- ‘The Race is Over:’ Rep. Dade Phelan Says He Has the Votes to Become Texas House Speaker – he is a promoter of the homosexual lobby’s agenda and if he wins is another who owes election to the Democrat caucus – a fake Republican backed by many who claim to by “Christian Conservatives.” We are not the Left, the ends (a better speaker, etc.) do not justify the means. – Here is the pledge many of these folk signed to select a speaker free of Dem-influence only from within the Republican House Caucus
- Dade Phelan Declares Victory in Texas House Speaker Race
- Phelan secures votes to be Texas House speaker, more, more
- State Rep. Dade Phelan says he has votes to become speaker of Texas House
- Chair Huberty: Despite Phelan announcement, the speaker race is far from over
- Rep. Ashby withdraws from the speaker race and throws his support to Chair Geanie Morrison
- Rep. Ashby still in the hunt for speaker, says the GOP Caucus should have a chance to weigh in
- Is Texas on the verge of a pandemic-induced teacher shortage?
- Republicans prevail statewide and in key down-ballot races
- Republicans Keep Texas House
- Texas Republicans Keep State Legislature Ahead of Redistricting
- Democrats fall flat in effort to flip Texas House
- HD92: Republican Jeff Cason Wins in Texas House District Formerly Held by Rep. Stickland
- HD132: Republican Mike Schofield Returns to the Texas House, Defeating Rep. Gina Calanni
- HD134: Rep. Sarah Davis Loses to Ann Johnson in Only Seat Gain for Texas House Democrats – the fake Republican loses
- HD138: Republican Lacey Hull Poised to Win Battleground Race for Texas House
- Competitive races in Collin and Denton Counties could help determine control of Texas House
- Democrats fail to gain Texas House seats in Tarrant County.
- Texas Railroad Commission: Republican Jim Wright wins over Democrat Chrysta Castañeda
- Jim Wright wins Texas Railroad Commission race, extending decades of Republican dominance on the oil and gas regulating board
- Republicans maintain majority on Texas education board with three seats too close to call
- Republicans’ ‘Strong Ground Game’ Gave Them An Edge In Texas AUDIO
- Democrats Fail To Catch A ‘Blue Wave’ In Texas AUDIO
- Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas again fall short as Republicans dominate the state’s 2020 elections
- Democrats’ hopes of flipping Texas again fall short as Republicans dominate the state’s 2020 elections
- Texas voters still fly a red political flag
- Texas Republicans on track to win all congressional seats targeted by Democrats, more
- TX3: GOP’s Rep. Van Taylor wins reelection
- TX6: GOP’s freshman Ron Wright of Arlington wins reelection
- TX7: Freshman Democrat Lizzie Fletcher Wins Reelection to Houston’s Energy Corridor District
- TX10: GOP’s McCaul defeats Leftist challenger Siegel, more
- TX11: Pfluger: ‘Protecting oil and gas is the first order of business’ after win
- TX11: GOP’s Pfluger runs away with election
- TX13: GOP’s Ronny Jackson wins election to Congress in landslide
- TX15: Republican challenger alleges ‘massive election corruption’ after very narrow loss
- TX17: GOP’s Pete Sessions returns to Congress with win over Rick Kennedy, more
- TX19: U.S. Congressman Jodey Arrington reelected
- TX21: Chip Roy defeats pro-abortion Wendy Davis, more
- TX22: Sheriff Troy Nehls Captures Toss Up Houston-Area Congressional Seat for Republicans
- TX24: A squeaker with GOP’s Beth Van Duyne holding a slight lead
- TX24: A tight race between Beth Van Duyne and Candace Valenzuela
- TX25: Roger Williams wins reelection over Julie Oliver
- TX27: GOP’s Michael Cloud handily defeats Ricardo De La Fuente
- TX31: GOP’s John Carter defeats Donna Imam
- TX32: Colin Allred Wins Reelection, Defeating Republican Challenger Genevieve Collins
- TX35: Liberal Loyd Doggett wins yet another reelection
- GOP’s Cornyn Defeats Democratic Challenger MJ Hegar in Texas
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- Federal/DC related to Texas
- Republican Hold On Senate Seen As Plus For Drug Companies
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- Presidential race / national politics
- Biden inches closer to 270 electoral votes with Wisconsin win and the presidential election comes down to 7 critical states
- No matter who wins, Liberty is still under threat.
- Trump defeats Biden in Texas, dealing Democrats a demoralizing setback – I said 4 to 6 points would be the victory margin.
- President Donald Trump defeats Joe Biden in Texas
- Trump Campaign: If We Count All Legal Ballots, President Trump Wins
- Trump assembling all-star legal team to mount election challenges in close states
- Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf: ‘Still over 1 Million Ballots to Count’ – they, and others, will “count every vote” whether it is a legal vote or not.
- ‘The Steal Is On’ in Pennsylvania: Poll Watchers Denied Access, Illegal Campaigning at Polling Locations
- Claiming Lack of “Meaningful Access” to Ballot Counting Locations, Trump Campaign Sues to Halt MI Count
- Georgia Secretary of State Asks Counties to Get ‘All of Our Results Counted Today’: ‘Every Legal Vote Will Count’ – right. “Legal” votes count, only.
- AP: Biden wins Wisconsin, flipping Trump state from 2016
- Trump team says it’s suing to stop Pa. count
- Wagons, Suitcases, and Coolers Roll Into Detroit Voting Center at 4 AM VIDEO
- Trump outperforms the polls, and a divided nation awaits Rust Belt to settle election
- Politico: Biden looks screwed even if he wins
- Goldman: The Good News Is That Biden Is Screwed, Even if He Wins
- Oregon becomes first US state to decriminalize possession of hard drugs – amazing how people of all types continue to scoff a the slippery-slope argument
- Collins wins reelection in Maine, strongly increasing GOP’s chances of keeping Senate
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- Border / immigration
- RGV CBP agents seize more than $1.9 million worth of drugs
- Over Three Thousand Pounds of Meth Seized at Texas Border
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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 11/04/2020 (pdf) – 18,194* deaths & “active cases” of 108,522 (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
- El Paso reports more than 3,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, shattering previous record
- Official: El Paso hospitals near ‘breaking point’ from virus
- Staff quarantines cause Lubbock hospital to divert patients – staffing is the problem in most all of the hospital issues across Texas.
- Amarillo hospital capacity remains critical, causing shortage of available ambulances
- 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’
- In Europe, the use of masks leads to more COVID-19 cases
- The Most Masked European Countries Have the Biggest Coronavirus Surges
- 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
- Over 240 Texas Schools Sign up for COVID-19 Rapid Testing Program
- Is Texas on the verge of a pandemic-induced teacher shortage?
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- Business/Economy
- Does Southwest Airlines have hubs? Yes, but don’t call them that.
- Baker Hughes dips into carbon capture
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- Protest, rioting, looting & more
- Cops Stop Antifa from Setting Fire to Portland Residential Building VIDEO
- Portland chooses radical leftist mayor over Antifa challenger
- Post-election protests, demonstrations over counting votes planned for Houston region
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- Crime & general news of Texas
- Former Edinburg BP agent sentenced for cocaine distribution
- Elsa man charged with indecency with a child
- Amarillo police looking for person suspected of lighting fire at Super 8 Motel
- Gun theft, re-sale ring busted in Wichita Falls, more
- Man charged with indecency with a child in Odessa
- Martin County Sheriff’s Office seizes $77,000 in cash while executing warrant
- Wichita Falls ranks 10th for scams on seniors
- Wichita Co. DA files subpoena for James Staley’s girlfriend
- Mother booked into jail after leaving infant to ‘meet a guy’
- Montague Co. Sheriff’s Office, Texas Ranger investigate Forestburg death
- Ranger PD looking for man wanted for terroristic threats against police officers and families
- Midland man charged with sexually abusing an 8-year-old
- Lubbock PD continue searching for missing man as anniversary approaches
- Lubbock police investigating July assault of dollar store employee
- Semi truck hauling beans catches fire, causes traffic delays on Slaton Hwy.
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- Local government
- Help Find Misuse of Public Funds
- Despite spike in delinquent accounts, San Antonio WS won’t raise water rates in 2021
- Austin Proposition A election: $7.1B rail measure passes – comes with a massive property tax hike.
- McKinney voters remove city councilman La’Shadion Shemwell from office
- Indicted Williamson County Sheriff Robert Chody loses to challenger Mike Gleason
- Big Spring Fire Department accepting applications
- Voters split on Wichita Falls ISD school bond
- Callahan County elects new sheriff after controversy with previous candidates
- Frenship ISD bond, almost $300 million, approved by local voters
- A big vote of confidence in San Antonio and Bexar County for local leaders
- Sen. Hinojosa: It’s time to get the funding for a second SPI causeway
Pratt’s post for 11/4/2020
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