Rep. Ken King trying to protect get-high THC from full ban | Paxton will challenge Cornyn | Tariff change – Pratt on Texas 4/9/2025

The news of Texas covered today includes:

Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas House and Rep. Ken King, RINO from Canadian, are trying to gut the Senate’s much needed full ban on THC (the part of marijuana that gets you high) to protect the liquor lobby and ban everything else but keep THC-infused beverages. It’s almost, well not in the case of Ken King, unbelievable!

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton

Ken Paxton makes it official that he will challenge John Cornyn for U.S. Senate in the 2026 Texas Republican Primary. Cornyn immediately engages in the Democrat tactic of projection by calling Paxton “a fraud” while himself engaging in an image makeover of being pro-Trump. The Turtle would be proud of his former right-hand man.

Bill to keep primaries in the spring but move most local elections to November passes the Texas Senate.

Local city sales tax receipts lower this April than April of 2025. Look up your city here.

Judges to Bar US From Using Alien Enemies Act to Deport Some Venezuelans Held in Texas and New York – more of the same and the Texas judge is a Trump appointee.

President Trump adjusts his tariff regime – for now. Punishes communist China even more.

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