Vote In The Runoffs Today

Memorial Day is over. The question isn’t whether we feel grateful, it’s whether we act like it. We start with a direct case for civic responsibility in a constitutional representative republic and why Texas runoff election day matters more than most people want to admit. If we don’t participate, we don’t get to act surprised when the culture and the country keep sliding in the wrong direction.

From there, we shift into urgent Houston-area news along the coast: an 11-year-old missing at Surfside Beach, a teen rushed to the hospital after a shark bite offshore near Galveston, and a dramatic Galveston Bay rescue after passengers jump from a burning boat. We talk prayer, risk, currents and sandbars, and why “Good Samaritan” moments still say something real about American culture and the values we inherit and pass on.

We also hit a wild HPD pursuit tied to a chaotic car meetup and use it to get crystal clear on a principle too many people forget: your rights aren’t rooted in someone else’s bad behavior. Then we take on Ebola concerns ahead of FIFA World Cup matches at NRG Stadium, what screening and monitoring actually look like, and why staying calm, staying clean, and staying healthy beats panic politics every time.

Finally, we break down a major privacy story: a Texas title company lawsuit that knocks down a nationwide FinCEN real estate reporting rule for certain non-financed home transfers, plus what the Fifth Circuit appeal could mean for surveillance, warrants, and the presumption of innocence. 

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Transcript

Memorial Day And Runoff Urgency

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From D in the heart of Texas, it's Houston's loving patriot, and the voice of reason that is the most part 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 Tuesday, May 26th. Do you know what that means? Do you know what today is? Obviously, yesterday was Memorial Day. And today is a good time to make it very clear what yesterday was. And what I mean by that is that you have an opportunity today to reinforce the reality that those who died for our freedom did not die in vain. Because if you don't participate in what's happening today, then all you're kind of really saying with your actions is that yesterday was kind of unimportant. Doesn't really matter to you. We live for better or for worse in a republic. Right? There are going to be times where we certainly see the blessings of that. There are going to be other times where that means it's going to be even harder to fight when there's evil in the culture. If you have a monarchy, there'll be times where you have a really bad king. And that's there's just nothing you can really do about it. But there's also times where you have a really good king. We've had that before in Western history. And no amount of idolatry or cultural changes had any sway on the good king, because it's one man that gets to run the country. And so the for better or for worse, depending on the day, we are a republic. And what that blesses us with, but also requires us to do, is that we participate. If we don't do that, if if we want to sit around and say, no, I just I'm burnt out from elections, I just don't like dealing with this Republican infighting, whatever the excuse is, if we do that, if we allow ourselves to do that, then what we're doing is we're throwing away our country to the wolves. Because you already know who else is going to show up and vote. You already know who else is going to be at the polls making sure they get in. And so today is it. Today's the day. If you already went early voted, good. I'm I'm proud of you. If you have not yet gone and voted, today's the day you gotta do it. There's there's no other, there's not, I'll just vote next day. Today's it. Today is election day for the runoffs. So if you you know are kind of looking, it depends what part of town you're exactly, you know, what will be available, but largely you've got the Senate race, you've got some Court of Appeals races. So you can easily go online and find your specific ballot based on your address. And it'll again, you can change from house to house. So I can't tell you what will be on yours. Um, but a lot of the stuff, at least some of the stuff, will be pretty much the same, like the Senate race, like some of these Court of Appeals races. And so I just wanted to highlight today is that day. And being in a republic means that we are again granted the blessing and the ultimately requirement, we are given the obligation, the the moral obligation to do something about it. If we lived under monarchial rule or under a dictatorship, or under some I mean, under almost any other form of government, you know, there would be an excuse to not participating in in anything related to politics. You can't really make much of a difference, more than likely anyway. And you'd be dedicating your whole life to maybe get a single moment with some sort of leader. It just would not be very common. You you there would be no point in you investing time into politics because you you, as an average person, unless you're willing to give your life to it, are probably not going to have much of an impact at all. Contrast that with a republic where every single person to one degree or another has automatic influence over the authority in this country. We really are. The the view of a republic is not just that we have influence, we are ultimately the authority over this country. And everybody else that's that's so-called in authority is just representing us. That's it. They don't actually have any authority of their own. It comes through the people. That's the view of a constitutional representative republic, which is what we have. And of course, that that comes with extra features, protections, checks and balances. It comes with the Electoral College, comes with things to make sure that we the people are not being ruled by mob rule, right? That we do still have safeguards in place to make sure that we're all represented well, that people in Los Angeles are not telling people in North Dakota how they have to live their lives, right? That there is a level of making sure that we each get a say, an independent say in the government. But that's also I don't want to say our downfall, but that's also one concern. And the founders had the same concern, and of course they did, you'd expect them to, which is it's only a republic if you can keep it, right? That's that's the the the complicated part of being a republic is that it can be stripped away because you have allowed bad people to take over, which I don't want to say is going on, but we have to be very careful going into the midterms. Because I don't want to say that Republicans are going to lose. That's certainly not my position. That's certainly not what I hope for. But the energy right now behind the party with everything going on with foreign wars, everything going on with with in in a variety of ways, right? And that's not to come out and attack anybody, but it is to say that if your campaign ran on low gas prices, then even if it's not your fault, even if you had nothing to do with it, high gas prices is not a good look going into the midterms, right? That's just undeniably true, especially for the average person who, unlike us, is not thinking through politics. Right. If you listen to this show every day, you're getting 10 hours, roughly, of information regarding city, local, statewide politics in the city of Texas. 95% of Texans are not getting anything remotely close to that. You're ahead of the pack by a long shot when we talk about being aware of what's going on. So most people are not gonna look at it and say, yeah, but you have to understand the intricacies of foreign conflicts and the way that that you know influences oil prices, the way that influences actually the difference in gasoline and diesel, that way that supply and demand plays. None of them are going to do that. They're not gonna start doing that. They're gonna look and they're gonna say, that guy said cheap gas, no cheap gas. Republican failure. That's I I know that that sounds very simple and very boiled down, very bare bones, but that's the way that many of them think. And I'm not just saying that they're dumb. I'm just saying that to a large degree, they have lives. And for one reason or another, they don't view spending their time thinking about politics as important. Now, of course, we would disagree fundamentally. Of course, we do actually believe that in a republic, it's very important that at least some of your time is spent. Obviously, not all of it, that's why we have representatives, but at least some of your time is spent at the bare minimum researching and being aware of who's representing you and what that means. And so today's it. Today's election day. This is all you got. So if you did not go vote last week during early voting, I would highly encourage you to get out there today. You know, it's easy to sit around and to complain. It it is. It is it is incredibly easy to sit around and to complain about the way the world looks, about the way the country looks, about the way the American culture has changed. It is incredibly easy to be distraught, even. And I think it's even reasonable on some days with how this country has been changed. Um, of course, we know a lot of that is due to mass immigration over the past 60 years. You know, a lot of people are posting, a lot of people are saying, wow, country has changed dramatically from the 1960s to now. Yeah, you know, major change from the 1960s to now was that you allowed mass immigration to happen. Well, it also happened in these other places where it's just, you know, where it's not mass immigration, right? You still see blue haired libs. Yeah, but part of the perks of bringing over third world culture is that that's going to impact the home populace in different ways. Right? We didn't have that major issue before mass immigration. Liberalism largely came with communism, came with a lot of immigrants and their ideology. Nevertheless, a lot of the reasons that things have changed is because we didn't fight hard enough. Is because our government handed us over to the wolves. And being a republic, that means we're the final step here. That means we're it. No one, no one is coming to save the day, right? I mean God, providentially, but he uses us. So it's still the same. We're the line here that we have to hold. And if we don't, that's it. It's over. And I don't believe that it's over. I hope if you're listening to the show, you don't believe that it's over. But if we don't show up, then it's just stalling. It's not gonna, it's not gonna hold for very long. It will end. The leftists will be very surprised when they wake up one day and realize all the things that were like and said would destroy this country actually did destroy the country. That's where we're headed. If we don't get even more active in participating in all of this, and the bare minimum thing. The the the bottom line, this is the the thing you really have to do is to show up and to vote. And I actually do get, right? This is not some double standard. I do understand the burnout from elections. Our government has been incredibly awful at that organizational elections. At uniform organized organized elections. They've been awful at it. That's not a there's no disagreement from me there. In fact, I've I've asked that that change on the show multiple times. That is a a massive problem in our current election system, is there should not be eight elections in a single year. No one wants to go to that. No one's interested in that. It benefits nobody. You're guaranteed to have low voter turnout because no people are, again, going to be incredibly burnt out by the end. It's it lacks any sort of benefit. Now, to be fair, I do actually have some some election-related stories uh that I'd like to get into during the show. But we're gonna save that for the next hour because we kind of kicked off this hour of the elections, and I want to make sure that those because we have some people who leave for work at you know uniform times. So if you're leaving at 7 o'clock, I want to make sure that those people also get to hear that today is election day. So we're gonna re highlight that in the second hour. But I just wanted to start off the show and say, look, yesterday, Memorial Day, decoration day, right? Prayer for peace. But that requires that we utilize the rights and the privileges that God gave us in this country. And it ultimately requires that we're willing to fight for that. And we are so blessed in this great country that we inherited, that fighting today doesn't have to look like picking up a sword yet. That fighting today doesn't have to look like all out war. That we don't have to live like that, that we're not living in the time of history where it's it's one of these massive battles between the Vikings and the people that they're marauding, right? We don't have to live like that. It doesn't have to be the looting and the crazy. We can avoid most of that. But it will one day get there if we don't do the precursor things to stop it from getting there. Right. Our country will be handed over and we'll be forced to defend ourselves if we don't do the thing that we can do before we before it ever gets to that point, using the rights and privileges that God has given us. Specifically, the right to make our voices heard through voting. That's one of the biggest, one of the biggest best parts. And one of the biggest worst parts, right? For for everybody else that doesn't vote like me, it's really bad. Okay? It's it's really awful for everyone else. And so But for for us especially, those that listen to the show, those that largely agree with the things that are said on the show, it is incredibly important that you are at the polls today. If you've not already gone, of course. Now, I expect that a large portion of our viewership has already gone and voted early voting. If I had to guess, knowing you guys as well as I do, I would assume most of you probably already went and early voted. But I'm sure there's some stragglers. And it's important that we all, you know, get together on this. We don't want low voter turn out to be the reason why we have a lib in office, right? We don't want to look at the end of the election and say, yeah, only only 10% of registered Republicans showed up. And, you know, somebody's in office we didn't want. Some lib, some rhino, some fake Republican in office. That's not what anybody wants. But 10% means that most people didn't show up. So you can fix that by everybody showing up. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna talk a little about Galveston. Because we've got actually a few stories coming out of Galveston that we're gonna touch on as one sort of larger story. Um just to kind of keep you guys updated. This isn't really politics, but it is news. Eleven people were rescued after jumping from a burning boat in Galveston Bay, according to officials. 18 was rushed to the hospital after being bitten by a shark on an offshore boat near Galveston Beach. And crews, as of last night, were still uh conducting recovery efforts for a missing 11-year-old at Surfside Beach, just down the road. So about all those stories when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering or anything we're not. Feel free to text in. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them. If you have a disagreement with me, feel free to let me know what that disagreement is at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing to be right back after this short break, talk all about, well, lots of things related to the beach. Hang tight.

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Surfside Search And A Call To Prayer

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Now, call me old-fashioned, but I actually miss when people used to have massive prayer gatherings. And I don't just mean, you know, big conferences and events. I mean like legitimately people just got together and prayed. Or even if they were all separate, but they all knew to be praying. I missed those days. I don't think it's coincidental that when you took prayer out of public schools and kind of out of the public eye in general, that uh that that things got worse. Because I I feel like it used to be that people understood, you know, where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am. And we used to understand that, of course, it has to be in the Lord's will, but when you ask for things, right? When you come in faith and ask for things, God is is going to grant those things to you. Not all not I should not use the word is, right? But you understand what I'm getting at. You you understand the theology driving these things. And so the reality is that we're called to prayer. We're called to speak to the Lord and to come before his throne and to pray. And I don't I don't think it is a coincidence that you take a lot of that out and And so the reason I bring that up is that there's an 11-year-old that was missing that I do want to encourage everyone to pray for, by the way, if you have time, which you do, I'm saying if you have time to give you uh the ability to do the right thing, but you don't really you do. I know you have time. So we'll talk about this story. Search crews are as of last night. Now I don't know if they are still as of this morning, I've not seen a morning update, but they were still combing the waters off Surfside Beach more than 24 hours after an 11-year-old boy was swept away while swimming. Joshua Lahaye of Richmond went missing yesterday day before yesterday at about 5 p.m. while at the beach with his family and his youth football team. Surfside Beach police chief Philip Hester said yesterday evening that the effort shifted from a rescue to a recovery mission. Police say Joshua was swimming with a friend when he went under and was swept away. The U.S. Coast Guard, multiple law enforcement agencies, and Texas Equisearch have, of course, been out searching for him ever since. Now, Tim Miller, who founded Texas Equisearch, has also been on the ground since Sunday night. And he said he's spoken with Joshua's family several times. Quote, we just met with the family again and let them know that we're not giving up. Conditions aren't nearly as good as we'd like them to be. The family actually saw him out there and saw him go down, and so they're devastated. They also kind of talked about, of course, the safety behind what can pull people under. He said that they think it's a combination of currents, the sandbar, the waves, and just not being aware of those things and not being aware of how to deal with them if you do find yourself in a terrible situation. Right. That's why one of the things that I've always said, you know, is I think that young people, if they're gonna go to the beach, which they should, by the way, I think the beach is very cool for young people, you should take your kids to the beach. One of the first things they should understand is, of course, you can't survive everything, right? There's there's just if it's your time, and that's really awful to hear, but it's true. But to be aware of at least strategy and how to deal with currents, at least knowing kind of what to do, and a lot of people don't. Nevertheless, he said, we believe in miracles and it has to be one heck of a miracle, but I think from witness sightings and everything we can the most we can hope for is to get him recovered before the day is over. Of course, that also was complicated by Memorial Day, which a lot of people went to the beach, and so then it was super packed and harder to conduct those searches. And so he said, the water is not safe. I can't tell what's under the water. So you're out there walking and you might be in water that's two foot deep and then fall into a hole that's ten foot deep. It's just not safe. He said, People look at the waves and think it's safe and they can go further out. Once you get to the third sandbar, you're 200, 300 feet out there, and we can't hardly even see you anymore. And so they're planning to stay out until they at least find, you know, the boy. But I mean, just prayers for his family, too. Him and his family. And miracles can happen, certainly. They do all the time, daily. I know that we're preconditioned to read the miracles in the Bible and to see, you know, Christ as fully God, fully man touching someone and them not being blind anymore. But miracles happen every day. How many stories have you personally heard? I mean, I I know there's multiple for me. Personally, where you hear of doctors who are saying it's just not gonna happen. This is impossible. Turn off the machine, it's over. And it's not over. Because God has other plans. Our plans are not the Lord's. The Lord's ways are higher than our ways. And that doesn't always mean miracles, by the way. I know that there is an issue in Christianity. I know people who have left the faith, people who have departed, people who have said, I this is not what I believe in. Because they were promised blessings and prosperity and miracles, and they didn't receive them. That's not we're promised, we're promised suffering. We're promised that we're gonna suffer for the sake of Christ, that we're supposed to pick up our cross daily and follow him. And so I'm not trying to come out here and say, you know, everything's fine, and whatever you're going through, God will heal it, God will fix it, God will problem solve, and whatever's hard for you will be taken away. It's not what it means. But it means that we do have the joy of the Lord in the midst of suffering. And no atheist, no agnostic, no deist has that joy. It's impossible to have. They have a hole in their heart, they're depressed, they're on medication because there isn't joy in their life. They they don't know how to grapple with those major issues. And so prayers, of course, for the family, that they are comforted by the Lord in the midst of this, uh, regardless of the outcome, that the Lord's will be done on earth as it is in heaven, um, that the family would be comforted by the hand of the Lord. That's really all I can say about it.

Shark Bite Story And Beach Safety

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It's it's a rough situation. I also want to talk about this teen that was rushed to the hospital. A 17-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital yesterday afternoon after suffering serious injuries from a shark bite while aboard a boat offshore near Galveston, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. Around four PM, the Galveston County Sheriff's Office received a call regarding the emergency and contacted the Coast Guard for assistance. Details, of course, are remaining limited right now, but officials confirmed the teen was boating with his father and a third person. Imagine, by the way, uh just we'll we'll get to it. According to information confirmed by the Coast Guard, the group was returning toward the Galvison Yacht Basin when their boat became disabled near the jetties. Sources reported the boat may have been several hours offshore before turning back, though the coast guard said it could not confirm how far out the vessel had traveled. Authorities said the teen had a tourniquet applied before rescue crews arrived in an effort to stop the severe bleeding from the bite. Um, they responded to the scene where officials said they applied a second tourniquet and transported the teen and his father to awaiting EMS personnel. Despite the severity, the official said the 17-year-old was conscious and alert. Sources later confirmed the teen was transported to a University of Texas medical branch in Galvisum for treatment. We don't know the condition or the exact nature of the injury, though he is still alive. We don't know if it's critical condition or if he's expected to be all right as of now. But could you imagine if he ends up being all right? Could you imagine being that boy's mom or even being the boy's dad? And everything ends up all right. But you you go home finally, and you know, there's not the stress anymore. You're your son's all right. Imagine how that mom is going to respond. You took the son out for a nice boating day with dad, a little father-son get out there and see some see some fish. And, you know, I mean, just imagine. Just imagine. You guys know how that's gonna go. It's not gonna be fun for anybody. That's not gonna be a fun conversation. I let you take him out boarding one time and he gets bitten by a shark. I can just I can just picture the way that conversation's gonna go. Lastly, on this three-story little panel, eleven people were rescued after jumping from a burning boat in Gallison Bay. Eleven passengers were rescued and uninjured after jumping from a burning 38-foot pleasure boat on Memorial Day yesterday. The boat went up near f in flames near the Texas City dike around 2 p.m. yesterday, according to U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Perry Shizrad. Six children and five adults jumped into the water to escape the flames and were picked up by another vessel. He said they were all rescued by a good Samaritan uh by approximately 210 p.m. So uh about twelve minutes after they jumped, another boat showed up and said, Go ahead, hop on. Which, by the way, is part of living in in a in a good country. Not all countries are like that, by the way. Good Samaritans are in short supply these days. And we happen to live in a country where I'd like to believe that's still common, not just to that it happens, but it's still common. Because the reality is, you know, that doesn't happen everywhere. That's that's not a common thing globally. That is something that we are privileged to have here in the good old US of A.

Good Samaritans And American Culture

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That's something that we have here, that we build here. That comes as the distinct downflow of Christian ethics and Christian principles in our country. Even if you don't believe that it is a Christian nation, well, I can tell you right now, a lot of the ethics that are on display in the way people act are certainly coming from Christian belief. You know, when I was when I was real young, we lived in Virginia for a short stint, about six months. And I still remember it's it's one of those things that kind of is a a core memory for a five-year-old. You can't really forget about it. Even though you were five, you still have very, very distinct memories that kind of pop up. One of those um was swimming in Harper's Ferry when I was five years old. And there's a bit of a current. If you didn't know, there's a bit of a current near the bridge that if you're not really, really careful, will pull you under. And it did. I was out there with both of my sisters and my and my dad. And I just I remember my older sister being old enough she could keep herself kind of above water, just barely, just kind of treading water. And me and my little sister, neither of us were big enough to handle that on our own. So I remember my dad was just under the water for m maybe multiple minutes holding his breath because he couldn't go up, because he would take turns holding one of us above the water between me and my little sister, just to make sure we were both getting breaths in, as my dad's just under the water. And it was really just praying and hoping for a miracle. There wasn't really a solution to be had. There was he couldn't see. There was no way for us to go anywhere specific. It was just hoping that something miraculous would happen, and something did. Uh, we had some people in tubes that were just floating, who showed up and said, Hey, you guys, you guys all right? You guys doing okay? You're looking like you're having a little bit of trouble there. Uh we were, by the way, having a little, a little bit of trouble, might be putting it a little mildly, but we were. And we latched onto that lady's tube and she floated us uh to the edge of the beach, and we were all right. But I I distinctly remember that story and that memory of that happening. And it was it was one of the first times I can distinctly point in my life and say God was very, very much real and very much present, and I had zero other hope. I I had nothing. Of course, I was clinging to my father, so that also taught me a lot of importance about fatherhood and what real sacrifice means. Because I had a father who until his last breath was just gonna be under there. I mean, that was it. That was potentially his last breath, and he knew it, and it didn't change the way that he responded or the way that he acted. And so that can teach you a lot as a as a five-year-old boy about what the world looks like. But the big takeaway, of course, was the providence of God in our lives. And so, yeah, I mean, they were they were transported to uh to another boat, the Coast Guard got them all to the yacht basin, and the fire overtook the vessel. But again, I mean, we don't want to think about what could have happened, but had you not had another person out there who said, Hey, get on my boat. I'm here. It's it's this is for you. That level of willingness should not be taken for granted in this great country we have. One of the beautiful things about American culture, they want to tell us we have no culture here, certainly not true. Look around. I promise you, you can see it on display everywhere you look. We do have a we do have a culture. A culture of sacrifice, of hard work, of of Christian ethics and Christian principles. That is American culture. That is American way of life. Uh Teddy Roosevelt actually talked a little bit about this. And he, I mean, did just such a phenomenal job in a lot of what he said. One of my favorite presidents of all time, Andrew Jackson's up there, Teddy's up there, George Washington, of course, is up there. But he said something that that stuck with me, and I'll paraphrase it. He said that Americans, the culture of Americans, what it means to be an American is incredibly complicated. But essentially, that you took people from Western European society, people that were already largely Christian, people that were believers, people that understood all these values, and then you threw them into the pioneering frontier, into hard work, grueling conditions. And that created a type of man that had not been seen before, and will maybe never be seen again. That's what an American is. And that's the culture that we have, and that's the culture we have to preserve.

Houston Chase After Car Meetup Chaos

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With that being said, when we get back from the break, we are going to jump over and we are gonna talk a little bit about this HPD, we'll say, pursuit, this chase. Uh, this man was arrested after he reportedly performed donuts, which I you know what? Freedom, right? Freedom, it's America. But he was performing donuts while brandishing an AR-15 in a parking lot before the chase. And so maybe not the best choice of freedom, if I do say so myself. We'll talk about it when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. I'll be right back after this break. So hang tight. We'll talk soon.

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A driver has been taken into custody as of yesterday. After leading Houston police on a pursuit following chaotic car meetup event in North Houston, police department responders department officers responded to reports of multiple vehicles doing donuts in a parking lot, which is not the end of the world. But according to scanner audio, one of the vehicles involved was described as a white Ford pickup truck, where the driver was allegedly brandishing an AR-15 style rifle while performing dangerous maneuvers and striking other vehicles in the parking lot. When officers attempted to stop the truck, the driver fled the scene, leading police on a chase northbound on I-45. The pursuit eventually came to an end near 149 West Road, where officers took the driver into custody. Video from the scene appeared to show police recovering an AR-15 rifle as well as a pistol from the vehicle. No injuries were immediately reported, and it is unclear what charges the guy is going to end up facing. They've also not yet released the identity of the driver or additional details about the incident as the investigation does remain ongoing. But people like this kind of ruin it for everybody. I'm not saying that donuts are ever ex are acceptable, what have you, but you know, you have car meetups. Happens all the time, by the way. That's why a lot of the car meetups these days have to be very, very particular about how they advertise their meetup. Because a long time ago, you know, you could just be like, hey, everybody show up, we're gonna have a good time. People would show up to the car meet, show off their cars, drive around a bit, but there were no real major issues, you know, with the way people, you know, were acting that would get any police called, right? There may have been some donuts, there may have been some drag racing, not drag show, drag racing in the parking lot, but nothing that the police were really gonna show up and say, you can't didn't really happen nearly like it does now. Nowadays, things have changed. Kind of reminds you of a lot of other issues in our culture where things that used to be normal just can't be normal anymore. Like kids going to the mall. I'm not saying that parents were were it was you know, the parents shouldn't be around, but it used to be that you had teenagers go into a mall hanging out wasn't really a massive problem. That was totally fine. There were no issues. And now multiple malls have had to come out and say, yeah, so we actually are gonna have rules regarding underage people needing to have, you know, a parent or a guardian with them when they come. That's that's a new requirement. And they put it out there because the culture around these things has changed. And unfortunately, a lot of people in the legal sphere, in our politics, will use that cultural change as an argument, as evidence for an argument that therefore our rights have to change. And that, ladies and gentlemen, could not be further from the truth.

Rights Are Not Based On Bad Actors

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The reality is, and I've said this many, many times on many, many days, the truth rings despite that. Your rights are not predicated on the behavior, culture, or actions of someone else. Point blank, period. That's it. Your rights are not rooted in how someone else acts. Your rights are rooted in what God has given you and has been enshrined in our Constitution. That's the blatant reality. And that's why I would highly encourage you to become a member of our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Gun Owners of America understands that your rights are rooted in these in these principles we understand as having been given to us by God. And under their wisdom enshrined in the Constitution by our founding fathers. And that means that they cannot be stripped away because of the actions of anybody, regardless of what those actions are. That's not a justification to strip the law-abiding populace of their God-given rights. And the right that protects all the other ones, the Second Amendment, is the first up on that list. The one that is consistently attacked and targeted on the basis of other people's actions, of violence, of these sort of displays. That we must not be able to be trusted with firearms is not true. And that's why Gun of America every day is campaigning for candidates who support your God given rights. They're lobbying for and against certain bills in the legislative session that they're doing research on years in advance to prepare to find out which bills they'll support, which bills they'll shoot down. And they'll do that through lawsuits if need be, against tyrannical ordinances and laws. If you'd like to become a Remember the number, uh, the website is G-O-Ahouston.com. That is G Oahhouston.com. It is a $25 annual membership, $25 per year, which goes right back to the continued defense of your Second Amendment rights. One more time, that is G-O-Ahouston.com. With that being said, when we get back from the break, of course, we're going to jump over to wrap up the first hour of the show. We're going to take a peek at the weather forecast that we have coming up today and the rest of this week. As always, if you would like to let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering or anything that we're not covering that you want us to cover, feel free to text in at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. And I'll be right back for the weather report to wrap up the first hour after this last break. Hang tight.

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Houston Weather And Flooding Risk

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So today is going to mark really late today. I don't know if you can even count it as today. By the time I go to bed, it's not really today anymore, it's tomorrow. But late today is going to mark the start of another stretch of wet weather for Southeast Texas, our region, with the main threats being gusty winds and an elevated risk of flooding, according to the National Weather Service. You can expect another atmospheric disturbance, which is this low pressure system moving in from the west to trigger showers overnight tonight into early tomorrow. Forecasters said they anticipate less active weather toward the end of the work week, but here's what we know as of now. Today we'll start the day with patchy fog through about 10 AM. The city has at most, at most, a 20% chance of rain during the day under otherwise mostly sunny skies. We'll have afternoon temperatures flirting with the ninety degree mark, uh likely reaching about eighty-eight degrees, and light and variable winds out of the southeast at five to ten miles per hour going to deliver more moisture-rich air out of the Gulf of America. Now, according to the Weather Service in a forecast bulletin kind of announcing today, they said eyes then turned to the west again as yet another shortwave trough of low air pressure begins approaching the region. Forecast model guidance is still in pretty good agreement, showing another complex of storms pushing across southeast Texas late Tuesday night into Wednesday. Rain chances are going to ramp up to about forty percent tonight, especially after midnight. The persistent southeast winds that brought in more humid air means more clouds overnight, with temperatures bottoming out at a warm 75 degrees before dawn tomorrow. Now the increase in southerly airflow, hence atmospheric moisture, also means the air could be saturated enough to produce up to two inches of rain. Isolated showers are likely this afternoon, uh, mostly along the coast and thereabouts, but foregasters said they expect heavier rainfall overnight into Wednesday morning. They said that even moisture, along with broad upper diffluence aloft, should set the stage for some healthy thunderstorm activity and a possibility for regenerating and training cells. Uh that it was too early to pin down the specifics, but something that we'll be keeping an eye on as well. Foregasters said the main period for rainfall will be after midnight into Wednesday morning as the low pressure system slides through southeast Texas. The weather service has given Houston a 100% chance of showers and possibly storms tomorrow. So, yes, you are almost certainly guaranteed to get wet. Um rain-cooled air is gonna keep temperatures steady from dawn to dusk, wavering between 75 degrees in the morning and 77 degrees in the afternoon. Now, although range engines will diminish to 50 percent by nighttime, the lingering overgas guys are gonna keep overnight temperatures above 73 degrees before sunrise on Thursday. They placed all of us under an elevated two out of four risk, which is at least a 15 to 20 percent chance of elevated rainfall that could lead to flooding tomorrow. Houston on Thursday is gonna have 50 percent chance of rain in the morning, but that's gonna drop to 20 percent by that evening. Uh and that'll continue through through Friday and Saturday, that'll stay right around a slight 20 percent, uh, with again temperatures getting back up into the 90 degree region. Uh the remainder of the week looks less eventful, um, but for the most part, expect rain really going into tomorrow and then kind of sliding out of here after that. With that being said, when we get back at the top of the next hour, we're gonna talk all about elections, uh, voter turnout, what today looks like, meeting some of the people, all that sort of stuff. You're listening to Lone Star Conservative text in 713-779-5978, and I'll be right back at the top of the next hour.

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The Biggest Texas Runoff Races

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I did promise at the last hour that in this hour we'd get back to election stuff, especially given that today is the election day for the runoff elections in both the Republican and Democratic primaries. But if you're listening to the show, you're in the Republican primary, hopefully. I guess we don't ever know. Could have some some some spying ears, listening ears that are that are here. Nevertheless, let's let's kick it off because we have a few different facets of this that I would like to hit on. Starting off, I just want to highlight some of the big races that are going on. Um of course, we had the primary back at the very beginning of March, uh, in which a handful of races failed to produce a winner with more than 50% of the vote. And so I want to go through a couple of what you're gonna see. First and foremost is, of course, I think the biggest news, which is the U.S. Senate race between Ken Paxton and four-term incumbent John Cornyn. In really what has become a I'll say a referendum on Texas politics, uh, Cornyn narrowly led Paxton the March primary with 42.5 percent of the vote to 40.8 percent, um, though U.S. Representative Wesley Hunt split that vote and forced the runoff. Now it's i i it's anybody's call, right, how that vote was split. I think I think most of us tend to think that Wesley Hunt was not coming after the Cornyn voters nearly as much as he came after the Paxton voters. I think that they're more ideologically aligned enough that people who maybe didn't love Paxton didn't maybe like some of the personal issues or what have you, who went for Wesley Hunt but may have gone for Paxton. I think that was far more likely. Uh we also know that President Donald Trump came out and endorsed Paxton just one day after early voting had already started. And so recent polling from the University of Houston shows Paxton leading coron in 48 to 45 percent, with seven percent still undecided, but that's a close enough level of data that we just have no idea. We just we just don't know. So that race is is certainly up. You also have the attorney general's race of Chip Roy versus Mays Middleton. Um State Senator Mays Middleton out of Galveston is facing U.S. Chip Roy of Austin in the race to replace Paxton. Middlesen finished first in the March primary with 39% compared to Chip Roy's 32 percent. And really, uh a lot of the focus in both of their campaigns has been who is more conservative and more loyal to Trump. Middleton has attacked Roy for voting to certify the 2020 election, question his MAGA credentials. Roy has hammered uh Middleton's lack of legal experience, um, basically saying that he's unqualified to run that office. Roy's campaign claims internal polling shows the rate race is now tied after a late infusion of cash. Though UH polling gives Middleton a wider lead. And again, it's just polling. We don't actually know until we know who shows up, who's willing to, you know, actually show up. Um but UH shows Middleton leading 48 to 39 percent, with 13% still undecided. And so at that margin, um it looks that direction, but we just we just don't know. Uh Railroad Commission is another one of the races you're gonna see. Um, and that is Jim Wright, the incumbent railroad commissioner versus the challenger Bo French, um, in a race that has attracted significant donor money, with Wright receiving half a million dollars from the casino lobby while French has been heavily backed by conservative PACs. Um recent polling on that race shows Wright in the lead, but I want to highlight what the polling shows, which is a 35% to 28% lead. That means that 37% of likely voters in that Republican runoff are still largely undecided. 37%. That is a massive number of people undecided going into election day. And so again, we just have no idea. I know that there's a a 7% lead for the incumbent, but when you have 37% undecided, that that could be, I mean, a it could be a massive shift, and we would just have no idea until we actually get the results in. You also have the uh Court of Congressional Appeals or Criminal Appeals, and that is Thomas Smith and Allison Fox facing off for place three, which is, of course, for those who are unaware, that is the state of Texas's highest criminal court. Um for a little bit of background, Fox, who is a staff attorney at the Court of Criminal Appeals, led the March primary with 31.3% of the vote. Smith, who was an assistant attorney general in Ken Paxton's office, who previously served in Paxton's counsel when he was a state senator, finished close behind with 30.7 percent. They were within 0.6% of each other. And so again, it's anybody's race. We we we don't know. Um you've also got uh some congressional and legislative arrests, just depending on where you are. Um you've got Tom Stalin, Abraham Enriquez running for Texas 19 congressional CD 19. Um you also have Alex Mueller, Alexandra Del Morale Miller, and Briscoe Kane competing for CD nine out there. So uh that that that we I know we have some listeners that are out in CD nine, so that that racial impact you guys. Um Mueller, who took first place in the March primary with 36.6 of the uh vote, has received, of course, the Trump endorsement. But Briscoe who came in second place at 30.8% has the governor's support. But again, that was a less than 6% split when you add more people and it leaves quite a bit of the uh of the vote up for grabs. So we'll just the same with that race. We really just won't know much of anything until the votes actually come in. You also have uh HD 126 here in the Houston area facing off of the Rogan uh nomination between Kelly Peterson and Stan Stanhardt. And so polls are open today. That is May 26th, and they will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. And so only if you voted in the March primary can vote in that party runoff. If you vote in the Republican primary, you're locked in. If you vote in the Democratic primary for whatever reason, you're locked in. So make sure if that again, if you have not shut up to vote, that you do that. Um the runoff winners will, of course, advance to the general election. So whoever wins between Paxton and Cornyn will end up facing off against James Tallerico and so on and so forth. I also want to highlight some of the early voting turnout.

Turnout Drop And Election Fatigue

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Um, despite record voter turnout during the March primary election, early voting here in Harris County has dropped significantly ahead of today's runoff election. According to Harris County election data, more than 330,000 ballots were cast during early voting for the March primary. And this is gonna again highlight this sort of voter fatigue where people just don't want to show up consistently. They don't want to keep showing up to more and more elections, they are relatively uninterested in being involved past I showed up and voted in the primary, I'll wait for the general. And by the way, that happens a lot, but it's certainly happening now because if you look, so we had 330,000 ballots cast during early voting in the primary. For the current runoff election, early voting reached only 145,000 ballots. 145,000 compared to 330,000. Just for some some quick math, that's a 56% decrease. That is less than half of the people who've early voted in the primary are early voting in the runoff. And and to be fair, right? To be totally fair, not all the races have preceded a runoff. But all of the races that are on the runoff are there for people here in Harris County. And so whether that's a Republican-Democrat split or whether that's just people burnt out and think it's a combination of those things. Um, but you know, I think there's a reality that we have pretty low turnout for the runoffs. And unfortunately, one of the things that means in a republic is that not everybody's voices are gonna be heard. Right? Not everybody is taking the time, and I get it, right? I do understand, and this is why I've said over and over and over again, you know, when we when we do too many elections, when you keep doing them over and over, people become more and more wary of showing up to each and every one saying, Is this really that important? Right. I I voted in the primary, I will vote for the in the general election, I'll vote for my candidate. Do I really need to show up again and again and again? And for many of these people, you know, if you live in certain districts, you may have voted eight times over the last year, right? It is it is legitimate insanity how many uh non-uniform elections we've had over the past year. It's been pretty insane. And I do understand, you know, the need to have off elections. If you're doing a special election or a runoff, you can't have them be the same as every it is, it doesn't work that way, and I get that. At the same time, a lot of the problem here is that the result has been low voter turnout. And while I understand the why behind the low voter turnout, at the same time, we still have an obligation, ladies and gentlemen. If not us, then who? If not now, then when? And I understand that it's inconvenient and it takes time. I will say, um, I don't know what the lines are gonna look like on election day. Another reason that I often go and early vote is I just don't want to deal with the lines. When I went last week to early vote, there was no line at all. Um I got in and out of the polling area probably in in two minutes total. I I mean it was it was 120 seconds, maybe at most. That's being that's a conservative estimate. It was probably less than that. It was not long at all. If you show up with your ID and you know what you're doing already, you're good to go. And the race is there's not very many of them. I mean, again, it should take you, it should really take you less than five minutes to get in and out. Now, I don't know what the lines today, what that'll look like. I can't promise it'll be the same time, you know, lengthwise. It may be longer just because uh, you know, you you expect that people are gonna more often show up on election day. But make sure that regardless of the inconvenience that you are showing up, we don't want to look back um and end up with a candidate that we didn't want, that we don't support, and say, well, I just didn't feel like showing up. That'd be a terrible thing to look back on. A lot of people are going to, and I don't want that to be the listeners of this show. So make sure that if at all possible, right? And I understand there are emergencies that kind of make it not possible, but if at all possible, get out and vote today. I also want to highlight because um we've got a meet the candidates that

Harris County Judge Republican Runoff

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came out. Uh KPRC2 actually sat down with all four Harris County judge runoff candidates, uh, which I think was was pretty fascinating. And so they had this meet the candidate series, and they sat down with each of the four runoff candidates, both Republican and Democratic, to discuss the issues impacting Harris County families. And so I think each candidate was given about the same amount of time and asked the same amount of questions, same questions specifically. And we're gonna skip the Democrat. I mean, you could hear from Anise Parker if you want and Letitia Plummer. I don't think our listeners particularly care. Um and there's a video, but I wanna I want to primarily focus on the Republican runoff, since again, that's where most of our listeners are gonna be voting between Orlando Sanchez and, of course, Warren Howell. Orlando Sanchez, there's there's a long video if you if you go to KPRC, if you just Google KPRC, you know, Harris County Judge runoff, the the the article will almost certainly pull up, and you can watch the videos in their length if you'd like to do that today before you go vote. Um but he kind of highlighted his service as the Harris County Treasurer from 2007 to 2018. Um he also outlined his approach to addressing flooding concerns, improving services for Harris County residents, uh budget challenges, public infrastructure, economic concerns, trust in county government. Meanwhile, Warren Howell uh highlighted he's you know he's lived in Harris County his entire life. He's an Air Force veteran, president owner of uh insurance, where he helps businesses manage risk and operate responsibly. He spoke about balancing the county budget, managing growth and infrastructure demands, improving affordability for families, and some specifics as how to grow trust back within county government, specifically through increased transparency. And so again, if you're at all interested, uh the videos are up on that page. Um I'm not sure exactly. I think the length is is fairly similar for all four videos. If you do want to go just see what the Democrats are kind of saying about, you know, their positions. Um but the videos are are about six minutes each, give or take, right right around the six to six and a half minute mark. Uh Warren Howells was like six minutes and twenty something seconds. I don't remember the exact time time on that. Um but I think all of them were right around the six minute mark, somewhere therein, right? They may have differed by 30 seconds, just given an extra long answer. They may have been given an extra five seconds here and there. But it was roughly the same. So about if you want to hear from both Rubick and Runoff candidates, you just want to hear both their answers on things. You're gonna you're gonna dedicate with ads and Google search time, assume 15 minutes of your day. I I think we can spare 15 minutes of our day to find out, you know, what we think and what have you. We've had Warren Howe on the show here more than one occasion. Great guy. Um and so that's that's that's the runoff election for that as

Why Primaries Decide Real Outcomes

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well. Again, all of these are incredibly important. Every single one of them. And I know that there is a temptation, I know people who have faced this temptation and walked away with the wrong answer, just say, uh, I'll just vote in the general. That's what really matters, is making sure we get a Republican in. But unfortunately, we actually live in a day and age where that I don't want to say is meaningless, but has far less meaning than it used to, to the point where you could have a Republican in the general who's not really Republican at all by any historical standard of what it means to be a conservative. And that's why these runoffs are so important. In a lot of these races, you've got one candidate who is conservative, imperfect, but conservative, um, focused on traditional values, focused on the things that matter to voters. And then on the other side, you might have a rhino. You might have somebody who's very moderate, very much the bipartisan strategic approach to those. And you know, if you get, say, the moderate in, and then you're disappointed in two years when they're not doing what you hope they'd do, when they're not focusing on conservative fights, when they're not willing to stand up for your rights, well, that's a direct result of this election right here. That yes, we we we show up in the general and we knock him out of the park. We get I mean, say it's a landslide victory for the Republican Party, which I don't foresee, but let's say that it is. You have a landslide victory for Republicans all across the nation. But if we don't pick good people for these primaries, if we don't pick good candidates to represent us come the November election, then even if we win, we don't really win. Even if we walk away saying, well, we were we we secured a Republican victory, what does that actually mean in practice? Because it's great that our party succeeded, right, to a degree. I mean, it's great for being indicative of where our country is. Okay, so we voted primarily for Republicans. That's good. That's good news, bare minimum. But the results are not going to be what we expect them to be or what we hope them to be. Because having an R next to your name on the ballot does not make you a conservative who's willing to stand up for what's right. Having an R next to your name, and we know this, there are countless stories like it. Having an R next to your name does not qualify you automatically to being a good leader, to being a good representative, even to being a good Republican. We need like GR for good Republican next to next to some of the ballot names. Because the reality is we have so many candidates in office. Take a look at our national government right now, at our federal government. How's that going? Are we getting things done in the Senate that we want done? No, we're not. You want to know why? Because we have people in office who have Rs next to their name down the ballot, and yet they're not actually applying real conservative values to their leadership and to their representation. And that's happening across the board. And so these runoffs, I I I don't want to, you know, beat a dead horse, be a broken record. But I want to make sure that people are very clear that today is incredibly important to the preservation of our society. Because even if we win en masse in November, even if we come out way ahead come November, I don't want to say that it's irrelevant, right? Um, you know, you can look at one of the worst Republican candidates, and it's still better than someone like Talerico or Letitia Plummer or Christian Menefi, right? It's still significantly better than the alternative, but it's so much worse than what we could achieve. There are so many better people to represent the conservative movement, and that requires our willingness to show up today. Not in in five months from now, not in six months from now, today. And I know again that that is inconvenient, that it means giving up part of your day. That requires you making explicit and intentional plans to get out and to vote. And I'm not saying that's gonna be fun, but the reality is that we have an obligation to ourselves, to our countrymen, to our children, our grandchildren, to our posterity, that we show up and we make the most difference we can. And that requires selecting nominees for the Republican Party who are actually conservative, who actually value the party principles and aren't just skirting by on the coattails of the name of the party, of which there are many. And so show up today, make your decisions. We have a lot of critical thinkers that listen to this show, the vast majority of listeners, I dare say, who have the time to do the research, watch the videos, find out what the policy propositions are, find out their voting history. More than just the endorsements mean very little to me these days. I don't really care about that. That's part of the reason I don't endorse. Endorsements are rather irrelevant. It is much better if the populace is able to think for themselves and make good decisions. And so do the research, put the time in, and walk away prepared to vote come the election today. With that being said, and by the way, polls are open, open at 7 a.m. So if you're listening to the show, you could and you're free right now. Maybe work doesn't start till nine. You can certainly get out and vote right now. So do that. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna talk about our current Harris County judge, none other than our good friend Lena Hidalgo, um, who has come out and she's addressing Ebola concerns ahead of the FIFA World Cup matches here in Houston. Apparently there's some concern, and so she's outlining these IH screening protocols as you have this outbreak that's in some areas pausing international travel. We'll talk all about it when we get back. My only real statement before we get to it is never again on the whole pandemic thing. We'll talk about it when we get back. Text in 713-779-5978. That is 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 uh to talk about what Lena Dalgo talked about after the breaks. Stick around, we'll talk soon.

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Ebola Screening Ahead Of World Cup

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Harris County Judge Lena Hidalgo is addressing growing public concerns over Ebola cases connected to Central Africa and what that could mean for our region during the international event. Now, during a live stream update hosted Sunday night, Hidalgo emphasized that while the situation is being taken seriously, officials are not yet sounding the alarm. She said we are okay right now. It is a time to inform. Now, using his scheduled to host seven FIFA World Cup matches at NRG Stadium beginning June 14th, while also serving as a base camp location for the Democratic Republic of Congo national team. Now the concerns come after the federal government announced that George Bush Intercontinental Airport will become one of only three U.S. airports designated to receive recent travelers arriving from Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan amid an Ebola outbreak in that area. According to Hidalgo, seven Harris County residents who had recently been in Uganda arrived in Houston over the last several days. Two arrived on Sunday, while five more arrived yesterday. She said all seven travelers were screened by federal authorities in Dallas and D.C. before continuing on to Houston. She said to be clear, none of them attested positive for Ebola. In fact, none of them are showing any symptoms of illness whatsoever. Now the World Health Organization, who, again, a lot of these groups had maybe some credibility among the ultra far right, like me, right? They they never really had any water. I mean, you look at the CDC and the WHO and you kind of were just kind of rolled your eyes a little, said, I don't trust those guys. Those those guys are not on my team. Okay. But for a lot of people, there was still at least an amount of public trust in those organizations. People would look at them and say, Yeah, I mean, if they're saying there's something, we should at least, you know, kind of be concerned, pause a bit. And then COVID, where it was touted as the worst pandemic ever, and uh people who are just gonna die en masse, it's gonna be a winter of death, right? Summer of love, winter of death, all that sort of stuff. And so the the WHO has declared the current outbreak a public health emergency, though how much water that actually holds is true, is yet to be seen. Hidalgo said there are currently ten confirmed Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with suspected cases estimated to be higher than that. Nevertheless, the county judge kind of walked through the current screening and monitoring process. According to county judge, travelers are screened by the CDC upon arrival in the U.S., where they conduct temperature checks, health questionnaires, their information is shared with local health departments. Harris County I'm gonna I'm gonna pause before I say this word because I was about to say the word entirely wrong, and I hate that. Harris County epidemologists are assigned to monitor local residents returning from those regions. Travelers are asked to take their temperatures twice daily for 21 days, and health officials are gonna conduct daily check-ins and perform home visits. Adalgo also noted that travelers showing symptoms or those with known exposure to Ebola could be isolated or quarantined. She said a major point of the message focused on calming transmission fears. She said the likelihood of you or I getting Ebola from someone in airport security or by sitting next to somebody on the metro on your way to the World Cup is extremely low. She stressed that Ebola spreads through direct contact with bodily fluids from someone who is severely ill, not through a casual public interaction. She said this is not a virus transmitted person to person unless you're taking care of a very sick person with Ebola or even a corpse. She also referenced the 2014 Ebola case in Dallas, noting that despite a patient spending time at home with family members while symptomatic, only two ICU nurses later contracted the virus. So kind of highlighting, hey, this is not nearly as transmissible as other viruses that we've been concerned about. So if you were on the list of people that was concerned about COVID, which if you listen to the show, you probably were not, but you know, a lot of people were manipulated during that time period. If you were, and you are even remotely concerned about Ebola, basically when even leftists are telling you there's really nothing to be worried about, that's that's the thing when you can kind of take a breath of fresh air and say, okay, we're good. If the left is not using an outbreak as some sort of modality for power and control, then you really know it's safe.

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Public Health Claims And Staying Fit

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technology. And I've said this before, I've highlighted this on my show. I'm not gonna say that we have eradicated disease because that's certainly not true. It's not that people don't die from diseases and they don't exist anymore. But with a lot of the modern inventions and modern procedures and modern standards of hygiene, disease is a much smaller concern than it used to be in first world countries, right? Disease is still a major problem in a lot of places that don't have access to the amenities that we have here in the U.S. But you look at the U.S., and I said this before, before the advent of vaccines, we'd already, I don't want to say eradicated, because that's not the right word, but we'd already mostly done away with major concerns regarding most diseases. You want to know how we did that? Through hygienic practices. When when you have people saying, you know, maybe we should actually sterilize and wash our hospital equipment before using it on the next patient. When maybe, hey, we should probably wash our hands after after this procedure, maybe we should consider you know, taking certain precautions. Once we did that, once you had clean drinking water and you had access to soap for everyday people, disease became, relatively speaking, compared to before, a non-issue. That's why when you look at the actual charts, I think charts are great for this. When you look at the charts surrounding most of the main diseases that we get vaccinated against or are supposed to get vaccinated against, or they tell us you should get vaccinated against, when you look at the charts, you see a stark drop in death rates from those diseases. A stark drop. And uh according to the modern medical consensus, you'd expect that sharp drop to be related to the time of the advent of vaccines. You look at the sharp drop and you say, okay, that's right around the time period where they introduced vaccines to the populace. So vaccines, no. If you look at the charts, the very sharp drop to near zero was at before vaccines were ever invented. It was after we started the proper hygienic procedures for people and equipment. And then, of course, vaccines, I'm not saying they're completely useless. You can see if you zoom in on the charts, you can see a tiny little drop after that, a tiny little spike and drop. So it did do something. Um, but I don't I don't know that useless is the right word, but nearly, nearly useless, comparatively speaking. Did almost nothing. And so all of these warnings about Ebola and COVID and the Hontavirus and whatever other viruses they want to conjure and create in labs and ship into the populace with the intent to scare and control us, whatever it is, I I would encourage you to not be freak outs, right? Don't be overly, we're all gonna die, the sky is falling type people. It's not true. Wash your hands, stay relatively healthy. Another thing that I do want to highlight, since we're honest, you know, the Make America Healthy Again movement. If you want to talk about the main combatant to disease, the main safety mechanism that your body has is to be a healthy person, right? It's very hard for your body to fight off difficult diseases if you are obese and if you are incapable and you are not in a fit, healthy lifestyle. Your cardiovascular system is already compromised, which means that your immuno system is already compromised. Not a good way to handle diseases. You want to know the number one thing you can do? It is not to get a triple, quadruple booster shot, it is to go outside, go on walks, stop eating so much food. Right? That is quite literally the solution, is just to be a healthy person. Your body will be in much better shape to do what God designed it to do if you're just a healthy person. If you're just living your life the way God intended you to live it by being a healthy individual. That it's that it is that simple, literally. And so do not freak out about Ebola with the FIFA World Cup. Um, even if the left starts freaking out for whatever Lord knows what reason that they might do that, don't listen to it. Don't listen to the WHO. Don't listen to the CDC. I know I'm encouraging people, don't listen to the medical experts. Exactly. Literally, don't. Do not listen to the medical experts. Turns out that they're not as expertise as they would have you believe. With that being said, when we get back from the break, the court has now struck down a federal rule uh which previously mandated spying on non-financed home transfers. A title company in Tyler actually brought the lawsuit after being forced to submit detailed reports on some of their transactions. And so we'll talk about the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the rules, and what the court has now said when we get back from the break. 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FinCEN Rule Targeting Cash Home Sales

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative, and I'm your host, Michael Wilson. A Texas title companies federal lawsuit has now officially struck down a nationwide real estate reporting rule, which had forced title companies to file detailed reports on certain non-finance residential real estate transfers. Now, Flowers Title Companies, headquartered in Tyler, argued that the reporting requirements have proved burdensome and effectively conscripted title companies as government surveillance agents, uh, requiring such extravagant detailed reports as a methodology for the federal government to spy on homeownership using companies. Rather than and the claim isn't even that you're spying on homeowners, though that should be a conversation we have. Uh, but more importantly, is who's doing the spying? Because it's one thing when you have a federal agency that's, you know, having all these making these reports and so on and so forth, when you start to require businesses and companies to do your dirty work for you, well, that gets into a whole nother field. And so in 2024, some background, that is when the US Treasury Department had their FinCEN network, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, which finalized a new rule requiring title companies to collect information and report details pertaining to non-financed transfers of residential property where ownership is transferred to an entity or a trust, which reportedly include sensitive personal information they have to gather from clients. Exemptions include transfers resulting from the death of an individual or transfers incident to divorce. Other than those two exceptions and exemptions, whenever you transfer it and it's not financed, this sort of detailed report's being made. And so they first began issuing geographic targeting orders, GTOs, uh about a decade ago in 2016, which required these companies to file reports and maintain records on these sorts of transfers in select metropolitan areas of the U.S. The new rule from 2024 gave nationwide scope to Fence Hend's real estate reporting requirements. Instead of it just being major metropolitan areas, it was literally everywhere. And so they store that collected information in a database that is accessible to federal, state, and local law enforcement. The same purpose, as always, is to help law enforcement gather information when investigating possible violations of law or regulation. So it was sort of sold as an anti-money laundering regulation. But as you will typically find, they need good excuses to spy on you. Right. And it's the same thing. Well, we don't really want power and control, but you do have to mask up and stand apart and quarantine. Well, COVID was always about showcasing the power they have. That was always the intent. That's why you did gain of function research originally, right? We all understand that. And so in similar fashion, when you look at this case, I'm not saying that all laws are bad and that not all just not all justifications are created equal, right? And so, sure, there are some justifications for laws that do actually make sense. I'm just highlighting, because the justification sounds like it makes sense, doesn't mean it actually makes sense. And so they asserted the Treasury Department through their FinCEN network that the Federal Bank Secrecy Act authorizes these requirements as it allows rules, mandated disclosure of any suspicious transaction relevant to a possible violation. Except for one tiny little problem that I have, at least, which is that the mandated disclosure does require a suspicious transaction. And while that's up to a lot of interpretation, I don't think it's fair to say that any non-finance transfer automatically qualifies as a suspicious transaction. I think there needs to be a significantly higher burden of proof than that. Oh, you just you transferred it and there's no financing, therefore it's suspicious. Not necessarily. I think that's a justification to spy on a ton of Americans that you don't need to based on your standard. And so they they passed that rule um on August 29th, 2024, and it took effect on December 1st of 2025. So it's only been in for a few months. According to court fi filings, uh quote, Congress enacted the Bank Secrecy Act in 1970 to combat money laundering, primarily in international transactions. Since then, Congress has expanded the statute's reach to include certain suspicious domestic transactions, and now they've tried to extend it further by saying, well, all of these transactions are really sort of suspicious if you think about it. And so in April of last year, Flowers Title, this title company, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas against FINCEN, the Treasury Departments and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in his official capacity. Flowers Tidal challenged the new rule as unlawful under the APA, the Administrative Protective Act, uh, arguing that the rule exceeds FINCEN's statutory authority provided by the Bank Secrecy Act. If the Act is found to authorize the rule, the company then contends the act is unconstitutional. And so according to the lawsuit, Flowers Heidel, quote, objects to being conscripted into performing government surveillance on its clients. The company objects to FENCEN's demand that it must hand over its records without a warrant. The company contends that the rule effectively conscripted title companies as surveillance agents, forcing them to collect and transmit sensitive information in ordinary interstate transactions and imposing significant compliance costs. And so they say the collection of such data is not relevant to facilitating closings. It has nothing to do with our obligation as a company. You are essentially drafting us into a surveillance game. And that's something we have no interest in doing as a as an American company. That is not our job. That is not our role. You provided no evidence why that's needed. And really, we think that it violates the Constitution and you doing it. The lawsuit reads, and this is kind of my position, quote, there is nothing inherently suspicious about a buyer using his or her own money. Buyers who can afford to purchase property without taking on a loan often prefer to do so for many legitimate reasons. Nonetheless, the final rule deems commonplace real estate transactions inherently suspicious because it is conceivable the government might glean information of relevance to possible statutory or regulatory violations if title companies are required to systematically report the details of all such transactions. And so the company essentially came out and said, hey, the court needs to declare the new rule unconstitutional, set it aside, and block the defendants from enforcing it against them. And so when we get back from the break, because there's still more to this story, I want to go over the ruling, go over the appeal process, all that sort of stuff so you guys are fully aware of what's going on here. I think this is actually a massive story, even though it's not making national headlines. I think it should be. We'll talk all about that reporting, the spying on Americans, which is exactly what's happening. All of that to wrap up the show when we get back. 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Court Pushback On Real Estate Surveillance

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So to wrap this up, the court agreed with Flowers' title, ordering the rule be vacant, be vacated. The court reasoned that Finson failed to explain or show how non-finance residential real estate transactions are categorically suspicious. And so by granting this l uh sort of legal form and all for form statutorily, which is prescribed for a remedy to this challenge, by granting that, um, they are saying that it would do nothing but reestablish status quo, absent the unlawful agency action. And so now the defendants, which would be the Department of the Treasury, has appealed this decision to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which then must decide whether Fenton acted within its statutory authority and whether the lower court properly invalidated the rule nationwide. But before we wrap up the show, I do want to say a few things and give you my commentary on this. Uh, because the things that jump out of this story is not just a legal argument, it is the mentality behind the legal argument. Because once again, you have the federal government taking something that is completely normal, completely lawful, and treating it like it's abnormally or automatically suspicious unless proven otherwise. It is it is literally potentially guilty unless proven innocent, the exact opposite of what our federal government is supposed to be doing. And then think about what they're trying to do. If you buy a home with your own money, there's no evidence that it's cartel money, drug money, or or any sort of offshore shell company, right? Just your money. The government now says that title companies have to gather your personal information because, well, maybe, theoretically, potentially, someday, you could do something wrong and we would need that data. That is a massive shift in the mindset and operations of how our government should operate. And conservatives, those of us who are real conservatives, are supposed to recognize what's happening here. The American system, our country, was ultimately built on the idea that government needs a reason to investigate you. That's why we have warrants. Not that the government gets to vacuum up everybody's information first and then sort it out down the line when maybe we need it. Uh and I think that that's why, when you look at our country's history, that's why the founders built limits intentionally into our system. Right, that's already bad enough. All of that's already bad enough. And then you throw in the added layer, which is not that they're only doing all of these things, not that they're only completely changing a shift in the mindset of how our country is supposed to operate as innocent until proven guilty. But then, furthermore, they're they're using American companies to do it. It is the normalization of essentially deputizing us, we the people, into becoming extensions of their surveillance group. Uh, which is why when the title company says, you know, quote, we object to being conscripted into performing government surveillance on our clients, that's exactly what we're saying here. That is not what title companies are for. Their job is to facilitate property transfers and not to come out and act like an unpaid intelligence collector for the bureaucrats up in Washington. And this matters more than just real estate. As always, things carry on because every time the government pushes one of these regimes, the burden does not fall on the political class, it falls on normal people. And the irony of it is that that you look at this constitutional perspective, and it's increasingly common that you see that they don't say limited, they pass rules that Congress never explicitly voted for, that we the people don't desire under no actual basis at all, and then they force you to comply or face consequences. And that's how it works. And that's why I'm very excited to see the way this case panned out. Hopefully, the Fifth Circuit comes out and says the same thing and says, no, actually, they're right. You can't do that. This is wrong. You can't conscript title companies to essentially work for you as unpaid surveillance agents. That's not cool. And you shouldn't be spying on Americans, anyways, and grouping all Americans who have the cash to buy homes as uh, you know, suspicious.

Final Takeaways And Sign Off

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That'll do for the show today. Thanks everyone as always for tuning in. You've been listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Lord willing, I'm gonna be back bright and early tomorrow at 6 a.m. In the meantime, enjoy your Tuesday before the rain and Godspeed.