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Progress Texas Podcasts

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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00:08:57

Daily Dispatch 10/17/25: Trump And Abbott Ratchet Up...

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2025/10/17

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:No Kings events, happening nationally tomorrow, include at least 40 across Texas: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.nokings.org/#map⁠⁠⁠...Governor Greg Abbott has again activated the Texas National Guard against the second No Kings event, specifically targeting Austin, and calling the rally a "planned Antifa-linked demonstration": https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/16/texas-greg-abbott-national-guard-no-kings-protest-austin/...Austin Mayor Kirk Watson says he

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00:19:32

Happy Hour 234: Catching Up With Dallas Congresswoman...

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2025/10/16

No shortage of chaos to cover with Congresswoman Julie Johnson, between the federal government shutdown, the continued desperate GOP dodging of the Epstein files, the new congressional map designed to draw her out of the picture - and now, a Qatari military base on U.S. soil? We're truly in a WTF moment, and we're glad to have Rep. Johnson in D.C. to help fight back.Learn more about Congresswoman Julie Johnson at https://juliejohnson.house.gov/.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress

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00:09:44

Daily Dispatch 10/16/25: SCOTUS Poised To Wipe Out...

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2025/10/16

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Further rollbacks of the Voting Rights Act, under consideration now by the U.S. Supreme Court, could largely wipe out minority-majority congressional districts in Texas - potentially reducing the presence of Texas Democrats in the U.S. House to 3: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas-take/article/supreme-court-weighs-future-voting-rights-act-21102774.php...CD-18 candidate and Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee has sued the

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00:08:34

Daily Dispatch 10/15/25: Rep. Gina Hinojosa Announces...

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2025/10/15

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The widespread buzz that Austin State Rep. Gina Hinojosa has been planning a gubernatorial run turns out correct - she announced her run for Governor this morning: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/15/gina-hinojosa-texas-governor-campaign-launch-2026-greg-abbott/...We presented the first full-length interview after Hinojosa's announcement earlier today:

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00:28:53

Happy Hour 233: Rep. Gina Hinojosa Announces Run For...

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2025/10/15

We've been fans of Austin State Rep. Gina Hinojosa for a long time, and have been proud to feature her on our podcast on multiple occasions - for THIS occasion, it's a conversation about her run for Governor of Texas in 2026, just announced today!Learn more about Rep. Gina Hinojosa's campaign at https://ginafortexas.com/.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress Texas and how you can support our ongoing work at https://progresstexas.org/.

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00:09:55

Daily Dispatch 10/14/25: Obama Praises Talarico,...

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2025/10/14

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:President Barack Obama appeared on the final episode of comedian Marc Maron's "WTF" podcast, heaping praise on Austin State Rep. and Senate Candidate James Talarico, and taking issue with Governor Greg Abbott's deployment of Texas troops to Chicago, considering Abbott's freakout over Jade Helm in 2015: https://deadline.com/2025/10/barack-obama-wtf-final-episode-1236583585/...Some of those Texas troops have been sent back home after apparently

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00:56:27

Special Pod: The Democratic Candidates For Houston's...

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2025/10/13

Ballotpedia counts a total of sixteen candidates who have declared runs for the historic 18th Congressional District in Houston, seeking to be the next to fill a seat once held by the legendary Barbara Jordan, more recently by the beloved and departed Sheila Jackson Lee and Sylvester Turner, and shamefully held vacant by Governor Greg Abbott since Turner's untimely death last March. We present here conversations with four of the leading Democrats in the race, and you can find out about the rest

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00:08:25

Daily Dispatch 10/13/25: Dems Demand Abbott Bring...

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2025/10/13

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Ten Democratic U.S House members have demanded that Governor Greg Abbott withdraw Texas National Guard troops that he has sent to Illinois and Oregon on the orders of Donald Trump: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/2025/10/09/texas-lawmakers-oppose-guard-use-in-out-of-state-policing/86572196007/...Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker notes that Republican Governors Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma and Phil Scott of Vermont have both also

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00:28:40

In Progress: The 2026 Texas Senate Race, and Visions...

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2025/10/10

The staff, and special guest Julio Salinas, vent at the end of a long week that consisted of Texas-sized problems: from Gov. Abbott sending Texas National Guard troops to Illinois to Ken Paxton's ego, and threat as the top lawyer and candidate in 2026. Plus, what's concerning us and what's keeping us hopeful in these busy, chaotic times.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress Texas at https://progresstexas.org/.

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00:10:10

Daily Dispatch 10/10/25: Robert Roberson Execution...

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2025/10/10

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for Robert Roberson, who would have become the first person in the US put to death in a shaken baby syndrome case: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/10/09/robert-roberson-execution-blocked-texas-court-of-criminal-appeals...A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago:

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00:37:34

Happy Hour 232: Texas Blue Action and Powered By...

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2025/10/09

Texas Blue Action and Powered By People - already two of the Lone Star State's most prominent powerhouses in progressive voter activation and grassroots organizing - have announced a merger of Powered by People’s voter registration program with Texas Blue Action's relational organizing network. Executive Director and Progress Texas podcast regular Lana Hansen brings us the details on the formation of a truly unprecedented super-org, designed to drag Texas progressives to the polls en

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00:08:12

Daily Dispatch 10/9/25: Texas National Guard...

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2025/10/09

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Protesters are beginning to mass in Chicago in anticipation of the arrival of National Guard troops, hundreds of whom have come to their city from Texas: https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/08/texas-national-guard-broadview-illinois...A federal judge in Illinois will consider a restraining order against the troop deployment today:

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00:30:43

Happy Hour 231: Big Dollars For Big Donors: Greg...

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2025/10/08

We're joined today by Adrian Shelley and Cassidy Levin of the national watchdog group Public Citizen, who have uncovered a massive and years-long apparent pay-to-play scheme in which large-dollar donors to Governor Greg Abbott's campaign finance PAC appear to have been rewarded with very large, and in some cases, dubiously documented, state contracts - a situation that, while legal under Texas law, clearly raises considerable ethics questions.Learn more about Public Citizen's Texas

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00:08:51

Daily Dispatch 10/8/25: Paxton Threatens YOU In...

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2025/10/08

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00:08:46

Daily Dispatch 10/7/25: Hundreds Of Texas Troops Are...

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2025/10/07

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Around 200 National Guard troops from Texas have been deployed to Chicago over the protests of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, ostensibly to back up ICE agents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WRl6UUwYGI...Trump's pretext is a countering of "rebellion against the federal government": https://www.keranews.org/texas-news/2025-10-06/texas-national-guard-trump-illinois-abbott-pritzkerCongressman Wesley Hunt has jumped into the U.S. Senate race

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00:08:49

Daily Dispatch 10/6/25: Abbott Approves Texas...

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2025/10/06

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Governor Greg Abbott approved a request by Donald Trump to deploy Texas National Guard troops into both Chicago and Portland, Oregon, under the pretext of protecting ICE agents from Antifa: https://youtu.be/8QFKsX1s_lM?si=Xa-pRwaY6YGgoQ0S...A Trump-appointed federal judge has temporarily blocked that move: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5540272-donald-trump-blocked-oregon-guard/California's Prop 50, with which that state's voters

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00:33:04

In Progress: The Shutdown, The Map Fight, And MAGA...

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2025/10/03

Yet another chaotic political week (should we say, typically chaotic?) ends this Friday afternoon with our regular roundtable pod. How the Democrats can have the edge with the federal shutdown, what's at stake and what to understand about the court fight over the new state congressional map, a conversation with a new key player in the RGV and more - the staff breaks down another wild week in Texas politics.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress Texas and how you can help support our

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00:08:37

Daily Dispatch 10/3/25: Trump And MAGA Press Takeover...

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2025/10/03

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The Trump administration has offered the University of Texas access to enhanced federal funding - if it agrees to a set of conditions that will accelerate the MAGA-fication of the 40 Acres: https://thedailytexan.com/2025/10/02/ut-system-to-review-proposal-from-trump-administration/...Academic experts see the adoption of this Trump "compact" as a dramatic capitulation to federal control:

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00:07:46

Daily Dispatch 10/2/25: Democrats Must NOT Cave On...

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2025/10/02

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:As the second day of the federal shutdown begins, progressives and Democrats must remind themselves and others that it represents a last stand for affordable healthcare, and a stand against the destructive agenda of Donald Trump: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM6Wvbc5/...Should the Dems cave, as many as 1 million Texans may find themselves priced out of health insurance altogether:

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01:05:56

Happy Hour 230: Tejano Star And Congressional...

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2025/10/01

The major turn towards Donald Trump by Texas Latino voters, especially those in South Texas, serves as a painful memory and a fearsome harbinger of what might be in store in the 2026 midterms. A major momentum shift would come in handy for South Texas Democrats - and one may have arrived in the form of Tejano music star Bobby Pulido, who has recently announced a run as a Democrat for the U.S. Congress, challenging incumbent Republican Monica de la Cruz.Learn more about Bobby Pulido and his run for

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