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  • Season 3 – Episode 2 – Feeling Great Yet?

    The chaos continues in 2025. How are you feeling? How’s your confidence? Also, we discuss what’s going on in Austin in the legislature and we take a moment to remember Sylvester Turner.

  • Season 3 Episode 1 – January’s Shock & Awe

    Trump takes office and immediately starts trying to break the government. In Texas, the state legislature gets started – the house fighting with itself and the Senate rolling out a school voucher plan. We don’t take sides here on this podcast, but we do have this request: politicians do questionable things when they think that…

  • Episode 18 – Season 2 2024 In Review

    The year that was. We hoped that people would come out and vote, and well… you kinda know how this movie ends, right? We discuss that and what’s to come in 2025 with the Texas Legislature.

  • Episode 17 – Welcome To Bro World

    The election was probably decided more by who didn’t go to the polls, as opposed to who did. Was that a feature or a bug? Turnout in Harris County was historically low. We discuss who came to vote and what comes next.

  • Episode 16 – 2024 Presidential Race

    Early voting starts in Texas on October 21. Make a plan to vote, and vote all the way down the ballot. In addition to the race for President, Texas has a Senate race that’s going all the way down to the wire, plus there’s lots of judicial races, bond issues, and other important things to…

  • Episode 13 – Post-Primary Wrapup

    Nancy and Christion break down what happened on primary night in Texas: an incumbent DA loses in a landslide, but an incumbent Congresswoman cruises to victory. Yet turnout was anemic. How do we turn out the vote?

  • Episode 12 – Welcome To 2024

    We’re back after a little COVID hiatus and ready to break down the upcoming election year. How do you get excited about voting when you’re not excited about the top of the ticket? Well, the Texas primary is coming in March, and thanks to gerrymandering this is really the only competitive election in the state.…

  • Episode 11 – 2023 Wrapup

    We end the year with a new mayor, a more diverse city council – and yet another election on the horizon. The primary is merely a few months away, and thanks to the gerrymandering in our fair state, these are the only really competitive races. Abbott is out for revenge, setting up candidates to take…

  • Episode 9 – Israel at War, The GOP at War With Itself, Countdown to Early Voting

    From the macro view there’s a lot going on this week: Israel is at war with Hezbollah, the Republican Party is fighting itself both in Congress (Kevin McCarthy) and locally (Ken Paxton). Meanwhile we want to keep our focus on our neighborhood with the mayoral and council elections. Average turnout is 200,000 out of a…

  • Episode 6 – Trump Indicted (again), HISD Takeover, Mayor’s Race

    Pro Tip: If you care about Houston’s roads and schools, pay more attention to the mayor’s race and state government than the presidential horse race.