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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Progressives continue savoring wins in the May municipal elections across the state, while one major piece of business remains unfinished - the San Antonio mayoral race: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/05/texas-school-board-races/
...What an interesting moment to visit San Antonio! Hope to see y'all at our Party For Progress tonight: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/sanantonio_mixer
...Our guest tonight is outgoing Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who has plans (for now) to return to teaching in Trinity University's communications department: https://www.tpr.org/education/2025-05-05/san-antonio-mayor-ron-nirenberg-joins-trinity-university-in-august-as-communications-professor#Echobox=1746482110-2
House Bill 2 - funding for public schools, and the second of the "Texas Two Step" of legislation supposedly paired with private school vouchers - continues to languish in a Senate committee after 13 days: https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/this-is-how-you-kill-a-public-school
...Democratic House Minority Leader Gene Wu highlights a major imbalance between bills passed by the House and those by the Senate, including the stonewalling on HB 2: https://x.com/scottbraddock/status/1919438003711234249?t=aJM-kp2u8-XcYudoyxoMdA&s=03
...The Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers worries that the Senate is turning away from "the pressing needs of the 5.4 million students in Texas public schools": https://www.texasaft.org/features/texas-senate-stalls-on-public-school-funding-while-fast-tracking-vouchers/
Elon Musk is in a battle with his neighbors in West Lake Hills, who have complaints about construction he's done without permits, constant traffic of Teslas, and heavily armed security guards: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html
We look forward to celebrating our 15th anniversary this summer! Join us for a celebratory gathering in Dallas on Monday June 9: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/2025anniversary
The merch to match your progressive values awaits at our web store! Goodies at https://store.progresstexas.org/.
We're loving the troll-free environment at BlueSky! Follow us there at https://bsky.app/profile/progresstexas.bsky.social.
Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at https://progresstexas.org.
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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Progressives continue savoring wins in the May municipal elections across the state, while one major piece of business remains unfinished - the San Antonio mayoral race: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/05/texas-school-board-races/
...What an interesting moment to visit San Antonio! Hope to see y'all at our Party For Progress tonight: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/sanantonio_mixer
...Our guest tonight is outgoing Mayor Ron Nirenberg, who has plans (for now) to return to teaching in Trinity University's communications department: https://www.tpr.org/education/2025-05-05/san-antonio-mayor-ron-nirenberg-joins-trinity-university-in-august-as-communications-professor#Echobox=1746482110-2
House Bill 2 - funding for public schools, and the second of the "Texas Two Step" of legislation supposedly paired with private school vouchers - continues to languish in a Senate committee after 13 days: https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/this-is-how-you-kill-a-public-school
...Democratic House Minority Leader Gene Wu highlights a major imbalance between bills passed by the House and those by the Senate, including the stonewalling on HB 2: https://x.com/scottbraddock/status/1919438003711234249?t=aJM-kp2u8-XcYudoyxoMdA&s=03
...The Texas chapter of the American Federation of Teachers worries that the Senate is turning away from "the pressing needs of the 5.4 million students in Texas public schools": https://www.texasaft.org/features/texas-senate-stalls-on-public-school-funding-while-fast-tracking-vouchers/
Elon Musk is in a battle with his neighbors in West Lake Hills, who have complaints about construction he's done without permits, constant traffic of Teslas, and heavily armed security guards: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/technology/elon-musk-texas-neighbors.html
We look forward to celebrating our 15th anniversary this summer! Join us for a celebratory gathering in Dallas on Monday June 9: https://act.progresstexas.org/a/2025anniversary
The merch to match your progressive values awaits at our web store! Goodies at https://store.progresstexas.org/.
We're loving the troll-free environment at BlueSky! Follow us there at https://bsky.app/profile/progresstexas.bsky.social.
Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work at https://progresstexas.org.

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