Guest Pod: Progress Texas Daily Dispatch, August 11 2023

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Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:

Operation Lone Star claims Noah's Ark as their excuse to place deadly barriers in the Rio Grande: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-buoys-noahs-ark-18289332.php

Chip Roy leads charge to defund the Border Patrol: https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/08-10-2023/roy-approps-demands/

Federal grand jury calls witnesses connected to Ken Paxton: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/10/ken-paxton-grand-jury/

As predicted, DPS officers patrolling Austin are targeting Black and Latino Texans: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/10/texas-austin-dps-state-troopers-police-communities-color/

Texas public schools, soon required by law to post armed guards, can't find or afford to hire them: https://www.expressnews.com/news/education/article/school-security-new-law-hb3-18285762.php

Texas judge says outcome of Harris County election challenges by GOP will take time to complete: https://news.yahoo.com/texas-judge-says-no-quick-211601128.html

Yet another all-time ERCOT power demand record yesterday (the third just this week): https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-power-use-hits-record-third-time-this-week-amid-heat-wave-2023-08-10/

...While extreme heat can mess you up faster than you think: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/10/well/live/heat-body-dehydration-health.html

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