Daily Dispatch 7/15/24: Texas Connections to the Trump Assassination Attempt, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas connections to the Trump assassination attempt: ...The Pennsylvania man who allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump on Saturday was wearing merchandise from a Texas-based gun fanatic YouTube channel at the time: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/what-is-demolition-ranch-19573090.php ...Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller was standing near Trump when the shooting began: https://www.khou.com/article/news/national/sid-miller-trump-rally-shooting/285-ff11c342-22a2-4a5f-9eec-77cc47a24622 ...A nephew of Amarillo U.S. Rep. Ronny Jackson was wounded but is okay: https://www.wral.com/video/blood-on-his-neck-texas-congressman-s-nephew-injured-during-trump-rally-shooting/21524308/ ...President Biden's visit to the LBJ Library at UT Austin has been postponed: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/biden-to-reschedule-visit-to-austin-following-trump-rally-shooting/ Governor Abbott's ass-kissy tweets about the attack on Trump have drawn backlash from Houston folks still without power after Abbott's neglectful handling of Hurricane Beryl: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/greg-abbott-trump-rally-shooting-19573058.php ...Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo counters much of then-Acting Governor Dan Patrick's story of his handling of the situation while Abbott was sightseeing in Asia: https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/politics/2024/07/11/493282/harris-county-judge-lina-hidalgo-responds-to-claims-from-acting-governor-dan-patrick-that-she-did-not-request-aid-for-the-county/ ...As a Category 1 hurricane basically cripples Houston, worry builds about the likely impacts of inevitable future storms of much greater intensity: https://www.texasobserver.org/hurricane-beryl-warning-shot-houston/ ...Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa calls on Republican elected officials to stay at their posts in Texas, rather than jetting off for the Republican National Convention: https://x.com/texasdemocrats/status/1811865878671298715 Protestors outnumbered the attendees of the extremist event they were countering at the Fort Worth Botanic Garden over the weekend: https://www.keranews.org/news/2024-07-13/christian-nationalism-event-in-fort-worth-botanic-garden-draws-protest-police-presence ALL progressives should learn all they can about Project 2025, in order to resist its becoming actual U.S. policy: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at https://progresstexas.org/.