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Charta is a dramatic audio podcast created, written, directed and produced by Dereck Fahie. The show is set at the fictional “Breakwall Marina,” charter yacht company office in the Virgin Islands. The series follows two struggling boat captains Deni Mesa, a former Coast Guardsman, and his former shipmate Steve Roberts. Migrant smuggling is the engine that drives the show. There are five main cast members Deni Mesa, Steve Roberts, Sandra Nelson, Joe Gilbert and Kris Imani. Additionally, the m ...
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This podcast series focuses on Ayahuasca Assisted Therapy and the integration process. Journey with your hosts, Nina and her guests as we educate, inform & support the conscious and responsible use of Ayahuasca in a western context. ~ Sign-up for our emails to stay up-to-date about our projects & trainings: avatarhealingarts.com Disclaimer: Ayahuasca and DMT are potentially illegal substances, and we don’t encourage or condone the use of these substances where it is against the law. However, ...
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Roberson capital punishment case shows why traditionalism and conservatism often lose: Even when evidence supports the conservative position, one-sided presentations based in emotionalism (the Donahue or Oprah style complete with much omission) seems to turn off the skept…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The local story from El Paso that I brought you earlier this week about the heavily Democrat city being down on Early Voting is now part of a bigger story that could be a good sign for Republicans. This explains why Harris left the battleground states to come to Texas for a b…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Office of Attorney General catches up to Pratt on Texas and calls state Reps. Joe Moody and Jeff Leach liars over their propaganda in the Roberson death penalty case. Court records back up the A.G.’s claim and match what I have been telling you. These records show that ad…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrat Leftists claim they are trying to “save Democracy,” but at about every policy point they oppose law and ordered government so what are the saving? Nowhere is this more flagrantly hypocritical than on illegal immigration* and also with voting integrity. *The Left, inc…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Friday I explained what an overreach the Texas House Jurisprudence Committee has made in the Roberson death penalty case. Today, Governor Abbott says why; Attorney General Paxton says why, and; even another member of the Texas House says why: Governor Abbott’s amicus curiae b…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Whether guilty or not, the cause celebre of the case of Robert Roberson’s ordered execution has gone off the rails. Media stories and advocate assertions so not tell the full story. I cannot summarize 40 minutes of analysis here so listen to the show and you’ll hopefully get …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas House committee has gone too far in trying to interfere with an official execution in Texas. This is exactly the type of thing Democrats will do for most everything if they win back control of Texas government. Here is an example: State Seeks Recusal of Judge Cornelio…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Cruz / Allred “debate” has an interesting lesson on how even when there is what seems to be hard questioning for both, there is still Leftwing bias in media driven debates. An additional problem with all the political debates is that because the questions come from, and t…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A new Texas-based poll shows the Cruz vs. Allred race right where I said it should end up – but only if Republicans do well at getting the vote out. Cruz and Allred to face off in Senate race’s only debate tonight. Also, “Is Ted Cruz Blowing His Re-Election Race in Texas?” – …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Three big court decisions affect Texas in different ways. First, the Fifth Circuit has overruled a contempt charge and fine against Texas over its foster care system; more importantly the court has removed activist, biased Judge Janis Jack from the case! This is a huge win fo…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Now that Fort Worth says the legal avenue to outright ban so-called “game rooms” is clear, will Lubbock County finally move Commissioner Jason Corley’s simple game room regulatory proposal forward Monday? Commissioner Corley joins us to bring us up to date on the year and a h…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Should the State of Texas be in the gambling business? The Texas Lottery contributes very little to public education despite being sold to the public as a big funding mechanism for much. I believe that the social costs of the lottery far outweigh any benefits and that it shou…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: I was right in my speculation about the Denton County story on letting those with non-citizens state ID’s vote but only partly. Now that we’ve learned more, it is much worse. In my informed opinion the Secretary of State’s elections chief is either too stupid to do the job or…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Allred outraised Cruz in Q3 but didn’t say how much cash-on-hand he had. Kamala Harris told ABC’s “The View” today that she would do nothing different from Joe Biden. And, one report claims the Denton County elections administrator is insisting that non-citizens who are regis…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Media, Democrat double-standard on full display over Hurricane Helene and the federal response to the disaster. There is a fundamental, anti-progressive, lesson in it all showing why you should never order a society to depend upon “experts” and bureaucrats but instead upon a …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Dallas County Republican Chairman, Allen West, says that Dallas County elections equipment failed required tests and that the elections administrator did not note the failures observed in the public test on the required attestation statement. If true, this is a major prob…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The so-called “shocking” and “bombshell” accusations in Jack Smith’s revised “election interference” indictment of Donald Trump are anything but shocking or bombshell. The media just expects you to read the headlines without examining the charges. MediaIte lists what it calls…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas voter registration now tops 18 million and key races get closer and closer by the cycle. Will Texas return to an electorally competitive state? Many say it is happening now – what will it take for those who became active only in an era of strong GOP dominance to wake up…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New polling is interesting and shows that Texas Republicans could lose the U.S. Senate race. Democrat liberal Colin Allred is polling neck and neck with Ted Cruz. I give a full rundown of the detail of the poll done by Public Policy Polling. All the free media publicity aroun…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Another county adopts the No New Revenue Tax Rate without causing the sky to fall. New figures out today from Lubbock County’s newly factored No New Revenue Tax Rate budget shows what an outright unmitigated liar Bowtie Bully Curtis Parrish, and his other allies, was with the…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Maybe the media makes sure, at the story source level, that there is little “widespread election fraud” on which to report by making sure many of the stories get little press coverage – that will certainly fool the search engines! Today we talk with Abilene Republican Women’s…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Ted Cruz, Colin Allred race is tight meaning Texas’ U.S. Senate seat is in play and yet, with some notable exceptions, the local GOP apparatus in the key counties to offset the liberal city vote, as well as the state Republican Party, is full of young people who are busy …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: President Trump will be in the Midland/Odessa next week for a deep pockets fundraiser and many other stories from the campaign stack. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and al…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After hearing much testimony, jurors felt they had to rule against someone for something in the so-called “Trump Train” trial. I understand fully juror sentiment in the case that I have followed closely but even so, they were wrong to use the Ku Klux Klan Act in so doing. Tex…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Dr. Merrill Matthews joins us to talk about the 2024 presidential election and we work from several of his columns that have recently appeared in The Hill, including: For Democrats, ‘Freedom’ is Just Another Word for Mandate Are You Ready for ‘Kamalanomics?’ What ‘Evangelical…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lubbock County’s Bowtie Bully, Curtis Parrish, held a press conference in which he did little but offer deception to the people about what it means to adopt the No New Revenue Rate, meaning no tax increase for next year, by commissioners Rackler and Corley properly using a pr…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: “Voting Deserts,” voter registration rates, turnout, and other nonsense of the Left take up much political coverage and discussion time by people on all sides and do so to the exclusion of something few harping on the matters ever think about: Individual freedom. Most of this…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: It was 3 years ago today when the nation saw the unrestricted hoards of Haitians crossing the border into Texas from Mexico. “There was a lot of asylum fraud going on there. Most of the Haitians we talked to admitted they had been living & working in Chile & other South Ameri…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Demonstrating, once again, what lying race pimps (dangerous rhetoric!) they are, Texas Democrats along with others went all out liar on Texas DPS Director McCraw yesterday. It all relates to Governor Abbott’s presser in Houston at which he announced the designation of the Tre…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The “scripted” responses from Democrat officials, and predictably wrong media narrative, over yet another assassination attempt of Donald Trump should, but sadly won’t, awaken all Americans to the big lie that has been Leftist projection on so-called rhetoric and political sp…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The lawfare case against Brent Webster, Texas First Assistant Attorney General, by the leftists at the Texas Bar Association was heard by the Texas Supreme Court yesterday. It’s a plain and simple case of using the courts, and in this case a regulatory body, to punish people …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has taken what I think to be an odd ruling on campaign violations, the Texas [un]Ethics Commission, and local prosecutors. It is almost as if the majority is trying to implement in Texas the administrative state problem we have with federal…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Trump Harris skirmish on ABC reminded voters how biased is their media and despite the propagandists claiming Harris “won” the debate, or “did enough”, post debate polling and interviewing by the New York Times and Reuters showed it favored Trump. I comment on many other …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: State Representative James Frank of Wichita Falls announced a run to challenge Dade Phelan for Speaker of the House bringing the total to 4 challengers, 5 in the race. Rep. Frank is a good conservative on most issues, though my own column in 2017 reminds that he can stray, bu…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: New reporting as well as personal experience shows that it is likely that Texas Tech has put its Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & Natural Resources in the hands of dedicated Leftists. Ag. College at Texas Tech Offers ‘Diversity’ and ‘Inclusion’ Agriculture Course – th…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The backroom work to intimidate, and even ruin, two Lubbock County commissioners – all for working to stop ballooning county spending and a big tax increase – is underway from several fronts. The latest item that is in public is beyond petty – it is juvenile and petulant poli…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: A Texas case out of Fort Bend County, in which a Democrat county commissioner candidate, former Dem county judge chief of staff, and Biden White House liaison has been indicted on charges of impersonation, shows how the Left and Democrats setup their own victimhood and excuse…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: False conservative city Councilwoman Jennifer Wilson leads Lubbock city council to pass a tax increase, overriding the newly elected Mayor Mark McBrayer as well as conservative Councilman David Glasheen. But wait there’s more! Wilson also appears to have successfully pushed a…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas Attorney General Paxton had a big week last week. I’ll talk about his push on election integrity with Bexar and Harris counties and why government has not legitimate interest in having higher, or lower, voter turnout. Harris County delays plan to boost voter registratio…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Texas is leading the way in voter roll clean up and has removed over 1 million ineligible voters. But nevermind all of that, Democrats and their press propagandists keep with the narrative that there is little to no corruption related to voting. The problem for Texas Democrat…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: We begin with a look at the success for the United States in pivoting to a free enterprise, private sector model for space flight with noted space historian Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack.com. (He really did write the Encyclopedia of Space!) After our look as spaceflight,…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today we will talk with conservative movement warrior Jim Pfaff and get us all reacquainted with one of the oldest and most prestigious conservative organizations – it turns 50 this year – The Conservative Caucus. Many of you will remember its weekly television show, Conserva…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Once again, we debunk, for the umpteenth time, the big lie spread around on Texas school funding. Hint, it’s double what advocacy groups say. State Rep. Harrison Busts School Funding Myths, Pushes for Fiscal Responsibility. Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allie…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Lies from the dais in Lubbock County! For almost two decades I have spoken and written about the lies told to voters by local officeholders, often then repeated by local media, about property taxes. There are many who still do not believe me that elected officials openly lie …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear an expedited appeal from Attorney General Paxton in the case of the church-affiliated Annunciation House in El Paso. This is the group that has fought to keep its records secret related to its work with illegal immigrants. And, Texas…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Reports abound, investigations launched, actions taken – all for a story that didn’t read as legit from the beginning. My first take was why the heck aren’t Republicans out registering voters too!? There is nothing illegal about registering voters outside of a DPS office and …
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Democrats shoved poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Joe Biden out of Prime Time at their convention in Chicago, all so they could let other poorly informed, vindictive, and dishonest Democrats speak. Democrats Shove Biden Out Of DNC Primetime For Last Gasp Of Presiden…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: After the home town RINO whiner, Rep. Glenn Rogers, was defeated in the Republican Primary this year, his Palo Pinto County commissioners court pals passed a slate of “electioneering regulations” designed to restrict active conservative opposition in the county. Conservatives…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: Today’s press review has a perfect example from one Texas county how all the property tax levying local governments’ just-a-little-more-per-month tax increases add up. Try about $1000 per year more for just the “average” taxpayer! Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored b…
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The news of Texas covered today includes: Our Lone Star story of the day: The insider political deal all those years ago to indict Ken Paxton on securities fraud and then work to never let it come to trial was a political hit that blew up. Now, it has also blown up on the private lawyers that were uniquely brought in to prosecute, maybe persecute i…
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