The Lone Star Conservative
Join Michael Wilson as The Lone Star Conservative every morning from 6am - 8am on Patriot Talk 920 AM in Houston, TX. Michael will bring you the latest political news from the Greater Houston Area and around the country while providing commentary from a Christian conservative perspective.
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Episodes
103 episodes
Fort Worth Preachers Confront Police Over First Amendment Rights
A Fort Worth officer allegedly suggests a Christian preacher’s message could be illegal because people feel offended, and that’s where the real test begins. We walk through what the First Amendment actually protects, why “offensive speech” is n...
Texas Ends Tuition Breaks For Illegal Aliens
Texas finally ends in-state tuition perks for illegal aliens, but the part that sticks in our throat is how it happened: not through bold state lawmaking, but through a federal court fight that Texas effectively chose not to fight. We walk thro...
Houston ICE Shooting Fallout And The Fight For Transparency
A federal ICE shooting sparks a predictable rush to hot takes but the details that matter live in one word: jurisdiction. We start in Houston, where we unpack Mayor John Whitmire’s response, why HPD is not the investigating agency, and what “tr...
ICE Shooting In Houston
A breaking news story out of Houston turns into a national argument in real time and we slow it down long enough to ask the only question that matters: what actually happened. We walk through ICE’s account of a targeted enforcement operation in...
Data Centers And Water Rights In Rural Texas
A town doesn’t have to be famous to become a test case for the whole state. We start with the Texarkana-area backlash to a proposed 500-acre data center and the concerns you keep hearing in rural Texas: water consumption, constant industrial no...
Border Smuggling Profits And The Case For A Total Immigration Moratorium
Fireworks are easy. Keeping a country is hard. After a Fourth of July weekend, we lay out a blunt idea: America doesn’t stay free because it’s “a pretty cool country,” it stays free when citizens know what they believe, show up prepared, and fi...
How The Founding Fathers Built A Nation Of Virtue
The Fourth of July gets reduced to fireworks, burgers, and noise, but I want to treat it like what it is: a public act of separation rooted in claims about God, rights, judgment, and providence. We walk through why July 4th matters, what the De...
Birthright Citizenship Is Hollowing Out American Identity
A single oath can reveal a whole system. We start with a simple question that turns into a bigger one: if regular taxpayers get hammered for missing paperwork, why do powerful officials keep finding “technicalities” when the heat is on? That le...
Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Ruling And The Texas Response
The Supreme Court just handed down a birthright citizenship ruling that, in our view, changes the stakes of the immigration debate overnight. We start by unpacking why the Court struck down President Trump’s executive order and why the phrase “...
How The Texas Supreme Court Froze Harris County’s Immigrant Legal Fund
Harris County tried to send $1.3 million in taxpayer money to groups supporting people in deportation proceedings, and the Texas Supreme Court just slammed the brakes on it. We walk through what the court actually ordered, why the Texas Constit...
Why Texas Schools Are Fighting Over History
Patriotism gets reduced to slogans fast, but we are not interested in bumper-sticker love of country. We start with a blunt question: if you fly the flag but reject the nation’s history, its founding ideas, and the idea of a shared national ide...
Fort Bend County’s Power Struggle Shows Why Procedure Matters
A $2 billion school budget that still bakes in a deficit is a flashing warning light, not a rounding error. We start with the Texas education finance squeeze, looking at HISD’s projected shortfall, Cy-Fair ISD’s $80.9 million gap, and the famil...
How Faith Language Gets Weaponized In Texas Politics
A single sentence can go viral, but it can also hide the real story. We dig into the resurfaced James Talarico podcast clip where he calls himself “a Christian who hates Christianity,” then pull it apart the way voters should: what he means, ho...
How Texas Conservatives Argue Abortion Penalties And IVF Policy
A single headline can steer an entire public debate, and today we slow down long enough to ask what’s actually being claimed and what must follow if the claim is true. We take on the Houston Chronicle framing of the Texas GOP platform, especial...
Constitution Limits, Free Speech, And A Viral HEB Clash
A viral grocery store confrontation turns into a career ending pile-on, and it raises a question most people dodge: do we still believe in free speech when the crowd demands someone be fired, doxxed, and shamed into silence? We start by challen...
Fort Worth ISD Principal Lawsuit And What It Means For Parents
A public school principal gets promoted, screenshots hit the internet, and suddenly Fort Worth ISD is facing a federal civil rights lawsuit. We walk through what happened, why the district reassigned the principal, and the bigger question that ...
From Ken Paxton’s WPATH Lawsuit To Harris County Flood Control Chaos
A million dollars in cocaine gets seized at the border and the first feeling is relief. We get why, but we also ask the uncomfortable follow-up: if nearly 74 pounds is caught in two stops, what’s slipping through the cracks, and what does that ...
Texas Can Fix Crises When It Tells The Truth
The fastest way to lose your grip on reality is to let headlines do your thinking for you. We start by calling out how clickbait media and “outrage wording” shape your emotions even when you swear you’re staying objective, then we bring that sa...
How Austin Spending, Car Kill Switches, And Schools Collide
Your city says it needs more money. Your state agency says it’s “encouraged.” Washington says it’s doing this for your safety. We slow down and ask the only question that matters: are the people in charge earning the trust they demand?W...
Who Benefits When Texas “Wins”
Texas is piling up wins on the scoreboard: companies relocating, jobs being announced, GDP projections climbing. But we don’t let a booming headline do our thinking for us. We ask the question underneath the celebration: who is that growth actu...
Identity Politics And Why Accountability Still Matters
Loyalty feels good until it starts excusing the very thing we claim to oppose. We take a hard look at identity politics on the right and the left, and why treating politicians like untouchable symbols makes accountability impossible and bad pol...
Texas GOP Convention Day 2
Live from the Texas GOP State Convention at the George R. Brown Convention Center, we sit down with voices shaping the legal and political fights Texans argue about every day, and we keep the focus on what actually happens when theory mee...
Texas GOP Convention Day 1
Texas politics looks very different when you’re standing on the floor of the State Republican Convention with thousands of delegates, real arguments, and real stakes. We’re live from Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center talking to candid...
Inside The Texas GOP Convention And The Grassroots Push To Win November
Unity gets preached a lot at political conventions, but we’re not interested in unity as a slogan. Broadcasting from the Republican Party of Texas convention in Houston, we talk about what we’re seeing on the floor, what Texas leaders are calli...
Why Texas Says Data Centers Must Pay Their Own Grid Costs
HISD test scores are climbing after the Texas Education Agency takeover, and that’s real news. But we don’t let a headline number become a victory lap. We talk through what’s actually changed under Superintendent Mike Miles, why “better but not...