The Rabble | Texas Politics for the Unruly Mob

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Let's stop flipping out and start flipping Texas! A weekly conversation between three progressive activists bringing confetti and taco cannons to Texas politics. Plus, we always offer one simple, straightforward mission to turn Texas blue. Hosted by Rouser: Becky Bullard, Ashley Cheng and Kristen Gunn. Find us on socials: @therabbletx.

Episode Date
We play "Spin the Bottle" with the 87th Texas legislature (& Diana Gómez of Progress Texas & Mike Kanin of the Texas Observer)
Jun 07, 2021
How bills get passed (or don't) in the Texas legislature
Jan 13, 2021
The Rabble's 2020 End-of-Year Extravaganza!
Dec 30, 2020
Day 46: Daily Democracy Challenge (0 Days 'til Election)
Nov 03, 2020
Day 45: Daily Democracy Challenge (1 Day 'til Election)
Nov 02, 2020
Day 44: Daily Democracy Challenge (2 Days 'til Election)
Nov 01, 2020
"In the House": Series finale with Swing Left
Oct 31, 2020
Day 43: Daily Democracy Challenge (3 Days 'til Election)
Oct 31, 2020
Day 42: Daily Democracy Challenge (4 Days 'til Election)
Oct 30, 2020
Day 41: Daily Democracy Challenge (5 Days 'til Election)
Oct 29, 2020
Day 40: Daily Democracy Challenge (6 Days 'til Election)
Oct 28, 2020
Day 39: Daily Democracy Challenge (7 Days 'til Election)
Oct 27, 2020
Day 38: Daily Democracy Challenge (8 Days 'til Election)
Oct 26, 2020
Day 37: Daily Democracy Challenge (9 Days 'til Election)
Oct 25, 2020
Day 36: Daily Democracy Challenge (10 Days 'til Election)
Oct 24, 2020
Day 35: Daily Democracy Challenge (11 Days 'til Election)
Oct 23, 2020
Day 34: Daily Democracy Challenge (12 Days 'til Election)
Oct 22, 2020
Day 33: Daily Democracy Challenge (13 Days 'til Election)
Oct 21, 2020
Day 32: Daily Democracy Challenge (14 Days 'til Election)
Oct 20, 2020
Day 31: Daily Democracy Challenge (15 Days 'til Election)
Oct 19, 2020
Day 30: Daily Democracy Challenge (16 Days 'til Election)
Oct 18, 2020
Day 29: Daily Democracy Challenge (17 Days 'til Election)
Oct 17, 2020
Day 28: Daily Democracy Challenge (18 Days 'til Election)
Oct 16, 2020
Day 27: Daily Democracy Challenge (19 Days 'til Election)
Oct 15, 2020
Day 26: Daily Democracy Challenge (20 Days 'til Election)
Oct 14, 2020
Day 25: Daily Democracy Challenge (21 Days 'til Election)
Oct 13, 2020
Day 24: Daily Democracy Challenge (22 Days 'til Election)
Oct 12, 2020
Day 23: Daily Democracy Challenge (23 Days 'til Election)
Oct 11, 2020
Day 22: Daily Democracy Challenge (24 Days 'til Election)
Oct 10, 2020
Day 21: Daily Democracy Challenge (25 Days 'til Election)
Oct 09, 2020
Day 20: Daily Democracy Challenge (26 Days 'til Election)
Oct 08, 2020
Day 19: Daily Democracy Challenge (27 Days 'til Election)
Oct 07, 2020
Day 18: Daily Democracy Challenge (28 Days 'til Election)
Oct 06, 2020
Day 17: Daily Democracy Challenge (29 Days 'til Election)
Oct 05, 2020
Day 16: Daily Democracy Challenge (30 Days 'til Election)
Oct 04, 2020
Day 15: Daily Democracy Challenge (31 Days 'til Election)
Oct 03, 2020
Day 14: Daily Democracy Challenge (32 Days 'til Election)
Oct 02, 2020
Day 13: Daily Democracy Challenge (33 Days 'til Election)
Oct 01, 2020
"In the House": The 'what the healthcare?!' episode
Oct 01, 2020
Day 12: Daily Democracy Challenge (34 Days 'til Election)
Sep 30, 2020
Day 11: Daily Democracy Challenge (35 Days 'til Election)
Sep 29, 2020
Day 10: Daily Democracy Challenge (36 Days 'til Election)
Sep 28, 2020
Day 9: Daily Democracy Challenge (37 Days 'til Election)
Sep 27, 2020
Day 8: Daily Democracy Challenge (38 Days 'til Election)
Sep 26, 2020
Day 7: Daily Democracy Challenge (39 Days 'til Election)
Sep 25, 2020
Day 6: Daily Democracy Challenge (40 Days 'til Election)
Sep 24, 2020
Day 5: Daily Democracy Challenge (41 Days 'til Election)
Sep 23, 2020
Day 4: Daily Democracy Challenge (42 Days 'til Election)
Sep 22, 2020
Day 3: Daily Democracy Challenge (43 Days 'til Election)
Sep 21, 2020
Day 2: Daily Democracy Challenge (44 Days 'til Election)
Sep 20, 2020
Day 1: Daily Democracy Challenge (45 Days 'til Election)
Sep 19, 2020
Introducing the Daily Democracy Challenge!
Sep 18, 2020
"In the House": The back to school (?) episode
Aug 26, 2020
"In the House": The red, white & blue-terus episode (reproductive freeeedom!)
Jul 03, 2020
"In the House" Series Premiere
Jun 12, 2020
S2, E11: A special announcement (made while wearing wigs)
Apr 11, 2020
S2, E10: Seems like a good time to make some new internet friends
Apr 03, 2020
S2, E9: Time to come to our census, y'all!
Mar 27, 2020
S2, E8: The COVID19 pep talk we all needed, from Dr. Pritesh Gandhi
Mar 20, 2020
S2, E7: International Women's Day with Rosa Rebellion - "Continuing the Voting Revolution"
Mar 13, 2020
Season 2, Episode 6: You - yes you! - can be a delegate, too
Mar 06, 2020
Bonus episode: Sema Hernandez, U.S. Senate candidate
Mar 02, 2020
Season 2, Episode 5: Should we all play pundit? With FOX News progressive political analyst Jehmu Greene
Feb 28, 2020
Bonus episode: Annie Garcia, U.S. Senate candidate
Feb 25, 2020
Season 2, Episode 4: Help, my ballot is very long and I don't know what I'm doing! Down-ballot lightning round. With former candidate Joi Chevalier
Feb 21, 2020
Season 2, Episode 3: Beto on how to have fun in politics
Feb 17, 2020
Season 2, Episode 2: Building a more intersectional Texas with MEASURE
Feb 07, 2020
Season 2, Episode 1: Live from the State of the Uterus
Jan 31, 2020
The Rabble Faves: Drinking game recap of the 2019 Texas legislative session
Jan 12, 2020
The Rabble Faves: Texas women who inspire us & the moments that made us activists
Jan 04, 2020
The Rabble Faves: Cheerful persistence through cancer & more with Glenaan O'Neil of the Lone Star Victims Advocacy Project
Dec 27, 2019
The Rabble Faves: "I had an abortion and I ain't sorry"
Dec 21, 2019
The Rabble Faves: "The babies at the border and how you can help"
Dec 13, 2019
The Rabble Faves: Wendy Davis
Dec 06, 2019
Season 1 Finale! LIVE with Emily Ramshaw, Editor-in-Chief (for now) of the Texas Tribune, TX State Rep. Gina Hinojosa, Royce Brooks of Annie's List & Dyana Limon-Mercado of Planned Parenthood & the Travis County Dems
Nov 22, 2019
Immigration activist Joshua Rubin on holding onto love when hope feels lost | Texas is SWINGING, baby | Protecting DACA | #bluesquadgoals
Nov 15, 2019
U.S. Senate Candidate Amanda Edwards on education, healthcare, and getting results | Why EVERYONE should care about schools | Justice for Rodney Reed | Are YOU The Next Wendy Davis??
Nov 08, 2019
Austin Mayor Steve Adler on state vs city + homelessness | FREAKING VOTE! | Haunted Capitol tour! | Free Delicia Carmichael | We <3 Lina Hidalgo
Nov 01, 2019
The AOC episode... mini Green New Deal + AOC endorses Jessica Cisneros in TX-28 | NAACP Austin President Nelson Linder talks racism & policing | Money in politics
Oct 25, 2019
U.S. Senate candidate MJ Hegar on protecting & persisting | Penises pay way less taxes | UGH FINE we'll talk about Bonnghazi | Eliz Markowitz FTW!
Oct 18, 2019
"Politics Is Personal" Series: "Change their hearts, not our parts" - Alicia Roth Weigel on becoming an intersex advocate
Oct 11, 2019
"Politics Is Personal" Series: Abie Ikhinmwin on finding herself homeless in Austin
Oct 04, 2019
Politics & comedy with "Over the Lege" creator Stephanie Chiarello | Climate Strike while the ire is hot | Standing up for transwomen & LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Sep 27, 2019
"Hell yes, we're going to take your AR-15" | Abstinence only? F*ck that | Cheerful persistence with Glenaan O'Neil, founder of the Lone Star Victims Advocacy Project | We're #SickOfItTX aren't you?
Sep 20, 2019
Abortion AF! with Lizz Winstead, co-creator of The Daily Show | Arnold Schwarzenegger & Eric Holder awkwardly hold hands against gerrymandering | RIP Texas polling locations
Sep 13, 2019
People who are homeless are *people*... we talk to community activist Chris Harris | "Those pesky nudes!" | Climate crisis existential crisis | Call ya gov'na
Sep 06, 2019
"My mom and I aren't talking." Pro tips on conversation w/o polarization from Karen Gross of Citizen Discourse | HBD Ann Richards! | U Visas are an FU to the El Paso shooter | Rs are up to some dirty tricks
Aug 30, 2019
Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez on her U.S. Senate run vs Cornyn | Hitler lurved the U.S. Border Patrol (surprise) | Toothbrushes! Toothbrushes? | Austin's budget dollahs make us hollah
Aug 23, 2019
Mucho amor for Latinx Texans | It ain't easy being #GreenShirtGuy | Are Hitler comparisons fair? Immigration law legend Carlos Spector weighs in | We need a Plan B for sh*tty city councilmen
Aug 16, 2019
We <3 El Paso + clap back at NRA talking points with Ed Scruggs of TX Gun Sense | #Texodus! (& surprise guest Kim Olson) | Rooting out police racism with the Plain View Project
Aug 09, 2019
"Politics Is Personal" Series: Diana Earl of Moms Demand Action on becoming an "actionist" & being a person of color in mostly white "progressive" spaces
Aug 02, 2019
"Politics Is Personal" Series: Immigration Attorney and Activist Pooja Sethi on defeating shyness by harnessing the power of show tunes to fight oppression
Jul 26, 2019
"Politics Is Personal" Series: Ann Finch of Team Brownsville on finding purpose at the border
Jul 19, 2019
Gina Ortiz Jones throws shade at Will Hurd re: kids at the border | Psst, you might not get in trouble for pot RN | Republicans hate healthcare | Jen Ramos, #1 Young Democrat in TX
Jul 12, 2019
Happy birthday, USA! Let's do democracy: register voters, help your precinct chair (or become one!), get yoself to the Dem Convention. With Brittany Switzer of the Texas Dems.
Jul 05, 2019
The babies at the border and how you can help them with special guest TX Rep. Mary González and guest host Cheasty Anderson
Jun 28, 2019
Pride Special! | Becky comes out | Erica Nix, Briona Jenkins & Charlie Bonner do FMK the queer way | Save the drag queens | Gay bunnies
Jun 21, 2019
Pod Bless Texas/The Rabble Crossover Episode! | "Never have I ever" with Kendall Scudder and Lillian Salerno | We salivate over Whataburger shoes
Jun 14, 2019
Awkward Ted Cruz/John Cornyn 3-way F | Supermajority co-founder & shero Jess Morales Rocketto! | TX ain't "The Friendly State" for homeless folks
Jun 07, 2019
Drunk (recent) history: 86th TX lege edition | We learn why "vote blue no matter who" is B.S. | Max Lars, Chief of Staff for the TX House Dem "Freshman of the Year "
May 31, 2019
Hell week in #TXlege | A dirty Ted Cruz f*ck | Dear Rep. Stickland: Boy 'bye | Progressive strategist Kolby Monnig explains WTF is "sine die"
May 24, 2019
Gird your uterus! | <3 A'shanti Gholar of the Brown Girls Guide to Politics <3 | The voter suppression/low-voter turnout infinite loop
May 17, 2019
Help a mother out | Social justice activist Cluren Williams talks Sandra Bland | Art as activism | Jail is no place to be pregnant
May 10, 2019
Young peeps savin' the day | Internet holes FTW! | 1922 lynching victim gets a proper memorial | First-time school board candidate Aisha Ojha
May 03, 2019
Did we just talk to our next prez?! #SheThePeople2020 | Ashley does Dallas | Even the word "marijuana" is racist
Apr 26, 2019
(LIVE!) We play "Westeros or Texas?" | Must-hear anti-conversion therapy testimony | Young Democrats 4eva
Apr 19, 2019
Gun nuts - now even McNuttier | Beto's '18 campaign manager Jody Casey on parenting & politics | Pink spandex v. InfoWars
Apr 12, 2019
Wendy Davis 2020 (zomg) | Is unwanted hair-sniffing ok? | The TX House gets As (except Stickland) | No more guns on toilets plz
Apr 05, 2019
April 1 | RBG's notorious retirement party | Road trip to Pound Town | I don't vanna Ivanka
Apr 01, 2019
Dick Pic-Free Zone | OITNB actress Ashley Jordyn on #StartByBelieving | Stop the anti-LGBTQ SB17 | Gerrymandering, the board game!
Mar 29, 2019
In the weeds on marijuana | A love letter to Texas | Let's stop paying for baby jails | We fangirl "Pod Save the People"
Mar 22, 2019
Beto! Beto. Beto…? Existential presidential thoughts | We have a period f*** | We talk to presidential hopeful Andrew Yang
Mar 15, 2019
Nancy Pelosi was here | "I had an abortion and I ain't sorry" | We fangirl over Rep. Talarico's whole office | Save the mamas
Mar 08, 2019
Let’s send TxLege to sex ed | Citizenship test Cash Cab | How can we support the Black community? | To John Cornyn: Boy 'bye
Feb 28, 2019
John Cornyn Price is Right | Paxton Family Values | The Rainbow Connection: The lovers, the dreamers and Bri
Feb 19, 2019
Galentine’s <3 | We ask Julie Oliver if she’s running again | We gush on TX sheroes and “Black Girl Magic” | We remember the moments that made us activists
Feb 13, 2019
We are hot for the Texas Tribune | And Medicaid expansion | And gun reform | But super cold on Ken Paxton
Feb 04, 2019
Dem presidential nomination Hunger Games | We hate on hate crimes | Can you pass my bills, can you pass my telephone bills
Jan 30, 2019
Cardi B may be smarter than POTUS | We're not crying; you're crying | The Internets giveth and the Internets taketh away our ability to vote
Jan 23, 2019
Women are winning with Kim Olson | Beto supporters are BAE | The Wall needs to die
Jan 15, 2019