Data Centers And Water Rights In Rural Texas

A town doesn’t have to be famous to become a test case for the whole state. We start with the Texarkana-area backlash to a proposed 500-acre data center and the concerns you keep hearing in rural Texas: water consumption, constant industrial noise, and decisions that feel like they happen behind closed doors. Then we zoom out to the bigger lesson a representative republic keeps trying to teach us the hard way: when ordinary people decide they are powerless, the powerful get everything they want.

Next, we dig into Houston-area public safety and criminal justice after a murder suspect is alleged to have been out on multiple bonds despite a long criminal history and repeated violations. We make the case that justice is not cruelty and that consequences are preventative, especially when courts move slowly and “tolerance” gets treated like the highest virtue. That thread continues through domestic violence tragedies in Galveston County and what real accountability looks like when lives are at stake.

The second hour turns to border security and human smuggling after the guilty plea tied to the 2022 San Antonio trailer deaths, and we talk incentives, assimilation, and the kind of national cohesion a country needs to survive. We close with the Texas Stock Exchange launching in Dallas and a pointed question for Texas conservatives: does “growth” actually serve Texans, or does it import the same corporatist ideology, especially with names like BlackRock in the mix? 

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Transcript

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The voice of reason, and the home store conservative, Michael Wilson.

Welcome Back And Quick Reset

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot 920. Sorry again for those net eagle difficulties. It's been a minute since we had some of those, but that's the that's the thing about technology, it's imperfect because it's made by human beings. And so every once in a while they're gonna run into issues, things are gonna happen, but my apologies for that. Hopefully, from here on out we'll have uh just a straightforward show. That's the plan, at least. We'll see uh how this how this goes from here. But, but we have lots to get into, and so I don't have time to ramble to start off the show. I've thrown away my 10 minutes of rambling time not being able to start. So we'll kick it off straight

Texarkana Data Center Backlash

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in a story. And this one is going to be very important to highlight for everybody that's listening because even though it's not here in Houston, even though it's all the way out in Texarkana, the theme of this particular story, what you can glean, what you can learn from this particular story, is is one of those things that I think we need right now very dearly. So concerned residents in Texarkana gathered last week to organize opposition to a proposed 500-acre data center, raising alarms, of course, about water consumption, noise levels, and what they described as limited public input on the decision-making process. One resident described the encroachment of data centers into the area as the rape of Bowie, Bowie County on Thursday night during the meeting. Now, this comes after a 500-acre data center project was announced earlier in the year in the Texas Arcana region, much to the frustration and outrage of local residents. Uh, conservative activist Dale Holes up in the area said, if you'd have asked me what the big Texas issue was three months ago, I would have said Sharia and the Islamification of Texas, still a problem, by the way. He said, But the data centers have blown up so quick and so fast. Texas is reportedly one of the most popular locations in the United States for data center growth. However, concerns have been voiced regarding the center's impact on health, local resources, and the well-being of nearby residents. Hole said, data centers affect the quality of life. My well is over 700 feet deep. If they're sucking water out of the area, I'll have to have somebody come out there and go deeper. Crystal Prince described visiting the data center facility in Granbury with friends to investigate the noise level. Quote, we experienced on our phone app decibel ratings to 90 to 130. The strange thing that happened is all three of us within 10 minutes started feeling nauseous and lightheaded. It's like saying a UFO. You don't want to seem like the crazy one. Finally, one of our friends who has a defibrillator said, Guys, I don't feel good. My other friend and I were feeling exactly the same thing. Many data centers are known to emit noise levels as high as ninety-six decibels, while being as close to as 50 feet to a residential home. Dan Devonport, owner of the Dixie Diner, and his wife, Brandy, a former educator and administrator, said, We feel betrayed. I mean, I know these people sitting on these boards, but it makes me feel that maybe I don't know who they are. Many residents reported feeling as though decisions were being made behind closed doors without full disclosure to residents. They called on Governor Greg Abbott to call a special session to address the data centers. Brandy Devonport said, I would call on Governor Abbott to call a special session. Put your money where your mouth is. Why wait till after this next election? Now, while Abbott has yet to call a special session for, you know, the legislative side of all of this, he he he has technically called for data centers to be blocked in the rural areas of Texas. That's just his personal, hey, don't do that kind of thing. It's not a law. And so it's just a recommendation. Hey, I recommend you don't do that. Which if you've ever had an authority figure and you don't necessarily want to follow that authority figure, but you kind of have to, and he says, Hey, I recommend you don't do that, that's an immediate, that's an immediate way that I can do it anyway, because you didn't say no. You just said you recommend I don't. And I heard you and I'm doing it. Which is what's happening. Uh and so concerned Texans are encouraged to contact their local representatives regarding data

Complacency And Local Power

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centers. What's crazy about this story though, is that I think we often get locked into this idea, and it's unfortunate. Uh, we get locked into this idea that that we say, well, I I what can I do? I'm just one guy. I'm just one person. What sort of impact can I really even have on the world at all? You know, there's uh I would have to, you know, and you start thinking these things about yourself.

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Right.

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And I want to tell you plainly that that is one of the most destructive lies for a representative republic. Right. If you were in a different kind of government, might not be the end of the world if you think you can't really make much difference. And maybe it would even be true that you can't politically make much difference. But we don't live under some other form of government. We live in a representative republic. And the thing about a representative republic is that you can actually make an individual difference. And that's not because every single person ever is going to change the world overnight and the world's just changing all the time. And it's not because every single local meeting that you go to is going to stop a bad project, right? And and you might make phone calls to local representatives and and they don't agree with you. You might even go out to Austin and talk to them, and they might disagree with you. But here's the reality: complacency, which is exactly what's happened in the Republican Party and from, you know, especially rural conservatives, complacency is what's gotten us here, and it's exactly what the powerful are relying on in order to get down what they want done. They're relying on we the people being complacent and apathetic. They're counting on you being just too tired and too busy and thinking, well, it's already too late. The deal's already been made, city council's already approved this, it's already happening, there's nothing I can really do. And when good people are willing to really start believing that lie, that your voice doesn't matter, that there's nothing you can really do about it, that lie actually becomes it's a kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. It actually becomes true. Because if you believe there's nothing you can do, you're not going to do anything. And then by nature, look at that, there is nothing that you can do. But it's because you're choosing not to, not because you actually couldn't have an impact. And that's how you have even even small rural communities that are changing. Hey, I thought I knew people on the board, but I can't believe this is happening because you weren't paying attention. And I'm glad you're standing up now, right? It really is better late than never. That is uh, I mean, an undeniable fact of politics. It is always better late than never. Even just saying the thing, even if it is too late, is is still better than nothing. It's showing that you care and that you're willing to stand up. Uh, but this sort of complacency and apathy, that's that's how towns go from being good places to live to I I can't imagine living here anymore. You have people moving out because of data centers, moving away from their dream homes, and this happens all the time. It's not just data centers, it's a lot of different kinds of progress. Uh, but that's why what's going on in Texarcana matters way beyond what's happening in Texarkana, right? Uh because ordinary people are standing up and they're saying, hey, uh, you're actually not going to do this behind closed doors. You're actually not going to treat our land and our water and our homes as collateral damage in someone else's, you know, project to make billions of dollars. That's actually not right. That's actually not the end all be all. Somebody else's money-making scheme is not my business, right? Conservatives, I think, very much need to recover the ability to do this better. We we we can't spend our lives complaining in the dark corners of the internet to our friends on social media about the decline of the country, and then we refuse to go to school board meetings, or we refuse to go to city council meetings, or we refuse to call our local representatives, or we refuse to do basically anything that would have any sort of impact at all. Right? The fight is at the courthouse, the fight is at the school board in the city council meeting. It is in the church, it is actually in the home, in the schools, it is actually in the just the zoning here. All of these things are where your voice matters. And and yes, sometimes it is in a in a rural Texas community, you know, being told, hey, you just have to accept whatever project some board says you have to. And at some point, we have to recover the courage as as conservatives and especially as Christians, uh, you know, to stand in the public square, to stand up and say, hey, no, this is wrong, and we're not going along with it. This is this is wrong. This is evil.

The Boniface Option And Modern Idols

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Um, there is an old story from church history that I actually think ties very well into this that I wanted to bring up. Have you guys ever heard of Boniface? Uh he was he was uh a missionary to the Germanic pagans. So this would have been some of the you know more Nordic style, you know, pagans. Uh he came upon what was known in the this pagan community as Thor's Oak or Donner's Oak. Um it was it was this sacred tree. It was it really was an idol uh to pagan gods. Uh and it was feared, the oak was feared by the people. They believed that the false gods would strike down anyone who dared to touch it. They said, no, that's that's Donner said, that's Thor's oak. You can't you can't touch that. And so when when Boniface came into town as a missionary, it immediately became clear through his mission work that the people were were scared into submission into paganism. And he, you know, getting into talking to these guys, finds out what the main driver of that is. And so he found out, okay, this idol, this idolatrous tree that you have here in your town square, you believe that the false gods are in control of your city. And that they're that they're real. And so, you know what Boniface didn't do? He didn't just hold a listening session with the idol. He did not, he did not say, well, maybe we can find some common ground. Maybe we have a bipartisan bill between Thor and us. No, actually, that's not what Boniface did. Um, and he also, you know what else he didn't do? He didn't say, hey, I'm only one guy, I guess I really can't make much of a difference, and then go home. That's that's not what that's not none of that. You know what Boniface did? He took an axe to the tree, he chopped it down. And when the heavens did not fall, when he was not stricken down by Thor, when the false gods did not show up to hurt anybody, all of a sudden the people of the town were kind of like broken from a spell. And and that's what courage does. Right? Today we we there's there's been a term coined in a lot of the church community called uh the boniface option. And the the theory of that goes that we're called to chop down the idols of the age. And that doesn't necessarily mean physical violence, to be very clear with you. What it does mean is that that and again, I'm not telling you to go like chop down trees, right? The trees are not the idols of the day, right? I'm telling you that every age of human humanity, of world history, has idols. Every age has false gods of some sort. Every, every time in world history, there's things that you're not supposed to question and you're not supposed to oppose, and you're not supposed to even touch where we strike you down, we ruin your career, whatever it is. Today, of course, those idols are not trees, right? What are they? Well, we know that some of those idols are things like transgenderism.

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Right?

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The transgender idol says that reality itself has to bend in service to this insane ideology. Uh the abortion idol says that innocent blood can be sacrificed for the convenience of people, that you can slaughter children if it makes your life more convenient. The idol of socialism uh says that the state is your God, and that your property, your labor, and even your children ultimately belong to the state. Uh the idol of globalism says that Americans and our sons and our daughters uh can be sent into foreign entanglements to die for causes that we didn't vote for and don't actually benefit us at all. The idol of this rampant corporatism and oligarchy uh says that we should bow before money, even when it means that our quality of life and our resources and our culture on the line. Well, the data center is going to bring in a great booming economy. It produces a lot of money, so you just have to deal with it. And the idol of cowardice, which by the way, might be the most dangerous one of all right now. It's it's gotten a big hold on the conservative community. Um, it's it says, stay quiet. Don't don't make any trouble. Come on, just just kind of go with the flow. Don't be extreme. Don't be the one who speaks up. People are gonna look at you weird, they're gonna call you names. You might lose your job. You you might be you know you might be threatened. Well, that idol needs to be chopped down. Because the truth is we're not powerless. God has given us a lot of influence in this country, right? You may not be able to do everything. I'm not saying that. And there may be times where you fail, but you can do something. You can show up and speak and organize people. Uh you you can call your representative, you can be part of exposing what's going on. Right? And you can you can fight to make sure that your children and your grandchildren inherit a country where everyone knew what was wrong, and everyone knows what is right, and we say it and we speak it and we fight for it. And and let's be honest, the other side knows this, right? We've said it before. You talk about transgenderism, especially. Uh, the left understands this because transgenderism, and they'll often say this and they'll use it as a uh, you know, a sort of indictment on the right. Well, transgenders, they're like two percent of the they're like less than one percent of the population. Who cares? Why are you trying to like ban them from from you know, locker room? Why are you harassing and targeting such a small minority of the population? Well, for being such a small minority of the population, they're certainly very loud and very good at getting what they want. Could you imagine if the other 98% showed up and did that? How much we'd get? They're very good at not being cowards, right? They they show up and they pressure legislators and they they organize and they demand, and they make life very uncomfortable for people who don't bow down. And then and then the country moves left and we we sit around saying, Oh, I don't I don't know why that happened, right? You know, I I hear a lot of conservatives say, well, we have great principles, but principles that never leave your head, you just have them inside, and then you do nothing about them, aren't actually principles. It's like law that's not enforced. Is it really law? I know you could say it is, because it's it's in the legal code, but if you never enforce it, is it really legal at all? It's the same thing. Convictions that cost you nothing aren't really convictions. Faith that does not act is dead. We understand James says this to us. If you say, hey, I have faith, but then you do nothing, your acts don't change, your works No, you don't actually have faith because it drives you. You become sanctified, you do things. The faith that you have is the faith of a spectator, somebody who's unwilling to participate. And this country, right now, cannot afford spectators. So when residents up in any area stand up and they organize, that should be a lesson to every single person. Don't wait for somebody else to fight the battle for you. Don't wait for a politician to come in who's maybe great and hopefully that politician is able to save you from what's going on. Right? Don't wait for all of those things. Stand up. Speak the truth. Because one person can make a difference. One person can wake up ten more people, and ten people, shockingly, can actually wake up a whole town, can wake up a whole city, right? And that can move into each level higher. And before you know it, we're changing the country. But it has to start with somebody picking up the axe, metaphorically. Not again, not in violence and in recklessness and in just some sort of you know, whatever, uh, but in courage and in truth and in obedience to God. Having having a courageous mentality that says, whatever, come what may, I'm gonna do what God has called me to do. Because the idols of the day are not just gonna fall over, it's not gonna happen, it's not how God works. They have to be confronted, they have to be named, and one by one, they do have to be chopped down. That's what I'm doing on this show. That's what I encourage all of our listeners to do wherever they go, with whatever influence they individually have, because that's what we're called to. And if we don't do it, it's it's the age-old question: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who? Who am I waiting for to show up? Am I hoping that there's another trumpet, another one after that, another one after that who maybe can save us from this? No. That is cowardice, plain and simple. Hoping that somebody else does it for you, so you don't have to do anything. It's not gonna work. With that being said, in the next segment, we're gonna come back and uh we're gonna talk about some issues with violence, particularly uh one of the idols that is tolerance. That is a massive idol of the day, that we tolerate evil. And we'll highlight that by talking about here in Houston, a well, actually it was umble, but the greater Houston area, a man who was charged in the murder of a repairman. We'll talk all about this story and particularly how this connects back to tolerance after the break. If you would like to text into the show, the number, as always, is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. We'd love to get your thoughts on all the stuff we're talking about. Hear what our listeners think. In the meantime, you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord willing to be right back with the rest of that story after this break. So stick around, and we'll talk about it soon.

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Murder Case And Bond Failures

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. New court records show that the suspect charged in the murder of a repairman found dead inside a vacant Houston area home has a lengthy criminal history and was already out on bond in get this, not one case. No, multiple cases when he was arrested. Investigators say that 31-year-old Christopher Walsh was found dead with at least one gunshot wound inside a vacant home on Crathy Drive in Umble last week. Authorities later arrested and charged 32-year-old Jamie Michael Garcia for the murder. Garcia was arrested last November after allegedly shooting a man multiple times, according to court records. The incident happened outside a tire shop after Garcia had been out at nightclubs with three other people. Garcia was concerned over the victim backing into another car while trying to park, which resulted in Garcia allegedly shooting the victim inside the car and again once he fell outside. Garcia allegedly told victim investigators the victim had carjacked him, which didn't match up at all with what the witnesses told the police. While out on a $75,000 bond for a November aggravated assault felony case, Garcia allegedly violated conditions multiple times by not reporting for drug screenings. Pre-trial services alerted the court, but his bond never got revoked. Before that, in October, Garcia was arrested after he allegedly assaulted his on and off girlfriend and threw her phone on the ground, resulting in two misdemeanor charges. He was also out on bond in those two misdemeanor cases. Garcia has previous drug weapon and theft convictions, in addition to the current arrests, he also has convictions for those things. He was scheduled to appear in court yesterday, but the court date has been reset. For now, his bond has been denied. Attorneys are scheduled to order into court in early August when prosecutors plan to convince the judge that he should be held without bond pending trial, though that shouldn't even be a question. That shouldn't even be something that you have to fight for. That should be an automatic assumed position for the judge to take that this guy shouldn't be out. And I don't understand. I mean, if you're gonna have bonds, and the the financial side of bonds doesn't make any sense. But even if it did, $75,000 when you committed aggravated assault and shot a guy and witnesses statements didn't line up with what you said happened. I feel like it's one of those things where it should be pretty obvious to everybody that guy probably shouldn't be out, right? You're you're walking around humble, you shoot somebody a couple times, you've got previous threat theft convictions, drug convictions, weapons convictions. You you shoot somebody multiple times, you have another, you know, thing that happened. You get out on bond, you don't show up for drug screening, so now you've violated bond conditions, but they don't revoke it, and now somebody's dead. And it's allegedly this guy. This guy's allegedly done it, who's again got all these convictions, lengthy criminal history, multiple bond issues, and we're left to wonder could this guy still be alive? Had we just been more just? Had our idol not been tolerant, has like the highest virtue. It is absolutely and diabolically insane that we are at a time in American history where you can have someone who's who's stealing and doing drugs and and violating the law and shooting people, and this guy's out. Despite all those things, this guy's out on bond, and then somebody gets killed. And the problem is that this is a this if this was a one-off case, it would be bad. It would be evil. But this is not a one-off case. This is happening all the time in our modern justice system. All the time it's happening. We look around the country. How many times have we had to hear stories, even just recently, of people who have done absolutely heinous things and then they're let out on bond? Or their conviction leads to a light slap on the wrist kind of sentencing that inevitably results in them getting out again in a short period of time and committing more crimes. It's happening all the time. We know how high our recidivism rate is, which is the rate at which somebody who has been to jail goes back. It's it's very high because no one's being punished at all. And then the result is that people are getting hurt, people are getting killed, people are getting stolen from, and d drugs are spreading and all of these things. And we could fix all of it. If we would just pursue justice over tolerance, if we would just pursue consequences for people's actions. If we would just stop with this incessant need to say, well, but we what we gotta let him out. We can't we can't let him sit in jail while we wait for trial. We we can't let him just, you know, rot behind bars for what he's done. No, we can't do that. That's not good. What's the you think the alternative is better? Because the alternative is that people are getting hurt and killed. I'm sorry if I don't think that that is a better alternative. That I think a better alternative would be maybe fixing the reason you need the bond in the first place, which as we all know is specifically because we don't have a good a good and efficient and organized court system. Our criminal justice system is incredibly disorganized, and it results in, well, it's gonna take a year to get to trial, and it's not fair to make that guy sit behind bars for a year. Yeah, you know what else isn't fair? Letting him out, and then somebody gets killed. That's also really not fair. And it's certainly not just. And it's all because we must be tolerant. You must you must be tolerant. And if you say anything else, man, you're you're the you're the bad guy. Somehow you're you're racist or you're you're you're bigoted, whatever you know, term they want to throw in your face to justify calling you the bad guy. If you highlight those issues, well, you must be evil. If you're not content with the status quo of the court system, you're the problem. No. Actually, no. I think that it is insane that people have to be worried for their lives because we're unwilling to just punish people. I I actually think that's crazy. And to kind of wrap that up, when we get back from the break, the Galveston District Attorney has now addressed an uptick in domestic violence cases after we've had three killings in a single week. Um, these these three domestic violence-related killings were reported over the span of one week late last month, and now the uh DA is expected to address the issues. Uh, the conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. We'll talk about it when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts. The number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord, will I be right back to talk all about it after the break. So stick around and we'll talk soon.

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Domestic Violence And What Drives It

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Galvison County District Attorney Kenneth Cusick, and the district attorney's office is going to hold a news conference this afternoon following a recent uptick in domestic violence cases, according to a news release. The news conference is scheduled for 2 p.m. in the Galvison County Commissioner's Courtroom. The briefing comes after three domestic violence-related killings are reported in Galvison County in the span of one week. On June 23rd, you had Kristen McCurr- McMurrin, who was 21, who was charged with murder and aggravated assault. On June 25th, you had Lee Sims, who was 73, charged with murder. And on June 29th, you had Isaiah Johnson, who's 38 years old, charged with murder. Official said the cases are currently being prosecuted by the Galvison County District Attorney's Office, and they're going to address the uptick and why that's happening and how we can do better. I can tell you, and this answers both questions: why is it happening and how can we do better? I can give you an answer. You don't need a news conference from the district attorney to know this. It's actually very clear. It's actually very straightforward. And we kind of touched on it in the last segment, but there's actually two main drivers, especially when you're talking about domestic violence. There's two main drivers causing this issue. The first, obviously, is a lack of justice for those who commit evil. You look around the country right now and you see there's been a general uptick in violence. And I know the FBI reports are saying, well, violence is at an all-time low and all these sorts of things. And from a certain perspective, that that could be true in certain areas. But when you when you look around the whole country, if if we were to be honest with ourselves, would almost anybody say that we're happy or that we're content with the level of public safety? Or that we're happy or content with the way that criminal justice is doled out? Because I have a feeling, a distinct feeling, um, that if anybody's thinking along the same lines I am, the answer is no. That we are not happy or content with the way that things are in our criminal justice system and the way that things are being handled from a public safety perspective. Simply not the case. And we know this. We keep looking in our public schools and we keep seeing, okay, issues of predations and predators who are taking advantage of children. We see all these issues all the time, and we we understand what's driving that, right? We know without a doubt that it is directly correlated with the fact that we live in a time where tolerance is important and we don't want to punish people. We don't want them to be punished, we want they want we want them to be rehabilitated. That's the main goal of justice, even though that's nowhere in the actual term justice. It's actually not a just goal to have. Yes, that can be a result, by the way. If you actually don't allow justice, in many cases, it is rehabilitative. But that's not the end goal, it's just a side effect of justice. Justice is the protection of the innocent and the punishment of the wicked. That's what justice is. And when you don't go for justice, you fail. And we know this because that's exactly what's happening. We could have predicted it, but we don't even need to predict it because it's happening right now. But there's a second reason when especially when you talk about domestic violence, and that's because the the concept in general of love, but especially in in the in the sense of marriage, has been broken down and reduced to meaningless nothings. The whole idea of love and of marriage and of covenants has been reduced to nothing. You know, it used to be understood that, well, even living together was a side effect of marriage. You got married first, right? All these these, you know, I they call it hookup culture, but all these people that are participating and just randomly being with people they don't know, sleeping around, doing all these things, that was not a major problem before. It happened, but even when it happened, it was a shameful thing that you didn't want to get caught doing. You knew that it was sin, you justified it for whatever reason, but everyone understood, no, what you're doing is wrong. And that's not true anymore. People have now justified it to the point where they're public about it, they're open about it. Everybody knows it's happening, and no one seems to care all that much. And that goes right along with what's happening in marriage, not just the pre-marriage, premarital hookup culture, it's also inside of marriage. How many affairs are being committed, how many people are just throwing away their lives, and even on top of that, and a lot of this happened when we passed no fault divorce in our country. Just the way that marriage itself has become meaningless. We've completely changed the definition. We've done that in a variety of ways, right? We talked before about Obergefell that redefined marriage to include basically anyone you wanted. It wasn't just uh a man and a woman before God. Well, they took the God out of it. No longer is God involved in a marriage. And additionally, they said anybody can be married. Two men, two women. I and and just you wait. Because if we follow down this same road, before you know it, it's gonna be two men and a woman, three women and a man, three women, two men. If you fight for equal protection, eventually polygamists, those polyamorous weirdo folks, they're gonna be included in this. That's that's just an inevitable conclusion of all of this, is that's where it's headed. Right? Before you know it, you have all the well, kids are capable of transitioning, they're fully capable of making their own decisions. Now you're gonna allow child children back into that. And then before you know it, maybe animals are gonna it's insane. And it all kicks off when you devalue what marriage is supposed to be. It all really started with no fault divorce. Before no fault divorce, you couldn't just divorce because you didn't love each other anymore. Or because, well, we just fell out of love, or we just don't see things the same. Or we both we both grown and changed, and we've kind of we're now walking different paths than we were when we got married. So we should just divorce. Uh no, there used to be standards that divorce was looked down on, and it rarely happened, and when it did, it was still a shameful thing, though there were justifiable instances in cases of abandonment or adultery. And now, with the passage of no fault divorce and what's happened since, now you just divorce anytime you want. You know what that does to the concept of marriage? It devalues it, it turns it into just a it's not a covenant anymore. Your roommates, your roommates with a contract that you can void anytime you want. It's not a really it's like an unenforceable law. It's a contract that isn't really a contract at all. There's nothing. Marriage is a meaningless standard from the state's perspective. Now, as Christians, we still don't believe that, right? As Christians, we still have the Bible holding us accountable, saying, no, I actually won't get married for no fault reasons because I'm a believer in what the Bible says. But from a societal American perspective, from a legal perspective, that's all been thrown away. And then you wonder why things like domestic violence are common, because husband and wife don't look at themselves the same anymore. They don't look at each other the same way anymore. It's all farce to them. We're running out of time here in the last segment, so I'm gonna go ahead and jump over to our weather report for the morning as we wrap up the first hour of the show.

Houston Weather And Saharan Dust

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To kick it off here with the weather report. Tuesday, that's today, is bringing Houston one last round of potentially scattered storms before the Saharan dust plume coming in again is going to usher in hotter and hazier weather by the middle of the week. Heavy rainfall and frequent lightning are possible in any storm that develops today as the afternoon sea breeze moves inland. After those sea breezes kind of move out, rain chances are going to fade once drier air spreads into southeast Texas. So you can look for hazier skies before potentially widespread storms could return this weekend. Today is going to offer beneficial showers for some people, but not for all people. A weakening upper level atmospheric disturbance is going to keep the best chance for scattered showers and thunderstorms north and east of Houston, especially out toward the piney woods. The afternoon sea breeze could still trigger a few spotty downpours closer to the coast, mainly south of I-10, while much of the region is going to stay dry. Any storm that develops could produce brief downpours, lightning and gusty winds. Rain chances are going to taper off by tomorrow as slightly drier air settles over southeast Texas ahead of a plume of Saharan dust expected later in the week. By Thursday, that's expected to spread into the region. The dust is going to produce colorful sunrises and sunsets, but it's also going to create hazy skies and reduced air quality. In addition, it of course also suppresses local thunderstorm development, which limits opportunities for any sort of rain and storms, all those sorts of things. Addant temperatures are going to remain in the mid to upper nineties all week, but the insistent humidity is going to push heating its values closer to the threshold for the National Weather Service to issue a heat advisory. Even so, the forecast begins, becomes more complicated heading into the weekend. A return to more widespread showers and thunderstorms could temporarily knock temperatures down in some neighborhoods. Again, while others are continuing to flirt with near hundred degree temperatures. But we'll keep you guys updated on potential rain chances going into the weekend. It's only Tuesday, so those chances, I don't want to say they're non-existent, but they're just guesses right now. By Friday, by Thursday, Friday, we'll know a lot more. But I just want to keep you guys updated that it it's your last chance for rain for at least a few days is today. If you don't get any today, I wouldn't expect any tomorrow, Thursday, or early part of the weekend. Expect higher temperatures, Saharan dust, all those sorts of things. When we get back after the break, we're gonna come back and kick off the next hour talking about this man from Guatemala who admit his role in smuggling an incident that left 53 dead here in Texas with lots more news. Text in 713-779-5978. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Lord willing, I'll be right back at the top of the next hour. Don't go anywhere.

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

Why Our Listener Base Matters

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative here on Patriot Talk 920. It is great to be with you guys this fine Tuesday morning and to have so much to talk about. Uh but the reality is that as I was thinking the last segment, I want to highlight it again. We have probably the best listener base of any Any local radio station in the country. Um, you know, you might have some radio hosts that have better, you know, you know, uh uh a greater influence just because of the nature of the fact that they're syndicated and they're uh on numerous stations all over the country. But from a distinct local radio station perspective, I do think that we have some of the greatest influence over some of the greatest people in any area in the country. I think we have the greatest opportunity for that, given where we are in Southeast Texas. And that's mostly an a compliment to you guys, uh, because I do believe that our listeners actually do show up. They actually do participate. They do come to our events, they do show up to school board meetings, they do show up to city council meetings and agendas, and they do have things to say. They do interact with the show and say, hey, here's what's going on, here's what you need to know about, here's what we need to do. And they desire to get involved. That's why I've said before one of the number one questions that I get at events or at conferences from our listeners consistently is, well, what do I do? It's not even just random policy questions, though I guess to be fair, I talk so much about it on air. You probably already know what my position is. But a lot of it is that our listeners actually desire to make a difference. They actually want something to change. They don't just tune in for sheer entertainment value, though I hope that's there. They also tune in because you guys want to change things. You guys want to know what's going on in our city and our state and in our country so that you can have an impact, so that things can be exposed, that you can change, that you can influence, that you can go in and participate in those things to make sure that things get better, not worse, that the trajectory changes. And I'm very proud of that. I I'm incredibly proud of that. It is always great getting to meet each and every one of our listeners and to see the the outspoken courage from each and every one of you guys saying, Hey, we actually do want things to change. And I know that's gonna require effort, and I know that's gonna require sacrifice, and it's gonna require grueling levels of effort consistently without a lot of breaks. But that's that's the nature of the beast. And I I do genuinely and wholeheartedly believe that our listener base is in a prime position to do that because they actually desire to. You guys are not growing complacent, you're not apathetic, you do believe in the future of this great country and in what she stands for, and you want to see that preserved for your children and for your grandchildren and for your great-grandchildren many, many years after we're gone. I believe the same thing. I'm doing everything I can to make that difference. But that's again again required that we're well aware of what's going on and that we stand on principles. And we can't do that if we don't know what our principles are. We can't do that if we don't know historically what the principles of America were. We can't do that if we don't know what we want our principles ultimately to achieve. We have to know that. And that's why I do my best, whenever we talk about any story, that I tie it back into the narrative of American history. That I say, hey, you know what? This is a problem because blank. It's not just, I don't just want to report on a story and say, hey, so this happened. Man, the left is crazy, and then move on. I know that a lot of people on radio and in podcasts and on social media will do that. Hey guys, did you hear about this? Man, isn't that crazy? They're insane. And then that's the it. That's the end. They don't say anything else. And I I I that's not the kind of show that I want to run. I want people to know what I believe. I want them to know why so that when they believe it too, they know why they believe it. I want us to have standards. I want us to have a defense for the hope that we have. I want us to know why we believe what we believe. And so I never want to walk away from a story just having reported on it so you guys hear that it happened. Now, you guys, of course, need to know what's happening, right? That's a part of it. You do need to be aware. The works of darkness must be exposed. But if all we do is just say, oh, it happened, yeah, that's crazy. And then we move on and we go to the next news cycle and we don't talk about why that's so bad and what's gotten us to this point and what we can do to get us away from where we are now, then nothing's going to change. We're just going to be more aware it's happening. And to be completely honest with you, if you become more aware that things are happening, but you can't, or you feel like you can't do anything about it, that's not good for you. It's it's actually very negative for you to believe that because you'll you'll just feel even more powerless as evil continues to breach our gates. Speaking of breaching our gates, that drives us into the first story of the second hour here.

Smuggling Tragedy And Open Borders

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A Guatemalan citizen, extradited to the U.S., has now pleaded guilty for his involvement in orchestrating a human smuggling incident that led to the deaths of 53 illegal aliens and the injury of 11 others back in 2022. According to the Department of Justice, Rigoberto Ramon Miranda Orozco was arrested in 2024 by local Guatemalan agencies pursuant to a DOJ request for his extradition to face trial in the United States. He was extraded to the U.S. only about a year and a couple months ago in March of 2025. His arrest was part of a much larger operation across the country in which Guatemalan law enforcement officers executed multiple search warrants. The DOJ announcement noted that this particular guy, Mirando, a Roseco or a Roseco, a Roscoe. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to bring an alien into the United States, resulting in death, aiding and abetting bringing an alien into the United States, resulting in death, and aiding and abatting bringing an alien into the United States, resulting in serious bodily injury. He is set to be sentenced on October 8th of this year and faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. The original incident, if you guys have forgotten, occurred back in June of 2022 when 64 illegal aliens were fucked in the United States in a tractor trailer. You probably remember this news. Investigator said that the trailer traveled 156 miles from Laredo to San Antonio in 90 degree heat without working air conditioning. Emergency medical services pronounced 48 of the 64 illegals dead at the scene, and five later died in intensive care, meaning 53 were deceased. Among the 53 that were killed, there were six juveniles and at least one pregnant woman. I don't know if that means that they included 54, not sure how that works. Pictures provided by the Department of Justice show clear signs of a struggle to escape, including scratch marks on the walls, because of course they were literally dying from heat exhaustion, from heat stroke. U.S. attorney Justin R. Simmons for the Western District of Texas said, quote, 64 people suffered through sweltering Texas heat in the back of a smuggling trailer, leaving less than a dozen survivors clinging to life, all because smugglers like Mirando Orosco decided that profits were worth more than human lives. This guilty plea is another step toward justice for every one of those 64 and their families. And it sends a clear message that no matter where you attempt to hide, this office, the Greater Department of Justice, and our law enforcement partners across the government will find you and hold you accountable. The case is being prosecuted by Alexandria Skinian of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutor Section and Joint Task Force Alpha attorney Jose Lewis Acosta. The mass schedule of the event, of course, 2022, occurred during the Biden administration. Texas Governor Greg Abbott criticized the administration's immigration policies at the time, saying they encouraged illegal immigration and human smuggling. Abbott back in 2022, in response to this story, said, quote, these deaths are on Biden. They're a result of his deadly open border policies. They show the deadly consequences of his refusal to enforce the law. And so Miranda Orozco was accused of conspiring with other human traffickers to smuggle several of the people who died in the tractor trailer. And of course, he has been convicted of those crimes, but sentencing has not occurred yet. And this is what the open borders sort of regime never wants to talk about or reckon with or deal with in any reasonable way. They want every single story of immigration, every single one to be sentimental. They want every single border debate, and they do this with abortion too, and they do it with trans rights too, right? Dead son or living daughter and abortion. Well, what about the 12-year-old girl who was raped and her life is on the line, right? They always go with these extreme circumstances that make them look good so they can try to win the argument rather than acknowledge that's i the particular case that you just highlighted is far less than half a percentage point. What about the other 99.9% of reasons that this is happening?

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Right?

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Not only that, but they ignore all the studies. When you talk about transgenderism, they've done a long-term study on the effects of the quote-unquote medical care, the health care given to uh those who have gender dysphoria, specifically when it comes to gender surgery, right? We call it gender mutilation, but they of course call it health care. The only long-term study we have shows no reasonable changes in the suicidal ideation rates. In other words, for in plain English, the surgeries they're saying that your kids must get in order to not want to kill themselves has no reasonable, no reasonably significant impact whatsoever on those rates of suicide. It doesn't help them at all. It's if it's of no benefit. And so, you know, they they want you to believe that the only moral question is whether we're willing to accept more people and more cultures and more languages and more demands and more burdens and more everything that doesn't benefit us. But there is actually another moral question, and that question should be very straightforward. What happens to a nation when it stops governing itself and when it stops defending its own sovereignty? What happens when a country is unwilling or incapable of enforcing its own laws, refusing adamantly to defend our own borders, and refusing to tell the truth about assimilation, right? And then you have these conditions where criminal networks turn human beings into cargo for for for profit. That that is the end result of all of this. That is the fruit of a very evil lie. And you know what that

Assimilation And The Rome Warning

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lie is? I'm I'm just gonna state it. We talked earlier in the show about tearing down the idols and being courageous to just say what the issue is. The issue is the lie of multiculturalism. It is. It's not this harmless idea that people from different places can live peacefully beside one another under some sort of shared law and a shared moral order, right? That's happened before. That can happen in in very specific circumstances. The lie is that a nation can import the world and then ultimately refuse to actually demand real assimilation, refuse to defend its own specific identity as a nation, refuse to prefer its own people, refuse to uphold its own moral standards that are supposedly there, and then somehow stay the same country. It's not the same country once you've done that. That's not compassion. That is that is national suicide. And we're all just supposed to be okay with it because the alternative is, well, you must just hate people. Well, you must just be a hateful, racist, bigoted, Islamophobic, xenophobic person. Right? A nation that actually cares about itself and cares about its people understands that immigration is not a, is not primarily a question of economic proportions. It's not primarily a financial question, though that plays in. It's not merely about labor, though that sometimes plays into it. And it's not primarily about GDP, though that again can play into it. Immigration is about people. And people, and this is just true, you don't have to like it, but it's true, people inevitably bring cultural values with them. They bring customs and they bring moral assumptions that they grew up under, and they bring their habits and their already existent religious beliefs that they have that they held in their own country. They bring all of that with them, their their loyalties and their expectations about how the law works, about how government is supposed to work, and about violence and authority and cultural cohesion. They bring all of those things that they already believe into the country, right? And that doesn't mean that every single person from some other country is exactly the same, right? But nations aren't built on abstract, you know. Well, maybe one person could be good if you brought them. Maybe one person could assimilate, right? They're built on specifically shared values. That's what a nation is. It's a family. And you can't have a successful family if you're not built on shared loves and duties and laws and languages. It doesn't work. And the West used to understand this. This wasn't that what I'm saying right now, that I'm sure to a lot of people sounds very far right and and you know, again, whatever term you want to throw at it, like xenophobic. What I'm saying was the consensus for most of American history and for long before America existed for most of Western history. Right? We used to understand that immigration only worked in very specific instances when it was limited, selective, orderly, and all those things went into the goal ultimately of being assimilative. That was the end goal of it. And so everything was driven towards that purpose, right? We had the right to ask hey, will bringing these sorts of people in strengthen us and strengthen our values, or will it weaken us? That admission into our country is not some universal human right for every person in some third world, you know, background country that that literally can't do anything themselves. That maybe, hey, people from that country who believe these things, maybe it's not the most beneficial for them to be here. That immigration is a privilege granted by a sovereign nation, a sovereign people, for the good of that people. That's what it's for. The same as every other policy. And you're not supposed to say any of that. No, no, no, because that's borders are hateful and standards are hateful, and preference, oh, preference for your own people, that's the definition of discrimination. Discrimination is always wrong. Saving America, the you know, the that that you you want to save the country, even saying that you have a country, well, that's actually hateful. And because no one is supposed to say that, well, we have to live under this fake system where the people who defend the border are called cruel, while the people whose policies enrich the cartels and empower these these crazy, insane, you know, murderous smugglers, well, those are the compassionate ones, right? No, that is that is a really it really a satanic inversion of godly moral principles. It it is satanic. And it is an inversion of what's good. But there's nothing shocking about that, right? If you tell the world that America's borders are just negotiable, non-existent standards, people are gonna come. Of course they are, right? If you tell other populations that you'll reward illegal immigration, well, people are gonna risk it. If you tell smugglers, hey, the pipeline's open, if you can manage to get them here, right? Same thing with what's going on with birthright citizenship right now. If you tell pregnant women, hey, if you get here and you're able to birth a child on our soil, well, those children are citizens, which they can sponsor you for you to become a resident of the U.S., right? Well, of course then they'll try to do it. That's incentivized. And that's exactly what happened here, right? The elites want to isolate this as one singular case. I I heard a debater, I've talked about him before. He's he's uh one of the best debaters to the left, which isn't saying much, but it is saying something. Very popular on the left as a streamer. His he goes by the name Destiny. Uh, his last name is Bonnell. I don't actually know his real name, uh, his real first name. But this guy debates other leftists, right wingers, and he's willing, he's open to debate anybody. And he's very good because a lot of leftists won't even broach the topic of immigration with you, but he will. And you can bring up cases like this. I remember uh that Benny Johnson brought up the case of Lake and Riley against Destiny. And Destiny actually had a very good comeback because the the the premise is broken because our standards aren't existent. And so Benny Johnson brings up, well, what about Lake and Riley? And Destiny, this leftist, goes, Of course that was wrong. Of course, of course we hate what happened to Lake and Riley. And of course, even if you're a pro-immigration guy, that guy shouldn't have been here by any reasonable standard. He should have been deported. He was violent even in the country. That is the exact case study for deportation from anybody's perspective. If you're committing violence, of course you shouldn't be here. And then he was able to just move on and say, but that's not 99% of the people that are coming. Boom. Bombshell dropped, no reply, no comeback. Because the standard that we're pursuing, which is just, well, is the person coming murderous? That's not the standard I believe in. That those people are gonna be here because of what we've done, but that our standard should include all of them. And violence is gonna happen because of what we've done. And my policy would prevent the violence as well. But my policy is not just I don't want violent people here, I don't want this isolated as one horrible criminal case. No, this is the this is the result of the system itself, right? The smugglers guilty, the traffickers are guilty. Uh, but but there's also political guilt involved, right? There is moral guilt among the leaders of our country who made this crisis up and then lectured us about how we're not compassionate enough. And I I want to bring Rome up because I think everybody, you know, can can see this very clearly if you look at Roman history. Rome didn't fall for one reason, by the way. You know, it wasn't destroyed in a day, it wasn't built in a day either. But Rome didn't fall for one reason. History is is often more complicated than that, right? That would be like saying America won the Revolutionary War for only one reason. There's a lot of reason. Uh they went into it, you know. Providence, of course, is the driving reason, but there's a lot of in-depth reasons from certain service members like George Washington, among others. Courage, bravery. Um, there were moments where there was providential protection given to people. Uh we had assistance from certain countries like the French. There were a lot of reasons, a lot of things that went into us winning. That's the same in any historical moment. So Rome didn't fall for one reason. But one of the great lessons that Roman civilization can teach us is that civilizations can reach the point where we no longer have the ability to defend ourselves. Right? Rome let in a bunch of invaders, a bunch of outsiders, and not in small numbers under Roman terms, but in masses, mass amounts under pressure with divided loyalties, eventually leading to the state having an inability or just unwillingness, you could say, to maintain its own border. And eventually, the border was not merely crossed, the border just collapsed. And Rome just basically ceased to exist, right? And once the border collapsed, the question was no longer whether outsiders are going to adapt, the question whether civilization even has still had the will to survive that.

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Right?

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That's the question that we're facing now. The melting pot, quote unquote, I don't believe in the melting pot, but for those who do, the melting pot isn't melting. And everybody knows it, right? Everyone sees it. Uh, but respectable society these days demands that you pretend otherwise. You're supposed to pretend that language is unimportant and that religion doesn't matter, and that culture doesn't matter, and that your national origin is entirely irrelevant to who you'll be in our country. Numbers don't matter, assimilation doesn't really matter. We want it, uh, but we're not willing to do the things that getting real assimilation demands. Right? Millions upon millions of people can just be brought in, legally and illegally, from radically different societies that don't like us at all, and and then somehow all of them will just magically become Americans because they were handed a piece of paper that said they were. That's childish. Not only is it childish, but it's the worst kind of childish because it's suicidally destructive. A Christian duty, a Christian nation, of course, has the duty uh to love our neighbors. We we know that, right? But love is not lawlessness and foolishness and recklessness, and it's certainly not handing over our country to those who despise us. We have a duty to protect our own people, right? To preserve justice, which of course we talked about in the last hour, means punishing those who commit evil, defending the innocent, maintaining order, right? And to make sure that, again, the end goal of all of this is to protect our posterity, to make sure that our children inherit a country and not merely an economy with some land attached to it that has a flag associated with it. That's not what we want our children to get, right? And the open border scrout doesn't have an answer to that, right? That they call you racist and hateful and xenophobic because they can't admit that their worldview has inevitable consequences. Because they won't defend the policies, they can't explain the bodies that pop up, but the consequences are there, right? These dead migrants were real people whose lives were sacrificed for profit. Right? Enriched cartels are real. Overrun communities, we know this living in Southeast Texas, overrun communities are very real. That includes collapsing hospitals, unaffordable housing, political displacement, these unassimilated enclaves, whether it's Muslim or whatever, whatever it is, these unassimilated enclaves of people that have grouped together. And the the end of all of that, which is the ultimate national erosion, the erosion of any sort of national unity and cultural cohesion at all. And at some point, we get to a point, right, where where we have we're we're at we're at a fork in the road. Right? We can we can continue down for a while and we can survive and we can just disagree on certain cases and certain people, but at some point you come to a fork. And in that fork, it goes one of two ways. You either tell the truth or you allow yourself to die by by refusing to just not tell the fact that it's a lie. You either have to go to the left and say, no, this is the truth, and what you're saying will destroy us, and we don't abide by it anymore, or we're just gonna keep with the status quo and say, but I don't I don't want to be looked at as like a mean person. So I guess I'll just I'll just say it's true. Right. And the truth is simple, by the way. We're not obligated from some random entanglement to absorb the rest of the world into ourselves, right? We're not obligated to accept every single person from every single country who wants to come here. We're not obligated to transform ourselves really beyond any sort of American recognition. So that people get what they want. We need a border. And the border can't just be from the illegal side of things. We need a border that defends national sovereignty, with that means deportations, ending incentive programs, punishing smugglers. We need to stop pretending that that immigration and asylum and all these refugee statuses are magic words that erases our national sovereignty. And stop importing populations from countries that don't like us faster than they could possibly assimilate, even if they did like us. And leaders who are willing to say, hey, you know what? America belongs to the American people under God, and under a moral order, we have a duty to preserve a history and a rich heritage that God has blessed us with that we have a moral obligation to defend. Because when a nation adamantly refuses to guard our gates, the wolves don't become sheep. I guess if we just let the wolves in, maybe they'll be sheep like us. No, you just let the wolves in. That's that's all that happened. And then the sheep pay the price because wolves are inside your country. That's that's the inevitability of all this. That's the the conclusion. Rome already experienced that, and one of the greatest nations in the world, the global superpower of its day, fell. And it didn't just fall because its military might wasn't good enough, because they didn't have enough funding, because they didn't have enough resources. They fell because of two things that went hand in hand. Ultimately, it was open borders, which led to the second reason, which was a lack of national unity and cohesion. Rome fell ultimately, and again, it wasn't just one reason, but the ultimate it was the ultimate denial of national pride, of nationalism. There was no such thing as Roman culture anymore because you had so many peoples mixed in that hated Rome. And it fell. And if that's not a lesson to us of what's happening right now, then I don't know what would be. Michael, that's not nice. Don't you think that America is good for everybody? No, I don't. I think that there's a lot of people in other countries. If you like America so much, why don't you do everything you can to make your country better? Stay there and fight for your nation. That's your homeland. That's your people. Fight for yours, I'll fight for mine. We're distinct. We're two different people groups, with two different belief systems, with two different values sets, with with two different cultural heritages and histories that are indiscreet that are just completely different from one another. And when you bring people from that into here, it'd be the same if we brought our people there, it'll transform what that country looks like in one way or another. And for a country that was already great, for a country that was already good, that that that difference isn't good. What's happening in our country isn't for the best. It isn't positive, it's destructive. And it is, as I said, it is it is national suicide. And of course, that's not even getting into the violence, right? That's that's just from a cultural perspective. That's just from what our nation is, that's just national sovereignty. That doesn't even get into cases like this Guatemalan man, and that doesn't even get into cases like Lake and Riley, among countless others, Jocelyn Nungare, right? The list goes on and on and on of people who have suffered at the hands of illegal immigrants and legal immigrants, by the way. That doesn't even talk about the violence perpetrated against the American people. That's just the cultural reasons why it's bad. How it'll just destroy our civilization, but there also in the meantime is a lot of violence. And the reality is that you have a God-given right to defend yourself and your home and

Second Amendment And Gun Owners Of America

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DWI Crackdown And Real Deterrence

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. A July 4th weekend DWI enforcement initiative held in memory of Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy Eric Serrado resulted in 54 intoxication-related charges, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office. The Deputy Eric Serrado July 4th DWI initiative was a coordinated, no refusal enforcement effort aimed at removing impaired drivers from Montgomery County roads and waterways during the Independence Day holiday weekend. During the initiative, prosecutors accepted 52 driving while intoxicated charges, as well as two boating while intoxicated charges. Officials said the enforcement effort was dedicated to Serrato, who was killed in the line of duty last week while assisting at the scene of a crash on I-45 near the Woodlands Parkway. Chief prosecutor of vehicular crimes, Taylor Vinegus, said the initiative served as a way to honor Serato's commitment to protecting the community. Quote, the deputy Eric Serrado, July 4th DWI initiative is about more than enforcement. It honors the deputy who answered the call to serve and made the ultimate sacrifice protecting our community. Vanegis said that every impaired driver removed from the roads or waterways represents a chance to prevent crashes, injuries, and families from experiencing loss. Montgomery County District Attorney Mike Hawley thanked the agencies and public safety professionals who participated in the holiday weekend effort. Quote, there is no greater tribute to Deputy Eric Serrado than continuing the work of protecting others. Serato, a 24-year-old six-year veteran of the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office, was killed early last Sunday while directing traffic at the scene of an earlier DWI crash on I-45. She had recently become a patrol deputy after beginning her career as a detention officer. The Texas Department of Public Safety is investigating the crash that killed her. Authorities said the driver of a commercial truck involved in the crash, his name was Ian Perez, he was twenty years old, was arrested and charged with passing certain vehicles causing bodily injury, a charge associated with violating Texas' move over and slow down law. The Montgomery County District Attorney's Office said the investigation remains ongoing and additional charges could be filed. But again, these are these are some of the crimes that are so easily preventable. Because you you have to understand that when we look at things like DWI, right, a lot of this is coming because people just seem to not comprehend, and I've said this before, they want to talk about rehabilitation because they believe that it's preventative of future crimes. And what they don't seem to understand, or at least understand well, and it's it's very clear to some of us, is that justice is by nature preventative. And I've said this before. If you're a drug dealer and you get caught dealing drugs to people, then this is, you know, resulting in homelessness and overdoses and broken families and addiction and lack of productivity, all these things that are associated with drugs, when you do that, if you know, or you at least heavily think that the impending result of your crimes is probably going to be a slap on the risk like probation or a year behind bars, whatever it may be, well, the risk to reward ratio is kind of off because the risk is pretty low. Yeah, even I mean, even if I get caught, the ramifications aren't going to be too bad. But if I don't get caught, or even if I do, I'm still making so much money I can roll in it and I can I can do everything else I I need to do. Well, that risk isn't very high. Why in the world would you stop? Other than again, as Christians, right, we have our own biblical standards that we follow, but for those who are not Christians, right, and the and the law is supposed to be a mechanism to protect the innocent, why in the world wouldn't they do it? Because the the reward is way higher than the risk, significantly higher than the risk. If you want to reduce risk for the people, for the innocents, you have to increase risk for those who are doing the evil thing. The reason why so many people are willing to drink and drive or or commit you know crimes related to any sort of intoxication, not just from alcohol, but from drugs in general, right? Driving under the influence, whatever it is, the reason that people are willing to do that is because the repercussions are not very weighty unless they kill somebody. But nobody getting into a car while they're intoxicated and inebriated is thinking I'm gonna kill somebody today, right? So for them, they think, okay, I'll just drive home. And the consequence will be severe because I'm not gonna get caught. But even if I get caught, I mean I'll go to jail overnight and then I'll get bonded and then it'll just be a misdemeanor. Right. I just drove slightly over the influence, nobody got hurt, and so it's just a misdemeanor, no harm, no foul. But if we start treating these crimes as what they really are, which is attempted murder every time you get in a car drunk, then all of a sudden, if the punishment goes up, that is by nature preventative. Because fewer people are going to be willing to do it if they know that the consequences are going to be severe. They're gonna say, Well, all of a sudden that's not worth it. Right? Because for now, my car's there, I'd have to get in an Uber, go back for my car another time. That's really inconvenient, and it costs me extra money. You know what's more inconvenient and costs more money is having stricter repercussions for people that do these sorts of things. Saying, no, it's not gonna be a little misdemeanor ticket that you get out of. That's not gonna happen. This is attempted murder every time you do it. And we're allowed to do that because we're a sovereign country that makes our laws. And unfortunately, we've fallen into the trap of tolerance again, where, well, you didn't hurt anybody yet, so I guess we'll just let you off with a warning. I guess we'll just let you off with a misdemeanor, not a biggie, no big deal. It it is a big deal. And the reason why people are dying, and this is happening in the first place, is because our criminal justice seems totally incompetent at actually doing their job, which is to serve justice, which is not just the punishment of the evil, but it it it does certainly include the protection of the innocent. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over. We have some exciting news. The Texas Stock Exchange has officially begun trading. Uh, the TXSE officially opened its doors to begin trading yesterday. I know they've been talking about it for a while, but it's finally kicking off. Uh, they officially commenced their trading yesterday. It's based in Dallas, and they began their phase rollout here in July. Uh, that, of course, comes of major financial institutions like BlackRock and Citadel Securities have invested over $120 million in the new exchange since it was announced back in 2024, uh, which gained federal approval last year and attracted investments from several other firms bringing total investment to almost $300 million. We'd like more about that when we get back. 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 if the Lord wills, that'll be right back with the rest of that story after this break. So stick around, we'll talk soon.

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Texas Stock Exchange Starts Trading

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Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. The Texas Stock Exchange officially commenced trading yesterday. Based in Dallas, the TXSE began its phase rollout this month. They opened their doors at 8 30 a.m. yesterday morning to approved brokers, banks, and trading firms. For now, brokers are trading only test stocks. Thousands of symbols such as Tesla will come online this week. Month with an announcement to precede those rollouts, which will officially also allow the public to trade stocks on the exchange. The officials also hope to have exchange traded products or ETPs traded by the end of the third quarter. ETPs allow investors to gain exposure to a wide variety of investment products such as oil or the SP 500. Now, while all trading is primarily done through electronic mediums, exchange locations still matter because brokers predominantly invest in local businesses. And so they're saying that TXC, TXSE has the ingredients for success, that's the Texas Stock Exchange, including a large number of Fortune 500 companies that have recently relocated to Texas and a rapidly growing financial district. American financial institutions have long been centered around the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, creating a duopoly between those two things. So since the announcement of the Texas Stock Exchange, both the NYSE, the New York Stock Exchange, and the NASDAQ have announced plans to open branches in the Dallas area, prompting the Texas Stock Exchange officials to say that the exchange's moves don't actually combat us at all. They just validate our efforts. Over the past 20 years, New York has seen a 16% growth in investment banking jobs, while Texas has seen a 111% increase. Both the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq both incre both have incredibly strict requirements for a company to be publicly traded on the exchange, which can include regulatory compliance, corporate transparency, and financial solvency. This sets a very high benchmark that corporations have to meet, leading smaller companies, of course, to face significant challenges if they want to be on the exchange. Meanwhile, you can kind of compare and contrast that with the Texas Stock Exchange, which can directly benefit from offering looser rules for open market trading through the exchange. Governor Greg Abbott said in his press release: the center of gravity for American capitalism is now headquartered in the Boom Belt. The Texas Stock Exchange is the natural extension of that capitalism. It ensures that capital markets will reflect the quadrant that is driving American growth. The foundation is already built. The policies are already in place. Now we can enjoy the success that so many have experienced and incorporate in the Boom Belt. Now, the Texas Stock Exchange could be a very good thing.

Growth Versus Corporatism And BlackRock

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Let me let me start there. For decades, America's financial center of gravity has been New York. It's been Wall Street. Uh the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, it's the same institutions, the same culture, the same sort of financial ecosystem that unfortunately has seemed much more interested in global capital than in their actual local communities. So in theory, and I'm saying in theory for a reason, bringing a major stock exchange to Dallas is a big deal. It says that Texas is not just where people move and they're tired of places like California and New York and other liberal areas. It's where capital is moving along with people. Texas where companies are moving and where workers and families and entrepreneurs and builders want to live. That's not nothing. It's not worthless. But I also want to be very careful, and the reason that I use in theory is because conservatives have a bad habit, and I don't know where this came from, but we have a very bad habit of hearing the word growth and immediately assuming that that means victory and success. Without asking, hey, growth for whom? Who's uh uh uh it's the boom belt, but for whom? Because when I hear that they're backed by firms like BlackRock and Citadel Securities, I I don't immediately start waving the Texas flag and pretending that it is just some pro-family victory, right? That's that's um a concern to me. BlackRock's involvement in all of this gives me, and it should give everybody that's a conservative, a level of pause, right? This is the same financial class that has ruled in New York, that has spent years using their massive investment capital to pressure companies and to shape the behavior of companies, uh, to push their political priorities and separate ordinary Americans from real ownership. I mean, you can think about how much BlackRock has done when it comes to the housing market and to buying up single family homes as investment properties. And so the question is not simply whether we get a stock exchange or whether the or or whether we have the ability to compete, it's whether the stock exchange is actually going to serve Texas. And by extension, is it going to actually serve the Texans who live in Texas? Right? Is it going to help Texas business raise capital? I know they're saying it could, but will it? Will it give smaller companies a path that they can grow without being swallowed up by these mega corporations? Is it going to strengthen our economy in a way that actually helps families and entrepreneurs and local communities and small businesses? Or is it going to become another shiny economic development story where they cut the ribbon, they start the trading, and then billion-dollar firms are cashing their checks and trading, and all of the ordinary people and small companies, as always, just don't benefit. As always, kind of suffer the consequences of that. Because the purpose of an economy is not merely to make line go up. I know that that's how a lot of economists seem to want to view the economy. Well, the line went up, so we did good. No, actually. The purpose of an economy is to support human flourishing, to benefit the people. That's why we have, that's why we say capitalism is the best economic system in the history of the world. Why? That's a good question. Why is capitalism the best? Because I believe that it is, but the reason that I believe it is, is that it raises ordinary people out of poverty, that it provides ample opportunity to people. When we're not doing that, all of a sudden capitalism is not the greatest thing in the world. If it's just unbridled and megacorporations take over, it's not really capitalism anymore. It's corporatism, rather. But it doesn't, if it doesn't benefit the people, then it's purposeless. That's the whole point of saying that capitalism is good is because it benefits people. Right? It's to make it possible for just a guy, just a man, to provide for his wife and his children so she can stay home. Right? It it's to make it possible that young families have the availability and the opportunity and the capital to buy a home, to raise their kids, uh, to build generational wealth, to start businesses, and to be involved in their communities. Right? It's to reward honest labor. It's to reward integrity and stewardship. That's what the economy is for. Right. And so, so when we forget that and we just blindly follow some economic system, we end up defending the exact machine of corporatism from companies like BlackRock that are hating us and exporting our jobs and importing our jobs and funding our enemies and buying up our neighborhoods, and then, of course, pushing policies like climate activism and diversity, equity, and inclusion. And then we say, well, let's go, economic, boom. Because no, I'm I'm not against business, right? I'm not against capital and against markets, but markets exist to serve a people. They're supposed to exist within the moral order. They're supposed to be attached to a nation and to a common good and by extension attached to a people. And so when we say, hey, the center of gravity for American capitalism is moving here, yeah, I hope that's true. I hope we do become a financial powerhouse of the country. I hope that Dallas actually becomes a very serious rival to New York. I hope that Texas companies have more access to capital and that it weakens the financial, they call it a duopoly, but they work so close together it almost is a monopoly that has run the financial market. I hope that's true. But I'm not going to sit around and pretend that this what it what could be this corporate relocation map where the big companies are just moving around is automatically a win for people. Because if the New York finance companies simply move to Texas, but they bring the same ideology and mindset and hostility, then what have we won? If anything, we've actually lost because now that hostility is in our country and in our state rather than being somewhere else. It's not any better. Now, again, I hope that's not the case. I'd love to be optimistic and to say, hey, this will benefit small companies. And maybe it will. And we'll see with time, but I just wanted

Final Takeaways And Sign Off

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to make that clear. That'll do it for the show today. I want to thank everyone for tuning in, texting in, being a part of the show. Love you guys very dearly. Lord will be back bright and early tomorrow for the Lone Star Conservative. That's tomorrow, Wednesday at 6 a.m. In the meantime, enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. Hopefully, you get a little rain before some dry spells here. And Godspeed.