This week on The Texan's " Weekly Roundup ," the team discusses the countdown to Texas’ abortion trigger ban, fundraising data from Greg Abbott and Beto O’ Rourke in the governor’s race, Parker County Commissioners Court declaring an invasion, the Fifth Circuit upholding Texas’ ban on mask mandates, Abbott promoting the federal CHIPS Act, a border agent sentenced for smuggling cocaine, how lagging development in petroleum refineries contributes to high gas prices, the amount of cash neighboring ...
Jul 29, 2022•1 hr 18 min
This week on The Texan's " Weekly Roundup ," the team discusses the Texas Democrats reelecting their chair but failing to pass a platform, lawmakers condemning the decisions made during the Uvalde shooting, the state’s lawsuit against the Biden administration for abortion guidance, Texas Democrats’ attempts to circumvent state abortion laws, the rise in volunteering and donations to pregnancy resource centers, a congressman’s harsh words for the president of Mexico, a 14% drop in encounters by b...
Jul 22, 2022•1 hr 13 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses how the grid held up despite the heat, terroristic threats made against Texas lawmakers, the contents of Sen. John Cornyn’s gun control proposal, a Texas congresswoman seeking to protect out-of-state travel for abortion, a poll showing Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo in a dead heat against her Republican challenger, key pieces of evidence in the Uvalde investigation coming to light, the health of local pensions, a small school dis...
Jul 15, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses how public school districts compare with charter schools after the release of this year’s STAAR scores, calls to replace the official accused of mishandling benefits for families of victims of the Uvalde shooting, a Smith County constable arrested on charges of theft and official oppression, the Texas Supreme Court considering the limits of civil courts after one of them tried to shield abortion facilities, Senator John Cornyn’s re...
Jul 08, 2022•1 hr 10 min
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, doze...
Jul 01, 2022•1 hr 9 min
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/...
Jun 27, 2022•33 min
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...
Jun 25, 2022•1 hr 21 min
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 ...
Jun 24, 2022•1 hr 5 min
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 S...
Jun 23, 2022•2 hr 5 min
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, cha...
Jun 21, 2022•17 min
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 depor...
Jun 17, 2022•1 hr 7 min
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 child...
Jun 10, 2022•1 hr 11 min
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 GO...
Jun 03, 2022•1 hr 1 min
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 pre...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 14 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses how some pro-choice district attorneys plan to not prosecute abortion crimes, what the Electric Reliability Council has to say about the Texas power grid, rising numbers of encounters with illegal aliens, the partisan leanings of all of Texas’ counties, what Texans think about Gov. Greg Abbott’s border policies and the border wall, the Supreme Court of Texas’ recent ruling on gender transition in children, the wild campaign of a Te...
May 20, 2022•1 hr 11 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the conservative trend in last weekend’s school board races, the results of over 200 bond proposals on ballots, a San Antonio school official pressuring employees to vote for a bond, Gov. Greg Abbott inching closer to support for school vouchers, developments in Texas’ social media censorship law, the attorney general joining support for an out-of-state law outlawing child gender transition, Allen West reentering the political fray...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 14 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the latest on the leaked Roe v. Wade Supreme Court opinion — including what the reversal of Roe would mean in Texas and how officials on both sides of the aisle are reacting, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) holding a federal nominee at bay, ranking of Texas members of Congress according to how often they vote by proxy, a local election is forced to a redo, concerns are raised regarding a federal “Disinformation Governance Board,” more campaig...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses what’s on the ballot on the May 7 elections, the tragic passing of a Texas national guardsman, Abbott and Patrick finally chiming in on the whistleblower lawsuit against Attorney General Ken Paxton, a two-year-old Honduran boy rescued by border agents, the donation of three Bitcoin mining machines to the City of Fort Worth, the arguments made for and against the “remain in Mexico” policy at the U.S. Supreme Court, an update on Titl...
Apr 29, 2022•1 hr 10 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Austin considering a universal basic income program, revelations about the state-funded Liberty Institute at UT, state officials debating whether the border crisis counts as an “invasion,” Wendy Davis filing a lawsuit against the Texas Heartbeat Act, home appraisals in the Austin area skyrocketing, arrests of illegal immigrants at the border processed under Title 42, the latest in campaign fundraising numbers, Dallas County’s judge...
Apr 22, 2022•1 hr 16 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Sen. Ted Cruz endorsing opposite candidates of the governor, Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller and Gov. Greg Abbott trading critiques of border policies, a new agreement between Texas and a Mexican state, a rule change from the Biden administration on ATF gun records, controversy surrounding a woman convicted of capital murder, environmental and social credit criteria sweeping through America’s corporations including Texas’ oil a...
Apr 15, 2022•1 hr 3 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Gov. Abbott announcing voluntary bus rides for illegal aliens to Washington, D.C., Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick saying he’s “done with Disney,” the governor endorsing in GOP runoffs and how that support is at odds with his pro-school choice statements, the Chick-fil-A and San Antonio airport controversy making headlines once again, a state senator dropping out of her reelection bid, the City of Austin considering a $15 million contract for...
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 2 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Starbucks unionizing in Texas, a city revisiting a local ban on abortion after rejecting one in 2020, illegal immigration numbers in Biden’s first year in office, the president of one of the world’s largest financial companies addressing an accusation of divesting from fossil fuel businesses, controversy surrounding Title 42 and its potential end, public school funding adjustments, three Railroad Commission candidates speaking at a...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 10 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the Texas senators questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Beto O’Rourke making contradictory statements on the campaign trail, a new poll regarding Hispanic Texans’ opinions on border security, allegations of misconduct at a Bastrop shelter for female sex trafficking victims, a redistricting challenge making its way to the Supreme Court, O’Rourke responding to allegations of defamation, and a professor fired for criticizing micro...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the second anniversary of Governor Abbott’s COVID-19 disaster declaration, the head of the Texas Military Department being switched out amid controversy, a spike in youth suicides in the pandemic years, a pro-gambling PAC donating to Texas candidates, a recount being called for by a Texas House challenger, Texas’ senators criticizing the White House over its Ukraine response, two Democrats vying for the lieutenant governor nominati...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 7 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Beto O'Rourke being sued by an energy CEO and Gov. Greg Abbott donor, a major hospital opting against conducting sex-change drug treatments for minors, a congressman aiming to destroy ATF firearm records, the Texas House speaker’s effort to support some GOP incumbents, Abbott examining teacher shortages despite record high employment, the rising cost of oil and gas, a Democrat-turned-Republican winning reelection in South Texas, co...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 15 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the results of the 2022 primary election in Texas. What was the most shocking upset? What was the closest call? What are our biggest takeaways? What can we expect going into the November midterms? We talk through all the details and break down the state’s most notable races and results. We also talk through notable tweets from the week and answer some mailbag questions from readers. Got questions for the reporting team? Email edito...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 40 min
On this episode of our "Weekly Roundup" podcast, the reporting team discusses state officials revisiting the issue of puberty blockers and transitional surgeries for minors, a Republican race centered around police unions, attorneys for the indicted Austin police officers going to bat for their clients, the Austin Public Library paying students to attend sex-ed seminars, Ken Paxton’s former top aides accusing him of making “false and misleading” claims in interviews, Cook Children’s Hospital den...
Feb 25, 2022•1 hr 5 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the start of early voting, AOC campaigning in the state, a Texas congressman aiming to cancel student loan debt, the federal government donating border wall materials, a new lawsuit from Texas challenging another of the Biden administration’s COVID-19 policies, the race to replace Congressman Louie Gohmert, Texas suing Facebook again, local municipality debt, a crime report in Dallas, school district bonds that will be on the ballo...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses the weekend’s winter storm and how the grid weathered, a Republican congressman pushing back on vaccine mandate funding, overcrowding at border facilities, South Texas districts that Republicans are eyeing, campaign updates, a Texas congressman making allegations against Capitol Police, Austin police officers under investigation for misconduct during the 2020 protests, the City of Dallas considering spending more money on its conve...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 9 min
This week on The Texan ’s “ Weekly Roundup ,” the team discusses Trump’s Conroe rally and the Texas officials in attendance, updates on the energy grid in light of the cold front hitting the state, how abortion numbers have fared since implementation of the Heartbeat bill, a Laredo border chief at odds with his guardsmen, a congressman expressing concerns about a registry of gun owners to a federal agency, criticisms Sid Miller is facing from the right and the left, the attorney general’s race h...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 7 min
