The Texas Tribune

Texas Tribune TribCast

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The TribCast is a weekly political podcast hosted by Matthew Watkins, James Barragán and Eleanor Klibanoff, and featuring a rotating cast of editors, reporters and other guests. The TribCast is returning as a limited-run weekly series during the 2025 legislative session.

Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.texastribune.org

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Oct 6, 2026

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Episodes

Crisis on the border, 5-year anniversary of the Wendy Davis filibuster and the latest UT/Texas Tribune poll 27.06.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Jay, Neena, Edgar and Ross about inconsistent efforts to reunify immigrant parents and kids on the border, how Texas voters feel about separating families in the name of immigration enforcement, and the lega...

Family separations, political horse races, guns, weed and the NFL, from the UT/TT pollsters 27.06.2018

In this special edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with University of Texas at Austin pollsters Daron Shaw, Jim Henson and Josh Blank to talk about the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.

Immigrant family separations, Pain and Profit in Medicaid managed care 19.06.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Emma and The Dallas Morning News' Dave McSwane about the separation of immigrant families on the Texas-Mexico border and McSwane's Pain and Profit series about misdeeds in the state's Medicaid managed ...

"Blood Will Tell" investigation, death row with disabilities 13.06.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Jolie and the New York Times Magazine and ProPublica's Pamela Colloff on Pam's two-part "Blood Will Tell" series on blood spatter analysis and the state's consideration of intellectual disabilities in ...

Texas and SCOTUS, George P. Bush's "fake news," Senate race heats up 06.06.2018

In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and reporter Emma Platoff.

Looking at Greg Abbott's response to Santa Fe 30.05.2018

In this edition of the TribCast, Texas Tribune political reporter Patrick Svitek sits down with CEO Evan Smith, executive editor Ross Ramsey and education reporter Aliyya Swaby.

Dissecting Tuesday’s party primary runoffs in Texas 23.05.2018

In this edition of the TribCast, the first one after the party primary runoffs, Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey sits down with Political Editor Aman Batheja and reporters Patrick Svitek and Emma Platoff. Among the topics this week: 1. The Runoffs Democrats nominated an openly gay Latina for governor — a first, and both parties filled out their ballots for Congress and the Legislature. W...

Comptroller Hegar downplays potential tax benefit of sports gambling in Texas 16.05.2018

In this edition of the TribCast, the last before the May 22 primary runoff, Texas Tribune Editor-in-Chief Emily Ramshaw sits down with CEO Evan Smith, Executive Editor Ross Ramsey, political reporter Patrick Svitek and a special guest, Texas Compt...

Forecasting the Valdez-White debate and understaffed Texas prisons (podcast) 09.05.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick and Jolie about Friday's lone Democratic gubernatorial debate, massive understaffing at one Texas prison and what runoff turnout might look like.

Debate drama, Austin scooters, the Texas speaker's race (podcast) 02.05.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Emma about who's debating whom in the Senate and gubernatorial matchups, what's next for Austin's scooters and the latest names to emerge in the Texas House speaker's race.

Cannabis oil, special elections and redistricting (podcast) 25.04.2018

On this week's TribCast, Ross talked to Evan, Patrick, Alex and Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Christine Eady Mann about the upcoming runoffs, a hurried special election coming up, Texas redistricting litigation in the U.S. Supreme Court, ...

Redistricting hits SCOTUS, Stockman gets convicted (podcast) 18.04.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick, Alexa about the Supreme Court-bound Texas redistricting case, Ted Cruz's latest fundraising numbers and former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman's criminal conviction. Democratic congressional candidat...

SD-19, higher ed hunger, Paul Ryan's exit (podcast) 11.04.2018

On this week's TribCast, Evan talks to Ross, Patrick, Shannon and State Rep. Roland Gutierrez about the possibility of a Senate special election, food insecurity on college campuses and how the U.S. House speaker's unexpected retirement affects Te...

CD-23, O'Rourke's fundraising haul, Cornyn's gun policy (podcast) 04.04.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Patrick, Corrie and Democratic congressional candidate Gina Ortiz Jones about the CD-23 race, Beto O'Rourke's latest fundraising haul and the kickoff of Ted Cruz's reelection campaign.

Census citizenship question, March for Our Lives, Tillerson for UT chancellor? (podcast) 28.03.2018

Republican congressional candidate Chip Roy joins the TribCast crew to discuss his upcoming runoff. Plus, we tackle the 2020 census, the March for Our Lives protests and whether Rex Tillerson could be the University of Texas System's next chancell...

Austin bombings, Ted Cruz and Cambridge Analytica (podcast) 21.03.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talked to Evan, Patrick, Alex and Democratic congressional candidate M.J. Hegar about Hegar's impending runoff, the Austin bombings and another client of now-notorious Cambridge Analytics, Ted Cruz.

District attorney drama, general election predictions (podcast) 14.03.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Ross, Patrick, Jolie and GOP political consultant Tyler Norris about the primary night defeats of several district attorneys and what general election races will be the toughest matchups.  

Live TribCast: Deconstructing the 2018 Texas primaries 07.03.2018

On this week's special live edition of the TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross, Patrick and Abby about the big takeaways from 2018 primary night — and looks ahead to the May runoffs.

That time Oprah beefed with the Texas cattle industry (podcast) 02.03.2018

In this special edition of the Tribcast, reporter and producer Neena Satija talks with editor Aman Batheja about his story on Oprah Winfrey's beef with the Texas cattle industry.  

Hurricane Harvey six months later, O'Rourke's chances in Texas, primary fever (podcast) 28.02.2018

On this week's TribCast — the last before the March primary — Emily talks to Evan, Aman, Brandon and Texas Ag Commissioner candidate Trey Blocker about high-stakes races and the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Harvey. 

George P. Bush's "secret mansion," Republican primary fundraising (podcast) 21.02.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Jay and Shannon about George P. Bush's "secret mansion," the GOP primary fundraising sweep and the Texas connection to Russian meddling in the 2016 elections.   

Hot or not? Hear Ross Ramsey break down his must-watch Texas primary races 15.02.2018

Listen to Texas Tribune Executive Editor Ross Ramsey explain his Hotlist of dramatic and competitive primary races across the state while taking reader questions.

Sarah Davis' re-election bid, Ross Ramsey's hot list 14.02.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily, Ross, Patrick and Emma talk to state Rep. Sarah Davis about Gov. Greg Abbott's efforts to unseat her, Ross' primary hot list and a state Supreme Court justice's quick-turn candidacy.

Where's the "bathroom bill" in the 2018 primaries? 07.02.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Patrick, Abby and Jay about the noticeable absence of the "bathroom bill" on the 2018 primary trail, the hottest congressional races, and a particularly timely campaign contribution received by Land Commissi...

Republicans vs. Republicans and O'Rourke's fundraising haul (podcast) 31.01.2018

On this week's TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross and Patrick about the Republican infighting this primary season and Beto O'Rourke closing the fundraising gap in his race to unseat U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.

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