Rage Against the Colleges
from Texas Take Hosted by Houston Chronicle
The political turmoil around Texas A&M University this week has been years in the making as Republican leaders from Vice President JD Vance to Gov. Greg Abbott have made clear that college campuses are the new battlefront in controlling the future of the nation. Reporter Samantha Ketterer joins host Jeremy Wallace to help explain what is happening and why A&M is a prime target. Reporter Benjamin Wermund also explains why there are huge overtime bills being racked up at the Texas border by state troopers and columnist Joy Sewing spells out the real world consequences of Houston still being without a member of Congress for nearly 800,000 people. Retired Houston astronaut Terry Virts also drops by the program to explain why he’s running for the U.S. Senate and we delve into the life of Charlie Kirk and how he rose to such prominence in American politics over the last decade.
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