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President Biden gave remarks at the commemoration ceremony honoring the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's signing of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 today at the LBJ Presidential Library on the University of Texas campus in Austin. This podcast features his full, unedited remarks. Huge thanks to the LBJ Library staff for a super-smooth event! More on today's visit by the P...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Postponed after the Trump assassination, President Joe Biden's visit to Austin and the LBJ Presidential Library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act will commence at 3pm today: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/state/2024/07/29/president-joe-biden-speech-lbj-library-austin-texas-how-to-watch-livestream-kamala...

Our ongoing series of conversations on the trampling of reproductive freedom in Texas - and what it's going to take to regain those rights - continues. In this fourth installment, we're proud to welcome Texas State Senator Molly Cook who has made history as our state's first openly LGBTQ Senator, Austin City Council Member Vanessa Fuentes who makes her first appearance on our podcast f...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Vice President Kamala Harris' address to the American Federation of Teachers' national convention in Houston yesterday is a rare high point for our state's embattled public school educators: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/texas-teachers-kamala-harris-houston/ ...VP Harris' full remarks yesterday: https://podcasts....

In case you missed it - here's a full, unedited capture of remarks given this morning in Houston at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers by Vice President Kamala Harris. Enjoy! Thanks for listening! Learn all about Progress Texas and how you can support our important work at https://progresstexas.org/ .

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The voter registration site Vote.org reports a massive spike in registrations since President Biden stepped out of the race: https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1816088296583209122?t=sv_uB_VvIGtnW5Zh2AkL7w&s=03 ...While we're also hearing about mysterious suspensions of registration here in Texas - we must ALL confirm we're g...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: After a unanimous decision by our board, all of us at Progress Texas are very proud to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in her bid for the presidency: https://progresstexas.org/blog/statement-progress-texas-endorses-kamala-harris-president ...VP Harris is scheduled to speak in Houston tomorrow: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/pol...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas' delegation to the Democratic National Convention - the nation's 3rd-largest - voted overwhelmingly to support Vice President Kamala Harris in a call last night: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/21/joe-biden-texas-delegates-nomination-process/ ...Meanwhile Team Harris is raising record-setting amounts of campaign donatio...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: In mere hours, following the announcement of President Joe Biden that he was standing down from the election and endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris to run in his place, the fundraising platform ActBlue reported over $50 million in donations: https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1815199349737205860?s=46 President Biden's under-appreciated...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The 2024 Republican National Convention wrapped with a fiery celebration of our country's cultural lowest common denominator and an endless, snoozy Trump diatribe: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/19/takeaways-rnc-day-4-trump-speech ...While a speech featuring VP pick J.D. Vance extolling the virtues of Alex Jones...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Governor Abbott left Texas amidst hurricane recovery for a second time to speak at the Republican National Convention's third night: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/greg-abbott-rnc-speech-takeaways-19580598.php ...Badly-needed fact checking of Abbott's RNC remarks: https://www.cbsnews.com/video/fact-checkin...

Since he was first elected to the Austin City Council ten years ago in 2014, Houston native Greg Casar has emerged as one of our state's most respected progressive leaders, and since 2022 has been pushing hard for progress in Texas in the U.S. House, where he's currently the second-youngest member of that entire esteemed body. Join us for a great conversation on his experience so far in D....

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Governor Abbott remains defiant in the face of criticism over his abandoning Texas during Hurricane Beryl: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/16/greg-abbott-asia-hurricane-beryl/ ...Abbott's attacks notwithstanding, Centerpoint Energy has donated heavily to Republicans for years - thus the lack of regulation, likely leading to Houst...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas formed a visible component of the garish display that was Monday night's Republican National Convention: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/trump-rnc-cruz-biden-19575121.php Colin Allred has outraised Ted Cruz in the second quarter of 2024: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/15/colin-allred-ted-cruz-senate...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Texas connections to the Trump assassination attempt: ...The Pennsylvania man who allegedly tried to kill Donald Trump on Saturday was wearing merchandise from a Texas-based gun fanatic YouTube channel at the time: https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/what-is-demolition-ranch-19573090.php ...Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Centerpoint Energy predicts that hundreds of thousands of Southeast Texans still without power will remain that way into next week: https://apnews.com/article/houston-beryl-hurricane-power-outages-7f624c7e14f41284449009295e69ac12 ...The utility is actually outpacing itself compared to prior weather-related outages: https://www.texastribun...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Over 1 million Houston area Centerpoint and Entergy power customers remain without power or AC amidst sweltering heat this morning: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-weather/hurricanes/article/hurricane-beryl-power-updates-houston-heat-19563819.php ...Centerpoint's outage map shows that as of now, about half of the affecte...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Millions of Texans are beginning their third day without power - or AC - amidst a summer Texas heat wave: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/09/beryl-texas-houston-power-outages/ ...Massive infrastructure failures after significant weather events has become a highly unfortunate routine reality in Texas: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: As three Texans die, millions go without power, and flooding threatens multiple parts of the state, Governor Abbott continues a tour of East Asia, playing President: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/abbott-hurricane-beryl-acting-governor-patrick-19561623.php A Texas oil billionaire family finds itself in the cro...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Hurricane Beryl has made landfall at Matagorda and is currently slamming the Houston metro area: https://www.khou.com/article/weather/weather-impact/hurricane-beryl-texas-gulf-coast-landfall/285-c5815723-a9d2-440b-9b15-93341665e0c0 ...While Governor Abbott is out of the country on an economic excursion to Taiwan: https://www.wfaa.com/arti...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: A new poll (from a conservative think tank, mind you) shows only a three point advantage for Ted Cruz over Colin Allred, with women and independents far in Allred's favor: https://www.newsweek.com/ted-cruz-polls-texas-senate-allred-narrow-lead-1921176 A federal judge in Texas has temporarily blocked a new Federal Trade Commission ban...

Stories we're following here at Progress Texas: Austin U.S. Rep. Lloyd Doggett has become the first House Democrat to publicly call for President Biden to drop out of the 2024 race: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/us/who-is-lloyd-doggett-biden.html ...Dallas U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett disagrees strongly: https://x.com/JasmineForUS/status/1808295266992128154?t=5YH20SnNuChhoWaGrzrgIw&s=03...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: The implications of the U.S. Supreme Court's granting of broad immunity to the President are only beginning to develop: https://apnews.com/article/trump-immunity-supreme-court-capitol-riot-trial-72ec35de776315183e1db561257cb108 ...Basically, if the President wants you dead, you're dead: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/tr...

Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas: Friday's SCOTUS move to overturn Chevron v NRDC represents a massive power grab by MAGA courts: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/06/elena-kagan-dissent-supreme-court-john-roberts-chevron-disaster.html ...SCOTUS also backs the right to criminalize homelessness: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/06/28/supreme-court-texas-homeles...

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people dates far, far back before the horrific events of October 7, 2023 - this is a generational conflict that is seen by some, especially considering recent events, as a truly unbridgeable divide. That's not the view of Atidna, a student-led and Texas-based organization that has dedicated itself to fostering positive connections between the two...