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Listen to 23 of our favorite panels from the 2026 Texas Tribune Festival Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Last weekend, The Texas Tribune convened nearly 300 speakers in downtown Austin for conversations about the 2026 elections, the Trump administration, AI, the Texas Legislature and much more. Attendees at The Texas Tribune Festival heard from politicians, authors, academics, journalists and entertainers. There were documentary screenings, book signings and meet-ups.
Listen to 23 of our favorite panels from the 2026 Texas Tribune Festival
One on One with James Talarico 57:31 Karl Rove on 2026 and the Future of Republicans 58:50 Gina Hinojosa on Her Bid to Unseat Greg Abbott 01:03:09 Michael McCaul on his 22 years in Congress 01:01:38 Immigration Judges Speak 01:00:52 Inside Texas’ ICE Detention Centers 01:03:18 The OptimistIc Take on AI 01:00:24 The Texas Republican Agenda 01:00:06 How Should We Regulate AI?
John Fetterman, Marjorie Taylor Greene to close and open TribFest Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . This year’s Texas Tribune Festival opens and closes with keynotes from two of American politics’ most closely watched, and least predictable, voices. In candid interviews with national journalists, former U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and U.S. Sen.
Texas Tribune Festival 2026: Our full lineup is here Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . Today, we announce our full program for the 2026 Texas Tribune Festival, and it comes at one of the most consequential moments in our state and our country’s future. This Sept.
Newly announced TribFest speakers grapple with the country’s hardest questions Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . As we approach the nation’s 250th anniversary, the questions at the heart of American democracy feel more urgent than ever. When we gather for The Texas Tribune Festival this September 24-26 in Austin, we’ll bring together voices who are living those questions with their work, helping us grapple with who we are and where we go from here.
Announcing our next round of can’t-miss speakers for September’s TribFest Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . With a rapidly shifting political landscape and a world increasingly in flux, there’s no shortage of big issues for Texans to reckon with together when we gather at this year’s Texas Tribune Festival.
Announcing our next round of can’t-miss speakers for September’s TribFest
By Matt Ewalt, The Texas Tribune June 2, 2026 With a rapidly shifting political landscape and a world increasingly in flux, there’s no shortage of big issues for Texans to reckon with together when we gather at this year’s Texas Tribune Festival. Among the influential voices joining our lineup in downtown Austin September 24-26 are Marjorie Taylor Greene, former U.S. Representative, R-Georgia; Pete Sessions, U.S. Representative, R-Waco; Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M.
The first 2026 TribFest speakers are here Original
Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy , and give us feedback . We’re excited to share our first round of Texas and national leaders joining us for The Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin Sept. 24-26. Among those taking the TribFest stage this year are former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel; Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves; Texas state Rep.
Sanjay Gupta to close this year’s Texas Tribune Festival - The Texas Tribune Original
One of the world’s most prominent public health journalists will close this year’s Texas Tribune Festival. Fresh off our recent announcement of Maryland Gov. Wes Moore opening TribFest in conversation with former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd, we’re excited to share that Dr. Sanjay Gupta will close our three days of timely and impactful conversations in downtown Austin. Gupta will sit down with CBS Medical Contributor Céline Gounder at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov.
Wes Moore to open this year’s Texas Tribune Festival
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Following our announcement of the full 2025 Texas Tribune Festival lineup, we have even more big news to share: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore opens this year’s festival in conversation with former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd.
Wes Moore to open this year’s Texas Tribune Festival
Generate Key Takeaways Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. See our AI policy, and give us feedback. Following our announcement of the full 2025 Texas Tribune Festival lineup, we have even more big news to share: Maryland Gov. Wes Moore opens this year’s festival in conversation with former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd.
Wes Moore to open this year’s Texas Tribune Festival
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The stage is set: Our full 2025 Texas Tribune Festival lineup is here Original
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Today we announce the full program for the 2025 Texas Tribune Festival — our 15th festival and the biggest in our history — with more than 100 must-see conversations featuring the most influential voices in politics, policy, the media, arts and culture, and beyond. There’s so much to talk about together when we gather in downtown Austin Nov. 13-15.
Deb Haaland, Joan Huffman and Jake Tapper join this year’s TribFest lineup Original
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Building on a 15-year tradition of bringing together the most impactful voices in politics, policy and media, we’re thrilled to announce three more big names for this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, Nov. 13-15 in downtown Austin. Joining the 2025 TribFest lineup are former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, state Sen.
TribFest lineup adds CNN’s Abby Phillip, former AG Eric Holder, and new generation of Texas leaders Original
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The eyes of the nation are once again on Texas. The moves of a consequential special session have governors across the country talking about how they’ll respond and journalists speculating on what it all means. Of course, Texas’ outsized impact goes well beyond politics.
Announcing our next round of can’t-miss speakers for November’s TribFest
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’re four months out from this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, and there’s no shortage of big conversations for Texans to have. When we gather in downtown Austin Nov. 13-15, we’ll hear from civic leaders and changemakers about the forces shaping our state and our world.
Meet the next 20 speakers joining TribFest 2025
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We’re excited to announce the first batch of 2025 Texas Tribune Festival speakers
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’re thrilled to share our first round of Texas and national leaders joining us for The Texas Tribune Festival in downtown Austin Nov. 13-15. Among those taking the stage this year will be Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Maureen Dowd; U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio; Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker; U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, D-California; and U.S. Rep.
The 2025 Texas Tribune Festival will be Nov. 13-15 Original
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Mark your calendar: Our 15th Texas Tribune Festival is happening Nov. 13-15 in downtown Austin. We’re bringing together Texas’ and the nation’s boldest thinkers and doers for three days of exciting interviews and interactive experiences guaranteed to engage, challenge and surprise. And we want you there.
Alejandro Mayorkas joins 2024 Texas Tribune Festival lineup
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Just before we kick off the best Texas Tribune Festival program ever, we’re thrilled to share some late-breaking news.
Gretchen Whitmer and Glenn Youngkin will open and close this year’s Tribune Festival
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’ve got even more big news to share about this year’s TribFest. Two of the nation’s most accomplished and buzzed-about governors — Michigan’s Gretchen Whitmer and Virginia’s Glenn Youngkin — will open and close this year’s festival.
The wait is over: Here’s our full 2024 Texas Tribune Festival lineup
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Today we announce the full program for the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival, with more than 100 must-see conversations featuring the most influential voices in politics, policy, the media, technology and beyond. This year’s TribFest promises to be our most timely and riveting one yet. When we gather by the thousands in downtown Austin from Sept.
TribFest’s star-studded lineup welcomes “Hit Man” director, NPR CEO, daughter of LBJ
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’ve added even more starpower to an already stunning lineup for this year’s Texas Tribune Festival. With less than two months until we convene in downtown Austin, we’re thrilled to announce 20 more outstanding speakers who’ll join us Sept.
Liz Cheney, John Fetterman and Kevin Stitt are joining The Texas Tribune Festival’s lineup
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Liz Cheney, John Fetterman and Kevin Stitt are joining The Texas Tribune Festival’s lineup
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Breaking news: Three big names in national politics will take the TribFest stage Sept. 5-7 in downtown Austin, joining an already stellar lineup of newsmakers at Texas’ breakout politics and policy event. Former U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyoming; U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pennsylvania; and Oklahoma Gov.
Why The Texas Tribune Festival creates space for important conversations
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In a poll released this week by Texas Lyceum, only 37 percent of Texans “strongly agreed” that “democracy is the best form of government,” a decrease from 40 percent in 2019. In addition, a majority of Texans now say they’re at least somewhat dissatisfied with the way democracy is working in the U.S. These numbers hit hard.
T-Squared: Get your tickets now for the 2024 Texas Tribune Festival
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Big news: Tickets are now on sale for The Texas Tribune Festival, our annual ideas gathering that brings Texans together in conversation on politics, policy and all the issues that affect our communities. This Sept.
The 2024 Texas Tribune Festival will be held Sept. 5-7
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Breaking news: This year’s TribFest is happening Sept. 5-7 in downtown Austin! Get ready for our 14th annual Texas Tribune Festival, a multiday celebration of the big, bold ideas that drive politics, policy and the day’s news. Each and every year, conversations happening on TribFest stages make and break news, and this year is no exception.
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Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Yesterday, we launched The Texas Tribune Bookshop on Bookshop.org, which connects readers with independent bookstores around the world and has raised $29 million to sustain independent booksellers.
T-Squared: New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu will open The Texas Tribune Festival
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’re excited to share this exciting news about The Texas Tribune Festival: New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu will take the stage at the historic Paramount Theatre in downtown Austin for our opening night keynote conversation.
T-Squared: U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin will close out the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival
Key coverage Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. We’re thrilled to announce that U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, will close this year’s Texas Tribune Festival — in a candid conversation with Tribune co-founder Evan Smith – to discuss his agenda for America and his future plans. One of the most powerful members of the upper chamber of Congress, Manchin is at the core of all manner of 2024 speculation.
T-Squared: The Texas Tribune Festival welcomes NBCUniversal News Group leaders to lineup
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When we announced our full program for this year’s Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 21-23 in downtown Austin, our schedule was already bursting at the seams with nearly 300 speakers and 125 panels on topics ranging from education and Texas’ energy future to the 2024 races for U.S. Senate and president and the state of democracy.
T-Squared: The wait is over. Our full program for TribFest23 is here!
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The wait is over! We’ve announced our full program for the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 21-23 in downtown Austin.
T-Squared: We’ve added 100 new speakers to the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival program
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. When we recently announced 50 salient names to the lineup for the Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 21-23, the list was a “who’s who” of leaders and innovators shaping the future on state and national issues.
Get your tickets now for the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival
Sign up for our Newsletters As The Texas Tribune’s new director of events and live journalism, and in partnership with the original TribFest maestro Evan Smith, I’m thrilled to share with you that tickets for the 2023 Texas Tribune Festival, happening Sept. 21-23, are now on sale. A true extension of The Texas Tribune’s journalism, TribFest provides vital space for public discourse, live and unscripted, over three days.
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