Daily Dispatch 10/13/23 - School Vouchers Head To The House, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As expected, school vouchers have passed the Texas Senate: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/senate-school-vouchers-18421617.php Governor Abbott says he'll only add funding for public schools and raises for teachers to the agenda if the House also passes vouchers: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/12/greg-abbott-school-vouchers-teacher-raises/ The Senate also passed two immigration-related bills yesterday: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/12/special-session-border-immigration-bills/ ...While Operation Lone Star is now razor-wiring the NEW Mexican border: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/texas/article-12624001/Texas-starts-border-wall-razor-New-Mexico-Governor-Greg-Abbott-illegal-immigrants-out.html Wondering which Texas Republicans are still accepting Defend Texas Liberty money, even after their partnership with Nick Fuentes was revealed? Here's a list: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10/12/defend-texas-liberty-pac-nick-fuentes-jonathan-stickland/ Austin U.S. Rep. Greg Casar gets into a verbal scrape with a fellow Democrat over his comments about Muslims during a Hamas/Israel discussion: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/2023/10/12/israel-hamas-war-us-rep-greg-casar-austin-tx-democrat-josh-gottheimer-confronts-over-comments/71159256007/ Barbers Hill ISD escalates its fight with a student over his cultural hairstyle by sending him to a disciplinary alternative school: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/us/darryl-george-alternative-school-reaj/index.html Thanks for listening! Check out our voter guide for the November election, and kick us a donation if you're appreciating our work, at https://progresstexas.org/.