Daily Dispatch 6/11/24: National Dems Helping Texas With Turnout, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The Democratic National Committee has dedicated an additional $140,000 to turning our Texas Democrats in November: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/06/10/national-democratic-group-spends-140000-on-texas-voter-turnout-effort/ Federal authorities have launched an enforcement operation against "switches" - illegal handgun accessories that allow fully automatic fire of handguns: https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2024/06/10/us-attorneys-office-atf-announce-joint-initiative-focused-on-machine-gun-conversion-devices-in-texas/ ...Handguns fired with switches are impossible to aim properly, and are thus extra hazardous: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/06/10/texas-crack-machine-gun-converters-3d-printers/74049460007/ A bomb threat against a monthly drag brunch and market in Austin led to the cancellation of the event on Sunday: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/brewtorium-austin-19506648.php Police in Flower Mound are looking for two cretins seen distributing sandwich bags full of anti-Semitic and homophobic flyers around town: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/crime/police-investigating-bags-of-homophobic-antisemitic-flyers-flower-mound-north-texas/287-d88ea8ee-a3cb-422b-92ec-aacf533aa630 Another orphan well in the Permian oil patch has erupted with toxic produced water: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/11/west-texas-orphan-wells-water-bursts/ A Houston surgeon who leaked private Texas Childrens Hospital records on transgender care with right wing activists at the behest of Ken Paxton is now facing federal HIPAA charges: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/health-science/2024/06/10/490080/whistleblower-faces-federal-charges-after-exposing-alleged-continuation-of-gender-affirming-care-at-texas-childrens-hospital/ Paxton's lawsuit against the City of Austin over its new local ordinace deprioritizing low-level marijuana offenses is being heard in an Austin courtroom this week: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-austin-marijuana-ordinance/269-d30c2bcf-fde8-4ad4-bed7-ddb3b9333879 D/FW folks: Come see us at our 14th Anniversary and Election Preview Fundraiser in Dallas on June 25: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/2024anniversary It's Pride Month! Check out the history of Pride and a full calendar of events happening across Texas throughout the month: https://progresstexas.org/blog/deep-heart-pride-celebration-pride-month-texas Instagram users: be sure to enable political content on that platform, which has begun opting users out: https://x.com/ProgressTX/status/1771276124498100667?s=20 Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at https://progresstexas.org/.