The Texan Podcast

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses all things Roe v. Wade — giving you the full rundown breaking down the Dobbs decision, abortion clinics halting abortions in Texas, a judge blocking DAs from enforcing bans, the Texas Democratic Party calling on local officials not to enforce pro-life laws, and Texas lawmakers preparing relevant bills ahead of the 2023 legislative session. 

Plus, a Texas GOP nominee is indicted, state officials announcing school safety funding, dozens of corpses are found in a tractor trailer in an apparent human smuggling attempt, updates on the lawsuit against Title 42, and Biden and Abbott sparring on energy. 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.

Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with dozens of elected officials, candidates, and insiders.

This episode is a compilation of interviews with the following Texas GOP grassroots leaders: 

00:45 - Matt Rinaldi

06:30 - Jill Glover

12:52 - Cindy Siegel

16:25 - Don Huffines

24:50 - Mark Lee Dickson

For more information, please visit: https://thetexan.news/

Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with dozens of elected officials, candidates, and insiders. 

This episode is a compilation of interviews with the following candidates from across the state: 

0:00:42 - Julian Ramirez 

0:05:19 - Nate Schatzline 

0:15:25 - Rep. Mayes Middleton 

0:25:39 - Sen. Dawn Buckingham 

0:28:27 - Lauren Davis 

0:35:38 - Tim O’Hare 

0:45:54 - Alexandra del Moral Mealer 

0:55:08 - Carrie Isaac 

1:01:14 - Kevin Sparks 

1:09:32 - Charles Cunningham 

1:14:26 - Caroline Harris 

Be on the lookout for another episode dropping soon, and enjoy these chats. 

For more information, please visit: https://thetexan.news/

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) being booed at the Texas GOP convention, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick taking aim at the House, the reelection of Matt Rinaldi as state Republican chairman, testimony from law enforcement officials on Uvalde, a Texas senator suing the Texas Department of Public Service, Cornyn working a gun control and mental health bill through the U.S. Senate, Republican-affiliated mayors asking Abbott to call a special session on gun control, the leader of the Sanctuary Cities for the Unborn movement facing a legal challenge, record numbers of illegal immigration, the comptroller predicting a surplus when the legislature convenes in 2023, an update on improved STAAR scores, and how charter school approvals by the state are faring. 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.

Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with dozens of elected officials, candidates, and insiders.

This episode is a compilation of interviews with the following elected officials: 

0:00:42 - Rep. Bryan Slaton 

0:10:40 - Comptroller Glenn Hegar 

0:19:27 - Rep. Brian Harrison 

0:24:47 - Commissioner Jack Cagle 

0:35:27 - Rep. Cody Vasut 

0:42:32 - Chairman Wayne Christian 

0:49:17 - Rep. Matt Schaefer 

0:58:07 - Rep. Steve Toth 

1:05:07 - Commissioner Tom Ramsey 

1:10:57 - Rep. Matt Krause 

1:17:30 - Congressman Chip Roy 

1:24:50 - Rep. Kyle Biedermann 

1:33:08 - Sen. Brandon Creighton 

1:41:40 - Rep. Jared Patterson 

1:58:04 - Commissioner Sid Miller 

Be on the lookout for a couple more episodes dropping soon, and enjoy these chats. 

For more information, please visit: https://thetexan.news/

Welcome to a special edition of The Texan’s Voices of Texas podcast. Our team spent most of last week covering the Texas GOP Convention, and chatted with dozens of elected officials, candidates, and insiders. We’ll be releasing a series of podcasts with those conversations, so stay tuned.

This first installment is a conversation with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). We chat about gun control proposals in D.C., his decision to speak at the NRA convention despite many other Texas Republicans bowing out, chances for GOP congressional candidates in South Texas, and why school choice is the litmus test for his endorsement in state-level Republican primaries. 

MT: This is McKenzie Taylor here with Senator Ted Cruz. Senator, thank you so much for joining us. We so appreciate your time.

TC: McKenzie, it’s great to be with you. Thanks for having me.

MT: Absolutely. I would love to talk about the various gun control proposals that are floating around DC right now. We just saw Senator Cornyn, you know, a few hours ago. He's on stage here at convention, the delegates had a lot to say, they booed him there. Walk us through what is on the table in DC, and kind of what you could see happening with these proposals.

TC: Well, it's not clear what's on the table. And I've said I'm going to wait and actually see the text of something that is submitted, that I'm not going to judge a bill till I see the details. At this point we have a one page list of bullet points, and on something as fundamental as our constitutional rights, the devil's in the details. I think there's a lot Congress can and should do when it comes to violent crime. I was in Uvalde the day after that horrific shooting.

MT: Oh, wow.

TC: And I've been in too many of these. I was there in Santa Fe, I was in Sutherland Springs, I was in El Paso, I was in Midland, Odessa, I was in Dallas. It is horrific that we have monsters, that we have homicidal maniacs who commit these kind of terrible crimes. I think there's a lot we can and should do. The problem is whenever there's a mass murder, inevitably there are a bunch of voices of Democrats and the corporate media who all say do something, do something, do something. Well, it might surprise them to know I agree we should do something, but the something we should do really matters. And what works, what's effective, is targeting bad guys, targeting criminals, targeting felons and fugitives, and those with serious mental illness who try to illegally buy firearms, prosecuting them, putting them in jail, getting them off the street before they commit those crimes. That's that's how you stop these kind of horrific murders. And then on top of that, it is also making our vulnerable targets safer and more secure, in particular schools, enhancing the security at schools. And the most effective tool to do that is putting armed law enforcement in our schools so that if a lunatic comes and tries to hurt our kids, the first thing that lunatic encounters is an armed police officer who stops them before they hurt a child. Those are the steps that if we really wanted to stop these crimes, we would focus on doing. And I've repeatedly introduced legislation to do exactly that, to target the bad guys, to prosecute the felons and fugitives, to make our schools safer. And sadly, over and over again, the

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses what there is to see at the Texas GOP Convention, Mayra Flores flipping a congressional district in South Texas red, Uvalde Police Chief Pete Arredondo’s response to national scrutiny, the role of guns in the Texas governor’s race, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Speaker Dade Phelan’s cooperation on school safety proposals, Senator Cornyn’s bipartisan gun control deal, a federal judge striking down the Biden administration’s lenient deportation guidelines, the Texas ERCOT grid surviving triple-digit temperatures, a court petition to remove the Midland County district attorney, and a West Texas operation to rescue 70 child victims of human trafficking. 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses new information about the police response to the Uvalde shooting, elected officials butting heads over the legislative response to the massacre, developments in the lawsuit of victims of the Sutherland Springs shooting against the federal government, the attorney general’s investigation into Twitter, a candidate in Galveston campaigning to abolish the office he seeks to hold, the Texas government’s responses to drag shows for children and child gender modification, and a new sanctuary city for the unborn. 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses law enforcement responding to the tragedy in Uvalde, Gov. Abbott calling for the legislature to create new committees, Texas lawmakers calling for a special session to address gun control measures, two students arrested for terroristic threats, trends with teachers unions and State Board of Education races, the governor reportedly skipping the Texas GOP convention, the Supreme Court halting a social media censorship law, and how GOP groups competed spending big money in primary runoffs. 

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This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the results of the primary runoff elections, including the runoffs for statewide races like attorney general, lieutenant governor, land commissioner, and railroad commissioner; federal and Texas House and Senate races; and local elections in Harris, Bexar, and Tarrant counties. The team also addresses the school shooting in Uvalde and the confrontation between gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke and Texas state officials at a press conference. 

Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.