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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.
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Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 9/2/25: Hundreds Of New Laws Land On The Heads Of Texans, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Yesterday, September 1, saw over 800 new laws hit the books in Texas…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Labor Day Weekend Arrives Amid Storm Of GOP Crazy
Proud to welcome our good friend Jorjo Vasquez to the weekly venting roundtable - Jorjo is Communications Director for San Antonio State Senator Roland…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/29/25: This Labor Day, Let's Shift Power Back To Labor, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A flurry of new GOP-pushed legislation towards the close of the second special session includes the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/28/25: Ivermectin Bill "Dumbest Moment In The Texas Senate This Year", and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: HB 25 - a bill allowing ivermectin to be bought at Texas pharmacies without prescriptions - has blazed…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/27/25: NAACP Files Second Lawsuit Against Trump-Ordered Texas Map, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The NAACP follows LULAC, filing the second lawsuit against the new Texas congressional map ordered by…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Live Pod: A Visit With The Park Cities Area Democrats
The Park Cities Area Democrats invited our executive director Kathleen Thompson and Dallas County Democratic Party Chair Kardal Coleman to explain what just…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/26/25: GOP Steps Up Attacks On Trans And Abortion Rights In Second Special Session, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Houston Rep. and Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu addressed the opening day of the Democratic…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/25/25: Trump Plans To Militarize More U.S. Cities, Including In Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Trump administration is planning to mobilize over 1,700 National Guard troops across 19 states…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: State House Candidate Pooja Sethi On The Map, And What Comes Next
No surprise to anyone that the Texas GOP eventually (and as quickly as they could manage) got their way, and have gotten their new congressional map carving…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/22/25: Texas Senate Set To Move On Trump Map, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Texas Senate appears ready to fast-track the Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas as soon as today…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Live Pod: Defending The Voting Rights Act, 60 Years Later
Ironically, mere minutes after Texas Republicans pushed through a racially-gerrymandered congressional map ordered by Donald Trump to cut his losses in next…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/21/25: Texas House GOP Greenlights Trump Takeover of Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas House Republicans, surprising nobody, approved the new congressional map ordered by Donald Trump…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/20/25: Instead Of Flood Action, Trump's Map On House Agenda Today, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: After promising the families of July 4th flood victims that flood relief would take a top priority in…
Progress Texas PodcastsUpdate: Austin Rep. Sheryl Cole On Public Scrape With Her DPS "Escort"
Another live update from what's turning into a pretty crazy second special session of the Texas Legislature: Austin Rep. Sheryl Cole posted to social media…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/19/25: Defiant Rep. Nicole Collier, Confined To State House Floor, Gains National Spotlight, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night last night on the floor of the Texas House of…
Progress Texas PodcastsBREAKING: Fort Worth Rep. Nicole Collier Live From Confinement On House Floor
We are beyond proud of Rep. Nicole Collier of Fort Worth, who today refused to agree to a Texas DPS tail in order to be allowed to leave the Texas House floor…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/18/25: Expect New Trump Map Quickly As Quorum Break Ends, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Texas House Democrats who have stopped the Donald Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas for the last…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Trump Map, Ten Commandments All Part Of Christian Nationalist Power Grab
As the first special session ends, and a second begins - all but promising that the new congressional map designed to give Donald Trump a chance to elude the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/15/25: Quorum Breakers Declare Mission Accomplished, Will Return To Austin, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As day 12 of the Texas House quorum break arrives, those Dems have announced plans to return for the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/14/25: Illinois Judge Declines Paxton Request To Arrest Quorum Breakers, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: An Illinois judge, approached by Ken Paxton under the assumption that he may bend the rules as Texas…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Hays County State Rep. Erin Zwiener
As the end of the first special session approaches this week, with another threatened immediately to follow, we continue our talks with House Democrats who…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/13/25: Is The End Of The Texas House Quorum Break Inbound? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Somewhat shaky reports have emerged that the Texas House Democrats away from the Capitol breaking…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Christina Morales
Rep. Christina Morales of Houston holds the very special distinction of having secured the most progressive voting record in the entire Texas House during the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/12/25: At Day Nine, Abbott Ups Pressure On Dem Quorum Breakers
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: El Paso State Rep. Claudia Ordaz, theorized to be on her way back to the Capitol, says she is in full…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Missouri City State Rep. Ron Reynolds
All of the Texas House Democrats out of the state to stop the Trump power grab are making personal sacrifices - including State Rep. Ron Reynolds, who is…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons
Unlike many of the House Democrats away on this quorum break, Houston's Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons is doing this for the first time, so her perspective on the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/11/25: Texas Dem "Housebodies" Count Rises To Ten - Two Short Of Quorum - and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: After Friday's Texas House quorum scare - in which one more Democrat, Rep. Mary Gonzales, showed up -…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Will Texas House Make Quorum Today?
We're joined for our weekly complaining session this week by Lana Hansen, Executive Director of Texas Blue Action, just as word comes down from Nancy Thompson…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/8/25: GOP Deadlines For Dem Quorum Breakers Arrive Today, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Republicans in the Texas House plan to convene today at 1pm to try to advance Trump's congressional map…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Ann Johnson
We've been fans of Rep. Ann Johnson of Houston for a long time, and while we wish our first visit with her were not under such stressful circumstances, we're…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/7/25: GOP Leaders Fail To Condemn Terroristic Threats Against Dems, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Yesterday's bomb threat against the hotel where Texas Democratic quorum breakers were staying - some…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Austin State Rep John Bucy III
This next update from afar is the first to come to Progress Texas after the news of a bomb threat that required the evacuation of an Illinois hotel where…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/6/25: Texas GOP In Disarray As Quorum Break Enters Day 3, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: In developments leading into the third day of the Texas House quorum break, Senator John Cornyn has…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: D/FW Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos
Our series of updates from Texas House Democrats who have left the state to halt the Republican redistricting effort continues, and just as we were linking up…
Progress Texas PodcastsQuorum Break Update: Austin State Rep. Vikki Goodwin
As the special session has been halted by a Democratic quorum break, we continue our series of updates from the elected officials involved, now shifting to…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/5/25: Abbott Threat To Unseat Quorum Breakers Is Pure Hot Air, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The national fight over partisan redistricting is settling into a direct battle between Texas and…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/4/25: Wheels Up! Texas House Dems Break Quorum Over Trump Map, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: After weeks of warnings, most of the Democratic delegation to the Texas House of Representatives has…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress - Don't Mess With Texas Maps: Interviews at the Texas Capitol Redistricting Hearing
Our weekly gathering happens while the final hearing on the Donald Trump-ordered redistricting of Texas for the sole purpose of protecting him from losing the…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 8/1/25: Throngs Converge On Texas Capitol To Oppose Trump Map, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The last hearing by the State Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting on the Donald…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Session Update: San Antonio State Rep. Josey Garcia
For this next special session update, we welcome for the first time State Rep. Josey Garcia, who represents San Antonio's 124th House District and is the first…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/31/25: New GOP Maps Will Leave Thousands Of Urban Texans Voiceless In D.C., and More
The revealing of new congressional maps ordered by Donald Trump show the extend of the damage they threaten against representative democracy - especially in…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/30/25: Details Emerge On Trump-Ordered, GOP-Stacking Congressional Map, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Punchbowl News publishes details on a new congressional district map that Texas Republicans lawmakers…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/29/25: Anti-Redistricting Rage Rises At Arlington Hearing, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: UT Arlington saw yet another huge public turnout in opposition to the Trump-ordered Texas redistricting…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Session Update: San Antonio State Senator Roland Gutierrez
For this next update from the special legislative session, we go to one of our favorite go-to voices and fighters in the upper chamber - State Senator Roland…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/28/25: Wild Weekend Sees Rallies and Hearings As Dems Rage Against Redistricting, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: College Democrats across the state are calling for a quorum break to stop the GOP redistricting scheme…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Live Pod: Austin's "The People Vs. The Power Grab" Rally
As, promised, here's our full capture of Friday night's rally at the Delco Center in northeast Austin, hosted by Powered By People, and featuring in order…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: LIVE From "The People Vs. The Power Grab"
This week's kvetch is a rare LIVE kvetch, as the team warmed up to capture Powered By People's rally on Friday night at Austin ISD's Delco Center. As we…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/25/25: CD-18 Candidate Isaiah Martin Tackled And Arrested at Redistricting Hearing, And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: At the conclusion of last night's contentious hearing on Texas Republicans' push to redraw our…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 226: Travis County DA José Garza Puts People Over Politics
There's probably no elected Democrat in all of Texas who has been a more frequent target of right wing smear attacks than José Garza, currently in his second…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/24/25: California Lawmakers Weigh Response To Trump Power Grab In Texas, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: When they return from summer recess on August 18, lawmakers in California will immediately faced with…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Session Update: San Antonio State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer
State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer of San Antonio was one of the primary captains of the 2021 Texas Democratic quorum break, staged in resistance against…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/23/25: Gloves Coming Off As Dems Resist Trump Redistricting Power Grab, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As the Trump-ordered redistricting push continues with the special session, Democrats are weighing…
Progress Texas PodcastsSpecial Session Update: Houston State Senator Molly Cook
State Senator Molly Cook returned to work as an emergency nurse in her hometown of Houston at the conclusion of her freshman session a few weeks ago - only to…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch: Flood Aid Held Hostage Over Trump's New Maps In Special Session, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Day 1 of the special session saw a full court press on redistricting - no movement on flood relief, or…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/21/25: Special Session Begins - How Will Dems Resist Trump Power Grab? And More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The scene on the opening day off what could be a contentious and historic special legislation: a…
Progress Texas PodcastsIn Progress: Special Session Preview, Trump's Epstein Dilemma - and Only YOU Can Save Independent Media
As we hit another Friday in the wild wild West of Texas politics, we do so with a wary eye towards Monday - the day that a special legislative session called…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/18/25: A Democratic Quorum Break? Desperate, But Not Unprecendented - and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Will the special session, partly dedicated to a Trump-ordered mid-decade redistricting start on Monday…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/17/25: Will The Dems Ditch The Special? That Would Come With A Cost, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Desperate measures may be called for to opposed mid-decade GOP redistricting, but breaking quorum now…
Progress Texas PodcastsHappy Hour 225: Joe Jaworski Announces Run For Attorney General
Former Galveston mayor, Houston-area attorney and longtime progressive activist Joe Jaworski joins us to announce his run for Texas Attorney General in 2026!…
Progress Texas PodcastsDaily Dispatch 7/16/25: Democrats Consider Ditching Special Session To Stop GOP Power Grab, and More
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Drama building for the special session, as Democrats consider breaking quorum to block a Trump-ordered…