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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. Daily Dispatch augments the Progress Texas Happy Hour, our longer-form conversation and interview podcast, which hosts a variety of diverse voices and newsmakers who are pushing progress

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00:11:36

Daily Dispatch 8/8/25: GOP Deadlines For Dem Quorum...

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2025/08/08

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Republicans in the Texas House plan to convene today at 1pm to try to advance Trump's congressional map - unless there are at least six quorum breakers planning to show up, they will not be able to establish quorum: https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/politics/texas-redistricting-friday-updatesGovernor Abbott is promising years of special sessions to wait out the quorum breakers - who really just have to hold out long enough to stop the new

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00:09:48

Quorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Ann Johnson

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2025/08/07

We've been fans of Rep. Ann Johnson of Houston for a long time, and while we wish our first visit with her were not under such stressful circumstances, we're glad to have her take this morning. The Texas Democratic quorum break to stop Greg Abbott and the Republican Party of Texas from granting Donald Trump's wish to screw the voters of our state out of five more congressional seats enters its fourth day today.Learn more about Rep. Ann Johnson at https://annjohnson.com/.Progress

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00:08:13

Daily Dispatch 8/7/25: GOP Leaders Fail To Condemn...

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2025/08/07

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Yesterday's bomb threat against the hotel where Texas Democratic quorum breakers were staying - some with children, and surrounded by innocent bystanders - has thus far not been condemned by any Republican in elected office: https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/bomb-threat-at-illinois-hotel-where-dozens-of-texas-democrats-are-staying-244482629733Targeted in particular for removal from office by Governor Abbott, House Minority

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00:12:59

Quorum Break Update: Austin State Rep John Bucy III

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2025/08/06

This next update from afar is the first to come to Progress Texas after the news of a bomb threat that required the evacuation of an Illinois hotel where several of the quorum breaking Texas House Democrats - and in some cases, their families and kids - are sheltering as they put the brakes on Governor Abbott's carving up of Texas' congressional maps on the orders of Donald Trump. As Austin State Rep. John Bucy reminds us, this frightening moment is the direct result of inflammatory and highly

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00:11:34

Daily Dispatch 8/6/25: Texas GOP In Disarray As...

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2025/08/06

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:In developments leading into the third day of the Texas House quorum break, Senator John Cornyn has requested that the FBI intervene, capture and transport the Democratic lawmakers avoiding the special session back to the Capitol: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cornyn-fbi-arrest-texas-democrats_n_68925f14e4b0d3424bc402f3...Next, Attorney General Ken Paxton declared he'll ask that the seats of any Democrats still absent on Friday be

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00:15:25

Quorum Break Update: D/FW Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos

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2025/08/05

Our series of updates from Texas House Democrats who have left the state to halt the Republican redistricting effort continues, and just as we were linking up with Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos, we learned that U.S. Senator John Cornyn has begun cajoling Kash Patel and the FBI to intervene in the Texas House quorum break - a serious, though expected, escalation: https://www.axios.com/2025/08/05/john-cornyn-fbi-arrest-democrats-texasLearn more about Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez-Ramos at

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00:12:23

Quorum Break Update: Austin State Rep. Vikki Goodwin

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2025/08/05

As the special session has been halted by a Democratic quorum break, we continue our series of updates from the elected officials involved, now shifting to those who have uprooted their personal lives to leave the state in order to stop the Trump-commanded and Abbott-facilitated congressional power grab in Texas - first from the road is Austin State Rep. Vikki Goodwin, who recently joined Progress Texas to announce her run for Lieutenant Governor in 2026.Learn more about Rep. Vikki Goodwin and her

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00:09:15

Daily Dispatch 8/5/25: Abbott Threat To Unseat Quorum...

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2025/08/05

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The national fight over partisan redistricting is settling into a direct battle between Texas and California: https://apnews.com/article/redistricting-texas-california-house-map-trump-0f5f79185bbeeba8c2ff9999f48e5867...Governor Abbott shows no sign of backing down, saying that the State House Democrats who have left the state to break quorum are "freaking out":

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00:09:17

Daily Dispatch 8/4/25: Wheels Up! Texas House Dems...

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2025/08/04

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:After weeks of warnings, most of the Democratic delegation to the Texas House of Representatives has left the state to break quorum ahead of a vote on a Trump-ordered redistricting map: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/03/texas-democrats-quorum-break-redistricting-map/...Many of them are in Chicago, where they were met at the airport last night by Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzger:

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00:34:53

In Progress - Don't Mess With Texas Maps: Interviews...

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2025/08/01

Our weekly gathering happens while the final hearing on the Donald Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas for the sole purpose of protecting him from losing the GOP majority in the U.S. House next year - widely expected to happen without this kind of drastic measure - is even now ongoing at the Capitol. We sent Digital Associate Haley Smith into the fray to see what's what - she reports live from the scene, complete with interviews including Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder, whose hat

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00:10:21

Daily Dispatch 8/1/25: Throngs Converge On Texas...

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2025/08/01

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The last hearing by the State Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on the Donald Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas' congressional district is expected to draw a massive crowd in opposition today: https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/register-texas-redistricting-hearing-districts-austin/285-3b6de0f7-f03e-4ffb-9317-3c52432afe37...National Democrats are pledging to back their Texas counterparts, including a visit this

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00:24:31

Special Session Update: San Antonio State Rep. Josey...

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2025/07/31

For this next special session update, we welcome for the first time State Rep. Josey Garcia, who represents San Antonio's 124th House District and is the first active duty woman veteran to serve in the Texas House! Now that the GOP maps have been released, we see the shameful extent of their racist power grab - and Rep. Garcia has a thing or two to say about it. We've been looking forward to this talk!Learn more about State Rep. Josey Garcia at https://www.joseygarcia.com/.Progress

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00:10:49

Daily Dispatch 7/31/25: New GOP Maps Will Leave...

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2025/07/31

The revealing of new congressional maps ordered by Donald Trump show the extend of the damage they threaten against representative democracy - especially in Texas' biggest cities: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2025/07/30/congressional-plan-would-flip-five-seats-from-democrats-to-republicans/...The blue dots on the Texas political map, centered on our major metropolitan areas, get a lot smaller and fainter in this new map:

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00:08:43

Daily Dispatch 7/30/25: Details Emerge On...

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2025/07/30

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Punchbowl News publishes details on a new congressional district map that Texas Republicans lawmakers may release as soon as today, featuring five new GOP-leaning districts in Austin, D/FW, Houston and the Rio Grande Valley: https://punchbowl.news/article/campaigns/texas-sized-gamble/...It bets heavily on Hispanic voters in Texas, in an election not featuring Donald Trump, to resist buyers remorse and remain loyal to Republican candidates in

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00:08:59

Daily Dispatch 7/29/25: Anti-Redistricting Rage Rises...

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2025/07/29

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:UT Arlington saw yet another huge public turnout in opposition to the Trump-ordered Texas redistricting scheme yesterday, the crowd exceeding the accommodation limits of the event: https://www.keranews.org/government/2025-07-28/texas-redistricting-ut-arlington-hearing...Democrats have begun making financial preparations for the potential daily per-member fines of $500 that may be a factor in a quorum break:

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00:18:32

Special Session Update: San Antonio State Senator...

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2025/07/28

For this next update from the special legislative session, we go to one of our favorite go-to voices and fighters in the upper chamber - State Senator Roland Gutierrez of San Antonio, who has just announced a re-election bid for the seat he's held since he displaced Republican Senator Pete Flores in 2020. Senator Gutierrez has been vocal in his opposition to the Trump-demanded carving up of Texas in a desperate bid to keep the U.S. House under GOP control, and his condemnation of cruel and

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00:09:45

Daily Dispatch 7/28/25: Wild Weekend Sees Rallies and...

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2025/07/28

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:College Democrats across the state are calling for a quorum break to stop the GOP redistricting scheme: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AGqBhU9AT/...Texas House Dems staged a "quorum break jump scare" on Friday, heading out for a short visit to California to discuss reciprocal redistricting with Governor Gavin Newsom: https://www.chron.com/politics/article/newsom-california-texas-trump-redistricting-20788484.php...Another

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01:14:35

Special Live Pod: Austin's "The People Vs. The Power...

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2025/07/26

As, promised, here's our full capture of Friday night's rally at the Delco Center in northeast Austin, hosted by Powered By People, and featuring in order:01:06 - Travis County Democratic Party Chair Doug Greco04:39 - Austin State Representative Gina Hinojosa16:06 - Round Rock State Representative James Talarico29:39 - Austin Congressman Greg Casar37:10 - Dallas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett47:30 - San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro1:02:06 - Former Congressman Beto O'RourkeThanks for listening

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00:21:58

In Progress: LIVE From "The People Vs. The Power Grab"

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2025/07/26

This week's kvetch is a rare LIVE kvetch, as the team warmed up to capture Powered By People's rally on Friday night at Austin ISD's Delco Center. As we awaited a who's who of Texas progressive politics: Beto O'Rourke, Joaquin Castro, Jasmine Crockett, James Talarico, Greg Casar, Gina Hinojosa and new Travis County Democratic Party Chair Doug Greco, we covered the events of a week that were pretty insane, but that term has become very much relative these days in Texas. Our full

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00:09:07

Daily Dispatch 7/25/25: CD-18 Candidate Isaiah Martin...

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2025/07/25

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:At the conclusion of last night's contentious hearing on Texas Republicans' push to redraw our congressional maps - at the behest of Donald Trump and with no actual maps to show - Isaiah Martin, one of the Democratic candidates for Houston's District 18, was taken to the floor twice by Capitol security and arrested by DPS on multiple misdemeanor charges:

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