{"podcast":{"title":"Texas Matters","slug":"texas-matters-537140","podcast_index_feed_id":537140,"rss_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/8ca4d41/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1400x1400+0+0/resize/1400x1400!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb4%2Fe9%2F4fdea463482a9d7140badee1720c%2Fsafeimagekit-resized-img.png","author":"David Martin Davies (texaspublicradio@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Texas is a big state with a growing, diverse population and as the population grows, the issues and challenges facing its residents multiply. Texas Matters is a statewide news program that spends half an hour each week looking at the issues and culture of Texas.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-01T06:20:53.643442+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140"},"episode":{"title":"Texas Matters: A populist history of Texas","slug":"texas-matters-a-populist-history-of-texas","published_at":"2026-04-10T21:44:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-a-populist-history-of-texas","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140","url":"https://www.tpr.org/podcast/texas-matters/2026-04-10/texas-matters-a-populist-history-of-texas","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s188/audio/2026/04/txm1431-myth-red-texas.mp3","summary":"This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one with a conservative bias.But there are parts of Texas history that reflect a more progressive vein of the state’s identity. Stories of the fence cutters, the great cowboy strike and the struggle against the power of big business. The new book \"The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South\" challenges the common view of Texas history.","meta_description":"This week on Texas Matters — The story of Texas that we typically hear is one with a conservative bias.But there are parts of Texas history that reflect a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1740,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/texas-matters-537140/episodes/texas-matters-a-populist-history-of-texas/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/texas-matters-537140/texas-matters-a-populist-history-of-texas.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}