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The Texan Podcast
Listen to The Texan’s daily updates and weekly podcasts to stay informed with news you can trust. The Daily Rundown gives a quick 5-minute glimpse into Texas political news of the day. The Weekly Roundup, published every Friday, gives a behind-the-scenes look into the most important stories in Texas by the reporters who cover them. Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts.
Episodes
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 16, 2022
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The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 9, 2022
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The Texan PodcastInterview: Luke Warford Talks About the Race for Railroad Commissioner
Want to support reporting on Texas politics that doesn’t include the spin? Subscribe at https://thetexan.news/subscribe/ This week, Brad Johnson interviewed…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 2, 2022
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The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 26, 2022
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The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 19, 2022
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The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 12, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Governor Greg Abbott accusing President Joe Biden of “squelching dissent” with an FBI raid on…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 5, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses a federal judge striking down Texas’ residence verification for voter registration, a Dallas…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 29, 2022
This week on The Texan's "Weekly Roundup," the team discusses the countdown to Texas’ abortion trigger ban, fundraising data from Greg Abbott and Beto O’…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 22, 2022
This week on The Texan's "Weekly Roundup," the team discusses the Texas Democrats reelecting their chair but failing to pass a platform, lawmakers condemning…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 15, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses how the grid held up despite the heat, terroristic threats made against Texas lawmakers, the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 8, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses how public school districts compare with charter schools after the release of this year’s STAAR…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 1, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses all things Roe v. Wade — giving you the full rundown breaking down the Dobbs decision, abortion…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Grassroots Leaders at the Texas GOP Convention
Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Candidates at the Texas GOP Convention
Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 24, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) being booed at the Texas GOP convention, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick taking aim…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Elected Officials at the Texas GOP Convention
Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Ted Cruz at the Texas GOP Convention
Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 17, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses what there is to see at the Texas GOP Convention, Mayra Flores flipping a congressional district…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 10, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses new information about the police response to the Uvalde shooting, elected officials butting heads…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 3, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses law enforcement responding to the tragedy in Uvalde, Gov. Abbott calling for the legislature to…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 27, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the results of the primary runoff elections, including the runoffs for statewide races like…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 20, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses how some pro-choice district attorneys plan to not prosecute abortion crimes, what the Electric…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 13, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the conservative trend in last weekend’s school board races, the results of over 200 bond…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 6, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the latest on the leaked Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion — including what the reversal of Roe…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 29, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses what’s on the ballot on the May 7 elections, the tragic passing of a Texas national guardsman…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 22, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Austin considering a universal basic income program, revelations about the state-funded Liberty…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 15, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Sen. Ted Cruz endorsing opposite candidates of the governor, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 8, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Gov. Abbott announcing voluntary bus rides for illegal aliens to Washington, D.C., Lt. Gov. Dan…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 1, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Starbucks unionizing in Texas, a city revisiting a local ban on abortion after rejecting one in…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 25, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the Texas senators questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Beto O’Rourke making contradictory…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 18, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the second anniversary of Governor Abbott’s COVID-19 disaster declaration, the head of the Texas…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup 3.11.22
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Beto O'Rourke being sued by an energy CEO and Gov. Greg Abbott donor, a major hospital opting…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 4, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the results of the 2022 primary election in Texas. What was the most shocking upset? What was the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 25, 2022
On this episode of our "Weekly Roundup" podcast, the reporting team discusses state officials revisiting the issue of puberty blockers and transitional…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup 2.18.22
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the start of early voting, AOC campaigning in the state, a Texas congressman aiming to cancel…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 11, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the weekend’s winter storm and how the grid weathered, a Republican congressman pushing back on…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 4, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Trump’s Conroe rally and the Texas officials in attendance, updates on the energy grid in light…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 28, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses a response from the Texas military addressing accusations levied at the department, how Texas…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 21, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses new fundraising numbers in Texas’ hottest campaigns, a top state official’s consultant being…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 14, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Abbott officially launching his reelection campaign, a county Republican party censuring the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 7, 2022
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Beto O’Rourke blaming the governor for child COVID hospitalizations, Abbott suing the Biden…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Top Stories of 2021
This week on a special edition of The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses some of the top stories of 2021 — from the freeze to the quorum bust, the…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition - Texas Christmas Stories
This week on a special edition of The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses some Texas Christmas stories, including an ill-fated 1927 bank robbery by…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 17, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the field of candidates running for lieutenant governor, the attorney general opening up an…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 10, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team talks through the Biden administration suing Texas over redistricting, the attorney general weighing in on…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 3, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team covers the bills that became law this week, the number of GOP primary challengers this election season…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 26, 2021
This week on The Texan’s shorter, holiday weekend edition of the “Weekly Roundup,” reporters Hayden Sparks and Daniel Friend discuss the most recent border…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 19, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team covers the latest in lawmaker retirements and campaign announcements, a state legislator switching parties…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 12, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team covers how critical race theory implications affected the November election, developments in the federal…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 5, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team covers the results of the November 2 election — including police staffing in Austin, ballot propositions to…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - October 29, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses where the candidates for Texas attorney general stand on vaccine mandates, how the governor’s…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - October 22, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the end of the third special session and calls from elected officials for a fourth, more lawmaker…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - October 15, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Governor Abbott’s latest vaccine mandate ban after mounting GOP pressure, the U.S. opening the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - October 8, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses our reporter’s firsthand account of a press conference with Gov. Greg Abbott and a litany of…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - 10.01.2021
Today, The Texan reporters talk through newly released Texas House and congressional redistricting maps, border plans from Texas’ GOP candidates for governor…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 24, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team details the start of the third special session of the 87th legislature, newly proposed redistricting maps…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 17, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the latest candidate to jump in the race for Texas attorney general, a quorum-breaking lawmaker…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 10, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the upcoming third special session, the controversial election reform bill finally signed by the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - September 3, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team talks through new bills that went into effect in Texas this week, election reform finally making its way to…