Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

As expected, Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa resigned: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/08/texas-democrat-party-resigns-gilberto-hinojosa/

Texas will be the epicenter of Donald Trump's promised massive deportation operation, with the complicity of conservatives in Texas: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/trump-immigration-crackdown-deportation-texas-plans-border-president-elect-mexico-remain/269-b3a25000-f68b-476a-81e5-cb8638d277d9

Both the Jewish community and the Muslim community in Texas found reasons stemming from the conflict in Gaza to gravitate away from Democrats in last week's election: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2024/11/10/how-oct-7-attack-and-war-in-gaza-shaped-north-texas-jewish-and-muslim-votes/

Texas transplant Elon Musk continues using Twitter to amplify hard-right wackadoodle theories about the dominance of "high status males": https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-harris-high-status-males-4chan-b2606617.html

...He's also borrowing a page from the Ken Paxton playbook, dictating that lawsuits against Twitter be heard in the heavily-Republican Northern District of Texas: https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/10/elon-musks-x-is-moving-its-legal-disputes-to-northern-texas/

Surprising nobody, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick has named private school vouchers his top priority in next year's legislative session: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/08/dan-patrick-texas-senate-school-choice-vouchers/

...While the Texas Senate Higher Education Committee meets today to discuss ways to even further amp up Republican efforts against anything remotely resembling DEI at Texas colleges: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/education/2024/11/11/sb17-texas-senate-higher-education-subcommittee-examine-dei-universities/76048145007/

A New Yorker interview with Willie Nelson on his new cannabis cookbook finds his wife Annie D'Angelo sporting a stylish Humans Against Ted Cruz t-shirt! They're available in our web store at ProgressTexas.org: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/11/willie-nelsons-latest-is-a-cannabis-cookbook

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