Daily Dispatch 12/5/23: National Press On Texas GOP Extremism, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The mindblowing news that Texas' Republican Party has chosen not to disavow Nazis continues to reverberate nationally: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/04/texas-republican-party-vote-antisemitism ...Representing the continued embrace of extremism on the political right in Texas: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-gop-extremism-nazi-ban-policy-language/ ...While the still-Nazi-free half of the Texas GOP at least pretends to recoil in horror: https://theweek.com/politics/texas-republicans-neo-nazis-resolution An in-depth analysis of the Uvalde mass shooting police response debuts tonight on PBS: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/04/inside-the-uvalde-response-documentary-investigation/ ...PBS explains their goals: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/uvalde-school-shooting-investigation-details-publishing-decision/ Texas continues sending hundreds of busloads of migrants into Denver, dropped without winter clothing and staged for dramatic effect: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/12/04/colorado-capitol-migrants-texas-denver/ Ken Paxton's lawsuit against Pfizer over their COVID-19 vaccine is backed by embarrassingly flawed and thoroughly debunked math: https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/12/texas-sues-pfizer-with-covid-anti-vax-argument-that-is-pure-stupid/ Who are the best and worst Texans of 2023? Share your opinion here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeQw0grUZt65heKNP3p5zPPqc-mxloQHfYr4eqJ6eyM-o-cWw/viewform Thanks for listening - and if you're doing so in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, we'd love to see you tomorrow (Wednesday December 6) at our second Progress Texas holiday party! Details at https://progresstexas.org/.