- Rep. Dade Phelan Announces Run for Texas House Speaker – the liberal Republican who is awarded by the homosexual lobby for his support!
- Phelan Files for Speaker After Secret Meeting – members who support Phelan should be defeated in primaries, that includes personal friends of mine.
- Fleming: Grassroots America Opposes Dade Phelan for Speaker and the Backroom Deals to Get Him There
- How the Race for Speaker of the Texas House Affects You
- State Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.7 Billion in October, 3.5% less than Oct. 2019
- State of Texas Annual Cash Report
- Governor’s Broadband Development Council Issues First Report To Texas Legislature
- Governor Abbott Appoints Four To Rehabilitation Council Of Texas
- Federal judge rejects GOP-led challenge to toss out over 127,000 drive-thru ballots in Harris County
- Reporters blocked from Harris County drive-thru ballots hearing
- Texas High Court Denies GOP Effort to Reject Houston Votes – deserving of condemnation and opposition in the next primary.
- Court fight over Harris County drive-thru votes raises alarm
- Houston Looks to Boost [Democrat] Turnout by Offering 24-Hour Voting
- Harris County appoints Isabel Longoria as first elections administrator as Hollins prepares to step down – see, they brought in the Dem radical to tip the election and then after it is done, they move to create a elections office.
- Texas Republicans must vote to offset huge Democrat early voter turnout
- Poll Watchers/Workers May Perform Duties Within 6 ft of Others
- Don Huffines Teams up with DAT to Fight Voter Fraud
- Tarrant County Elections Board Adds Members to Help Count Mail-In Ballots
- Why Latinos will play a critical role in determining the election winner in Texas
- “The RGV holds the key to what happens in Texas,” Beto O’Rourke urges people to head to polls
- Frisco City Council candidate says fake ads are attacking her Muslim faith – but the details of the story suggest otherwise?
- Building ‘a better place’: Houston Muslims eager to use their voting power in election
- Collin County is the center of a political storm as the Texas suburbs become more competitive for Democrats
- How Will Ex-Californians Affect the Election in Texas? – “To the extent that Californians could have an electoral impact, it’s more psychological than real,” he said. “We hear a lot about Californians coming to Texas with their liberal values, but both anecdote and the little data we have suggest that registered voters who move to Texas from California tend to be more Republicans and conservatives, on average.”
- State Legislative Elections Key to Redistricting Power – the biggest prize of all
- Statesman’s final look at 13 key Texas congressional races
- TX11: Democrat nominee says President Trump abandons country on COVID
- TX23: Veterans vying for retiring Republican’s West Texas congressional seat – yes, and she’s a Leftist lesbian who actually lives in the DC-area.
- In Senate race, Cornyn walks fine line as he tries to hold off Hegar
- Braddock: Expect John Cornyn to Outperform Trump in Texas
- Royce West: I do not support Cornyn – of course he also said he doesn’t support his party’s nominee MJ Big Mama Hegar
- On the eve of election day, Texas Democrats solidify momentum
- If blue wave crashes on Lone Star State, Texas GOP’s longstanding congressional clout would suffer
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- U.S. Supreme Court Lets Texas Inmate Confined to Filthy Prison Cells Sue Guards
- Supreme Court Changes Fuel Moves to Protect Abortion Access
- Federal Inmate Facing Execution in Texas Teen’s Slaying Loses Appeal
- Trump signs symbolic memo in support of fracturing
- FCC Radio Spectrum Reallocation Could Impair Vehicle Safety
- Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on USDA Disaster Designation of Rio Grande Valley Counties
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- Presidential race / national politics
- High-dollar Texas donors prefer Trump (but Austin gave more to Biden)
- Here’s how much money Trump and Biden raised in the Houston suburbs
- Joe Biden discloses list of 800 top campaign fundraisers, including 33 Texans
- What to Tell Your Fence-Sitting Friends About Trump’s Record on Fighting the Left’s Radical Insanity
- FBI Probing Trump Caravan Confrontation With Biden Campaign Bus in Texas
- ‘These patriots did nothing wrong’ | Trump responds to FBI investigation involving crash between supporters and Biden campaign caravan – it takes some effort with these stories to catch that Kyle police said it looks more like the Dem vehicle was at fault (the “white SUV”) and the victim the Trump supporter.
- Trump Train swarms Biden bus on 1-35, and Trump is delighted
- Trump Pitches ‘Back to Normal’ as Biden Warns of Tough Days
- With Two Days to Go, Trump Casts Doubt on Integrity of Prolonged Vote Count
- Philadelphia Firefighters Union Confirms Trump Endorsement in Forced Recount
- More than 1,300 cars filled 610 for Houston ‘Trump Train’
- Stay positive: Why the President’s mindset matters
- Could Blacks and Hispanics Hand Trump a November Victory?
- Crowd Chants ‘Fire Fauci’! Trump says ‘let me wait a little bit’
- COVID Panic Porn is Meant to Suppress Trump Vote, But It May Do the Opposite
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- New Biden ad has Julián Castro using altered version of Lotería game to attract Latino voters
- Joe Biden said what? Biden promises ‘badakathcare’ in 2020 campaign speech at ‘rally’
- A vote for Biden is a vote for fear over optimism
- Kamala Harris contrasts Biden, Trump records on race during tour of Texas
- Kamala Harris vs James Madison
- Kamala Harris Goes ‘Full Blown Marxist’ in Campaign Ad
- Mexico Reprimands Cartel-Linked Governor After Pushing Votes for Biden
- ‘Reject hate and division,’ Democratic VP nominee tells South Texas border rally – funny how these same people promote hatred of conservatives, Christians and anyone who opposes their agenda.
- Desperate ‘Fact-Checkers’ Line Up to Help Biden: He Eulogized a KKK ‘Exalted Cyclops’ NOT a ‘Grand Wizard’
- Biden Vows to Counter ‘Extremist Violence’ — and Effectively Surrender to Jihad
- Beyoncé urges Texans to vote, shows support for Joe Biden in Instagram post
- Biden Pledges to Gut Religious Freedom Protections, Saying They Give ‘Hate’ a ‘Safe Harbor’
- Why Democrats aren’t taking Florida for granted
- Poll: Churchgoing Biden Voters Question the Bible at Alarming Rates
- Priest: ‘You cannot be Catholic and vote for Biden, period’
- Leftist Agitators Target Conservative Groups in D.C. for Post-Election ‘Protests’
- Biden, Trump supporters clash outside Kamala Harris event in Edinburg VIDEO
- Former RNC chairman backs Democratic candidate Joe Biden – Steele was a failure as RNC chairman and he’s obviously not a Republican. This is what you get with the McCain and Romney crowd.
- Twitter Finally Relents, Lifts Suspension of NY Post for Hunter Biden Bombshell
- Fox News did something surprising with the Hunter Biden email story
- Election officials in Florida uncover scheme to register dead voters as Democrats
- What if this election had been COVID-free?
- Climate scientists are science’s biggest frequent flyers
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- Border / immigration
- Rio Grande City Border Patrol Agent assaulted by alleged smugglers, more
- Latino Border Patrol Agents Discuss Benefits of Secure Borders on Their Communities VIDEO
- Under Trump, Citizenship and Visa Agency Focuses on Fraud – another reason to back Trump.
- Mexico Reprimands Cartel-Linked Governor After Pushing Votes for Biden
- Cartel Assassins Murder Mexican Border State Police Commander South of Texas
- Report: US Turning Away Asylum-Seekers at Border Is Flawed – letting them all in to catch and release is even more flawed.
- Journalist Killed in Mexican Border City of Ciudad Juarez, 6th this year
- Matan a 10 Sicarios Zetas en Balacera Fronteriza
- Kidnapped Teen Boy Found Murdered by Gulf Cartel in Mexican Border State
- ‘Decisive’ or ‘disastrous’: Fate of Trump’s immigration policies rests on voters
- Rodriguez: Mexico is us and we are Mexico
- US Judge Blocks Trump Immigration Rule on Public Benefits
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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 11/02/2020 (pdf) – 18,077* deaths & “active cases” of 103,935 (out of over 29,000,000,000 people, about a third 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
- Studies: COVID-19 mortality plunging in hospitals
- AG Paxton Joins Coalition of Businesses in Lawsuit Against El Paso Judge’s Unlawful Order
- Dan Patrick’s coronavirus comments serve as inspiration for DC memorial
- Texas records highest number of total COVID-19 cases in US
- Judge: Trauma Service Area that includes Taylor County surpasses 15% threshold
- 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.
- Citizens React to Photo of Unmasked Abbott
- Twelve graphs prove masks are useless against COVID-19
- Abilene City Manager encouraging people to wear a mask, slow spread of COVID-19 – silly, they’re wearing them and the case numbers are spiking!
- Rinaldi: The Sinister Effect of the COVID ‘Muzzle’
- 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
- Midland ISD uses snow day to clean and disinfect campuses – fine but humans are the hosts of viruses.
- Texas Teachers Group to Abbott: Prevent in-Person College Graduations – I thought these folks were all about “local” control and that’s what we have without Abbott action on the issue. More of the same old hypocrisy.
- Texas Education Agency rolls out COVID-19 rapid testing program for students and school staff
- Failure an issue in at-home Abilene ISD learning
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- Business/Economy
- Texas’ Sales Tax Revenue Totaled $2.7 Billion in October, 3.5% less than Oct. 2019
- BBVA USA back in the black
- Village Farms plans to begin hemp production in Texas
- Snap Kitchen to close dozens of stores across Texas
- Texas Gun Sales Up Ahead of Election
- Barnett Deal Brings $570 Million
- Almost $14 Billion for Pipelines At Risk in Post-COVID Recovery
- Astros ask appeals court to dismiss ticketholders’ lawsuit
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Illinois Authorities Have Turned a 17-Year-Old Accused in Kenosha Shootings Over to Wisconsin Authorities
- In George Floyd’s Hometown, a Season of Protest Ends at the Polls
- New Orleans Cop Shot in the Face in French Quarter Ambush
- PolitiFact Fact-Checks ‘Thin Blue Line’ Flag, Branding It an ‘Anti-Black Lives Matter’ Symbol
- Leftist Agitators Target Conservative Groups in D.C. for Post-Election ‘Protests’
- Stay Home With GUN IN HAND On Wednesday Or Whenever The Election Outcome Is Finally Determined – I always have firearm within reach.
- Checking in with a Texas doomsday prepper ahead of the election
- Businesses in Democrat run big cities boarding up for Election Day
- Dallas’ Black leaders and activists are turning protesters into voters
- Celeb-Packed Apartments to Have Armed Guards for Election Day
- Anti-Capitalist Rioters Smash Windows of Businesses at Portland ‘March’
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Man Wrongly Arrested in Fatal Greenville-area Shooting Sues Officials
- Police: Actor Eddie Hassell, 30, Killed in Texas Shooting
- RIP: ‘American Idol’ Contestant, Grand Prairie-native Nikki McKibbin Dies at 42
- RIP: Herb Adderley, Hall of Fame cornerback & former Dallas Cowboy, dead at 81
- One dead, one injured after shooting in Brownsville
- Man, woman found dead in Edinburg home
- Mercedes residents wake up to slashed tires, fed up with these crimes
- Three Rio Grande Valley residents plea guilty to firearms felonies
- Police searching for alleged shooter after 3 killed at Dallas club
- 1 person critically injured after shooting at men’s club over ‘hotrod’ dispute, Fort Worth police say
- One person shot, killed inside car at Texaco gas station
- Vehicle discovered Sunday morning submerged in a Lubbock park lake
- One found dead in Lubbock storage unit after shots fired call
- Grand jury declines to indict woman accused of assaulting former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst – typical
- Sheriff identifies teen killed in West Odessa
- One person dead in fatal crash north of Pyote
- Midland PD officer transported to hospital with serious injuries after a car crash
- Man accused of indecency with a child and bestiality pleads guilty to killing small dog
- Wichita Falls woman arrested for assaulting boyfriend with flea spray
- Bangs Highway wreck caused by wrong-way driver
- Report: Dozens of women make allegations against Early tattoo artist indicted for sexual assault
- Multiple people injured during three-vehicle crash in Abilene, more
- DPS identifies injured, dead in Saturday morning Lubbock crash
- 2 killed, multiple injuries reported after truck crashes into south Lubbock restaurant, more
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- Local government
- Pharr police want to ride their bicycles on patrol VIDEO
- Cameron County residents have mixed feelings about “voluntary” property purchase program
- Harris County appoints Isabel Longoria as first elections administrator as Hollins prepares to step down – see, they brought in the Dem radical to tip the election and then after it is done, they move to create a elections office.
- Marfa ISD offers free meals to anyone under the age of 18 – our supposed broke school districts are simply more and more welfare centers.
- Wichita Falls has openings for boards, commissions
- U.S. District Judge denies attempt to stop election grants Stephens County cleared to accept grant
- Abilene City Manager encouraging people to wear a mask, slow spread of COVID-19 – silly, they’re wearing them and the case numbers are spiking!
- Local Bonds and Propositions Help Shape Texas Communities
- Declining revenue, a petition drive, and a rate committee: Why 2021 will be challenging for CPS Energy
- Plano city leaders applaud new water deal that ‘incentivizes conservation’
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- Colleges & universities
- Who’s really being silenced on campus? Universities are radicalizing minorities,
- UTRGV to offer 10th school of podiatric medicine in entire nation
- Tech researcher honored for cotton innovations in 3D printing
- Mildand College closes ATC for cleaning
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- Military
- Air Force to Conduct Exercise in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas
Pratt’s post for 11/2/2020
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