{"id":365031,"date":"2026-07-08T06:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365031\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T06:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T06:31:21","slug":"tribcast-texas-dems-host-their-own-unity-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/365031\/","title":{"rendered":"TribCast: Texas Dems host their own unity fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/about\/ethics\/#ai-policy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI policy<\/a>, and give us <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appFeleeKVUN0Iytx\/pagPG40gbkU0EfjIr\/form\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, the TribCast assessed the state of the Texas Republican Party following its statewide convention. This week, it\u2019s the Texas Democrats, who recently gathered in Corpus Christi to elect a permanent leader, determine their party platform and game out the chances of winning a statewide seat for the first time in decades. Texas Tribune politics reporter Alejandro Serrano and Renzo Downey, lead writer of the Blast, join the TribCast to unpack what it all means for November and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video above or subscribe to the TribCast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/texas-tribune-tribcast\/id338118901\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/179QJgS6m0z2zShjfFsEJv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.texastribune.org\/feeds\/podcasts\/tribcast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RSS<\/a>. New episodes every Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/author\/eleanor-klibanoff\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Avatar photo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Eleanor-Klibanoff-NP-Update-120x120.jpg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-120 photo\" height=\"120\" width=\"120\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEleanor Klibanoff is the law and politics reporter, based in Austin, where she covers the the Texas Legislature, the Office of the Attorney General, state and federal courts and politics writ large. She&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/author\/eleanor-klibanoff\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Eleanor Klibanoff\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,3496,2135,73828,27,29,293,28],"class_list":["post-365031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-elections","tag-gina-hinojosa","tag-james-talarico","tag-kendall-scudder","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=365031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}