A special edition of Pratt on Texas: Our Lone Star story of the day: We talk today with journalist and author Mark Patinkin about his book: The Holy Land at War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. (Click the link to order your copy.) Mark Patinkin has been writing a column for the Providence Journal for over 45 years, starting in 197…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Good space industry news from Texas including a win in court against Leftists trying to stop SpaceX from launching anything from Boca Chica; Firefly’s lunar rover may launch in January, and; AST SpaceMobile of Midland is getting competition for the cellphone from satellites b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Legislature 2025: Rep. Brian Harrison, HD10, explains why Texas public colleges and universities need reining in and why the Univ. of Texas system may need a big budget cut from state appropriations. He also repeats what I have said for many years: The Leftism on campus has b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The de facto open border policy of Democrats is immoral and leads to horrible things such as crime, human trafficking, kidnapping, as well as undermining national security. A Texas poll shows that even a majority of Hispanics want deportation of illegal crossers, but did you …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Get ready for more local, state, and national misleading propaganda on the Texas Bluebonnet public school curriculum. The SBOE adopted part of such today and no, it does not teach the Bible or Christianity to students. It simply includes references, where appropriate, to the …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton sues the City of Dallas over its pro-marijuana ordinance that contradicts state law. AG press release. 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 t…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas offers up use of its new Starr County ranch for Trump’s deportation efforts and Abbott thumbs his nose at Biden/Harris, adds more buoy barriers in the Rio Grande. Trump’s new “border czar” Tom Homan reveals how military will be used for mass deportations, dispelling lib…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Leftist media would have you believe that Texas public schools are about to start teaching from the Bible. One, this is not true. Two, our culture, history, and politics cannot accurately be taught without reference to the Bible and Christian principles. We create a huge gap …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Tech, other state universities, are still teaching DEI and other similar Marxist doctrines. Most are doing as I predicted and simply renaming things to make it hard to find. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best ser…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: When building a foundation for something, why mix the cement poorly from the beginning? More Trump Team commentary including questions about Matt Gaetz as U.S. Attorney General. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best servi…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Tuesday began early bill filing for next year’s Texas Legislature and much was filed. Here are a few good rundowns: School Choice, Other Education Bills Filed for Upcoming 2025 Legislative Session Chinese Land Ownership, Border Security, Gender Privacy: Legislative Filing Ope…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump’s new Chief of Staff has it right: Trump has a window of opportunity of only “two years” to change the federal government for the better. This time he is getting good people in place early. Trump selects Lee Zeldin to head the EPA Former Trump Energy Sec, Dan Brouillett…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Border news and Trump’s 2nd administration news is all wrapped up together. Plus, what are the items with which Congressional Republican leaders have been working with Trump for immediate action? I sure like this item: Trump pushes for national concealed carry reciprocity. Ou…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Mandate, D-EXIT, or whatever you term it, the real question is if Trump, and at this point Vance, can keep it. Or, do they do as happened in other cases and turn to inward DC deal making in such a way that the people no longer perceive the fight to be on their behalf? Our Lon…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Some Democrats just don’t know what hit ’em Tuesday and others, our college babies, can’t cope very well with not getting their way. The inroads into the Hispanic vote in Texas, made by Trump, helped Senator Cruz and others. The real question is: How ignorant and insulated mu…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A full election review today which includes Republican gains across Texas, rolling back recent gains made by Democrats. Senator Cruz wins big and both the Texas House and Senate see GOP pickups as well as Republican judges winning back court benches in Harris County. About th…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A review of the key races across Texas to watch as election returns come in. Will the GOP make gains in South Texas and the RGV? Will a young Leftist beauty queen upset a longtime state representative in Richardson? Will Amarillo be the first Texas city to fail to pass a sanc…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024 including a visit with Texas’ top numbers guru Derek Ryan on what the Early Vote turnout predicts for the election in Texas. Texas Tells Biden-Harris Admin ‘No’ to Federal Polling Place Monito…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Federal judge says lawsuit brought by CAIR can move forward against University of Texas and University of Houston systems over Governor Abbott’s order against anti-semitism on state colleges and campuses. I explain why this is correct and why part of Abbott’s order is likely …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024. Trump Humiliates Biden by Riding in a ‘Make America Great Again’ Garbage Truck in Wisconsin Orange Vest-Wearing Trump Tells WI Crowd Hilarious Story of How Garbage Truck Ride Came to Happen T…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A very big stack of Texas and national news and commentary from Election 2024. Sadly, part of the story is that more Texas school districts are blatantly violating the law by using taxpayer money to advocate for passage for their tax rate and bond election. Turkey-Quitaque IS…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A huge teacher scandal uncovered by the Harris County District Attorney: Dishonest “teachers” from around the state, well over 400, have paid big money to have a proxy take their official Texas teacher certification test. The ring is said to be led by a longtime Houston ISD b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A new New York Times / Siena College poll shows Ted Cruz up over Allred just after a Dem-backed poll, made to help raise money, claimed the two were tied as of Saturday. Gromer Jeffers, Jr., of the Dallas Morning News, sure has it right: After spending the entire campaign act…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The local story from El Paso that I brought you earlier this week about the heavily Democrat city being down on Early Voting is now part of a bigger story that could be a good sign for Republicans. This explains why Harris left the battleground states to come to Texas for a b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Office of Attorney General catches up to Pratt on Texas and calls state Reps. Joe Moody and Jeff Leach liars over their propaganda in the Roberson death penalty case. Court records back up the A.G.’s claim and match what I have been telling you. These records show that ad…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Roberson capital punishment case shows why traditionalism and conservatism often lose: Even when evidence supports the conservative position, one-sided presentations based in emotionalism (the Donahue or Oprah style complete with much omission) seems to turn off the skept…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists claim they are trying to “save Democracy,” but at about every policy point they oppose law and ordered government so what are the saving? Nowhere is this more flagrantly hypocritical than on illegal immigration* and also with voting integrity. *The Left, inc…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Friday I explained what an overreach the Texas House Jurisprudence Committee has made in the Roberson death penalty case. Today, Governor Abbott says why; Attorney General Paxton says why, and; even another member of the Texas House says why: Governor Abbott’s amicus curiae b…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether guilty or not, the cause celebre of the case of Robert Roberson’s ordered execution has gone off the rails. Media stories and advocate assertions so not tell the full story. I cannot summarize 40 minutes of analysis here so listen to the show and you’ll hopefully get …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas House committee has gone too far in trying to interfere with an official execution in Texas. This is exactly the type of thing Democrats will do for most everything if they win back control of Texas government. Here is an example: State Seeks Recusal of Judge Cornelio…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cruz / Allred “debate” has an interesting lesson on how even when there is what seems to be hard questioning for both, there is still Leftwing bias in media driven debates. An additional problem with all the political debates is that because the questions come from, and t…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A new Texas-based poll shows the Cruz vs. Allred race right where I said it should end up – but only if Republicans do well at getting the vote out. Cruz and Allred to face off in Senate race’s only debate tonight. Also, “Is Ted Cruz Blowing His Re-Election Race in Texas?” – …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Three big court decisions affect Texas in different ways. First, the Fifth Circuit has overruled a contempt charge and fine against Texas over its foster care system; more importantly the court has removed activist, biased Judge Janis Jack from the case! This is a huge win fo…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Now that Fort Worth says the legal avenue to outright ban so-called “game rooms” is clear, will Lubbock County finally move Commissioner Jason Corley’s simple game room regulatory proposal forward Monday? Commissioner Corley joins us to bring us up to date on the year and a h…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Should the State of Texas be in the gambling business? The Texas Lottery contributes very little to public education despite being sold to the public as a big funding mechanism for much. I believe that the social costs of the lottery far outweigh any benefits and that it shou…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I was right in my speculation about the Denton County story on letting those with non-citizens state ID’s vote but only partly. Now that we’ve learned more, it is much worse. In my informed opinion the Secretary of State’s elections chief is either too stupid to do the job or…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Allred outraised Cruz in Q3 but didn’t say how much cash-on-hand he had. Kamala Harris told ABC’s “The View” today that she would do nothing different from Joe Biden. And, one report claims the Denton County elections administrator is insisting that non-citizens who are regis…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Media, Democrat double-standard on full display over Hurricane Helene and the federal response to the disaster. There is a fundamental, anti-progressive, lesson in it all showing why you should never order a society to depend upon “experts” and bureaucrats but instead upon a …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Dallas County Republican Chairman, Allen West, says that Dallas County elections equipment failed required tests and that the elections administrator did not note the failures observed in the public test on the required attestation statement. If true, this is a major prob…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The so-called “shocking” and “bombshell” accusations in Jack Smith’s revised “election interference” indictment of Donald Trump are anything but shocking or bombshell. The media just expects you to read the headlines without examining the charges. MediaIte lists what it calls…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas voter registration now tops 18 million and key races get closer and closer by the cycle. Will Texas return to an electorally competitive state? Many say it is happening now – what will it take for those who became active only in an era of strong GOP dominance to wake up…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is interesting and shows that Texas Republicans could lose the U.S. Senate race. Democrat liberal Colin Allred is polling neck and neck with Ted Cruz. I give a full rundown of the detail of the poll done by Public Policy Polling. All the free media publicity aroun…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another county adopts the No New Revenue Tax Rate without causing the sky to fall. New figures out today from Lubbock County’s newly factored No New Revenue Tax Rate budget shows what an outright unmitigated liar Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, and his other allies, was with the…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe the media makes sure, at the story source level, that there is little “widespread election fraud” on which to report by making sure many of the stories get little press coverage – that will certainly fool the search engines! Today we talk with Abilene Republican Women’s…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Ted Cruz, Colin Allred race is tight meaning Texas’ U.S. Senate seat is in play and yet, with some notable exceptions, the local GOP apparatus in the key counties to offset the liberal city vote, as well as the state Republican Party, is full of young people who are busy …

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump will be in the Midland/Odessa next week for a deep pockets fundraiser and many other stories from the campaign stack. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and al…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After hearing much testimony, jurors felt they had to rule against someone for something in the so-called “Trump Train” trial. I understand fully juror sentiment in the case that I have followed closely but even so, they were wrong to use the Ku Klux Klan Act in so doing. Tex…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. Merrill Matthews joins us to talk about the 2024 presidential election and we work from several of his columns that have recently appeared in The Hill, including: For Democrats, ‘Freedom’ is Just Another Word for Mandate Are You Ready for ‘Kamalanomics?’ What ‘Evangelical…

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County’s Bowtie Bully, Curtis Parrish, held a press conference in which he did little but offer deception to the people about what it means to adopt the No New Revenue Rate, meaning no tax increase for next year, by commissioners Rackler and Corley properly using a pr…

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…