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Progress Texas Podcasts
Progress Texas amplifies progressive values, leaders, and actions. Our top 2% globally rated podcast network meets the moment of the podcast boom, featuring three shows hosted by Chris Mosser: the Daily Dispatch, the Happy Hour, and In Progress. We reach millions online with this content, sharing pro-democracy, pro-justice, pro-gressive messaging 24/7, by Texans for Texans.
Episodes
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/9/24: Preparing To Resist In The 89th Texas Lege, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Austin Chronicle has published a nice, multi-issue preview of the upcoming Legislature, set to…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/8/25: Zuck Picks Texas For Meta's Shift Towards Disinformation, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says his company is abandoning its efforts at fact-checking, and moving its…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/7/25: Paxton Launches New Intimidation Tour Against GOP Electeds, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Attorney General Ken Paxton and Texas Republican Party Abraham George have started a tour of the state…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 188 - Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. Vikki Goodwin
Our series of conversations with Democratic lawmakers in Texas continues with State Representative Vikki Goodwin, who is set to begin her fourth term at the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/6/25: January 6 and Trump Election Certification Surreal Crossroads For Progressives, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Today's certification of the election of Donald Trump provides a surreal beginning to a troubling new…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/3/25: New Orleans Terrorist Was Not An Immigrant - He Was A Native Born Texan, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Despite right-wing attempts to drum up anti-immigrant fear over the New Orleans terror attack, the…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 187: Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. Mihaela Plesa
Collin County Democratic State Rep. Mihaela Plesa - the only Romanian-American elected official in the country! - joins us for our continuing series with state…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/30/24: Remembering President Jimmy Carter's Impact In Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The passing of President Jimmy Carter at the age of 100 prompts a look back at his impact on Texas…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 186: Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos
Richardson State Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos is an educator and family law attorney by trade, but has served in the Texas House ever since she flipped a…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/27/24: Texas Transplant Elon Musk Backs German Party With Actual Neo-Nazi Ties, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas transplant Elon Musk, already leading Donald Trump by the nose, has waded into German politics to…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 185: Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. Donna Howard
Representative Donna Howard has represented Austin in the Texas House since her initial win in 2006 - for almost two decades, she's been a stalwart progressive…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/23/24: Why Has Kay Granger's Condition Been Kept Secret? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Republican Fort Worth U.S. Congresswoman Kay Granger, missing from her post in D.C. since the early…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 184 - Texas Legislative Preview with Sen. Carol Alvarado
This is one of several episodes in a pod series previewing the upcoming 2025 Texas Legislative Session with a range of Democratic lawmakers. Texas State…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/20/24: Musk/Trump Christmas Shutdown Looking Inevitable, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: With each passing hour, a partial shutdown of the federal government during the busy Christmas travel…
Progress Texas PodcastsWords Of Wisdom From Holiday Party #2 - Live From Dallas!
Great fun at The Finch in Mockingbird Station in Dallas earlier this week for the second of our two holiday parties for 2024! Like our first pod from the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/19/24: Elon Musk's Christmas Wish? A Federal Government Shutdown, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas transplant Elon Musk, apparently running things for Donald Trump, is pressing Republican members…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/18/24: Elon Musk Under Scrutiny As U.S. Security Threat, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas transplant Elon Musk has come under scrutiny by multiple federal agencies for his failure to…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/17: Paxton Abortion Lawsuit Threatens Unprecendented Legal Battle, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Ken Paxton's lawsuit against a doctor based in New York who prescribed and delivered abortion-inducing…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/16/24: Starr County GOP Hopes To Profit From Deportation Concentration Center, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Republican House Rep. Ryan Guillen of Rio Grande City in Starr County is excited that a new…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 183: Catching Up With Congressman Lloyd Doggett
U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett has been an elected fighter for Texas progressive people and causes for almost five decades, having become a member of the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/13/24: Elon Musk's Foundation Falling Hundreds Of Millions Short of Federal Giving Requirements, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas transplant Elon Musk, hard at work trying to slash federal jobs and your Social Security…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/12/24: New Study Shows GOP Tendency To Spread Disinformation, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A new academic study shows that Republicans are much more likely to spread information that they know…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/11/24: Texas GOP Schism Over Speaker Race Set To Widen, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas GOP machine choice David Cook and establishment-defying Dustin Burrows both claim to have enough…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/10/24: Don Jr. For David Cook As Texas GOP Continues Infighting, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The struggle within the Texas Republican Party has become a contest of "Trumpier than thou"…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/9/24: Texas GOP At Its Own Throat Over Speaker Selection, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Lubbock State Rep. Dustin Burrows has defied the House GOP Caucus, announcing that he has enough votes…
Progress Texas PodcastsWords Of Wisdom From Holiday Party #1 - Live From Austin!
We enjoyed being back with our friends at Antone's in downtown Austin last week for the first of our two holiday parties this year! This pod features short…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/6/04: Elon Musk Paid a Quarter Billion Dollars For Second Trump Term, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: New figures reveal that Texas transplant Elon Musk spent over $250 million - over a quarter-billion…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/5/24: Houston Rep. Gene Wu Picked As New State House Minority Leader, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Congratulations to State Rep. Gene Wu, who has been chosen as the new leader of the Democratic minority…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/4/24: Democrats Hold Key To State House Speaker Race, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Both the Texas House Democratic Caucus and their Republican counterparts meet late this week to discuss…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/3/24: Immigration, Reproductive Rights, LGBTQ+ Issues In '25 Lege Spotlight, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As the nation prepares for Trump 2.0, in Texas we're bracing for another nutty Texas Legislative…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/2/24: Maternal Morbidity Committee Will Ignore First Years Of Texas Abortion Ban, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Texas Maternal Morbidity Committee has announced that they will skip the data from the first two…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/27/24: Trump Mexico Tariffs Threaten Texas Consumers, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Donald Trump's new threat of a 25% tariff on Mexican imports have consumers and business owners in…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/26/24: A Third Texas Death Due To Withheld Abortion Care, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Propublica is reporting on a third Texas woman who died needlessly after being denied abortion care in…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/25/24: Mass Deportation Threatens Texas Construction Industry, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Leaders of the Texas construction industry - who are curiously mostly left out of right-wing panic over…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 182 - Holiday Peacekeeping For Progressives with Lana Hansen and Austin Kaplan
Coming off this year's election, if you're a progressive voter who's now dreading having to interact with your MAGA relatives back home this holiday season…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/22/24: Non-Profit Killer Bill Passes House With Help From Colin Allred, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: H.R. 9495, narrowly defeated in the U.S. House last week, passed in that body on a second try yesterday…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/21/24: Border Czar Tom Homan Excited About Texas Land Offer For Deportation Detainees, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Trump's "border czar" Tom Homan expresses glee that he'll have over a thousand acres in Texas upon…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 181 - Texas In The Second Trump Era: A Talk With David Pepper
David Pepper is a renowned political writer and the former Chair of the Ohio Democratic Party. He's written several books that are highly instructive for the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/20/24: Texas Offers Site For Massive Trump Immigrant Detention Facility, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Texas General Land Office has offered up a 1,400 acre Starr County ranch to the Trump…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/19/24: Chip Roy Advises Texas Abuelitas To Pack Their Bags, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Trump's plan to deploy American military forces in the effort to deport millions of undocumented…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/18/24: SBOE Votes Today On New Public Ed Materials Full Of Bible Stories, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Texas State Board of Education is set to vote today on the adoption of "Bluebonnet Learning"…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/15/24: Book Banners Losing School Board Races Provides Silver Lining, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Amidst a disastrous election cycle for progressives, it turns out that most of the candidates running…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/14/24: Cornyn, Cruz, Musk, Paxton And Jones All Losers In Trump Power Sweepstakes, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Senator John Cornyn, betrayed by Ted Cruz, after a half-million dollar campaign contribution, came in…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/13/24: Trump Mass Deportations To Cost Billions, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Harsh facts face families with undocumented members in Texas as preparations begin for Donald Trump's…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/12/24: Abbott Crony Tapped For Trump Mass Deportation Operation, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Tom Homan, an associate of Governor Abbott and a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, has been picked by…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/11/24: TDP Chair Hinojosa Resigns - What's The Party's Plan? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As expected, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa resigned…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/8/24: Texas Democratic Party Chairman Hinojosa To Resign, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Gilberto Hinojosa, Chair of the Texas Democratic Party since 2012, is reported to be set to announce…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 180 - Understanding The Trump Win And The Path Forward
At this early stage, understanding how and why America chose to re-elect Donald Trump is beyond anyone's reach - it will take years to analyze both the prelude…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/7/24: Unpacking A Hard Loss, How To Move Forward, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Multiple Texas news outlets are pointing to the Texas Democratic Party, led by Chairman Gilberto…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/6/24: You Are Not Wrong - And You Are Not Alone
We are just like you in our dismay at the results of yesterday's election. Today is a day to absorb the shock and process our emotions. But tuning out and…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/5/24: Election Day! What To Do, What To Watch, And The Stakes
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: It's Election Day! Any questions? Hit https://govotetexas.org/. Our endorsed candidates…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 179 - Roe Was The Floor: Exploring Abortion Stories And Action Through Music
The draconian abortion ban that has stripped away the reproductive freedom of ALL Texans and endangered - and in at least two cases, ended - the lives of ALL…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/4/24: Texas Progressives Fired Up On Eve Of Election Day, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Early voting totals turn out below 2020 overall, with encouraging stats for both sides - for Dems…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/1/24: On Last Day Of Early Voting, Rural Counties Outpace Cities, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Today is the last day to vote early in the 2024 election - after today, only Election Day on Tuesday…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/31/24: Early Voting Stats Are Scary Indeed, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Urban turnout remains strong, but statewide, Republican turnout appears to be comfortably outpacing…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 178 - Laredo Journalist Continues Her Legal Battle Against Police Suppression
In a case that has been winding through the courts for seven years, Laredo citizen journalist Priscilla Villareal has won a major battle in what's become a…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/30/24: Harris County Closes On 1 Million Early Votes, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As early voting continues, Harris County closes in on one million early votes cast, while the top 5…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/29/24: One Week To Election Day, Is Early Voting Stalling? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Massive turnout in Texas' urban counties continues, as the early percentage performance of rural…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/28/24: Older Rural Turnout Outpacing Young Urban Turnout In Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: In-person turnout has been massive in the first half of the 2024 early voting period, with higher…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 177 - Behind The Scenes of Zurawski v Texas
This weekend, we all have an opportunity to catch one of the most important documentary films involving reproductive freedom to have yet been produced. The…