
Progress Texas Podcasts
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The Progress Texas Daily Dispatch delivers the biggest news stories progressives need to know to start their day, plus stories you shouldn't miss in just minutes. Chris Mosser breaks down Texas-sized stories in new episodes M-F, keeping Texas progressives up to speed on the ongoing fight for progressive change.
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Progress Texas Podcasts
2d ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Lawsuits against technical moves made by Elon Musk and his team of hackers that have exposed sensitive data are gaining steam: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/federal-workers-sue-opm-elon-musk-takeover.html
...Musk and DOGE's disruption of USAID has potentially derailed a new HIV vaccine, and has disrupted programs to mitigate malaria: https://futurism.com/neoscope/usaid-trial-hiv-vaccine
...Senior Texas U.S. Senator John Cornyn says concern about Musk's bulldozing of the federal government is "hysteria" - he's up for re-elect ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
2d ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
No surprise that the Texas Senate has fast-tracked approval of SB2, Governor Abbott's private school voucher scam, to approval: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/05/texas-senate-school-voucher-vote/
Austin saw hundreds turn out for Texas' share of the national protest against the Trump administration's policies organized in all 50 states yesterday: https://cbsaustin.com/news/local/protesters-rally-at-texas-capitol-against-project-2025
...The ACLU of Texas is providing training materials on best practices related to public protest, how ..read more
Daily Dispatch 2/5/25: Crockett And Congressional Dems Push Back On Musk Treasury Takeover, and More
Progress Texas Podcasts
3d ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Dallas Rep. Jasmine Crockett was a prominent voice yesterday as lawmakers and civilian protestors rallied against Elon Musk's "hostile takeover" of the financial systems of the U.S. Department of Treasury: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/democrats-protest-elon-musk-treasury-washington
...Crockett notes that the Trump administration appears to have little regard for the legality or Constitutionality of their opening moves: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5125167-jasmine-crockett-donald-trump-constitution/
Dallas-area fre ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
4d ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Protests against Donald Trump and Greg Abbott's immigration policies and deportation efforts have begun rising across Texas, including Houston: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/immigration/2025/02/03/512709/hundreds-march-through-west-houston-in-opposition-of-immigration-policy-changes/
...And Conroe: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/immigration-protest-arrests-conroe-texas/285-add40d0c-73a2-466a-a1b8-76358d4861e4
...And Austin: https://www.fox7austin.com/news/anti-ice-protest-north-lamar-rutland-drive-nort ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
5d ago
Engaged progressives across the Lone Star State know Ground Game Texas as our state's best-known advocacy org in the realm of marijuana decriminalization, with successful initiatives driven all the way to ballot box success in a wide range of Texas cities, both big and small. You might not know that they've expanded those winning strategies into the areas of reproductive justice, election integrity, and much more - providing a terrific example of setting specific goals, and accomplishing those goals through hard work and sound strategy, just when that example is needed for folks gearing up to ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
5d ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Elon Musk and DOGE have been granted access to the highly-sensitive payments system at the heart of the U.S. Treasury Department: https://abcnews.go.com/US/treasury-dept-elon-musks-team-access-federal-payment/story?id=118380399
...Senator Elizabeth Warren, top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, is demanding answers from new Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/warren-bessent-treasury-musk-doge.html
...Meanwhile, Musk and DOGE have launched an all-out attempt to dismantle and destroy USAid ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
1w ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Donald Trump says he plans to follow through with applying a 25% tariff to all goods imported from Mexico starting Sunday - consumers in border states like Texas will feel the pinch immediately: https://thehill.com/business/5117233-trump-mexico-canada-tariffs-threat/
East Texas freshman GOP State Rep. Brent Money has filed legislation that would define life as beginning at fertilization - rendering illegal IVF, IUD's and Plan B: https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/breaking-brent-money-bill-to-criminalize
...All while hundreds of Texans have be ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
1w ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
13 U.S. House Republicans from Texas - more than any other state - are among the 67 members of their party who are co-sponsors of H.R. 722, which would establish a national ban on abortion: https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/722/cosponsors
...More on H.R. 722: https://thistleandmoss.com/p/hr722-the-republicans-try-to-ban?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick's list of his top 25 legislative priorities include prayer and the posting of the Ten Commandments in schools, banning books, and doing aw ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
1w ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Hard to know where to start in evaluating the devastating impacts on Texas that Donald Trump's freeze on federal spending would have: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/28/texas-trump-federal-spending-freeze/
Several Texas Republicans in the U.S. House have presented bills designed to codify recent Trump executive orders into permanent law: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/01/27/texans-congress-trump-executive-orders/
Austin Congressman Greg Casar is one of 20 House Democrats who have written to Donald Trump, wondering what happened to ..read more
Progress Texas Podcasts
1w ago
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
In spite of renewed federal border control efforts, a very low current flow of migrant traffic at the border, and after $11 billion wasted - Governor Abbott has deployed more Texas National Guard troops to Operation Lone Star: https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/texas-gov-greg-abbott-deploys-hundreds-more-troops-texas-mexico-border/
...San Antonio State Rep. Trey Martinez-Fischer is as confused as we are - and wants an audit of Operation Lone Star's expenditures: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democratic-state-rep-fischer-opposes ..read more