The Lone Star Conservative
Join Michael Wilson as The Lone Star Conservative every morning from 6am - 8am on Patriot Talk 920 AM in Houston, TX. Michael will bring you the latest political news from the Greater Houston Area and around the country while providing commentary from a Christian conservative perspective.
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Episodes
68 episodes
Runoff Election Results And A Texas Civil Rights Lawsuit
A school district lawsuit turns into a much bigger fight over who really holds power in America. We start with the federal civil rights case filed against Houston ISD and then zoom out to the constitutional framework underneath so many modern p...
Vote In The Runoffs Today
Memorial Day is over. The question isn’t whether we feel grateful, it’s whether we act like it. We start with a direct case for civic responsibility in a constitutional representative republic and why Texas runoff election day matters more than...
The Real Cost Of Freedom On Memorial Day
Memorial Day only works if we tell the truth about it. We’re not talking about a three-day weekend or “patriot energy” we’re talking about graves, families, and the cost that made normal life possible. I walk through where the holiday comes fro...
John Cornyn Refuses To Stop Attacking Ken Paxton
Somebody in Texas politics always says they want unity, right up until the next attack ad drops. We start with the Cornyn vs Paxton runoff and the Texas GOP chair’s public call to stop the negative advertising, then dig into why one side agrees...
From Austin Shootings To Lottery Rigging In Texas
A “random” shooting spree in Austin, an abortion-pill indictment in Montgomery County, smart glasses that may see more than you think, and a lottery jackpot that looks less like luck and more like a system being gamed. That’s the thread we pull...
Trump’s Late Endorsement Forces Texas Republicans To Choose
Trump drops a major endorsement while Texans are already voting, and it instantly reshapes the Republican Senate runoff conversation. We walk through President Donald Trump backing Ken Paxton over John Cornyn, why the timing is so unusual, and ...
Texas Forces A Hospital To Stop Child Gender Procedures
A Texas children’s hospital agreeing to a $10 million settlement is not just a headline, it is a turning point with ripple effects across healthcare, law, and the culture fight. We walk through what the Texas Children’s Hospital agreement repor...
Houston’S Budget Fight And A $4,000 Couch
A Houston official warns that the city budget is squeezing working families, then his office turns around and requests a nearly $4,000 sofa. That single detail opens a bigger question we can’t dodge: when leaders preach restraint but spend like...
Texas Uses State Funding To Force A City To Cancel A Religiously Exclusive Event
A city-owned water park gets booked for a “religion-only” event, the flyers hit social media, and suddenly Texas is staring down a basic question with huge consequences: what rules apply when a private group rents a public facility? We walk thr...
How Houston Plans To Close A $270 Million Budget Gap Without Raising Taxes
Houston’s leaders say they can stabilize the city budget without raising taxes, but the details tell a more complicated story. We walk through Mayor John Whitmire’s plan to close a massive Houston budget shortfall, including a $5 monthly trash ...
Supreme Court Abortion Pill Ruling And Texas Political Fallout
The Supreme Court keeps the abortion pill mifepristone widely available while the courts fight it out, and that single move exposes a bigger truth: modern policy spreads at the speed of telehealth, the mailbox, and a pharmacy counter. We walk t...
What Happens When A Culture Forgets Evil
A lot of politics is downstream from culture, and we start there on Star Wars Day with a deceptively simple question: why do the stories that stick usually keep a clean line between good and evil? We talk about what happens when modern entertai...
Paxton’s H-1B Fraud Probe And Houston’s New Trash Fee
Houston wakes up to a packed Friday news cycle, and we dig straight into the stories shaping Texas policy and everyday life. We start with Attorney General Ken Paxton expanding a Texas H-1B visa fraud investigation into dozens of businesses, in...
A Houston Birth Tourism Lawsuit Sparks A Broader Immigration Reckoning
A single lawsuit can expose an entire incentive structure. We start with Texas moving to shut down a Houston area “birth tourism” operation accused of bringing Chinese nationals to the state to give birth and secure US citizenship for their chi...
Ken Paxton’s Trucking School Probe And The New Fight Over School Accountability
A commercial driver who can’t read road signs shouldn’t be behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler, yet Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is now investigating trucking schools accused of certifying unqualified CDL drivers and telling students English...
If You Lose The Culture You Lose The Vote
If politics feels like it’s getting weirder every year, we make the case that it’s because policy isn’t the driver, culture is. I start by laying out why hearts and minds rarely change during debates or campaign stops, and why the stories we te...
SB4 Returns After Fifth Circuit Ruling On Standing
Texas politics moves fast, but the receipts move faster. We start with the Fifth Circuit clearing the way for Texas SB4 to take effect again, not by ruling on the merits but by saying key challengers lacked standing. That procedural win still m...
Fort Bend Protests Meet Houston ICE Rules In A Week Of Flashpoints
A county judge gets suspended, a presiding judge appoints a replacement, and suddenly Fort Bend County is in the street protesting a “power grab.” We walk through what Texas law actually allows, why people still feel cheated without a direct vo...
The City Tried A Shell Game For $110 Million
Houston tried to walk a tightrope on immigration enforcement, and it may have stepped straight into a funding trap. We break down the City Council vote to amend Houston’s ICE-related ordinance, why the mayor says the rewrite was negotiated with...
The Fifth Circuit Clears The Way For Ten Commandments Posters In Public Schools
A federal appeals court just handed Texas a major cultural and legal win, and the ripple effects could reach far beyond one state. We walk through the Fifth Circuit’s decision allowing Ten Commandments displays in public school classrooms, why ...
Houston Immigration Crime Stories And The Court Battles Behind Them
A single headline can feel like a one-off. A pattern is harder to ignore. Today we connect several Texas stories to the same core issue: policies and institutions that, in our view, are failing at the basic job of protecting the public. We star...
How Houston Politics, Crime, And Community Collide
Chaos doesn’t usually show up all at once. It shows up as a handful of “small” choices a city makes, a culture shrugs off, and a family structure we stop defending until the consequences become impossible to ignore.We start with a hopef...
Houston’s ICE Fight, A Small-Town Scandal, And A Grid Under Pressure
Houston is hosting a massive NRA Annual Meeting weekend, and we’re using it as a launchpad to talk about what’s happening across Texas when the headlines move from “events to attend” to “policies that change daily life.” I walk you through how ...
A Fifth Circuit Ruling Makes Deportations To El Salvador Easier
Politics can feel like a nonstop argument about personalities, but we’re chasing something deeper: what if the chaos is downstream from worldview and culture? We start with Ephesians 6:12 and the idea that our “struggle” isn’t only against peop...
Houston Sanctuary Policy Fallout And The Fight Over Public Safety
Houston is staring down a political self-inflicted wound: a city policy fight that could cost roughly $110 million in public safety funding, spark a state investigation, and push police morale even lower. We walk through why the state is reacti...