The Texan Podcast

This week on the “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses how election integrity, gambling allowances, and emergency power reform died, and whether the Republican-led legislature delivered conservative results. They cover what the governor said about special session calls and vetoing funding for the legislature, a Bush running for office in Texas, Trump wading into Texas politics, new details about th...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the team discusses the final week of the legislative session, priority bills that died like taxpayer-funded lobbying and big tech censorship, talk of a June special session, the status of various gun bills, and an ERCOT update.

On this episode of our Weekly Roundup podcast, our team talks Abbott’s most recent face mask order, the City of Lubbock being sued by Planned Parenthood, the Governor opting the state out of a bonus federal unemployment benefit, Texas senators opposing Biden’s response to the Israel and Hamas conflict, controversy in Southlake over social media posts by an American Airlines pilot, and the potentia...

On this edition of our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers constitutional carry, critical race theory legislation, the Pandemic Response Act, alcohol to-go, religious service protections during disasters, and tax incentive extensions. Governor Abbott gets a primary challenger, hundreds of House bills face a midnight deadline, Austin’s homeless camping ban reinstatement comes in waves...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup”, the team gives updates on constitutional carry, the Heartbeat bill, homeless camping, federal overreach, transgender athletes in public schools, and bail reform. They run through the results of local elections in San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, as well as Austin’s homeless camping ban initiative, Lubbock’s abortion ban, the 6th Congressional District, a cont...

On this week’s “Weekly Roundup”, our team discusses the governor’s position on constitutional carry, census numbers and how they’ll affect Texas’s congressional districts, a proposal addressing critical race theory, the Texas House reevaluating its mask requirement, homeless policy comparisons, a local official chiding the president’s border policies, two Texans receiving nominations from the Bide...

On this week’s “Weekly Roundup” podcast, our reporters discuss budget night in the Texas House, a lawmaker looking to allocate money to the border wall, the status of constitutional carry, billions in subsidies given to businesses opposing election reforms, the latest federal campaign finance reports, a preview of a special election in Congressional District 6, the latest border apprehension numbe...

This week’s “Weekly Roundup” podcast, our reporters discuss the disaster act bills, the Texas attorney general suing the Biden administration, bills aiming to ban sex-change procedures for minors, primary election delays, the retirement of a Texas congressman, property tax proposals looking to lessen the burden on taxpayers, Cruz going to bat against the MLB, a Dallas homeless ministry looking to...

On our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers Lt. Governor Dan Patrick’s comments on the corporate reaction to election integrity legislation, a bill to make Texas a “Second Amendment sanctuary,” Governor Abbott’s jab at vaccine passports, COVID-19 numbers post-mask mandate rescission, the future of border wall construction, and a statewide elected official setting the stage for a chall...

On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters cover committee hearings in the Texas legislature relating to constitutional carry, George Floyd, police defunding, homeless camping bans, church opening protections, election integrity, and taxpayer funded lobbying. The team also discusses a visit to McAllen to cover a border visit by U.S. senators, the one year anniversary of “15 days to slow the sp...

On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters cover alcohol to go passing the Texas House, Democrats delaying the movement of election integrity legislation, updates on bills related to the gender-changing procedures, state senators being denied access to an unaccompanied minors facility, a Democratic mayor calling out President Biden over the border crisis, a lawsuit involving Native American tr...

On this week’s Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team covers state leaders battling over blackout electricity repricing, an Abbott-appointed PUC commissioner resigning, the governor’s press conference covering child trafficking prevention efforts at the border, election integrity bills filed in the legislature, border encounters breaking a 20-year record, a Texas congressman going after congre...

On this week’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss the rescinding of COVID-19 restrictions, public universities’ approach to mask mandates, legislation seeking to address “Big Tech” censorship, a slate of proposed election security measures, Texas democrats decrying the border crisis, the City of Austin seeking to keep their mask mandate, Congress’ latest COVID-19 stimulus package, Planned Par...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss Governor Abbott’s rescinding of statewide coronavirus restrictions, the latest ERCOT firing and PUC resignation news, energy industry fallout since the blackouts, a bill that would rename an Austin overpass to spite the mayor, the Texas Pandemic Response Act, the Alamo Cenotaph, and President Biden’s comments about Texas’ reopening.

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup”, the reporters discuss blackout and ERCOT drama, legislative priorities from L.t Governor Patrick, Gov. Abbott’s address on winter storm action items, special election news in HD 68 and CD 6, Biden’s immigration policies relating to unaccompanied minors, a halt of the president’s deportation pause, developments on Planned Parenthood and Medicaid, Gina Cara...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our reporters Brad Johnson and Daniel Friend discuss the state’s major energy crisis by breaking down ERCOT, how they responded, and how lawmakers plan to move forward.

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our reporting team discusses the Dallas Mavericks national anthem controversy, gun control proposals from Texas legislators, a proposed tax on natural gas flaring, reactions to Biden’s border policies, developments on gambling in Texas, proposed changes to gendered language in state code, a bar’s license suspension due to COVID-19 regulation violations, a...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses the governor’s state of the state address, federal fundraising numbers, Texas House committee assignments, the governor’s comments on limiting his own emergency powers, developments with Planned Parenthood and Medicaid, a potential reinstatement of the homeless camping and lying ban in Austin, rare earth processing in Texas, human and d...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses a special election for a Texas House seat, Beto O’Rourke eyeing a run for a statewide position, a conservative caucus outlining legislative priorities, the battle between state and local governments, Dallas distributing COVID-19 vaccines, the City of Austin purchasing a hotel to house the homeless, Texas blocking a deportation freeze fr...

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” our team discusses executive orders from the Biden administration affecting Texas, public school revenues in the age of coronavirus, bonds issued by school districts, drama in Dallas over elections, fundraising numbers from the “Big Three,” the Alamo being referred to as a symbol of “whiteness,” a special election slotted for Saturday, confederate monumen...

On our Weekly Roundup podcast, the reporting team discusses the opening day of the 87th legislative session, rules changes in the chambers, and the election of a new Texas House speaker. They also cover updates to the Tinslee Lewis story, Trump’s visit to the border in Texas, public school dropout numbers, and a bill filed to address implicit bias in law enforcement. 

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup” our reporters discuss the insanity in DC surrounding the certification of the Electoral College votes, the coronavirus protocols of the opening days of the 87th legislative session, new bill proposals relating to emergency powers, big knives, and annual legislative sessions, news in North Texas about COVID-19 vaccine distribution and the retirement of a ma...

This week on a special edition of The Texan’s podcast: our reporters discuss the top stories of 2020, including state and local government’s response to the coronavirus, the fight over mail-in ballots, and the 2020 general election.

Railroad Commissioner-elect Jim Wright joined  The Texan’s  reporter Brad Johnson to discuss his campaign, Texas’ energy sector, and his coming job on the regulatory board. In the interview, the political upstart Wright explains what the Railroad Commission does and details his plan for serving on the body.

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporters discuss the arrest of a former Houston police officer after his assault of a man he believed to be transporting illegal ballots, the City of Houston implementing a plan to eliminate traffic deaths, the Texas electoral college making Trump’s win in the state official, the Texas Education Agency making changes relating to testing and school di...