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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 PodcastsGOP Dishonors 9/11 Anniversary With Attacks On Muslim Texans - In Progress
As the 25th anniversary of the 2001 9/11 terrorist attacks arrives on Friday, it's a good moment to look back at the rise in irrational bigotry that came in…
Progress Texas PodcastsTrump Show Day 1: A Poorly-Attended, Culty Snoozefest, And More - Daily Dispatch 9/10/26
The first day of Donald Trump's two-day Dallas "convention" failed by far to fill the American Airlines Center, showing severely lacking interest in all…
Progress Texas PodcastsThe Democrats Respond In Dallas: Special LIVE Pod
Our Executive Director Kathleen Thompson took part in a press conference of key Democratic officeholders and nominees who gathered in Dallas as part of ongoing…
Progress Texas PodcastsWith Trump's Numbers In The Toilet, GOP Launches Dallas TrumpFest , And More - Daily Dispatch 9/9/26
The Trump rally masquerading as a midterm convention beginning today in Dallas is a sure sign that the GOP sees Texas slipping from their stranglehold - while…
Progress Texas PodcastsDesperate Trump Blitz Set To Hit Dallas, And More - Daily Dispatch 9/8/26
The GOP "convention" in Dallas this Wednesday and Thursday will feature no party business - focusing instead on a desperate, gaudy Trump sideshow designed to…
Progress Texas PodcastsHow SCOTUS is Eroding Democracy: Texas Civil Rights Project Series, Part 1
This is the first episode in a joint elections series with our partners at the Texas Civil Rights Project! With limited legalese, we welcome two of Texas'…
Progress Texas PodcastsDallas Welcomes The Trump/Epstein Memorial Reading Room - Happy Hour 299
The week after Labor Day, in a desperate attempt to shore up their flagging support and fundraising, Donald Trump is bringing his gaudy sideshow to Dallas in…
Progress Texas PodcastsStatewide Dem Candidates Looking Strong As Labor Day Arrives - Daily Dispatch 9/4/26
Appointed and un-elected Texas Comptroller Don Huffines wants to double the $1 billion budget for the private school voucher scam. Democratic Railroad…
Progress Texas PodcastsTarrant Tyranny, Voter Suspense And More With Michelle Davis - In Progress
Michelle Davis is one of our favorite progressive political thinkers, and we're overdue to have her on to talk about the latest dirt - which lately, is the…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott's Latest Flip-Flop: Now He LIKES Medicaid! And More - Daily Dispatch 9/3/26
After years of refusing to expand Medicaid coverage to help lower-income Texans get health coverage, Governor Abbott is now demanding Medicaid dollars that the…
Progress Texas PodcastsWith Voting Location Slash, Tarrant County Is Ground Zero In Texas Political Fight - Daily Dispatch 9/2/26
As Tarrant County's Republican-dominated Commissioners Court slashes polling locations for Election Day, that bellwether county becomes the epicenter of the…
Progress Texas PodcastsTarrant GOP Votes Again Today To Slash Polling Locations, And More - Daily Dispatch 9/1/26
After a raucous protest delayed their plans weeks back, the GOP-dominated Tarrant County Commissioner's Court is set to vote again this morning at 10 on a plan…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott's Flock Flip Flop, And How He Funded Those Cameras - Daily Dispatch 8/31/26
The latest election year reversal on his own policies comes this time from Governor Abbott on Flock cameras - just as we learn that they were quietly funded by…
Progress Texas PodcastsThe Latest From Big Bend, With Billy Bartko - Happy Hour 298
Big Bend is an iconic National Park - Texas’ largest state park, an International Dark Sky Reserve, rich in biodiversity, including a wild and scenic river…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott Gives ICE Agents A Green Light On Excessive Violence, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/28/26
In gaming the system to allow felony-charged ICE agent Christian Castro to walk free in Texas, Governor Greg Abbott has set a precedent that will embolden…
Progress Texas PodcastsHow Dolly Parton Transcended Politics - In Progress
The whole world mourns Dolly Parton, while a great many of us realize for the first time what an immense socio-political impact she had on the world, through…
Progress Texas PodcastsFugitive ICE Agent Likely To Be Freed In Brownsville Today, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/27/26
Christian Castro, the ICE agent wanted on violent felony charges in Minnesota, is likely to be released from the Cameron County Jail today as the 90-day limit…
Progress Texas PodcastsWhat Would Dolly Do? And More - Daily Dispatch 8/26/26
Dolly Parton leaves us with a prime example of real Southern character - one that embraces the vulnerable and seeks to widen our circles - and she's cited by a…
Progress Texas PodcastsPaxton's Data Center Plan Is Pitiful, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/25/26
A four-point plan announced by Ken Paxton to address Texans' concerns over data centers utterly fails to do so. Meanwhile Paxton's net worth is skyrocketing…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott's Data Center And Energy "Pauses" Are Election Year Diversions - Daily Dispatch 8/24/26
Governor Greg Abbott, in his striking pivots into developmental "pauses" on data centers and high-voltage transmission lines, are by definition temporary - and…
Progress Texas PodcastsAs The GOP Bulldozes Big Bend, Meet Their Democratic Challengers - Happy Hour 298
Michelle Davis, with her Lone Star Left Substack, has a keen eye for drawing sharply-focused concepts out of the muck and mess of Texas politics. In a recent…
Progress Texas PodcastsCook Report Shows Big Gains For Dems In Texas, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/21/26
The Cook Political Report has updated its projections for the 2026 midterms, moving the Talarico/Paxton race to "toss up" from "lean republican", and the…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott Backpedals On Data Centers And Big Bend - In Progress
Someone check Governor Greg Abbott for whiplash! He's been doing some pretty rad campaign trail 180's lately in response to rapidly changing political…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott And Patrick - Out Of Ideas - Keep Punching Public Schools, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/20/26
Governor Greg Abbott wants more state control over local ISD spending, despite ongoing GOP efforts to defund them to death - while Lt. Governor Dan Patrick…
Progress Texas PodcastsTexas Has Been Harboring A Wanted Rogue ICE Agent For Almost Three Months, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/19/26
Governor Greg Abbott has refused to extradite an ICE agent to Minnesota, where he is wanted on a felony indictment. Harris County is suing the feds over their…
Progress Texas PodcastsTexas Goes Back to School - Or Backwards? Happy Hour 297
Back to school - and backwards thinking - happening right now as students across the state return to school facing new policies and voucher programs in place…
Progress Texas PodcastsBig Bend Destruction Pause A Temporary, Tactical Delay, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/18/26
The halt of the destructive federally-contracted demolition of the natural landscape of Big Bend National Park, announced yesterday, is only temporary and not…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Austin, DNC Gives South Carolina Lead In 2028 Primary Cycle, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/17/26
South Carolina was officially approved to lead the 2028 presidential primary calendar on Saturday at the DNC 2026 Summer Meeting in Austin. All of Texas seems…
Progress Texas PodcastsHot Seat, Hot City: Austin Mayor Steve Adler - Happy Hour 296
Serving as mayor of Austin from 2015 to 2023, Progress Texas co-founder Steve Adler indeed sat on a very hot seat - during which he navigated the…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Live Pod - Building the Electorate of Tomorrow, Civitech Presents: A Live Podcast with Democratic State Leaders
Civitech Present: A Live Podcast With Democratic State Leaders We captured a live conversation yesterday at beloved Antone's in downtown Austin as the…
Progress Texas PodcastsStrict Mail-In Voting Requirements Reinstated In Texas, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/14/26
The 5th Circuit Court Of Appeals has restored SB 1 - the 2021 Texas law that establishes strict registration requirements for mail-in voting registration, and…
Progress Texas PodcastsInside The Trump Assault On The Big Bend - In Progress
On this week's In Progress roundtable, we gather two of our foremost authorities on Far West Texas - former Progress Texas staffer and Alpine City Councilman…
Progress Texas PodcastsWill Paxton Chicken Out On A Talarico Debate? And More - Daily Dispatch 8/13/26
Ken Paxton's campaign has missed a deadline to accept one of three proposed debates ahead of the midterm election against Democratic nominee James Talarico…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: Latinas For Gina Hinojosa!
Here comes a special live pod from San Antonio last night and the launch rally for Latinas for Gina Hinojosa - a brand new campaign initiative to help elect…
Progress Texas PodcastsTrump Trashes Big Bend Despite Bipartisan Texas Outcry, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/12/26
Heavy bulldozers are now tearing through ecologically and historically-sensitive parts of Big Bend National Park to build unnecessary border infrastructure…
Progress Texas PodcastsIs YOUR Texas Voter Registration Under "Suspense"? And More - Daily Dispatch 8/11/26
Over 1 million Texans are on the Texas "suspense list" - meaning, the state is uncertain of their registration details, and they're at risk of being kicked off…
Progress Texas PodcastsThe "People's Hearings" With The Texas Legislative Progressive Caucus - Happy Hour 295
What kind of leader do you want representing your communities? What are your top issues as a voter? These are just some of the questions that members of the…
Progress Texas PodcastsAnother New Poll Shows Strong Democratic Support In Texas, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/10/26
A new poll done by ReconMR and Texas A&M's Bush School shows strong Democratic performance with James Talarico and Vikki Goodwin up on their GOP opponents and…
Progress Texas PodcastsChristian Nationalists in County Government, and More - Daily Dispatch 8/7/26
DFW has been the chaotic center of this week’s news, and today’s top story is no exception: with conservative-driven culture wars crusading in our county…
Progress Texas PodcastsHow The GOP Will Try To Steal The Election - In Progress
This week we take a look at how the Texas Republican Party, in a full panic over the prospects of the end of 30 years of dominance, will be unlikely to go…
Progress Texas PodcastsTalarico & Paxton Economic Divides, Voucher Updates, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/6/26
Election and education updates today, starting with the top-ballot candidates running for John Cornyn’s Senate Seat, with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and…
Progress Texas PodcastsTarrant County Speaks Out & Locked Out - Daily Dispatch 8/5/26
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Fort Worth Report: https://fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/tarrant-county-commissioners-delay-vote-on-pol…
Progress Texas PodcastsJ.B. Pritzker, Michelle Lujan Grisham, and Ruben Gallego LIVE at UnidosUS!
A three-for-one today, as we feature the speeches and Q&A sessions captured last week at the UnidosUS 2026 Annual Conference in Austin! UnidosUS is the largest…
Progress Texas PodcastsTarrant GOP Set To Slash Voting Locations, And More - Daily Dispatch 8/4/26
The Republican-dominated Tarrant County Commissioner's Court will vote today on a proposal to eliminate almost half of the county's Election Day polling…
Progress Texas PodcastsWhy Texas Criminalizes Cannabis, And What You Can Do About It - Daily Dispatch 8/3/26
As of Friday, Texas Republicans have reclassified a range of popular hemp-derived THC products like Delta-8 as Schedule I substances - possession of them is…
Progress Texas PodcastsEven Fox News Thinks Talarico Can Beat Paxton, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/31/26
On the heels of a Democrat-associated poll favoring James Talarico in his run for Senate against Ken Paxton, a poll sanctioned by Fox News also puts the…
Progress Texas PodcastsChurch/State Separation Protects ALL Americans - In Progress 7/30/26
When one considers that the doctrine of the separation of church and state, interpreted from the U.S. Constitution, protects both the right to freely worship…
Progress Texas PodcastsTalarico: Paxton Has Still Not Committed To Debate, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/30/26
Despite reports from social media influencers, as of this morning, the Ken Paxton campaign has still not accepted times or terms for a debate with James…
Progress Texas PodcastsPolls Are Polls, But In This One, Talarico Beats Paxton, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/29/26
New polling has Democrat James Talarico ahead of Republican Ken Paxton in the race for the U.S. Senate by five percentage points, and shows Talarico performing…
Progress Texas PodcastsGreg Abbott And Dan Patrick Vs. The U.S. Constitution, And More
A strange moment indeed in Texas, as our top two elected officials - Governor Greg Abbott and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick - have both openly declared war on the…
Progress Texas PodcastsTexas Water Regulators Willfully Ignorant About Tech Industry Demand, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/27/26
The Texas Water Development Board doesn't have enough information about data center demand to include it in our resource projections, and they seem okay with…
Progress Texas PodcastsAbbott All Talk And No Action On Data Centers, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/24/26
Governor Greg Abbott has pivoted his campaign rhetoric to a call for limits on data centers - but he fails to use the power he has right now to do anything to…
Progress Texas PodcastsPaxton Is Not Ready For Prime Time - In Progress
After Tuesday's disastrous press conference, from which Ken Paxton fled even basic questions from the press amidst the skirts of his handler - how on Earth…
Progress Texas PodcastsBig Money Rules Politics - And Is Fueling Its Own Backlash - Daily Dispatch 7/23/26
An analysis of the personal wealth of 15 first-time congressional candidates from Texas shows that only the rich can easily run for office, while Elon Musk…
Progress Texas PodcastsPaxton Cowtown Presser Collapse A Sight To Behold, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/22/26
The full collapse of a press conference featuring Ken Paxton and a large group of Texas county sheriffs is a must-watch. After reading a lengthy statement…
Progress Texas Podcasts"Tension" At Talarico Event A Result Of Outrage Economy, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/21/26
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: James Talarico's outreach event for Black voters in Houston on Sunday featured a pledge to spend $25…
Progress Texas PodcastsPaxton Agrees To Debate Talarico, Kinda Sorta, And More - Daily Dispatch 7/20/26
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: James Talarico has accepted three invitations from TV operators to engage in debate with Ken Paxton…
Progress Texas PodcastsIs A Second Year Of Texas Flooding A New Normal? And More - Daily Dispatch 7/17/26
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: With a second consecutive year of disastrous flooding impacting Texas, fears grow that a "new normal"…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: What's Going On With Governor Abbott?
Who is this guy - and what has he done with Governor Greg Abbott? In recent weeks - clearly in an election year panic of sorts - our Governor has been…
Progress Texas PodcastsTexas Suffers Second "100 Year Flood", In About One Year - Daily Dispatch 7/16/26
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Significant and dangerous flooding has struck Texas, just over a year after a catastrophic flood at…