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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 1/24/25: Surprising Nobody, Texas Republicans Scrap Democratic Committee Chairs, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Upending over five decades of tradition, but right in line with their anti-democratic MAGA fanaticism…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/23/25: American Christians Forced To Grapple With Trump's Distortion Of Their Faith, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The welcome challenge to the MAGA distortion of Christianity by Bishop Mariann Budde during the Trump…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/22/25: ICE Raids and Jan 6 Releases Impact Texas Immediately, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: San Antonio is one of the cities said to be in the crosshairs for ICE's renewed push for mass…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/21/25: Trump 2.0 Brings New Challenges AND New Opportunities For Progressives, and More
Stories we're following at Progress Texas: Right out of the chute, as promised, a flurry of executive orders from Donald Trump - many of which will face…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/17/25: 7 Texas HHSC Employees Fired For Data Breach and Theft From Poorest Texans, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Seven employees of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission have been fired under suspicion of…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 192: The Austin Women's March with Jen Ramos
This Saturday, a terrific opportunity to express your frustration and channel your anger over the second Trump inauguration into action arrives with the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/16/26 - Biden Warns Of "Tech-Industrial Complex", and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: President Biden's farewell address include warnings against disinformation actors now set to take power…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 191: Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. James Talarico
In this final installment of our series of talks with Democratic lawmakers, coming to you on the first day of the 89th Texas Legislature, we wrap up with Rep…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/15/25: Texas MAGA Hardliners Fail - Dustin Burrows Elected House Speaker, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: In defiance of the Texas Republican Party, three dozen House GOP electeds voted along with most of the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/14/24: Welcome To The Jungle! 89th Texas Legislature Opens Today, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The 89th Texas Legislature opens today! First act in a likely long and dramatic drama: the selection of…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 190: Texas Legislative Preview with Rep. Erin Zwiener
Texas State Representative Erin Zwiener of Driftwood, one of the youngest members of the Legislature, has a resume full of fun facts: prior to her political…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/13/24: MAGA Architect Bannon Targets Texas Transplant Elon Musk, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Steve Bannon, arguably the master designer of MAGA, has announced intent to "take down" Texas-based…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 1/10/25: Paxton Steps Up Legal Attack On TikTok, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Ken Paxton has filed a second lawsuit against TikTok, alleging that they have far exceeded their stated…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 189: Texas Legislative Preview with Senator Nathan Johnson
Senator Nathan Johnson of Dallas is a business attorney and music composer by trade, and has served the people of Senate District 16 since 2018, when he became…
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…