Weekly Roundup - July 23, 2021

The Texan Podcast

This week on The Texan’s “Weekly Roundup,” the reporting team discusses the looming special election in Texas’ 6th congressional district, Texas Democrats contracting coronavirus while in D.C. in an attempt to kill GOP-backed election reform, a new candidate entering the race in Texas 24th congressional district, the GOP debating whether absent Democrats can be stripped of their committee chairmanships, Abbott teasing an announcement on a sex-change procedure ban for minors, a Texas judge making moves on DACA, a ransomware attack in one Texas school district, the application for over $1 billion in property tax abatements promising a total of 19 jobs, and how police funding is faring in two of Texas’ biggest cities.