In This Episode
Who Is Greg Abbott? (Texas Monthly)
Texas governor 2026: Who is running and what to know (Texas Tribune)
“What happened is completely unacceptable”: Gov. Greg Abbott calls for winterization of Texas energy system (Texas Tribune)
How mismanagement, not wind and solar, causes blackouts (Yale Climate Connections)
Greg Abbott’s Failures Mean Texas Could Suffer Another Freezing Winter Blackout (The Bulwark)
Power Grid Politics: Winter Storm Uri and Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s Image Repair Discourse (Speaker & Gavel)
Texas’ power grid weathered another winter storm. Is it ready for the future? (Texas Tribune).
Greg Abbott’s handwritten notes raise fresh questions over who “misled” him about Uvalde shooting response (Texas Tribune)
91 Texas state troopers responded to the Uvalde massacre. Their bosses have deflected scrutiny and blame. (ProPublica and Texas Tribune).
Justice Department report, “cascading failures” (Texas Tribune).
Abbott deploys state troopers to ‘anti-gang effort’ in Uvalde after two juveniles shot (Longview Journal)
Greg Abbott: Bad Governor, Bad Lawyer (Texas Observer)
Reality Check: Seven Times Texas Leaders Misled the Public (Talking Points Memo)
DOJ Investigating Texas’ Operation Lone Star for Alleged Civil Rights Violations (ProPublica)
Greg Abbott (The Marshall Project)
D.C. attorney general opens investigation into Republican governors’ relocating migrants to the capital (Texas Tribune and ProPublica)
Appeals court tells Texas to remove anti-migrant buoys, in setback at border for Abbott (Dallas Morning News)
Court: Rio Grande buoy barrier can remain for now (Axios)
Gov. Abbott reacts to ‘blame’ question over Texas flood response: ‘That’s the word choice of losers’ (FOX 7 Austin)
Texas Gov. Rants About ‘Friday Night Lights’ to Dodge Flood Blame (The Daily Beast)
The Widening Scandal Surrounding Texas’s Cancer-Fighting Agency (Texas Monthly)
Former CPRIT Executive Indicted on Charges of Deception (Texas Tribune)
CPRIT Official Indicted for Skipping Peer Review (The Cancer Letter)
Evidence heard on two other CPRIT awards, but grand jury chose not to issue indictments (The Dallas Morning News)
Then There’s This: The Big C Stands for Corruption (Austin Chronicle)
Kerrville mayor says he wasn’t aware of state resources that Gov. Abbott said were in place ahead of flooding (Texas Tribune)
Response to deadly Texas floods was ‘a masterclass in how not to communicate,’ experts say (Houston Chronicle)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott gets $6M campaign donation from out-of-state school voucher champion (KUT News)
‘They Bought a Legislature’: What the GOP’s Gains Mean for Vouchers in Texas (Texas Observer)
Greg Abbott outraised Gina Hinojosa but burned through much of his campaign cash in Texas governor’s race (The Texas Tribune)
Gov. Greg Abbott threatens Texas House Democrats with removal from office for fleeing state (Texas Tribune)
DOJ Investigating Texas’ Operation Lone Star for Alleged Civil Rights Violations (ProPublica and Texas Tribune)
Operation Lone Star (Texas Tribune)
D.C. attorney general opens investigation into Republican governors’ relocating migrants to the capital (Texas Tribune and ProPublica)
AOC rips Texas governor for blaming outages on Green New Deal (Independent)
Gov. Abbott faces backlash over likening those questioning flood response to ‘losers’ (Houston Chronicle)
Texas politicians praise Trump’s response to deadly floods (Axios)
Abbott signs camp and flood safety bills with Camp Mystic families (Fox 4)
Jeff Yass, billionaire school voucher advocate, gives Greg Abbott another $4 million (San Antonio Current)
Greg Abbott, Tim Dunn spend millions in Texas GOP primary fights over vouchers, impeachment (NBC Houston)
After decades of lobbying by Christian conservative donors, school voucher legislation may finally have the votes (Texas Tribune)
Greg Abbott outraised Gina Hinojosa but burned through much of his campaign cash in Texas governor’s race (Texas Tribune)
Texas House Democrats break quorum, bolt state after GOP congressional redistricting map passes committee (Houston Public Media)
Can Texas Gov. Greg Abbott remove Democratic lawmakers who left the state over redistricting? (CBS News)
How We Got Here: A Timeline of Gov. Greg Abbott’s COVID Policies (Houston Public Media)
Texas becomes biggest U.S. state to lift COVID-19 mask mandate (PBS News)
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott can’t enforce mask mandate ban, he argues in court (Texas Tribune)
Greg Abbott as Plaintiff (Texas Tribune)
The Big Money Behind Greg Abbott’s Intervention in Killer Doc Case (Texas Observer)
‘People should be able to have the right to vote from home’ in Texas during pandemic (Fort Worth Star Telegram)
Texas Suit Over Voting Is Settled (NY Times)
Abbott donors raked in over $42 million from CPRIT (Lonestar Project)
The Time Ted Cruz Defended a Ban on Dildos (Mother Jones)
