- Texas Values ‘Strongly Opposes’ Phelan for Speaker Over LGBT Advocacy – me too and for many more reasons than his backing of the homosexual political lobby
- Predicting Blue Wave, Democrat Joe Moody Files for Speaker, more
- Dismemberment Abortion Ban to Return to Appeals Court
- Two more senior aides fired from Texas attorney general’s office in wake of criminal accusations against Ken Paxton – good, they deserve such until they provide some evidence their accusations were truthful. All evidence to-date backs Paxton’s side.
- Governor Abbott Appoints Ramirez To Board Of The Texas Department Of Motor Vehicles
- Comptroller’s Office Releases State of Texas Annual Cash Report
- Data shows court case filings starting to rebound somewhat during pandemic
- Help Find Misuse of Public Funds
- 1,000 Texas National Guard troops ready to ensure safety in the state’s five largest cities
- Harris County drive-thru votes to count, federal judge rules – a denial of your rights to have uniform voting opportunity.
- Reversing course, Harris County shuts down 9 of 10 drive-thru Election Day voting sites – because election day favors Republican turnout? The entire piece demonstrates they’ve known all along this was not legal. Note the lawyer talking about “don’t need to press our luck.” If it was legal what’s it got to do with luck?
- Harris County sues AG Paxton, wants to keep County Clerk Hollins’ legal time and expense records under wraps
- Harris County Democratic Party HQ vandalized before Election Day – that’s the work of the Communist Red Guard. They do the same in Austin.
- Hidalgo County Keeps Polls Open an Extra Hour, Potentially Violating Election Law – Democrat cheating!
- Dallas County Democratic, Republican chairs release joint statement urging patience as officials count ballots
- Tarrant County faces delayed counts for its tightest races due to staffing shortages
- Increasing reports of Republican election officials fired in Dallas, Comal and Williamson county, Direct Action reports
- Harris County Latinos poised to capture record share of electorate, driven by young and first-time voters
- ‘It’s all hands on deck’: DNC chair Tom Perez holds Austin event ahead of Election Day
- Counties on Up: Texas’ Decentralized Electoral Structure
- Election Day: We beat the cheaters by turning out to vote.
- Cornyn, Cruz, Williams, Roy warn that America’s fate hinges on Texas staying red
- GOP’s Cornyn, Hegar in Another Close Texas Senate Race
- 13 key Texas congressional races
- 6 key Texas regions to watch on Election Day
- Texas congressional delegation “ground zero” for 2020 fight — how much Republican, how much Democratic?
- High Stakes Fuel Turnout Surge in Suddenly Competitive Texas
- 5 things to watch in the Texas House elections
- Five New Texas House Candidates Who Won’t Be Waiting on Election Results
- TX6: In suburban D-FW congressional race, Wright touts conservative record, Daniel calls for end to ‘extremism’
- Election Night 2020: Track Texas Results
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- U.S. will exit Paris Accord, regardless of election outcome
- Trump promised full transparency on scandal documents, State Department didn’t comply
- Judge orders U.S. Postal Service to find, send unmailed ballots to meet Election Day deadlines
- Justice Department monitoring voter rights compliance in 44 jurisdictions around the U.S.
- Chinese Communist Party uses political warfare to undermine the West, says State Dept. official
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- Presidential race / national politics
- No, the ‘Popular Vote’ Winner Does Not ‘Actually Win’ the Election
- Bush v. Gore Revisited
- Biden and Trump’s potential paths to win the Electoral College
- Trump and Biden in virtual tie in Texas in final hours before Election Day, poll average shows – B.S. amateur polling (even if they luck into being right)
- Kimball: The red wave is inbound, but…
- Matt Mayer’s election prediction: Trump 305 to Biden 233
- The good and bad news for Trump about the US economy
- Answering the LGBT [homosexual] Left on Trump’s Record
- These Black and Latino Trump Supporters Aren’t Shy
- Charlie Kirk: Trump’s opposition to COVID lockdowns beneficial to reelection bid
- Dem Rep. Frederica Wilson makes strong case for term limits with her demand that DOJ investigate Trump’s ‘totally illegal’ use of gov’t funds
- Despite polls favoring Biden, most voters believe Trump will win election
- Report: Joe Biden Plans to Assume Role of President-Elect if Media Declares Him Winner–Even Amid Trump’s Legal Challenges
- Biden campaign claims ‘no scenario’ Trump can be declared winner on election night
- Democrats get last-minute election jitters
- Mexican Border State Mayor Pushes Instagram Followers to Vote Biden
- Biden’s War Against the South
- Corrupt Media are Big Biden Donors
- Biden adviser voices confidence on home stretch of campaign
- Democrats say San Marcos officials didn’t respond to “Trump Train” that harassed Biden bus
- Joe Biden Is the James Buchanan of Our Times
- Democrats’ Coronavirus Owngoal Will Keep Their Voters from the Polls
- Biden says he will ‘run through the tape’ as he makes final Election Day rounds in Pennsylvania
- Joe Biden wins vote in tiny Dixville Notch, New Hampshire – good reason to avoid Dixville Notch
- A Reagan Milestone for Biden
- Joe Biden, the Luckiest Politician in American History
- Biden Had ‘One More Thing’ to Say at His Last Rally, but What Happened Says It All
- New Jersey’s Election Day Votes Won’t Be Counted until Next Week
- More USPS Workers Found Dumping Ballots Ahead of Election
- Life, liberty and the pursuit of laïcité: Why American liberals blame the victims of terror.
- A Blueprint for a Multiethnic Anti-Socialist Movement
- The Pope really doesn’t like Republicans – he seems to love anti-Christ materialism most (socialists/communists)
- It’s time to expel Turkey from Nato
- Facebook Censors Mark Levin With Bogus “Fact Checks”
- Election Reader: Liberal Oppression, Censorship, and the Path Forward
- Blue-check lib podcaster suspended for impersonating Beto O’Rourke
- The Weird Companies and Odd Practice of Corporate Get out the Vote Pressure
- Colorado Voters to Decide Ballot Measure Restricting Late-Term Abortion
- Louisiana Voters Consider a Constitutional Amendment to Protect Unborn Children
- What This Election Has Ignored
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- Border / immigration
- MS-13 gang member arrested at the Javier Vega Jr. checkpoint
- US Judge Blocks Trump Immigration Rule on Public Benefits
- DACA recipients on pins and needles awaiting election outcome
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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 11/03/2020 (pdf) – 18,097* deaths & “active cases” of 105,658 (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
- Taylor County Judge issues correction, says Big Country area has not surpassed COVID-19 threshold
- North Texas Doctor Recovers from COVID-19 Using Hydroxychloroquine
- AG Paxton Files for Temporary Injunction to Halt El Paso County Judge’s Unlawful Lockdown Order
- 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’
- Why maskless voters at the polls should be treated like flag burners – Casey is a radical Leftist nutcase, angry at the world all the time.
- 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
- Midland ISD now requiring all students to wear masks to school
- Over 240 Texas Schools Sign up for COVID-19 Rapid Testing Program
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- Business/Economy
- SpaceX to live stream 50,000 foot hop of Starship
- Austin’s Cirrus Logic announces CEO change
- Austin’s National Instruments to cut global staff by about 650
- San Marcos-based Grande Communications sold as part of $8.1B deal
- Lubbock salsa company launches partnership with United, Market Street
- Exxon blocked from digging into ‘exorbitant’ medical damages in $1B suit
- Pacific Drilling files second Houston bankruptcy in three years
- Waco: Bank opens in East Waco for first time in 100 years
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Cops Stop Antifa from Setting Fire to Portland Residential Building VIDEO
- Group protests Mayor Adler in Downtown Austin; police association responds to officer photos VIDEO
- Kyle Rittenhouse’s bail set at $2 million in Kenosha County
- Governor: State and County authorities to command police in Portland during election
- De Blasio to crackdown on cops during election disturbances; no particular reason to board up businesses
- Beware of Red-Diaper ‘Legal Observers’ And Violent Streets
- Law enforcement across the country prepares for potential election day violence
- El Paso police put up security barriers in apparent precaution against election unrest
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Search underway for man charged with murdering teen girl in southwest Houston during fight
- Last Evacuation From Southeast Texas Train Derailment Lifted
- Protesters leave home of Midland pastor after a month of picketing
- Burglary of multiple vehicles including Texas DPS vehicle, stolen police equipment in Iowa Park
- Man jailed on multiple charges after several law enforcement agencies break barricade to make arrest
- Abilene woman arrested for assaulting elderly victim
- Report: Dozens of women make allegations against Early tattoo artist indicted for sexual assault
- Midland police release new details on crash that injured police officer
- Minor injuries reported following school bus crash in Martin County
- Ector County Sheriff’s Office looking into 2011 cold case murder
- Sheriff’s Office investigating dead body found Sunday in Hale County
- Lubbock Police release photos of suspects in armored truck robbery
- Chase ends when driver hits gas meter in Lubbock
- Terry Co. Sheriff’s, Texas Rangers investigating homicide in Meadow, Terry County Sheriff identifies Meadow murder victim
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- Local government
- Help Find Misuse of Public Funds
- Lubbock City Council to Host Public Forum on Ordinance Banning Abortion, more
- City of Mission launches new mass notification alert system
- Graham City Hall closed due to COVID-19
- Wichita Falls council approves $1.5 million design for business park
- Wichita Falls City Council meets in regular session Nov. 3 VIDEO
- Advocates against bond file complaint over Wichita Falls ISD signs
- Olney residents to vote for hospital tax cap increase
- Abilene City Council to vote on YMCA expansion
- Harris County sues AG Paxton, wants to keep County Clerk Hollins’ legal time and expense records under wraps
- New Rule Requires San Antonio Pet Stores to Sell Only Rescued Dogs, Cats – perfect example of Leftwing overreach of government.
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- Colleges & universities
- TTU Meat Judging Team Claims 15th Intercollegiate National Championship
- TTUHSC names Dr. Ron Cook to Lubbock Osteopathic Endowed Chair in Family Medicine
- MSU Texas to host virtual graduation
- LCU Announces Esports Team As Part of Athletics Department
Pratt’s post for 11/3/2020 Election Day
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