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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.apple.com/us/podcast/special-pod-vp-kamala-harris-live-from-houston/id1552998795?i=1000663345746

...Progress Texas' Tatum Owens lines out the impressive resume of our first female VP: https://progresstexas.org/blog/kamala-harris%E2%80%99-background-unburdened-what-has-been

Lizelle Gonzalez, forced to undergo a cesarean section and "mistakenly" thrown in jail on murder charges after a self-induced abortion, gets the go-ahead to sue local officials over her ordeal: https://apnews.com/article/texas-abortion-arrest-0a78cbb8f44cc24c3c9c811e1cc2b4d3

...While Ken Paxton sues the Biden administration over its efforts to provide contraception to Texas teens without parental consent: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/texas-paxton-biden-parental-consent-contraception/

A formal complaint against Ted Cruz is coming over his sidestepping of Senate ethics rules in relation to his thrice-per-week "volunteer" podcast: https://www.tpr.org/podcast/the-source/2024-07-25/dems-file-ethics-complaint-against-podcaster-sen-ted-cruz

...All while Cruz steps up his legal efforts against NPR: https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/sen-ted-cruz-puts-npr-in-hot-seat-over-taxpayer-funding-perceived-political-bias,251095

The deadline to register for the November election is October 7. Are you registered? Are you sure? ALL Texas voters should confirm their registration, right now: https://govotetexas.org/

See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025

...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

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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!

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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 good to go in November: https://govotetexas.org/

Vice President Harris speaks this morning at 10 in Houston at the national convention of the American Federation of Teachers - stream to watch: https://www.aft.org/

Once the target of consternation from some of his fellow Texas progressives, Austin Rep. Lloyd Doggett's public call for President Biden to stand down now seems prescient and courageous: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/25/lloyd-doggett-joe-biden-kamala-harris-texas/

The Texas Democratic Party, nominee for Senate Colin Allred, VP Harris and other progressive leaders are launching a new coordinated campaign on Sunday: https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-launch-major-coordinated-attack-strategy-texas-1929695

Several Texas Democrats sat out of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's controversial address to Congress yesterday: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/07/24/several-texas-democrats-skip-israeli-pm-benjamin-netanyahus-address-to-congress/

...While Governor Greg Abbott draws parallels between the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023 and Texas' immigration issues before a crowd of law enforcement officers: https://www.texasobserver.org/abbott-hamas-sheriffs-border/

The Lubbock City Council has voted to strip funding from a popular monthly arts walk over false accusations of promoting "sexualized content" to kids - yes, they're worked up about a drag show: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/24/lubbock-texas-drag-show-arts-trail-funding/

See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025

...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

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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/politics/2024/07/23/kamala-harris-houston-texas-visit-national-convention-american-federation-of-teachers-union/74518494007/

...While President Joe Biden has rescheduled his visit to UT Austin's LBJ Library to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act for Monday: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2024/07/23/joe-biden-heads-to-texas-on-monday-for-event-commemorating-civil-rights-act/

A study of air quality across the country's national parks finds ozone impacts at New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns National Park, likely due to petroleum extraction activity in Texas' Permian Basin upwind: https://phys.org/news/2024-07-oil-gas-permian-basin-source.html#google_vignette

...While Monday night's 4.9 magnitude earthquake centered around Hermleigh is the strongest ever recorded with direct links to petroleum extraction: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/23/texas-earthquakes-blamed-on-oil-production/74517191007/

...And parts of the Houston metro are now dramatically sinking due to groundwater and petroleum draws: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/groundwater-crisis-katy-subsidence-rule-of-capture/

See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025

...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at https://progresstexas.org.

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 donations: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kamala-harris-fundraising-81-million-biden-drops-out/

...An ActBlue heat map shows D/FW as a major source of Harris' funding: https://www.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1e9lr23/actblue_small_dollar_donation_heat_map/

...Local Metroplex Democratic leaders helped get that done: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/politics/north-texas-politicians-part-of-massive-fundraising-bump-vice-president-kamala-harris/287-fd305e87-e09c-4188-a07c-3e61b73033a3

...105 days to go - NOW is the time to confirm your voter registration: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/texas/texas-lawmakers-endorse-kamala-harris/269-30b43a76-c1cd-47f6-a1ca-7fa34dba50dd

...A handy guide to confirming you're good to vote in Texas in November: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending/article/register-to-vote-texas-19589516.php

...Meanwhile, Ken Paxton's office has shown almost no interest in enforcing campaign ethics violations fines: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/07/23/texas-ethics-campaign-finance-attorney-general/

See Progress Texas' analysis of Project 2025, and what it will mean for Texas should it be enacted: https://progresstexas.org/blog/project-2025-vs-progress-2025

...And a complete guide to Project 2025 from Media Matters: https://www.mediamatters.org/heritage-foundation/guide-project-2025-extreme-right-wing-agenda-next-republican-administration

Thanks for listening! Find our web store and other ways to support our important work this election year at https://progresstexas.org/.

Katherine Culbert is the Democratic nominee for Texas Railroad Commission, challenging longtime incumbent Christi Craddick. Culbert has dedicated her life to the study of mitigating risk - and she sees a direct link between the massive donations made by companies like Houston's Centerpoint to Republican officials, including those on the Railroad Commission, and lax oversight which likely led to vulnerabilities in Houston's power grid - resulting in almost two dozen deaths as a relatively weak Hurrican Beryl knocked the city for a loop. Join us for a closer look at how profits, not people, dictate what happens at all levels of the Texas energy sector, and to learn how YOUR vote could be a catalyst for change.

Learn more about Katherine Culbert and her campaign at https://www.katherine4texas.com/.

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