Daily Dispatch 7/26/24: Texas Teachers Celebrate VP Harris Visit, and More

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Vice President Kamala Harris' address to the American Federation of Teachers' national convention in Houston yesterday is a rare high point for our state's embattled public school educators: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/texas-teachers-kamala-harris-houston/ ...VP Harris' full remarks yesterday: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/special-pod-vp-kamala-harris-live-from-houston/id1552998795?i=1000663345746 ...Progress Texas' Tatum Owens lines out the impressive resume of our first female VP: https://progresstexas.org/blog/kamala-harris%E2%80%99-background-unburdened-what-has-been Lizelle Gonzalez, forced to undergo a cesarean section and "mistakenly" thrown in jail on murder charges after a self-induced abortion, gets the go-ahead to sue local officials over her ordeal: https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-0a78cbb8f44cc24c3c9c811e1cc2b4d3 ...While Ken Paxton sues the Biden administration over its efforts to provide contraception to Texas teens without parental consent: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/texas-paxton-biden-parental-consent-contraception/ A formal complaint against Ted Cruz is coming over his sidestepping of Senate ethics rules in relation to his thrice-per-week "volunteer" podcast: https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2024-07-25/dems-file-ethics-complaint-against-podcaster-sen-ted-cruz ...All while Cruz steps up his legal efforts against NPR: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/sen-ted-cruz-puts-npr-in-hot-seat-over-taxpayer-funding-perceived-political-bias,251095 The deadline to register for the November election is October 7. Are you registered? Are you sure? ALL Texas voters should confirm their registration, right now: https://govotetexas.org/ 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.