The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day:  In TX23, if the rumors of the affair are true, Rep. Tony Gonzales, should step aside for re-election before the filing deadline. The entire ordeal has been horrific.SD9: Pro-Casino, Anti-Gambling Interests Go All In on Texas Senate Special Election. One of the two Republicans is sure to face off with the lone Democrat in a runoff.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.Border and immigration related: ICE Houston Arrests Fleeing Illegal Alien Stuck on SignTrump administration plans to build border wall in Laredo, mayor saysCartels offer $10,000 to shoot at Border Patrol agents, internal federal alert saysListen 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 sob stories and stories trying to convince us that illegality means little, to stories showing that Texas is still making it easy for people to live and work in the state illegally, generally there is a failure to point out the fraudulent reality of living in this country illegally: It is theft from citizens.USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins Says SNAP Will Be Drastically Reformed After Thousands Of Illegals Removed from Program85,000 immigrants at risk of deportation in Travis County: report – don’t you think that might help that terrible housing shortage for working people?Houston police called ICE on a missing teen. They blamed his mom. They broke into the country to steal services; a ridiculous sob story from the Houston Chronicle editorial board.New data shows 1 in 4 ICE arrests happened in Texas under Trump’s immigration crackdown – I was hoping for a larger shareTexas still allowing illegal aliens to register vehicles in TexasOur 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.Houston traffic officer making $170,000 in overtime reassigned – why is he still on the force given he has been “disciplined for fraudulent overtime practices” not once, but twice!?Fort Hood: Texas law firms say they’re representing victims of Army OB-GYN doctor accused of recording patients.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:  Does Senator John Cornyn have a ‘Hunter Biden’ problem?, asks the Dallas Express. Well, it is quite different and not salacious and sordid but, Cornyn’s ‘problem’ is standard behavior for Swamp Swimmers and that makes it terrible in and of itself.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.Senator Ted Cruz: Arctic Frost is Biden’s Watergate. Cruz calls on Judge Boasberg to be impeached by the U.S. House, and rightly so. Cruz says there must be consequences but will most Americans even know how bad this and other happenings were?Oil and gas drilling 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:  How many Texas, this election cycle, will vote property tax increases upon themselves and tremendous amounts more of debt? In Texas, among the worst 5 states for debt, it’s not the state government with debt but local governments that cannot act with financial prudence. Read:472 bonds on Texas ballots statewide totaling at least $90 billion in tax increasesTexas is the only Republican-led state among the worst five with largest debtOur 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.Celina ISD sex abuse scandal continues to get larger: New Celina ISD lawsuit claims coach’s son recorded over 30 children in locker room. State Rep. Mitch Little calls for transparency in Celina ISD sexual abuse scandal.Some Republican groups urge ‘no’ votes on Greg Abbott, Dan Patrick priorities in Nov. 4 election. What happened to “lock-step conservatives” as the press described us for all those years? It was never true and there has always been disagreement.Hunt says GOP ‘has left’ Cornyn; senator fires back, calling him a ‘show horse.‘ Cornyn is a longtime Washington swamp swimmer feeding at the trough.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 so-called fix for electric reliability for the Texas grid in the Permian Basin has now morphed into a very expensive case of government mission creep. It could actually worsen the fundamental problem we have with non-dispatchable electric power generation.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 Comptroller to Freeze New ‘Historically Underutilized Business’ Certifications. Good, it’s all reverse discrimination B.S. to begin with.A sane, sound decision out of the Texas Supreme Court on an old case out of Waco over so-called marriages of homosexuals.Local government good (DeSoto,) bad (Lubbock,) and the ugly (Odessa & Elgin.)They got this editorial right: NBA scandal was predictable. I just wish they would apply their sound reasoning to most everything else!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 sues Tylenol maker, Johnson & Johnson, claiming it mislead consumers over safety and that it violated the Texas Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act by fraudulently transferring liabilities arising from Tylenol to a separate company, Kenvue, in order to shield their assets against lawsuits.What you may not know if you mostly consume the legacy media is this: Tylenol Maker Privately Admitted Evidence Was Getting ‘Heavy’ For Autism Risk In 2018.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 service sector activity, retail included, weakens further. Also, read: D-FW the ‘headquarters of vehicle finance’ as auto, personal loans surge.Fermi America Announces Nuclear Reactor Deals for AI Campus; South Korean firms to design and build.Illegal immigration, border, and basket case Mexico news:Waco police arrest undocumented immigrant caught with fake resident alien, social security cards – stupid media, he’s an illegal alien and your own story demonstrates that he was not “undocumented!”Honduran Girl, 12, Tortured After Entering U.S. as Unaccompanied MinorICE Floods Houston Hotspots in Nighttime Operation, Arrests 25 Criminal AliensDPS Captures MS-13 Gang Member in Hidalgo Co.Mexican Border State Cops Abducted Travelers on Behalf of CartelListen 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: Much border and immigration related news including:Biden-Era Border Policies Blamed by DHS for Alleged Murder of Texas Woman at Hands of 3 Illegal AliensTrump Tackles Biden Rule Funding Alien Children’s Abortion Travel80-miles of buoys to be used as border barriers in Rio GrandeLoss of in-state tuition forces many [non-legal resident] Texas students out of collegeMaine Democrat questions whether ICE is ‘legitimate’ law enforcementIllinois State Rep Margaret Croke Sent Out an Email Doxxing ICE Agents, Lists Their Cars and License Plate Numbers, Putting Agents at Extreme RiskOur 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 Abilene Christian University opposed public debate and to the phrase “abortion is murder?” More.Inside Jasmine Crockett’s Secret Stock Portfolio and Failed Attempts To Become a Marijuana MagnateCampaign news:HD93: Rep. Nate Schatzline joining Trump’s national faith board, not running for re-election to Texas House.HD49: Leftist Kathie Tovo announces bid for Texas House District 49 seatState Sen. Sarah Eckhardt announces run for TX10, Congress – wont’ have to give up her senate seat to do so.Ousted Alamo Trust CEO replaced with former Texas secretary of state, Hope Andrade – goodListen 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 latest controversy to blowup about the Alamo should be in reverse. It’s not that the Lt. Gov. called on the head of the Alamo Trust to resign and that she is now gone, as the press wants to present it. The controversy, in a sane world, is that we continue to have people in positions of power and trust who want to rewrite Texas History to fit a leftwing inaccurate template and wish to present the Alamo to people as something other than what it is and why they go there: A shrine to Texas Liberty and the Texas Revolution.Reminder, people don’t visit Pearl Harbor to study the diaspora of the Polynesian peoples across the Pacific islands, they go to remember the attack on the USA by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941. It is the same at the Alamo.Indigenous Peoples post reignites Alamo history debateKate Rogers is ‘no longer at Alamo Trust’Alamo Trust CEO Resigns After ‘Misaligned’ MessagingOur 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.Abbott Names Former State Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins to Texas Supreme Court.Oil and gas drilling rig count falls, again.Interview: Senator Charles Perry addresses Proposition and discusses the Corpus Christi water desalinization debacle. Perry says talks are underway for other localities to pick of the project which is key to Texas and national energy infrastructure. Perry says the people of Corpus Christi will regret they day they decided not to plan for future water needs.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: It took Trump and a committee of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to do what hawkish on illegal immigration state legislators would not do: End the giant in-state tuition discount for illegal aliens 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.Judge blocks key parts of Texas READER Act over compelled speech issues.Stench of Local Government: Abilene might hike restaurant fees after state permit shift.Cornerstone Capital Bank to acquire Lubbock-based Peoples Bank. A city that once had more locally owned banks per capita than most anywhere has very few left. Thank Dems in DC for wiping out small community banks through regulation.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: Three Texas stories on how Democrats lie to their supporters and how their media friends shade meaning to send false messages: Voting rights and district drawing; Outright lies to voters about where money goes (demagoguery in this case,) and; reporting a poll on immigration policy that shows numbers consistent with the constant voter divide in Texas as being representative of some worse-than-ever split of Texans.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.Trump Nominates State Sen. Brian Birdwell as Assistant Secretary of DefenseSpeaker Mike Johnson: Dems’ ‘Dirty’ Counterproposal Included Restoring Funding of Left-Wing Pet Projects in Foreign Countries27 books in Abilene ISD under review for explicit content. First, it is untrue that staff cannot remove books, any books. They have the same authority to do so daily as they have to add books. All libraries turnover their collections regularly. Second, with the admission that some removals “are no-brainers,” the question then becomes, and must be asked, why were they put in the libraries to begin with?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: 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 arrestedHouston officials float legal action over rainbow crosswalkLGBTQ+ board wants San Antonio to fight state to keep rainbow crosswalkNeighbors, 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 LaughingstockThe ‘No Kings’ Protests Against Democracy Itself San Antonio Church, Neighborhoods Tagged with ‘No Kings’ Vandalism, GraffitiWhy 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 ProtestorsWho teaches the teachers?Illinois University Teaching Assistant Mocks Jesus As He Flips Turning Point USA Table on CampusUT Austin professor dismissed over ‘ideological differences’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 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 crackdownMusk 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 RaceListen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com