Daily Dispatch 4/8/25: The 25th Amendment Will Not Save Us From Trump, And More
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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Texas elected officials are calling for Donald Trump's cabinet and the Congress to remove him from office using the 25th Amendment before he starts WWIII - but in reality, that remains highly unlikely: https://www.chron.com/texas/article/texas-lawmakers-trump-iran-22194262.php
...Even Congressman Henry Cuellar is sounding sensible: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5820948-cuellar-reverses-war-powers-stance/
City and state officials have responded to Corpus Christi's looming water crisis not by curtailing industrial use and employing conservation - but by accelerating drilling and draining of local aquifers: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/07042026/corpus-christi-water-crisis-south-texas-aquifers/
...The drying up of Corpus Christi is not a localized problem - it's a harbinger of what's coming for the rest of Texas: https://www.texasobserver.org/corpus-christi-water-crisis-climate-projections/
...Turns out the data center boom will not only drain Texas of water - it's also draining us of tax dollars: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/04/08/texas-data-centers-sales-tax-break-billion-dollars/
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