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		<title>Parrish is behind all of Lubbock Co. pay scandal &#124; Talarico has favorite Texas drag queen &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/15/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/15/parrish-is-behind-all-of-lubbock-co-pay-scandal-talarico-has-favorite-texas-drag-queen-pratt-on-texas-9-15-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The answer to how the Lubbock County phantom commissioner pay scandal came about is quite simple and it wears a bow tie everyday. The Bowtie Bully&#8217;s arrogance and political treachery that started, and has continued, all the mess is rooted in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bo French&#8217;s bigotry no worse than Big Media, race obsessed Dems like Talarico &#124; Lubbock Co. pay debacle &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/14/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, a Bo French social media post gives every anti-Republican ammunition to label conservatives and Republicans as racists and/or bigots. Bo French is condemnable as much for his political stupidity as he is for the apparent bigotry of his online [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Talarico: An amalgam of America’s worst woke fads</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/13/talarico-an-amalgam-of-americas-worst-woke-fads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who is James Talarico? Historian and pundit Victor Davis Hanson said about Democrat nominee James Talarico: &#8220;Talarico makes Beto [O’Rourke] look like a conservative.”  Little Jimmy “The Creep” Talarico, as he is known on Pratt on Texas and no doubt to non perverts who have followed his career, is emblematic of the current age: He’s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paxton gets TikTok for lying to parents &#124; Low IQ of many protesters &#124; Remembering 9/11 &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/11/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/11/paxton-gets-tiktok-for-lying-to-parents-low-iq-of-many-protesters-remembering-9-11-pratt-on-texas-9-11-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas featured a protester moment that shows how actually stupid, and I mean it, low-IQ stupid, so many are whom we see involved in protests, riots, etc. in this country. What type of moron do you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>GOP Convention review &#124; Local sales tax numbers &#124; Firms leave NYSE for Texas exchange &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/10/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas: Schedule and live stream. Today is the final day. I give a review of yesterday&#8217;s speeches and the press coverage of such. Also, Lubbock Co. Republican Party Chairman Ken Adams joins us from Dallas to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>GOP&#8217;s Dallas convention underway &#124; Local irresponsible tax hikes across Texas &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/9/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 21:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas: Schedule and live stream. It began today at 3 p.m. and runs through tomorrow night. President Trump is set to speak later tonight. On the Texas front, Abbott and others begin to tell voters just [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The depravity of Cornyn&#8217;s DC GOP crowd &#124; Talarico directly blasphemes Jesus Christ &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/8/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/08/the-depravity-of-cornyns-dc-gop-crowd-talarico-directly-blasphemes-jesus-christ-pratt-on-texas-9-8-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The old &#8220;establishment&#8221; non-conservatives of the Republican Party get the chastisement they deserve from Scott McKay at The American Spectator: John Cornyn Is Owed No Revenge at the Expense of His Own Party. An absolute MUST READ and kudos to Senator [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Turley echoes Pratt: Talarico shares communist revolution desire of Trotsky with DSA socialists &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/4/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/04/turley-echoes-pratt-talarico-shares-communist-revolution-desire-of-trotsky-with-dsa-socialists-pratt-on-texas-9-4-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today, Jonathan Turley posted a column that echoes my coverage yesterday: Talarico brings a touch of Trotsky to the Texas Senate race. I wrote and covered yesterday: Democratic Socialists are, in their own words, dedicated to establishing the USA as communist [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>James Talarico is an outright DSA sympathizing communist; his own words prove it &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/3/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/03/james-talarico-is-an-outright-dsa-sympathizing-communist-his-own-words-prove-it-pratt-on-texas-9-3-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:11:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democratic Socialists are, in their own words, dedicated to establishing the USA as communist state. DSA members and adherents are soldiers of the Cold War on the Soviet side, they are traitors to our country. More are noticing that James Talarico has long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Bob Zimmerman gives a full private sector space boom update – Pratt on Texas 9/2/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com (he really did write the Encyclopedia of Space) joins us for a space industry (and government space program) update. Robert Zimmerman Some the items we discuss are: Brownsville agrees to SpaceX deal, giving the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Disgraceful Abilene tax increase proposed &#124; Lubbock Co. judge &#038; auditor demand tax hike &#8211; Pratt on Texas 9/1/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/09/01/disgraceful-abilene-tax-increase-proposed-lubbock-co-judge-auditor-demand-tax-hike-pratt-on-texas-9-1-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The City of Abilene is awash in new money but still plans to hit residents with a property tax increase! Where is the morality, or ethics, in that? City of Abilene proposes property tax increase on residents What is the City of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is James Talarico &#124; Tx manufacturing booming &#124; Abbott on anti-Flock cam bandwagon &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/31/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 21:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Little Jimmy &#8220;The Creep&#8221; Talarico is an amalgam of most every confused social spasm of our nation’s unmoored youth and stuck-in-adolescence adult population since the years that brought the fully anti-American deconstructionist Obama movement to the forefront. Our Lone Star story of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Trump approval now low in Hispanic S Texas districts he won big &#124; Wildfire update &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/28/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/28/trump-approval-now-low-in-hispanic-s-texas-districts-he-won-big-wildfire-update-pratt-on-texas-8-28-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson was in Texas yesterday campaigning for Republican Congressional nominees and said that the Trump Agenda is on the ballot. But that may indeed be the problem with the redistricted seats where Trump won big two years ago, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Are &#8220;educational foundations&#8221; a cheat of the school finance system? &#124; Midland Co. Judge suspended &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/27/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/27/are-educational-foundations-a-cheat-of-the-school-finance-system-midland-co-judge-suspended-pratt-on-texas-8-27-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Are &#8220;educational foundations&#8221; for public school districts just another way to cheat the school finance system and the court order behind such? Some legislators have awakened to such in the case of relatively small Barbers Hill ISD in Mont Belvieu which has [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Paxton&#8217;s $1 billion+ settlement with Meta &#124; City spending growth outpaces population &#038; inflation greatly &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/26/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Good news for Taylor and Ector County taxpayers &#8211; your county officials are not raising your property taxes this next year. Overall, going on 20-years, taxpayers in Texas have been getting a raw deal from local governments, especially municipalities as city council [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>New Tx polling &#124; Abbott fights Minnesota &#124; Wildfires rage &#124; Appraisal review boards &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/25/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/25/new-tx-polling-abbott-fights-minnesota-wildfires-rage-appraisal-review-boards-pratt-on-texas-8-25-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New statewide polling is out from UT/Texas Politics Project showing Republicans leading in all but the U.S. Senate race in August. U.S. House Speaker Johnson is in Texas this week stumping for Hispanic Republicans in key Congressional seats. Our Lone Star story [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Texas Democrat imbecilic nonsense &#124; Dem judges: We can&#8217;t even deport violent convicts &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/24/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/24/texas-democrat-imbecilic-nonsense-dem-judges-we-cant-even-deport-violent-convicts-pratt-on-texas-8-24-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County Democrat Party leadership attacks Lubbock Young Republicans claiming a term it used online is &#8220;racist.&#8221; No amount of stretching language to fit a preconception allows me to see how &#8220;vote hard R this November&#8221; is racist or even objectionable to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Talarico claims &#8220;God is not a Christian&#8221; &#124; Scurry Co. skullduggery &#124; Tx employment &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/21/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/21/talarico-claims-god-is-not-a-christian-scurry-co-skullduggery-tx-employment-pratt-on-texas-8-21-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 21:18:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: &#8220;God is not a Christian!&#8221; proclaimed Little Jimmy &#8220;The Creep&#8221; Talarico in a sermon delivered to his apostasy-riddled church in Austin. Not only was he overtly leftwing political in the sermon, he was repeatedly heretical event to the point of saying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Pratt for more gov&#8217;t spending? &#124; Status of U.S. Senate race &#124; Midland Co. judge indicted &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/20/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/20/pratt-for-more-govt-spending-status-of-u-s-senate-race-midland-co-judge-indicted-pratt-on-texas-8-20-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cook Political Report moves the Texas U.S. Senate race to &#8220;toss-up.&#8221; Before you panic, you need to be aware of several things that I will explain. Cook Political Report shifts Iowa, Texas races to toss-ups Talarico dominates Texas airwaves while [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Gov. &#038; Lt. Gov. propose public school policy &#124; Texas Dems are still fully open borders &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/19/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Filthy book, possible wasteful spending, and hiring foreign worker to teach Texas school children &#8211; both the Governor and Lieutenant Governor push policies to shape up Texas public schools: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick proposes penalties for schools that keep “vulgar” books on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Exposure to religion is not &#8220;establishment&#8221; or advocacy for such &#124; Starting Texas schools in September &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/18/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The ACLU and other anti-religion groups have asked the Supreme Court to overturn the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and declare that Texas cannot post the Ten Commandments in school classrooms. Maybe we should accept their argument that exposure is equal to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>110+ more Texas cities warned against raising taxes by AG Paxton &#124; Emerson Polling &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/17/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Attorney General Paxton notifies 110 more Texas municipalities that their officials may not raise property taxes this year because they are not in compliance with Senate Bill 1851. This is in addition to 130+ cities notified in May. Our Lone Star [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Dr. Steven Balch on “academic freedom” &#038; is such truly under threat in Texas? – Repeat from 5/6/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:50:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: REPEAT from 6 May 2026. Our Lone Star story of the day: Steven Balch, Ph.D. may be America’s original D.E.I. on campus fighter!  Today we talk about this term “academic freedom” that so many on campus are throwing about, claiming such is under attack by new laws in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Big court win for ballot security &#124; Paxton &#038; Talarico campaign news &#124; Data center news &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/13/2026</title>
		<link>https://prattontexas.com/2026/08/13/big-court-win-for-ballot-security-paxton-talarico-campaign-news-data-center-news-pratt-on-texas-8-13-2026/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: &#8220;Judges give Americans a pair of Election Integrity wins&#8221; or, &#8220;Election integrity law that sent Texas Democrats fleeing wins again in court.&#8221; Also note in the Minnesota case the Democrat opposed verifying signatures of ballots handled by third parties &#8211; how [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sales tax numbers suggest few cities need property tax hikes &#124; Abbott &#038; felonious teachers &#8211; Pratt on Texas 8/12/2026</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: At Lubbock press event, Governor Abbott goes severely punitive over teachers who illegally have inappropriate relationships with students. On the surface his suggestions sound good but when you look closer it is clear that the legislature will have to deal with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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