Lina Hidalgo, Flood Control Deadlines, And The Price Of Zero Accountability

“No regrets” sounds tough until you realize it can also mean “no accountability.” We start with Lina Hidalgo’s latest pushback over the Houston rodeo dispute, then pull the thread into bigger leadership questions: who owns mistakes, who shows up to govern, and what happens when pride replaces humility in public office. Along the way, we talk flood control, hurricane season prep, and the very real risk of missing federal HUD deadlines that could trigger a clawback of massive grant funding. 

Then we turn to two major law and justice stories in Texas: allegations that correctional officers sexually assaulted a female inmate at Hospital Galveston and a child predator sting in Manvel tied to online solicitation of a minor, including an arrest linked to the Children’s Museum of Houston. We dig into what’s known, what’s still under investigation, and the uncomfortable debate over whether modern sentencing for sexual violence is anywhere close to serious enough. 

Education and culture take center stage with the Texas State Board of Education, where activists are preparing to lobby for Islamic classroom materials as conservatives organize to push back. We also break down the latest Texas school choice news after more than 274,000 applications hit the Texas Education Freedom Program, raising questions about oversight, eligibility, and what taxpayers should and should not fund. We close with fresh Texas population growth data and why shifting demographics could spark redistricting fights. 

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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. Welcome back to the show. We've now made it, of course, to Thursday, or coming up on the end of the week very quickly. Today there are, of course, some chances for rain. We'll get into that later in the show. There's also lots of news. And I know that's true every morning. I always remind people you know, if we had a local host here at the station running basically 24 hours a day, you wouldn't hear the same story twice. Or it's possible you wouldn't. Obviously, I think if you actually had a bunch of different local hosts, they probably would find some of the same big stories. But I'm saying there is enough stuff going on that I think qualifies for a show that realistically, if you were dedicated to doing it, you could do a different story the whole show. And uh for 24 hours, and I think almost every day, you you wouldn't run out of things to talk about. Between what's going on around the state of Texas and what's going on here in the greater Houston area, all the updates that come, of course, from law enforcement, from commissioner's court, from city council, and so on and so on and so forth, it is incredibly busy all the time. I mean, there are clearly some days where, you know, a lot of the news that comes out is just like what crime happened yesterday? And sometimes that's just, you know, a couple thefts here and there. I still think that's worthy of reporting on, and it's news. But it's not the same as, you know, when you have Commissioner's Court trying to call for Lena Hidalgo's removal, and uh, you know, then of course you have people who bring Donald Trump into it, all that stuff that we talked about, Tom Ramsey yesterday. Nevertheless, as I mentioned, we do have lots of stories

Hidalgo Pushback On Rodeo Fallout

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to get into. And so without further ado, let's kick it off because I want to start it off talking about Lena. Our girl Lena Hidalgo. Probably everyone's favorite county judge. I don't know if there's ever been a better county judge. And, you know, uh, maybe KP George. You know what? I stand corrected. Maybe Kyle Prasad George from Fort Bend County may be a better county judge. You know, going to prison for scamming people. That that might be better. Uh Lena, I don't know, they're both just different. Both, both pretty good. Nevertheless, Lena Hidalgo uh is now pushing back on the resignation calls, right? Which didn't even actually make it to be resignation calls because it got amended and shut down because people are cowards and no one seems to want to stand up for what's right and what's honorable anymore. And again, as we had Tom Ramsey on yesterday, which if you missed that, by the way, we have a podcast that comes out every day now. You can find that on Spotify, you can find it on Apple, I think, you can find it on YouTube, and you can check it out because we I think we did a special episode where we kind of have just the Tom Ramsey interview. If you just want to go listen to that, I recommend you listen to the whole show. But if you just want to listen to the Tom Ramsey interview, I think that's up there as well. It was great. Uh he talked about the authority of Commissioner's Court, and he even explained, you know, Commissioner's Court, I know that the headlines might paint it differently. We can't actually get her to resign, right? We don't have the authority to remove her from office. And so even his proposed resolution, as it was written, as it was stated, wouldn't have like removed her. It merely would have called and said, hey, this is the right thing to do. It would have been a much grander and I think more important statement. It still would have just been a statement, but it at least would have been one that says, hey, we acknowledge that this sort of unprofessionalism and classlessness should, the result should be that you realize that that's not the way that a county judge should act. And the county judge who's going to act that way shouldn't be county judge. And it's a good statement to make. It's a good thing for the county to be saying out loud. And of course, you had uh Adrian Garcia not show up, Lena Hidalgo not show up, and then of course you had Rodney Ellis and Leslie Brionis who both decided that all of a sudden their buddy buddy was Lena Hidalgo again, and they shut that down, they amended it so that they just said thank you to the rodeo and then just ignored all of the things that Lena Hidalgo did. All the things that really were not just dishonorable, but so disrespectful to the rodeo. Anyways, that interview is up. You should go listen to it on the Lone Star Conservative podcast. Check that out on Spotify, Apple, wherever you get your podcast. With that being said, Lena Hidalgo is now coming back. Not coming back, but kind of sitting down and saying, hey, all this stuff's crazy. Uh she did an interview, I think with KPRC2, is uh, I think Bryce Newberry is who she did the interview with. And she said she has no regrets. No this is part of the problem. She said she has no regrets about how she handled the rodeo dispute. And she claims she was manhandled by security. All right, those were some of the claims. She, of course, there were allegations of racial and sexist biases in what happened. Uh she said that if it had been a man, it probably would have been handled differently, all these sorts of things. She said, I'm just going through what it is to be a politician in a divided time. Uh now, of course, you also have the stuff going on where the county itself, at least some people in the county, would like her to resign. Uh the people, certainly, if you were to take a poll of the people, I think even people on the left are kind of fed up with Lena Hidalgo. This is why she didn't run for re-election. I think she knows that. Um, but even the people want her gone. And so when asked whether the backlash is politically or partisanly, you know, motivated, Hidalgo stepped stopped short uh of explicitly saying yes, but she did suggest that her account has been misrepresented. She said I would refer you to the letter. I was very clear on what happened. I would say comments that are not consistent with that letter are twisting things. If you don't take this is this is a lot of the problem with our politicians. Rather than acknowledge, it's not even that you have regrets, but even acknowledging that you could be mistaken, even acknowledging that maybe your perspective on what happened isn't the full truth, that there are actually other sides to a story and that you don't know everything, you could be wrong about the way things are handled, you could be wrong about the way that the security acted or the leadership acted, you could be wrong on their intent, right? Because a lot of the letter was accusing them of possible, like I said, motivations related to race and sex. For you to make those claims and then to turn around and say that if you don't take what I said in the letter as the truth means that you're twisting things. So many politicians do this. It's what I say is true, everything I said is true, even the things that I said related to someone else's intent, which you can't possibly know. All of those things are true. And if you don't believe them wholeheartedly, if you don't believe every claim in that letter, which she's literally saying, i i if if if your comments are not consistent with my letter, then you're the one that's twisting everything. It's not possible that maybe I twisted things. It's not possible that maybe I acted a little bit erratically, because I have no regrets. It's not possible that maybe I misbehaved, or maybe there was maybe, maybe even go so far as to say I don't have regrets. But maybe we we we both had our issues, right? Maybe, maybe neither of us was really in the wrong. Maybe they also have no regrets, and maybe they're okay with that, right? Maybe that's fine too. Maybe, you know, I felt manhandled. Maybe I felt like there could have been racial or sexist bias in the process, but maybe they didn't have those intents. Maybe that was not why they did what they did. Maybe that's completely unrelated at all, especially given the facts, right? Because your letters, of course, your perspective of what happened, and their revocation of your stuff is their perspective on what happened. But the facts are pretty clear. You were told you can't be there. You were told the the seats are sold out, you were told please don't go down there, and then you did, and they escorted you off the premises. Those are the facts. And you can make whatever claims you want in addition to that, what perspective you have in addition to that. But for you to come out and say that if you don't take only what you said in the letter and you add anything to that, that you're twisting things, is, is, is radical. I mean, it's insane. And again, asking whether if she could go back, whether she'd handle the situation differently, she responded, no. I I I wouldn't, I wouldn't do anything differently. She also, of course, said there's a lot of clouds. I really came to talk about flood control, but there's just nothing to clear up. And so she said, I've had a lot of political attacks over my time in office. It's unfortunate, right, to have another set of political attacks. I'm used to it, so I'm okay. I'll be okay. I'm glad to hear that. I'm focused on the flood control side of things. I can't control what people say. We live in a free country. I'm happy for that. And so, you know, people are going to say and have a right to say whatever they want to say. And so she said, it's a beautiful day today, but we know that hurricane season's coming up. I think it's really important for people to know what's going on. And so then she, of course, kind of pivoted over to the flood control projects, uh, federal funding risks, missing deadlines, the possibility of losing $800 million in federal grant money. And so she said that that apparently the funding for housing and urban development is being spent too slowly, things are being built too slowly, and she said we're at risk of missing the deadline. If we don't meet it, the money gets clawed back. She said with HUD projects, you have to sequence things that normally could be done at the same time. There's a lot of red tape. She also said that it's unlikely that the county doesn't have any faults in the delay. She said, I'm digging to see if there are delays within the way the flood control district is administering those federal funds. I believe they need to do better and should be doing better in how they administer the funds that are entirely local. But that's a conversation for another day. And so that's all coming down, of course, as you also have budget pressure, uh questions about leadership. Uh for example, asking her, you know, you you don't have any regrets, but what about the fact that you've not shown up for three commissioner's court meetings in a row, despite if anybody's showing up, it should be you, right? If if anybody was going to miss, you're the last person that should miss a commissioner's court meeting. Well, she said, well, my my absence is totally fair because I'm leading international trade missions. Uh and she said those trips are funded through campaign dollars, not taxpayer money, which if true is good, uh, and has already led to conversations about increased foreign investment interest. She said, I'm very proud of how we manage all emergencies, and not just about how you respond, it's about how you prepare. But all of this is kind of going into highlight what Tom Ramsey said yesterday. One of the things that I think was very important about what he said, he said, is this the person that we trust to ultimately lead the county? Right? Say that an emergency, God forbid, does happen this year, which there have been plenty of years where we've gone okay, and there have been other years where we've had multiple different storms uh that have done untold damage to the greater Houston area. If we're going through that, is Lena Hidalgo the person that we see as a viable option for doing a good job, for making sure that our county is well prepared. You know, she was talking about preparations and federal tax dollars, whether HUD is spending the money on a good enough schedule, all those sorts of things. But again, there's no acknowledgement that maybe, just maybe, she's at fault in any way, shape, or form. There is absolutely zero personal responsibility for what's happened. There's none. And this this is my problem, my really probably my main problem with Lena Hidalgo. It's not even that I disagree with her politically, though I do. It's not that she's a supporter of crazy things that I don't agree with. Those are all real problems that need to be addressed and and have been addressed on the show and will continue to be addressed on the show when she makes crazy radical claims. One of my biggest actual pet peeves, one of my biggest issues with politics in general, but especially Lena Hidalgo, is the inability to admit that you're not perfect. Pretending, acting like you've done the very best that it's possible to do, and that if anything's gone wrong, it's someone else's fault. That you bear ultimately no responsibility for any of the issues that we've had. Right? Saying, hey, obviously there's a lot of people talking about what I did at the rodeo. Obviously, we've had some issue with flood control projects, obviously we've had some budget concerns and and deficit issues but none of that is my fault. Right? Let's point over here and over there, and let's even point way, way, way over there. But what I'm not going to do is admit that I could have done better, that there's things that I could have done differently. There's ways that I could have handled things differently. And unfortunately, that's become quite the popular position in politics these days. You know, there's there's a total lack of humility in among our politicians, where and not to name any names, but we know there's a lot of politicians who've done some pretty crazy things that should not have been done, that should not have been passed. And it seems like every single time that happens, rather than than admit, hey, you know what, I made a mistake. Hey, you know what? I probably could have handled this better. Hey, you know what? I probably could have done a better job. I could have prioritized different things than I was prioritizing. While I was busy with international trade missions, which aren't, by the way, inherently bad. But while I was busy with that, while I was busy trying to get security footage from the rodeo to prove my point, which didn't end up working out anyway, which didn't end up, you know, being successful, while I'm doing all of those things that take up a significant amount of time and funding, while I'm doing that, our county is suffering, right? We we know that we have massive budget deficits every year. We know that we have issues with flood control projects and with hurricane preparedness, right? And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the county, right? There are a variety there are a whole host of issues surrounding Harris County with things that need to be fixed. And you can't even acknowledge that maybe your priorities haven't been right. That maybe, just maybe, you're an imperfect person who's made mistakes is absolutely wild to me. I'm not even a politician. I I I'm just a guy that talks for a living. I I just come on the air, I get in a microphone, and I I report on what's happened, I give in my commentary on why it happened, what's going on, and even I'm willing to admit I'm going to make mistakes. There are going to be stories that I report on, uh, that things are going to turn out to have not been true, that my perspective could be wrong. I even said that I believe yesterday we talked about the war in Iran, and I said, look, I could be wrong on this. Right? My my perspective is not the gossip gossip, these people. I am not going to sit around and pretend like I know everything and I'm right. And it's impossible for me to be wrong. And if I am wrong, uh then something else must have happened differently. And really, still then, I'm not actually wrong. I just, you know, didn't have all the facts. I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna be honest. I am not going to get everything right. There are going to be plenty of times that if you go back and you listen to the podcast that I've said things that maybe weren't the case. Not intentionally, but that's not really relevant, I'm going to make mistakes. And it's very important that the people that we have in representative positions, especially, even more so than somebody who's on air or in the podcast realm or on social media, even more important than any of that are the people that are actually tasked with running things and representing people. And if they're unwilling to admit, hey, you know what? I could be wrong on this. Maybe my perspective isn't the truth. Maybe there are tur there are actual facts that kind of combat what I'm saying, and I could be wrong. If you can't admit that at any level, then there is a real ego and pride issue, which obviously everybody struggles with. I get it. But if if you're incapable of admitting to any level of personal responsibility in your day-to-day actions and in the way that you run things, then you're not a trustworthy person to lead anything. Right? One of the marks of a good leader is the ability to apologize, is the ability to admit failure, is the ability to change course with updated facts and say, hey, I was actually mistaken. Those are very important parts of being a good leader. And if you're going to be the county judge for one of the largest counties in the country, it is even all the more important for you to be able to bear that level of personal responsibility, own up to the things that you've done wrong, and say, I'm going to do better. I understand I made mistakes. That doesn't mean that I should be removed from office or that I should resign. I admit I've made mistakes. I haven't handled things as well as I could have or should have. But we're going to fix that. We're going to, we're going to every day be attempting to achieve something greater, more success, learn from those mistakes. I think people would respect that a lot. I think that would garner a lot of mature responses from people to say, hey, you know what? That's the sign of a good leader. You're admitting you made mistakes, and here's how you're going to fix them. But we're not even getting to that step because they won't admit that it's ever possible that they're wrong. And that's not just a Lena Dalgo thing. I know we're talking about Lena Dalgo, but that's true, by the way, on both sides of the political aisle, across local government, state government, and federal government. We have a lot of people that are so deeply entrenched in this, they can't admit when they're wrong. And it results in a lot of people who start acting like gods, like, hey, we're we're in charge. We tell you what to do, and we're never wrong. And I promise you, ladies and gentlemen, I promise you, that is not true. That's why I warn everybody here on the show. I say, do not take what people say or do as gospel truth. Do not start deifying them where it's impossible for them to do. There are a lot of people, this has been a major issue I've said with Trump before. I like Trump as much as the next guy. I've voted for Trump in every presidential election I've ever been allowed to vote in. If I could go back, would I do it again? Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind I would do it again, given the alternative options, right? Whether that's Hillary Clinton or whether that's Joe Biden or it's Kamala Harris, of course I'm picking Trump over any of those options. But a lot of people have put themselves in a position where they look at Trump and they say, no, Trump is perfect. Trump, Trump's our supreme leader. No, if he's doing it, it's 4D chess and he's right. And that sort of position is gonna get us in a lot of trouble in politics if we can't admit that we're all people, and people make mistakes, and we have to know when those mistakes are being made.

Why Leaders Must Admit Mistakes

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With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over because two correctional officers uh have been relieved of duty after there are allegations from a female inmate of sexual assault uh at a at a at Hospital Galveston. Uh pretty wild turn of events. We've got a couple stories kind of similar to this coming up on the agenda for the rest of the day. But we'll talk about these two correctional officers, what those allegations are, why they've been relieved, what the case looks like from here on out, all of that. We'll get back from the break. If you would like to text into the show, be a part of the show. You know, that means uh if you have a disagreement, something that you want to clarify, right? If you want to know, hey, what what are you saying here? Because I I'm hearing you say this, but I believe this, or is that what you're saying? Clarifying questions, all that sort of stuff, or something that you want to hear reported on that I've not gotten into yet, uh, feel free to text in at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back with those two correctional officer allegations after the break.

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Artemis II Launch And National Pride

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So real quickly, before we get into this, I want to highlight if you guys did not watch, you really missed out on a treat. Uh yesterday, Artemis II launched over from Florida. You know, they're gonna go around the Earth to get proper velocity or whatever it is they're trying to get to. I'm not a rocket scientist, you know, I couldn't tell you. But they're uh going around and they're gonna shoot up to the moon. I think we're going further than any human being has ever gone since we're going to the dark side of the moon, right? We're going around the moon. I think the record before was like 243,000 miles that we've gone. We're going like 250,000 miles away from Earth this trip. Uh and of course, we're not stopping on the moon this time. It's only a 10-day mission to go around. I'm sure they're doing some investigations, uh, going to take some notes. They're going to come back. The eventual goal, I think, is 2029 or 2028. They're hoping to actually land on the moon again. Maybe it's 2028. They're hoping to land on the moon again, uh, start with an actual lunar base. And NASA's admitting, of course, their end goal is also to be able to get to Mars in alliance with, of course, like SpaceX, uh, Elon Musk's company that's also trying to do that. And so incredible, by the way, uh, to just watch that happen. I mean, it was it was just so cool to know that you're you're getting to watch as once again America, land of the free home of the brave, is headed up toward the moon. I made the joke on my social media yesterday. I said, uh finally we're headed up to the moon for the first time. And I I got a lot of laugh reactions from people for April Fools. But no, it was very cool to watch. I mean, it really was incredible uh to watch the countdown, hear the interviews, hear what was going on, and to see it launch, see the speed that they were getting up to, see where they were headed, see the trajectory, have the GoPro cameras on the ship itself uh was such an incredible moment, history being made that was it was just so fascinating. Kind of reminded me how people must have felt back when they if they got to watch back in the 60s and 70s when we were, you know, launching and doing stuff like that, how cool that must have been. The only regret I have, if I have any, uh, is that I did not have the opportunity to go and watch it live. One day, one day I'll be on the list. I'll make it in and I'll I'll watch one of the rocket launches headed for the moon or Mars or wherever we're going live. I think that would be an incredible experience. But it was very cool to watch uh the live stream of what was going on. As I just let you know, it did launch, didn't blow up, right? We didn't have a challenge or debacle. It did work, did happen. And so uh it was it was great. It was very cool to watch. You missed out

Inmate Assault Claims Under Investigation

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again if you did not watch it. With that being said, these these two correctional officers have been relieved of duty after a female inmate reported being sexually assaulted at Hospital Galveston. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice, along with Hospital Galveston and the Office of Inspector General, immediately opened investigations into the complaint. The inmate reported the two officers sexually assaulted her. Two correctional officers have been relieved of duty while both criminal and administrative investigations are ongoing. Additionally, both the Office of the Attorney of the Inspector General and the TDCJ are both investigating a second incident where a different female inmate alleged she was sexually assaulted at the beginning of this year. In the other incident, one officer was identified by name and two others were described. The officer identified by name and one of the others described matched those of the first incident mentioned. And so it's looking like we have two separate allegations from two separate inmates, both naming the same people. That I'm not saying it's true, uh, but there's a level of consistency in that that would lead us to believe that maybe there's something to these claims. Nevertheless, the names of the officers have not been released, as of course the investigations are ongoing. The agency says male officers should not be alone with an individual female inmate. And additionally, staff cannot perform cross-gendered unclothed searches just to prevent stuff like this from happening. Again, this is in the very early stages of the investigation. So we don't have details on what exactly happened. Uh there's no released camera footage, none of that sort of stuff. All that I'm sure will come out through the course of not only the investigation, but then possibly, of course, uh the tr a trial, assuming we have the level of evidentiary compliance to reach that point. We don't know any of that, right? We're kind of stuck here, just kind of waiting to hear more details from the TDCJ, from the Office of Inspector General. What we do know is that clearly there's enough to it that that the officers have for now been put on this sort of suspension. Uh that for now they will not be working in the facility, which I I don't know if that's common practice for every single case. I think there have been cases where that hasn't happened, uh where there's been allegations because there just wasn't enough evidence. So I would assume that there's at least some sort of evidence that they've reached that they've said, okay, there's a possibility this happened, and we want to make sure it's not happening while this is ongoing. Uh if that turns out to be true, right? If the allegations are correct. I've admitted

The Case For Harsher Justice

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before, you know, I'm one of the areas where I can understand that people probably view my positions as radical certainly has to do with justice. I think that justice is far more harsh and far more strict than modern Americans tend to think that it should be. I know that we've been sensitized into believing that prison is just, that housing, clothing, and feeding people as a sort of adult version of timeout is the right response. It isn't, by the way. And so when I come out and I say, you know, what I think should happen to people, I'll consistently get people who say, Michael, that's pretty crazy, right? Like I understand if it's capital murder that it might be a fair response to have, in at least some of those cases, capital punishment. And I say, no, no, no, it should be all of those cases, plus a whole lot more. Right? If, for example, I think I think we all should all be able to agree that if you're a child molester, I I I still don't comprehend the argument that we're not giving those people the death penalty. Right. In many cases, we're not even giving them life in prison. If your argument is you want them off the streets permanently, but you don't like killing people, okay, then that's a bad argument. But at le at least, you know, you're saying that that person should never be on the streets again, never be allowed around children again. But a lot of these a lot of these cases where you have legitimate cases of sexual assault and abuse and molestation and rape, they end in, I don't want to say a slap on the wrist, though sometimes they do, but a lot of times they just result in five, ten years behind bars. It's like a time out and then you're back and you're here. And and that's it. That's the end of the story. And it's very frustrating because we should be a lot more strict with the sort of crazy people who are willing to commit sexually heinous crimes. It should be we should have far more punitive justice for those sorts of people. Uh and if they're if they're, you know, ultimately convicted in something like sexual assault, I think there is a very fair argument to say that that is also worthy of capital punishment. That if you're if you're accused of and convicted of things like rape and molestation, children are not, I think it should be very clear that those people are executed, that they are incapable of living among civilized society ever again, and that I don't want to pay millions of dollars to house them until they die of natural causes. I think it's a total waste of taxpayer money. I think it has uh an overall the same intent anyway. I think it would be far more just to just execute them for the crimes they've committed. With that being said, we get back from the break. We're

Islamic Curriculum Fight At SBOE

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gonna jump over because we talked a little bit with Julie Pickering earlier this week about this, but we're now getting some stories coming out about it now that we're getting closer and closer. Muslims are getting prepared to push the State Board of Education, kind of lobby them for Islamic classroom materials here in the state of Texas. And unfortunately, unlike most times, where it would almost seem like a headline like this is I don't want to say fear-mongering, uh, but you you wonder how true it is. I I know that you're like, oh, Muslims, of course, are gonna try to push it, but that doesn't mean anything. But in this case, all the evidence we have is pointing to the fact that they're actually being relatively successful at getting what they want right now. They're doing a good job playing the political game that is the state of Texas and this country. And so we'll see where this goes, but I want to report a little more in depth on this story. If you would like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And I'll be right back after the break.

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So with the State Board of Education set to consider changes to the State of Texas public school curriculum on social studies, Muslim activists are reportedly planning to push for more inclusion of Islamic history and dogma in our public schools. Not in the Islamic schools, not in the funding they can get from school choice programs, none of that. They're set to try to push this into the public school curriculum. But the vast majority of Texas children will be learning. And so, of course, that has conservatives really fighting for Texans to speak up and speak out about what they actually believe and what they actually desire for public school curriculum. Uh Fran Rhodes, who leads the True Texas Project, raised concerns just yesterday, uh during the morning time, that items on the April 7th agenda from the State Board of Education, that's in five days, by the way, are set to be used by Muslims engaged in lobbying for Islamic issues to be included in social studies. And so curriculum and government schools must adhere to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. The proposed revisions to the social studies, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills have drawn praise from many educational reformers, but derision from Islamists keen on inserting their religion into the classroom. A forum, which was sponsored last month by the Texas Coalition on Human Rights and the River Oaks Islamic Center, claim that the standards promote exclusionary and Islamophobic narratives. Their solution is to counter these narratives and take action at next week's State Board of Education meeting. The city is geographically divided into 15 State Board of Education districts, with members elected to 14 term, for uh four-year terms. And so SBO member Pam Little on social media said no outside organization writes curriculum for Texas. She added that she is against any form of Sharia law or religious doctrine being pushed into our schools, standards, or instructional materials. Roadstead Her organization, with the help of Patriot Mobile, is organizing a bus trip for citizens to Austin next week interested in countering the attempted Islamification of Texas's public school curriculum. Quote, we need people to testify at this public hearing where decisions will be made to keep Islam and Sharia out of the public school essential knowledge and skills and focus on traditional America first principles. We would like for people to encourage the board to include founding documents, the Bible, and other patriotic documents and writings in the literary works list, and to specifically exclude Islamic texts. You also have Patriot Mobile CEO Jeremy uh Jenny Story, who said that Texans must ensure that the Texas angel knowledge and skills represent a solid education and not indoctrination. Said, quote, it is critical that the Texas State Board of Education uphold accurate fact-based history in our programs. We're proud to provide transportation to Austin so Texans can make their voices heard and ensure that our curriculum reflects truth, not leftist or sharia-based political ideology.

The Argument For Teaching Christianity

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And here's where I get into it with a lot of conservatives. Because and I could give a little bit of background on why I believe this. I've done that on the show before, but let me just stipulate all of this. Christianity is different from the other religions for two main reasons, right? I've said before, I am more than content. I actually desire to see the Bible taught in our public schools. I actually desire to see Christian history taught, uh, the history of the early church, the history of the crusaders in Europe, Western civilization. And there's two main reasons why I view Christianity as differing from the other religions. The first is fairly straightforward. Our history is rooted in it. You can't actually discuss the truth of American or Western history without acknowledging the impact of the Bible and of Christianity and of Christian ethics and of Christian justice and of Christian belief. It's impossible to do. Christianity is such a massive part of what the pilgrims believed, of what the colonies believed, of what the West believed prior to coming over to the New World. It's such a big part of what the founders believed and up until the past hundred years, what America as a nation really believed and followed. It is such a large part of American and Western history that I really believe it's impossible to teach an accurate version of history while saying, well, in the name of not teaching religious dogma or religious doctrine whatsoever, we're not going to teach any of them. But Christianity is especial because it actually does relate to American history. Even if you come out and you say that all religions are verifiably equal, even if that were true, you still have to grapple with the historical reality that our country specifically believed in Christianity. And by extension, that is a massive part of what we believed when we were founded, what our rights, where our rights come from, what we believe about the role of government. Right? All those things were predicated on Christian belief. And so I don't think it's I don't think it's justifiable to sit around and to say, well, you you you shouldn't teach Islam, but you also shouldn't teach Christianity either. We gotta be completely religion-free. No, even if you're just going to approach this from a historical perspective, you actually do have to teach Christianity. But there's a second reason inarguably more important than the first one. And that is if you're going to educate children on what's true and what is what is factual, you can't actually do that if you're not teaching the Bible. You you can't actually be giving the whole truth to children and to students if you're not teaching Christianity from both a historical and a theological perspective. I'll give you a great example of this. If you're teaching science, right, and by the way, this applies everywhere from biology to geology, they'll teach this in basically every science course, you've basically got two options. You can either teach macro old earth evolution, or you can teach at least some form of creation as the basis for everything that we know that exists. And if you're not willing to look to the Bible for truth, and you try to look only from what man has himself discovered, apart from the grace of God, you're going to be teaching kids, well, the earth is billions of years old, and it's all by random chance, and this is how. Macroevolution worked, and you're teaching them things that are not rooted ultimately in facts, things that are not ultimately rooted in what we actually know, just hypotheticals, guesses, and theories, rather than teaching them the truth found in the Bible about how the world came to be, about how actually you're not here by random chance, you're not actually an accident, you're not just some random makeup of cells that is just here and floating around the ether. That's not actually true. God actually made you the purpose and an intent. And I think that's very important that we teach the truth. And so the reason that Christianity differs from other religions is not just because it's historically connected to the US and to the West in general. It's also because Christianity just so happens to be true. It just so happens to be speaking about the tr about the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, about the one true and living God. And so by nature, we should teach that religion in our schools, because if you're going to teach anything, from biology to history, to what the purpose of life is, right? Critical thinking skills, logic, math, all of these things to separate that from the God who made it all is not only senseless, it's actually evil. And so I don't think all religions are created equal. That's not true. That's a lie. It's a lie from the pit of hell. I'm allowed to say we should not teach our kids Islam, we should teach them Christianity, and that be a good thing. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over because, of course, we're coming up on the bottom of the first hour, uh, here for the last segment of the first hour of the show. And so, of course, in that segment, as we always do, we're gonna cover the weather. 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Houston Weather And Storm Timing

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here to wrap up the first hour of the show, we'll talk a little bit about what's going on with our weather right now. Basically, the Houston metro area, especially the commuters, could be facing some delays today as a weak cold front is grazing our region, bringing scattered storms and showers. The primary rain tech comes from a complex of thunderstorms that developed across north and west Texas yesterday. As this line of storms approaches southeast Texas late this morning, it's expected to weaken. Still, scattered downpours could, of course, cause travel problems, especially with you guys know how the drivers are here in the greater Houston area. Now, the locations most likely to see downpours here in the morning are going to be north and west of Houston, where a line of thunderstorms from San Antonio to the Dallas-Fort Worth area could slow travel between 5 and 8 a.m. College Station in Huntsville could get it, you know, around 9 a.m., moving down towards the Houston area by 9 to 11 a.m. Houston's most widespread rain chance arrives around noon and lasts through about 3 or 4 p.m. A broken line of storms is going to approach the I-10 corridor in the early afternoon, likely weakening before reaching Beaumont or Lake Charles. Behind that line, a few lingering showers may develop through mid-afternoon along I-10. Now by the evening, a few spotty showers could linger through 8 p.m. or so, especially near and south of Houston. Coastal areas have the lowest rain chances, but will likely be the last to dry out. With clouds and periods of rain limiting daytime heating, temperatures across Southeast Texas are not going to vary too much. Most areas are going to start today in the upper 60s to low 70s, with highs reaching the upper 70s to lower 80s. Tomorrow will be the driest day through the Easter weekend. Aside from a few streamer showers that move from the coast, we're going to see a mostly cloudy day with highs in the mid-80s tomorrow. But by Saturday, our flood risk increases to a level one of four. Most of the morning and afternoon is going to be dry, but rain arrives by the evening. Models suggest another line of thunderstorms could arrive between 7 and 11 PM. Could produce gusty winds or even small hail. That Y window should narrow, of course, with a bit of forecasts. We'll keep you guys updated, especially tomorrow. Now, whether or not we see rain on Easter Sunday will depend on how quickly the cold front clears the area. Obviously, if it moves offshore pretty quickly, the rain chances will be faintly, fairly hit or miss. For now, it looks like the rain won't be too bad on Sunday, but the cool weather that's coming along with that cold front will be pretty noticeable. You'll notice that the highs are dropping from the 80s down into the low 70s. That'll do it for the first hour of the show. When we get back from the break, we're going to jump over because the uh Houston Children's Museum Media Director, among several others, by the way, has been busted in a child predator sting in Manville. We'll talk all about it when we get back. Stick around. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be back at the top of the next hour.

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Child Predator Sting In Manvel

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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 Texalent AC Service. Manville police are saying that seven people were arrested following a multi-day online sting targeting suspected child predators, and one of those who was arrested has been linked to the Children's Museum of Houston. According to investigators, the operation began last Wednesday, so a little over a week ago, and involved the Houston Metro Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the ICAC Task Force, along with multiple law enforcement agencies. Authorities said the suspects believed they were communicating with minors online. All seven men are, of course, now facing charges of online solicitation of a minor. Please identified one of the suspects as 50-year-old Lewis Anthony Salinas, who they say may also go by Tony Salinas. Officials confirmed that he is now a former employee of the Children's Museum of Houston. In a statement, the museum said it took immediate action after learning of the allegations. They said, quote, we maintain strict policies and procedures designed to protect children, including thorough background checks and clear standards of conduct for all staff. We continuously review and strengthen these measures to ensure a trough a safe, trusted, and welcoming environment for every child and family we serve. The museum added that it could not provide additional details due to the ongoing investigation. Police also say as the investigation is ongoing, uh, four more arrests are pending as they secure the warrants for those, and that it will be continuing to find if there's more you know ongoing in this. But what I will say is that what we see happening here is unfortunately not that uncommon anymore. And I remember a conversation I had, maybe it was almost two years ago. It's been a while. I got to have a conversation with a constable up in Montgomery County, and I I asked him. I said, Look, I'm writing a story. Uh, I want to get your statement about some of this. Uh, but if there's anything you want to tell me, you know, off the record, obviously I'm gonna I'm gonna honor that, um, which is very cool, by the way, because sometimes people will say things off the record that are true, but that they don't want their name attached to, because, you know, it could turn out that, you know, that'll that'll get them targeted and harassed. And I understand that, right? That's important, uh, that you're able to maintain some level, not of anonymity, but of the ability to say things uh and not be that that that's one thing that I'll say about being on air uh that comes with a special level of of danger and precaution because I don't limit the things that I say. And in many cases, that will inevitably lead to my being targeted, being harassed, people really not liking me. Um not that I have any problems with that, but I'm I'm expecting it. Actually, I kind of went into this whole thing knowing that would be the case. So it's not crazy when it happens. I'm not I'm not flabbergasted when people hate me. I I actually expect it. And so when they don't, it's like a special little joy that I get out of people not hating it. But that's expected. Anyways, I say all this to say when he was talking off the record, one of the things he mentioned, I asked him point blank, I said, Look, it seems like we keep having these teachers, or in this case a museum director, but we keep having these people who almost intentionally put themselves in scenarios, right? It seems like a lot of these cases that we're dealing with, I mean, there are just random people out there who are working random jobs who are, of course, accused of and convicted of these things, but it seems like a lot of them are already in a position to be around children in the first place. It seems like they've intentionally put themselves here. And he said, look, off the record, you know, the reality is that yeah, that's exactly what's happening. That of course it is. He said, You if you think about it, it makes perfect sense, right? If your desire is to abuse children, then the easiest way to do that is to be a trusted person in a child's life. Right? That's why you'll often find that all of the abusers are family members or close friends of the family or teachers or people that work at daycares. The reason that's so common and you'd expect it is because they've intentionally put themselves in a place where they have day-to-day interactions with children, and they put themselves in an authority position in those children's lives where they're supposed to be trustworthy. They're trusted adults, they're people that you should be able to rely on and you trust with your kids, right? When you send your kids out to school every day, if you send your kids to whether it's private or public school, there's a level of trust, institutional trust that you have in not only the place, but in the people that work there, in the staff, in the teachers, in the principal at that particular school. You have to have that. Otherwise, I mean, if you don't, and you're sending your kids there, if you don't trust them and you're sending your kids there, there's a whole other problem you should address as to why you would send your child somewhere that you don't trust the people there. But you do, you have that level of trust, and so that gets taken advantage of. And sometimes it's set up in such a way for it to be taken advantage of. What are

Why Predators Target Trusted Roles

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the odds that you have a guy who is uh arrested and accused of soliciting minors who was working as the media director for the children's museum? What are the odds of that unless that was done intentionally to gain access to children? I remember an interview that was done a few years ago. It stuck with me. It's one of those, you know, core memory where you watch an interview of something when you're not even necessarily that young, but you watch it and the rest of your life you remember something that was said. You remember what you heard from someone that did something, and you say, Yeah, I'm gonna remember that forever. One of the in this interview, it was this serial pedophile who had ultimately I think it was it was something like dozens of children have been abused by this single fella. And this guy was willing to speak out as to, you know, what he did. I think he had, I believe, don't quote me on this, because I don't remember that's what I was saying. I don't remember a lot of the background details. I just remember the interview itself. I believe the guy had, you know, repented of that and had said, like, I deserve just punishment for what I've done, uh, but I have changed. I still desire that I would be convicted slash punished completely for what I've done. I deserve earthly repercussions, uh, but I've been saved. I believe that's the case. Nevertheless, he did this interview and was talking with the interviewer. Uh, and one of the questions that he was asked was, what sort of things do you look for when you target? Because obviously you've done it enough times, you clearly have some sort of plan going into this. It's not just if it was one case and you were just a creepy degenerate who uh the opportunity and time had kind of lined up, that'd be one thing. But when you abuse dozens of children, obviously there was a plan, there was design behind it. And he was asked, what is the thing that you look for? What's like the number one thing you look for when you're looking for kids to abuse? And it's not really gonna be a shock, but it is gonna be a kind of a harrowing moment for those who have not seen this interview. This guy, he he came out and he said, the number one thing I look for is non-existent or non-present fathers and for weak fathers. Those were the things that he looked for, the number one thing that he was analyzing. The the f it was the very first thing he would look at, and it was a non-negotiable, right? Other things you could sort of manipulate, other things you could sort of change, move around. But if you had a strong, uh, mentally and physically strong, present father in a child's life, it was an immediate that child's off my list. I'm not even gonna think about it, I'm gonna go find somebody else. And he talked about why that was. He explained that fathers are the ultimate protector of children. That yes, mothers are incredibly important. No one denies that. This is not a hamper down on women at all. But from the perspective of the safety of your family, everybody knows the father is the ultimate line of defense, he's the front line, right? He's he's the one who's going to be tasked ultimately with the protection and provision of his family. God's ordained it that way, he's programmed us that way. That that is the capability that he's given men specifically. And when people are looking to abuse or to hurt, one of the main things that you have to be aware of is they're looking to see what kind of father you are. They're looking to see what kind of man you are. And if you're lazy and weak and you're not present, and that's obvious to people, that's the number one thing that's gonna dictate whether or not they're even willing to consider abusing your child. Because again, it it's the same as anything else. You know why we don't have a lot of alligator deaths anymore? I know that that's a common thing, especially for kids, that people are like, oh, alligators scary, scary. Uh, I know. And it's not to say that you shouldn't be concerned about it ever and you shouldn't, you know, watch out. Uh, but almost nobody dies from alligator attacks in the US anymore. And you know why? The number one reason is because alligators don't want to have to fight for their food. They can access easier food that's not going to result in a long drawn-out process that even if there's no like conscious logical thought as to, well, maybe I could lose, I need to think about this, but there is a level of consideration. What is this going to require of me? And nobody wants to largely be put through more effort than they need to be. It's work smarter, not harder. Everybody follows that. If you're a present, strong father in your child's life, no pedophile really wants to deal with that, right? That presents a whole nother aspect to the problem for them. It's already dangerous enough to break the law in a way like that. You you throw in being a present father, someone who's going to stand up to you, someone who's going to stop you and maybe even hurt you. And all of a sudden, you're thinking, yeah, I am uninterested in dealing with that. And so when we talk about any of these cases where you have child abusers, child molesters, online solicitation of a minor, I have consistently said, and it's not going to change, that fathers need to be more active and present in each of their children's lives. And that means a variety of things, right? It means online solicitation of a minor is one of the easy ones to combat because you know how you stop the online solicitation of your minor? You don't put your minor online. Right? That that is an easy number one step to prevent all of this is just don't put your child on the internet. Don't give them access to social media, don't give them access to online video games that you're not actively monitoring while they're on there. There have been lots of conversations about chats in VR rooms and in Roblox and all these other things. You can prevent that. It's actually not that hard. It's not even one of the things that you're like having to be super watchful and wary of. You just don't give your child unadulterated access to those things. And boom, easy fix. All of this to say is that a lot of these, a lot of these crimes, a lot of them, um, while of course the responsibility for the crime itself is always on the criminal. This is not to victim blame or to go after the people who've been abused, but this is to this is a reminder, a cautionary tale to all, specifically men, right? And of course, if you're a mother, you have responsibilities to play in this, you can do the best that you can, and you should, right? You should do everything you can to protect your children. But God gives a special calling to fathers to do that. This is why every single statistic we have regarding both men and women who have non-present fathers in the home who don't show a dedication and love for their children, their children have a variety, a whole host of problems that come with that. Uh for boys, a lot of times that that results we we know that there's higher rates of gang activity, violence, criminality, homelessness, drug abuse for girls. We know that there's higher rates of sexual abuse, there's higher rates of uh, you know, going out and hoeing around, there's higher rates of being involved in things like OnlyFans and pornography. All of those things are verifiably true for homes that don't have present fathers. But there's another aspect to that because not only do you need to be present and loving, but you also do need to be strong. And I don't just mean hit the gym, though if you're not doing that, you probably should consider it. I don't just mean being physically capable. It also means being really

Fathers, Self-Defense, And Gun Rights

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having fortitude. And in America, we actually have the great blessing of part of that, meaning that you're spending time at the range. I I know it's great. I know you're like, wow, you really jumped to the shoot the guy. Yeah, shoot a pedophile. Like, come on. What's the old what's the old joke? Dead pedophile. Dead pedophiles don't re-offend. Right? It's a it's it's a joke, but it's also like inarguably true. Dead pedophiles don't re-offend. And you have to be prepared to handle that sort of stuff. You have to be prepared to deal with that sort of stuff. And by the way, I mentioned the blessing of living where we live, where you actually do have the availability and the right to defend your family. That is not just magic, by the way. That's not just something that we just have and could never go away. That has to be fought for hard if we want to maintain it. If we want to keep any of our rights, but especially the one that results in the protection of our home, the protection of our children, the protection of our family that requires immense dedication to that fight. And that's why I encourage our listeners to become members of our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. They understand that the Second Amendment was written for a variety of reasons, right? I know you have some people say, well, no, it was just supposed to be government accountability against tyranny. That's true, by the way. Or people that say, no, it's just self-defense. That's also true. Oh, no, it's just hunting. Well, it also was for it it's actually all of it. Your Second Amendment rights were designed to protect all of those things. Those are all rights under keep and bear arms, right? And so Gunners America understands that, and they fight at every single level, local, state, and federal, to protect your God-given Second Amendment rights. They do that through campaigning for good candidates for office who are going to support and defend your rights. They do that by lobbying inside legislative sessions, and and of course, all the preparation that leads to a legislative session, right? We already have NRM charges. They're already involved in that, studying all the bills that are being written, that are being talked about. It also means being willing to get involved in a lawsuit to sue governments at any level who are using policy to violate your rights. But that requires the support of our listeners. It requires the support of people in America willing to stand up for that. You can go to goahhouston.com to become a member. It's a $25 annual membership, $25 per year, which is then of course used for those lawsuits, for the campaigning, and for the lobbying. Again, you can go to GOAHuston.com. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to talk a little bit about Texas school choice. Because of course we know the deadline was extended to March 31st. And the last debate we had had something like 229,000 students. And I said, you know, we're certainly going to get more than that now that the deadline's been extended and things have changed. Well, we have the final numbers coming up from the school choice program, and it's higher than I expected them to be. We'll talk all about it when we get back. If you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on any of the stuff we're going over. Feel free to do so at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, here for the morning show. I'll be right back with School Choice, those application numbers after the break.

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CPAC Clip On Migration And Duty

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I would like to play a short clip from CPAC. This, I believe, was CPAC actually in Europe, I believe it was held. Or maybe it was a speaker from Europe. I don't know all the details, but I heard this speaker speaking about migration and the process by which we really have been invaded. And I want to play a clip from CPAC to kind of highlight a lot of what we've been talking about with Islamic influence, uh, with real Christian American Western history and the importance for a lot of that that we've we have has largely gone unaddressed for so long that we've allowed the invaders in our own gates, right? This is like this is like literally the worst version of the Trojan horse, is what we've done here. Because it's no longer that we're fighting at our borders. It's no longer that we're fighting the invaders from outside our walls that we're having to use arrows and and send our troops out. No, no, no. They have now invaded our country, our land, and the result has been disastrous. And this this speech is actually I don't usually play clips on the show, but I I felt like it was very important to play this clip. So let's let's let's listen to this speaker from CPAC uh who kind of spoke on this sort of migration. Listen, listen to this clip. Take a listen.

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And New York City has become the international capital of the left wing. Nothing made that more clear than the election of Solan Momdomini. Solon Momdomini is the culmination of decades of runaway migration. He himself, a legal immigrant, who hates his post country, is in charge of its greatest city. He is the perfect example of it unassembled. In our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the affirmation of our Christian. We cannot reverse, so we move forward. We cannot give in, so we push on. For the love of our fathers and for the love of Christ, it is our sacred duty to bear our crosses and continue.

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I I literally cannot tell you how important that speech is. I I could never do the sort of eloquency that's being presented there. It's just not, I I don't think I have the capability to perform in such a way as to say those things with such passion and belief and fortitude. But the reality is that everything he's saying there is exactly what we're dealing with here in America. Here here in the West, I I don't even just it's not even just America anymore, right? We love our country. Our country, when we say America first, that precludes every other nation in the world, including Europe, including the countries therein. But what we cannot do is pretend as though those have no bearing to us. Europe is largely our history, right? You look back through the Roman Empire, you look back through the Crusades in Europe, and you must be reminded that those are a part of American history. Those are a part of the legacy of which that man was speaking. Those are things that we must be aware of and be knowledgeable on. Because the the harsh reality of the world is that it the world is full of would-be conquerors, of would-be invaders, of would-be destroyers. And one of the biggest things that we as a nation and we as a civilization are dealing with today is the unfortunate fact that due to our own policy, we've not only allowed, but we've incentivized the Mamdanis of the world to be here, to take us over and to destroy not only our heritage, but our lineage as well. Right? This is not just for our forefathers, though that's important. It's also for our children, for our grandchildren, for our great-grandchildren, to the third and the fourth and the fifth and the sixth generations, and so on and so forth. We have a duty that God has given us, by the way. It's not just a duty of of some random chance of cells we were talking about earlier. It is a God-given sacred duty that we have to not squander what we've been given, the blessings uh that we've been that have been established by those who came before us through hard-fought wars and blood and sweat and tears to dedicate this country to Jesus Christ. And we're throwing it all away on the altar of non-virtuous tolerance, on the the altar of some sort of unwillingness to be called rude names. Well, I don't want to be called an Islamophobe, I don't want to be called a racist, I don't want to be called a bigot, I don't want you to call me mean names and to bully me. And how do you think our forefathers would feel about that? Be be aware, these are men who the being called rude names would be a joke to them. You know, they they were willing to fight and to die, to shed blood for what they were building, for what Christ had called them to, and to see their lineage hundreds of years down the line, giving it all up, not even refusing to go fight, but allowing it to invade through their own policy. You have to be aware, the the Mamdanis of the world that are here did not get here because they bested us in battle. They're not here because they had more troops, they're not here because they were stronger than us, or more capable than us, or their innovation and technology was superior to ours. No, no, no. They're here because your government has betrayed you, because your government has stabbed you in the back and sacrificed you to the gods of tolerance, because your government has seen it prudent to allow mass immigration, legal and illegal, into your walls to justify a massive shift away from what our country and what our hemisphere and what our civilization was ultimately built upon. And I'm not I'm not doing all this to try to give some sort of grandiose speech that that ultimately has no outcome, that ultimately has no no call to action. I'm doing all this to say the the what we're fighting right now is very nefarious. What we're grappling with right now is incredibly evil, incredibly dark, incredibly sinister. And if we're not willing to stand up against it when it matters the most, we're going to lose. Right? We didn't win every battle leading up to this moment just because we were destined to, though I believe, as you are all well aware, heavily in the providence of God. But God uses men. We we cannot look at the history of the world and somehow walk away with the belief on either side of the aisle, right? Either that this was all just because we managed to be better, or this was all just because God did it. Those things are both, those things both have places in our understanding of history. God uses strong capable men to achieve his ends. You look at the story of Joseph, of course, it was in the providence of God that that the world would not starve. That of course was in God's plans. But he used Joseph, he even used Joseph's brothers to achieve that end, that goal, that ultimate providence in in action, was using people. And so as we're looking at Mam Dani, as we're looking at all our politicians, especially here at Holy Week, you know, we're we're you have the Last Supper celebration today, you have Good Friday tomorrow, you have Easter Sunday coming up where we celebrate our risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As we're getting into all of that, what you need to understand, what we all, by the way, I need a reminder of this as much as anybody else, what we all need to understand is that those those things that we're celebrating right now. Look at our politicians. Uh I was talking with my boss earlier this morning about this. Our politicians are are celebrating Ramadan, a Muslim holiday, they're celebrating Diwali, a Hindu holiday, they're celebrating everything under the sun except Jesus Christ, except Christianity, except the very thing that ultimately built not only this country, but European history in general. You talk about the greatness of the Roman Empire, you talk about the greatness of the the Saxons, the Anglo-Saxons, you talk about our history. We talked about on St. Patrick's Day, the the great history of St. Patrick, of the Irish missionaries who who re-incentivized Christianity in the greater part of Europe. All of that, of course, was providential, but it was all built on Christianity. And we are throwing our country away to the hordes which those who came before us dedicated their lives to stopping. Mamdani was on the list of people who they would have fought tooth and nail against. The the migrant from Uganda who believes in communism and Islam, who is whose main goal is to destroy what everything that you ideologically believe in, everything that people have died for, he's seeking to destroy it. And we gave him power of the largest city in the country. We we are doing it to ourselves. Our government is doing it to us. It's not just that we're losing, it's that we are the ones who are driving the sword into ourselves. And there's good and there's bad to that. Obviously, the bad is most certainly uh the level of evil that's required to allow that to be facilitated in the first place and the devastation that it's wrought on our country. But the the silver lining of all of this is that we actually don't have the same fight that many who came before us had. This is not something that we have to go fight on horseback and sacrifice our lives for. For many of us, this is a much simpler fight. Maybe it's not as easy, but it's much simpler because it just requires better policy. It just requires stronger leadership. It just requires more dedication. It just requires not even that, it just requires that we say, you know what, we were founded on certain principles, and if those principles are true, then we have an obligation to not bring in people that don't believe in those principles and to give them positions of power and authority in this country. That should be an incredibly simple statement for any politician to be able to make. And if we want to keep our country, if we want to keep our heritage, if we want to keep the blessings that God has given us, it does not come by sitting idly by. We talked about luxury and complacency. Uh, one of the strongest this is a wild statistic, one of the strongest predictors of the birth rate. We talk about the birth rate crisis on the show and in America in general, all across the West, we have a birth rate crisis. The strongest predictor of that is not income, it is not inflation, it is not affordable housing. The number one predictor of low birth rates is actually affluency and luxury because people get complacent. They stop seeing the importance in the hard work and in the ethics and in those things that God has called us to. And we've grown so complacent in modern luxury that we've lost sight of how we got those things and how we keep them. That's why we prop up gun owners of America. That's why we we deal with the sponsors that we deal with, because we believe wholeheartedly that we have a country that is worth dying for. We have a city and a state that is worth dying for. Charlie Kirk believed that. I believe that. And every single one of us must believe that if we're going to succeed. And it's going to require some uncomfortable truths. It's going to require we say things that will get us called radical that if you're in Europe may get you thrown in jail. Uh, that that may get you ostracized by your friends, by your family, uh, that may result in people thinking differently of you, saying, well, that guy is an actual racist, that guy is the anti-Semitic, that guy is Islamophobic, that guy, any any term in the book they want to throw at you, it's going to result in that. And you have to be aware of that going into it and say, but my job is not to please men, it is to please God, it is for the glory of God. It is, it is for the pursuit of truth and ethics and honesty and what is good, true, and beautiful. And that's what we do here on this show. That's what we're going to keep doing on this show. And I wanted to play that for you. That was a big tangent. We'll get back to school choice in the uh in the next segment. If you would like to text into the show, feel free to let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering. You can do that at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 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Texas School Choice Applications Surge

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Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. So more than 274,000 students have applied. According to the Controller's Office, 274,183 applications were submitted for the Texas Education Freedom Program. More than double the number, by the way, they initially budgeted to serve in the program's first year. A lot of the reason for that uh came from pushback from leftists who said that school choice would be unsuccessful, uh, would destroy public education. And so we managed to get past, of course, a billion dollars in funding, which came out to about a hundred thousand students. And not only have we more than doubled, we are approaching, we approached tripling the numbers of what was generally expected for the first year of the program. Uh and so Kelly Hancock in a statement said it's official, a record-breaking launch for education freedom in Texas. Next, award notices in April, funding in July, after thorough review to protect taxpayer dollars. And so, of course, we know the application deadline was extended by a federal judge as lawsuits continue over the program's eligibility rules, particularly, of course, involving Islamic private schools that were initially excluded over concerns about potential ties to terrorist organizations. But I don't actually think even can I can I say something crazy? That's not actually crazy, it just actually makes perfect sense. Uh I actually don't think you need ties to foreign terrorist organizations or transnational criminal organizations in order for us to reject your eligibility. I actually think the sovereignty of the state of Texas has the authority to say if you don't align ideologically with us, you don't get money. It is what it is. We have a certain standard that we apply across the board, and if you're not willing to adhere to that standard, you don't get the dollars. I I mean if I came out and I said, Hey, I want to be eligible to receive taxpayer dollars. I want to be a vendor for the school choice program. But we don't teach math, we don't teach science, we don't teach social studies, we don't teach writing in English, we don't teach any of those things. Uh all we teach is I mean, you can literally pick anything. We just teach culinary. We we just teach culinary skills. All we do is teach kids how to cook. We would like to be eligible to be a vendor under the school choice program. Rightfully, they would look at you and it wouldn't even take a second glance to say, absolutely not. You you don't adhere to the standards which are applied for a school here in the state of Texas. So I don't actually think that you need to find ties. I understand because we've allowed the courts basically to rule over us with an iron fist, we now are are bending over backwards to please them and to say, well, it's because they're tied to criminal organizations, and so because of those networking ties and this and that and the Council on American Islamic Relations, we don't want to give them funding. You shouldn't actually need any of that as a sovereign state to say, actually, you're a federal judge and we're not going to listen to you. Actually, the Islamic schools aren't getting the money. They don't align with what we believe as a state and as a country. In fact, they desire the downfall of our civilization. We actually don't want that. I actually think it would be better if they didn't get a single dollar in tax refined. In fact, actually, you want to take it a step further. I actually think we have the authority to shut them down and say you're not eligible to have a like you have to be licensed to allow the school to operate in the first place. You're not even eligible for the license you need. You're not allowed to do it and if you get caught teaching, you know, more than you know, just homeschooling, if you get caught teaching kids that aren't yours, uh, you're actually going to receive harsh punishment for that. You're it may start with fines and move from there, but that's where we're gonna go with this. Because we have children, young children, who are being educated in our country that our country is evil, that our country is bad, and that every single person around them in our society should be subjugated to their whims and their insanely radical beliefs and their ideologies that are are literally, I don't mean foreign in some sort of hypothetical, you know, some sort of sense of, oh, well, you're it's it's a foreign. No, I'm saying literally, geographically foreign ideology that we have allowed to transpire, teaching kids in our country. I mean, could you imagine going to an Islamic nation and teaching them that Christianity is the supreme religion and Islam should be destroyed and subjugated. Like if you try to do that, you'd probably honestly you'd probably be executed. I don't even think it'd be I I don't even think it would just be some sort of like, you you can't do that here. You'd probably be put to death. Or a bare minimum just thrown in a in a in a terrible prison cell. Uh not a first-world prison cell, by the way. Because they understand that that's not ideologically cohesive with what they're attempting to do with their country. And here in America, we've just kind of gone away with all that, and we say, well, no. Not only are you going to be allowed to teach it, not only are you going to be allowed to educate children in this disgusting, perverted way, uh, but actually, because uh s Judge So-and-so, activist Judge himself, said that we have to give you money, we're actually gonna fund you doing that. We're actually gonna pay you to do that. The taxpayers, you and I, the all the listeners, you guys, you're gonna pay for them to teach 10-year-olds uh that they desire the downfall of America, the downfall of Western civilization, and that they should subjugate all of us to them. You're paying you're they want you to pay for that because some crazy judicial activist said so. That's insane. That that that should be the moment where if if we're gonna draw a single line of the sand and say there's any hill worth dying on, this is it. Or we say, you know what, send in the troops, we're not giving them a dime. We're not doing it. If that means calling in the National Guard because the federal government's coming in, I don't care. If there's a line worth fighting and dying for, this is it. We're not funding Islam in the state of Texas to teach kids that they want our destruction. It is it is literally insane. And and when I say it's foreign, could you imagine telling anyone in European or American history, hey, yeah, so actually, uh those taxes that you you know you threw the T in the harbor, we're actually gonna take those taxes that we're levying on people uh that they have to pay us for owning property, and we're going to give it to schools that teach Islam to their students. I I I I mean, th just the fundamental misunderstanding of American history is is so insane to me. With that being said, to wrap up the show this morning when we get back, there's some new census data coming out from across the state of Texas, and it's showing that there are now there's now quite a bit of growth outside the state's urban centers, uh, population shifts, which could justify a mid-cycle redistricting of the Texas House. Uh, this new census data is revealing that the real population growth here in the state is happening outside of urban counties. And if that trend continues again, it could drive a mid-cycle redistricting next year in 2027 for state legislative districts. We'll talk more about the details of that data when we get back to wrap up the show. If you that text in, this is your final opportunity. The number is 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 wrap up the morning show with that data after the break. Stick around, we'll talk soon.

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Texas Growth And Redistricting Pressure

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you are listening to the Lone Star Conservative brought to you by Texellent AC Service. So more broadly, Texas continues to see population gains. Uh Texas Counties collectively added more residents than any other state between July of 2024 and July of 2025, but that growth also reflects the nationwide cooling in population growth, which may be attributable to the Trump administration's efforts to secure the border and as aggressively as possible to port illegal aliens. Now the fastest growing portions here in Texas remain the suburban counties ringing major metros, while a wide swath of rural Texas either barely grew or continues to lose residents, a trend that can be seen in the panhandle and in border counties. Census demographics are most of Texas' county level gains to domestic migration, people moving in from other states or from elsewhere within Texas, supplemented by still positive, though still slowing international immigration. Now the census trends will shape a wide range of issues in 2027, including transportation planning, school spending, hospital locations, and a potential mid-cycle legislative redistricting. These shifts mean that because of the changes, uh, the legislative districts are becoming rapidly unbalanced, essentially with suburban and exurban districts comparatively overpopulated, less populated urban districts are given an outsized voice, threatening the notion of one man, one vote. In a real Texas interview aired before the public release of the historical data, Superpresentative Todd Hunter said that lawmakers had been given pre-census data that showed Texas projected to gain four congressional seats. When asked about the redistricting mid-cycle, he said there's a lot of discussion and a lot through the grassroots, and that pending the outcomes of multiple court cases to be decided ahead of the session, action could be sparked. He said, according to Hunter, quote, the U.S. Supreme Court has said there's nothing wrong with redistricting based on political performance, which of course is important because redistricting should be a reflection of the state. New federal estimates show that Texas population reached about 31.5 million people by July 1st of 2025, up almost 400,000 people from a year earlier, a 1.2% gain that more than doubles the national growth rate. So Texas is growing. And unfortunately, a lot of that is invasive. They're invasive species that are not co cohabitants with the native population here in the state of Texas. And it's resulted in a lot of political shifts, people moving to Austin, Houston, that has changed a lot of that, which is frustrating. But it also means that we have a special dedication. We must have a special dedication to preserving our heritage, as we talked about earlier, and saying, hey, regardless of the population shifts and the demographic changes, all of that, regardless, we must stand firm on our roots and what we believe as Texans in every aspect of our lives.

Final Thoughts And Sign Off

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That'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. It's been a pleasure. I've been your host, Michael Wilson. Lord willing, I'll be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. for the last show of the week. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Thursday. Be aware there are some chances for rain. So keep that in mind as you're out and about. And Godspeed.