Daily Dispatch 7/25/24: Fired Up Around Harris and Allred, Texas Dems Coordinate - and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The voter registration site Vote.org reports a massive spike in registrations since President Biden stepped out of the race: https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1816088296583209122?t=sv_uB_VvIGtnW5Zh2AkL7w&s=03 ...While we're also hearing about mysterious suspensions of registration here in Texas - we must ALL confirm we're good to go in November: https://govotetexas.org/ Vice President Harris speaks this morning at 10 in Houston at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers - stream to watch: https://www.aft.org/ Once the target of consternation from some of his fellow Texas progressives, Austin Rep. Lloyd Doggett's public call for President Biden to stand down now seems prescient and courageous: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/lloyd-doggett-joe-biden-kamala-harris-texas/ The Texas Democratic Party, nominee for Senate Colin Allred, VP Harris and other progressive leaders are launching a new coordinated campaign on Sunday: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-launch-major-coordinated-attack-strategy-texas-1929695 Several Texas Democrats sat out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial address to Congress yesterday: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/07/24/several-texas-democrats-skip-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahus-address-to-congress/ ...While Governor Greg Abbott draws parallels between the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and Texas' immigration issues before a crowd of law enforcement officers: https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-hamas-sheriffs-border/ The Lubbock City Council has voted to strip funding from a popular monthly arts walk over false accusations of promoting "sexualized content" to kids - yes, they're worked up about a drag show: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/24/lubbock-texas-drag-show-arts-trail-funding/ See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025 ...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: 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.