Florida's voucher program is going great.

"On any given day, Florida’s education department did not know where 30,000 students were going to school and could not account for the $270 million in taxpayer funds it took to support them."

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Sat down with the great @jimhightower.com for a talk about Texas politics past, present and future. He's been sounding a consistent alarm for decades about the Democratic Party's reliance on and deference to corporate donors.

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This week Jesse talks to Southlands founder and editor @boyceupholt.bsky.social about Southerners' relationship to our natural surroundings — and about a new book Upholt has also written, about the history and destiny of the Mississippi River. theprogressivesouth.org/headlights-e...

Across the South — and especially in Florida, home to Moms for Liberty, Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump and Matt Gaetz — MAGA has spent the last 5 years attacking and demonizing librarians, teachers, LGBTQ people and other innocent parties for "sexualizing" and "grooming" children.

This week on HEADLIGHTS: A talk with Eva Posner at @evincocampaigns.bsky.social about what it takes to run a successful progressive campaign in the South. Also: the impact of lost SNAP benefits. theprogressivesouth.org/headlights-e...

What are the prospects for progress in Texas? Who better to talk to than @progresstexas.bsky.social? @chrismosser.bsky.social is the guest on this week's Headlights, talking Lone Star politics and media. Link below.

This week: great conversation with Texas state Sen. @saraheckhardttx.bsky.social about Lone Star politics: the redistricting fight, the Texas non-voter problem, and where she sees opportunities. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

On this week's HEADLIGHTS: an interview with the reporter and author Alexis Okeowo, a contributing writer for The New Yorker who has a great new book out called BLESSINGS AND DISASTERS: A STORY OF ALABAMA. Part memoir, part history, part deeply reported consideration of her complex home state.

Holiday greeting from @rickbaldwin.bsky.social. #EditorialCartoons

The latest from @rickbaldwin.bsky.social: School vouchers.

The latest from Rick Baldwin: on restoring the Confederacy. (More at rickbaldwincartoons.com)

The conversation in HEADLIGHTS this week is with Dom Kelly of @newdisabledsouth.org: "The South has 1/3 of all disabled people in the entire country — the majority of whom are Black. We also have the legacy of eugenics, of slavery, of Jim Crow, that all inform our policies and our systems today."

It's baaaaaack. This week: Why the Confederacy never really died, and why it's making another one of its zombie resurgences now under the Trump administration. Listen here: sites.libsyn.com/576820/ep-17...

In this week's episode of Headlights (link below), we're talking about the attacks on the Voting Rights Act from Louisiana and elsewhere. Here's @rickbaldwin.bsky.social's take.

Thrilled to welcome @rickbaldwin.bsky.social as a contributor to The Progressive South! Rick is an illustrator, fine artist, writer and podcaster living in the Atlanta area.

We drove out to Basile, La., today for a demonstration organized by @seiu.org at an ICE detention center for women. Union folks from all over the country showing solidarity with their many immigrant members.

"Unions are sexy again!" That's what Vonda McDaniel tells us in this week's episode of "HEADLIGHTS: Voices From the Progressive South." Plus: How Southern states are collaborating with ICE in mass immigrant roundups.

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