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Primary Election Day (March 3, 2026)

Primary Election Day (March 3, 2026)

Houston Matters · Michael Hagerty

March 3, 202647m 50s

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Show Notes

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On Tuesday's show: We have the latest news on voter turnout during primary election day.

Also this hour: Houston didn't make the headlines like Minneapolis or Los Angeles for aggressive immigration enforcement this past year, but it felt the impact. More than one in seven Houston-area residents personally know someone who was detained and potentially deported in 2025. We discuss new surveys from Rice University's Kinder Institute on how Houstonians' attitudes toward immigration enforcement are shifting.

Then, retired astronaut Butch Wilmore joins us to talk about his career, including the nine months he spent on the ISS when his mission was originally only supposed to last eight days.

Then, we discuss why the Trump administration wants to extend the Texas border wall through Big Bend National Park.

And we learn about a Texas Tech University archaeology team’s recent discovery of a long-lost Spanish mission site, which sheds new light on missionary life in Texas during the 1700s.

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2026 primary electionarchaeologyastronautsbig bendBig Bend National Parkborder wallButch WilmoreimmigrationpoliticsspaceTexas primaries