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Why Texans Feel Powerless And How To Push Back
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Politics isn’t just noisy right now, it’s demoralizing, and we’re watching more people quietly check out. We lay out the two big reasons: the sense that your individual vote can’t move anything, and the faster-growing belief that nobody can change anything because the system is designed to win no matter who you elect. That second mindset is poison for a representative republic, so we get specific about where the levers actually are in Texas politics, and where they’re being blocked.
From there, we hit several major Texas news stories with real consequences. We walk through the fight over closed primaries in the Texas GOP and why open primaries make grassroots voters feel unrepresented. We also cover Houston-area immigration enforcement and public safety, including an illegal immigrant accused in two separate murder cases being denied bond, plus a separate federal illegal re-entry case that raises an uncomfortable question: why are taxpayers funding years of prison time for someone who’s just going to be deported anyway?
Then Julie Pickren joins us to talk Texas public education, curriculum reform, and the role of the Texas State Board of Education. We discuss civics test failure rates, the push to rebuild history and civic literacy, what “instructional materials” really means, and why these standards matter even if your kids aren’t in public school. We close with the State Fair of Texas firearms ban court ruling, what it means for Second Amendment rights, and a look at Houston’s growing biotech manufacturing footprint, including Bristol Myers Squibb’s planned facility.
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Station Updates And Local Events
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SPEAKER_10Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative right here on Patriot Talk 920. So, a couple of reminders, a couple things to talk about. Let's do our announcements at the beginning. We might do a couple more announcements throughout the show, remind you guys of this stuff again, but I want to go ahead and do some announcements now, just so you guys are kept up to date on everything that's going on. The first announcement, of course, is that we have a new addition to our lineup that's just recently launched. I yesterday on the show I said you should check it out. I don't know if you guys did. If you did not, you should certainly check it out today. Um that is the Markley Van Camp and Robin show, uh, which is gonna run on our station from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays, and it's gonna be live right here on 9 20 a.m., or you can go to Patriot920.com. Um we're also gonna have now our full radio lineup on our website so you can see all of the updates, all the details, all of that, as well as all of the future events that we're going to be at or that we are hosting, so on and so forth, uh, which is pretty cool. Now we also have a few upcoming events, additionally, that I'd like to talk about just for a moment. Um, the first couple are both lunch and learns that I I'm I'm very excited about. In fact, one of those lunch and learns, we have we have so we have two of them coming up, and for both of them, we're gonna have guests on. One will come on today, one will come on Thursday, and you'll be able to list hear from both of them as to what that event's gonna look like, uh, what you're gonna learn, all that sort of stuff. You won't want to miss either the interview this morning or Thursday morning, and you also won't want to miss those events. So the the first event is gonna be this upcoming Friday. Um, and that's gonna be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. this Friday. Again, that's August 14th. And uh we're having Shelby Robinson come in. And by the way, part of why this is so exciting is that Shelby Robinson is from uh Maricopa County, Arizona, and she's gonna kind of talk about how um election integrity is so important, especially in places like Arizona and in Harris County, Texas. So she's gonna talk to us all about election security, government oversight, uh, the kind of issues shaping election policy, all that sort of stuff she'll be talking about while we're eating food uh at Spring Creek at Spring Creek Barbecue up in Cyprus. So definitely check that out. That will be on the website, by the way. Our website, our events page, will now have these sort of events on there. The what the woman that we're having on this morning, Julie Pickerin, we've had her on before, I'm sure you guys know who she is, State Board of Education, of course. And she will be having uh a lunch and learn, again, hosted by us August 19th. So that's next Wednesday, a week and a day, eight days from today. And that'll be how Texas is kind of reshaping education through curriculum reforms and history and civics and going back to traditional learning methods and adding back. You guys know what the State Board of Education is doing. She's gonna be going over all of that, answering your questions. Again, that'll also be at Scream Creek Spring Creek Barbecue at this one in Richmond, Texas. So definitely come out to those. We'll have Julie on later this morning to kind of go over more of the details, but I wanted to go and give you a preliminary look at what we're gonna be hosting over the next week. And so she'll be coming on today, and then she'll be coming on on Thursday, so make sure you tune in both of those days. Very important. Though every day is important, we're always talking about important news. And the last this one isn't is less of an announcement because you guys already know it. I've already talked about it a couple times, but it is a reminder since we're doing events and we're we're talking about you know everything that's going on, it might be worth reminding everyone uh that we do have another upcoming event that you won't want to miss. And that is, of course, you you're like, ah, we can't forget. It's one of our favorites, Pistols and Pizza. And that's coming up towards the end of the month on August 29th, which is a Saturday. That'll also be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. And it'll be a really good time. You guys know, free pizza, free pistols, you get the gist. Um, it's always a really good time. We have a lot of people show up to our pistols and pizza event. We've turned it into when we started the first one, it was just kind of to do a fun little named event. And then so many people liked it that we said, okay, so we have to do this more. This is this has to become normal. This has to become common. And so it has. And so we'll have our next one at the end of the month, August 29th, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Aegis Arms Indoor Gun Range, right there off the Beltway and 288. So come out to all of those. I think I told them all August 14th, August 19th, and August 29th. All of those, mark your calendars, come out to all those. It'll be a really good time. In the meantime, before we have Julie Pickard on this morning to go over all the events, what should we talk about, all of that?
Why People Tune Out Politics
SPEAKER_10Let's kick it off this morning with a question that I think a lot of people have been asking themselves. Why are so many people disenfranchised with politics? And furthermore, by extension, by you know, with elections, with everything to do with politics, whether that's elections or it's government policy, or it's even the news. So many people are just tuned out these days because they don't want to hear it. Well, I'll tell you, I think there are two main driving reasons that people feel disenfranchised with politics. Um the first is that they feel powerless, that they feel like their vote does not matter, that their words don't matter, that who they speak to, it doesn't matter, that they ultimately have basically no ability to effect any sort of change. And so they kind of start to feel, well, if my vote doesn't matter, then why cast it at all? They do all the math, they look at who's getting elected, they see that the polls are frequently right, sometimes wrong, and they just start to feel like maybe I don't really matter in this whole parade. That this is just a parade of horrible and I'm not doing much to contribute. What's the point? I'm just your average, everyday person. That's reason number one is that they feel like their vote alone doesn't really do much. Reason number two, I actually think today this one might be, I don't want to say more common, but it's accelerating faster. It's faster growing as a reason. The other is the more common reason. It's historically been the reason. Well, I don't really have, you know, one vote doesn't matter, two votes don't matter, I just won't vote. You go do your thing. That's the historically most common reason people don't. But this other reason I think is a very fast growing reason, even though it's not quite the size of the other yet. And that is that people think that no one can affect change. What do I mean by that? Let me explain. Imagine that you elect uh James Tallerico in November. That's that's what happens. And this person that that would be disenfranchised with politics because they feel like nobody affects change, they'd say, Yeah, that was gonna happen. They kind of believe that not that things are necessarily set up in stone, but that the system is designed to function tyrannically. And what I mean by that is whether Ken Paxton or James Tallerico get elected, they believe ultimately it's all kind of for show to keep both sides placated. Because the left is upset, but they're gonna come back and fight. And the right is happy because we won, and both are not realizing that they're still stealing, you know, all of our money, creating affordability crises, getting what they want, funding foreign countries, and people look around. Our national debt is still every day skyrocketing. And at some point you recognize, okay, maybe the right and the left is completely meaningless, and it's just designed to keep people in this ongoing rat race of a debate as to, well, I'm right wing and you're left wing. And so they start to feel like these are two sides of the same coin, and they all have the same goal, which is just power control and greed. And that the people, no matter who they elect, are still gonna get the short end of the stick. That's the second reason that people are increasingly becoming disenfranchised with politics. Now I have a couple warnings. The first warning is a pessimistic outlook on things, a, especially if you can't verify those things as true. When you have a conspiracy theory perspective that's pessimistic, that usually doesn't do great things for your mental health. I'm not usually one to, you know, go therapy mode and start saying, oh man, your mental health, I'm so worried. But at the same time, you know, it does have a massive impact on the way that you think and the way that you feel, which has a massive impact on the things that you do, just the way the world works. And when you're spending all your time theorizing about these things, and you don't know that they're true, but they kind of sometimes they feel true. And then you realize, well, I'm completely powerless, and these people are evil, and they they just want more power and more money, and it's like we can't, they're just like dragons that are hoarding everything, and they don't want to let up an inch. And I get it, right? If that were the case, and and sometimes, you know, I get it. It does feel like that's the case. And I'm sure there are a lot of people for whom that's the case. I'm sure there are a lot of politicians who are that sort of caricature of a dragon hoarding his wealth, sitting away in a cave uh that doesn't really care about the American people, doesn't really care about the people of Texas, just cares about his name and his fame and his notoriety and his and his money and his power. I'm sure there are a lot of politicians like that. And again, there are a lot of times where I look at the political landscape and I understand why you'd feel that way. I look at politicians that we elect who say they're gonna they're gonna achieve conservative ends, and then I watch their votes and I watch their claims and I watch what they do and what they celebrate, and I I just I think to myself, these people aren't real. This is all a game to them. I do start to feel that way. When I look at Governor Greg Abbott dressed up in in Hindu attire to celebrate a a Hindu pagan holiday on Texas land, I I I just can't believe what I'm looking at. And it's extra effort because it had to happen while he's in a wheelchair. They had to the like he had to like request this stuff. I mean, it's it's unfathomable to me what what happened that the the governor of the greatest state in the greatest country in the world is dressing up like an Indian. Why? Why are we doing that? Why are we celebrating a Hindu holiday from the Texas governor's male? Like what are we doing? And so it's times like that. And then we've been shouting from the rooftops property tax relief for the past, what, eight years? How much have we gotten? Right? Or we've been talking about uh, you know, let's uh the and and one of the big ones that bothers me about Greg Abbott, oh sure, we're gonna end Sharia law. Yeah, we're gonna take it down. Sharia law is banned. Okay? None of the stuff we're doing is actually gonna have really any impact on Sharia law whatsoever. As I've highlighted numerous times, and no one seems to want to talk about because it makes them feel good to say that they're anti-Sharia law. Sharia law is inherently banned by the laws we already have. If Sharia law is happening in our country, it's either happening illegally, and you can prosecute it anyways, enforce the already existent law, don't campaign on making new ones that you don't need. Or the Muslims have gained such political power that they've overturned your laws, in which case, more laws aren't going to help you. They can just turn they can overturn all of them. They don't see that doesn't help anybody. The bigger concern than Sharia, that's already banned, is that political power that could overturn our laws and change our legal structure. You know how you do how you deal with that? It's not by being anti-Sharia, it's being anti-Islam, saying the religion itself is evil and it's in direct opposition to the values that we hold as Americans, as Christians, as conservatives, and as Texans. And so they should not be here. They should not have mosques here. And I understand, well, the First Amendment. Yeah. You know what? A lot of people are gonna get very offended and feel like we're breaking the constitution if we're gonna get out of this. That's what happens when you import millions of pagans. As it turns out, the world is not gonna like how we have to deal with it. Regardless, he doesn't have a solution for dealing with it. He just wants to chant no to Sharia law and pretend like he did something. And I'm not trying to go so hard on Abbott, you know, the opposition is Gina Hina Hosa. That that'll never happen. Like that's that's obviously so much worse. But I think you get my point. There's a reason why people feel left out. They feel like my vote doesn't count, and even when it does, the people I elect still don't do what I want them to do. They still don't represent me. They're still the ones that are placating the left and placating the Muslims and placating the Hindus, and they're not fighting for me and my family. They're not fighting for real change. They go and they talk all about this housing affordability, but how how affordable is housing? They talk all this talk about property taxes. How low are property taxes? They go and they talk all this talk about all of these various problems, and then they do nothing. Well, that's not true. They give billions of dollars to Hollywood. People see that, and it's frustrating. And it winds up with people saying, okay, then what's the point in my participation or my even paying attention? I'll just live my life and keep my head down. I obviously can't influence any change, and there's no point in watching if I can't change anything because that's just me dwelling on stuff that's no fun and makes me angry. And again, to that I say I get it. But I'm not there. I do believe that we have the the ability to create change. I do still believe that despite all the people that want it to not be a representative republic, it still is. And that means that yes, it may require more of us than it should if we want to affect change, but that's why we continue to build shows like this. And it's not just my show, it's it's shows all over the state and all over the country. The more we can have people that have a sphere of influence, the more. Because imagine, imagine we had that that some show, you know, a thousand miles away has a hundred thousand people that listen. Say somewhere in, I don't even know. I mean, name a random state, somewhere in Ohio, and he he tells all of his listeners, hey guys, we're gonna march to the Ohio Capitol and we're gonna all talk to this one legislator because we need this one vote to do this thing. Well, a hundred thousand people. That's I mean, you you really can't at some point you have such a vast you know influence and you you all kind of combine that into that's how you get parties, that's how you wind up changing things. It it it does you're right, it doesn't happen. Your vote doesn't matter, at least not on an individual scale, but you're not an individual, you're an individual participating in a societal thing, and that's the difference. Now you're wondering why did you bring all this up? How what does that have to do with what's going on right now? Well, I'll tell you, because this is one of the this this story is if you're if you're already feeling disenfranchised, don't listen to this story because it's certainly gonna be that kind of story.
Texas GOP Fight Over Closed Primaries
SPEAKER_10New Texas Secretary of State. You guys know we have a new one. Uh Jay Nelson's gone, and now you've got Robert Howden as the Secretary of State. And a lot of the questions surrounding that position have been, okay, so she's out, he's in. The last kind of legacy-leaving thing she did was oppose the party and the people by choosing to fight the closing of the primaries. Robert Howden has announced that he will maintain his predecessor's opposition to the party and uh them seeking to close the GOP primaries. He disclosed his position just yesterday in a court filing ordered by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kexmatic, who asked whether the newly appointed Secretary would continue his legal positions taken under former Secretary of State Jane Nelson. He said the only thing that has changed in this case is the name of the defendant. Howden confirmed that his office continues to oppose the Texas GOP's requested consent judgment and still seeks dismissal of the lawsuit. However, the new secretary emphasized that he expects the issue to be addressed legislatively. He said the Secretary continues to believe that the legislature is the proper forum for adopting any closed primary system and thoughtfully crafting the detailed scheme that would govern it. Howden also pointed to recent support from Governor Greg Abbott, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, and House Speaker Dustin Burroughs for legislative action to close the primaries, arguing there remains ample time for lawmakers to act before the 2028 election. The filing continues the position taken under Nelson despite Attorney General Kenbaxon's support for the Texas GOP's lawsuit. And uh you guys know this all started back last year. Uh, and you know why it started, right? Because yes, everybody wanted it to happen legislatively. I I I don't know anybody that said no, I don't want them to pass a law for this. Except people that like oppose it. But anyone that wanted closed primaries wanted it to be done through the legislature. Of course, that's the best outcome. No duh. But if they're not going to, it's not better to sit around and say, well, I guess we're not doing it then. Uh no, that's not gonna work. That's not gonna fly. We we these open primaries are completely destroying the party. You know why? Because a lot of people are kind of fed up with all of the moderates. Big shocker. I know we were just talking about how moderacy is disenfranchising people when they're not getting represented correctly. You know, it's a lot of what's causing that are the open primary systems. People feel disenfranchised because their vote carries less weight in the primaries, especially because of course the every every vote we make is being handled out by a Democrat voting for the more moderate candidate. We know that's happening. And of course, we want a law to be passed, but they didn't do that last year. I guess we'll see if they do it. Here's part of the problem, and why I don't think it's going to happen. And I again, this is not a full-blown prediction where I say it's not going to. I just don't think it's going to. I would love to be wrong on that. I hope I am. I hope come next legislative session they they get it you know straight through. It's a priority and it passes. I don't see that happening, and I'll tell you why. Because most of the people in this conversation are the moderates who are going to have a lot harder of a time, even if they manage to, it's going to be a lot harder for them to win primary elections if they don't get Democrat votes. I'm sorry to tell you this, but Dustin Burroughs is not your super conservative guy. Greg Abbott is not the super conservative, you had a super conservative option in the primary. And despite not having a lot of campaign funding, and despite the open primary system, and despite all this, Greg Abbott gave up something like 12 to 14% of his vote. So you take away the open primaries and people start you know learning how to fundraise better, you gotta fight on your hands, even from one of the most well-known politicians anywhere. And so at some point, I start to wonder, are they actually gonna do that? I get what the Secretary of State's saying. And actually, I think most people probably agree with him. Yes, we want them to do it through the law. Because if you don't do it that way, it starts to feel a little bit like something is being foisted upon the people by the judiciary, by, you know, state powers that aren't elected but are appointed, and people don't like that. At the same time, if they don't do it through the legislature, and it's very obvious the people want it, and it's very obvious that the party wants it, at some point you either you you either have to say that you're not gonna do it at all, or admit, okay, I guess we have to do it this way. And it sounds like he's saying then we're not gonna do it at all. And that's incredibly frustrating. But that's what you'd expect. You know why? Uh because this guy is is oh, who appoints a secretary of state? I wonder. I'm not gonna name any names. I've already gone after that guy too much this morning. I'm on a roll there. But who appoints a secretary of state? Oh, big shocker as to which office does that. You could probably guess. And you'd probably be right if you guessed. And and the reality is that of course that's the case. Because again, it's very easy to posture we need to you're right, we need to close primaries. But you're not worried about I mean, and that you get your votes from the open primaries, and uh you and and you already know they're not the legislature isn't gonna close them. And your new appointee is saying he's certainly not going to. So you're you're safe chanting it. It's that's the same sort of stuff I'm talking about, guys. Oh yeah. Let's let's close the primaries. And you get to look good saying it, knowing and then you can blame the legislature when it doesn't get done. But but you knew that and European Secretary of State isn't willing to fight for it. They're fighting against it, he's fighting against it, and you get to still look like the good guy. That's politics, and that's why so many people feel left out and disenfranchised is because it all seems like it's about optics looking good, sounding good, while gaining money and and getting bigger and better positions, and it's all it's a race to see who can be the most powerful and wealthy. That's all it seems to be about for a lot of these people. And it's really frustrating when the people that you talk to who don't seem like that, right? The politicians you talk to that actually seem like genuine down-to-earth human beings that are actually trying to do their best. One, even when they do get in, they they are often outmatched by the amount of people who are just the moderate crazy rhinos who are just there for the money and the power. And so they that you'll see like a couple of votes nay, and all the rest of the votes are supporting. And it's and and you know, your your representative who's actually good says, I don't know what to do. I'm doing my best, but I'm one guy, and he's in the same predicament you are. But more often than not, they don't even win their elections. Part of that's because of the open primaries, but there's a variety of reasons they don't win. And so again, I understand the position that says I don't know what to do. I I I get it. All we can really do is keep fighting. A lot of that comes down to prayer, consistent effort, right? Nothing's gonna change if we give up. That's a guaranteed, you know. I was given that advice when I when I was in uh when I was in high school, you know, talking about asking girls out, you know, I was like, hey, I don't know what to do here. If I ask and she says no, that's super embarrassing. And it's the old line, right? Well, it can't be any worse than what she's already said, which is nothing, right? Which is an automatic no. She can say no, but you haven't lost anything. That's already where you're at. And so in similar fashion, yeah, we could give up, but then we're guaranteed failure. And so even if you feel like we might fail, yeah, but it's still worth the shock to save our state and our country every day that we still breathe. At least that's what I believe. But what do I know? I'm just a radio in Houston. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're gonna jump over and talk a little bit about the immigration problem. We're gonna talk about this El Salvador teenager, he's like 18, I think, uh, who was charged for the two fatal Houston judicials. We talked about him before, but now the judge has made a ruling in the bond side of things. Also, Talerico has come out and said that his church housed illegal aliens facing deportation. I don't know if that's some sort of crime. It probably should be if it's not. We'll talk about that as well when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm Lord, let's be right back with those immigration stories after the break. Stick around. Be right back.
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Illegal Immigration And Denied Bond
SPEAKER_10Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. So finally we get something right thus far this morning. We have a good news, good update. Um, and that is that Jefferson Velazquez, who is the 18-year-old from El Salvador charged in two separate, unrelated Houston murder cases, the only relation being that he allegedly committed both, uh, has been denied bond. Judge Hazel Jones heard testimony from investigators yesterday morning and ruled to continue holding Velazquez without bond. Her decision, of course, comes after the case has gained attention from the Department of Homeland Security, of course, because they have a vested interest in watching this case. Velazquez is accused of fatally shooting Angel Angel Garcia, who's 17 years old, at an East Harris County House party last summer, and Noah Ramirez, who was twenty-seven, outside of Diosa nightclub in Midtown back in April. At the scene of the April shooting, Velazquez was detained and gave a wrong name and then got released, his defense attorney said. He didn't get charged in Last Summer shooting until June, and charged for the April shooting came in July. And so Velasquez, of course, entered the country illegally through Texas as a minor back in 2014. If he's 18 now, he'd have been, what, eight years old when he came in? Records show that ICE has lodged a detainer, meaning that if Velazquez were to postbond, the Harris County Sheriff's Office would contact immigration authorities before his release. Which is insane, by the way. Why do we even have the option? Cases like this are case uh in general, I think that the bond system is absolutely retarded. I I that's just how it is. I mean, the bond system is so stupid. Because everybody understands that the only reason the bond system even exists is because we are so unbelievably slow at doling out justice that we think it's unfair to make someone wait that long under the presumption of innocence. Well, it's not cool that they should rot in a jail cell if we're truly believing in due process, right? If we believe in the the the due process as we have it in the US, as we as a Christian nation have it, which is the presumption of innocence, it is wrong that they should be allowed to rot in a jail cell while they wait. We agree. It shouldn't be rotting, it should be a quick trial. This should not be this difficult. And so we all understand that in general the bond issue is only existent because of our failures as a as a system, because of the failures of the justice system entire that like that's it, that's the only reason that there are any bonds at all. We'll then add in that I okay, fine. Because of the investigation and whatever, this guy stole a bunch of cars. Didn't hurt anybody, stole a bunch of cars. Okay, maybe maybe there's a bond. He's not gonna run. We know his all his details. He's an American citizen, he's been working here his whole life, he's got a family, uh, he's never hurt anybody. Maybe I could get behind a bond if there's some extra extenuating circumstance that leads to, you know, he he he he has to wait for trial for six months. Okay, maybe I can get behind a bond in a case like that. That's that's one out of a million cases, by the way. But this guy from El Salvador, who's in the country illegally and who has allegedly murdered two different people on top of aggravated robbery. And and I'm I guess I'm going on a tangent for no reason because they didn't give him a bond, but why is that even an option? I don't even think the judge should have the authority to grant a bond in a case like this. It should be an obvious no. You're not even an American citizen. I'm sorry. I don't know that I do presume you're innocent, actually. I you're from El Salvador. Maybe I don't. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But you get my point. We all recognize that that's not a good idea. That you certainly can't let this guy talk about a flight risk. You've got somebody who's literally in the country illegally, could not care less about the rule of law about this in this country, obviously. Multiple alleged murders, aggravated robbery, just being in the country illegally. Of course he's gonna run. What do you think is gonna happen if you let him out? Like that's obviously what's going to happen. He's just gonna leave. And you're not gonna be able to track him because he's here illegally. Good luck. Good luck finding him without him committing another crime, which he likely will, just statistically speaking. And so it's good that we did not grant him a bond. And it's good that technically, even if we did, we do have an ice detainer, so he would be picked up by ice before he was actually let out of the jail in general. But that shouldn't be the step requirement. It should just be that we hold him and we give him justice. And when it comes to multiple different homicides, should he be convicted of them and of both, that's not looking too good for him. But again, that goes back to the conversation. I know a ton of people who consider themselves pretty far right. I I wouldn't consider them pretty far right, but they consider themselves pretty far right. And they will go on and on about how anti-immigration they are, and yeah, we're good with ending immigration for a bit, moratorium, uh, we need to deport all the illegals. But then you bring up, well, this kid came in when he was eight, and they go, Okay, you can't take that guy out. That's not cool. This is whole life. And I say, uh, no, he's still El Salvadorian. He does not belong here. It's not gonna be good. And oh, I'm not, look, I'm not able to predict the future. I couldn't have known this was going to happen, but we all know that stuff like this is going to happen because I don't care if you're eight or whatever, you're likely being raised in a culture that is antithetical to the values of the US. You're not assimilatable. Whether you're a child or not, it's not going to happen in most cases. And you can't make policy based on the minority of cases where the people maybe are fine and want to assimilate. You can't make overarching policy based on that. And so that means that some people that maybe were gonna be fine are gonna suffer a little bit because the world is imperfect and you can't have a case-by-case basis for every single person. It doesn't work that way. We don't have the bandwidth to possibly do that. And so what we have to be willing to say is, yeah, is it gonna be imperfect? Sure. But is it better than the alternative? Uh absolutely. We gotta get to the deportations, let's hurry it up. Now, with that being said, I was gonna do it this segment, but I realized, you know, we have an extra segment, so we'll go ahead and we don't have like an extra segment, but I I miscounted the segments. So my math was off this morning. And it was with low numbers, too. I thought we had three segments and we have four. I didn't actually think we had three, but I didn't track the time right. It doesn't matter. You don't need any other technical details. Basically, we have this segment coming up before the weather report, and so we'll go over the Talarico story in the next segment. If you would like to text into the show, let us know your thoughts on anything we're covering or anything or not, something you want me to cover, text it at 713-779-5978. One more time. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. 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Tallerico Comments And Church Controversy
SPEAKER_10Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative Democrat U.S. Senate nominee, James Tallerico, says the church that he grew up in once housed illegal aliens who are facing deportation by federal immigration authorities. And again, these are not new comments. I I really if I ever run for politics, you know how many people are going to be coming back and listening to every podcast episode of my show and just trying to find. I'm sure they're going to have plenty of ammo. I'm going to have said things. I'm going to look back and go, man, that was, I probably could have worded that a little better. I'm sure I'm going to have to contend with that as a media personality. I not that I'm ever planning on running for politics, by the way. I'm not. I don't currently have a plan, but you never know what God can do, God plans on doing with your life. Regardless of that, this is a 2023 appearance. So this is this is three years old. Be careful what you say in the olden days, because it will catch up with you. Um, on the and he was on Taxes Impact's weekly witness podcast, asked how his faith impacted his political career. He pointed to a history of progressive activism in his church. He said, Our church was really active in LGBTQ rights in the 90s. We got some attention by letting an atheist join our church in the 2000s, and then in the 2010s, again start some controversy by housing an undocumented family, a mother and son, who are close to being deported by ICE. So can I just real quickly, we don't have a lot of time, there's no point going through the rest of the story because I mean he just kind of tries to justify himself. But I would like to go through each of these. So you were really active in LGBTQ rights in the 90s, and you're a Texan, fifth generation, he says all the time. So you you've been here for a very long time. So you're in Texas, and you were really active. Not just a little active, you were really active in the nineties. So you as a church, a a supposed Bible-believing church, were really active in the gay rights scene when sodomy was still illegal. So you were you were supporting illegal things. This is just unbelievable. So you're just anti-law and order. I mean, you're housing illegals, right? You're you're helping those who are committing crimes. Sodomy again, illegal until 2002 in the state of Texas, and gay marriage illegal until 2015 in the state of Texas. So back in the 90s, I mean, you weren't even doing it because it was the trend. Like that is bad enough when a church does something because it's trendy, and that bugs me a lot. That's why a lot of these churches now have these pride flags. That didn't happen 30 years ago. But apparently, James Tal Rico's church wasn't doing it because it's trendy. They were ahead of the curve. They were doing it for the love of the game. They just genuinely didn't like they don't care about what God says at all. They aren't just trying to be trendy or loving or whatever. They wanted you to just support this stuff blindly 30 years ago. Before it was popular to do that. And when they say let an atheist join their church, what do you mean join your church? Do you mean you let them attend? Because I don't know of any church that wouldn't let an atheist attend the service. But if you mean become a member of your church, then you have no standard for membership. What's the point of being a member? I I I because in my understanding of member church membership, it's supposed to be the fellowship of believers, right? That's the whole point of being a member of a church, is that you fellowship with like-minded believers. It's also why we have multiple denominations because maybe you have minor disagreements and you don't want that to cause a rift or division, so you go to a different denomination, maybe more likely aligns with you. If you're an atheist, you don't align with any denomination. You're you you reject God wholesale. You hate God. So why would you let him join your church? Just none of this makes sense. None of this makes sense at all, but also it makes so much sense, right? And what I mean by that is it doesn't make any sense why a church would do any of these things. Why are you I mean, I get like housing people that are struggling, but the way he words it makes it sound like they were real close to being deported and we. We hit them. That's what that sounds like. You're doing all the wrong things. You're supporting the rights, quote unquote rights of people who are breaking the law. You're supporting the rights of other people who are breaking the law and are gay, and you're letting atheists become members of your church. That makes no sense from a from a Christian perspective of a church, but it makes a whole lot of sense that that's what Tallerico grew up in. That's what his version of Christianity looked like. That's what he's been influenced by. He's been influenced by a church that clearly does not teach the Bible. And he's been influenced by a family that clearly does not teach the Bible and a culture that does not teach the Bible. That's why part of his faith was shaped by Islamic mystics and why he believes the things he does. Well, I mean his church has been teaching them for 30 years. How how old is is James Tallerico? Does anyone know off the top of their head the the age of James Tallerico? I think it is his thirties. Let me look it up. Oh yeah. He's 37. So let's say the 90s, let's be generous and say he meant like 96, right? Middle of the road. That's 30. So again, he was seven years old. They're fighting for gay rights in his church. That is the influence he has that he's growing up in. So while it makes no sense from the church perspective, uh it explains a whole lot about Talarico. I mean, I didn't I didn't realize that this is what he was being in. He was he was he's a prime example of why we don't want kids indoctrinated into these gay rights issues, right? When we say, hey, don't trans the kids, don't teach this stuff that shouldn't be taught at school. You want to know why? This is why. Because when you teach a child at seven years old about gay rights and why they're good and positive, and it's the church telling you that, then you get a 37-year-old who, as it turns out, is a total freak and is trying to completely rewrite what Texas is and has always been. So that's what happens. So uh that's why my kids will never go to public school. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we're going to wrap up the first hour of the show. Of course, with our weather report. If you want to text in, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. I'm Yaris Michael Wilson. You are listening to the Lone Star Conservative. And Lord willing, I'll return right after this short break to wrap up the first hour of the show. Stick around. We'll have the weather report real soon.
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Houston Heat Dome Weather Update
SPEAKER_10After a few milder afternoons in Houston, one that was a little cooler yesterday, a strikevening heat dome will settle in later this week and lock in hotter, drier weather while also increasing the odds of 100-degree afternoons. Now, range hiddens are going to taper off today as the heat dome does begin taking control of our region. Beneath this sprawling area of this very high atmospheric pressure. Uh this air is going to kind of sink towards the surface where the increasing pressure compresses and warms that air. That process, combined with, of course, fewer clouds and thunderstorms, are going to send afternoon temperatures climbing, as we especially head into the second half of the work week. The heat could become even more intense this weekend and heading into next week. Today is kind of the transition toward that weather. A few neighborhoods could still get a brief downpour during the afternoon or early evening, especially near and south of I-10. As the ridge of high air pressure is going to strengthen, today's 20% chance of a stray storm dries up even more by tomorrow. That means that the cooling effect from even afternoon clouds. If you don't get rain, at least the clouds are kind of some some you know shade and showers are going to become much harder to come by. And so instead, more sunshine could allow temperatures to climb each afternoon through Friday. The strengthening heat dome will also make the air above Houston increasingly warm, to the stage for even hotter afternoons. Now, how close temperatures get to 100 degrees, well, that that partly depends on how much the hotter air gets mixed downward as the ground heats up during the day, how much stays up, we we can't know that. But the ridge is expected to shift northward and strengthen further this weekend, placing us beneath a very powerful heat dome. One measurement suggests this heat dome could rank among the strongest 1% ever observed over the region. That doesn't mean they're going to be the hottest we've ever been. It just means the heat dome itself is a specifically a powerful one, which can be stubborn, which can keep range agents low and allow temperatures to climb for several days with very little interruption from any thunderstorms. And so we could be heading into a stretch of exceptionally hot and dry weather. Now, we definitely can see some hundred-degree days. Multiple forecast ensembles show a greater chance of 100-degree air temperatures this weekend, uh continuing into early next week. Confidence that that possibility increases of 100 degree temperatures getting pretty likely. Uh but exactly how widespread and persistent that is, uh we don't know, right? We we don't know. It could last a couple days, it could last a week, it could last longer. Regardless of that, we have to wrap it up. So that's the first hour of the show. We can get back at the top of the next hour, we're gonna have Julie Pickering from the State Board of Education coming on, telling all about an upcoming event we have that you won't want to miss. Text in 713-779-5978. And Lord William, I'll be back with Julie Picker at the top of the next hour. Stick around.
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Julie Pickren On Texas Education
SPEAKER_10I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative live and local right here in Houston, Texas. And joining me now is Julie Picker, member of the Texas State Board of Education Representing District 7. Uh, of course, more than that, she spent years representing tax education policy. Uh, that means everything from Albanized Board of Trustees, serving on the State Board of Education, Vice Chair. And next Wednesday, that's August 19th, she will be in Richmond for a lunch and learn uh titled Shaping the Future of Texas Education, talking all about, I mean, everything you need to know: curriculum reform, history, and civics education, the importance of the work that she does on the State Board of Education, traditional learning, and where tax education really goes from here. With that being said, Julie, good morning and welcome to the show. Good morning, Michael. How are you this morning? I'm doing well. Definitely can't complain. It's a beautiful morning, and it's also going to be basically the coolest day of the week coming up. So it's going to get warmer from here. So I'll I'll enjoy it. I'll enjoy the morning time. I'm an early riser. I guess you kind of have to be when you have a show that starts at six in the morning. And so I'm I'm very excited, though, to talk about some of this because I think that there's a lot that people don't know about all of the stuff that goes on behind the scenes in education. Um, and one, I think the opportunity next Wednesday is gonna be phenomenal, but I want to kind of give people a little taste of that. Um, first of all, what can people kind of expect from next Wednesday's event in terms of what you're gonna kind of go over, what people can expect to kind of walk away learning?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, so next Wednesday, Wednesday's um event, the lunch and learn, is gonna be a fantastic event where, you know, like you said, a lot of people they don't understand what's been happening in education and all the tremendous amount of work that's been going into education. Really, the purpose is to preserve the US Constitution, the Texas Constitution, and our freedoms and our liberties, you know, for the next generations to come, for our children and for our grandchildren. And so, you know, um, to summarize, the Texas Constitution basically says that the whole purpose of a free and public education is to protect our God-given rights and our freedoms. And so that's what whenever you're looking at public education, you have especially in the great state of Texas, is you have to ask yourself, is that what our public education is currently doing? How our children are being educated and what they're being taught every day in the classroom, is that for is that preserving and protecting our God-given rights? And will that preserve and protect our God-given rights for the future generations to come? So that's what we'll talk a little bit about in um at the luncheon learn next week is what are we doing? What is Texas doing? What is the US Department of Education doing? What's going on in America as as in a whole that and how is Texas leading this effort on protecting those God-given rights? And what does that mean? What is that what does that mean for instructional materials? What does that look like for standards? What does it look like for school safety and security? You know, if you don't have a safe school to go into, you know, um, a few months ago, we had a man that was dressed in full camo and um um, you know, armed, fully open armed, that walked right into an elementary school and fine. And so, you know, school safety and security is a big issue for parents. When you drop your kids off at school, you have to know they're gonna be safe every day so that they can learn about, you know, founding documents and cursive and you know all the great things. So we're gonna we're gonna cover a lot of topics next Wednesday at the lunch and learn. And everybody is welcome to come because this is a discussion, you know, parents are the main person in a child's education, they are the first educator of of their children. And so it's important for parents to understand what's happening in public education, where the state's going, what we're doing to provide a great education for the children in the great state of Texas. And so I'm excited about next week's event.
SPEAKER_10Absolutely. And that's one thing I want to mention is of course, primarily the the people that are involved in the child's education are the parents. But one thing that I remind people of, because I I see a lot of people that will go the route and say, Well, I'm gonna homeschool my students, I say, great. Uh they say, so I just don't really care what happens in public school. And I say, well, that's not great. I say, that homeschooling your kids is great. That's phenomenal, awesome. I'm glad to hear that. Uh but what about the vast majority of students who are gonna be voting, who are gonna be a part of this country, who are gonna be the ones that that demand change, who are gonna be the ones that are you know affecting one, that they're gonna be the politicians, affecting policy, that they're being raised, you know, by a school system, frankly, that that has not been doing its job very well for a very long time, that people are concerned about. And so for a lot of people, even that aren't parents, saying, hey, how can we make sure the next generation and the next generation after that is being raised well, uh, is being taught what should be the goal of education, which is education, um, that they can know the truth about history and civics, know the truth about our country and our civilization. And so this I think will be a great opportunity for for parents, especially, but for everybody uh to kind of learn about what the local education system is all about, what it's doing, how it operates. Now, I want to give people a little tease of that this morning, kind of what they can expect. Uh starting off with the State Board of Education itself, I I think a lot of people don't understand all the dynamics that go into the system. What does the State Board of Education do? And I know that could be like a two-hour question, I'm sure, uh, but generally, just a kind of a general perspective, what do you guys, what do you guys work on?
SPEAKER_11You know, that that is so that could be a very big discussion in and of itself. You're correct, because there's a lot of duties and functions of the State Board of Education. And, you know, technically we're part of the executive branch in the state of Texas, but a lot of what we do uh does land an administrative code and a policy, which is law, and no one has veto authority over what we batch. So it's a very powerful body in that respect, and then also it's a very powerful body in the country because you know, Texas, we have a we have a lot of refugees from California, people that are seeking freedom from California, they're moving to Texas and from other states. And so Texas, the the population of Texas, you know, is rapidly increasing, which means our student population is also, you know, we're taking in more students from other states. So California has always kind of been the leader in in um in kind of dictating what is happening around the country, but we've seen a dramatic shift over the last few years to now it's Texas because Texas, we have um we're we're clipping California on the most amount of children in public school. And also we are we have the you know the largest education fund in the country. Um, the Texas State Board of Education manages the permanent school fund, which is around a $60 billion education fund. And so, you know, California, by some estimates, is as much as $270 billion in debt now. So now the textbook writers, the publishers, all of these big national organizations, they want to write contracts to do business in Texas and not California. So Texas is really in the lead. But this, you know, the duties of the Texas State Board of Education are to set the standards for every course, you know, every in your child's classroom or your grandchildren's classroom, we set the standards of what they must learn. And then also we adopt the instructional materials that follow those standards. And then, like I said, we manage the Texas Permanent School Fund, which is a $60 billion, it's basically it's an endowment, it's an endowment fund that's funded through oil and gas, not funded through taxes or property taxes, funded through oil and gas. So always say, you know, if if these these lefties, these crazy lefties that want to shut down oil and gas in Texas, they must really hate public education because that's how we're funding a lot of what's happening in public education is through our oil and gas. And then um also, you know, we uh are over school safety and security for the for the um for the schools in the state. And so there's just a whole lot of functions of Texas State Board of Education, but we're kind of a board that nobody really knows about. So yes, I'm super excited about the lunch and mark to explain that. But you're right, every everybody in Texas should be concerned with public education because we're seeing, we're seeing the you know, not the good fruits as the Bible would say, but maybe the thorns that that are happening now in New York City. Because, you know, how did New York City go from the most patriotic city in America 25 years ago to now electing a uh communist um um Marxist, you know, Muslim, the Red Green Alliance as mayor? How do you go from that? How do you go from that switch in in such a short amount of time? And when you look at those votes, it's the under 30-year-old crowd, it's the it's the younger people that put the communist Marxists in office in New York City. And so you have to say, well, how did that happen? And that happened through public education because we had a shift about 15 years ago in education that it became indoctrination over education. It was more important to teach our children or to indoctrinate children with the Marxist frame of mind, with a Marxist indoctrination, especially through critical race theory, than to educate children on founding documents, the United States of America and educate children on virtue. And so that is where, you know, that's what you're seeing again, not so good fruit of what the Bible would say, but the thorns, the curse of what the Bible calls of Marxist indoctrination and just what's happening in New York City. So I hope Texas wakes up and everyone pays attention to what's happening in public education, because if we don't hold this line, if we don't hold the line of a classical education of putting virtue in the Bible and patriotism back in our schools in in a very short time in just two or three election cycles, you'll start seeing communists elected in Texas because the young crowd will be speaking the same language if indoctrination continues in education.
SPEAKER_10Absolutely. And I know we actually talked to you before uh about some of the updates that were potentially going to come out of the State Board of Education because you had a big vote. Uh, you talked to us a little bit about with the social studies overhaul and stuff going on with history. Um, another I want to say maybe tease for the event. Again, this is gonna be this is gonna be uh plenty of time to go over this stuff more in depth, people to understand more about it, but I want to give kind of people a taste as to what we're going over or some of the big stuff they need to know about. One of those things was the recent developments in regards to some of the curriculum changes. Can you also kind of give us a brief overview of what ended up happening with those votes and where things are headed right now?
SPEAKER_11Yes, so the biggest thing that we've worked on uh in the last probably two years is the the new social study standards, civic training and social study standards. And this is so necessary, and I'm so proud of the state of Texas and our state board of education that we really have taken the bull by the horns and we're leading on this for the entire nation. So, you know, whenever we see the eight of in America, so a national score, okay, is that only 22% of eighth graders can pass a basic civics test. I'm not talking about anything advanced, I'm talking about very basic. Um, what are three branches of government? How many presidents have there been? Um, you know, what's the what how many justices on the Supreme Court? You know, just very basic kind of questions. Umly 22% of eighth graders can pass a basic civics test. And then when you take that up to the voting population, when you take that up to adults, only 33% of Americans of the adult voting population can pass a um a basic civics test. So obviously, for years we have been failing in our public education of educating uh people and educating students on just basic civics. And then also, we know we have new data that came out that shows that America right now on people who claim to be proud of America. Okay, this was a study, a national study that measured patriotism on people that say they're proud to be an American or proud to uh be an America, that that has fallen to an all-time low in our country. And so we just have to get back to the basics. We have to get back to the basics that America is exceptional. We are the city on the hill. We are the leader of the free world. And our U.S. Constitution needs to be celebrated, not built in Marxist um uh indoctrination into public education that teaches students to revent the the U.S. Constitution because it was written, I'm gonna use quotes by my state board of education members, you know, Democrat members who said, oh, it was written by old white men. It's not relevant. Well, you know, it is relevant. The U.S. Constitution is the longest-running U.S. Constitution in world history. It is a document to be celebrated and to teach our kids declaration of independence. All rights are given to us by God or an alienable rights. So, yes, we're getting uh the social studies standards, the kindergarten through eighth grade social studies standards that we have passed, are the first in the nation to mandate patriotism in every grade, kindergarten through eighth grade. And it's the first social studies and um reading book list in the nation that mandates uh the Bible as instructional text for every grade, kindergarten through eighth grade. So super proud of that. Um, you know, I was the uh first, actually, I believe in history, I'm the first Texas State Board of Education member to be invited to attend the American Legislative Exchange Council known as. And I want to I'm so happy to report to you that it has unanimously um representatives from all 50 states uh voted unanimously to take these policies of putting patriotism back in education, putting the Bible back in education, they voted unanimously to take these policies back to their state and file at next legislative session. So Texas is leading, you know, we're not afraid to lead. You you know, when a Texas sees a problem, we just grab the bull by the horns and we go to work and we fix the problem. So that's what we're doing. And it's my honor to serve on this great board and leading the nation.
SPEAKER_10Right, absolutely. And I want to remind everyone this is just a a taste of what you're gonna get next Wednesday. Because we're gonna go over so much more stuff. I mean, there are things that seem small but are actually very big. I mean, the chronological study of history, uh, for years, one of the big complaints about history has just been, oh, is it just names and dates and no one really understands the history? That's a big problem that people don't understand our nation's history, our civilization's history, world history, all of those things. And you mentioned the Bible, again, very important stuff because we can see a direct decline in our education and in the kind of people we're raising, uh, directly associated with not understanding that our legal system, our country is founded on Christian values. Even if you're not a Christian, you understand that. I mean, I often point to Thomas Jefferson, one of the only non-Christian founding fathers who was, for lack of a better phrase, a cultural Christian who believed heavily in the values that are found in Scripture. And so you can see that in our history, you can see that in our documents, you can see that on our buildings. If you go to DC, the history is just laden with Christian ethics, values, and language. And to put that back in, I know there's been a lot of complaints from people saying, well, you're pushing a religion. Um, to which I reply and say, No, I'm I'm pushing the history of the country and the truth of what this country was founded upon.
SPEAKER_11And so again, that's absolutely correct. Even whenever I was in DC on Capitol Hill a few weeks ago, when you go into the meeting rooms of the of the United States House of Representatives, there's scripture on the wall in their meeting room. You know, when you go onto the, I was uh honored that I was invited to go into the house floor. When you go into the house floor looking over the feet for the house or the relief of Moses, I mean it's it's everywhere, it's embedded in who we are as a nation. And even as a thing, if you look at the texture constitution, the whole preamble of the texture constitution is a prayer, humbling ourselves and dedicating to God and invoking the mind lifting of um or humbly invoking the mind lifting of the Lord. You know, you can't separate America, you can't separate from virtue and from biblical belief and anger. So that was one of the main reasons why we had to bring back the Bible as an instructional because you can't teach great things like Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Leader from a Birmingham vehicle without using the biblical references and leader in reference things from the right mean second of indigo and Daniel and the Lions in how he feels when he's sitting in that vehicle in Birmingham, Alabama. So how do you teach the richness of the greatest civil rights leader how he was feeling? And if you teach them, well, who was the right mean second of indigo and what happened with Daniel and the Lions then? So yes, we have brought back the Bible in a big way, in a huge way to provide context and richness to understand our country and our state's history.
SPEAKER_10Absolutely. Now, Julie, as always, I want to thank you so much for giving us your time this morning for for coming on and being a part of the show and for the very exciting event we have coming up that you're gonna be a massive part of. We want to we want to thank you so much for for giving us your time and your availability to do all of that. Um and uh yeah, uh hopefully we continue to get more updates coming out of the State Board of Education from Public Education here in the state of Texas, and thank you so much for your time this morning.
SPEAKER_11Yes, Michael, we've I mean, praise to God, we've had a lot of great wins and we're not through winning. So um yeah, we appreciate your support and we appreciate your listeners' prayers and support.
SPEAKER_10And God bless you and God bless Texas. God bless you as well, Julie. With that being said, if you want to learn more about that event, that's coming up again next Wednesday, it's August 19th, and you can just head on over to patriotalk920.com and head over to our events page, and it'll be on the events page. You can click for more info. The sign-up link is on there. You can find out all the information you need to know. In the meantime, we're about to go to a break. When we get back from that break, we're gonna talk about an illegal alien with a with a federal prison sentence, and we'll talk about why when we get back. If you would like to text into the show, the number is 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord Lynn. I will return with the rest of that story after this short break. Just stick around. Back very soon.
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Illegal Re-Entry And Prison Costs
SPEAKER_10Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. An illegal alien charged with unlawful re-entry has been convicted and sentenced following a two-day trial. A jury in the Southern District of Texas found Eduardo Aguilera Gallardo guilty on the single count of illegal re-entry into the United States. U.S. judge Sim Lake ordered that Aguilera Gallardo serve four years in federal prison, after which he will still face deportation proceedings. Testimony during the trial revealed that Aguilera Gallardo was removed from the country after losing the lawful permanent resident status he received back in 2001. An immigration judge ordered that he be removed to Mexico in 2024. He appealed the ruling, but it was dismissed in July of 24, and he was deported in 2025. Following his removal, law enforcement officials found him in Houston in April of 2025 without authorization to be in the U.S. The court also heard about Aguero Gardo's extensive past criminal history, including convictions of possession of controlled substances, theft, and reckless driving, and noted that his prior sentences were not enough of a deterrent for his continued criminal conduct, so he will remain in custody pending transfer to a federal prison. Well, I I I have a couple of comments on this. The biggest comment that I I really have about this story in general that I'm frustrated about is the prison sentence. And I get it. Whatever we've been doing, you you could argue, well, it's not working. You know, he came back. And I agree that that pure deportation for these sorts of crimes is not acceptable. I I do certainly understand that. But one thing that I'd like to highlight is I'm not sure what the effect of the prison sentence is supposed to be. Because if we currently have no one being released into the country, so we have no more in you know immigration coming in illegally, obviously you can't get back in. So it's not like you're keeping him held so that he can't get back into the country. He's not gonna get back in anyways. So other than purely for the sake of we're punishing him, but everyone knows that that prison is not punitive, it's designed to be rehabilitative. Why are we rehabilitating somebody who's not from here and who's not gonna be here? Are we trying to help Mexico out? Like what's the point of this? And on whose dime? Because of course it's the taxpayers' dime. And I don't know about the cost of federal prison. I know that Texas is basically one of the cheapest states in the country, and already you're gonna spend 33,000 a year. So we're gonna spend at least a hundred and and f you know, thirty thousand dollars housing this guy for the next four years, all for him not to have any effect on our country anyway. I'm a little lost. Now, I I understand that there's to a degree we say, well, he's committed these crimes inside the US and he re- re- re you know, he he entered the country again. We need to have some sort of standard. Well, but that standard should be something that is of benefit to to Texans and to Americans. Why are we you know uh giving a a sentence that is not uh at all beneficial to the the Americans, to the citizens of the country? Why are we promoting a a form of quote unquote justice that is not ultimately in line with any sort of tangible benefit for the people that is completely backwards, it completely ignores the point of justice. It's not a punishment at all, it's just a delay. And I I again am a little lost on where the benefit is. Now, if we did some sort of customer serv not customer service, what am I talking about? If we did some sort of community service where he's forced to work and to pay off some sort of debt that he incurred by being here illegally and taking advantage of the taxpayers, that I would understand. If it was some sort of probationary style where he was forced to do a certain amount of labor while he was held in some sort of confinement, that would make sense. We're not doing that anymore. It's simply that you're being housed. So that that's a major problem to me. And it's one that I still don't quite comprehend. Why our first response to everything is is prison. Like I I understand if you're anti-death penalty, right? I I got okay, life in prison is a suitable alternative, just ignoring the cost so we make sure that they're never on the streets again. Okay, fair enough. I disagree with you, but fair enough. But why are we posturing for a four-year sentence for someone that's immediately going to be deported and not able to get back in the country again? What what's the point of that? I couldn't tell you. I don't think they could tell you. It doesn't really make any sense at all. It's not of benefit to us. It doesn't benefit us now, it doesn't benefit us in the future. In fact, if anything, it is just a detriment in the amount of money that we're having to spend to house them for the next four years. And that's on the cheap end. That's the conservative side of the cost. And so uh I would be more content w with, you know, straight deportation or keeping the border secure in the meantime, so he can't come back in, period. Um but if we're gonna do some form of justice, which I think is fair, it should be some sort of actual punishment, some sort of service back, payment back, something that he does that actually serves the interests of the American people. And right now, uh frankly, I'm not seeing that. And so hopefully we do see a better outcome in the future. Hopefully we start understanding that, okay, just s you know, slap on the wrist prison sentences aren't beneficial for anybody. They're just a detriment, especially in a case like this one. If there were an argument ever that prison is just the wrong answer, this is it. We know statistically, even for American citizens, much less for citizens with less law and order, prison does basically nothing to curtail crime. It just doesn't. And for something that's four years, with deportation proceedings immediately immediately following, I'm a little lost. There's no benefit. And so we need it, we need to have better solutions to the justice problem, especially from those who are not citizens of the U.S. and who are residing here illegally. With that being said, when we get back from the break, we are going to jump over to an appeals court. Um we've had a lot of conversations in recent days about updates to the NFA. We had Richard Hayes on late last week to go over a major update to the NFA, uh, the National Firearms Act, uh, with all the the what was arguably, inarguably, an unconstitutional gun registration scheme uh that the that Gun Owners of America fought against uh and ultimately got a winning decision, though that could still be appealed as well. We all understand that. But we have a separate case um kind of regarding a similar thing, and that is Paxton's challenge to the State Fairs firearms ban. Um and so that went to court, it got appealed, it went to the the 15th Court of Appeals, which has now affirmed a lower court ruling dismissing the attorney general's lawsuit to the challenge on the State Fairs firearms ban, meaning it's allowed to stay in effect. The state fair has the authority to do that, which is absolutely insane. But we'll talk more about the details of that case when we get back from the break. As always, if you would like to text into the show, and you can do that for a variety of reasons. You can do that, of course, for stuff that we've been talking about, that you have some comment on, maybe a disagreement with something that I've said, maybe an opinion on something that I said that differs from mine, totally fine. Or if you have a story that I haven't reported on that you want to hear my take on, feel free to text in at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson. Lord, I'll be right back with the rest of that story on that appeals court rejection after the break. Stick around. We'll talk soon.
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State Fair Gun Ban And Courts
SPEAKER_10I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and you're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. So, first in background, the 15th Circuit Court of Appeals has in general been an absolute terrible, terrible court. I I mean just bar this case alone. This case alone is enough to highlight, okay, because this was a unanimous ruling, by the way, this is enough to say, okay, horrible. Uh but you you add in other decisions that have come. Uh for instance, the 15th Circuit was also the one that that allowed a group of these clinics here in Houston that were operating allegedly as an abortion network and performing abortions to resume operations as litigation in that case continued. So again, they're not particularly conservative. They're certainly not uh you know a fan of the rule of law and of the authority of the state. So that's frustrating in general. But let's get into this particular case because Attorney General Faxon's challenge to the State Fair Texas firearm ban has now been rejected by the Texas 15th Circuit Court of Appeals. Now, uh this came out late last week uh when the three justice panel unanimously affirmed the 298th Judicial District Court's judgment. The court found that the law prevents state and local governments from barring licensed handgun carriers from most property they own or lease, but does not apply to private entities like the State Fair. It's been held in Dallas since 1886, and the State Fair implemented a new set of safety rules a couple years ago in 2024. You guys remember when this all happened, it prohibited the carrying of firearms, including by licensed to carry holders. The ban followed a shooting in 2023 in the food court, which injured three people. The shooter, Cameron Turner, did not possess a license to carry. Now although Fair Park is technically owned by the city of Dallas. The court argues that because the city leases the ground to a private nonprofit that operates. The state fair that it's lawful. While Pax is arguing, no, no, no, it's still state property, so it shouldn't be lawful to have said ban. Uh here's basically what the opinion said. And it's a little, it's a little uh, let's say, technical, but I think you'll get the gist. The opinion reads: the state fair's gun ban serves as the basis for how the city's conduct allegedly violates section 411.209, but appellants do not explain how the state fair violated that provision through implementing its ban. As discussed, section 411.209 only prohibits the actions of state agencies and political subdivisions of the state seeking to ban licensed gunholders from carrying handguns on government property. Texas government code 411.209A, it does not apply to private entities, such as the state fair leasing said property. It doesn't apply to the property itself, it applies to the agencies that own the property. So if you were using it for a government-issued event, yeah, that that would apply. But they're arguing, but since it's leased out to a private entity, it wouldn't. Uh, which I the more I think about it, the more I think, well, maybe that's a fair ruling, but it it's unconstitutional, which means our laws are. That's, I think, the bigger problem here. Um, and of course, you have multiple people saying that the the it's terrible. You had one organization that said arbitrary gun-free zones create soft targets, leaving you defenseless when lawbreakers strike. They force gun owners to leave their firearms unattended in their vehicles and their homes prone to being stolen and used in future crimes. The Texas legislature must fix this. And for some background, they've tried to do that. Uh during the last legislative section, you had Briscoe Kane, who filed House Bill 1715, which would have required contracts for the use of government-owned or leased property to prohibit contractors from barring licensed handgun carriers where carrying was otherwise lawful, which is the right way to proceed in this case. That is almost certainly the the main way that you can actually combat this, because it's obviously not going to happen primarily through the judiciary. Now, we do expect Paxton to appeal it to the Texas Supreme Court. But if we're being completely honest and straight up, uh, I'm not gonna pretend like I think that the outcome is gonna be different. I have a distinct feeling that the Texas Supreme Court is going to agree with the lower court and the 15th Court of Appeals in their ruling. I I just have a feeling, despite the fact that the Texas Supreme Court is usually more conservative, I think the law is pretty unclear. Uh and so a private entity is the one first given, you know, the vast majority of rights when the law is not fully com you know transparent on exactly what it's supposed to look like. Since the law does not specify that it's the land, but only says the state agencies, and the argument is certainly, well, we're not a state agency, we're renting the land from a state agency, that that doesn't apply to us. I think that's a fair ruling, but I think it tells you again that so many things need to be fixed by laws. I know people want to say all the time the courts are the problem, and a lot of cases they are. And I'm not saying that I agree necessarily with their ruling. I think they should come out and stand for the principles of the Second Amendment more than they should for a private entity, but that's kind of uh un unrelated to this actual decision. Because ultimately we should have laws in place to protect and to defend the Second Amendment, that those laws are good and they need support and they need people to stand for them and to say, hey, it doesn't matter, you know, what the private entity says, then we reject contracts from the state perspective. We're not gonna issue contracts to people who are going to do these sort of violations, even if they technically have the ability to do so. Well then take away their ability to do so. If that's what the court's gonna rule on it, we can't say no, you are terrible court. We can try that, but it's not gonna do anything. We need to have actual, tangible actions in response. And I would highlight it's not even about license to carry, it should be for any sort of carry. It should we have constitutional carry in our state. That should apply here. It shouldn't just be for licensed carriers, it should apply. And I know people are gonna say, well, but the main argument is that he he could have, you know, constitutional carry, the guy that did the shooting. So that doesn't protect anybody. Yeah, but you have to understand something. The Second Amendment was not designed as the primary stoppage of crime. I think we must understand what rights are. Again, this gets fundamentally into what rights are. Your God-given rights are not determined by the actions of other evil people. That's not where your rights come from. Your rights don't come because uh the outcome is always good or because crime isn't committed. That's not where rights originate. They originate from God and they cannot be or should not be stripped away from you because other people misbehave. Or they're not rights. That's not a right anymore. That's just something that you like. It's a privilege that can be taken away when people don't act right. Right? That's what a pro you're privileged to get a cookie before bad, uh, but if you didn't act good today, no cookie. That's that's what they're treating the Second Amendment like is a privilege instead of a right. If it is a right, we have constitutional carry, it shouldn't matter whether some guy used his quote unquote rights to do something evil, okay, then hold that guy accountable for what he did. That that's the problem, is that our justice system isn't holding people accountable correctly. And instead of trying to fix that problem, instead of saying, hey, we need to hold our courts to a higher standard, we need to hold our criminal courts to a higher standard of justice, instead, how about we just violate the rights of law-abiding citizens that have God-given constitutionally trying to rights, how about we violate those people's rights as a retort to this, which lawbreakers aren't going to care about. And as we know, gun-free zones are wildly unsuccessful at the prevention of crime. Because people that want to commit crime, they couldn't care less. In fact, if anything, it is a soft target. They know that if they go there, they have more ability to do bad things because people aren't caring to defend themselves. It's it's a more open target for those who are willing to break the law. And so all of that kind of conjoins into this understanding that we have to have better laws that are ardent defenders of the Second Amendment. And that, by the way, like it or not, requires lobbyists. And the best lobbyists, without a doubt, when it comes to your Second Amendment rights, that's our sponsor, Gun Owners of America. Gun Owners of America understands the importance of the Second Amendment and the importance of laws that continue to defend the Second Amendment. Because the Second Amendment is an overarching right, generally, but laws play into that and how they apply that right. And that's why laws like House Bill 1715 are so important. It's also why, in order to get those laws passed, we need lobbyists like GOA. And they do a variety of things more than just lobbying. Of course, they lobby for bills like 1715 and lobby against other bills that that would strip you of your rights. They also, of course, are the ones often fighting in a lot of these court cases. Uh the NFA we just talked about earlier, they were they were part of the defining reason why the court has currently said, yeah, that's actually not constitutional anymore. The NFA is is unconstitutional ultimately. And you add in that they also campaign so that the candidates that get in, because I mean you can lobby all day long, but if you have a bunch of bad candidates, it won't matter because they're not going to support you. You have to have good candidates in office. So they are campaigning, they're lobbying, they're going through court, they're keeping the grassroots informed, and so much more. But in order for them to continue doing that, it requires the support of their members. That that is how they operate. It requires you to be a member and to support them. And you can do that by going to goahhouston.com. You can sign up and become a member of Gun Owners of America for $25 a year. It's an annual membership of just $25, and that money, you know, is going to a worthy cause, a cause of defending and supporting your God-given constitutionally enshrined rights. Again, that is G-O-A-Houston.com. And so, yes, we we need those laws. Almost, almost certainly, we need better laws. Because the reality is that if the courts are going to rule this way, and they are, that that's I mean, we can say if they are, but the if is is doing a lot of heavy lifting there because this is what they're ruling on, then we need to change the law because the job of the court is not to write laws, to imp it's it's to ultimately it it I know that a lot of them are using it for the weaponization of laws and they're trying to be law writers in their in their positions, but it's supposed to be to interpret the law, which means we have to have good laws for the court to interpret them for our rights. And that means that our candidates, like Briscoaine, among many others, need to continue to push bills like this, saying, okay, fine. If if they have rights to do that, then we say, okay, fine. Then we're not going to give you the contract in the first place. If that's how this is going to work, then you have to sign a contract that says you won't ban the use of handguns or your contract for the property gets revoked. You don't get to use our state property and then put in nefarious rules that violate people's rights, then fine. If that's your right, then you don't have the right to use the property then. It's one or the other. Pick your pick your poison. You can either ban the guns, but you won't have access to government property to host your thing, or you could just take it down, say, hey, you know what? This is the state of Texas, this is the state fair of Texas. There should be a bunch of gun owners in there and do it the right way, or you can lose the property. Those should be your choices, but we need good legislators who are willing to stand on principle and not let like like Texas Bill 1715, as I mentioned, you know what happened to that, right? It it uh died in the House State Affairs Committee. That's unacceptable, which means we need better candidates and better lobbyists. With that being said, to wrap up the show, when we get back from the break, we've got another story. This one brings it back local for a major update because Bristol Myers Squib is now planning to build, and this is with a B, by the way, $2.3 billion with a B, billion, $2.3 billion advanced manufacturing plant here in Houston, which is supposed to create around 500 jobs. We're gonna talk all about that update when we get back, what that'll look like, positive, negatives, so on and so forth, all the commentary in the last segment to wrap up the show. If you would like to text in, this is your final chance during the show to do that. You can text in at 713-779-5978. That is 713-779-KYST. You're listening to the Lone Star Conservative. I'm your host, Michael Wilson, and Lord and I'll be right back to wrap up the morning show after the break. Hang tight, and we'll be right back.
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Houston Biotech Boom And Tradeoffs
SPEAKER_10sector. Now the new facility is going to cover 600,000 square feet and create around 500 jobs, and that's coming out directly from the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant. Construction is going to begin next year and is expected to be completed by 2030, also creating about 2,000 jobs, uh short-term jobs during that three-year period. The new facility is designed to grow in scale, capability, and workforce for decades to come. Uh BMS, Bristol Meyer Squibbs, envisions this site growing in scale and capability well beyond its opening configuration. Regional leaders have been hoping to develop Houston as a biomanufacturing and life sciences hub, supportive by institutions such as the Texas Medical Center and workforce training initiatives at San Decinto, Lone Star College, and Texas ANM. For example, last September, Eli Lilly unveiled their own plans to build a $6.5 billion plant in Houston, also in Generation Park, in what state leaders described as the largest biotech manufacturing investment in Texas history. Craig Rhodes, who is the senior vice president of economic development for the Greater Houston Partnership, said that yesterday's announcement shows real momentum for building out the for-profit life science sector in Houston, especially in the wake of the Eli Lilly announcement. And so we'll kind of see. Rhodes kind of point out, he said, you're talking about two Fortune 100 companies that have selected Houston in back-to-back years. These type of announcements certainly speak positively of the region and our ability to support these kind of investments. But as with anything, I can't let it all be positive. Yes, is it going to create a lot of jobs? Absolutely. Is it going to bring economic development to the region more than we already have? For sure, 100%. No one, no one could really debate that, that that's going to be one of the outcomes is going to be economic development and beneficial jobs that produce good income for Houstonians. But I think a lot of the concern is a couple things. One, corporate welfare is still certainly a major concern of these sorts of projects. Is the state going to aid, assist, give grants, all those sorts of things? That's ultimately not beneficial for anybody in the state. Corporate welfare is bad, as we all understand. But also, are these companies doing things that are positive? Because I get it, the economy has become the number one thing that anyone seems to care about. Well, it's good economically, sure, but is it good culturally? Is it good societally? Is it a benefit for Houston other than we get extra money? Because the money that we do get doesn't even really go anywhere. The government's just going to try to take as much as they can anyway. The bigger conversation should be is this of benefit? And I'm not going to, you know, point out names and try to go into specific things that Bristol Myers Squibbs does or that Eli Lilly does. But I think a lot of people have a lot of pause and concern regarding these pharmaceutical giants and their continued growth in our state and in our city. And I think that's reasonable to have that concern and to say the economy is not the only thing we have to consider when we approve these sorts of things, when we're excited about these things. Part of it is what it brings culturally. And I can't speak with certainty and say that it's going to be good. As someone who's anti-pharmaceutical in general, I can't say that. Regardless, that will do it for the show today.
Final Thoughts And Sign-Off
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