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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 12/16/25: THANK YOU For Your Holiday Fundraiser Support! And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Fort Worth Congressman Marc Veasey has withdrawn his run for Tarrant County Judge, leaving Tarrant…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 245: Former Congressman Colin Allred
Former Dallas Congressman Colin Allred's pivot from a second run for the U.S. Senate is only one of the results of the late-breaking announcement of a Senate…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/15/25: Dummymander After All? Trump Map Expected To Underperform, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The likelihood of a major swing back away from the Donald Trump GOP in Texas, especially among Latino…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Who's Ready For "Jasarico"?
We say this every week...but, what a week! The crew gathers for our weekly offload session at the end of the week following the 2026 filing deadline to discuss…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/12/25: Stylistic Contrast Between Crockett And Talarico Sets Tone For Democratic Primary, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Analysis of the contrast between the approaches of Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and State Rep. James…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/11/25: Texas Dems Enter Primary Season With First Full Slate In 50 Years, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: For the first time in half a century, Democrats are on the ballot in every single state, federal and…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/10/25: Did Republicans Manipulate Polling To Encourage Crockett Senate Run? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Democratic primary contest between Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett and State Rep. James Talarico for…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial LIVE Pod: Our Austin 2025 Holiday Party!
Terrific time on Monday night at the first of our two 2025 holiday parties - Antone's in downtown Austin has become a bit of an HQ for us and we're proud to…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/9/25: Filing Ends, Setting Final Primary Picture For 2026, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As the filing deadline expires, the full picture of the primaries in the 2026 elections are set…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/8/25: Filing Monday Sees Allred, Eckhardt Campaign Pivots, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: On the final day of election filing, presumed Senate candidate Colin Allred has announced a pivot to a…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: The Scotus Map Call, The Cuellar Pardon - and What Will Jasmine Crockett Say On Monday?
Never a dull week in Texas, but we've managed to narrow yet another crazy Texas political news cycle down to three items: the 100% partisan decision by the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/5/25: Surprising Nobody, SCOTUS Allows Trump-Ordered Texas Gerrymander, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As expected, the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed the 2-1 lower court decision to block the racial…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 12/4/25: A Trump Pardon For Laredo's Henry Cuellar, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Donald Trump's pardon of Henry Cuellar on conspiracy and bribery charges is curious in that it…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 244: Meet Four Rural Texas Democrats Running For Office!
Rural Texas used to have a robust Democratic presence, and thus its fair share of Democratic officeholders - of course, that hasn't been the case for decades…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…