Daily Dispatch 1/9/28: President Biden Attends Eddie Bernice Johnson's Dallas Wake, and More

Joe Biden made his first visit as President to Dallas last night to attend the wake of late Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/president-biden-members-congressional-black-caucus-bid-farewell-late-congresswoman-eddie-bernice-johnson-monday-wake/287-1198c86e-95ba-4783-b0e6-7e7dbd26d6c1 ...After a disturbance at Love Field by pro-Palestine protestors resulted in over a dozen arrests: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/01/08/pro-palestine-rally-joe-biden-dallas/ Facing impeachment, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas visited Texas yesterday as well, to make his case at Eagle Pass: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/mayorkas-border-impeachment-18595978.php U.S. Senate hopeful Colin Allred says abortion rights are the key issue for Democrats this year: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/inside-politics/texas-politics/in-bid-for-us-senate-democrat-colin-allred-says-he-expects-abortion-rights-issue-to-motivate-voters/287-47836750-e5d4-4008-9826-243cc89dcca9 ...Allred leads polling among Democratic candidates, but all suffer from lacking name recognition with the general public: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/elections/2024/01/08/473505/congressman-colin-allred-leads-a-crowded-democratic-primary-field-seeking-to-challenge-senator-ted-cruz/ Officials at UT San Antonio continue struggling to accommodate new state laws against DEI while not abandoning their diverse student body: https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/utsa-nixed-revamped-inclusion-offices-and-changes-inclusivity-statement-amid-sb-17 ...While efforts are underway at historically-Black Huston Tillotson University in Austin to team up with the local school district to promote Black male teachers: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/more-black-male-teachers-program-austin-texas-hbcu/269-da341b02-045f-45f1-b494-dc3d1ddc0127 Homelessness among Texas veterans jumped an alarming 19% last year: https://www.ktsm.com/news/texas-politics/report-texas-homeless-veteran-population-rose-in-last-year/ ...While winter weather approaches and grid worries resurface: https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas-grid-winter-2024/285-b01c91e1-e638-4ba0-a09c-17c9ba5f2d45 This episode features the full remarks of U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee from last night's wake service for Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson - video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNhfEQoN5C4&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wfaa.com%2F&source_ve_path=Mjg2NjQsMjM4NTE&feature=emb_title Thanks for listening! Check out our web store and other ways to support Progress Texas and our important work at https://progresstexas.org/.