Daily Dispatch 1/19/24: DOJ Drops Damning Report On Uvalde Massacre, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A U.S. Department of Justice report on the May 2022 mass shooting at Robb Elementary calls law enforcement response a series of "cascading failures": https://apnews.com/article/uvalde-school-shooting-justice-department-report-police-16b59efa5c5015d685d917c3f0f26256 ...Other findings include a lack of courageous leadership and a failure to properly contain the crime scene afterwards: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/18/us/takeaways-doj-uvalde-report/index.html ...Attorney General Merrick Garland spoke in Uvalde, calling on law enforcement nationwide to step up active shooter training: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/uvalde-school-shooting-federal-investigation-police-response/ ...While the Uvalde families continue seeking consequences for the officers who failed their kids: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/uvalde-shooting-federal-investigation-families-waiting/ Tensions grow in Eagle Pass as Operation Lone Star begin SB-4 styled arrests of migrants while the standoff with federal Border Patrol agents continues: https://nypost.com/2024/01/18/news/texas-begins-arresting-illegal-migrants-in-eagle-pass/ ...Abbott's defiance of the Biden administration is reminiscent of civil rights movement-era segregationist governors: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-01-18/texas-governor-greg-abbott-border-patrol-mexico-supreme-court-harry-litman ...While the U.S. Supreme Court makes things worse by slow-walking any intervention: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/01/supreme-court-texas-border-patrol-standoff.html Backlash continues over a vote by Dallas U.S. Rep. Colin Allred in support of a Republican rebuke of President Biden over his border management: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/18/colin-allred-biden-border-roland-gutierrez/ ...While the Stonewall Democrats of Dallas endorse State Senator Roland Gutierrez for the Democratic nomination to face Ted Cruz: https://www.facebook.com/DallasStonewall/?locale=fi_FI&paipv=0&eav=AfYSRYcybq7zTUF1HX_N3U5e5-qhfTctcksYrc0oMs9YxFcQ7I3Bz2B9NIWDgDJtmBA&_rdr Two Texas U.S. Representatives attended a December 2020 meeting at the White House to discuss pressuring then-Vice President Mike Pence into helping overturn the Biden election: https://www.axios.com/2022/07/12/house-republicans-jan6-white-house Thanks for listening! Hit our web store and find other ways to support our important work at https://progresstexas.org/.