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- 🇺🇸US · Government#1945K to 30K
- 🇹🇷TR · Government#533K to 10K
- 🇹🇼TW · Government#172500 to 3K
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Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward
May 15, 2026
29m 00s
Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two
May 12, 2026
28m 59s
Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal
May 11, 2026
28m 59s
Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case
Apr 18, 2026
28m 59s
Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas
Apr 10, 2026
29m 00s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 5/15/26 | Texas Matters: SB4 is blocked, and West Texas border wall moves forward | This week on Texas Matters: Sections of SB4 are blocked — which would have allowed local police to arrest suspected illegal border crossers. And Despite outcry in West Texas the efforts to build the border wall in Big Bend Country continues. | 29m 00s | ||||||
| 5/12/26 | Texas Matters: Pass The Biscuits, Pappy - Part Two | “Pass the Politics Pappy” explores the remarkable political rise of W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel, a flour salesman who used his popular radio show and catchy slogans to rocket into becoming Texas Governor and then U.S. Senator in the late 1930s and 1940s. Part 2 of the series focuses on O'Daniel's time as governor and delivered very little on his grand promises. Ultimately O’Daniel’s story serves as a cautionary tale of media-driven political populism. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 5/11/26 | Texas Matters: Watering down FEMA, abortion pill access, Texas prisons' compassionate release and questions about Texas ocean desal | This week on Texas Matters: How the Trump administration is watering down FEMA. The prison system's compassionate release program is called a "failure." The threat to mail access to the abortion pill. And Texas is preparing to go all in on ocean desal. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 4/18/26 | Texas Matters: Sharia law rhetoric, abortion care fallout, and a contested death row case | This week on Texas Matters: Why “Sharia law” has become a flashpoint in Texas politics. How the state’s abortion ban is tied to new scrutiny after three doctors were disciplined. And why a Texas death row case still hinges on hypnosis, despite the practice being banned in criminal investigations in the state. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 4/10/26 | Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas | This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one with a conservative bias.But there are parts of Texas history that reflect a more progressive vein of the state’s identity. Stories of the fence cutters, the great cowboy strike and the struggle against the power of big business. The new book "The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South" challenges the common view of Texas history. | 29m 00s | ||||||
| 3/27/26 | Texas Matters: Larry McMurtry and the making of the modern Texas myth | This week on "Texas Matters," the life and writing of Larry McMurtry and how he refined the myths of being a Texan. David Streitfeld has written a biography of Texas writer Larry McMurtry — “Western Star: The Life and Legends of Larry McMurtry.” | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 3/13/26 | Texas Matters: Music from behind the walls of Texas prisons | This week on Texas Matters — forgotten songs from Texas prisons. Heartfelt tracks written, performed, and recorded by incarcerated men. The resurrected recordings from the '60s, ’70s, and ’80s tell us about crime and punishment, rehabilitation, and the humanity of the men locked inside. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 3/9/26 | Texas Matters: How Texas got religion | Millions of Texans tell pollsters religion is very important in their lives. Every Sunday hundreds of megachurches fill up and celebrate their faith – which also shapes their politics. The result , elections are won and lost based on performances of righteousness. The State Board of Education bends the nation’s textbooks to a conservative Lone Star gospel, and laws are passed based on Christian values. How did Texas become “one state under God"? | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 2/22/26 | Texas Matters: The meaning of the Spanish missions in San Antonio | Today on Texas Matters: The old Spanish missions of San Antonio — 300 years of history, community memory and meaning. Joel Daniel Kitchens is the author of “San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory and Heritage.” | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 2/13/26 | Texas Matters: 1964, Civil Rights and the Lady Bird Special | In October 1964, as the South simmered under the tensions following the signing of the Civil Rights Act three months earlier, First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, began a whistle-stop tour of the South. She shattered the expectations of a presidential spouse with speeches, diplomacy, and palpable compassion as she encouraged the South to leave Jim Crow behind. | 28m 59s | ||||||
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| 1/31/26 | Texas Matters: CAIR refutes Texas claim of pushing Sharia law and terrorism | Governor Greg Abbott and other Republican state leaders are targeting CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Abbott has signed a proclamation calling CAIR a “terrorist organization.” Edward Ahmed Mitchell, National Deputy Director of CAIR, says these are baseless conspiracy theories created for politics. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 1/24/26 | Texas Matters: How Texans experience violence | Today on Texas Matters — A first-of-its-kind survey shows how Texans experience violence. And how changes at the post office can impact the coming election. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 1/17/26 | Texas Matters: On trial — The State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales | Today on Texas Matters: The State of Texas v. Adrian Gonzales. The former Uvalde School District police officer on trial. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | Texas Matters: Nuclear-powered AI and the first Texas movie studio | The Donald J. Trump Advanced Energy and intelligence Campus — near Amarillo — plans to use nuclear power for the biggest data center ever. And how in 1910 the classic western movie was born in San Antonio. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 12/26/25 | Texas Matters: Pass The Politics, Pappy | W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel was a flour salesman turned broadcaster who mastered early mass media to build a political machine. As host of a hugely popular radio show featuring his Hillbilly Boys band, he blended homespun entertainment with relentless self-promotion. He converted his audience into votes, winning the Texas governorship in 1938 and later a U.S. Senate seat. O’Daniel’s radio fame let him bypass party elites and critics, turning airtime into personal power and profit. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 12/19/25 | Texas Matters: Remembering Joe Ely and 'Love in the Midst of Mayhem' | Texas lost a flatlander troubadour — songwriter Joe Ely.The Amarillo native established himself as a songwriter’s songwriter and a musician’s musician, who sidestepped mainstream popularity but nevertheless attracted a devoted fanbase and legions of famous admirers. We take a look back to an interview from 2020 with the great Joe Ely. | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 12/12/25 | Texas Matters: Blood Work — Inside America’s plasma-for-cash economy | As a growing number of people are caught in the affordability crisis, they are turning to selling their blood plasma to make ends meet. That plasma is used to make many lifesaving medications but are the donors being fairly compensated? We take a look at how the international blood plasma economy works and why Texas is the leading source for plasma. | 29m 00s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 |  Texas Matters: Skip Hollandsworth and 'She Kills' | For over 30 years Skip Hollandsworth has been a master storyteller at "Texas Monthly." He’s been investigating and telling the stories of Texas true crime with a keen eye for detail and a way of getting people to spill the tea. We hear from Skip about his new book “She Kills: The Murderous Socialite, the Cross-Dressing Bank Robber, and Other True Crime Tales." | 28m 59s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | Texas Matters: FEMA follow-up in Kerr County; Searching for the last flood victims; pregnant in jail | This week on Texas Matters: How did FEMA actually perform after the July 4th Hill Country flood? Texas Rangers continue to search for flood victims. And investigating how pregnant women in labor are ignored while in jail. | 28m 59s | ||||||
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Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.
Chart Positions
3 placements across 3 markets.