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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 - August 27, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” reporter Holly Hansen joins us from Houston to talk about vaccine incentives in Harris County. Additionally, the…
The Texan PodcastInterview: Rep. Matt Schaefer on the Withdrawal of U.S. Troops from Afghanistan
State Rep. Matt Schaefer (R-Tyler) joined The Texan’s reporter Daniel Friend to discuss the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and the ensuing chaos in…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 20, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team covers the disputes between localities and the state over mask mandates, Texas lawmaker responses to the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 13, 2021
On this week’s edition of The Texan’s Weekly Roundup podcast, our team covers a lawsuit brought by Democrats against Governor Abbott and Speaker Phelan…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - August 6, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team talks about Governor Abbott's new agenda for another special session, critical race theory bans proposed in…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 30, 2021
On The Texan's "Weekly Roundup" podcast, the team gives updates and details enforcement actions that have — and haven’t — been utilized to bring the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 23, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporting team discusses the looming special election in Texas’ 6th congressional district, Texas Democrats…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 16, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporting team discusses the Texas Democrats who fled the state in order to break quorum and prevent the passage…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 9, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporting team discusses a new Republican candidate for governor, the results of a Sid Miller lawsuit regarding…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - July 2, 2021
On The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters talk about what it was like behind-the-scenes of President Trump’s border visit with Governor Abbott and other…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 25, 2021
On The Texan’s "Weekly Roundup," the reporting team talks through the latest details on impending special legislative sessions, Beto O’Rourke rallying in…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 18, 2021
On this week’s edition of The Texan’s Weekly Roundup podcast, our team discusses the governor’s latest border wall announcement, an ERCOT capacity scare…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 11, 2021
This week on the “Weekly Roundup,” the team details the vice president receiving criticism from a Texas senator over her border response, a review of Speaker…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - June 4, 2021
This week on the “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses how election integrity, gambling allowances, and emergency power reform died, and whether the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 28, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the final week of the legislative session, priority bills that died like taxpayer-funded lobbying…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 21, 2021
On this episode of our Weekly Roundup podcast, our team talks Abbott’s most recent face mask order, the City of Lubbock being sued by Planned Parenthood, the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 14, 2021
On this edition of our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers constitutional carry, critical race theory legislation, the Pandemic Response Act…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - May 7, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup”, the team gives updates on constitutional carry, the Heartbeat bill, homeless camping, federal overreach, transgender…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 30, 2021
On this week’s “Weekly Roundup”, our team discusses the governor’s position on constitutional carry, census numbers and how they’ll affect Texas’s…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 23, 2021
On this week’s “Weekly Roundup” podcast, our reporters discuss budget night in the Texas House, a lawmaker looking to allocate money to the border wall, the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 16, 2021
This week’s “Weekly Roundup” podcast, our reporters discuss the disaster act bills, the Texas attorney general suing the Biden administration, bills aiming to…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 9, 2021
On our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s comments on the corporate reaction to election integrity legislation, a…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - April 2, 2021
On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters cover committee hearings in the Texas legislature relating to constitutional carry, George Floyd, police…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 26, 2021
On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters cover alcohol to go passing the Texas House, Democrats delaying the movement of election integrity legislation…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 19, 2021
On this week’s Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers state leaders battling over blackout electricity repricing, an Abbott-appointed PUC…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 12, 2021
On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss the rescinding of COVID-19 restrictions, public universities’ approach to mask mandates, legislation…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - March 5, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss Governor Abbott’s rescinding of statewide coronavirus restrictions, the latest ERCOT firing…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 26, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup”, the reporters discuss blackout and ERCOT drama, legislative priorities from L.t Governor Patrick, Gov. Abbott’s…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 19, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our reporters Brad Johnson and Daniel Friend discuss the state’s major energy crisis by breaking down ERCOT, how…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 12, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our reporting team discusses the Dallas Mavericks national anthem controversy, gun control proposals from Texas…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - February 5, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses the governor’s state of the state address, federal fundraising numbers, Texas House committee…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 29, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses a special election for a Texas House seat, Beto O’Rourke eyeing a run for a statewide position, a…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 22, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses executive orders from the Biden administration affecting Texas, public school revenues in the age…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 15, 2021
On our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team discusses the opening day of the 87th legislative session, rules changes in the chambers, and the election of…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - January 8, 2021
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup” our reporters discuss the insanity in DC surrounding the certification of the Electoral College votes, the…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Edition: Top Stories of 2020
This week on a special edition of The Texan’s podcast: our reporters discuss the top stories of 2020, including state and local government’s response to the…
The Texan PodcastInterview: Commissioner-Elect Jim Wright Talks Texas Energy Sector
Railroad Commissioner-elect Jim Wright joined The Texan’s reporter Brad Johnson to discuss his campaign, Texas’ energy sector, and his coming job on the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 18, 2020
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss the arrest of a former Houston police officer after his assault of a man he believed to be…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 11, 2020
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss a proposal for Texas to secede from the US, a lawsuit filed by the attorney general over the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - December 4, 2020
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporting team discusses an initial batch of COVID-19 vaccine doses coming to Texas, state data that shows a…
The Texan PodcastSpecial Announcement: Get a free ‘Fake News Stops Here’ mug!
This week on our "Weekly Roundup" podcast, The Texan has a very special holiday announcement. We are bringing back one of our best selling merch items: our…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 20, 2020
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters provide an update on the allegations surrounding Attorney General Paxton, discuss a CPS reform bill…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 13, 2020
This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss border counties that shifted towards President Trump, Obamacare in the Supreme Court, the…
The Texan PodcastWeekly Roundup - November 6, 2020
This week on our “Weekly Roundup” podcast, the reporting team discusses the 2020 general election results: Trump won Texas, the Texas House didn't flip, state…