illegal alien healthcare
Speaker Johnson Lays Out How and Why Illegal Aliens Were Getting Medicaid, and What Was Done About It
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.“Academic Freedom” has been perverted to mean things it never historically covered and teachers have been taught a false idea of what their freedom is in a public classroom. See:
Charlie Kirk’s murder has brought out the worst in many of the nation’s teachers.
Union Advises Texas A&M Faculty To ‘Resist’ Reform and Accountability
Four Texas Teachers Fired So Far Over Kirk Assassination Comments
Democrat Talarico raises $6.2 million in first 20 days of US Senate campaign, out doing Colin Allred.Democrat rhetoric causing ‘innocent lives to be lost,’ says Latina leader. Bobby Pulido has a long history of nasty talk.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 A&M continues to be exposed as an institution that has not only coddled Leftists and Leftist ideology but as an institution that may be damaging to national security. Is this latest issue with money from Qatar an example of institutional money laundering? Maybe non criminal but certain non ethical.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.We meet Texas Agriculture Commissioner GOP Primary challenger Nate Sheets.Audit: Texas Inconsistent with Federal Commercial Driver’s License Requirements. DPS Suspends Issuance of Certain Commercial Driver Licenses.Say what!? U.S. to Accept Immigrant Dreamer DACA Requests After 4-Year Freeze. Accepting applications better not be the same as granting such. Why is this program created by Obama, not Congress, still around!?Business news:
Texas Stock Exchange wins SEC approval
Dallas Fed: Texas service sector activity falters amid increased uncertainty
SpaceX to launch 11th Starship Oct. 13
Another setback for Firefly Aerospace’s beleaguered rocket program
H-E-B announces first woman president of the company
Vistra building natural gas power units to triple capacity at its West Texas power plant
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Corrected: The proper audio for 29 Sept. 2025. (The previous Friday's show audio was incorrectly loaded.)Thanks to Listener Club member David for letting me know. Robert
The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Supreme Court, tentatively, set to peel back the Leftwing American Bar Association’s control over legal education in the state. “The court itself would determine which law schools are “approved” under the state’s lawyer admissions rules, according to the preliminary order,” Reuters reports.This is very good and a long time in coming. The private, Left-leaning group has no business deciding who can sit for the bar exam 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.Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Helps Make Critical Development in 1991 Austin Yogurt Shop Quadruple Homicide Case. Austin yogurt shop murders cold case suspect identified after 34 years. Austin yogurt shop murders: How authorities solved the cold case. HBO documentary dives into Austin’s Yogurt Shop murders 30 years after – worth watching. There is much to learn from all angles on this case, especially now that we are mostly certain of who was the guilty person.Texas’ oil and gas rig count jumped up 4 last week.Dallas Fed: Texas manufacturing still growing but slower than in August.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: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com(he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space) joins us to talk mostly about our political and social problems with a Left that celebrates even murder of those who well express ideas Leftist find difficult.Some the Zimmerman essays to which we allude are:
The left’s face of evil
At last some real pushback against the left’s slander culture
The left’s hatred and violence is finally driving people away
The real pushback against Disney, ABC, and Kimmel continues
Another day, another leftist sniper; Another day, another Democrat incites violence
In the last segment we talk about SpaceX and Firefly which are both based 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.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: Examples from everyday life of the disintegrating virtue of our society and most of it is not even noticed by most people. Just a few from this week’s press review:
What is the Full Cost of Richardson ISD’s $2.3 Billion Bond Package?
What is the Full Cost of Belton ISD’s $161.8 Million Bond Package?
What is the Full Cost of Friendswood ISD’s $165 Million Bond Package?
Odessa city council finalizes property tax increase for 2026 – mayor says it’s just a penny when it’s almost $40 per MONTH for average homeowner.
Albany mayor doesn’t appear to support open government
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 long story worth every moment to read: How out-of-towners are moving to ‘take over’ a rich West Texas county (Loving County)The Dallas shooting was a political act– The Spectator World & Gun Control Talk Won’t Save Them | National ReviewTeen accused of threats toward Charlie Kirk vigil in San Antonio – really Hearst, a “teen”!? As police reminded him, he’s a 19-year-old man.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com
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