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Quorum Break Update: Missouri City State Rep. Ron Reynolds

Quorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Lauren Ashley Simmons

Daily Dispatch 8/11/25: Texas Dem "Housebodies" Count Rises To Ten - Two Short Of Quorum - and More

In Progress: Will Texas House Make Quorum Today?

Daily Dispatch 8/8/25: GOP Deadlines For Dem Quorum Breakers Arrive Today, And More

Quorum Break Update: Houston State Rep. Ann Johnson

Daily Dispatch 8/7/25: GOP Leaders Fail To Condemn Terroristic Threats Against Dems, and More

Quorum Break Update: Austin State Rep John Bucy III

Daily Dispatch 8/6/25: Texas GOP In Disarray As Quorum Break Enters Day 3, and More

Quorum Break Update: D/FW Rep. Ana-Maria Rodriguez Ramos

Quorum Break Update: Austin State Rep. Vikki Goodwin

Daily Dispatch 8/5/25: Abbott Threat To Unseat Quorum Breakers Is Pure Hot Air, and More

Daily Dispatch 8/4/25: Wheels Up! Texas House Dems Break Quorum Over Trump Map, And More

In Progress - Don't Mess With Texas Maps: Interviews at the Texas Capitol Redistricting Hearing

Daily Dispatch 8/1/25: Throngs Converge On Texas Capitol To Oppose Trump Map, and More

Special Session Update: San Antonio State Rep. Josey Garcia

Daily Dispatch 7/31/25: New GOP Maps Will Leave Thousands Of Urban Texans Voiceless In D.C., and More

Daily Dispatch 7/30/25: Details Emerge On Trump-Ordered, GOP-Stacking Congressional Map, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/29/25: Anti-Redistricting Rage Rises At Arlington Hearing, and More

Special Session Update: San Antonio State Senator Roland Gutierrez

Daily Dispatch 7/28/25: Wild Weekend Sees Rallies and Hearings As Dems Rage Against Redistricting, and More

Special Live Pod: Austin's "The People Vs. The Power Grab" Rally

In Progress: LIVE From "The People Vs. The Power Grab"

Daily Dispatch 7/25/25: CD-18 Candidate Isaiah Martin Tackled And Arrested at Redistricting Hearing, And More

Happy Hour 226: Travis County DA José Garza Puts People Over Politics

Daily Dispatch 7/24/25: California Lawmakers Weigh Response To Trump Power Grab In Texas, and More

Special Session Update: San Antonio State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer

Daily Dispatch 7/23/25: Gloves Coming Off As Dems Resist Trump Redistricting Power Grab, and More

Special Session Update: Houston State Senator Molly Cook

Daily Dispatch: Flood Aid Held Hostage Over Trump's New Maps In Special Session, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/21/25: Special Session Begins - How Will Dems Resist Trump Power Grab? And More

In Progress: Special Session Preview, Trump's Epstein Dilemma - and Only YOU Can Save Independent Media

Daily Dispatch 7/18/25: A Democratic Quorum Break? Desperate, But Not Unprecendented - and More

Daily Dispatch 7/17/25: Will The Dems Ditch The Special? That Would Come With A Cost, and More

Happy Hour 225: Joe Jaworski Announces Run For Attorney General

Daily Dispatch 7/16/25: Democrats Consider Ditching Special Session To Stop GOP Power Grab, and More

Happy Hour 224: Int'l Heavyweight Champ and Dem Allison Campolo's New Fight—Flipping Tarrant

Daily Dispatch 7/15/25: Texas Food Banks' Flood Response Hobbled By Trump Cuts, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/14/25: July 4 Flood The Latest Deadly Disaster Texas GOP Failed To Prepare For, and More

Happy Hour 223: Bridging the Gap: LGBTQ+ Inclusion in Law Enforcement & the Proud to Be Your Friend Conference

In Progress: A Parting of Paxtons, Again With Allred - And Our Hearts To The Hill Country

Daily Dispatch 7/11/25: Trump In Texas Today For Flood Photo-Op, and More

Special Live Pod: Talking with Your Rural Neighbors with The 134 PAC

Daily Dispatch 7/10/25: Abbott Uses Flood Tragedy As Cover For Redistricting Power Grab, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/9/25: List Of Texas Flood Missing Rises Exponentially, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/8/25: As Kerr County Reels, Local Officials Dodge Questions, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/7/25: Texas Flood Death Toll A Result Of Long Term Infrastructure And Policy Failures

The Future is NOW: Conversations from the TYD + TCD 2025 Joint Convention in Austin

In Progress: This July 4th, What Does Patriotism REALLY Mean?

Happy Hour 222 - Clean Energy Cuts Are Deeper Than You Might Expect, With German Ibanez

Daily Dispatch 7/3/25: On Verge Of 4th Of July, Trump's Big B.S. Bill On Verge Of Passing House, and More

Happy Hour 221 - Only YOU Can Save Our National Parks, with Cristóbal López

Daily Dispatch 7/2/25: OBBB Heads For House, Where Chip Roy Wants Even Deeper Cuts, and More

Daily Dispatch 7/1/25: Cornyn, Cruz And Senate GOP Fighting Hard For Trump's B.S. Bill, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/30/25: GOP Attacks On Working Class Give Texas Dems Hope For '26, and More

In Progress: A Mamdani Tsunami? What A Huge Progressive Win In NYC Means For Texas

Daily Dispatch 6/27/25: Who Will Take On Paxton For Senate? Top Dems Disagree, and More

Guest Pod: Joe Jaworski's "Midterms" Show from KPFT-FM in Houston, with Beto O'Rourke

Daily Dispatch 6/26/25: Trump, Abbott, Paxton, Cornyn, and Cruz All Down In New Poll, and More

Special Live Pod: Congressman Adam Kinzinger And The "Roadmap To Winning" In Dallas

Daily Dispatch 6/25/25: Is Mamdani NYC Primary Win A Progressive Preview? And More

Happy Hour 220 - Inside The Texas State Board Of Education

Daily Dispatch 6/24/25: Not So Cool After All - Abbott Vetoes Funding For Low Income Kids' Meals, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/23/25: Texas Dems Oppose Iran Attack, Abbott Vetoes THC Ban, and More

THANK YOU To Our 15th Anniversary Party Attendees and Donors!

Happy Hour 219 - Clayton Tucker Announces Run For Agriculture Commissioner!

In Progress: No Kings, New Movies, and Ted Vs. Tucker

Daily Dispatch 6/20/25: Will Governor Abbott Destroy The Texas THC Industry This Weekend? And More

Daily Dispatch 6/19/25: Happy Juneteenth! Texas Lawmakers Weigh In On Middle East Conflict, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/18/25: Elon Musk And Alex Jones Defend Minnesota Murderer, and More

Happy Hour 218 - The Fight for Pride: How Community Keeps Us Going

Daily Dispatch 6/17/25: "Texas Miracle" Is A Disaster For Working Texans And Immigrants, And More

Daily Dispatch 6/16/25: Progressives Across Texas And America Celebrate Success Of No Kings Weekend, and More

In Progress: No Kings Protests, The View From Cali...And Greg Abbott Killed Arthur!

Happy Hour 217 - Recapping The 89th Lege With Austin State Senator Sarah Eckhardt

Daily Dispatch 6/13/25: Texas Braces For Mass Protests Amid Greg Abbott's Militaristic "Surge", And More

Daily Dispatch 6/12/25: As Protests Build, Abbott Greenlights Broader Police Use Of "Less Lethal" Weapons

Daily Dispatch 6/11/25: Governor Abbott Activates National Guard Ahead Of No Kings Protests, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/10/25: Ahead Of Midterms, Republicans Plot To Redraw Election Maps, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/9/25: Trump's L.A. Crackdown Will Inspire Greater Resistance At Saturday's No Kings Rallies, and More

In Progress: Big Bull In Cowtown As MAGA Rewrites The Rules, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/6/25: Musk/Trump Spat Shows Why Billionaires And Politics Don't Mix, And More

Special Live Pod: Kerrville Town Hall with Kendall Scudder!

Daily Dispatch 6/5/25: Texas School Funding Is Too Little, Too Late - And More

Daily Dispatch 6/4/25: More Texas Police Abusing License Plate Tracking System, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/3/25: The 89th Legislature Was A Right Wing Playground, and More

Daily Dispatch 6/2/25: As Sine Die Arrives, Progressives Start To Survey The Damage, and More

Happy Hour 216 - Rise, Rural Progressives! Meet The 134 PAC

In Progress: Dan's Ban, Dead Bills, Musk Dips, and Sine Die

Daily Dispatch 5/30/25: Federal Data Shows Trump Regime Lied About Venezuelan Deportees, and More

Happy Hour 215 - Progressive Wave Continues Into Runoff Elections

Daily Dispatch 5/29/25: Abbott Politicizes The Tragic Death Of A Texas Teen, And More

Daily Dispatch 5/28/25: Texas Dems In D.C. Ready To Take On Trump, And More

Daily Dispatch 5/27/25 - Texas GOP Breaks Sabbath To Force 10 Commandments Into Classrooms, and More

Happy Hour 214: Your Right To Vote In 2026 Is Under Threat Now

In Progress: No Weed For Thee After Dan's Ban, While GOP Shortchanges The Kids...Again

Daily Dispatch 5/23/25: School Funding - And School Prayer - Both Pass At The Capitol, and More

Daily Dispatch 5/22/25: GOP Uses Dem Death Disadvantage To Pass Massive Trump Fleecing Of America, and More

Special Live Pod: Beto O'Rourke's Town Hall In Garland!

Daily Dispatch 5/21/25: Measles Infecting More Adults Than Kids In El Paso, and More