Preventable Crime, Bar Permits, And Foreign Land Bans

A traffic stop turns into a violent collision with a federal marshal and it raises a brutal question: how many crimes are “random,” and how many are the direct result of policies that never should’ve allowed the situation in the first place? We start with the May runoff elections coming fast in Texas, then jump into a North Texas case involving an illegal immigrant charged with assaulting a federal officer. From there, we dig into the idea of preventable crime, border security, and what real accountability should look like when government fails its most basic duty: protecting citizens.

Next, we stay local in Houston with a story that hit a nerve for small business owners. The city shuts down the Northside spot Rabbits Got The Gun during a free crawfish giveaway over permits and food service rules. We talk through why permits and inspectors exist, but also why selective enforcement can feel backwards when larger nightlife problems keep causing real harm. Then we zoom out to Austin as Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick releases interim charges for the Texas Senate ahead of 2027, including the power grid, data center growth, election security, education outcomes, and the growing push to put AI into classrooms.

We also bring in Justin White from Senior Health Services for Medicare Monday to clear up one of the biggest Medicare myths out there: long-term custodial care is not covered the way most people assume. Finally, we break down the “No Kings” protests, what the word “king” actually means in a constitutional republic, and how power gets used and abused across modern politics. We close with Ken Paxton’s rules on hostile foreign land ownership and a House measure aimed at protecting American property abroad.

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Welcome And May Runoff Stakes

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From deep in the heart of Texas, it's Houston's God loving Patriot and the voice of reason. This is the Lone Star Conservative, Michael Wilson.

Preventable Crime And Border Responsibility

Assault On A Federal Marshal

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. And I want to kick off the show by letting you guys know we've made it to another week, and this is, of course, the last week of March. Not really even. I think last week was technically called the last week of March, because this week you got like two days today and tomorrow, and that's it. And then we're on to another month. That is the month of April. And then comes May. And the reason I bring that up is to say that in May we're going to have quite a few different runoff elections. So you know, it may seem like it's far off, right? But less than two months, and we'll be having runoffs for, of course, the Senate race and a whole variety of others. If you're here in Harris County, we're going to have Harris County Judge runoff. And so I think it's probably time to say that we should start really looking into those elections. If we haven't already, right? For those of us who maybe uh have not started digging into those or who just kind of assumed they knew who they were voting for, because, you know, but if your person that you voted for got knocked out in the primary and is not part of the runoff, then you you might need to think like, is this other person who you want to vote for? Who's the better candidate of the two of them? Maybe neither of them is really who you'd like to see, but you know, those are your options. And so you kind of go with the option that's actually realistic in front of you. And so that being less than two months away means we really need to start diving in and thinking about who we want to represent, the Republican side of the aisle, come the general election in November. We need to be prepared for that. We also have to remember that whoever wins the Republican nomination has to go and fight Democrats. Right. And that's not to say, you know, I know there's a lot of campaigns that are focused on, well, that guy probably can't beat the Democrats if you elect him. I think almost anybody, if they're willing to put in the work and the campaign time, can probably beat the Democrats. I don't think there's anybody really that has too much baggage. I mean, I guess there are probably like hypotheticals where somebody has too much baggage. But I don't think any of the people that are currently either running or in a runoff are one of those people. And so I think I think we have solid shots of beating the Democrats no matter who we put in. And so now it's just kind of paying attention to what they're continuing to do, what they're campaigning on. Of course, in the Senate race, there's all the mess and the drama regarding the Save Act and President Trump's potential, you know, endorsement in that race. And so we'll see. We'll see where that goes. We'll find out. But in the meantime, we have a lot of news to get into. I just wanted to highlight we're less than two months away from that runoff, so start paying attention. In the meantime, I want to kick off the show this morning by talking about an illegal alien who was charged up in North Texas for assaulting a federal officer. And I want to paint uh a very important picture because this, this, we've talked about this a little bit before, but over and over and over again, right, you you get into these situations where things are what I like to call 100% preventable. And I'm not talking about a minority report kind of situation where, you know, there's some sort of AI that's scanning you and you're always being watched by big brother as an American, and they prevent every crime that could possibly happen. No violent crime anymore. Not what I'm talking about. But there are crimes that are preventable. I'll give you a great example of this, other than what we're gonna be talking about here in this story. I'll give you a crime that is 100% preventable. If someone commits murder, obviously we can't know they're gonna do that. Obviously, we can't arrest them for doing it before they've done it, unless they've already tried and failed, and then it's a different charge. But if they do it, and then we arrest them, we put them through trial, and they're found guilty. Okay, so they've they've committed murder. Any crime they ever commit after that point is preventable. Because in order for them to go out and commit another crime, it would obviously require that we, you know, let them back out again, which we should never do. And so obviously, there are these sorts of crimes that are 100% preventable. They shouldn't be happening. It it it should be stopped by the very nature of the way the government's supposed to operate. Right? This isn't even something that should be controversial and and is radical. These are very straightforward principles. People who've committed murder shouldn't be let back on the streets ever again. Whether that's because you believe in life in prison, or like me, you think they deserve capital punishment, the death penalty, execution, they should never have the opportunity to go out and commit another crime. I guess I shouldn't have said 100%. 99.99999% preventable for the random odd chance they manage a random prison break, you know. But these sorts of crimes could be stopped. And so obviously all crime is bad, but a crime that our government had the full capability to prevent and should have prevented is the kind of crime that kind of drives you towards radicalism, kind of drives you to say, what's going on with our government? Obviously, you know, there are there are crimes like the something happens, you can't really blame the government for that crime happening. That's personal responsibility. But there are some crimes where the government did not do their job, right? Whether that is going after the murder and saying, hey, we're gonna give you either life in prison or capital punishment, hey, you're not gonna be allowed to go commit crimes again. Whether it's that or it's not securing our border, right? These are two sides of the same coin that show an unwillingness from our government to follow not only the will of the people, uh, but to actually benefit Americans. To actually say, hey, you know what? The American is gonna be radical. The American government's number one goal is to protect the American people. Fiscally, economically, from a justice perspective, whatever that looks like, that's the g that's the job. That's the role of government. And so when you come in and you hear these sorts of stories about people that shouldn't have even been allowed into the country in the first place, who are then committing further crimes, we're left to sort of wonder, you know, when you take a crime that's preventable, that we directly allowed to happen, by nature of, and I'm not, you know, blaming the current administration. I understand all the arguments surrounding deportations and infrastructure. I get it. It's impossible to deport every single illegal alien in a 12-month period. I'm well aware of that. Unfortunately, that is the truth. I get it. At the same time, right, it is it has been the American government. It has been our government that's done this. Whether that was the Trump administration or not, doesn't change the fact that it's happened. They're here. And our government is the reason that these people are here. And, you know, it kind of has to it. This is why it I think it bugs us so deeply uh when you look at college newspapers that you'll have uh someone get murdered by an illegal alien, and then the newspaper will apologize to the illegal alien for calling him an illegal alien. And we have to sit there and think, well, first of all, he is. Obviously, this guy is an illegal alien, but he shouldn't you know why we call them illegal aliens? Because they shouldn't be here. They're aliens in a foreign land that they're that they're residing in illegally. It's a pretty succinct term. There's a reason we use it. And so the American government has already kind of thrown its own people by the wayside when we let these people in in the first place. And then they go on, as of course they do, to commit crime, on top of, of course, the crime of being here. And it is one crime like that is too many. Because every single one was preventable. But let's talk about this guy up in North Texas. So an illegal alien has now been charged uh with assaulting a federal officer, according to the federal complaint filed against uh Sennel Galeano Sagastumi. You could you couldn't have predicted this guy wasn't an American. Uh, he's a Guatemalan citizen illegally residing here in the U.S. The incident occurred after he was pulled over during a traffic stop, initiated, of course, by law enforcement. After having him pull off to the side of the road in his truck, officers asked him and his passenger to roll down their windows. When they refused to roll down their windows, of course, officers breached the truck windows. At this point, he allegedly put the truck in drive and accelerated toward a U.S. marshal, wedging him between a law enforcement vehicle and the truck, right? Hitting him and kind of putting him in between the vehicle and the truck. And so he uh apparently and obviously this gave massive injuries to the federal officer that got the the marshal that got hit by this guy driving. He then fled the scene uh to an apartment complex and hid in an apartment. He was arrested following about an hour-long standoff. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas reports that this guy remains in federal custody pending further court proceedings. If convicted for the charge of forcibly assaulting a federal officer and inflicting bodily injury, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison. Uh of course, the case is investigated by the FBI up in Dallas and the U.S. Marshal's office. But again, first of all, this this certainly could have killed somebody. I mean, that's the that's the first thing I just want to acknowledge that yes, this guy did sustain bodily injury. That's bad, but praise be to God, this guy is not dead. I'm sure there are plenty of of case examples where somebody is dead after being, you know, wedged between an accelerating vehicle and another vehicle. If I if you're standing by a car and I hit you with my truck and push you into that vehicle, I think a lot of people are going to guess that's that's not a largely survivable thing. Usually there's going to be some pretty, pretty terrible outcomes related to that. And so praise be to God that this guy is still alive, that it is just injury, right? Otherwise, it would have been obviously different charges for the illegal alien anyway. Um but again, this also gets into why I think prisons are so such a terrible idea. And that's again, I've said this before, I'll say it again. Not a left-wing perspective, it is a very far right wing perspective. Why in the world am I about to pay? Why, why am I about to pay$700,000 to house this guy for the next 20 years? Why, why is that coming out of my paycheck? Right? Because that's what prison is. Now, if we had prison set up in such a way that they were forced to work, essentially, like I I know that the term internment camp is looked down upon by nature of the term. It's got like this sort of badness attached to it. But if we had some sort of labor camp, right, we had some sort of place that these people would live and they would also work jobs, right, here in the country, then maybe there could be an argument for some sort of prison where they're paying their own way, right? That that that they go and they work these jobs and the money goes back to their own housing, right? They make$33,000 a year, which just so happens to be the cost of the residence of a single inmate in a Texas prison. That's that's fair. I'm willing to do that, but the taxpayer should not be on the hook to house illegal aliens who from all intents and purposes, by the way, I think tried to kill this guy. I think that's certainly what it looks like to me. And that's not a legal claim. That's I'm not saying allegedly, I'm saying just looking at what happened. It certainly seems like the intent was to kill this guy. I don't know how else you justify hitting someone with your truck and pushing them into a into another car. I don't think you know, no, I'm just trying to cause a little bit of injury, just a little damage. No, it's not usually usually when you're using your vehicle as a deadly weapon, that's kind of a sign. That's that's kind of a general direction that tells us the kind of person that you are what you're trying to do. So I don't want to pay a dime to house this guy. In fact, I I would be more than content, I think, in this case, again, with execution. I know that I throw that around a lot. People say, Michael, you just want to kill everybody. No, no. But I also think that as a country, we've been very soft and very lenient. And I think it would be totally fair to say this guy broke into our country. It certainly looks like he tried to kill a federal officer. That's attempted murder, which I pfft there's no reason that can't carry the same charges as murder. You you did your darndest to kill somebody, you just failed at it. You get you get a lighter sentence because you didn't do a good enough job at killing someone, I think is crazy. And so I would be more than happy uh with with capital punishment for a crime like this one, and to say, hey, you know what? We've been far too soft on our criminals, especially not even our criminals, other people's criminals that we let come into our country. This should be Guatemala's criminal. How about they deal with him instead? And that's why it kind of irks me when I'm now gonna pay tens of thousands of dollars per year, if this guy gets convicted, of course, and and sentenced, to house this guy here in the U.S. I I don't like that outcome. Of course, he has to face some sort of justice beyond mere deportation, because again, he injured a federal officer, and you can't just deport somebody for that. I think there needs to be further punishment. But I don't think that keeping him in our country is the right punishment. I don't think it is. Especially not when we're having to pay for it. I think it's just crazy. Nevertheless, that's that's kind of the update on where we're at with that story. This has been kind of coming out. I've been wanting to talk about it for a couple days as I've been looking at this story, but this is consistently happening, by the way. This is not a one-off. I know the left would like you to believe that it is, that this is not happening very often, that statistic statistically, you know, illegal aliens are not committing a lot of crimes. Yes, they are. And I don't know what statistics you're looking at. The statistics I'm looking at is that a single crime committed by an illegal alien is one too many. It's not the same as an American citizen committing crimes. You can't compare the statistics because when an American commits a crime, there was no real way, usually, to prevent it. When an illegal alien, and this is why I kicked it off talking about this, when an illegal alien commits a crime, it was preventable by nature of the fact that they shouldn't have been here to commit it. And so, in statistics, if you want to look at it, when an American commits a crime, regardless of the crime rate, right, there is a level of understanding, and we can dive into demographics and breakdowns and things that drive drivers of crime and all those sorts of things. But when an American citizen commits a crime, we all kind of largely understand that's that's terrible and they need to face justice. When an illegal alien commits a crime, same thing, it's terrible, they need to face justice, and we can't attack on to the end, and they shouldn't have been here to do that in the first place. And goodness gracious, how our government has prioritized everything but their but their job in the pursuit of destruction of their own nation. And that's certainly what it looks like. And I've had plenty of days where I've looked at the left, I've looked at the Democrat Party, I've looked at all their policies from from open borders, immigration in general, foreign policy, fiscal policy, and sometimes there have been plenty of days where I've said it almost seems like they want America to fall. And then there are other days where I say they they certainly, they they definitely want America to fall. I think it's pretty obvious. And this is the way you do it. Because every single one of the crimes like this one, ones that didn't end just in the hospital, but did end with people who were killed, murdered by illegal aliens, every single one of them could have been stopped if our government had just done their job from the outset. If we'd have just understood, hey, you know what actually part of the job is to protect your own citizens from foreign invasion, from those who would come in and harm them. And you didn't do that. That's like you're basically that's your number one job is the federal government. That that is basically the the federal government has a lot of limited power, or they're supposed to. In the founders' envisionment of the U.S., the the the federal government was supposed to be very limited in what they were able to do. And somehow, one of the very major jobs that they were actually allowed to do, that is, of course, protecting the border, stopping foreign invasion, they're not, they haven't been doing it for a long time. And that's why I keep saying, you know, whatever all the judges say and all the left says about approval ratings, Donald Trump won in 2024 largely on this point alone. Right? There are other things that came up during the debate, you know, abortion and all this sort of stuff. But Donald Trump won handily in 2024, largely because of questions surrounding immigration. That's that was the number one voting issue for most people. That's very obvious. And and this story right here is a very good case example as to why. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over because Houston has now shut down uh this popular Northside bar called Rabbits Got the Gun. Um, and we're getting updates as to kind of what happened. Apparently they had free crawfish, which I didn't know about. I'd have been there if I'd have known. Uh, but apparently it was ordered closed by the city of Houston. And this is not one of those cases where it seems like it was shut down by nature of being one of those after hours bars, which we've talked about before, and we have issues with those, of course, here in Houston as well. Uh, but we'll have more about the details of why they were closed down, what that sort of looks like, coming back, all those sorts of questions. If you would like to text into the show, and by the way, our text in lines stay open throughout the course of the show. It's not just on breaks. If you want to text during a segment, you can do that. And you can do that if you have a disagreement, if you've got questions. This is something I'm reporting on. If you have a story that you've heard that you want me to do more reporting on, text in any reason, 713-779-5978. That is 713-779 KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and I'll be right back with the update on that bar after the break.

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Permits And City Enforcement Priorities

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. This is your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texalent AC Service. You know, we've all got something that kind of cracks us up about the world, about people. We've all got something that you just it yeah, it happens and it makes you laugh. It makes you it makes it's kind of funny. For me, that thing is that m most people, almost all people, I guess this is it really is all people, but I hate doing the all thing because there's always somebody who's like, oh well, actually, babies die. It's like, okay, you know what I was taught. Almost all people, especially specifically people who enjoy learning, who who learn new things. I know there's a lot of people that get stuck, uh, unfortunately, and not learning new things, or not desiring to at least. But for those of us who enjoy learning new things, uh for me, of course, that relates often to politics. I'm also a big movie guy. The funny thing that happens is when you you meet a lot of people, myself included, who have done a lot of research into one particular field or area, and then in another field, they are just, they have no idea. It's not like you almost need to be a jack of all trades when you research. Otherwise, you seem like really, really smart when you talk about some things, and then you have like childlike knowledge of others. I was thinking about this because I took a dr a sip of my energy drink. I was thinking, how do they make the flavors? Because this says orange on it. And it gives me vibes of what an orange gives, but it certainly doesn't taste like an orange. So how do they actually it says natural flavoring? We all know it's not when they say that it's not natural, it's supposed to taste natural. That's the main difference. It's not always made using it natural, actual, natural things. But I wonder, what does that actually look like? Can I go and see in one of these labs and see how they like produ what do they do? What do they put in there to make orange taste? I don't know. I've I have literally no idea. I can tell you so much about Houston and Texas politics, what's going on at our federal level. I could even debate, you know, nationalism and Christianity and our history. I could not tell you how they make something taste like orange, but not an orange. I don't know how they I don't know how they do it. I have no idea. But I just I was drinking that on the break and I it cracked me up and I wanted to tell everybody about it. Anyways, what you're really here for, which is this update on local stories, particularly uh apparently this Northside Bar, uh Rabbits Got the Gun, crazy name for a bar, by the way, has uh apparently offered free crawfish. Uh, it was closed down over the weekend by the city of Houston as it was preparing for another giveaway. Promoted throughout this entire month, the month of March, uh, the seasonal crawfish giveaways began a couple years ago in 2024, when brothers and owners Nathan Aguirre and Ian Ramirez turned an accidental surplus of of crawfish from their own boil into something to share with customers. Uh, but as they geared up for another giveaway this past weekend, uh, health inspectors and police officers arrived. In an Instagram video, he said, We just got closed down by the city of Houston. He said we pay about$14,000 a month in taxes, which by the way is insane. He said, Guys, we're not mad at them. They're doing their job, but we will take the party elsewhere this weekend. Stay tuned for details, and we will continue free crawfish, God willing. It seems like the bar is probably going to reopen. I mean, this is a big business for them. You have to imagine they're paying$14,000 a month in taxes. Of course, you don't know profit margins and how much they're actually walking away with, but their business is probably making a pretty good amount of at least cash flow in general. Shortly after, uh, in the video, he's talking to a health inspector about food permits. In the exchange, you hear an inspector tell him, where's your permits for the crawfish you're selling? You're not allowed to do food. The only menu you have is coffee. You should not be doing food. And so in follow-up videos, he accused Mayor John Whitmire of bullying small owned businesses across the city and said he would not let the incident affect his business. He said in a town known for its entrepreneurship, they're trying to take that from us. And we won't let that happen. With your support, we'll come back and be better than ever. We'll take this time off to remodel and fix up our space, and we'll see you in no time. Now, while near neither the bar owners nor city officials are kind of taking media requests at the moment, uh they are providing as much details and as many updates as they can on social media. They said we got closed down for not for following the rules and pulling a building permit. Um it's been open since like 2019 and it has a pretty loyal following. I've never been there, I never even heard of it. I have now, and when they reopen, I'll probably end up going because I didn't know this place was was a place. But I wanted to highlight this story because I think it highlights a really important thing that's happening in a lot of our cities right now. And I don't necessarily have a problem with enforcing permits. In fact, if we don't do that, there's a reason we have those things. It's a first world luxury that we even have food permitting offices in the first place. It's good to have health inspectors. It's good to that we're prioritizing uh, you know, the safety of the people that go out and eat and drink. That's a good thing. We should have those qualifications. A lot of my issue, though, comes because a lot of times it seems like small businesses are the ones being targeted. It seems like they're the ones that are gone after because they're they're easy targets, they're easy prey to go after and and beat, kind of beat down. It also seems like and I'm I I know the old the old adage, which is you can walk and chew gum at the same time. This is the argument, and I made it a ton of times, so I'm not gonna be a hypocrite here. I've made this argument in regards to immigration. I remember asking a pretty popular host uh a question regarding immigration because I said, you know, we have a massive illegal alien problem, we know that. We also have a massive problem with our legal immigration system. We transformed our legal immigration from a pretty solid idea to a really bad idea back in the 1960s with the Hart Seller Act. And I've said we need to start having conversations about what legal immigration looks like. Because importing millions of people into our country and giving them pieces of paper that say they're allowed to be here does not change the fact that they are warping the culture. American culture means something, Texas culture means something. And when you bring in a lot of people from foreign countries, from third world countries, from Islamic countries, right? We've talked about Islam here in Texas. When you do that, the end result inevitably is going to be that our culture transitions into something else. Because culture is made by people, by the blood of the people who who live here. And if you change the demographics of who's here, inevitably, for good or for bad, the culture's going to change. It's going to look different. And so we have a legal immigration issue because we're changing Western culture into something that is foreign to us, that's not good, by the way. And when you do that, the end result is bad. And so we have to have conversations. And I was told, well, we need to tackle illegal immigration first. And I said, Why? Are we not capable? Are we not a big enough country that we can dedicate certain people to dealing with one side of this issue? Is there no one that's available to tackle other issues? Wow. It's like we're going after murderers, so we can't really think about thieves right now. Right? And that's a terrible argument. And so I'm not going to make that argument. But what I am going to say is there comes an issue when you're not doing the other thing, right? When you don't have the resources, or at least you claim to not have the resources to tackle the other major issues. If you want to talk specifically in the bar industry, how many bars have been operating after hours that we're continually dealing with because we don't have the proper policies to actually address a major issue in Houston nightlife? How many bars and clubs are staying open or causing drunk driving accidents and prostitution and gambling and all these other things because they're open far past when they're allowed to be open and serving alcohol? These things are happening all the time, by the way. I don't cover them so frequently, but there are tons of stories coming out, uh, as we've addressed before, but they're they're not stopping of bars who are open past when they should be open, past when they're allowed to be open. And it's causing a lot a lot of crime is associated with those bars, with them staying open. We know that. That's not me painting a picture of something that is, you know, disagreeable or where there's a lot of pushback on. Almost everybody, regardless of where you fall on the political scale, understands that's happening and it's not good. And while we're not addressing that issue very well at all, what we are addressing is, well, they shouldn't have been doing this. And it it seems like the priority is totally backwards. It's not that I have a problem with health inspectors. It's not that I have a problem with enforcing existent rules that everyone should be following regardless of the size of the business. It's that we almost seem to target the least of our concerns while refusing to deal with the bigger ones. Right? We're not actually addressing the real issues and we're we're kind of pretending like we're actually doing a good job while we're targeting the small business owners who are doing a lot of times the best they can. And it's frustrating because it would be one thing if we were dealing with the other and this was kind of also happening, but we're not dealing with the other. And it starts to look an awful lot like we're we're shilling and we're we're looking off and saying we're not gonna deal with the real problems. We're just going to do the things that are easy to do and not deal with real problems. And that's frustrating. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over because uh Dan Patrick uh has now given out the interim charges for the Senate. We talked a little bit last week about the interim charges for the House, and now we've gotten updated details for what's going on in the Senate as we approach the next legislative session, uh, which includes everything from studying data center growth to property tax cuts. We'll go over what a lot of those interim charges are over on the Senate side of things. When we get back from the break, the same as before. If you would like to text in during the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and we'll be right back to talk all about what's going on in our Senate, preparing for the next legislative session after the break.

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So Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick has released a new wide-ranging set of NRM charges for the Texas Senate, outlining what he wants lawmakers digging into before they return to Austin for the 2027 legislative session. His first release back in January of five charges focused on the influence of Sharia law in Texas as well as foreign threats. Now, Patrick has provided a more robust list that's supposed to be more the final range. I don't know if there will be more updates coming out from interim charges, but these are supposed to be basically the total compiled list of what we expect the Senate to be dealing with come 2027. Now, the Senate business, and we're going to go through a couple of different committees and what each committee is being tasked with as we prepare for the upcoming session. The Senate Business and Commerce Committee is ordered to take a hard look at Texas's rapidly changing power landscape. So in this regard, Senators are being told to review the adequacy of transmission and generation to meet future demand, including next generation's uh six hundred seven hundred and sixty-five lines, and how they affect landowners, routing, and cost allocation, study the explosive growth of large-scale data centers and cryptocurrency mining operations, how much power, how much water they consume, what they contribute economically, and whether current tax abatements and incentives make sense, what that needs to look like. They also are supposed to examine reliability risks, specifically resiliency planning, and whether any changes in the legislature are needed as more load-intensive facilities are plugging into our grid, right? Because we know we've had grid issues before and we don't want to deal with that situation. I think we're all well aware we don't want to deal with that situation again. The Senate State Affairs Committee, meanwhile, has been asked to uh kind of deal with elections, life issues, banking, gambling, and the courts. Senators are being instructed to study how to maintain election security, including tightening access for poll watchers, scrutinizing county election administrators, and investigating attempts to circumvent state law through local policy. They're also being told to look at efficiency in elections by reviewing how counties mark and count ballots and designate polling places for party primaries. On social policy, the same committee, the State Affairs Committee, is tasked with protecting the unborn by tracking illegal abortion pill shipments and the implementation of HB 7 with recommendations to further safeguard women and children from the abortion industry. He's also looking to close gambling loopholes by targeting the rapid growth of prediction market betting that skirts the Texas's gambling ban, things like uh polymarket and call sheep, and to guarantee fair banking by probing banks and insurers that deny services based on political or religious views. Meanwhile, the education committee's to-do list is to review academic outcomes, enrollment declines, four-day school weeks, and teacher pay structures. And this is all gonna be rapidly changing anyways, come the start of this upcoming school year, uh, closer to the second half of this year, because we're dealing, of course, with the implementation of the school choice package, meaning you're gonna have up to 100,000 students that will be completely changing how schools operate. Enrollment declines are gonna change even more rapidly than they already are. And I'm sure they're also gonna be looking at in this regard, they're they're gonna be talking about the rollout of the new school choice program, including how implementation is going, what barriers or abuses are emerging in that, and of course the potential of dedicating even more money to that program. Since as we've highlighted before, we're up to past 230,000 students who've applied for school choice with the extended deadline ending tomorrow. So that'll be a massive shift. That'll kind of change a lot of the landscape in our schools in general. They're also going to examine safety, discipline, the role of technology, and AI in classrooms, looking for best practices and ways to streamline regulations. I will say, just to just to give my own little take here, since I am a, you know, I do political commentary, I'll do the commentary part. There is absolutely no good reason to have AI until at least high school. I understand the argument that AI is the future of technology. I get it. I understand that it makes our lives, we could say, easier. Uh it's a phenomenal tool in a lot of ways. I will highlight that when you implement it too young, what often happens, and I've seen this happen personally, is that you have children who are incapable of thinking for themselves, who are incapable of actually learning because they rely on their technology for what they believe, for what they know. You have a lot of kids who can't do math, who can't do writing, uh, who can't understand English, who can't do these things well because they outsource their ability to do things to technological sectors. That's not a good thing, that's not a positive. And so we should definitely be dealing with safeguarding our kids from technology and getting back to basics, saying, Hey, you know what? Maybe we use just books, maybe we get all the tech out until at least high school, right? I understand that you need to learn AI so you can prepare for careers. That's a big thing now. I get it. But we also need to highlight our students also need to be able to critically think for themselves before they learn how to use AI. Uh the higher education committee is dealing with university and community college funding structures, how Texas colleges are preparing for foreign threats from teachers and staff, partnerships, student programs. You also have the finance committee working on tax relief, data centers, budget implementation. Um, and so the Health and Human Services Committee is going to be dealing with THC here in the state of Texas, homelessness, mental health services. Uh, you also have Texas's legal framework being addressed when it comes to surrogacy and assisted reproduction. With Patrick saying that he wants to focus on preventing exploitation and human trafficking. The Criminal Justice Committee, public safety issues like rising juvenile violence, gang involvement, youth justice policies, diversion programs, school discipline, sexually explicit material, and decent exposure, all of that. You also have the Senate Economic Development Committee, impact of AI, automation on Texas workers in every industry, as well as businesses, the Homeland Security and Border Safety Committee, staffing, technology, infrastructure at our ports of entry, theft schemes, export fuel fraud, safety issues. You also have the Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs, and Natural Resources and Economic Development Committees dealing with water usage, electric vehicle manufacturing, wildfire risks, all that sort of stuff. So it's again, it's a wide range. This is largely supposed to cover everything we expect to see addressed come 2027. So of course it's going to be a very wide range of issues. And things can be added, right? If we get to 2027 and Governor Abbott put something on a not even a special session agenda, but one of his emergency priorities that we've often seen the governor, you know, apply, that'll obviously be a shift in what they're dealing with and what they're trying to get past. But this is just to give you a general snapshot of where we see our state going come next year. With that being said, when we get back from the rig, we're going to go over and cover the weather for today, the rest of this week. I know we talked last week about some potential for rain, uh, weather pattern shifts. We'll talk all about that to wrap up the first hour of the show when we get back. Text in 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and we'll be right back with the weather to wrap up the first hour of the show. After this short break, stick around and we'll talk soon.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Textilent A C Service. Let's kick it off with the most encouraging news. That is that Houston is set to see increasing rain chances as moisture is returning to the region this week. Rain chances are going to remain pretty limited early this week, so think Monday, Tuesday. A few showers could sneak into Southeast Texas by tomorrow, mainly closer to the coast. As well, a more humid air mass is going to be in place by midweek, around Wednesday, allowing for a few more neighborhoods to see a quick passing shower or storm. The better opportunity for more widespread rain is going to arrive late Wednesday into Thursday as a disturbance moves across the plains, which of course could lead to scattered showers and thunderstorms across much of Southeast Texas, especially as storms develop upstream and move into the area. Now, strong storms are not likely, uh, but that of course could change. We're s we're still, you know, pr it's it's a guess until we actually get there, until we're much closer. And so we'll keep you guys updated every morning. Showers are gonna become less likely by Friday ahead of a potentially stronger system arriving late Saturday into Sunday, which could bring a second round of rain and the possibility of wetter conditions heading into Easter. Now, the warmest days of this week's are perhaps unsurprisingly when we also see very low chances for rain. Winds turning in off the Gulf are gonna bring a steady increase in temperatures and humidity. Highs are gonna climb from the lower to middle eighties early in the week to the upper eighties by Wednesday. Increasing moisture will also lead to more clouds, along with late night cloud cover in areas of patchy morning fog. Now, April usually marks a steady move into spring, warming temperatures, riding humidity, more frequent rain chances. Average highs for the month of April are usually around eighty degrees. Uh early April typically rings highs in the upper 70s, low eighties, but by the end of the month, we already on average expect those highs to be well into the eighties, and that's exactly what we're seeing. Rainfall also becomes more common, which we're really hoping for with the drought conditions we've been experiencing. Like much of spring in Southeast Texas, April can still bring some variety to that. Uh temperatures have ranged from summer-like heat in the lower to middle nineties to occasional late season, you know, cool snapbacks where we're still getting some cool temperatures. Overall, we kind of know what to expect coming from April. And so we'll keep you guys updated every morning as to rain, weather pattern shifts, all that sort of stuff. In the meantime, that'll do it for the first hour of the show. When we get back, we're gonna have Justin White from Senior Health Services for Medicare Monday. You will not want to miss that segment coming up at the top of the next hour. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative. Text in at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be back with Justin White at the top of the next hour.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. On the line, we have our good buddy Justin White from Senior Health Services coming on for Medicare Monday. Welcome to the show, Justin. Hey, Ben. Happy Monday, everybody. Glad to be here. Happy Monday. And I don't know if you've noticed, Justin, but we are basically, I mean, we're we're two days away. We're we're about to kick off April.

SPEAKER_05 53:42

I know it. I know it. It's uh giving me hives thinking that we're getting closer to the fall and that uh that busy, busy time, man, that is it's amazing how quickly it comes up over and over again.

SPEAKER_01 53:53

I uh I was at an event on Saturday, an entrepreneurship event, and I I cracked a joke. I said, you know, to tell you that time flies and you're having fun, I think that is kind of a lie by omission because time flies even when you're not having fun.

SPEAKER_04 54:05

As it turns out, time just flies. Time just flies. I think that's true.

SPEAKER_05 54:11

I cannot believe how quickly the days and weeks go by. It's a little scary if I'm being honest.

SPEAKER_01 54:16

Yeah, and for many of us, you know, time is flying, and that means that, of course, uh all of us are getting up in age. We're all saying, hey, what do we what do we plan for? One of the big questions people have regards, of course, as we address here on Mondays, uh, a lot of different questions surrounding Medicare, what the process looks like, everything from application to coverage. And what I want to kick it off with today, during our segment this morning, is kind of diving into some of the myths, rumors, and questions regarding what Medicare doesn't cover. Uh, because I think a lot of people can get concerned. Hey, is is my this sort of care going to be covered? Can you kind of talk to us and walk us through some of those myths regarding what Medicare actually doesn't cover?

SPEAKER_05 54:54

Absolutely. Well, a lot of a lot of people uh and and I like to look at them as pain points. You know, there's certain pain points that uh there's certain things if you need them, it'll be inconvenient, but it won't be all that painful uh if they're if they're not covered. But there are some things that if you need and you're assuming Medicare is going to cover them and you don't have the coverage, that can cause some problems. And probably the number one example of that in my mind is long-term care or custodial home health care. Um and the reason though is I mean, the sad thing is that the way that some of the Medicare benefits are worded, it makes it look like they might actually be covered when boy, they are not. What is described on Medicare A and B as being covered is a far cry from what they're actually looking for. That's one thing. And then other things like you know, things that are routine or things that are optional, stuff like that, those are almost never covered from the Medicare standpoint, and it's just important for people to know that.

SPEAKER_01 55:58

Right. Things that realistically you might expect even to be covered. Uh I would have, if I had if I had had to guess before this morning, I probably would have guessed that long-term or custodial home care would be covered by Medicare. Uh, and yet it seems like you're saying that it's not.

SPEAKER_05 56:12

I absolutely. And if it seems like I'm saying it's not, let's take that out and let's say it's not.

SPEAKER_01 56:18

It's not, it's not covered. Yeah. And that's why we we do these segments, is because these are a lot of things. A lot of the questions that we address on Monday mornings are are questions because I I I think it it would be, I don't want to say damning, but it would be very frustrating to get into Medicare and have expectations, uh, especially for such big costs as long-term care, to get into this and to say you get in there and now you're kind of in a pickle because you're not covered for the very thing you expected to be covered for.

SPEAKER_05 56:46

That's right. Well, one of the reasons on long-term care, for example, uh that that makes people confused about it, is they will definitively remember how one of their loved ones absolutely went to a nursing home and the government was paying for their long-term care. There are scenarios where that happens. The problem is that's not Medicare. If the government, if there's a government entity ever paying for your long-term care, and that is Medicaid, that's being paid at the state level, and you get to be very low income, and or and you are having spent everything that you have or had in order to qualify for state-sponsored long-term care. It's just it's just not it's not ideal, but a lot of people will remember that and they'll say, Well, I swear, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We say, Yeah, that was that was the state of Texas. That was not the federal government.

SPEAKER_01 57:41

Right. And you mentioned something while we were where we were before we came on air that I want to kind of highlight for a moment, and that is the sort of necessity that drives Medicare. Uh, this this doesn't always answer the question super clearly, but I think it gives a good picture of what Medicare actually does cover, right? The things that are actually covered on Medicare. What is what is that?

SPEAKER_05 58:00

Well, I use the phrase that is, I think, is the simplest way to remember it. There's two things actually that I tell people if you want to know for sure what's covered and what's not covered, the words medically necessary are the that's the operative phrase that all the doctors have to go with when they're filing claims for somebody that's on Medicare. The doctors have to prove the medical necessity of whatever procedure is being done or testing, etc. And even then, sometimes people are like, well, how do I know for sure the medication is if you have an appointment for it, then your doctor has probably either already cleared it with the fed or has done it so many times and they're so confident that Medicare is going to cover it, that you really shouldn't worry about it. If they go in there and they do something that the government doesn't pay for, the government should declare that that was done and not medically necessary, and it's hard for the doctor to come back and try to collect payment after that. And therefore, if it's not covered, they're not gonna do it. They won't set an appointment until they know for sure uh that they're gonna actually be paid for their services.

SPEAKER_04 59:12

And those are the two easiest ways uh that I know to be correct about what Medicare will and won't cover uh right out the gate.

SPEAKER_01 59:20

Right, because the doctors, of course, have a vested interest in, I don't know, being paid. Uh, and so of course it's in their best interest to make sure they're gonna be paid before they do something.

SPEAKER_05 59:29

That's right. There's a lot of altruistic doctors, but I don't know any of them that donate all of their time.

SPEAKER_01 59:35

So, my my last question here to kind of tie this all together, there are of course different Medicare plans and different, even within you know, supplemental plans and advantage plans, there's specifically different versions of those things. Do do those things differ in terms of what they cover or or how they cover? How does that sort of work with this conversation?

SPEAKER_05 59:54

Well, the good news is that Medicare is overseeing all those. That's what makes Medicare so consistent. So in the so, like if somebody has a supplement, for example, whatever Medicare approves but does not pay after the small deductible here and there, the supplement pays that amount, whatever's left over directly. So it works directly with original Medicare, and then you take the drug plan on there and you get it on the road. The advantage plans, those HMOs and the PPOs, those plans are mandated by Medicare to cover the benefits of original Medicare actuarially, equivalently, or better. So you're not gonna see a lot of variation of the conditions between the plans of what they're gonna cover and what they will not. It's usually gonna be the manner in which they're covered, but they've got to at least be actually equivalent to what original Medicare would do. And then, of course, the advantage plans for the stop loss on top of that to put a ceiling over what could possibly go wrong if they had a really bad year. So that's the good news about it. What makes Medicare more predictable and a lot and just and just more consistent across the board, I'd guess would be the best way to say that.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:09

Right, right. And that's why I always like to highlight, you know, we cover, we're only here for five to ten minutes with Justin here on Monday mornings. And a lot of times there are, of course, going to be more in-depth questions, further questions, concerns, all those sorts of things. And that's why we do this. It's kind of give you at least a foretaste of kind of what you can expect your questions to be answered like, but they're it's not a full guide, right? And that's why you're going to need case-by-case basis help, uh, which I think is where, and maybe I'm speaking for you, I think that's where senior health services comes in.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:37

Absolutely. We're right here because I and I learn things every day. My my clients teach me stuff all the time because the the nuance and the detail of the questions that come through are unbelievable. So if you're sitting there and you and I've answered 86% of your question, but that 13, you know, that 14%'s bothering you, pick up the phone and call us. If you just want to know definitively, pick up the phone and call us, and we will answer you as best we can. And you know what? If you stop us and we don't know the answer, we will find somebody who does, and we'll call you back and let you know.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:11

Right. And by the way, it is a free consultation. If you'd like to call, that number is 281-894-7540. You can also check out more information from senior health services.com. Justin, as always, I appreciate you giving us your time this morning for coming on, for answering these questions each and every Monday. Different questions that our listeners have uh in regards to Medicare, and Lord willing, we'll talk to you again next Monday.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:32

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:33

Always love coming on your show and talking to your fantastic audience. You guys have a good one.

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Thank you, Justin. Talk to you next Monday. With that of course, with that being said, ladies and gentlemen, one more time, if you would like to give them a call, the number is 281-894-7540 or go to senior health services.com. I kind of highlight this every Monday, but I want to re-kind of highlight it again as we do, which is to say, you know, and this is true of almost every industry, you're gonna have questions, you're gonna have concerns, especially if it comes something as important as your healthcare. You're gonna wonder, hey, what's covered? What does coverage look like? And the reality is that it's impossible to answer that question on Monday morning through these interviews. I I I I wish I could tell you you could just tune in Monday mornings and your question will be answered and we can all, you know, sleep better. 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And the reason I want to cover this story is because, of course, we had similar things going on here in Houston over the weekend. You probably know what I'm talking about, the No Kings protests, how insane the claim even is at the outset. But I want to cover here for a moment because apparently dozens of people were arrested over in LA for failing to disperse after their No Kings rally. Uh authorities in LA apparently deployed tear gas near a federal detention center and made dozens of arrests following one of thousands of the No Kings rallies held this weekend across the U.S. And by the way, apparently they're even doing it in Europe. It's not just here in the U.S., they're apparently also doing it over in Europe. Uh LA police said over the weekend that 74 people were arrested for failing to heed a dispersal order that was given after Saturday's rally was supposed to have ended. One other person was also taken into custody on suspicion of possessing a weapon that police described as a dagger. You know you're in California when there's suspicion of possession of a weapon and it's just a a knife. Like what person in Texas does a dagger? Come on. I mean, what what's the qualification for that? If you were in Texas, the suspicion of carrying weapons, they're not a suspicion, we're all carrying weapons. You gotta be in California for that. The arrest stood out from what otherwise were, they say, mostly peaceful protests, which I I love that phrase because it always reminds me of the fiery but mostly peaceful line that was on legitimate headlines nationwide during 2020, during the BLM riots. Now, organizers said there were more than 3,100 separate events registered in all 50 states. You had hundreds of these protesters surrounding a federal complex in downtown LA. Some were throwing rocks, bottles, broken. Concrete blocks at officers, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, in a statement that they put out over the weekend. Two officers were struck by concrete blocks who sustained injuries and received medical attention. Some protesters wearing shields and gas masks on the other side of a fence at a federal complex picked up the canisters and tossed them back at police. Andrew said that some people also smashed concrete barriers into smaller pieces and threw them at authorities. Andrew said, does it make LA look bad? No. They're just a couple of bad actors causing problems for sure. The peaceful protest was good for the cause. You have the right to do that, but the other people, they were definitely causing problems. Which is so funny to me. Does it make LA look bad that we're literally assaulting police officers? No, of course not. That's that's not it's not making us look bad. We're coming up on the break. And I have enough left to say about this that I think we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna put a pin in it through the break into the next segment. When we come back, we're gonna discuss why it does make LA look bad, the obvious hypocrisy in that statement, and furthermore, the whole concept and construct of the no kings rally in general, how insane the claim even is, given the nature of the left at this point, and how if you really want to address no kings and the prospect that we have some sort of fascistic monarchial regime in place, uh it may take some deep digging in the mirror to find that. If you'd like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back after the break.

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Now, I want to highlight this past weekend the No Kings protest going on all over the country, thousands of demonstrations across the U.S. in all 50 states. Uh maybe you drove by one, hopefully you didn't participate in one. But what was the name of the movement? No Kings, right? Let that sink in for a second. No Kings. The basic assumption, of course, is that someone in this country is behaving like a king and there needs to be a stop put to that sort of behavior. And according to the protesters, of course, that is none other than Donald J. Trump, the 47th president of the United States, duly elected, by the way, by the American people in November of 2024. Now, look, I'm a radio host. I'm I'm deeply embedded into politics. I know what's going on. I've been doing this long enough to know that political hyperbole is not new. It's used all the time. Both sides, by the way, uses it because it gets attention. I get it. But there comes a point where you have to stop. You have to look at what's actually being claimed. And you have to ask yourself, does this hold up even to five seconds of scrutiny? Right? Is this something that we can look at and we can walk away saying that this makes any level of sense? And that's what we're gonna do because and let's kick it off with the basics. What is a king? In order to say that we don't want kings, we have to know what a king is. A king is a sort of hereditary monarchy. You don't earn the job. You were born into that job. You rule by force. There's no election, there's no opposition party, there's no term limits, there's no process by which the people can remove him or can ever have anyone else. The law is whatever the king says, because at the end of the day, the king is the law itself. Now, Donald Trump, let's walk through his kingly path to power here that they they claim he has. He ran for president, he campaigned, he debated, he got on the ballot in 50 states, he won the Electoral College, he, by the way, also happened to have won the popular vote. He was certified by Congress, he was inaugurated under the Constitution of the U.S., and just for good measure, this it wasn't like this was his first rodeo. He ran in 2016, he won. He ran in 2020 and he lost. And then he ran again in 2024 and of course won again. You know what kings don't do? This might come as a shock. They don't lose elections. They don't come back four years after losing elections to try again through a republic-style process. The very fact that Trump lost in 2020 and had to campaign his way back into office is by definition the exact opposite of a monarchy. That's how republics work. The people decide, and in this case, now twice, a lot of the American people decided they wanted Donald Trump over the other option. Now, the protesters, of course, will say, well, we're not talking about how he got into office. We're talking about what it looks like when he's in office, which already has denied the whole prospect of him being a king. But let's actually address that issue. Uh, things from executive orders to aggressive use of presidential authority. It's it's I think it's a fair thing to bring up. Yeah, Trump has issued executive orders. So did Biden. So did Obama. So did Clinton, and so on and so forth. In fact, Obama actually set a modern record for executive orders in his first term. Nobody called him a king. Nobody organized a no kings march when he basically rewrote immigration enforcement policy by executive action, which in that case, the courts even ruled was constitutionally questionable. They said, We're not we're not sure if you actually have the authority to do what you're doing. So if you want to talk about monarchial reign, Obama, if if Trump's on the list of kings here in America, then Obama also certainly qualifies. Now, what Trump has done is use the executive authority granted him under Article II of the Constitution to enforce laws already on the books and reverse policies that were put in place by the previous administration. That is literally the job. That is what presidents do. You might not like the policies, and that's fine. We can debate them, but calling them monarchial decisions is a deliberate distortion of reality. It is being intentionally, let's say, dense. And here's the thing that gets me about it the people who organize this protest, the people who showed up with their little crowns and their signs, they don't actually object to executive power. They don't actually have a problem with the way that power works in America. They object to this particular guy using the power that they're okay with, just using it in ways they don't personally like. Because for four years under Biden, which remember, four years of mass mandates, vaccine requirements, student loan forgiveness by executive fiat, uh, the the open border crisis, again, done by executive orders, where, by the way, you're talking about Kings, uh, how was Biden dealing with the state sovereignty of Texas when we tried to defend our own border through lawsuits, an executive order trying to shut down our own state sovereignty to protect our people? You know about King coming in and telling a state how they're allowed to operate to defend their own border. And yet you didn't have a single march, you didn't have a single coordinated national protest. There was no not even a peep about King's. So let's be honest, this is not some sort of principled stand against executive overreach and presidential authority. It is a stand, it is a temper tantrum dressed up as this sort of cosplay of being revolutionaries when they don't actually care, they just don't like Donald Trump, which is fine. We could debate it. But the dishonesty is is uh nothing short of staggering. And here's what I want to spend the most amount of time about this morning here on this segment. Uh, because I think there's a real irony at the heart of the No Kings protest, uh, that nobody, of course, in the mainstream media is going to point out. So I'll do it. I'll I'll take it. If you want to find at least even a style of that sort of monarchial power in American politics, the actual belief that power should flow from the top down, that the elites should make decisions for the people, and that individual is freedom is less important than the preferences of the ruling class, you don't need to look at those on the right wing. You need to start looking at the modern American left, the liberals. Because think about what the progressive agenda is at really at the core of its movement. Let's go through some of these. Uh, let's say redistribution of wealth. The government takes what you earn and decides who gets it and how much. Not a free market, not individual liberty. It is a central authority making decisions about your labor, your property, your future, where your money goes. Kings taxed their subjects and distributed that wealth at their own discretion. We called it tyranny when that happened. When the left proposes the same policies, they'll say, no, no, no, that's just equity. It's equality, it's good for the people. But it's literally that sort of kingship. Uh government-run health care, a small group of bureaucrats, unelected administrators, and federal agencies deciding what treatments you can have, which doctors are in your network, what gets covered, what doesn't. You don't get to choose things like Obamacare. Does that sound familiar? Does that sound like maybe it's sort of a top-down sort of strategy? How about energy policy, banning gas stoves, regulating your car's carbon emission, telling you what kind of light bulb you're allowed to use in your own home. Again, not suggestions, by the way. These are mandates. They are proposed policies to tell you what you are and are not allowed to do. These are government officials telling private citizens and private businesses what they may and may not do in their own homes and on their own property. How about school curriculum? The federal pressure that we've seen countless times to push specific ideological frameworks into classrooms across the U.S., uh, overriding the preferences, by the way, of local parents and communities, centralizing control over what your children are taught, what they believe about history, race, gender, identity in general, American culture, all these things, uh things like CRT, DEI, in school curriculum, that comes from the top down. That again is is a picture of the way that a monarchy would control the education of the next generation. In fact, it was one of the most powerful control power mechanisms that you've seen come out from uh whether you want to say emperors, kings, dictators, what whatever sort of top-down bureaucracy you have, that is a pretty clear common denominator that you would control the education, what the students are taught to believe and to think. Now, look, I'm not even calling at coming out and calling anyone a king, right? I'm not the one that's stooping to that level. But if we're gonna have an honest conversation about which political philosophy, which political party more closely resembles a top-down, authority-driven model of governance, if we're gonna talk about which political party uh, you know, has people who are in their 90s still trying to run for office, who are signing things with an auto pen because they can't put their signature on a piece of paper, who are literally ruling in a top-down form of government where the elites know best, where the individual's rights kind of gets yielded in response to this idea of collectivism. That description fits the progressive left far more neatly than, say, the guy who ran on cutting regulations, reducing government, giving power back to the people, especially when you look at the policies themselves. And again, it's not like I'm some sort of shill for Donald Trump. I I have had countless disagreements with Trump. And that's been before the election, that's been since 2016, we've had our disagreements on everything from abortion policy uh to the intent of legal immigration, the American workforce, right? I've had plenty of disagreements with I we've we've talked uh quite a bit about what I think about the Iranian war, the war going on in Iran, what the expectations are, what our goals are, who we're involved with, right? We can have those sort of honest conversations. But to pretend like this is some sort of kingly setup when you win a duly run election where you've lost before, by the way, and where you do the very same things that your predecessors have done, you use the exact sort of executive action that we've seen done by other presidents in modern history. It's the exact same stuff. You just don't like it because of who's doing it and what the policies are. That's not a king issue. Again, it's a temper tantrum. That's what it is. You just don't like it. And that's okay. You don't, we can't require you to like things. And we are more than willing. Charlie Kirk was big about this. We are more than willing to debate you. I I would be happy to have you on the show and have a conversation about what you disagree with. We might even end up agreeing on some of the things because again, I don't agree with everything Donald Trump does. But to pretend like this is a real conversation about your issue with executive action and with executive authority is insane because you don't care. The founders, the the actual founders, the guys who wrote the documents, the protesters are supposedly invoking the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence. They weren't just afraid of kings. I know that that kind of gets mixed up in history because we were fighting against a monarchy, uh, but they weren't just fighting against the king as a title. Uh they they were fighting against tyranny and oppression in general. And they understood that tyranny didn't just come from kings, it came in other forms too. Uh James Madison, he argued that the concentration of power in any single branch or institution was the threat. Not one specific politician, not a single party, but the structure, the accumulation of power itself, where the power came from, who the power went to. Thomas Jefferson warned about the danger of the federal government expanding at the expense of the states and at the expense of the individual. He believed the government closest to the people governed best, right? The idea of federalism, the idea that there should be a level of state sovereignty, that there is limited federal government, and states have far more authority, and localities have far more authority than the than the federal government in the day-to-day operations of a state and of a city. Benjamin Franklin, when asked what kind of government the Constitution and the Constitutional Convention had produced, he said famously, a republic if you can keep it. Not a democracy where you have a sort of mob rule of 51% ruling with an iron fist over the other 49. Not a technocracy where credentialed experts manage your life from Washington. Oh, you just trust the experts, right? Not an oligarchy where big businesses get all the tax breaks and they lobby and they donate to campaigns in order to control people. No, we are supposed to have a republic with separation of powers, checks and balances, enumerated rights, constitutionally limited federal government. And so for the people marching this past weekend, bless their hearts, they they are invoking the founders' language while advocating for what was literally the worst nightmare to the founders. And it was not Donald Trump, it was this sort of power that the left desires in general. And I want to be fair, I understand that people are passionate. I get it. I understand there are concerns about executive authority, about the pace of change, what this administration is doing. But the concept of no kings is not a policy disagreement. It's designed to delegitimize a duly elected president by comparing to something he is demonstrably not, something that he is far and away not even close to resembling. And the irony, the the very rich irony here, of course, is that the ideology that these protesters are pretending comes from Trump is this the very same one that this the very same movement really that has propped up this accumul this this accumulation of more government power, expanding the administrative state, regulating individual behavior, telling you that you're not smart enough or responsible enough or mature enough to make your own decisions, which sounds a whole lot more like oppression and tyranny to me than anything that Trump has done whatsoever. Trump is not a king, he is a president who won an election, who is using the authority voters gave him, and who will face another election. And by the way, the party will face another election in four more years, whether the left likes it or not, that is the Republic working as it was designed to. And again, again, we pointed to some of these concepts of where the left comes in with the sort of power. You know, you can look at Mamdani up in New York City, where it's government-run grocery stores, is the policy agenda, right? Open borders, the authority to just make anyone a citizen at their whim. These sorts of things are much more closely resembling a top-down form of government. How about we talk about the constitution they want to so proudly invoke? What about the Second Amendment? How often have you looked at a school shooting on the left and they say, Oh, you know, what we need stricter gun regulation to violate your God-given rights, which is where our accountability comes in. We say, look, if you want to actually discuss no kings, how about we start by saying you can't violate the Constitution? And what that actually requires is joining our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. You see, Gunners of America understands that tyranny comes in a whole lot of shapes and sizes, and they're pushing back against it at every level, local, state, and federal. They will do that by campaigning for good candidates who actually truly believe and understand what the Second Amendment says, what the Constitution promises. They do that by lobbying for good pro-Second Amendment bills and lobbying against bad ones. They do that through lawsuits against government tyranny. There's one going on right now against the NFA, the National Firearm Act, that is literally, as much as you could possibly guess, is an unconstitutional gun regulation scheme. And so they're fighting back against all these things, but they need your support. You can go to goahhouston.com. 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So Attorney General Ken Paxton has come out and formally launched the rulemaking process to enforce a new state law banning land purchases by hostile foreign regimes, such as, say, China, but we listed Iran, Russia, North Korea. Though that list can change depending on who we consider a foreign country, a foreign hostile country. Though I said that was like a Freudian stuff. It should be any foreign country, by the way. I want to make that clear right from the outset. I actually think that no foreign country should own land in the US. The US you can you can like any country you'd like. You're more than welcome, right? I've got a lot of history and heritage in Scotland. That's where my family came from. We were big, we were big Scots before we came over, and we fought in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. And you want to know something? I'm an American. I am a Texan. Doesn't mean I don't like Scotland or think Scotland's pretty cool or know that that's that's where you know my history came from. And that's you know, we have to understand that America was largely, you know, created by people from Europe. It's Western civilization in general. But Scotland should not own American land. Okay? Nowhere should. Nevertheless, this is specifically addressing f hostile foreign land foreign adversaries. And so during the 89th legislature last year, let lawmakers passed SB 17 Senate Bill 17, which was designed to restrict the purchase or acquisition of Texas property by certain individuals and entities tied to designated foreign adversaries, China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea. Now the law, which took effect in September of last year, aimed at reducing national security risks and protecting Texas land and critical infrastructure from foreign control. Paxon's office has now proposed detailed rules to implement the statute. The proposal was submitted to the Secretary of State on March 16th and published now just a couple days ago over the weekend, triggering a public comment period before the rules can be finalized. One of the most significant features of the rules is a new duty to report suspected violations. Under the proposal, anyone involved in facilitating a real estate transaction, such as mortgage lenders, title insurance companies, property insurers, appraisers, and licensed real estate professionals, would be required to report any suspected violations of SB 17 to the attorney general. Complaints would have to be submitted either through an online complaint form on the website or by mail to a designated address. Failure to report may subject entities to enforcement action once the rules are in place. So if it's it's skilled by association, if you know something's going on and you're not reporting it, you're not involved, and you're pretending like you're just gonna look the other way, you're also gonna face some problems. All complaints, civil investigative demands, and related materials submitted to it or issued by the OAG would be treated as confidential. So it's not like you're gonna, you know, face backlash for what you report. It's all anonymous. It means that Texas may see enforcement actions and lawsuits, but not necessarily the complaints and background investigation files that triggered them. He said, My office will use every tool available to prevent our nation's enemies from gaining a foothold on Texas soil. These proposed rules will strengthen the reporting of suspicious activity and better protect our state from hostile foreign actors. Now, these are proposed rules. I want to make that clear. Uh, we actually have, until April 27th, about a month away, to weigh in on those rules through the formal comment process before they finalize. And they want to hear from Texans, hey, what what are you, you know, what are you grappling with? What do you think about this? What issues do we have? Do we need to address? All those sorts of things. But, you know, again, we've spent far too long capitulating to our enemies and and foreign and domestic. We deal with these protesters that are assaulting our our law enforcement officers. We deal with allowing China to come into our institutions, into our colleges. We are being basically forced to give taxpayer dollars to Islamic schools. This is insanity. We are sacrificing ourselves on the altar of tolerance, pretending like it's virtuous, as we throw away what was giv what was handed to us by men much stronger and greater than us who are willing to die for the freedoms that we've experienced. As we just sit idly by and let it happen. And so all these steps are steps in the right direction that must continue. We must continue to fight to make sure that our land, if anything is protected, our land certainly is from foreign hostile ownership. With that being said, speaking of land, uh, when we get back from the break to wrap up the show this morning, we're gonna jump over and talk about the U.S. House, which has now passed this fluger measure, which protects Americans' property abroad. Uh, it's supposed to prohibit vessels from coming to the U.S. that have visited facilities seized from Americans. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, if you would like to text in. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back to wrap up the show after the break. Stick around. We'll talk soon.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. So legislation designed to protect American companies who are operating abroad passed the U.S. House this weekend, authored by Republican U.S. Representative August Fluger of, of course, Texas. The measure will penalize foreign countries, notably Mexico, if they nationalize or expropriate property from a U.S. owner. At issue has been the threatened seizure of a deep water port owned by U.S. based Vulcan Materials Company. Fluger's legislation, the Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026, would allow the president to designate the United States off-limits to any vessel that passes through a U.S. seized property. He said when countries violate trade agreements and illegally seize assets from U.S. companies, it put it puts American job security, economic security, and national security at risk. This legislation is critical because it ensures there are enforceable consequences for those actions. It sends a clear message to any foreign government that the United States will not tolerate this behavior and that we will defend our economic interests, uphold the rule of law, and stand firmly behind American companies who are operating abroad. You also have House Speaker Mike Johnson who said U.S. investments abroad have long been essential to both our economic development and national security. And this legislation takes a crucial step to protect and defend U.S. business interests globally. So it passed this weekend, I think 260 246 to 164. I think only 41 Democrats were the were the no votes, shockingly. But you've had quite a few votes uh from Democrats supporting this legislation, which now, of course, is going to go to the US Senate for consideration before it officially becomes law. Nevertheless, I again this is the sort of thing. Can I give an example? These other countries that are consistently violating our trade agreements, our water agreements, etc., and so on and so forth, are like the Chihuahua at a playground. They're a little dog that is barking at a German shepherd, nipping at its heels, right? Consistently acting like it's the big dog at the park. And we're the German Shepherd. Right? We're we're the we're the big we're we're the Great Dane, right? Why why in the world are we, as I used in the last segment, capitulating to the demands of these people? We could literally just like stomp one of our feet down and the threat would just be completely gone. Just completely wiped off the face of the map if we so desired. And and we pretend like we don't have the power to do that. Like we're like weak and we're like cowering in fear from a tiny little dog with a big bark and basically no bite. Turns out we have bite and we need to start using it. We need to stop being afraid of other countries and start saying America's the best. We know that. That's not pride, it's not ego, it's it's confidence in what we've done, what we've built, and what we are, who we are, in our heritage and our culture, and saying you're not taking that away from us. You're not going to invade, and you're not going to threaten our people. Nevertheless, that will do it for the show this morning. Thanks everyone for tuning in. Enjoy the rest of your Monday. Lord willing to be back bright and early tomorrow, of course, at 6 a.m. for tomorrow's edition of the Lone Star Conservative. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Monday and Godspeed, ladies and gentlemen. God speed