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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Saturday’s special election in Texas Senate District 9, a heavily Republican district, saw an AFL-CIO trained “union leader” beat Trump, Abbott, and Patrick endorsed Republican activist Leigh Wambsganss. Florida’s Ron DeSantis is right, we cannot just ignore this, the weather effected both sides and Republicans generally vote higher in early voting than Democrats. Dems did organize big, and spend big money, for this special election as a morale booster but the defeat should be taken very seriously. Democrat Christian Menefee wins Texas’ 18th Congressional District runoff against Amanda Edwards. Will face Edwards AND old cane knocker Al Green in the upcoming primary for the same district. 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. Much on immigration enforcement which includes: Dear ICE Protestors: We Need to Talk – by Jenna McCarthy – she asks the important question others do not. Sex offender paid smugglers $5,000 to bring Honduran girl and her mother across the border Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting from South Texas Judge Orders 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos and His Dad Released From ICE Detention Todd Blanche disputes asylum claim for 5-year-old, dad detained by ICE Hundreds of Protesters, Student Walkouts Occupy Downtown San Antonio to Demand Abolishing ICE Boston Mayor Wu Claims ‘Every Single Human’ on Earth Has ‘Legal Right’ to Come to the U.S. 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: First slate of Texas Senate interim charges have been released today by Lieutenant Governor Patrick – it’s mostly a list reactive to recent headlines. 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. Libs, RINOs, and others who mostly care what other libs will think about them, go crazy over Texas A&M ditching its women and gender studies program. That’s a program that should be absent from most every university. Many serious scholars have long argued that these programs are ideological in nature and somewhat illegitimate. Here’s the typical reaction of someone who thinks he is conservative but really isn’t. Texas oil and gas rig count falls in Baker Hughes report. 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: Senate Bill 2 from the 88th Texas Legislature (2023) required the election of 3 public members to appraisal district boards in counties with 75,000 or more in population. Micah O’Hair, director, Place 1, Lubbock Central Appraisal District, is one of these inaugural elected appraisal district board members. What he has seen, heard, and experienced is exactly what led the legislature to create these elected positions – and he says it justifies having a fully elected board. A First: Texans to Elect Appraisal District Directors Tarrant Appraisal District Directors Pass Reforms Requested by Taxpayers Texans get their first crack at electing the people overseeing the state’s complicated property appraisal process Tarrant Appraisal District Scrutiny for Misallocating Votes to Elect Board Members – the non-elected members, these are “elections” to the board by taxing entities. Williamson Central Appraisal District Board Appoints Election Winner Previously Declared Ineligible 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: A look today at the Republican Primary race for Texas’ 19th Congressional District made on open seat with the retirement of Jodey Arrington. We visit with candidate Jason Corley. Candidates, to appear on the show request time here (just as Corley did.) 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 visit with Mary Hernandez, Republican Primary candidate for Lubbock County Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3. Texas still led the nation in population in 2025 but growth has slowed somewhat. I say a bit of a slowing is good so that infrastructure and the housing market can catch up. 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 has said that ICE needs to “re-calibrate” after Minnesota problems. That may or may not be true but this is certainly naive of Abbott: “to make sure that respect is going to be re-instilled.” Since when has the modern activist Left had any respect for law enforcement when it enforces laws on the books with which leftists disagree? That brings us the more important fundamentals of the issue expressed as well by Daniel McCarthy at The Spectator: The unspoken logic of the anti-ICE mob. 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. Dallas Fed: Growth resumes in Texas service sector activity. Abbott: Texas Leads Nation For 2025 Job Gains. 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: The AFL-CIO hosted debate between the two Democrats running for U.S. Senate, Jasmine ‘Crocked’ Crockett and Little Jimmy Talarico, showed that both are equally extreme Leftists – Talarico is not even a smidgen more moderate than big-mouthed Crocked. Devil-head James Carville wants Crockett out because she actually admits to her radicalism and that’s bad at the polls. Carville likes Talarico because he, like him and his boy Clinton, is comfortable misleading voters about who he really is and what he believes. 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. Dallas Fed: Texas factory activity expanded solidly in January. A Leftwing lawsuit filed against Leftwing Harris County over closing Early Voting for two days due to weather, in the TX18 special election runoff, demonstrates the truth of the Slippery Slope argument and why some good ideas need opposing because of what such will become. Tano Tijerina says Hispanics are ready to buck the Democratic Party. Governor Abbott wants H-1B visa data from Texas public schools and universities. 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: Dr. John Lott has done some of the research for which is is famous (and hated by the Left) on ICE enforcement which shows the current media narrative to be false propaganda. He compares Obama’s ICE record versus that of Trump’s: How Trump’s ICE enforcement record blows Obama’s out of the water— by a lot. 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 Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board finally officially repeals the In-State Tuition policy for illegal aliens. Oil and gas rig count from Baker Hughes. Another Taiwanese electronics firm, Pegatron, announced a new Texas-based plant will be operating soon. 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 bill authored by a freshman state representative passed the Legislature and it is important to us all. It makes removing local do-nothing or corrupt office holders easier by reforming the petitioning process. Read more here: Getting rid of ‘corrupt’ county courthouse and school board members just got easier. 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. Webb County sheriff, Martin Cuellar, and his former First Deputy have been indicted on bribery charges related to COVID. Read: Sheriff accused of embezzlement appears in Houston federal court Martin Cuellar denies wrongdoing after COVID-era embezzlement charges Webb Co. Judge Tano Tijerina: The indictment of Martin Cuellar should surprise absolutely no one…. Coach Joe Kennedy joins us. Coach Joe was fired for praying on the field after games and almost a decade later won his case at the U.S. Supreme Court. Coach Joe is taking part in an event for Liz Case for HD71 on Tuesday, 27 January at 201 Mesquite in Abilene. Why we can’t get rid of recapture (Robinhood) or have full local control and funding for Texas public schools: The Edgewood decision, part of today in Texas history. 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: Finally, on the even of the primary elections, Texas House leadership issues fines to Democrats for breaking quorum last summer ($9,354.25 each.) This should have been done in September; doing it now is actually a campaign gift from the insiders to the Democrat incumbents up for re-election as well as for some weak Republicans. I explain. 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. After oral argument, full Fifth Circuit “wary” of Ten Commandments laws’ challengers. As expected. HD88’s Ken King (the casino gambling lobby’s man in NW Texas) did more to stop mainstream conservative legislation than anyone in the House this past year. Why did Burrows give him such a powerful committee to run knowing he’s a Straus anti-conservative? To get elected Speaker of course! WFAA: “Protesters in Fort Worth decry recent ICE arrests, cite fears for personal freedoms.” This has to be among the most shallow, clueless, and plainly stupid quotes from these type people yet: “…we’re just people who love our country, and we don’t want to see it taken away from us.” Well, it isn’t the country of those here illegally and how does anyone not see that accepting millions upon million of illegal aliens into our country isn’t itself giving away our country?! 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: After thinking they had won, the homosexual Left at West Texas A&M lose at trial in federal court over having drag queen performances in a WT campus facility. Meanwhile, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is sitting en banc this week and hearing an unprecedented seven cases. The WT case is one and the Ten Commandments in public schools is another (heard today.) 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 House District 88’s Rep. Ken King taking casino gambling money this campaign cycle — one of 17 Republican candidates and nine Democrat candidates. In TX19, Gov. Abbott endorses young Trump campaigner Abraham Enriquez for Congress.  In Texas HD71, within the same area as TX19, Abbott endorses one of the least conservative candidates, retiring RINO Stan Lambert’s, staffer Jay Hardaway. Tesla Owner Elon Musk Touts ‘Most Advanced Lithium Refinery in the World’ in South Texas. 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: Lubbock’s “Expo Center” has continued to be a project of questionable foundation and looks to some to be a full blown scandal. Today we visit with Gary Boren, a member of the local government corporation setup as an oversight body. Boren is spitting nails mad over the lack of transparency from those spending taxpayer money on the privately organized project.  See to recent stories: Lubbock Expo Center sees support, concerns about finances, transparency Expo Center plans for north side of Lubbock now waiting for commissioner approval after LGC advances project 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 Attorney General Ken Paxton issues a Legal Opinion dismantling DEI in Texas, declaring decades’ of DEI frameworks — memorialized in over 100 woke state laws — unconstitutional and overruling a flawed opinion from then-AG John Cornyn that allowed DEI to flourish in Texas. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliate. www.PrattonTexas.com

The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The proverbial “slippery sloap” is real; only the willfully ignorant claim otherwise. Expanding sports betting is leading to scandal after scandal including a new one this week. Texans must stand strong and oppose the incremental expansion of gambling in the Lone Star State lest they find everything corrupted by the “gaming” industry. Former Abilene Christian University basketball player indicted in federal point shaving scheme. 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. Two big campaign fundraising stories are remarkable. First, is just how much money Governor Abbott has and yet people keep giving big amounts. Second, GOP attorney general candidate Aaron Reitz isn’t being hyperbolic in saying what his campaign has done is unheard of – from zero to hero in a Texas political fundraising sense. Baker Hughes’ oil and gas drilling rig count for the week. Lubbock data center proposal heads to city council after planning commission rejection. Industrial things are in this area because that’s where most of the zoning is for such and has historically been so. City Council should approve this deal if for no other reason that that Adam Hernandez is against it. The first half of my life in Lubbock it was a constant mantra for NE Lubbock Democrats that “investment is going elsewhere and we need jobs in the area” then, in the last decade and a half it has been “you are harming us by putting jobs in the area.” 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: While illegal aliens in Texas are costing hospitals (ultimately that means you) well in excess of a BILLION dollars per year, Democrats and others harp on healthcare costs. These same Democrats are vehemently opposed to removing illegal aliens by enforcing longstanding U.S. immigration law. It’s all hypocritical in the worst way. Crocked Crockett wants Secretary Noem impeached for doing her job while saying the reason is the Noem is a failure at doing her job. Very little of this is serious discussion about improving our nation, it’s just ridiculous attack after attack to destabilize our nation. ICE searching for suspect accused of ramming agents in Lewisville – happened on December 1st! 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. Polling in both the Republican and Democrat primary races for Texas’ U.S. Senator. Industrial Electric Manufacturing to add 3,000 jobs to San Antonio. 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: Be careful in getting too fired up online in campaign season: Citizen arrested for a Meme sues Hood County officials. Attorneys argue officials violated their client’s free speech rights. While he probably will  prevail there is a real problem with online impersonation. What is often obvious parody to some is often not recognized as such by those outside of a specific social loop. 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 House District 71: We visit with HD71 candidate Liz Case. Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3, Lubbock Co: We visit with JP candidate Traci Baxa. 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: From the Stench Local Government File come stories about local school district irresponsibility in spending and deception when it comes to bond debt issues. The two main stories I mostly work from are: Austin ISD spent $100M in bond money on schools set to close – done more often than you’d think. If upgrades are not spread around all campuses and neighborhoods, people organize to oppose debt election and often some of those people are in areas that insiders already know will close in a few years. McAllen ISD considers $335 million bond for school upgrades, says tax rate would stay the same – remember, a tax rate staying the same is almost a guarantee of annual tax increases when figuring appraisal creep. It also ignores that without issuing the new 30-year debt, taxes could go down significantly. 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 Supreme Court to Decide if Detransitioner’s Lawsuit Can Proceed. Deep-pocketed progressive group, Texas Organizing Project, again wades into Bexar DA race. – Can’t abide losing their Soros DA. Also: Bexar County DA candidate pledges to investigate ICE if elected. Texas Democrats are as far Leftwing as any in Minnesota or California Dems. Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates. www.PrattonTexas.com