Daily Dispatch 1/13/26: What Are Your Rights In An ICE Confrontation? And More
Episode description
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
As more and more confrontations between regular citizens and ICE pop up on our screens, it's important to understand your rights - and how ICE is likely to violate them: https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article314293265.html
...The difference between the power ICE has over you, and that of local police or sheriff's department officers, is getting a lot harder to define: https://thedailytexan.com/2026/01/12/texas-law-enforcement-required-to-work-with-ice-by-end-of-year/
...Lone Star Left reminds us that while the focus lately has been on Minnesota, the lion's share of ICE arrests since Trump's crackdown began have happened in Texas: https://www.lonestarleft.com/p/history-will-name-this-moment
The Texas House Democratic Caucus has demanded that Attorney General Ken Paxton take several steps to counter the child porn generating capabilities of Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot in Texas: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14PaMYsCsjRqcLnT_4jBnwNhzKEWqMuvH/view
...On the heels of that scandal and while visiting Texas and Space X, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Pentagon is about to integrate Grok into their data systems: https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-pentagon-hegseth-musk-7f99e5f32ec70d7e39cec92d2a4ec862
The Funky East Dallas Democrats (the FEDDs!) will host an online meet and greet TONIGHT with a bunch of Democratic statewide candidates, including Senatorial candidates Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico: https://www.fedds.org/eventinfo/jan1326statewide
Early voting in the March primary starts in mere weeks, on February 17 - the time to research your ballot is right now: https://apps.texastribune.org/features/2026/texas-march-2026-primary-ballot/?_bhlid=7d8eca3d2a16adc7c9b44185414443fa32be6d84
See the full list of 2026 races and candidates, courtesy of Lone Star Left, HERE and HERE.
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