Episode Description
Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
Once again voting against the party that put him in power, Laredo Congressman Henry Cuellar was the only Democrat in the U.S. House to vote in favor of a strict new voter identification law based upon Donald Trump's unfounded claims of rampant voter fraud: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/us/politics/house-passes-voter-id-bill.html
What the hell happened in El Paso yesterday? PBS's account: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-caused-the-sudden-and-confusing-closure-of-el-pasos-airspace
...The Texas Tribune's version: https://www.texastribune.org/2026/02/11/el-paso-air-space-closed-faa/
The death in Austin of actor James Van Der Beek, in which his family has been left in financial ruin, underscores the deep problems inherent to the current American healthcare system: https://www.newsweek.com/entertainment/james-van-der-beek-raises-important-question-healthcare-11510330
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