The billionaires who control Texas GOP politics

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🗓️ 9 October 2024

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on the podcast. Take the survey here or at wbur.org/survey. Hurricane Milton is expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast Wednesday night or early Thursday. Rep. Jared Moskowitz talks about his bipartisan call for Congress to pass another $15 billion for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster response. Then, an investigation by The New York Times and ProPublica finds that two billionaire preachers hold the keys to the Republican Party in Texas. Reporter Ava Kofman talks about two men, their influence and interests. And, Alt.Latino's Anamaria Sayre and Felix Contreras discuss this year's performances at El Tiny.

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0:26.4	Let's get started.
0:27.5	We've seen disaster politics before.
0:29.2	We've seen it in Katrina.
0:30.1	We saw it in Superstorm Sandy.
0:31.3	We obviously definitely saw it in COVID. It makes it harder for government to
0:34.8	respond. It makes it harder to get people truthful information.
0:37.8	Responding to Hurricane Milton. It is Wednesday, October 9th from NPR and W-B-O-R Boston welcome to hear and now any time.
0:48.0	I'm Shirley Jahan.
0:50.0	On the show today, two Texas mega donors, the biggest of all, they're both
0:58.9	billionaires and conservative preachers and they pulled the state legislature even farther to the right.
1:06.0	Unlike a lot of conservative billionaires they don't just want to slash regulations and taxes.
1:12.0	They kind of see themselves engaged in a religious kind of
1:16.2	of spiritual battle for the soul of the nation. We'll hear more about the power and
1:20.5	influence these two men wield and then
1:24.0	since a lot of got a little
1:26.4	a lot of gosh
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