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
167 episodes
Houston Conservative News From GOP Infighting To ICE Investigations
Early voting is days away, and that’s when excuses, confusion, and half-finished ballots start deciding Texas elections. We make the case for a simple approach that wins close races: vote early, vote the whole ballot, and stop treating judicial...
Houston’s $88 Million Budget Wake-Up Call
Houston’s finances are telling the truth even when politicians will not. We start with the national debt clock screaming past $40 trillion and bring it straight home to the affordability crisis Texans feel every month: inflation, shrinking buyi...
Flock Cameras, School Reform, And The Price Of Tribal Thinking
The fastest way to lose your grip on reality is to assume everyone you disagree with is evil and everyone you like is automatically right. We open with a media fight over Houston ISD and the Houston Chronicle, but the real target is bigger: the...
How Critical Thinking Shapes Faith, Voting, And Culture In Texas
A bad sunburn from a buzz cut turns into a surprisingly serious question: how often do we ignore good advice, then act shocked by the consequences? We start there and build toward something bigger, using Texas politics as the test case for wisd...
Texas Culture Fights Back On Campus And Beyond
A university can say “we didn’t fund it” and still quietly push the culture in a direction that shocks parents, alumni, and students. We start with Texas A&M Galveston promoting a drag show through a campus newsletter and ask the uncomforta...
Conservatives Need Real Solutions For Working People
Politics doesn’t just drain your time, it can drain your hope, and we start by calling that out directly. I talk through the “black pilling” mindset I’m hearing from friends and young activists who feel like working harder never changes outcome...
Border Policy, Crime, And The Cost Of Weak Enforcement
A suicide bombing threat in Texas. A gold bar scam that drains seniors’ life savings. Cartels allegedly hiding drugs inside livestock. And cities quietly building camera networks that can track you without a warrant. That sounds like four diffe...
Trump Authorizes A Military Firing Squad And Texas Fights Over Schools And Safety
A single headline kicks the door open: President Donald Trump authorizes a military execution by firing squad for the 2009 Fort Hood mass shooter. From there, we follow the story into uncomfortable territory, because the real question is bigger...
Why Houston Walked Away From Federal Money
Houston nearly chased down a $150 million federal DOJ grant, then slammed the brakes. We walk through what happened, why Mayor John Whitmire’s team says staff “prematurely submitted” the application, and how Houston City Council’s ICE politics ...
Why A Texas University Paid For International Enrollment
A Texas public university paying thousands per head to “recruit” international students sounds like a niche paperwork story, until you ask the obvious question: who gets pushed to the side when schools chase enrollment like a sales quota? We st...
Ken Paxton’s ABA Probe Shows Why Competition Needs Rules
A lot of political talk stays at the level of slogans, but real power shows up in the institutions that decide who gets to participate. We start the morning with the Paxton-Talarico race climate and the way influencers and ads can reshape what ...
Houston Corruption Cases And A Hard Look At Punishment That Pays Victims Back
A city official steals money meant for affordable housing, a tax preparer plays games with payroll taxes, and the public ends up footing the bill twice. We dig into two Houston-area fraud cases and ask the question most headlines dodge: what do...
ATF Signals A Second Amendment Reset Plus Texas Politics And Crime
Something strange happened in the gun rights world: top ATF leadership sat down at a pro-gun conference and talked like they’d actually read the Second Amendment. I’m joined by Emily Taylor from Armed Attorneys to break down what was said, what...
The Fifth Circuit Says Gun Rights Cross State Lines
A quiet per diem change can be more than a budget tweak. When the Texas Ethics Commission floated a proposed per diem increase with little notice, the backlash wasn’t just about money, it was about how fast transparency disappears when rules sh...
Why Texas Wants To Raise Per Diem And What It Hides
Secret dinners, school threats, pesticide disclosure, and hacked surveillance cameras all have one thing in common: they thrive when the public cannot see what is happening. We start with a Texas Ethics Commission proposal that would raise the ...
Abbott Halts Data Center Permits As Surveillance Tech Spreads
Data centers are multiplying across Texas, and the bill doesn’t always land where politicians promise. We walk through Governor Greg Abbott’s order to halt data center permits during a state audit, why ERCOT and Texas water reporting matter, an...
How Harris County Raised Taxes And Shifted Blame
Your taxes go up, your power bill goes up, and somehow the people in charge always have a new excuse. We start with Harris County’s $3.1 billion budget and the property tax rate decision that pushes the average homeowner close to $200 higher th...
The Cartel, The Ballot, And The 25 Dollar Class
A neuroscientist spends years studying peak performance and sleep, then admits his most reliable answer for those brutal 4 a.m. wakeups is prayer. We start there because it points to the bigger question running through the whole morning: what a...
What Texas Is Doing About Non Citizen Voting
117 potential non citizen voting cases sent to the Texas Attorney General is not a talking point, it’s a real number with real consequences, and it kicks off a bigger question: what does election integrity in Texas actually require when people ...
Texas 2A Tuesday Rundown
TikTok promised parents one thing and a Texas judge said the platform delivered another. That ruling kicks off a bigger theme we keep circling all hour: standards do not protect people unless someone enforces them, whether that’s a school syste...
Surrogacy Court Fight, Immigration Fraud, And A Texas Redistricting Ruling
A baby with a fragile heart, a courtroom clock ticking toward hospice, and a surrogate mom who refuses to be coerced into an abortion set the tone for a packed hour of Texas talk. We walk through the fight over baby Gabriel, why the medical det...
Remembering 9/11 And The Lessons We Missed
The stories we tell ourselves after tragedy shape everything that comes next. On this show, I look back at 9/11 with a simple focus: not internet rabbit holes, but the moral reality of evil and the question of what America should have learned. ...
What Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Reveals About Politics And Faith
One year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we’re forced to ask a brutal question: did the country learn anything, or did we just move on. I talk through what I remember from that day, why political violence is never “just politics,” and why C...
How A Harris County Debate Fell Apart And What It Reveals About Trust
A five-minute livestream becomes a full-blown credibility test when the after-the-fact explanations don’t include the one detail everyone watched. We walk through the competing statements from the Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez camps, then...
A Botched Virtual Debate Raises Big Questions
A virtual “debate” that collapses in minutes can still tell you a lot about leadership and integrity. We walk through the Harris County Judge online faceoff between Letitia Plummer and Orlando Sanchez, what viewers could plainly see, and why th...