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Gov. Greg Abbott speaks about the 2023 legislative session at the Texas Public Policy Foundation offices in Austin on Friday. Abbott and the conservative think tank are closely aligned on a property tax-cut plan.

TribCast: The conservative plan to eliminate school property taxes in Texas

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnJune 2, 2023

On this week’s episode, we speak to the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s James Quintero, who has been at the center of the debate over property taxes this week.

Watch a Texas Tribune conversation on the 2023 regular legislative session

By Staff, Texas Tribune Events StaffMay 29, 2023

In a live edition of TribCast, the Tribune’s weekly podcast, we discussed the outcomes of the regular session, what’s happening in the current special session and more.

Attorney General Ken Paxton recites the Pledge of Allegiance at a Donald Trump rally in Conroe on January 29, 2022.

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TribCast: Disarray in the Texas GOP

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnMay 26, 2023

In this week’s episode, we discuss the first impeachment proceedings against a sitting attorney general in Texas history.

People walk into the House gallery at the Capitol in Austin on April 6. Jordan Vonderhaar for The Texas Tribune

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TribCast: Is a special session of the Texas Legislature inevitable?

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnMay 19, 2023

In this week’s episode, we discuss the long odds facing the school choice bill and the possibility of Gov. Greg Abbott calling lawmakers back for a special session.

Two men walk on the banks of the Rio Grande in Ciudad Juárez on Monday as several hundred migrants wait on the U.S. side to be picked up and processed by Customs and Border Protection.

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TribCast: The scene in Texas as Title 42 lifts

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnMay 12, 2023

On this week’s episode, we discuss the situation at the Texas-Mexico border and the failed effort to raise the age at which Texans can buy semi-automatic rifles.

State representatives recite the Pledge of Allegiance on the House floor in Austin on April 18.

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TribCast: Can Texas’ political leaders stop their bickering for the legislative homestretch?

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnMay 5, 2023

In this week’s episode, we discuss the final three weeks of the Legislature and Colin Allred’s bid for U.S. Senate.

Friends Mario Lozano, left, and Jose Quijada, both 18, help to place the casket of Joshua Keith Beasley Jr. inside of a hearse to be transported to a cemetery for burial on April 1, 2023, outside of Living Word Pentecostal Church in Paris, Texas.

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TribCast: Texas’ troubled juvenile justice system

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnMay 1, 2023

In today’s episode, we discuss the problems in the Texas state agency intended to rehabilitate children who have committed crimes — and whether the Legislature is eyeing any solutions.

Hundreds join the Queer March on the Capitol in Austin on April 15.

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TribCast: Major LGBTQ bills are in the Texas House’s hands

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnApril 21, 2023

In this week’s episode, we discuss the Texas House’s appetite to pass bills related to drag shows, medical care for transgender children and the discussion of sexuality at schools.

Andrea Gallegos sorts through abortion pills that the Alamo Women’s Reproductive Services abortion clinic is no longer able to give out in San Antonio on June 24, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.

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TribCast: A major Texas abortion case and a potential Gov. Greg Abbott pardon in a murder trial

By Matthew Watkins and Justin DehnApril 14, 2023

In this week’s episode, we discuss an attempt to use the courts in Texas to restrict the use of an abortion drug and Gov. Greg Abbott’s potential pardon of an Army sergeant found guilty of murdering a protester in Austin.