John Cornyn Refuses To Stop Attacking Ken Paxton

Somebody in Texas politics always says they want unity, right up until the next attack ad drops. We start with the Cornyn vs Paxton runoff and the Texas GOP chair’s public call to stop the negative advertising, then dig into why one side agrees to cool it off while the other promises to keep swinging. With early voting ending and Election Day near, we talk strategy, character, and the real risk that intraparty mudslinging becomes a gift to Democrats in the general election.

From there, we move into policy that hits closer to home in Houston. The University of Houston system approves its next financial plan, launches new workforce-focused programs like biological sciences and instrumentation, and adds a Philosophy, Politics, and Economics degree while closing or consolidating low-enrollment options. We also unpack how Senate Bill 37 pushes universities to review minors and certificates tied to DEI and related initiatives, and why those compliance decisions matter for funding, governance, and the direction of higher education in Texas.

Then we get into the stories that make parents and voters stop scrolling. TEA’s new Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard shows thousands of criminal history alerts and a spike in serious allegations, and we connect that to the larger debate over public school safety, homeschooling, and what responsibility looks like after you’ve protected your own family. We close with Houston public safety and Texas courts: a major meth seizure, concerns about transit, the Texas Supreme Court’s Heartbeat Act fight under the Texas Citizens Participation Act, and the Colony Ridge defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones as another flashpoint in the growing battle over speech and litigation.

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Technical Fix And Friday Reset

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From Deep in the Heart of Texas, it's Houston's Gun Loving Patriot, and the voice of reason. This is the Bonstark Conservative Michael Wilson.

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And first of all, massive apologies for the technical difficulties this morning. Though I do want to say, you guys are the absolute best. You know, I I would never do it on purpose, but if I ever needed validation that there were a lot of people that cared the show was not going to happen, all I'd have to do is just not start the show. We got a variety of texts in asking if everything was okay, uh, letting us know that there was no sound through the app, that there was no sound through through the actual radio. So thank you guys for caring enough about the show to let us know. We greatly appreciate it. We were working on it behind the scenes and we got it taken care of. Uh so Lord willing, we'll have uh uh another hour and thirty-five minutes this morning together. With that being said, I do want to I wanted to give a quick update because Charles Blaine is on a flight out of town. Literally. It's not just that he's out of town and he doesn't want to take a phone call. Uh great guy, but one when you're in the sky, your options are a little more limited in terms of what you can make happen for a radio show. So he will not be able to be here on the show this morning, unfortunately. So we'll it'll just be us. Uh we'll be skipping the weekly local recap. But you know what? I'm given a lot of local stuff. So you if you want to do a weekly local recap, uh, we have our podcast up. You can go listen to a lot of the episodes from this week. By the way, that is on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. If you just search the Lone Star Conservative, you'll be able to tell. I I I think there's only one c even called that, but even if there was multiple, you can tell which one it is. And so that's that's available if you'd like to go back peruse and and find some, shall we say, local recap material since Charles won't be here this morning. But we do have plenty of stories to go over in the meantime. As we get through our final day of the week, which by the way, Friday, you know, it's tough. My favorite day of the week has changed so many times since childhood. It started off being Saturday because despite being homeschooled and having to do a lot of school through the summer often, because we travel through the spring and fall semesters, you know, perks of the job. Despite that, on Saturdays, it was still really a no-school day. Saturdays was still kind of a break for everybody, unless you had just severely messed up and really didn't get school done. Like there were a couple times I distinctly remember my friends were going out on Friday and I really wanted to go out and my school wasn't done. And so I'd make a specific deal that I would do my school on Saturday if I could go out with my friends on Friday. Other than that, we never had school Saturday. So Saturday at that point was just, I loved Saturday. Uh then we went to a new church and we got, you know, uh we had a phenomenal body of fellowship at that church. And so Sunday became my favorite day. You know, we would have church, we'd have a potluck every Sunday. Uh the guys who go outside play some sports. I know the Pharisees would have said that's no good, but we believed that it was fine. So you play some sports outside. It was a great time. Love Sunday. Uh then you start working and you think, you know, Friday's pretty cool. You know, Friday's pretty great, actually. It's the it's the last day of work, but you're still doing work. So you know that you're working hard towards, you know, the weekend, but you uh if you like working, but you also like the weekend, it's kind of like a good split. Like you can see the weekend in front of you, but you're still getting to do the show. And so Friday, I'm not saying it's my favorite day, but it's it's certainly on the list of top half of the week. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, I think are are all three. I I don't know if I could even start listing the bottom half. I know Monday automatically qualifies.

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I don't think anybody really likes Monday.

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But nevertheless, enough about days of the week. Let's jump into some stories because there's a lot going on right

Cornyn Paxton Runoff Turns Ugly

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now. And I want to kick it off with some very hot off-the-press news, specifically related to something that we're all kind of paying attention to right now, especially if you've been watching the runoff, and that is the John Cornyn Ken Paxton debacle. Specifically, you guys might remember we reported on it earlier this week when Trump came out and endorsed Paxton. And I don't know that he's ever been nicer to someone he's not endorsed. He either completely usually ignores the unendorsed party, or sometimes he endorses someone purely because he doesn't like the unendorsed party. And he'll go after that person, tooth and nail, in his in his socials. But with John Cornyn, it was it was very mild, very controlled. Uh probably part of that is John Cornyn's still serving, right? And so in the Senate. So he doesn't want to be, you know, bashing him too hard and John Cornyn's like, well, I'm gonna be out and you're mean, so I'm blocking every you know, you don't want to mess with that. So I'm sure that's part of it, you know, political strategy. But there's a new mess going on because the the chairman of the Texas GOP, that's Abraham George. We've met him before, you guys have you guys have probably met him as well. If not, great guy. Uh he called on John Cornyn uh to, especially with the endorsement coming out and runoffs coming kind of to a head, you know, uh the the last day of early voting is today, by the way, and Tuesday will be election day. With everything kind of coming to an end and people starting to look forward to the general, Abraham George, I think, did the right thing in calling on John Cornyn to stop the negative advertising. Now just stop advertising, and you know, you got it. You still got election day, we get it. Can we stop with the ads that are specifically designed just to attack Paxton? Because now that he has the endorsement of the president, I think, you know, not that not that, you know, polls are certifiable and they count as election results, but usually, and I'm not a betting man, generally speaking, but there are predictive markets. You probably have heard of poly market and call sheep. And these markets, they instead of being polls, they're where people are willing to put their money. And for that reason, I think they actually end up much of the time more trustworthy. They're not always correct, but I found them to be more correct than general polling data. Because if people are willing to put their money in something, uh they're more sure it's gonna happen than just saying they're gonna do that thing. So if you have a poll of random people that say, well, I'm gonna vote for Cornyn, that's different than a large group of people saying, I'm I really believe Cornyn's gonna win. And so right now the betting market's I think I have Paxton at a 93% chance of winning the runoff. That's uh it was it I think it was in the 70 percents before the Trump endorsement, then the endorsement came out and it jumped into the 90 percents. And so with it potentially looking like Paxton could uh there there is at least a big shot that Paxton wins, looking forward to the general, the more that John Corning continues to push a narrative of Ken Paxton being the the big bad guy, well that that comes out in the general election. You know, your own opponent has been attacking you for months. That doesn't look great. And so I think Abraham George did the right thing, though a little late to come out and say it, but to say, hey, let's let's focus on if you're gonna advertise why people should vote for you, not why they shouldn't show up and vote for Paxton, right? Instead of taking that to heart and saying, what a good idea. You know, that's probably fair. Uh that's probably a good thing. No, John Cornyn instead pledged to continue attacking Ken Paxton. Um he didn't even just refuse to reply. He actively said, quote, um uh essentially that that we are gonna continue to tell the truth about Paxton. He's escaped accountability for too long, and judgment day is coming. This came after, of course, uh George came out on social media. He said, as chairman of the Texas GOP, I'm calling on both Senate candidates to pull all negative advertising. It's time to start preparing for November, and we can finish this runoff campaign on a positive note from both sides. And by the way, just so we're clear, I say he called on Cornyn. The reason I say that is because Paxton immediately was totally fine. He said, Sure, of course. Uh, we've already shifted our advertising strategy. We're not we're done with that. That's fine. And uh Paxton actually wrote, he said, we've already changed our TV ad traffic starting today to ensure our campaign ends on a positive note, and then we can focus on beating the leftist lunatics in the fall. I'm calling on Cornyn to do the same for the good of our party. And so, you know, i i it's it's absolutely insane because John Cornyn, it seems like, and call me crazy, right? I'm not a big Cornyn fan, uh apart from just this election, just generally, I'm not a big John Cornyn fan. You can probably guess why if you look at his voting history when it comes to amnesty or gun control. But you look at Cornyn and you gotta wonder what's going through his head right now, because he didn't get the endorsement from Trump that I think I don't want to say he expected, but that he kind of I of course he wanted it. But he comes out after the endorsement announcement and he says, instead of saying, you know, congratulations to my opponent on this endorsement, or again, the the smart thing, if you really have nothing nice to say, my mom taught me this a long time ago. This is a good lesson, by the way, for everybody. And, you know, I I've said on the show numerous times that the goal I know for years in America uh was to be complacent, and so the word nice got thrown around a lot as a sort of battering ram, especially against men, so that you were not allowed to say true things. Well, that's not very nice. Well, you shouldn't you shouldn't say that about that person. Well, you you shouldn't you shouldn't communicate that way. And so it kind of got used as a bludgeon uh to convince men that they should not stand up and speak the truth because the truth isn't always nice and it's not always tolerant, and it doesn't always sound pretty. And so I'm not saying you should always be nice, but there's a good there's a good old phrase that I think the wording should be changed a little bit to to come up with if you have nothing kind or loving to say, but the old phrase went, if you have nothing nice to say, then don't say anything. And I think that principle applies very well to politics. If you can't congratulate your opponent, right, especially when th this is not a general election where you are facing off against a leftist lunatic. You're not facing off against Tallerico, uh, who believes that Mary is evidence of the the need for consent and an ultimate justification for abortion if the consent is not given. Or who believes that as you get into the theological nature of the Godhead, right, which we understand that God is a spirit, infinite and eternal. So of course, even though we use father, even though we use male pronouns to refer to God, we all understand, well, God's a spirit, he's not actually a man, right? Jesus, the Son, himself, is of course fully God and fully man, but the Godhead itself is a spirit, not not man. And so he uses that theological reality to justify that, well, since man is made in the image of God and God doesn't really have ultimately a gender, then man could also not have a gender. Man could also be non-binary. There could be an infinite number of genders that man could be, that mankind could adopt. And so these are the sort of things that are coming out from the Taller Rico side of the aisle. So it would be fair, right, if you if you didn't have super nice things to say about James Tallerico. If if you came out and you're like, yeah, so this guy's crazy. Yes, so this guy is using Christianity as a manipulation tactic to get people to vote for him that are maybe more moderate. The guy is n by any by any standard, not a Christian. Right, by by any standard we have that we are called by God to judge with, right, which are the fruits of a person's life, Taller Rico would not be on the qualifying list of people you'd look to, bare minimum, as at least some sort of theological genius, at least as somebody that you should pay attention to and say, you know, maybe he's right about Christianity. No. He's obviously not. And so I think it would be fair if you were going after Talerico with that sort of motif. If you were saying, yeah, so Taller Rico's insane, here's why he's wrong, here's why this is just ridiculous and crazy, and you shouldn't listen to this, and this guy is evil, that would be totally fair. But to be in a runoff election against arguably the best attorney general in the country, who sure has had his fair s fair share of things that he's made mistakes on, right? We all I think it's fair to admit that Ken Paxton is not a perfect human being and has made mistakes. Mistakes that I wish he hadn't made. Mistakes that in a in a country, you know, 200 years ago, if we still had the culture we had, we could even say we have enough good men, enough good Christian men that this scandal is enough to say, well, we don't we don't need you. But we're not in that country. We are in a country where your alternative is James Talerico or John Cornyn. And so comparatively, Ken Paxton starts to look really good. And so to go after Ken Paxton consistently with this sort of negative advertising within party lines, especially given uh the the Trump endorsement, especially given all the data, and given the party calling for an end to the insults and the negative press, an end to these attack pieces, these hit pieces. Despite all of that, John Cornyn uh will not congratulate his opponent on anything. And he also does not know how to shut his mouth either. Uh in the wake of the Trump endorsement, remember he came out and he was saying that, well, I've worked with President Trump. I think he used the phrase 99% of the time I've I've voted with him. He's consistently called me a friend. Sure. Just not the friend that he wants to have the job. That's great. I've got a lot of friends that if they were running for an election, no offense to these friends, they would probably not be my choice for that position. And so he comes out, he says, Well, I've been a friend, he's called me a friend, we're good. I know you're calling me to be nicer, not gonna happen. I'm gonna continue to attack Paxton with you know four days left to election day. That's my strategy. Which again, just be aware, when you're making decisions in how you vote, in any election, this is true of more than just the runoff, you should pay attention to what people say. You should pay attention to more than just the acclaimed policies they're campaigning on. You should watch what it is that they do, what it is that they say in their conduct and in their speech. Because you can see very clearly the kind of conduct that's coming from the John Corning campaign right now. As Paxton comes out and says, you know, you're right. I've already I've already changed the advertising strategy. You're right, we should be on we're on the same side ultimately. Even though you have to pick one of us and we're in a runoff and it is an election, we get it. We we also are ultimately supposedly fighting for the same thing, at least in the same general direction. And so you're right, let's let's cut that off. And John Cornyn says, No. No, I think we should continue uh being, you know, displaying vitriol and hatred towards my Republican opponent. And and that's I think indicative of the character of a man, how he responds in these sorts of times, how he deals with this sort of conflict. And and from all evidence, I'm not gonna say again, there's no sort of endorsement coming out of the station or out of the show, but I think people should be paying attention to the character of the men in the race. I think that's very important. With that being said, when we get back from the break, uh the U.H. system, the University of Houston system, has now approved new programs in biological sciences, philosophy, politics, and economics. Uh they've closed some of what they're calling underperforming programs. They also, I think, passed their budget. And so all this stuff came out. We'll talk all about the U.H. decisions going into the new fiscal year, what their plans are for the school, for the programs, and for their budget when we get back. As always, if you'd like to text into 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, Lord willing, after this short break. 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UH Budget And Program Overhaul

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Regents approved their fiscal year 2027 financial plan and budget, alongside updates to the Houston and U.H. Clear Lake master plans. In a governance shift, the board delegated expanded contracting authority to Chancellor Reynolds, allowing her to negotiate and execute goods and services contracts exceeding one million dollars, and several construction contract exceeding one million dollars without prior board approval. The change is intended to make the system more necessary. Nimble while preserving oversight, saying, you know, it's tough when we're having to all get together for these sorts of relatively, in comparison, small decisions. The board also advanced policy updates incorporating verbatim statutory language from Senate Bill 37, uh, which is ensuring that explicit compliance with state law around academic program review and certification. They also approved several new degree programs, including a Master of Science in Biological Sciences and Instrumentation at UH designed to meet workforce demand in laboratory science. They are also going to offer a new Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, which is an interdisciplinary degree spanning philosophy, political science, and economics. PPE, pretty popular degree nowadays for those that want to get into politics, because it's good to have kind of a background where you can come in and understand why you believe what you believe, how that applies, and what impact that'll have on the economy. Regis noted that that program reflects, again, a broader trendaway from disciplinary silos and towards that sort of jack of all trades education. They also had a Master of Design Studies, which is supposed to build on media, urban design, urban systems, history, architecture, healthcare. They're also going to have a PhD in music. Additionally, they also approved several program closures. They're going to consolidate the master's in pharmaceutical health outcomes and the and policy as well as the master's in pharmaceutics into just pharmaceutical sciences. They're consolidating some other things as well. They're also going to consolidate multiple master of law specializations under a single LLM, Master of Law degree. And so they also approved the closure of the bachelor's in religious studies due to persistently low major enrollments, despite efforts to increase and adjust faculty, revise course offerings, and recruit new students. The religious studies minor is going to stick around, which means religion courses will continue to be offered within the core curriculum and as electives. They've also not announced any faculty layoffs as a result, which I don't know how they did that, but that's currently not in the agenda. They just said that basically declining enrollments in these study programs are a national trend, which has impacted the U of H program as well. And so oh, and by the way, Senate Bill 37, which again is making sure that all this stuff is compliant with state law regards to DEI, regards to critical race theory, regards to any of the LGBTQisms. The UH system conducted a review of their minors and certificates as a result of that, and they closed a set of those across three universities that have had zero enrollments for the past five years anyway. And so again, no students are affected by that as no one was currently pursuing the credentials that they closed down in that regard to make sure there was compliance with state law. Which should tell you something, by the way, I I've said this a long time. You know, there are two subsets, two things that you have to do. And I'm not going to say that you have to do them concurrently. Uh both impact the other. Whenever you try to change policy, that's the there's there's two sides of the coin. I said this in regards to a lot of things, right? Is it the case uh that our policy surrounding how we talk about guns, how we deal with guns, what we say about guns, and our policy around schools, does that have an impact on violence? Sure. Is the culture also having a major impact on young people and the this sort of predisposition for violence? Absolutely. And so in many cases, basically in every case, the culture and the actual policy applications are often intertwined. You see that all the time. That policy and culture can't really be separated because they're coming from the same people. We the people. Especially when you have rather than uh a monarchy or a dictatorship, when you have a republic, which is what we still have if we can keep it, what you'll often find in a republic, what you'll always find in a republic, is the massive impacts on each other between policy and culture. Because of course those things are going to be interconnected. What you believe about how you should live is going to impact how you vote, which will then by nature impact policy. And so when you talk about uh the policy surrounding DEI, it should not come as a surprise that these are relatively unpopular majors in the state of Texas, anyways. When you talk about LGBTQ studies and and all the rest, it's not really, or at least shouldn't be a big shocker, that the enrollment numbers are not skyrocketing in in that particular capacity. And that's exactly what we've seen. They literally have no one in the minors or certificates that they closed down to comply with Senate Bill 37. Either way, I think they they passed a $2 billion something type of budget as well that went along with all of that. Um so I I think in general, pretty solid. Nothing, nothing major, right? Nothing, nothing that's I don't want to say out of the ordinary, but nothing that's that's groundbreaking. But I wanted to keep you guys updated uh as to what closed, you know, that they did pass the budget, that they are trying to be as possible compliant with new state law. Mainly because, of course, that'll also impact state funding and and what have you. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and we're gonna talk a little bit about the weather for the weather report to wrap up the first hour of the show. As always, 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, and we'll be right back to give you guys the weather report to wrap up the first hour of this Friday show. So hang tight.

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Stormy Weekend Weather Outlook

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Though again, the holiday weekend is still looking a little bit stormy overall. Waves of rain have brought between an inch to two inches of rain to most of the Houston area since Tuesday, with higher amounts south of Houston, uh, where there's a flood watch remaining in effect until Monday. Despite the lull in storms today, more wet weather is expected to return. Uh again, could lead to localized flooding throughout the weekend. Now, unlike the rounds of rainy weather earlier this week, again, the later the latest of which brought heavier rainfall south of Houston yesterday morning. Today's storm potential will mostly be driven from afternoon heating. Another after another warm and muggy morning in the lower 70s, the first showers of the day are likely to bubble up between the ITEN corridor and the coast. Downpours are going to be numerous during the afternoon as highs are going to reach into the mid-80s, which will be capable of producing heavy rainfall given the abundant atmospheric moisture that's in place across the region, which you can tell when you walk outside. Storms that do develop should dissipate through this evening as daytime heating is going to kind of wane off. Most neighborhoods will not get rain today, but you know, it's still a good idea to be aware and to plan for if you do get rain. Houston's flood potential is going to peak during the weekend as a series of storm systems are going to pivot across the region. Now, pinpointing the exact timing of storms is going to remain difficult, but forecast models suggest that late tomorrow will be the period with the highest storm coverage. Those storms, which could linger into early on Sunday, could bring new rainfall totals, independent of all the rest we've had of on their own, two to three inches across a large portion of Southeast Texas. Flooding will be the primary concern because repeated rounds of rain this week have already saturated the ground, uh, which is already pretty dry, so you end up with that scenario. Because neither day is expected to be a washout. Any outdoor plans, yeah. You can you can still have outdoor plans, but as I mentioned before, have a backup, have some indoor plans at ready as maybe an alternative. Even after rain moves out, there'll still be some lightning potentially. So another drop in storm chance is expected by Memorial Day. Much like today's rain potential, Monday's activity is going to be driven mainly by afternoon heat under a partly cloudy sky and humid conditions. High temperature should reach into the mid-80s. Any passing downpour that does move overhead could bring heavy rainfall, localized flooding, and could take a small bite out of the afternoon heat. The unsettled weather pattern is going to persist into next week, again, keeping daily chances for downpours in the forecast. If you were to look out just at your basic weather app where you'd, you know, you'd you don't get all the data that we're giving you here on the show. If you just look out, we're seeing storm chances between 50% and 75% through next Thursday. Um, and then we have a break next Friday, and then potentially more rain coming next weekend. That's still that's a week away, right? So I'm not gonna sit around and pretend like we have it's it's more than just an educated guess. It's not. But it's worth being aware that the pattern we're seeing right now is enjoy the rain. That's that's essentially the pattern of the weather report. Enjoy the rain while we have it. We know that it could be worse. We've had the drought conditions, we've we know what that's like. Let's let's enjoy the rain, be thankful to God for the rain he's giving us. With that being said, when we get back from the break at the top of the next hour, we're gonna come back and talk about this new TEA tool, the Educator Misconduct Reporting Dashboard that they came out with, uh, which is a pretty fantastic tool. Apparently, thousands of tech educators have been flagged for crimes, according to the new the new dashboard, which also reports criminal history alerts. We'll talk all about that when we get back. As always, text in 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. We'll be right back at the top of the next hour, so don't go anywhere.

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Founding Documents Stop In Houston

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. Thanks everyone for tuning in, being a part of the show here on The Last Show of the Week. It is, of course, Friday, that's May 22nd. Um by the way, I I remember a while back we had a drone show out in Manville. The big Jesus, Jesus, Jesus show. They had you know Christian concerts, food, shirts, they had they had um a lot of stuff going on and a massive, massive drone show. And I remember I reported on it kind of after it had ended as a good thing. And we had multiple text in people saying, Hey, why didn't you tell us when this was going on? Why why did we not know that this so I decided that if I thought of anything that was even remotely in this sort of wheelhouse of Christian conservatism, I was gonna highlight it. Just so you guys know, there's a pretty cool uh collection of documents, uh founding documents, that are here in Houston. Just so you guys are aware, I want to make sure you know of it. It's the Freedom Plane National Tour. It's called the Documents That That Forged a Nation. Um I I think it's open now through Memorial Day. I think they're opening it's at the at the uh Houston Museum of Natural Science, I believe. And I think it's free. Over to the look, though though the tickets will probably sell out pretty quickly. And so they may have a long wait if you don't get there early enough. But it's now through, I believe, Memorial Day, I think the 25th is the last day you can go see it. But the National Archives and the Records Administration, in partnership with the National Archives Foundation, announced that this freedom plane was gonna be bringing all these documents to eight American cities, Houston being one of them. Um and they got they got quite a few things uh that they're that they're doing with that. I think they have one of the original drafts of the Constitution that's that's going to be there. And so, yeah, it's it's pretty cool. Uh the turning point group for Houston is going on Saturday. But yeah, it's it's pretty phenomenal. It's it's pretty fascinating. And so if you if you are like me and you love American history and and I am an American history buff, I actually really enjoy learning new things about American history and Western history in general, it'll be pretty cool to see see those documents on display over at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, especially because if you get there early enough and you can get a ticket the same day, it does end up being free. If you have a membership, I also think you can reserve tickets, and it's also free if you have a membership to the Museum of Natural Science. So just wanted to let you guys know about that because every other time that I found out about things, I waited until it was too late to tell the listeners, to a point where you guys weren't getting to go to the things that I was talking about. So let it be known with the Freedom Plane original documents, founding documents at the museum. I did let you know before it ended. I think it started back on May 8th, but I didn't know about it in advance. And I did not know back on May 8th that this was a big thing. So I know now. And you guys also know that if you'd like to go see that, um, you can you can do that.

Why Parents Flee Public Schools

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I want to talk a little bit about what's going on at the TEA. And it's it's pretty fascinating because we've been talking a long time here on the show about how bad the public school system has gotten. And the reality is that it's for a variety of reasons. Right? It's not it's not a single thing. It's it's it's a it's a bunch of different things that kind of coalesce into a reality where you look at the public school system in general and you find that it is not suitable for someone that actually would like to be educated. If you would actually like to come out of your primary education being a critical thinker who's intelligent, who's wise, and and really even just who's knowledgeable, you're not gonna largely get that from the public school system, unfortunately. And so uh you you can see this on display. There's plenty of statistics for this that back it up. There's plenty of evidence for for I mean, we have peer-reviewed research, um, we have federal education data. We have a lot of stuff that kind of pours into how much better homeschooling is than public schooling. Right. And and not the least of that is as I always like to mention, how many hours you give up with your child when you choose to send them to a public school system. I think from uh if you if you homeschool them from kindergarten through through maybe it's even just first grade through twelfth grade, you if you decide to send them away, are going to lose over 15,000 hours. 15,000 hours with your child. And so I think homeschooling can be and really is better because it removes children from this sort of school environment that I think many parents rightfully see as unsafe or we'll say academically unhealthy. Uh back in 2023, the CDC has found that something like 20% of kids are being bullied at school. Uh 10% were that one out of every 10 children were threatened or injured at a school. 13% were missing school because they felt genuinely unsafe. And that that is one of the main reasons that a lot of parents have turned to homeschooling. Uh the NCES is reporting that that concerns about school environment, safety, drugs, and peer pressure are some of the driving factors in their decision to homeschool. Academically, they almost always, homeschoolers almost always test above public schoolers. Uh the NHERI, the research institute, summarizes multiple studies that that homeschool students typically score around 25 percentile points above public school students. Uh frequently cited 2010 study found that homeschool students commonly scoring around the 65th to 80th percentile compared with the public school average, which is literally because it's the largest kind of subset of education, is the average, right? So it's fifty percent. So again, we're scoring in that case 15 to 30 percent higher on any standardized test. Uh public school academic outcomes are currently weak enough that opting out becomes incredibly rational. Uh the 2024 NAEP showed that national fourth grade reading scores were lower than any year formerly conducted. Um homeschooling, of course, also gives you so much more freedom in regards to what your kids are not, not just how they're taught, because obviously we've gone over the safety, we've gone over the issues with the academics themselves, where again, if you homeschool your kids and and you're I mean, that's that's just the average. If you're willing to put in the extra effort and really, really look at the curriculum yourself and do a good job teaching your kids, you can certainly start scoring even higher than that. Uh you could be you could be putting your kids just by choosing to homeschool them well. You could be putting them automatically in the 90th to 95th percentile, top five to ten percent of educated children in America, automatically, just by choosing to homeschool them. But it also gives you more control over uh what they're taught in terms of their moral foundation. You're totally allowed to incorporate Christian themes into everything you teach. Uh the curriculum, the pacing of the curriculum, uh uh peer influence, you have immediate control over. You could you could choose to sign your kid up for this extracurricular, but if you don't like the people that are in that, you can choose a different extracurricular or the same extracurricular at a different location. You have a variety of options. I I know that again, the the mainstream doesn't want you to know this. But the extracurriculars for homeschoolers are, especially in Texas, in the greater Houston area, are unimaginable from basically everything you want, from music to sports to martial arts to uh debate, moot court. The list goes on and on and on of available opportunities that are there for your student. And by the way, when you look at those opportunities, not only do you have them, but I'd argue they're actually better opportunities apart from maybe sports, right? Sports is if you're trying to get into a collegiate program through your sports ability, that might be uh you know a tad more difficult. But in regards to everything else, I remember back when I was competing in debate in high school, and I was fascinated in the worst way possible watching the national champions at the public school level. Because of course I was I was competing in the homeschool debate league, of which, by the way, even there, there are multiple national homeschool debate leagues that you can participate in. But I was looking at the the the final national debate. So this should be the top two public school teams in the country debating. And that year, and and and this is anecdotal in a certain sense, because I don't know if this is true every year, and they may have gotten better, or that may have just been a bad year. That was when a lot of the stuff was going on with BLM. But I distinctly remember that the winners, the number one supposed team in public school debate in the nation, won the finals round of national debate by essentially shutting the debate down. And what I mean by that is instead of engaging with all of the arguments and finding logical holes and proving that you're correct, rather than do any of that, the stuff that would actually define a critical thinker and your ability to reason analytically, instead, they essentially said that all of all of the topic itself, the topic itself was entirely irrelevant so long as systematic racism still existed. That it wasn't even I don't even remember what the topic was, but say it has something to do with some sort of policy uh relating to taxation. I mean, I mean it doesn't matter really what the topic was. They said this conversation is entirely irrelevant until we come out and we fix the systematic racism issue in the U.S. at the foundational level. They they didn't engage with the arguments from their opponents, they didn't address the contentions, they didn't address the value set, they didn't address what they're trying to achieve, none of that. They basically ignored their opponents entirely and focused in on how the debate was irrelevant and we didn't need to address it at all, and you should just vote negative because we don't care, because it matters that we fix racism first. Does that sound like a a good debate to anybody? Does that sound like it's even mildly related to the ability to logically think? No, of course not. But they won the national debate level in the public school system. That tells you, I think, everything you need to know about extracurriculars when it comes to public school. I think the honest conclusion, homeschooling is basically automatically better. Though, uh, of course, as always, there are going to be exceptions to that rule, right? There are gonna be families uh that homeschool their kids and are just absolutely horrid parents that abuse their children, that happens, that exists, there's sin. Right. So I'm not denying that you can't find some cases where where children are failed because their parents didn't put effort in and their parents didn't care about their kids and they just didn't want to send their kids away. Right? That can happen. That does happen. I'm not gonna deny that and try to pretend like that doesn't exist. It does. But if you're talking to someone who obviously, if you're trying to make this decision, cares about your child, homeschooling is automatically the better decision for, again, a variety of reasons, from academics to extracurriculars to to and we're gonna get into this to safety. So

TEA Misconduct Dashboard And Arrests

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let's talk about this TEA tool, this new transparency tool. It is the educator misconduct reporting dashboard, which displays all the data on reports submitted to the TEA from various sources, including criminal history alerts from the Texas Department of Public Safety as well as the FBI dashboard data for the first eight months of the 2026 fiscal year, which runs September 2025 through April 2026. That's when this data is from, shows 17,060 criminal history alerts in the state of Texas. If you average that out, that is an average of 2,133 Texas school employees every month who are arrested or have their criminal records updated. And it's it's it's slowly climbing every year. In fiscal 2025, the monthly average was 1,938. So we're up about 200 averaged per month, right? Which there's about four weeks in a month. You're you're averaging around fifty new teachers per week as opposed to last fiscal year that were uh updated in terms of their criminal records or or reported to the dashboard. And so things are arguably getting worse. And so again, i it's very important because a skyrocketing number, on top of it just being the general, a skyrocketing number of educators are being accused of violent and sexual misconduct. Um I think they've reached, in terms of these reports, ten thousand eight hundred so far in fiscal twenty twenty-six, which is an average of one thousand five hundred and fifty-two a month, which is up, right? You you get into the specifics, this is what's the most uh dangerous are these sorts of reports. Twenty twenty-five had a monthly average of five hundred and thirty-eight. This year we have a monthly average of one thousand five hundred and fifty-two. We have we have tripled the number of educators who are being accused of violent or sexual misconduct. And again, it's it's if you look at the investigations division opening investigations, we have more than doubled the number of investigations opened into those teachers. And so um you also have Levi Fuller, he is the inspector general for educator misconduct. He was earlier this week kind of showing off the dashboard to members of the State Board for Educator Certification, which is the body that oversees all the standards for school teachers and administrators and so on and so forth. He attributed some of the spike in reports and investigations to stiffer laws, which is positive, but but shows the absolute state of affairs in our system. He said, I don't want to be I don't want anyone to be disheartened by the increased reports and by the increased investigations. These are good things. And if we're access if we are successful, then eventually these numbers will go down. But they will go down because we have culled the population of bad actors. And so a lot of this all kicked off within a Bill 571 that was by you guys know Paul Betancourt, who was the first behind the first state's first law against passing the trash, um, and has worked to improve those laws that protect students from known predators in schools. And so again, SB 71, F SB 571 kind of expanded what and who can be reported, uh, which of course has contributed to those numbers, specifically includes inappropriate communications, boundary crossing. The law also allows educators accused of certain serious crimes to be temporarily placed on the do not hire registry, which is now integrated with the search engine, uh, pending the outcome of those investigations. And so Beton Court said the culture of looking the other way essentially has to end. He said the important thing is to keep at it and be willing to listen and plug any remaining holes. I'll do whatever I have to to get everybody in line. He said we're talking about the future of someone's child. We're putting money into public education, and people want to get in there who have a problem, and we can't have that around kids.

Protect Your Kids Then Fix The System

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And so I think it's important that we have a lot to root out. And I've said this before, but I want to address it as as plainly as I can, because there are also a lot of conservative parents who are very well-meaning, but who they see the ultimate solution as merely pulling their kids out. And of course, I I don't wanna I don't wanna mince words here. That is the number one priority. Your family comes first. And we actually got this very backwards, leftists especially have this very backwards. Your first obligation is to God, first and foremost. And that comes out in a variety of ways, um, one of which, many of which are your then following responsibilities. But your number one is to God, and then it is to your immediate family, your wife and your children, and then you extend it out into your extended family, right? Your parents, your in-laws, your siblings. That's next. Then you get out, it's your it's your neighborhood. Then it's your city, right? Then it's your county, then it's your state, then it's your nation. And if you mix that up even by one degree, you start saying, well, the nation matters more than my state. Well, that's how you wind up with uh people who who do not understand states' rights. You look back at Robert E. Lee, one of the greatest men in American history, by the way, would have been a phenomenal president, uh just uh an incredibly righteous man, uh very strong Christian, incredible military leader and strategist, who he said he loved America, right? This was a Civil War era, all this stuff is going on, and he has the decision to make. Are you gonna serve for the Union or are you gonna serve for the Confederacy? And he made a very important point when he talked about where he was choosing to fight and who he was choosing to fight for. And he said something that stuck with me ever since I read it for the first time many, many years ago. He said, you know, and I'm gonna paraphrase because I don't have the quote pulled up. I could have pulled it up, but I didn't. He said that, yes, I of course love my country. I of course love the United States of America. It is my homeland. These are my countrymen. And I do not desire that this war should happen at all. Right? I I I do not desire that this war should ever progress. I want this nipped in the bud. I'm not even gonna get into, you know, what I actually feel about secessionism and and of the the the not just the right, but should we be leaving the Union? That's not that's not my prerogative. My prerogative is we are, because I'm a Virginian. And I'm a Virginian first and an American second. We are a we are a United States. The states are the bedrock of the nation. The nation doesn't exist as an independent faction. It is a representative ultimately of national obligations from the states, things like military involvement, things like border protection, right? That's the goal of the nation, interstate commerce. But those things are all in service to the people of states. And so when he made his comment about where he would fight, he made it very clear, I'll be fighting for Virginia because Virginia is my home first. And I think we have a lot that we can take away from that and a lot that we can glean from that. And that I think distinctly shows you how important it is that you get the order of loves in correct in correct proximity to one another. Because if you mix it up, you wind up where you look at the studies coming out from leftists, where they care more about people who are facing hardship in other countries than they do about their own family. This is why you consistently see the push from the left for mass immigration. They don't consider the the downpouring effects on their own people, on their own, you know, friends and family, on their own countrymen, because they have it completely backwards and disordered. People far away who they don't know, who they have n last, final obligation to after everything else has been taken care of, those are the people they're supporting first. And that's how you ruin and destroy a country. And the same is true in every way. And so the reason I bring all that up is to say I'm not gonna sit here and pretend like your first obligation is not to your own children. It is. And if you're still facing that decision, hey, what do I do with my kids? That comes first before any other policy decisions, before anything else, any other fight you're involved in, first and foremost is how are you gonna protect your children? How how are you gonna go about that? And of course, that means getting them as far away as possible away from the government school programs, right? Whether that's whether that's public school, charter school, getting them out of that, right? If that means private schooling or Christian schooling, so be it. I of course recommend homeschooling. I think it's the the best alternative. I think it's uh the way God created children to be raised in the fear and admonition of the Lord by their parents. I think the best way to do that is to be around your kids as much as possible. But I digress. That's number one priority, is your own children. But take care of that. And then and then after that's done, I see a lot of conservative, well-meaning parents who kind of back out of the fight and they say, Well, my kids are good, so everything's fine. And I'd like to remind everybody this country is not a monarchy. You are not royalty. And therefore, your kids are not safe long term in their careers and in their country, if if everyone else is evil. If all of the other kids are being raised to believe something evil and wrong about history, about truth, then in in twenty years when your little kids are all out of school and your kids are super bright and they know the truth about history, but everybody else is voting for whoever's running a Kamala Harris in 20 years, then that's great. I'm very glad that you did that for your children. But your children are gonna have to live under a Kamala Harris administration because we didn't do enough for the vast majority of students. And that's not some sort of Marxist collectivism. It's just the reality of what we're facing. We have to do more when it comes to the public school system because that's still where the vast majority of kids are going to be educated. And if we let that fall by the wayside, if we say, well, my kids are good, so everything's fine. My kids are being homeschooled, so we're good to go. I think we missed the point a little bit. I I think that we we I don't I don't want to say it's too much of a good thing. I think we find ourselves in a situation where that's very good that you that your kids are safe, as is your number one obligation under God. But they're gonna grow up and they're gonna have to deal with other people, and they're gonna have to deal with the workforce, and they're gonna have to deal with government policy. And if we don't do anything for all the other kids that are being miseducated, that are being taken advantage of, that are being groomed into leftist ideology, if we don't fix that problem, then again, in 20 years, your kids will have to live under that sort of tyrannical mob rule. That's what's going to happen. And so we need to do more with the TEA, we need to do more uh with our education curriculum, we need to do more to make sure that our kids are not just being educated well, but that when they grow up, they're inheriting a good nation with which to fight for. Of which to fight for. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump back over here to Houston. Thirty-eight kilograms of meth, eight firearms, were seized in a multi-agency Houston operation. The HPD narcotics division worked with the Texas DPS, the DEA, and the Harris County Sheriff's Office to get all this stuff. A relatively short story, but I just want to highlight again what is unfortunately pouring through our city. It seems like almost every day we have new outcomes like this one in our investigations. We'll talk about the details of that, what we need to do, and how we need to keep each other safe when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, this is the last day of the week, so we're getting close to the end. If you have any thoughts culminating from this week, feel free to let us know at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. 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Meth Bust And Personal Safety

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. To kick it off in this segment, let's talk about this multi-agency operation here in Houston, which resulted in the seizure of 38 kilograms of methamphetamine, enough to kill several full-grown elephants, along with seven handguns and one rifle. You know what? I I made a joke there. I was trying to make a joke about the elephant thing. I'm kind of wondering how many, I'm gonna just Google how many elephants uh hang on, bear with me, because I actually, now that I made the joke, how many elephants uh would would this amount of would 38 no, no, no, no. Would thirty no, not would it take to kill a T-Rex? What are we who's searching that? This is this pulled up as the number one result on Google. How many elephants would and it the next option is would it take to kill a T-Rex? I don't know. Some of you guys are weird. Uh would 38 kilometers of methamphetamine kill? I am wondering what that would result in. Uh there is no scientific lethal dose established for methamphetamine in elephants. Oh. Uh, but the impact, let's, let's, let's, oh, it's it's not going to tell us the number. That's that's really unfortunate. Um they have overdose elephants with with LSD, which is evil and insane, but they don't say. So we don't know. But at least a few, at least a few elephants would die. HPD said investigators with the narcotics division, squad twenty one, worked alongside the Texas Department of Public Safety, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Harris County Sheriff's Office during the operation. Authorities said the seizure followed the arrest of a suspect who was wanted on a warrant for possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver. But again, This is the kind of stuff that's going around your city, just so you know. Uh it was, of course, uh seven handguns and a rifle as well that were illegal. And so this is the kind of stuff that you have to contend with in Houston. And if you've been on the uh if you've been on the the metro, if you've been on the the rail recently, you know things have gotten pretty bad. You know, you get on there and you're just trying to have a fun zoo day with your family, and now there's a bunch of wacky homeless people that are very clearly just their brains are melted by drugs and they're chanting probably demonic slogans as as you're hoping that they're not chanting some death threat. That's happening all the time in Houston, right? This is not some far-off thing where we hear about it happening in New York City and the subways. This is happening here. Uh things are not as safe as they once were or as safe as they should be in the fourth largest city in a first world nation, right? If you get on public transit in the Houston area, right, and I know there are a lot of people who do. And and I I I get it, right? Much more affordable, it's designed to be that way. You avoid a lot of the traffic, it's beneficial for a lot of young people, especially who are working in the city. But you know, and I'm not trying to be rude to anybody, you know what it's like getting on public transit these days. You don't feel like you're comfortable and safe, like we could have in a civil society. And so, as always, I would highly encourage you. You know, the reality is whenever we talk about any of these drug seizures, these gun seizures, public safety on transit, of course, that's why we have a police department. That's why we have these sort of investigators and investigations. That's very important, that's crucial. We need to have a good justice system that punishes people who are evil. But you also have a very large level of personal responsibility to protect you and yours. You do. You God has given that burden to you. It's not a fun burden, right? It's not something that you want, but it's something that you that God has given you to protect yourself and your family. And you, by the way, have by nature, because it's an obligation, you have the right to do it, right? If God has given you an obligation, then you have the right to achieve that obligation. You have the right to defend yourself and your family. And that's kind of scary to big government, right? That's kind of scary to any you know, big authoritarian authoritarian figure because that limits their ability to take control of you. And that's why they're fighting all the time to take away those rights, which is where our sponsor, Gun Owners of America, comes in. Gun Owners of America understands that you do have a God-given, constitutionally enshrined right to self-defense, the right to keep and bear arms, which shall not be infringed. They're trying to infringe it all the time. 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Every dime of which, every penny, I know they don't have pennies anymore, but every penny of which goes right back to making sure that your Second Amendment rights are defended. Again, that is GOAHuston.com. With that being said, to when we get back from the break, we're gonna we're gonna talk about this Heartbeat Act. The challenge to the Heartbeat Act was ruled a retaliatory lawsuit, which means that it may be subject to dismissal under the Texas Citizens Participation Act. We'll talk about what the Texas Supreme Court said, what it means to be a retaliatory lawsuit, um, give you some background on that case and what that means for the future of the Heartbeat Act in general when we get back. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 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Heartbeat Act Case And Retaliation

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You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'm your morning host, Michael Wilson. Texas's Supreme Court determined that a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Texas Heartbeat Act is retaliatory. The underlying suit was filed by, of course, an abortion-aiding organization after a private citizen sought to depose its leadership for admittedly violating the statute. The citizen claims the lawsuit violated her First Amendment rights under the Texas Citizens Participation Act, a law designed to protect Texans from retaliatory lawsuits that are intended to silence them. In other words, if if you ask for information and you start something about it, and they come in with all their donors and all their money and all their funding and they sue you to oblivion, that's not good. That's that's really not how that is a weaponization of the justice system designed to silence opposition. It's very bad. And so, as previously reported, Sadie Weldon, a private citizen of Jack County, filed a Rule 202 petition seeking to depose the Lilith Fund and its deputy director, Nisha Dave, for violating the Heartbeat Act. It was passed, you guys remember back in 2021, which banned nearly all abortions once a heartbeat can be detected. The law is enforced through civil litigation from private citizens rather than from state officials or through criminal sanctions. So Weldon was hoping to gather evidence before filing a lawsuit against the group for aiding or abetting abortions in violation of that act. Something that they admitted to, by the way, in a 2021 sworn affidavit from a separate case. And so in 2022, the Lilith Fund filed a countersuit seeking a declaration that the Heartbeat Act is unconstitutional and an injunction prohibiting Weldon from deposing Dave or suing the Lilith Fund. And so then Weldon said, Well, that's just a retaliatory lawsuit. It's obviously constitutional. You're just attacking me, and therefore you're violating my rights. And so District Judge Brock Smith denied that motion to dismiss in October of the same year, back in 2022, uh, after failing to rule on it. And so that then appealed to the second Court of Appeals, which ruled in favor of the Little Fund, uh, saying that they did not try to prohibit Weldon from engaging in any protected activity. And so it kind of went on from there because the issue that the Court of Appeals reached was step one, finding that that the Texas Citizen Participation Act did not apply because she was not engaging in a constitutionally protected activity. She appealed that to the Supreme Court, arguing that it does apply because their suit was based in, uh based on, or in response to her petition for a pre-suit deposition. The right to petition is a constitutionally protected activity. And so the Supreme Court granted review, heard oral arguments back in January, and so they've now ruled in that citizen's favor, finding that the Lilith Fund did file the lawsuit in response to the petition, which was a constitutionally protected activity. And so the court uh has has reversed both the lower court and the court of appeals judgment, remanding the case for the lower court to consider steps two and three. And so we'll find out. Uh i we still have to go from here to find out, you know, ultimately whether or not the case is going to be dismissed entirely, though it should be. Because I mean, again, a lot of the stuff that you understand about courts uh that that is both good and frustrating, often at the same time, is that their rulings, while very important in their own right, are also incredibly important because of the precedent they set for future cases that other cases will certainly point to as a justification for whatever they're doing. And if we make it acceptable and normalized for big funded companies or nonprofits or groups of any kind to I mean, even just politicians, single people who have a lot of money behind them to countersue anytime you do something they don't like as a way to tie it up, if we allow that to be the president in our country, n that is going to be the beginning of the end for any sort of constitutional right whatsoever. If any time that you seek a petition or you seek to, you know, learn something about the intricate workings of a company, or you're trying to find out if somebody violated the law or violated your right, like whatever it is, if the response is a retaliatory lawsuit from a major backer that has far more funding and far more sponsors and far more backing than you could possibly have, you're going to get you're gonna get chewed out. You're gonna lose. That's what's going to happen. And if we allow that to become the norm, we say that's totally fine. We'll just let that we'll just let that slide. Who cares? I mean, it is it really that big a deal. They they filed it's their right to file a lawsuit. If we allow that to become normalized, you are seeing the the downturn of any sort of First Amendment right whatsoever. That that has to be bare minimum. That you have the right to petition, that you have the right to learn, that you have the right to ask questions, and the response cannot just be multimillion dollar lawsuits coming after you for everything that you're worth. That that that will destroy any sort of cohesion in our ability to question anything. That that is the ultimate reality of where we're going. And that's kind of the same thing going on right now in this new case, because Colony Ridge, by the way, we'll talk about this in the final segment. Colony Ridge has now filed a multimillion dollar lawsuit against Alex Jones over claims of cartel and immigration stuff, um, the the they're suing Alex Jones for defamation after he criticized their subdivision, uh calling it a giant fraud, saying that, well, he's claiming that we're harboring drug cartels and all this sort of stuff. And so they're seeking damages of more than $10 million. How much debt is Alex Jones in now just from trying to I mean, even if you think that he's wrong, I I I I I don't know very many people who think. There are some on the left. I think most people bear I mean, even worst case, think that Alex Jones is a little bit of a nut. But I think most people still assume that he's that he's he he desires to s to find the truth. And that that might find him on the wrong side of things sometimes. But but largely, from my experience, especially in the right-wing sphere, most people that listen or have heard of or have heard things that Alex Jones has said, i i it's pretty fair to say you see the you see the passion, you see the the real belief behind a lot of what he's saying. And so, um, bare minimum, I think it's fair to say that Alex Jones is in pursuit of what's true, even when it's even when it's not true. And so we'll talk about that lawsuit and again how this is frequently the go-to methodology for shutting people up. Instead of being willing to have open debate, it's all turned into a game of courts where the courts have the final say over really what you're allowed to even say. And I'm not saying that defamation is good or that it should always be allowed. What I am saying in in cases like this where you see this sort of nefarious fraud going on, and we know it's going on, uh, for them to you know go out and start suing people left and right to stop discussions about what's happening, right? Same thing was going on when elections were being stolen, if you guys remember, um that's the whole Tucker Carlson debacle. It's the same thing. And so we'll talk about it when we get back to wrap up the show. As always, if you'd like to text in, this is your final chance, 713-779-5978. That's 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and Lord willing, I'll be right back to wrap up the show for this morning and for this week after this last break. So hang tight. We'll talk soon.

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Colony Ridge Lawsuit And Wrap

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. The owners of the Colony Ridge Housing Development are suing right-wing media personality, and they want you to know the conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, for defamation. The lawsuit is seeking damages of more than $10 million, and by the way, also names a certain you guys might know his name, Pete Chambers, the Texas Republican who ran a campaign against Governor Greg Abbott in the Republican primary. The lawsuit comes from comments that Jones and Chambers made about on one of the shows. They described the neighborhood as a hotbed for cartel activity and a safe haven for immigrants who are in the country illegally. And so the lawsuit states, quote, the two men branded the development, a mortgage scam, a giant fraud site, and a sanctuary city controlled by Mexican drug cartels. John Harris, one of the owners of the development group, said that Jones continues to use Colony Ridge as a political football. Quote, we don't want our customers to be subjected to that, and we were finally fed up enough to stand up and fight back. The complaint states that Jones eventually took down the comments after posting them on the social media platform X, but those had already been viewed at least six hundred and fifty thousand times. This, by the way, was after the Trump administration and Colony Ridge agreed to a sixty eight million dollar settlement following the lawsuit filed by the Biden administration back in December of twenty twenty-three, which argued that Colony Ridge used predatory loan practices and language barriers to lure potential homeowners into risky loan agreements. The state of Texas has also filed its own lawsuit against Colony Ridge a couple of years ago and alleged the developers used deceptive trade practices, fraud in real estate transactions, and other violations of Texas and federal law. And so uh of course, prior to those lawsuits, Colony Ridge were also targets of other Republicans who came out and said the neighborhood was a hotbed of crime. Uh Abbott Said that the Department of Public Safety described some areas of development as no-go zones that they wouldn't even patrol. And so uh in an interview, they said, I really thought at that point the allegations were debunked, but the lawsuits came and we finally got that settled. We thought we were just moving forward doing what we do, which is provide land for our customers to buy. That's really all they do. I'm not gonna say any more because I don't want to get sued for defamation. You know how it is. That'll do for the show today and this week I want to thank everyone for tuning in and for texting in. It's been an absolute pleasure. Lord willing, I'll get back bright and early Monday morning. Meantime, enjoy your Memorial Day weekend. Enjoy some of the rain, and Godspeed.