The Texan Podcast

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

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This week, the team discusses: 

• Abbott declaring in a statement that Texas has a “constitutional right” to “self-defense” on the border
• The Supreme Court allowing the federal government to remove Texas’ razor wire border barriers
• Texas continuing to create its border barriers despite the Supreme Court’s ruling
• A presidential campaign memo prompting discussion in the Texas GOP of whether or not to close its primaries
• Texas officials’ response to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis suspending his 2024 presidential campaign
• The Republican Texas House incumbents outraising their opponents for the 2024 race
• A Texas Senate candidate’s residency eligibility challenge headed to trial
• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick set to speak at a February BlackRock event in Houston
• Where abortion policies stand in Texas, 51 years after Roe v. Wade

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses: 

• Sen. Ted Cruz endorsing Donald Trump after he won the Republican Iowa caucus
• Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick jumping in to his first Texas House primary race of the cycle
• An investigation disproving allegations that Texas officials let Mexican nationals crossing the Rio Grande drown
• One Texas House member reversing course on his vote to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton
• Gov. Greg Abbott’s busing program reaching 100,000 noncitizens transported to sanctuary cities across the U.S.
• Gov. Greg Abbott setting a record for the biggest single political donation in Texas history
• The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals striking down part of Texas’ READER Act
• The sub-freezing temperatures that hit Texas this week
• The City of Austin relaunching its Equity Forum this month

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign stops on behalf of Republican candidates who supported school choice
• The candidate challenging a Texas Supreme Court justice seeking the incumbent’s removal from the ballot
• The Texas Nationalist Movement asking the Texas Supreme Court to put its TEXIT proposition on the state GOP ballot
• Gov. Greg Abbott raising $13 million in the second half of 2023
• The residency challenge against candidate Brent Hagenbuch for Senate District 30 being postponed
• Attorney General Ken Paxton asking the Texas Supreme Court to enforce last year’s $3.3 million whistleblower settlement
• Texas’ licensing regular announcing steps it is taking to combat human trafficking
• U.S. Housing and Urban Development reporting that homelessness rose in Texas in 2023
• ERCOT saying that Texas’ power grid is prepared for the cold front next week
• The Texas A&M president pushing back against a report criticizing its partnership with Qatar
• Special prosecutors being named in the case against Smith County Clerk Karen Phillips
• The National Championship game expected to bring 100,000 people and $200 million to Houston

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• Some of the biggest themes to watch in Texas politics this year
• A new record for how many times U.S. border guards encountered illegal immigrants
• Texas receiving a “D-” from March of Dimes for its maternal and infant health outcomes
• Gov. Greg Abbott calling the U.S. Homeland Security secretary “pathetic” over his comment on the border crisis
• The Biden administration suing Texas to block a new state law that would criminalize illegal immigration
• The judge from the viral Zoom “cat lawyer” video retiring and flipping a Southwest Texas judicial seat
• The Americans that came back home after a prisoner exchange with Venezuela
• The new state laws that took effect on January 1
• The death of former Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who represented Dallas for 30 years
• The McKinney home of Attorney General Ken and Sen. Angela Paxton falling victim to a “swatting”

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion.

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast.

This week, the team discusses our top 10 stories from the Texas political scene this year — marked by the impeachment of a statewide official, an expulsion of a legislator, raging policy fights, and feuding state leaders.

Thanks for listening, and Happy New Year!

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• Some of the most important races in the Texas House for 2024
• Gov. Greg Abbott signing a bill that creates a state criminal offense for illegal immigration
• The federal government suing the Houston-area Colony Ridge development, alleging deceptive lending practices
• Congressional lawmakers from Texas divided over renewing a section of the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act
• The Texas Supreme Court dismissing a defamation lawsuit against Beto O’Rourke
• A Texas congressman introducing a bill to ban required diversity, equity, and inclusion statements in American universities
• A Texas appeals court ruling that electricity ratepayers cannot sue power generators over the February 2021 blackouts
• The 2024 candidates for a state Senate seat declaring one of the challengers does not meet residency requirements
• A fight between the City of Dallas and the Texas attorney general over the release of a list of vulnerable municipal regulations
• The famed ‘Victory or Death’ letter making a historic return to the Alamo for exhibition

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• A Texas House Democrat running to primary Democratic Sen. Nathan Johnson in 2024
• A Texas woman fleeing the state after the Supreme Court stayed her medical restraining order to Texas’ laws against abortion
• The Texas Secretary of State arguing that legal challenges to the November constitutional amendment election are moot
• One renewable company’s challenge to a new state electricity pricing order before the Texas Supreme Court
• The plaintiff seeking to oust Travis County District Attorney Jose Garza revealed as having a prior felony charge for meth
• A Dallas councilwoman’s proposed changes to the city charter, including lifetime term limits
• University of Texas faculty members signing a letter expressing “deep concern” for the free speech of pro-Palestine students
• Conservative megadonor Tim Dunn selling his shale company CrownRock for $12 billion
• Tech billionaire Elon Musk looking to start his own university in Austin
• A billboard in El Paso promoting San Francisco as a “sanctuary city”

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• The Texas Legislature adjourning sine die after the fourth special session of 2023
• A shooting that killed six by a suspect who was bailed out of jail by an interest group in 2022
• A lawsuit from a woman claiming to require an abortion challenging Texas’ pro-life laws
• The Texas attorney general suing the U.S. State Department for allegedly censoring conservative media
• The mayor of Austin and district attorney of Travis County’s letter requesting federal investigation into Austin police
• The Travis County district attorney facing a citizen petition to have him removed from office
• The latest meeting in Austin of the Texas GOP’s State Republican Executive Committee
• Houston ISD’s state-appointed superintendent claiming the district has over 100 schools with “D” or “F” ratings
• A Texas state representative pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of impersonating a public servant
• The results of November’s constitutional amendment election being delayed due to election contests
• ERCOT approving a new emergency electricity pricing tool to cut costs for consumers

And more. 

Show off your Lone Star spirit with a free Gonzales Flag t-shirt with an annual subscription to The Texan: https://thetexan.news/subscribe/

The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• Floria Gov. Ron DeSantis filing for Texas’ 2024 Republican primary ballot
• Rep. Kyle Kacal changing course on re-election and announcing he will not run again
• Oral arguments before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals over Texas’ READER Act
• Parliamentary procedure in the Texas Legislature and how it was tested in the 88th session
• The Border Patrol apprehending 21 sex offenders in the Del Rio sector in under two months
• An Edinburg man sentenced to five years in prison for smuggling methamphetamine in car batteries
• The libertarian Cato Institute ranking Texas lowest in the nation for personal freedom
• Mark Cuban selling his majority stake in the Dallas Mavericks to casino owner and advocate Miriam Adelson
• Texas voters approving $37 billion worth of bonds in the November 2023 election
• A Midland woman and her Mexican brother sentenced to decades in prison for drug trafficking
• Several South Texas border officials switching parties and leaving the Democratic Party for the GOP

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The Texan’s Weekly Roundup brings you the latest news in Texas politics, breaking down the top stories of the week with our team of reporters who give you the facts so you can form your own opinion. 

Enjoy what you hear? Be sure to subscribe and leave a review! Got questions for the reporting team? Email [email protected] — they just might be answered on a future podcast. 

This week, the team discusses:

• Gov. Greg Abbott endorsing former President Donald Trump for 2024
• Abbott jumping in to Texas House primaries after school choice was defeated on the floor
• Texas State University in San Marcos hosting the first 2024 presidential debate
• The State Board of Education debating the presence of climate change and evolution in Texas textbooks
• Rep. Andrew Murr, leader of the Paxton impeachment, announcing he won’t run for re-election
• Texas DPS seizing firearms and ammunition from four suspected human smugglers arrested near El Paso
• ERCOT canceling its request for an additional 3,000 MW of power for the upcoming winter
• The Texas Office of the Attorney General suing Pfizer and Tris Pharma over the ADHD drug Quillivant
• The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963
• Texas claiming the title of first Thanksgiving for a Spanish colonist in 1598