- Democrat Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer announces run for Texas Speaker of the House, more – fake name Lefty loves the spotlight!
- Democrats or Republicans could win the Texas House this year. But what if they tie?
- As appeal proceeds, Texas Supreme Court blocks multiple ballot drop sites,
- more, Appeals court upholds order against Abbott’s limit on ballot drop sites, A.G. Statement on Third Court of Appeals Ruling Regarding Ballot Drop-Off Locations
- Lubbock validates signature petition for proposed ordinance outlawing abortion, more
- DPS Reminds Drivers to Watch for Students Returning to Class this Fall
- TTI Proving Grounds Crew Nearly Beats Crash Test Record, Despite COVID-19
- Governor Greg Abbott Appoints Four To State Independent Living Council
- How did politicians act in lockstep on lock downs (and more) even before COVID was a crisis?
- Another staffer who accused Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of crimes leaves the agency – good.
- Geo. P. Bush Keeping ‘All Options Open’ for Potential AG Run, more – awful!
- Early Vote Total Exceeds 2016; GOP Chips at Dems’ Advantage
- In high-stakes Texas election, Republicans hope willingness to resume door-knocking gives them edge
- Signature matching is an electoral joke. Texas should remove it. – complete B.S. from a bunch of pro-cheating libs
- Eyes turn to Texas as early voting surge surpasses 2016
- What to expect with the Texas vote count on election night
- In Democrats’ bid to flip Texas, maximizing the Latino vote is key – “Biden is not faring as well among Latino voters in the polls as Hillary Clinton did in 2016.”
- Michael Bloomberg Throws $2.6 Million Cash Behind Democratic Railroad Commission Candidate, more
- George Soros spends last-minute millions on black and Latino voter turnout efforts in key states
- AOC Ally Targets Texas Elections
- North Texas Progressive Groups Working to Turn Texas Blue
- HD67: Plano House Race Pits Incumbent Republican Leach Against Progressive Democrat Sanchez
- Texas House Democratic Campaign Committee raised more than $10 Million, with $4.5 million of that raised in the last month
- Ellis: Looking at the U.S. House
- Biden rebounds to edge over Trump in Texas, as Hegar slightly narrows Cornyn’s lead in Senate race – more UT-Tyler, DMN bull bleep in my opinion.
- Lincoln Project won’t shed tears if MJ Hegar beats John Cornyn, co-founder says – solid evidence that they are an inherent lie
- Hegar raising cash off Cornyn’s support for Supreme Court confirmation 8 days before the election, in contrast to 2016 obstruction
- TX24: Mask wearing has been politicized, and now is a defining issue in a hot North Texas congressional race
- TX32: Democrat Colin Allred, Republican Genevieve Collins tout bipartisanship
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Senate Votes to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Trump’s Latino supporters, a vocal minority, see him as a ‘Superman’ – a typical story that belittles Hispanics who hold views not approved by the Left.
- Rick Perry says Trump won’t stump again in Texas despite tight polls, but Harris is reportedly on the way
- Trump says he built a ‘booming’ economy. Economists say he inherited it. – this is an example of pure Soviet-style propaganda as it flies in the face of known fact and truth. Sure there are some Leftist/Dem economists who will make such a claim but we lived it and we know when real growth began – right after the election when investors regained confidence do to Trump’s election.
- Antifa Mob Throws Rocks, Pepper-Sprays, and Assaults Jews for Trump in New York VIDEO
- Biden Campaign Announces Live Event After Trump Suggests Joe ‘Waved a White Flag’ in Final Week of Race
- Joe Biden Botches Own Free College Agenda, Staff Says He ‘Misspoke’
- Joe Biden Explains His Call for ‘Revolutionary, Institutional Changes’
- Kamala Harris Bizarrely Laughs Off Question About Socialist Agenda VIDEO
- Data Shows Number One Online Story in America About Debate Is Biden Corruption
- Joe Biden: Hunter Biden Email Story ‘a Smear Campaign’
- Kamala Harris to make campaign stop in Texas on Friday, more – It is interesting that the year Democrats put on physical masks covering their mouths is also the year Democrats removed their surreptitious masks used to cover their far-Leftist ideology?
- Biden comment about ‘voter fraud organization’ garners attention
- Biden calls 2020 opponent ‘George’ in virtual campaign appearance before recovering correct name
- Why would Biden regret lies and missteps?
- 19 Lies in Barack Obama’s Speech for Joe Biden in Florida
- Obama Tells Lie After Lie to Honking Horns in North Miami
- Hillary Clinton: ‘Sick to My Stomach’ over Possible Trump Reelection
- Emails: Hunter Biden Arranged Meetings for Mexican Business Crony in Obama White House; Received Gifts in Exchange
- Nolte: New York Times Accidentally Confirms Breitbart’s Voter Fraud Reporting
- Boston Police Arrest Man for Allegedly Setting Ballot Box on Fire
- Winston Churchill’s remarkable love of science
- West Texans take stand against those protesting Bob Fu in Midland
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- Border / immigration
- Six Deported Sex-Offenders Arrested Crossing Border into Texas
- Border Patrol Agents Involved in Fatal Shootings in Texas, California
- 100 Migrants Arrested in 30 Hours in Texas near Border
- Border Patrol agents find teen caring for infant sibling near Hidalgo
- Two Mexican Cartel Smugglers Pointed Lasers at U.S. Police Helicopters, Say Feds
- Gulf Cartel Removes Bodies After Mexican Border City Shootout
- Thousands of immigrants in Texas hope the courts or the election will save their protected status
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- Coronavirus related (while I hold over some stories for a while this is not a collection that grows each day. You must go to previous days’ posts.)
- Texas COVID-19 situation report for 10/26/2020 (pdf) – 17,504* deaths & “active cases” of 91,885 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about 3/10ths of 1% of the population.) * Texas COVID numbers appear no longer trustworthy – a MUST read. Plus, according to the *CDC only 9,856 have died nationwide with COVID-19 as the exclusive cause of death!
- *CDC’s COVID-19 fatality numbers suggest fraud to cause panic
- Why the numbers are meaningless and inflated by Dr. Kristin Held, president, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
- Collin County Slams State’s Bad Coronavirus Data – Judge Chris Hill says the county is “100 percent certain” the numbers reported by Texas DSHS are not accurate. Collin County Pushes for Fix as State Agency Admits ‘Significantly’ Overstating Coronavirus Cases
- Texas overstated COVID positive testing rate by about 100%
- COVID-19 and the false positive trap: Current test results should not be automatically accepted as real
- COVID Death Stats…Inaccurate or Just Misleading?
- Major Hospital CEO Refutes Austin Mayor’s Coronavirus Doomsday Prediction
- Nashville officials accused of hiding low coronavirus cases linked to bars and restaurants
- How did politicians act in lockstep on lock downs (and more) even before COVID was a crisis?
- Let’s Not Pretend This Is Constitutional , ‘He’s decided he’s the king’: Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID response leaves lawmakers on sidelines
- Federal judge rules Pennsylvania COVID-19 restrictions unconstitutional
- Michigan Supreme Court calls lock down orders by governor illegal
- A Timeline of Gov. Abbott’s Executive Orders and Case Numbers, An Overview of the Texas Disaster Act, the Source of the State’s Coronavirus Response
- Texas GOP, doctors to Abbott: Data, science doesn’t warrant five months of shutdown, The Lockdown Has Gone From a Mistake to a Crime
- The lockdowns were a bad idea and did not work
- A ‘Failed Strategy’: Doctors Review Abbott’s Coronavirus Response
- Never has a virus been so oversold, Dr. Sonal Desai: They Blinded Us From Science
- Thousands of scientists and doctors condemn COVID-19 panic, more
- Has Sweden been vindicated?, More data from Sweden demonstrates failure of lock downs everywhere else, Sweden declares victory over COVID-19
- How Reliable Are COVID-19 Tests? Depends Which One You Mean
- Could mass testing for COVID-19 do more harm than good? – a must read
- The Big COVID Con Exposed
- Dr. John Lee: The dangers of a COVID ‘elimination’ policy
- Dr. Daniel Jeanmonod: “Do you remember a winter without a cold?”
- The real sickness afflicting America
- Texas Democrats remind they’d run Texas as a prison state
- Only a misinformed public would believe Democrats took COVID more seriously than President Trump
- People who survive serious COVID have long-lasting immune response, MGH study shows
- After months of encouraging lockdowns WHO officials now condemn them
- Germany’s growing COVID revolt
- Study: Almost impossible to contract COVID-19 on an airplane
- The US is coming out of COVID no worse than any European country
- You’re Only an ‘Expert’ When You Agree
- The dying COVID-19 epidemic – see the graphics
- LA Times features Lubbock and Texas Tech for COVID response, but not in a good way – yes and it was dishonest in the way most WuFlu reporting is.
- El Paso Imposes Curfew as Virus Cases Overwhelm Hospitals
- Temporary Hospital to Be Set up in El Paso Convention Center
- Governor Abbott Requests To Use William Beaumont Army Medical Center For Non-COVID Patients in El Paso
- Restrictions placed on City of Lubbock due to COVID-19, more – 15% number from Abbott is arbitrary and Lubbock suffers because a large cohort of patients come from well outside of the health region as Texas defines such.
- COVID & masks
- Sheriffs Across Texas Say Governor Abbott’s Mask Order is Unenforceable – things I pointed out the day the decree was issued from King Abbott
- Masks are neither effective nor safe: Summary of the science – ignore who the author is, it does not matter, simply check the sources/footnotes.
- Wearing face masks more than doubled Texas COVID-19 fatality rate! (But wait there’s more…)
- MASKS – manners, manipulation and maths – what are your odds of getting or dying from COVID-19? Healthy People Should Not Wear Masks
- Government routinely warned against mask use — before it was political – exactly as I have written and spoken about. See: More on face masks and why we should object to decrees to wear such
- Oxford: Evaluation of the Filtration Performance of Cloth Masks and Common Fabric Materials Against 20–1000 nm Size Particles
- Unmasking the surgeons: the evidence base behind the use of facemasks in surgery
- CDC inadvertently admits the uselessness of masks against COVID-19
- Europe’s Top Health Officials Say Masks Aren’t Helpful in Beating COVID-19
- Face masks are ‘NOT necessary’ and could even harm the fight against coronavirus, say Holland’s top scientists
- The danger of following ‘the science’
- The Dystopian Age of the Mask
- Americans Against Unconstitutional Mask Mandates
- State Mask Mandates Don’t Apply to Businesses, Say Lawyers for Local Chamber of Commerce
- Majority of voters take relatively relaxed approach to mask-wearing in public
- Mask Fanatics Have Officially Abandoned Science To Control Your Life
- Four graphs prove the utter failure of lockdowns and masks
- Florida proves (again) the stupidity of mask mandates
- Citizen Victory: Southlake Stops Mandating Masks When Voting
- AG Paxton Issues Letter Regarding Masking Requirements for Individuals Administering Elections
- ‘Mask mandates don’t work’: White House COVID adviser criticizes ‘obsession’ with masks
- Dr. Birx Rips the Mask off and Goes After Scott Atlas
- CDC: ‘Strong recommendation’ but no rule for masks on planes
- CDC: 85% of COVID-19 patients report ‘always’ or ‘often’ wearing a mask – Americans are wearing masks, but masks aren’t working.
- Joe Biden Flip-Flops Again: My Coronavirus Plan ‘Starts with a Mask Mandate Nationwide’ – Dems love “solutions” that don’t work
- Watch: FNC’s Carlson Exposes CNN’s Cuomo Hypocrisy on Masks VIDEO
- League City high school student alleges she was beaten by cops after being reprimanded over face mask
- Maskless voters make some uncomfortable – too bad and it’s because they are ignorant people to begin with.
- COVID & schools
- CDC director says closed schools pose larger public health risk for kids than reopening, U.S. Pediatricians Call For In-Person School This Fall
- Dr. Scott Atlas: There Is No Risk To Children From Covid-19, I Don’t Know Why People Deny This; Too much hysteria over school reopenings VIDEO
- TEA creates COVID-19 Data Tracking System for Texas Public Schools
- TEA Updates Pandemic School Funding Formula
- Coronavirus cases in Texas schools remain low, but trend points upward
- Are Public Schools Trying to Illegally Keep Parents From Withdrawing Their Kids?
- Alarming failure rates among Texas students fuel calls to get them back into classrooms
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- Business/Economy
- Texas Manufacturing Expands for Fifth Straight Month
- Study: Texas pipelines pumped $48 billion into state economy in 2019
- SpaceX launches 60 more Starlink satellites
- Reviewing the development of SpaceX’s Starship/Super Heavy
- Nate Paul companies alleged to have defaulted on $258M in debt – happens to many in a boom when they are heavily leveraged and then the boom stops abruptly.
- Storm Zeta Shuts 16% U.S. Gulf Offshore Crude Oil Production: Regulator
- Occidental U.S. Gulf Operations Takes Steps to Protect Environment, Staff
- Perryman: Texas job growth
- Wichita Falls man, Jose Pozos, nominated for 2021 TIME Dealer of the Year
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- BLM Demands Allegiance from Shoppers, Diners in Affluent Suburb
- Protesters Target Suburbs in Washington State
- Protest Group Vows to ‘F*ck Sh*t Up’ in Portland Suburb
- Antifa Shouts Down Elderly Woman in Neighborhood: ‘Go Back to Your House, F*cking Gentrifier’
- BLM Activists Assault Black Veteran, Steal American Flag in Los Angeles VIDEO
- BLM Activists Assault Woman, Damage Cars in California Protest VIDEO
- Antifa Mob Throws Rocks, Pepper-Sprays, and Assaults Jews for Trump in New York VIDEO
- Fists And Rocks Fly As Jewish Trump Supporters And Counter Protesters Clash In Times Square VIDEO
- Antifa Member Infected with Coronavirus Handed Out Food at Portland Popsicle Party
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- 2 killed after aircraft crashed in a Montgomery County neighborhood Sunday
- Man accused of second sexual assault in Round Rock
- Motors and mayhem: Underground car meetups surge in Austin amid pandemic
- Pedestrian killed in Kyle after hit by train, police say
- Woman shot and killed at Texas Renaissance Festival campground
- Smoker and Sunshine Smoke House trailer were part of massive cocaine ring in Lubbock, court records said
- One injured in South Lubbock shooting Saturday morning
- Suspect in Houston police sergeant’s shooting death claims cops fired first
- Zeta Becomes a Hurricane as It Nears Yucatan, Heading for US
- 3 Men Found Shot Fatally in Dallas Warehouse District
- Sheriff: Boy, 3, Fatally Shoots Self at His Birthday Party in Porter
- RIP: Jerry Jeff Walker, Texas country music legend, dies at 78, more
- Arrest Leads to Tragedy in the Rio Grande Valley
- Javier Ambler II’s family sues with help of lawyer in George Floyd case
- Police: Parents jailed after kids test positive for drugs
- “Flicked” water sends girlfriend to jail
- Couple arrested for stealing $50K from elderly in Wichita Falls
- Wichita Falls man allegedly threatened to shoot woman, killed man
- Wichita Falls sees “Kissing Bug” test positive for parasite that causes Chagas disease
- Abilene police need help finding missing elderly man
- San Angelo police investigating deadly shooting, persons of interest sought
- Abilene police arrest woman for stealing car in Brownwood
- Icy Weather Already Causing Street Closures in Lubbock
- House fire near Wolfforth late Monday morning
- Small Plane Crashes in East Lubbock, –more
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- Local government
- How did politicians act in lockstep on lock downs (and more) even before COVID was a crisis?
- With class canceled, can Austin police hold onto cadets?
- Downtown code amendments advance in Pflugerville
- Williamson County’s failure to approve federal grant means equipment loss, deputies say
- Wichita County judge’s statement fuels election flap – I’ve said many times, this guy is a character of the odd-duck sort. I think I once said he lives as a caricature of himself.
- Bowie ISD considers new or remodeled admin building
- Abilene community members suggest new names for two Abilene ISD elementary schools
- Rep. Burrows Discusses Policy Disagreements With Lubbock Mayor Dan Pope
- Lubbock validates signature petition for proposed ordinance outlawing abortion
- Lubbock officials declare petition valid for declaring Lubbock a sanctuary city for the unborn VIDEO
- Dallas ISD schools are in dire need of basic repairs
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- Colleges & universities
- TTU Free Market Institute Hosting Event On COVID-19 And Economics
- Odessa College board to consider appointing Lewis to fill trustee spot
- MSU professor retires after 40 years
- MSU Texas MBA students receive scholarships from accounting institute
- The College Politicization Problem (As Seen by the Chronicle)
Pratt’s post for 10/26/2020
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