Daily Dispatch 1/29/24: Trump, Russia Celebrate Abbott's Border Crisis, and More

Progress Texas Podcasts · Jan 29, 2024 · 10m

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The standoff between Texas and the Biden Administration is verging on unprecedented - outside of the leadup to the American Civil War: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-refuses-federal-agents-access-shelby-park-eagle-pass-border/ ...Governor Abbott's legal position parallels those asserted by Confederate states as they left the Union, all thoroughly debunked: https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-border-stunt-is-based-on-a-confederate-legal-theory ...It also relies on the patently absurd equivalency comparing…