Texas Talks

Robert Bryce is a Texas-based author, journalist, film producer, and public speaker. His latest docuseries, "Juice: Power Politics and the Grid", is available for free on YouTube and on juicetheseries.com. Subscribe to his Substack at RobertBryce.substack.com X: x.com/pwrhungry Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagra...

We are joined by Representative Ray Lopez, who was elected to the Texas Legislature in 2019 to serve HD 125, which encompasses much of San Antonio’s West and Northwest Sides. We discuss his background in politics and why he got involved, emergency preparedness in Texas, the Texas Military and the border, threats from foreign nations and organizations, and more. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https:...

Bradley Buckley is a Texas veterinarian and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives for House District 54, which includes part of Bell County and all of Lampasas County in Central Texas. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexasdispatch LinkedIn: The Texas Dispatch TikTok: texas_talks_podcast...

Doug O’Connell, Special Forces Colonel Retired, is the defense attorney for Sgt Daniel Perry who was convicted by a jury in Travis County for the murder of Garrett Foster during the BLM riots of 2020. Sgt Perry's conviction was recently pardoned by Governor Greg Abbott. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thete...

Donna Bahorich is a member of the Texas Historical Commission and a former member of the Texas State Board of Education, serving as Chair from June 2015 - September 2019. Donna discusses the new Texas education curriculum as well as Open Education Resources (OER), which is an online database of school curriculum and lesson plans which can be accessed by teachers, staff, parents, and anyone else se...

Sid Miller is a republican politician from Stephenville, Texas. He served in the Texas House of Representatives from 2001-2013 and is currently the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, serving since January 2015. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexasdispatch LinkedIn: The Texas Dispatch TikTok: texas_talks_po...

Charles is the President of Urban Reform and Urban Reform Institute, focusing on free market solutions to urban issues and creating opportunity for all in America’s metropolitan areas. Charles has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, the Houston Chronicle, the Hill, Wired, and other publications. He is a Fox 26 Houston (KRIV) regular political commentator and weekly panelist on Sunda...

Anita Scott is former teacher and assistant principal. She is currently Director of Public Policy at the Texas Home School Coalition. THSC: https://thsc.org/ Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexasdispatch LinkedIn: The Texas Dispatch TikTok: texas_talks_podcast   Find more at The Texas Dispatch Your sourc...

Sharon McKinney is the executive director of the Texas Inmate Families Association, a non-profit whose mission is to serve people in Texas prisons through education, advocacy, and organizing. Sharon teaches the New Family Workshop for families whose loved ones are entering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and the Parole Workshop for families whose loved ones are approaching parole eligibil...

Jeff Burdett is the Texas State Director of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), an association of small businesses in the United States, formed to advance their interests. Website: https://www.nfib.com/ NFIB on X: https://twitter.com/NFIB Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexasdispatch...

Bryan Sunderland is the Director of Advocacy at the Cicero Institute, a nonpartisan public policy organization with deep experience in government, legislation and the law, technology, and entrepreneurship. Bryan and Brad discuss addressing the homelessness crisis, health care, public safety, and regulation and licensing reform. Cicero website: https://ciceroinstitute.org/ Bryan on X: https://twitt...

Representative Dustin Burrows is the representative for Texas House District 83. He recently served on a five person panel to investigate the cause of, and determine remedies to, the recent wildfires in North Texas. Dustin Burrows on X: https://twitter.com/Burrows4TX Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexas...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit, non-partisan research institute. The Foundation’s mission is to promote and defend liberty, personal responsibility, and free enterprise in Texas and the nation by educating and affecting policymakers and the Texas public policy debate with academically sound research and outreach.   TPPF Website: https://www.texaspolicy.com/ TPPF X: http...

Russell Woodward is the senior manager of product marketing at Texas Beef Council. In his role, he fosters strategic partnerships and builds programs to strengthen the beef presence in the retail and foodservice sector. Growing up on a farm in North Texas, he knows how personal producers take growing and raising quality products for the consumer’s plates. His desire to pursue a career in the meat...

Mark Nemir is the owner of Dirty Martin's, a hamburger joint near UT campus, and Bill Aleshire is a local attorney representing Mark and four other plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the City of Austin. Their lawsuit regards the City's Project Connect plans, how it was sold to the public, what it has become, and how it is being paid for. https://www.savedirtys.com/ https://twitter.com/AleshireLaw Wat...

Representative Salman Bhojani of House District 92, immigrated to Texas as a teenager, and worked several minimum wage jobs to help support his family. He went on to become a business owner, an attorney, a Euless city councilman, and one of the first Muslims and South Asians to be elected to the Texas State House. Bhojani on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SalmanBhojaniTX Bhojani on Facebook: https:/...

Arjun Sharda, a 12-year-old student, is the founder of the nonprofit organization, TLEEM. The acronym stands for Technology, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Engineering, and Mathematics. TLEEM's purpose is to help his peers and beyond to better their skills in those areas. TLEEM's Website: https://www.tleem.org/ Arjun's Website: https://www.arjunsharda.com/about.html Watch Full-Length Interviews: ht...

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Mark Teixeira is a former professional baseball first baseman who played 14 seasons in the MLB for the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Anaheim Angels, and New York Yankees. One of the most prolific switch hitters in MLB history, leading the American League in home runs and RBI's while finishing second in the MVP balloting. Teixeira was a three-time All-Star, won five Gold Glove Awards and three Sil...

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Jaeson Jones is an internationally renowned border intelligence expert. He has led investigations targeting Mexican cartel leadership and collaborated closely with the US intelligence community to help save lives throughout Mexico and the USA. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Dispatch Instagram: thetexasdispatch LinkedIn: The T...

Dick Lavine is a Senior Fiscal Analyst at Every Texan, a Texas-based organization that advocates for policies that enable Texans of all backgrounds to thrive. In this episode, Dick and Brad speak about property taxes in Texas, including alternatives to the property tax, the school financing system, and economic development programs such as the Chapter 313 program and the recently passed House Bill...

Vance Ginn, Ph. D., is a free-market economist who extensively evaluates policies to let people prosper while equipping lawmakers and leaders nationwide with frameworks for practical solutions to modern problems. Dr. Ginn is the founder and president of Ginn Economic Consulting and host of his Let People Prosper Show podcast. He is a senior fellow at Americans for Tax Reform, associate research fe...

Paul Bettencourt is an American politician and businessman based out of Houston, Texas, who serves as a Republican member of the Texas State Senate from District 7. On January 13, 2015, he succeeded state Senator Dan Patrick of Houston, who successfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of Texas. Watch Full-Length Interviews: https://www.youtube.com/@TexasTalks   Follow us on social media X: @Texas_Disp...

On the first episode of Texas Talks, Brad speaks with Russel Boening. Russel is a full-time farmer and rancher from Wilson County. He grows feed grains, cotton and wheat, as well as operates a dairy and a beef cattle operation with his brother near Floresville. The fourth-generation farmer was elected president of Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) and Affiliated Companies in December 2014. He was first elec...