- Supreme Court says federal courts don’t have a role in deciding partisan gerrymandering claims – this is an extremely important decision but it is not new, it reaffirms the position on redistricting since the beginning of the country.
- Supreme Court declines to police political maps drawn for partisan gain, teeing up another Texas brawl
- Supreme Court Declines to Set Limits on Political Gerrymandering
- Supreme court decision points to blatantly gerrymandered districts, including those in Texas
- Redistricting Cases Press On, Even After High Court Ruling
- Supreme Court halts citizenship question on 2020 census – this is a hold until the executive cures certain things the court was found lacking.
- Grusendorf: Fear vs. principle in the Texas Legislature
- A Conversation with State Rep. Jonathan Stickland VIDEO
- Joe Straus’ New PAC Is Part Of The ‘War For The Soul Of The Republican Party’ – yep, he wants us to be the GOP of California, Illinois, and New York where the GOP no longer effectively exists because it was hostile to conservatism.
- Air ambulance service agreement nixed by Texas Governor
- Gun Owners of America Expands in Texas, Hires Teresa Beckmeyer
- Texas is trying to limit public money from going to abortion providers. Some fear other health services could get cut. – too bad those folk don’t “fear” the murder of innocent babies in the womb.
- Abortion opponent, ‘bathroom bill’ supporter among nominees to sex ed panel – yes, more on this story today as the press object to all nominees who have any conservative or traditional convictions.
- Texas just tapped culture warriors to re-write its sex ed curriculum – note, if you are a liberal “culture warrior” you are not seen as such and are acceptable.
- Exposed: Why Austin ISD Must Scrap Radical Sex-Ed Targeted at Young Children
- Texas Solicitor General Kyle Hawkins Testifies Before U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee
- ‘We had such high hopes for Seth’: Another Texas prison inmate dies of heat stroke
- How a longtime aide to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott became a top lobbyist
- Some Texas DAs Warn Cannabis Laws Unenforceable For Now
- TEA Clears Up Confusion on “School Finance Reform/Property Tax Relief” Bill
- Child Protective Services Takes 4-Year-Old Into Custody, Family Given Little Warning
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- Perversion: Smut less likely to be blocked than political speech online
- Instead of Censoring Politicians, Twitter Will Lightly Shadowban Them And Warn Users About Content
- When Trump supporters are banned from a knitting website, no corner of the internet is free from liberal sanctimony
- Gohmert and Cruz Continue Efforts to Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terrorists
- Poll: Young Americans’ LGBTQ Acceptance Plunges 63% to 45% in Two Years – a result of the militant overreach of Leftist homosexual advocates
- NRA difficulties threaten impact of gun lobby ahead of elections
- Arrington: ‘Shop Rx Act’ would provide transparency in Medicare prescription costs
- Sens. Cruz, Cornyn on Committee Approval of Charles Eskridge as U.S. District Judge in Houston
- Second debate night packed with Democratic front-runners
- Democratic Presidential Contenders Sprint Hard Left in First Debate
- Elizabeth Warren adds ‘gay reparations’ to Democrats’ arsenal
- Elizabeth Warren: Guns are ‘national health emergency’
- Connecticut’s 1995 Gun-Permit Law (Still) Did Not Reduce Firearm Homicides by 40 Percent
- Elizabeth Warren is all-in on ending private health insurance
- First bilingual presidential debate as two candidates and a moderator speak in Spanish
- Dubbed a ‘breakout star’ of first presidential debate, Julián Castro gains momentum
- All 3,520 words spoken by Julián Castro and Beto O’Rourke at first Democratic presidential debate
- At Democratic debate, Julián Castro has a breakout night at Beto O’Rourke’s expense
- At Florida detention site for migrant teens, Beto O’Rourke slams Trump, parries Julian Castro’s jabs
- AP: Castro Impresses in Democratic Debate; Can He Capitalize? – impresses whom? Idiot anti-American open borders nutjobs?
- Julián Castro goes for Beto O’Rourke’s jugular by questioning his grasp of immigration law
- Beto O’Rourke has tough outing in 2020 debate debut
- Four big moments for Texans Beto O’Rourke and Julián Castro in first Democratic presidential debate
- Democrats debate immigration, economy but largely avoid Trump
- Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren all head to Houston next week
- Bush, Clinton to Celebrate Those in Their Leadership Program
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- Feds Grant Contract to Build 4 Miles of New Texas Border Wall
- Asylum officers ask federal court to end “remain in Mexico” policy, saying it threatens migrants’ lives – no, our policy doesn’t threaten their lives, their decisions to embark on the effort is what points them at risk.
- The U.S. House and Senate have passed competing border aid bills. How would each help migrants detained at the border?
- Chants of ‘Free the Children Now’ at Texas Migrant Facility
- 20 Times Breitbart Reported on Illegal Alien Deaths During Obama-Biden Years and No One Cared – demonstrates my point about how the Dems are only using the suffering of these people for political gain.
- Donald Trump Blames Democrats for Drowned Migrants Found in Rio Grande
- Migrant: Young Family Ignored Advice Against Border Swim
- US Had Open Beds as Migrant Kids Languished at Texas Station
- Del Rio Sector Border Patrol Rescued from Rio Grande, One Drowned
- Border State Shootout Uncovers Deceptive Propaganda Strategy by Narco-Terrorist
- Eight Kidnapped Bangladeshi Migrants Rescued in Nuevo Laredo
- The Border as an ‘Attractive Nuisance’
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- Facebook contractor in Texas who posted video of Springsteen lyrics loses his job
- Wichita County producing more corn crops
- Wichita Falls greeting card business wins national award
- Why the Dallas investor who predicted the housing market collapse says U.S. could see recession next year
- JetBlue moving to IAH, leaving Hobby Airport
- Chemical giant with plant in Freeport to cut 6,000 jobs
- FAA reassigns Dallas-area managers in midst of safety enforcement probe
- Incumbents win re-election to Pedernales Electric board
- Breakwater launches midstream division to boost recycling in Permian Basin
- Weatherford opens new oilfield technology super center in Odessa
- Phillips 66 files permits to build offshore export facility on Texas coast
- Sand mines continue to be idled in Wisconsin, “boom is over”
- Lockheed Martin’s Grand Prairie division lands $562 million missile contract
- Did quarter horse racing’s top trainer win too much for his own good?
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- Farmers Branch Police Officer Charged With Murder in Dallas Shooting
- Houston Police Officer Accused of Assaulting Man During Drug Arrest
- Woman, Wife of Former Sunray Police Chief, Sentenced for Western NY Double Killing Apologizes
- Texas Woman Accepts 18-Year Term for Drunken, Fatal Wreck
- North Texas Man Gets Life Sentence in 3-Year-Old Daughter’s Death
- Lawsuits: Dallas Man Charged in Killings Had More Victims
- Midland home invasion leaves one man dead VIDEO
- Lubbock police seek public’s help after man pulls gun on hotel employee
- Brothers accused in 1998 Lubbock slaying indicted
- Man pleads guilty to March bank robbery near Texas Tech
- Driver believed dead after semi-truck plunges off bridge into San Jacinto River
- Fistfight leads to shooting in southeast Houston
- Driver accused in fatal crash that killed 7 motorcyclists had run-ins with Baytown police
- Man arrested in shooting death of sleeping 11-year-old at Channelview home
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- School safety conference: why some districts are using the threat assessment tool VIDEO
- A $1.5 million federal grant will pave the way to Wichita Falls Regional Airport
- City of Bowie gets new equipment to clean pipes
- Big Spring animal shelter dealing with Distemper outbreak
- Odessa CVB becomes ‘Discover Odessa’ – typical waste of money
- Midland ISD Spends Big in spite of Robin Hood Payment
- Midland County moves forward on murals for exterior of downtown library
- After training over 200 Abilene police officers, Phil Sage is retiring
- Law enforcement mourns loss of former Jones Co. Sheriff Larry Moore
- Runway work underway at Lamesa airport
- Borden County gets $1.985 million for new water system
- Lubbock ISD reveals new buses with seat belts, new security features VIDEO
- Fear and hope in The Bottom, as Dallas finally prepares for that historic neighborhood’s long-promised makeover
- Raw sewage overflowing from Baytown manholes after recent storms… again
- Harris Co. Commissioners Court updated the county’s nondiscrimination and anti-harassment policies
- Houston (Harris County) Passes “Ban the Bible” LGBT [homosexual] Policy
- Law Forces Denton Appraiser to End Conflict of Interest
- Exposed: Why Austin ISD Must Scrap Radical Sex-Ed Targeted at Young Children
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- Abilene Christian University creates room for nursing mothers
- TTU’s Hayhoe Named to National Museum of Natural History Advisory Board – she’s the prototypical “climate expert,” she teaches not science but “political science”
- Paul McCartney urges Texas A&M to end golden retriever experiments in muscular dystrophy research – screw McCartney
Pratt’s post for 6/27/2019
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