Best OAG Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 3742: 89th Legislature ends – 3 significant items failed in the last moments | OAG court victory – Pratt on Texas 6/2/2025 44:23

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today endeth the 89th Texas Legislature as the 140 days have come to an end. Three big bills that were thought to be likely to pass did not. One of them puts election integrity in Texas in peril and is a handout to the “community organizers” of the Left; another is a big surp…

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Episode 3744: Report: Texas not in 287(g) agreement with ICE despite leadership rhetoric | Gun bills that passed – Pratt on Texas 6/4/2025 43:50

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Report shows that despite all the rhetoric from Governor Abbott and other state leaders, Texas itself is not participating with ICE under 287(g) agreements. This despite a bill that was just passed, SB 8, that sort-of (with no teeth) makes the state’s sheriffs participate. Wh…

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Episode 3743: Taylor Co. GOP moving to censure Rep. Lambert | Cornyn polling remains dismal | SB974 needs a veto – Pratt on Texas 6/3/2025 43:59

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Taylor County Republican Party Chairman Ryan Goodwin joins us to explain why the TCRP has begun a Rule 44 censure process against HD71 State Representative Stan Lambert of Abilene. A formal meeting the public may attend is set for Monday, 9 June 2025 at 7 p.m. at the MCM Eleg…

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Episode 3741: ISD’s lose Sovereign Immunity is sex abuse cases | Election integrity at risk | Border news – Pratt on Texas 5/30/2025 43:49

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: More coverage from the final days of the 89th Texas Legislature which must end on Tuesday, 2 June. Election integrity still in jeopardy; a bill passes stripping school districts of asserting Sovereign Immunity in sexual abuse cases, and; much more including: Gun Rights Advoca…

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Episode 3740: Top pro-life bill killed in Texas House | Patrick, Bettencourt brag on property tax relief package – Pratt on Texas 5/29/2025 43:56

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Bills that have passed; bills still in play, and; bills that were killed or failed – another update in these closing days of the 89th Texas Legislature. Also, you’ll hear from Senator Bettencourt and Lieutenant Governor Patrick on the successful property tax relief package th…

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Episode 3739: House lets time run out on important bills, others pass through | Zimmerman on SpaceX Starship test – Pratt on Texas 5/28/2025 44:00

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A big deadline for the Texas House passed this morning and as usual, many good bills died because leadership waited until the very end of the session to get to work hearing and voting on bills. I review key items that failed and passed including: Texas bill allowing colleges …

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Episode 3738: Huge update from the Legislature | Lottery scandal widens | Manufacturing steady in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/27/2025 43:49

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s the final days of the 89th Texas Legislature. Here are some of the late breaking items covered today: Texas Poised to Enforce Age Verification on Apple, Google App Stores House Approves Legislation to Protect Students From Sexual Content – or how the Leftist media charac…

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Episode 3737: Memorial Day Edition: Legislature passes key bills, much still to do in final days – Pratt on Texas 5/26/2025 44:05

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The House and Senate are working in these final days of the 89th Texas Legislature with the House working all through the weekend. There is much to catch you up on and that includes the stories below plus much more on the show: House approves bill to save beleaguered Texas Lo…

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Episode 3736: Much legislative news including public ed. bills | Alleged UT-RGV discrimination | Starship test coming – Pratt on Texas 5/23/2025 43:57

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the 89th Texas Legislature in its waning days filled with deadlines. There is a big stack of items related to government public schools: It’s Time to Truly Protect Our Kids from Obscene Materials – SB 13 Lawmakers Look to Slash School Superintendents’ Severance Pay …

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Episode 3735: House rightly ignores Rep. Ken King, passes Sen. Perry’s THC ban | Key abortion bills move – Pratt on Texas 5/22/2025 43:50

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House gets it right, does not cave into the fallacy that selling THC to get people “high” is a productive “industry” we must save in Texas. I talk about this and the good role of Senator Perry and the bad role of Rep. Ken King. Other key items from the Legislature: …

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Episode 3734: Report: School funding deal reached | Ken King working to keep get-high THC for sale in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/21/2025 44:01

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Report says a deal has been struck on the now $8.5 billion increase in funds for Texas public schools between the House and Senate. On the get-high THC front, where Rep. Ken King and other House members are working hard to keep THC-infused drinks and edibles for sale in Texas…

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Episode 3733: Legislative update including on tax relief, bail reform, gun rights | Double Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 5/20/2025 42:05

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas House passes property tax relief package and we’re lucky they went mostly with the Senate’s version. Bail reform passes the House finally but not until Democrats significantly watered it down. And today is set to be the big “Rope, not Dope” vote on THC and hemp. See the…

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Episode 3732: Lubbock-native named head of Geo. W. Bush Presidential Library | Legislators pass anti-“spying” bill – Pratt on Texas 5/19/2025 43:40

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock native, Brownfield born, man to be the new chief of the George W. Bush Presidential Library as well as the overall Bush Center. Shilo Brooks was announced today as the new president and CEO of the Bush Center. The Lubbock High School graduate’s mother, Bettina, still …

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Episode 3731: House leadership runs out clock, finds time for homosexual lobby win | School finance bill winner/losers – Pratt on Texas 5/16/2025 43:47

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: House leadership engineers a bill massacre, including many conservative priority bills, by running out the clock at midnight this morning. First legislative deadline of Texas session slashes 80% of bills in House. Texas House deadline leaves hundreds of bills as casualties. B…

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Episode 3730: Bad bill on free speech (SLAPP) killed; some good bills pass House | Full legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/15/2025 43:45

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today is the first kill-the-bills-day in the Texas House. I comment on the following: Governor Abbott Signs Pro-Growth Business Legislation Into Law House Speaker Agrees to Senate’s $8B School Funding Bill Texas bill passes to address ‘sexual abuse crisis’ in public schools, …

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Episode 3729: Stalled, passed, & still have a chance bills in Austin | Mom aids son’s threat to attack middle-school? – Pratt on Texas 5/14/2025 43:58

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again the Texas House and its Speaker appointed committee chairman are killing important legislation – with the clock. Why do they not have the integrity, or guts, to just admit they oppose certain bills? Well, because they have neither integrity or guts. But even with t…

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Episode 3728: Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas guest worker bill | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2025Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas ... 44:04

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Illegal use of foreign drivers is killing small Texas trucking companies, others are using the drivers illegal to underpay for labor, and we’ve had two decades of national emergency on the border importing 10 to 20 million illegal aliens into the country. Yet with all of that…

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Episode 3727: Ruling: Local government not supreme to Legislature | More bad news for Cornyn | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/12/2025 43:51

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas Supreme Court ruling last week is important in reminding local governments that the Legislature is in control of what they can and cannot do. It is also an important private property rights ruling: Texas Supreme Court Overturns Rulings in College Station Extra Territo…

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Episode 3726: Red Flag laws, “misgendering,” AG prosecuting election crimes, tort reform & much more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/9/2025 43:52

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much news out of the 89th Legislature in Austin including: Texas House Lawmakers Take Aim at Red Flag Laws Texas Renews Call for Convention of States To Curb Federal Power. TPPF Celebrates Passage of HJR 98, the Article V Convention of States Resolution How taxpayer funded “p…

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Episode 3725: Taylor County leaders should let windmills come down | 2 good gun-related bills & more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/8/2025 43:49

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A good concealed carry bill related to election polling places passes the Texas House. And, the “State Fair” bill has moved out of the Senate and needs a vote in the House. The Texas House, short of time, finds time to vote on a Democrat’s bill to setup a state “guest worker”…

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Episode 3724: Frio Co. vote harvesting indictments | House set to weaken higher ed. governance reforms | Bail reform – Pratt on Texas 5/7/2025 43:46

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Six indictments and arrests for alleged vote harvesting in South Texas follow a “multi-year investigation.” But don’t worry, the media narrative remains: Vote cheating happens rarely, if at all. And, investigating allegations of such remains a way to harass minorities. Our Lo…

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Episode 3723: Burrows fires his lawyer/policy director | Ken King blocking important bills | HB 1313 needs vote – Pratt on Texas 5/6/2025 43:52

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker of the Texas House Burrows, fires his general counsel and policy director. His holding the position to begin with shows the incestuous nature of the Austin power crowd and how they don’t even notice such anymore. These types of conflicts of interests, often through se…

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Episode 3722: Tax relief deal reached in Austin | School choice now Texas law | Starbase now a Texas town – Pratt on Texas 5/5/2025 44:06

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House and Senate appear to have made a deal on property tax relief that, if it holds, will remove a time consuming issue from the limited time left in the 89th Session. Overall it is a good deal. Read more here and here. Governor Abbott signed the landmark school ch…

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Episode 3721: Wayne Christian says Big Oil has betrayed ERCOT fix | Major bills being held up in House by Ken King – Pratt on Texas 5/2/2025 43:52

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A nail-spittingly angry Texas Railroad Commissioner, Wayne Christian, tells how big oil has switched sides at the 11th our of the legislative session and joined with the enviro-left to undermine a major bill to firm up the Texas ERCOT electric grid. Click here to see Commissi…

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Episode 3720: Burrows’ House trying to save get-high THC retail industry | Polls: Cornyn trails Paxton by big margin – Pratt on Texas 5/1/2025 43:47

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Speaker Dustin Burrows is lining up to have his legacy as the man who backdoor legalized the get-high THC marijuana/hemp industry in Texas. I have been following the fight in the legislature over THC and have read most every story about what is happening. Saying that, I can a…

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Episode 3719: Move to let legislature reconvene to override vetoes | Bail scandal in Texas must be fixed – Pratt on Texas 4/30/2025 43:50

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick points out that the Texas Senate has pass all top 40 “priority bills.” The Senate has, as of Friday, passed 631 bills while the BurrowCrat House has passed only 182. Both officially began work on the same day but as usual the House plays around…

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Episode 3718: A large ISD loses in court on at-large districts | Mexico to deliver water | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 4/29/2025 43:46

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A large, 33,000 student, Texas school district has lost in court and will be forced to adopt single member districts for its school board. I’ve no problem with single member districts but I have a huge problem with the bigotry, racism, and dirty trick that is minority-majorit…

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Episode 3717: New levels of “bond deception” in Texas elections | Texas wins again! | Legislative drama – Pratt on Texas 4/28/2025 43:55

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New levels of deception on Bond debt issuance claiming “it will not raise taxes” if passed: Bond Deception – Texas Public Policy Foundation. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug…

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Episode 3716: Huge list of updates from the Legislature | Corley joins upright Americans, sues FinCEN over bad rule – Pratt on Texas 4/25/2025 43:58

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the 89th Texas Legislature including: Burrows Blocks Effort Limiting Scholarship Program to US Citizens – ridiculous ruling Following Trump, Texas may recognize Gulf of America ‘Stopping Foreign Adversaries’ Land Grabs’ Bill Passes House Committee Year-Round Dayligh…

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Episode 3715: Legislature should stop “nationality squatters,” pass SB 1798 | School cell phone ban & more – Pratt on Texas 4/24/2025 43:49

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Much from the 89th Texas Legislature including: Senate hears bill to end Texas DREAM Act, restrict in-state tuition to legal residents only. You heard it here: “Nationality Squatters” House Leadership Accused of Holding Pro-Life Bill Hostage to Islamic Holiday Push Texas Sena…

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Episode 3714: Impeachment reform & more from the 89th legislature | A&M gets big FAA facility contract – Pratt on Texas 4/23/2025 43:45

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Impeachment reform; stopping taxpayer funded lawsuits by school districts to keep the public in the dark on performance, and; much more from Texas’ 89th Legislature. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, b…

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Episode 3713: Lubbock ISD bond debt proposal is not for better education | Tx Lottery situation worsens – Pratt on Texas 4/22/2025 43:46

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Things keep getting worse for the Texas Lottery and it has all been brought upon it by the actions of its management. Lawmakers need to not just threaten but actually end the lottery, completely, this session. Texas Lottery Commission director resigns amid scrutiny and invest…

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Episode 3712: San Jacinto Day! | Dallas sued for anti-gun action | Senate may “concur” with House school choice bill – Pratt on Texas 4/21/2025 40:25

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The City of Dallas continues to break state law and ban concealed carry license holders from carrying their weapons on property under city control. Attorney General Paxton has already sued them over Fair Park and the state fair, which has a bit of complication to the case. No…

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Episode 3711: School choice passes House, Dems had no substantive arguments against | Richards resolution stopped – Pratt on Texas 4/17/2025 43:56

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It’s not a finished deal yet but it is closer than ever before: School choice in Texas. I give a full review of the House finally passing school choice. If you read all the friendly to Democrat media, where you’d expect the strongest anti-school choice arguments from Dems to …

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Episode 3710: Hickland’s Retail Decency Act, HB1549, needed, leadership ignoring | Much other legislative news – Pratt on Texas 4/16/2025 44:00

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Representative Hillary Hickland has an important bill, HB 1549 the Retail Decency Act, that needs passing but many of the insider leadership types don’t want to deal with it. The bill needs a hearing in committee and you need to take action to call the committee chairwo…

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Episode 3709: Abilene’s Stan Lambert strikes again | School choice vote tomorrow | Mexico to deliver water – Pratt on Texas 4/15/2025 43:54

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Abilene’s state Rep. Stan Lambert demonstrates that he is a man of questionable integrity in House vote over restoring the attorney general’s back pay. Other key legislative news needing attention: School choice debate set for tomorrow in the Texas House. Democrats are said t…

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Episode 3708: Nvidia’s huge Texas investment | Bill to stop local gov’t from breaking state law | A&M and Qatar – Pratt on Texas 4/14/2025 43:51

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Punishing local governments that violate Texas law is the subject of a bill, HB 4283, from Rep. Marc LaHood of San Antonio. His comments to TPPF on the bill tie in with a recent column of mine on the subject of “local control.” Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by A…

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Episode 3707: Tx House passes budget | Is SB38 tough enough on property squatters? | Campaign news – Pratt on Texas 4/11/2025 44:14

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House passed it’s version of the biennial budget in the middle of the night. Republicans denied most proposed Democrat spending amendments but included many of their own. Like the Senate budget it grows state spending at the expense of bigger property tax cuts throu…

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Episode 3706: SB15, “housing” bills need a relook, Carole Spencer explains | Boyd to retire from Tx Supreme Court – Pratt on Texas 4/10/2025 43:48

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Several “cost of housing” bills are being worked through the legislature and each deserves scrutiny. One, SB15 that has already passed the Senate, prompted this frightening headline: Why Do I Feel Like I’m Back in New Jersey? Yep, that got my attention too and it was written …

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Episode 3705: Rep. Ken King trying to protect get-high THC from full ban | Paxton will challenge Cornyn | Tariff change – Pratt on Texas 4/9/2025 43:55

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House and Rep. Ken King, RINO from Canadian, are trying to gut the Senate’s much needed full ban on THC (the part of marijuana that gets you high) to protect the liquor lobby and ban everything else but keep THC-infused beverages. It’s almost, well not in the case o…

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Episode 3704: Dems were lying in wait for naive GOP on abortion “clarification” bill | Jasmine Crocked goes off again – Pratt on Texas 4/8/2025 42:35

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The pro-abortion Democrats were lying in wait for the naive Republicans on the so-called Texas abortion “clarification” bill. It seems they got everyone aboard the “bi-partisan” bill, which is not needed by the way, and then launched their surprise plan to get an amendment to…

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Episode 3703: Why proper bail reform must pass the legislature | Tariff update | Arrington attacks Senate’s budget – Pratt on Texas 4/7/2025 43:53

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A terrible example, one of too many, of why proper bail reform must pass the 89th Texas Legislature and not be stopped, once again, in the Texas House: Houston Convicted Murderer Released While Awaiting Sentencing Now Suspect in Murder-Suicide. Our Lone Star story of the day …

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Episode 3702: Why the Tx House must be pushed into action | Raids, indictments make my point on “game rooms” – Pratt on Texas 4/4/2025 43:59

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Big federal (DOJ) investigation, indictments, and raids of so-called “game room” across the Harris County region demonstrate what I have been saying about these places. Interestingly it was the feds doing the work. Why, in so many other places across Texas, are local law enfo…

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Episode 3701: Biden’s DOJ dropped the political hit case against Paxton, there was no legit case | Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 4/3/2025 43:04

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Trump did have to do it, the political hit case against Ken Paxton was dropped by Biden’s Dept. of Justice. As I said they never had a case just as the House impeachers never did. And rightly so, Paxton isn’t letting Senator John Cornyn off the hook for his presumed guilty un…

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Episode 3700: Tax relief, Housing reform, Prove citizenship to vote & more from the Capitol | Sales tax receipts down – Pratt on Texas 4/2/2025 43:46

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: From the 89th Texas Legislature: Tax relief for business owners passes Texas House Texas Senate OKs bill requiring sheriffs to cooperate with ICE Over 100 Texas Lawmakers Back Affordable Housing Reform Bill, Competing Legislation Moves Forward – Gates’ bill needs passing. Tex…

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Episode 3699: Half-a-billion per year: Tx Senate to vote on sending your money to movie moguls in “values” fantasy – Pratt on Texas 4/1/2025 43:52

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Why should Texas taxpayers subsidize movie industry producers and investors? It’s a fantasy that somehow handing over taxpayer money to these people will change the values of Hollywood to Texas values. That and more from the legislature including: Ex-Texas House Speaker Gib L…

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Episode 3698: Dems picked white male as Tx chairman, did they then protest themselves? | Texas business news – Pratt on Texas 3/31/2025 43:48

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats picked a white male liberal as chairman of their political party this past weekend – no word on whether they protested themselves afterward. The new chief Texas Democrat wants the party the pushes not working and making working people pay for those who won’t w…

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Episode 3697: Feds are now working, Texas should stop spending border billions | Texas Democrats’ root problem – Pratt on Texas 3/28/2025 43:54

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Democrats are picking a new party chairman this weekend. All their talk about trying to find someone who can win elections is for nothing until they stop living in a false, alternate universe. The often quoted Matt Angle, in this DMN story, demonstrates such. No matter …

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Episode 3696: Judge rules on Tx prison heat | RIP Carole Keeton… | Remember Goliad | Lubbock measles money – Pratt on Texas 3/27/2025 40:56

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A federal judge has ruled that Texas prison heat (no A/C) is unconstitutional but holds short of ordering air conditioning. However, oddly in my opinion, he is still making the plaintiffs engage in a “bench trial” over the issue. What’s the point of that given that he has alr…

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Episode 3695: Cornyn makes re-elect bid official | All Dems vote for Tx Senate budget | Crocked Crockett – Pratt on Texas 3/26/2025 43:48

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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Senate passed SB1, it’s version of the Texas budget, unanimously – no wonder Dems went along as some say it is 40% larger than the last two state budgets. And, out of billions in new spending senators only provided $6 billion for more property tax cuts. I’m not real…