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Report: Texas not in 287(g) agreement with ICE despite leadership rhetoric | Gun bills that passed – Pratt on Texas 6/4/2025
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 … [Read More...]
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Enter below for a chance to win a pair of tickets ($250 value!) to sit at the Pratt on Texas table at the 2025 Hunters' Banquet & Auction on Saturday, August 2nd at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center. A very good dinner, drinks (open … [Read More...]
Taylor Co. GOP moving to censure Rep. Lambert | Cornyn polling remains dismal | SB974 needs a veto – Pratt on Texas 6/3/2025
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 … [Read More...]
89th Legislature ends – 3 significant items failed in the last moments | OAG court victory – Pratt on Texas 6/2/2025
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 … [Read More...]
ISDs lose Sovereign Immunity is sex abuse cases | Election integrity at risk | Border news – Pratt on Texas 5/30/2025
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 … [Read More...]
Top pro-life bill killed in Texas House | Patrick, Bettencourt brag on property tax relief package – Pratt on Texas 5/29/2025
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, … [Read More...]
House lets time run out on important bills, others pass through | Zimmerman on SpaceX Starship test – Pratt on Texas 5/28/2025
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 … [Read More...]
Huge update from the Legislature | Lottery scandal widens | Manufacturing steady in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/27/2025
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, … [Read More...]
Memorial Day Edition: Legislature passes key bills, much still to do in final days – Pratt on Texas 5/26/2025
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 … [Read More...]
Older posts from Pratt on Texas...
- Much legislative news including public ed. bills | Alleged UT-RGV discrimination | Starship test coming – Pratt on Texas 5/23/2025
- House rightly ignores Rep. Ken King, passes Sen. Perry’s THC ban | Key abortion bills move – Pratt on Texas 5/22/2025
- Report: School funding deal reached | Ken King working to keep get-high THC for sale in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/21/2025
- Anti-Wimp: Armed robbery fails due to armed victim
- Anti-Wimp: One home invader killed, another arrested
- Legislative update including on tax relief, bail reform, gun rights | Double Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 5/20/2025
- Lubbock-native named head of Geo. W. Bush Presidential Library | Legislators pass anti-“spying” bill – Pratt on Texas 5/19/2025
- House leadership runs out clock, finds time for homosexual lobby win | School finance bill winner/losers – Pratt on Texas 5/16/2025
- Bad bill on free speech (SLAPP) killed; some good bills pass House | Full legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/15/2025
- Stalled, passed, & still have a chance bills in Austin | Mom aids son’s threat to attack middle-school? – Pratt on Texas 5/14/2025
- Dumb, Deaf, & Blind: Lambert, Darby, King vote for Dem Texas guest worker bill | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/13/2025
- Ruling: Local government not supreme to Legislature | More bad news for Cornyn | Legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/12/2025
- Red Flag laws, “misgendering,” AG prosecuting election crimes, tort reform & much more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/9/2025
- Taylor County leaders should let windmills come down | 2 good gun-related bills & more from Austin – Pratt on Texas 5/8/2025
- Frio Co. vote harvesting indictments | House set to weaken higher ed. governance reforms | Bail reform – Pratt on Texas 5/7/2025
- Burrows fires his lawyer/policy director | Ken King blocking important bills | HB 1313 needs vote – Pratt on Texas 5/6/2025
AUDIO: Pratt on Texas & Podcast-Extras
- Episode 3743: Taylor Co. GOP moving to censure Rep. Lambert | Cornyn polling remains dismal | SB974 needs a veto – Pratt on Texas 6/3/2025 June 3, 2025
- Episode 3742: 89th Legislature ends – 3 significant items failed in the last moments | OAG court victory – Pratt on Texas 6/2/2025 June 2, 2025
- Episode 3741: ISD’s lose Sovereign Immunity is sex abuse cases | Election integrity at risk | Border news – Pratt on Texas 5/30/2025 May 30, 2025
- Episode 3740: Top pro-life bill killed in Texas House | Patrick, Bettencourt brag on property tax relief package – Pratt on Texas 5/29/2025 May 29, 2025
- Episode 3739: House lets time run out on important bills, others pass through | Zimmerman on SpaceX Starship test – Pratt on Texas 5/28/2025 May 28, 2025
- Episode 3738: Huge update from the Legislature | Lottery scandal widens | Manufacturing steady in Texas – Pratt on Texas 5/27/2025 May 27, 2025
- Episode 3737: Memorial Day Edition: Legislature passes key bills, much still to do in final days – Pratt on Texas 5/26/2025 May 26, 2025
- Episode 3736: Much legislative news including public ed. bills | Alleged UT-RGV discrimination | Starship test coming – Pratt on Texas 5/23/2025 May 23, 2025
- Episode 3735: House rightly ignores Rep. Ken King, passes Sen. Perry’s THC ban | Key abortion bills move – Pratt on Texas 5/22/2025 May 22, 2025
- 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 May 21, 2025
- Episode 3733: Legislative update including on tax relief, bail reform, gun rights | Double Anti-Wimp update – Pratt on Texas 5/20/2025 May 20, 2025
- Episode 3732: Lubbock-native named head of Geo. W. Bush Presidential Library | Legislators pass anti-“spying” bill – Pratt on Texas 5/19/2025 May 19, 2025
- Episode 3731: House leadership runs out clock, finds time for homosexual lobby win | School finance bill winner/losers – Pratt on Texas 5/16/2025 May 16, 2025
- Episode 3730: Bad bill on free speech (SLAPP) killed; some good bills pass House | Full legislative update – Pratt on Texas 5/15/2025 May 15, 2025
- 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 May 14, 2025
On Virtue & the Republic
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in order to betray them. — Edwin Meese III
On Political Pessimism
Defeatist cynicism is an arrogance that we too know an outcome – we do not. Our Creator expects us to fight for good until He ends the game, not us. — Robert W. Pratt
On Liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart
On Right
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila
On Political Correctness
Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense. — Milo Yiannopoulos
On pessimism and difficulty
When you encounter difficulties, you need to be optimistic. The pessimists tend to die. — Zhou Youguang
On American Liberals
Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. — William F. Buckley, Jr.
On Universities
Universities have become a place to provide economic and political protection for those who hold economically and politically unworkable ideas. — Robert W. Pratt
On Rush Limbaugh
William F. Buckley is the esteemed father of the American conservative movement and gave it meaning; Ronald Reagan took conservatism to the public, showed it worked, and made it popular; Rush Limbaugh is the man who embedded political conservatism into our culture. — Robert W. Pratt
On Mistakes in Politics
Politics, as opposed to science, does not reward the correction of mistakes, given that correcting a mistake also entails admitting to having made one. Worse, the bigger the mistake, the greater the political urgency of defending it at all costs. — Lionel Shriver
On Rights and Freedoms
When we think of our rights and freedoms as rewards for good behavior, we lose. — Meghan Murphy
On Republican Moderates
Republican “moderates” rarely fight hard for anything, except for other Republicans giving up their principles. — Robert W. Pratt
On Judging Public Policy
Judge public policies by their results, not their intentions. — Milton Friedman
On Fundamental Rights
The oft-quoted phrase that ‘no right is absolute’ does not mean that fundamental rights precariously subsist subject to the whims, caprice, or appetite of government officials or judges. — Stephen McGlynn
May we remember on Memorial Day
A very nice prayer for Memorial Day is here. … [Read More...]