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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 12/3/25: Crockett For Senate? Announcement Coming Monday, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Dallas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, long thought to be considering jumping into the race for the U.S…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/2/25: Crockett Mulls Senate Run As Division Looms For Texas Dems, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:As the 2025 congressional map looks more likely, so does a Senate run for Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/1/25: GOP Texas Gerrymander Likely To Stand, But Unlikely To Benefit Trump - And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:With no word from the U.S. Supreme Court coming last week on the Texas congressional map, most players…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: What Does It Mean To Be A Progressive?
It's helpful to occasionally step back and ask ourselves: what is it exactly about our morals, and values, and expectations, and hopes and dreams that makes us…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/26/25: Texas Awaits Map Call Amidst Backlog Of SCOTUS VRA Cases, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Texas Democratic Party Chair Kendall Scudder from Forbes Breaking News…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/25/25: Response To Alito Disputes Relevance Of Purcell To Map Case, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The response from the plaintiffs against the new Trump-ordered congressional map of Texas came yesterday…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/24/25: Does Alito Ruling Spell Defeat For Trump Map Plaintiffs? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:With SCOTUS Justice Sam Alito's stay on the El Paso court panel's decision against the Trump map, a full…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Guest Pod: The Progressive South On Progress Texas
A guest episode here of an interview done with Progress Texas Podcasting Director Chris Mosser on the podcast The Progressive South and its leader Jesse…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Alito Issues Temporary Stay On El Paso Map Decision, And More
Since we recorded this episode, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito has placed a temporary stay on the El Paso ruling against the new Texas congressional map…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/21/25: Muslim Advocacy Group Smeared By Abbott Fires Back, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The D/FW and Austin chapters of the Council On American-Islamic Relations or CAIR has sued to strike…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/20/25: GOP Fails To Clear Racist Map As Dissenting Judge Melts Down, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The national redistricting arms race that Texas Republicans helped Donald Trump start is not going their…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 243 - On Skyrocketing Healthcare Costs, with Author Dr. Ricardo Nuila
Listen up - because your healthcare costs are about to increase! ACA tax credits are set to expire by the end of 2025, and millions are at risk of becoming…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/19/25: With El Paso Map Ruling, All Eyes Turn To SCOTUS, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:A three-judge panel in El Paso has put the brakes on the Trump-ordered mid-decade redistricting of…
Progress Texas PodcastsBREAKING - El Paso Judges REJECT Trump's Gerrymander Of Texas...What's Next?
A major story as that panel of three judges - two of whom are Republican appointees - have decided that the GOP-led and Donald Trump-ordered mid-decade…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/18/25: Texas Republicans To Flip Epstein Votes On Trump's Cue, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:As Trump changes his tune on the Epstein files, Texas Republicans are suddenly also no longer opposed -…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/17/25: Cornyn and Cruz Vote To Keep Epstein Files Secret, As Trump Gives Up - and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Donald Trump's call for Republicans to stop resisting the full release of the Epstein files comes just…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: Ron Nirenberg's Big Announcement!
It's very difficult to keep a secret in Texas politics, so a great many of the hundreds of folks who crowded into San Antonio's Backyard On Broadway this…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: Asian Texans And The 2026 Power Shift
The team had a great time with our friends from the Asian Texans For Justice Action Fund at the Clay Pit in downtown Austin! Houston State Rep. Gene Wu and…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Will There Ever Be Actual Justice In The Epstein Case?
Another wild week ends with the tantalizing release of thousands of Jeffrey Epstein's emails - for us, a reminder that the GOP is still sitting on the real…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/14/25: Multiple Texas Connections In Epstein Email Dump, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Several Texas ties surface amidst the trove of Jeffrey Epstein's emails dropped yesterday, including…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/13/25: Shutdown Ends, Worry For The Future of the Hemp Industry Begins, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Our conversation yesterday with Beto O'Rourke…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 242: Beto O'Rourke And The Power Of People
You'd be hard pressed to name an individual Texan who has provided more inspiration, guts and drive to the progressive side of Texas politics over the last two…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/12/25: Reopening Federal Government To Bring National Hemp Ban, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:After a protracted battle in Texas over this year, in the language of the bill returning the federal…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/11/25: Epstein Associate Maxwell's Comfy Texas Digs Lead To New Calls To Release The Files, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Reports of preferential and luxurious treatment enjoyed by Ghislane Maxwell in a Texas federal camp in…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/10/25: Dems Cave On Shutdown - What's Next? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Progressives across the country and across Texas are outraged that eight centrist Senators have caved to…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: CA Governor Gavin Newsom And Texas Dems In Houston
California Governor Gavin Newsom was supported by a who's-who of Texas Democratic leaders and elected officials on Saturday as he rolled into Houston for a…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Blue Wave Signals Go Time For Texas Progressives
Progressives and Democrats across the country are basking in the glow of a highly encouraging blue wave in this week's election - but the stakes couldn't be…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/7/25: Latino Voters Turning On Trump In Droves, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:A Rhode Island judge has ordered the Trump administration to fully fund SNAP by the end of the day…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: J.T. Morris of FIRE On Today's State Of Free Expression
Under the first phase of Trump 2.0, the First Amendment has been put through the wringer - and that's no more true anywhere than Texas college campuses…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/6/25: Millions Of Texans In Food Crisis As SNAP Remains Unpaid, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Almost a week into the month, November SNAP funding remains unpaid, leaving millions of Texans…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 241: Astronaut Terry Virts Charts New Course For 2026
We're the first to talk to Colonel Terry Virts, who had previously announced a run for the U.S. Senate, about his pivot into the race for the U.S. House in the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/5/25: Blue Wave! Hope Springs Eternal For 2026, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Huge Democratic gains on Election Night in NYC, California, Virginia, and New Jersey - a harbinger of…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/4/25: Election Day! Get Thee To The Polls, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Less than 8% of Texans have voted so far in the 2025 constitutional amendment election, but we stand a…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 11/3/25: One-Year Countdown To 2026 Midterms Begins Today, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Today marks one year to November 3, 2026 - the mid-term election. Mark YOUR commitment to the upcoming…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 240: Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Bobby Cole
East Texas farmer and firefighter Bobby Cole has the distinction of being the first to announce a run challenging Governor Greg Abbott, and while that field…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Under GOP, Halloween Scares Are Real This Year
Our group gripe this week has an obvious target, as Donald Trump, Greg Abbott, Mike Johnson and the rest of MAGA callously threaten millions of Americans using…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 239: State Senator And Congressional Candidate Sarah Eckhardt
Texas State Senator Sarah Eckhardt has served Austin in the legislature since 2020 after years of local leadership in Travis County, and has recently announced…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/31/25: Halloween Arrives With Real Fear Of Hunger For Texas SNAP Recipients, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Among those trick-or-treaters you'll see out and about tonight are hundreds of thousands of Texas kids…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 238: How To Activate YOUR Social Network, With Texas Blue Action's Ben Wilbanks
'Tis the season for voting and elections, and we're moving into one doozy of an election season in 2026, with the midterm election and the future of our…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/30/25: Trump SNAP Cut Borders On Human Rights Violation, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Trump's choice to withhold SNAP food assistance payments resembles a forced starvation - in an armed…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/29/25: Looming SNAP Loss Tied To GOP Concealment Of Epstein Files, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The looming suspension of SNAP benefits, which will heavily impact Texas, can be traced to ongoing…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/28/25: SNAP Benefits End Saturday - Support Your Local Food Bank NOW, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:It's official - federal SNAP food assistance benefits will end on Saturday, for the first time in the…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 237: Railroad Commission Candidate and Houston State Rep. Jon Rosenthal
We've said it before, and we'll say it again: the Texas Railroad Commission has nothing to do with railroads. It's called that because the petroleum sector and…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/27/25: Millions Of Texans Brace For Trump's Ending Of Food Assistance, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Millions of Texans - more people than in any other state - depend on SNAP food assistance, and the Trump…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: GOP Keeps Punching Down - Will Progressives Punch Back?
Our regular Friday venting session this week features Texas House candidate and longtime Austin labor leader Jeremy Hendricks as our guest for a discussion of…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/24/25: State's Assault On Public Education Continues In Fort Worth, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:The Texas Education Agency has announced its takeover of Fort Worth ISD - behind Houston in 2023, the…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 236: Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Andrew White
Folks who have followed Texas politics for awhile will remember Houston businessman Andrew White, who put on a spirited run for governor in 2018, but was edged…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/23/25: How Trump Policies Damage Business, Healthcare and Food Security in Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Worry is spreading that the Trump administration is increasingly arming ICE with military-grade…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/22/25: Abbott Conducts Stealth Operation Against Austin Homeless Population, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:Without notifying city officials, Governor Greg Abbott has sent Texas DPS officers and other state…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 235: H-Town Hits Back - LIVE In Houston!
We enjoyed immensely a long-overdue visit to Texas' largest and most diverse city for a terrific discussion on what's working for Harris County and Houston…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/21/25: State Releases Incomplete Data On "Potential Non-Citizen" Voting, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas!Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson announces with fanfare the discovery of a relatively small number…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/20/25: No Kings Rallies See Massive Success Across Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:No Kings rallies saw massive attendance and great success across Texas on Saturday…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Gearing Up For No Kings 2, With Houston City Council Candidate Alejandra Salinas
The whole country is holding its breath for tomorrow's second national No Kings demonstrations - for progressives, an important opportunity to stand up to…
Progress Texas PodcastsMinisode - No Kings 2: What You Need To Know
The second No Kings Day takes place tomorrow, Saturday October 18, at thousands of locations across the country and over 40 here in Texas. We've invited Hands…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/17/25: Trump And Abbott Ratchet Up "Antifa" Talk On Day Before No Kings 2
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:No Kings events, happening nationally tomorrow, include at least 40 across Texas…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 234: Catching Up With Dallas Congresswoman Julie Johnson
No shortage of chaos to cover with Congresswoman Julie Johnson, between the federal government shutdown, the continued desperate GOP dodging of the Epstein…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/16/25: SCOTUS Poised To Wipe Out Most Non-White Representation In Congress, and More
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…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/15/25: Rep. Gina Hinojosa Announces Run For Governor, and More
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…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 233: Rep. Gina Hinojosa Announces Run For Governor!
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…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 10/14/25: Obama Praises Talarico, Shames Abbott For Chicago Invasion, and More
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…