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April 13, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Apr 13, 2022

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Jim Henson and Josh Blank discuss the collision of COVID-19 and border security politics in Washington D.C. and Texas, and implication for the Texas gubernatorial race between Greg Abbott and Beto O’Rourke. This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute

March 30th, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Mar 30, 2022

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Jim and Josh discuss Texas governor Greg Abbot’s renewal of the disaster declarations for COVID-19 and border security, as well as the changing public views of the pandemic in Texas. This Episode was Mixed and Mastered by Clayton Faries and Will Shute

March 23, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Mar 23, 2022

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Journalists Perla Trevizo of The Texas Tribune and ProPublica and Andrew Rodriguez Calderón of the Marshall Project join Jim to discuss their joint investigation of Greg Abbott’s border initiative, Operation Lone Star.

March 16th 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Mar 16, 2022

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This week, Jim talks with Robert Vitalis, the author of Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania, about the reemergence of misconceptions and myths about oil and geopolitics in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This Episode was […]

March 10, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Mar 10, 2022

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This week, Jim Henson talks with Lauren McGaughy of the Dallas Morning News to discuss the recent developments in the heated politics around gender affirmative care for transgender kids in Texas.

March 2nd, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Mar 03, 2022

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Jim and Josh discuss early results of the 2022 Texas Primaries and the likely upcoming attorney general runoff election.

February 23rd, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Feb 23, 2022

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Jim and Josh discuss the attempted GOP reboot of public education as an issue in Texas, with a look at recent UT/Texas Politics Project polling results on removing books from libraries, parental influence, and teaching about racism.

February 16th, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Feb 16, 2022

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Jim Henson, Josh Blank, and Daron Shaw discuss the results of the just-released University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll.

February 9th, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Feb 09, 2022

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In a new Second Reading Podcast, Jim Henson and Josh Blank take a close look Latino voting patterns in Texas – and what common media narratives miss about the subject.

February 2nd, 2022 – Second Reading Podcast Feb 02, 2022

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Jim talks with Harvey Kronberg of Quorum Report about the 2022 primary elections and the forces at work in Texas politics.