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Stories we're following today at Progress Texas:

The McCombs Business School at UT Austin has been hosting a radical white supremacist scholar: ⁠https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2023-08-09/new-report-reveals-ut-austin-scholar-wrote-for-white-supremacist-publications/⁠

Houston City Council invites 2028 Republican National Convention to town in near-unanimous vote: ⁠https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/houston/article/houston-republican-convention-city-council-votes-18287278.php⁠

Yet another record single-day energy demand met by ERCOT yesterday, made possible by renewable energy providers: ⁠https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-power-use-hits-record-again-amid-heat-wave-2023-08-09/⁠

Democratic lawmakers press USPS on hot weather care for its letter carriers: ⁠https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2023/08/09/texas-congressmen-push-usps-to-give-mail-carriers-bottled-water-breaks-from-extreme-heat/⁠

Texas wildfire danger reaches its second-to-highest risk level: ⁠https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/texas-drought/wildfire-preparedness-level-texas/269-94ec2f71-b237-4f96-a932-67dbcbe9227f⁠

...While Texas actually remains behind wildfire stats for mid-August (knocks on wood): ⁠https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/09/texas-wildfires-2023-heat-wave/⁠

Texas Republicans estimate a 0.1% chance of a conviction in Ken Paxton impeachment trial: ⁠https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/ken-paxton-trial-senate-conviction-chances/⁠

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