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Daily Dispatch 7/10/24: Republicans Deflect While Texans Suffer Another Massive Power Outage, and More


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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Millions of Texans are beginning their third day without power - or AC - amidst a summer Texas heat wave: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/09/beryl-texas-houston-power-outages/

...Massive infrastructure failures after significant weather events has become a highly unfortunate routine reality in Texas: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-09/hurricane-beryl-makes-a-mockery-of-texas-climate-deniers

...This time, we can add a massive, debilitating internet outage to the list of infrastructure vulnerabilities: https://cw39.com/news/texas/spectrum-reports-power-outages-across-texas/

...And right away, Republicans in charge are wild-eyed with deflections of blame towards President Biden: https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/09/politics/biden-abbott-patrick-texas-hurricane-beryl-aid/index.html

Tens of millions of Texas taxpayer dollars are being funneled into shady "crisis pregnancy centers" with little oversight: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/09/texas-crisis-pregnancy-centers-abortion/

Disgraced Gateway Church pastor and child molester Robert Morris' lawyer once tried to paint his victim Cindy Clemishire, who was 12 at the time, of having made the initial sexual advance on Morris: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/robert-morris-gateway-church-lawyer-letters-cindy-clemishire-rcna160661

Momentum is ramping up for a protest by multiple Tarrant County progressive activist groups of this weekend's True Texas Project event, forced upon the Fort Worth Botanic Garden by the city officials: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/politics-government/article289854404.html

...The True Texas Project, identified as an extremist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center, espouses a full range of hateful and lunatic positions: https://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/bud-kennedy/article289261520.html

President Joe Biden will speak on Monday July 15 from the LBJ Presidential Library at UT Austin, marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act - here's a link to watch: https://www.youtube.com/live/9x5xcS2aXTY?si=8sbMn1VT6D_voDPv

ALL progressives should learn all they can about Project 2025, in order to resist its becoming actual U.S. policy: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

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