The Rabble | Texas Politics for the Unruly Mob

Did you vote in the primary? Congrats -- you're qualified to be a delegate at the big ol' national convention to choose a presidential candidate this summer! But first you have to go to your local co…

This bonus episode features an interview with candidate Sema Hernandez. The Rabble is committed to helping all the female candidates for U.S. Senate from Texas be heard before primary day.  Check out…

Super Taco Tuesday is almost here! We sat down for a pre-primary pep talk with progressive political analyst and super-inspiring human, Jehmu Greene. She coaches us on how to decide who to vote for, …

This bonus episode features an interview with candidate Annie Garcia. The Rabble is committed to helping all the female candidates for U.S. Senate from Texas be heard before primary day.  Check out o…

What does a railroad commissioner ACTUALLY do? Wait... a county judge is NOT a judge? How do I decide which *actual* judge to vote for?!? This week we get you up to speed on down-ballot races. Former…

Beto was here! We got him to play "two truths and a lie," give us his thoughts on the presidential race, and tell us about his new organization, Powered by People. Plus, he tells us how we can turn T…

Meme Styles blew the doors off this year's Women's March in Austin with her passionate speech calling for a Texas where no one gets left behind as we work to build a brighter future. We were thrilled…

We're baaaack! The Rabble podcast season two opener took place live at the Boss Babes' State of the Uterus, an annual party for progress, raising funds for reproductive justice, community health and …

While The Rabble podcast is on break, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes. Since the 86th Texas legislature gaveled in a year ago this week, we thought it was fitting to replay our wrap-up…

While The Rabble podcast is on break, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from Season 1. This episode originally aired on February 13, 2019 - Galentine's Day! Because Galentine's is all ab…

While The Rabble podcast is on break, we are revisiting some of our favorite episodes. We were so inspired by Glenaan O'Neil of the Lone Star Victims Advocacy Project, who is cheerfully persisting fi…

While The Rabble is on break, we are revisiting some of our favorite, most impactful, or most moving episodes. We love this episode because of the candid, vulnerable, eloquent story our guest Zoraima…

While The Rabble is on break, we are revisiting some of our favorite, most impactful, or most moving episodes. This episode originally aired on June 28, 2019. Since its debut, it has continued to be …

While we're on break, we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from Season 1. This week, Wendy Davis officially filed to be on the ballot for U.S. Congress in Texas's 21st district (Becky's dis…

WHEW, y'all. This is our fav (& final!) episode of season one. By some Texas-sized miracle, we got to talk with Emily Ramshaw mere hours after she announced she'll be leaving her post as editor-in-ch…

For our last episode before the LIVE FINALE (!!!) we sat down with immigration activist Joshua Rubin to talk about what makes someone decide that they need to be on the front lines of an issue, no ma…

We're all about getting Texans to TAKE ACTION - but first we need to GET EDUCATED! This week we dove into recent developments in public school closures, and got lessons in the history of systemic ine…

Judging from the Halloween-week drama in the Lone Star State, there's nothing that Texas Republicans find scarier than... CITIES! And... DEMOCRATS! No wonder Gov. Abbott and (soon-to-be-ex) Texas Hou…

We're down with AOC (yeah, you know me)... and apparently she's down with TX! Especially young, progressive Latina Jessica Cisneros running in TX-28. Plus, the Green New Deal is already starting righ…

U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar shares her thoughts on giving up her life's goal of becoming a pilot in service of something greater than herself, the situation in Syria, and how she's campaigning dif…