Pratt on Texas

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the campaign stack today including: Aaron Reitz Endorses Mayes Middleton  in Attorney General Runoff – so do I Democrat whines at not being included on interim committees Cornyn says he will not speak at CPAC as he’s busy with his work in Washington – CPAC is being held in Texas where Cornyn has been campaigning fo...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is out in the Texas Republican primary runoff race for U.S. Senate between Ken Paxton and ol’ John Cornyn. One might say about it: The more things change, the more things remain the same. Paxton is leading Cornyn and as expected has picked up the majority of Wesley Hunt voters . See the full breakdown from Quantu...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Are Democrat voters in San Antonio and Bexar County racists? Didn’t they know that they are supposed to vote in the Democrat primary election according to DEI principles? I examine the liberal hand wringing over Dems voting against black judges in Bexar County . Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Complianc...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I recently mentioned the recent Forbes magazine story on Michael Novogratz who ended up owning the little data center in very rural Dickens County. Well, it’s in the news in a big way today: Massive $3.5 BILLION expansion planned at data center in Dickens County owned by Novogratz’s firm Galaxy . Our Lone Star story of the d...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: News from the campaign stack including more little Jimmy Talarico Tales: Talarico faces backlash over viral anti-meat, pro-vegan comments Talarico insists that white people are inherently racist, spread “virus” of racism Talarico’s Dangerous Record on Taxes: Opposing Income Tax and Death Tax Bans TX32: Jace Yarbrough is GOP...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The scam that was, and is, César Chávez, has come home to roost! Tear down those street signs that capitulating ignoramuses allowed themselves to be bullied into a few years back. The Left never cared that he was violently against both legal and illegal immigration, but now they care that he appears to have used his position...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Forbes says 88 of the 989 billioniares in the USA are in Texas, including the world’s richest . A run down on who are some of these people . 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. Funniest story of...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Because Trump announced it, the Hearst newspapers are down playing, even belittling, the planned $300 billion, yep, with a “B”, refinery at the Port of Brownsville. Such a massive investment is transformational for the Rio Grande Valley as well as Texas and it will mainly refine West Texas Intermediate crude. It would be the...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: John Cornyn has defended support from Texas pastors directly linked to a major recipient of Soros money that has lobbied massively for near complete amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. I told you that Paxton was clever in his offer to withdraw. Cornyn and his swamp buddies just can’t bring themselves to pass something as...

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 for a space industry (and government space program) update. Some the items we discuss are: The Senate cries “Uncle!” on SLS and big goverment with its latest NASA authorization bill . Sierra Space raises $55...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Talarico Tales are proliferating across media as I predicted. Here is one of several today: Rising Texas Dem Talarico faces backlash for ‘creepy’ remark about trans kids . Today I bring you a column from The Federalist by Chris Bray that is a Talarico Tale also involving the truly damaged, by TDS, David French: David French...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Oracle’s spending on AI data centers has the company in a pinch, layoffs expected . The giant Abilene Stargate data center proposed expansion may, or may not, happen as Oracle and its OpenAI customer are backing out. However, Meta may step in for that project. Meanwhile: Texas expected to be world’s largest data center marke...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: TX23’s Rep. Tony Gonzales gives it up but he sure doesn’t sound very repentant to me in his official statement. That makes Brandon Herrera the TX23 GOP nominee. This adds to other races that move Texas’ GOP congressional delegation more conservative . Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump tries to take the vote choice from Texas Republicans in the U.S. Senate race prodded mostly by the Cornyn and DC Swamp insiders . Paxton says he’ll run even if Trump backs swamp-swimming Cornyn but cleverly says he might step out, but only if the Senate passes the SAVE Act AND ends the filibuster which is something Cor...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Full Texas Primary Elections review. Runoffs abound, a few upsets transpired, and now President Trump thinks it is his job to pick one of the Republican U.S. Senate runoff candidates (Cornyn or Paxton) and do away with our votes in the primary runoff to select our own nominee! Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by A...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Even after a deadly attack in Austin by an Islamist terrorist, Texas Democrats don’t want to deal with the subject . Instead they want to talk about inanimate objects that, without human agency, do nothing. It is neither bigoted or racist to demand that visitors and immigrants to a county, any country, share the basic values...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New and interesting primary election polling is out from Emerson College/Nexstar as well as from Quantus Insights . Most interesting in the generational breakdown in the Republican U.S. Senate election. Trump endorsed Sid Miller for Ag. Commissioner and Don Huffines for Comptroller (matching my picks) going against two of Ab...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Election turnout and the Big Lie being pushed on Republicans on combative, contested primary elections. There’s a reason for the untruthful narrative and it’s not to help the GOP. As Trump Allies Battle in Texas, a Safe Republican Senate Seat Suddenly Looks Fragile – typical of the false narrative Texas Democrats are surging...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Is Abilene, Texas the Christian and conservative city it is often touted as? When it comes to filth in public schools, Abilene seems more Austin than the Big Country of 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 te...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From the primary campaign trail: New polling out from UT . Poll detail . Casino Interest Betting Big in in the 2026 Texas Primaries – HD71’s Hardaway and HD88’s King getting huge support from the gambling lobby. We hear from HD71’s conservative candidate, Liz Case . Our Lone Star story of the day: Much f Our Lone Star story...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the campaign trail and a bit on tonight’s State of the Union address: 3 Reasons Democrat State of the Union Stunts Will Likely Fail El Paso Democrat Escobar will boycott State of Union address Casino-Backed PAC Dumps Millions Into Final Stretch of Texas GOP Primaries At $110M, Texas blows past Senate primary spendi...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: U.S. trained soldiers took down a major Mexican drug cartel thug . The reaction of the Mexican people shows the lies of Mexico’s Leftist leadership and our complicit media. Mexico Confirms 25 National Guardsmen Killed in Cartel’s Terror Response to El Mencho’s Death Mexico Erupts in Flames After Death of Largest Terrorist Ca...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Local media, as is the norm, will not touch major reporting in what is a local story: The race for Texas’ 19th Congressional District. Is the reporting on Bienvenido and Abraham Enriquez legitimate? There is plenty online I will not touch but when a major national source, the Washington Examiner, does a feature story exposin...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From the campaign trail: TX23 affair issue has blown up on U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales . “ Texas Defense PAC ,” a casino gambling PAC fully funded by Las Vegas Sands gambling interests, is not only spending big backing Jay Hardaway in HD71 , it’s now spending huge money to try and keep RINO Ken King in the HD88  seat . And a dis...

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A look today at the Republican Primary race for the 19th Congressional District of Texas. We visit with Donald May . Candidates, to appear on the show request time here . 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...