Stories we're following this morning at Progress Texas:
After being seized off a McAllen street on her way to Sunday mass last weekend, Sister Letty Ugboaja has been released by ICE: https://www.tpr.org/news/2026-06-29/south-texas-nun-released-after-being-detained-by-ice
Those of us who visited Corpus Christi last weekend might be wondering what the real story is with the water crisis: in short, it was manufactured over the last three decades by GOP sidestepping of climate science in favor of corporate industrial expansion: https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-climate-change-refusal-crisis-corpus-christi/
Eight Texas State Board of Education seats are up for election this fall - the recent votes on Bible stories and revisionist social studies curriculum make those elections more important than ever: https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/republican-majority-sboe-approves-bible-infused-required-reading-lists-and-social-studies-curriculum/
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