T-Squared: Tickets for The Texas Tribune Festival are on sale now

I couldn’t be extra excited to let you know that tickets for the 2022 Texas Tribune Festival are on sale now! We can’t wait to be with you in downtown Austin from Sept. 22-24.

Yep, we’re again in particular person once more, with massive plans for superb one-on-one interviews and impressive panel discussions on the political and coverage challenges of the day, in addition to the headline-making points that have an effect on us all, earlier than enthusiastic, engaged audiences.

We’ll look again on the 2021 legislative session and preview the 2023 session, and we’ll sport out what’s more likely to occur on Election Day this yr. We’ll dive deep into public and better schooling, well being care, the financial system, immigration and the border, transportation, vitality, local weather and extra. We’ll discuss priorities for Texas cities, suburbs and rural communities. We’ll focus on nationwide and worldwide doings as properly. Of course, we’ll prepare our sights on the state of media and tech.

We’re anticipating not less than 100 classes throughout the three days and upwards of 300 marquee audio system from throughout the state and across the nation — as we wish to say, names you recognize and names you need to.

Today, we’re revealing the primary 30 of our distinguished individuals: Greg Casar, Democratic candidate for Congress in District 35; Julián Castro, former U.S. secretary of housing and concrete improvement; Jane Coaston, host of the New York Times podcast “The Argument”; Robert Costa, chief election and marketing campaign correspondent for CBS News; U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-El Paso; U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Houston; Antonio Garza, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico; U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-San Antonio; Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University; Errin Haines, editor-at-large at The nineteenth; Nathan Hecht, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court; Glenn Hegar, the Texas comptroller of public accounts; Wesley Hunt, Republican candidate for Congress in District 38; Eric Johnson, mayor of Dallas; Alexi McCammond, political reporter at Axios; Tim Miller, writer-at-large at The Bulwark; Mike Morath, Texas commissioner of schooling; Melissa Murray, professor at New York University School of Law; Vivek Murthy, surgeon common of the United States; Amna Nawaz, chief correspondent for PBS NewsHour; Kim Ogg, district lawyer of Harris County; Ashley Parker, White House bureau chief for The Washington Post; Mattie Parker, mayor of Fort Worth; Dade Phelan, speaker of the Texas House; Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America; Jessica Rosenworcel, chair of the Federal Communications Commission; Karl Rove, former White House deputy chief of employees; U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Austin; Margaret Spellings, former U.S. secretary of schooling; and Kara Swisher, host of the New York Times podcast “Sway.”

This is barely the start. We’ll be dropping a brand new batch of audio system each couple of weeks, main as much as the discharge of our full program in August.

We’re additionally asserting the return of two in style annual occasions adjoining to the Tribune Festival. This yr’s Franklin Barbecue kickoff is Wednesday, Sept. 21, and incorporates a dialog with Maggie Haberman of The New York Times, whose forthcoming ebook, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America,” is bound to be a must-read. TribFeast, our fundraising dinner to assist nonprofit journalism, is Friday, Sept. 23, and we’re overjoyed to be joined by legendary investigative reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein just a few months after the fiftieth anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

Get your #TribFest22 tickets earlier than costs go up on the finish of this month. As at all times, we’ve reductions for college students, educators and Tribune members (in case you’re not already one, you may develop into one right now and entry the member worth). Proceeds profit our nonprofit news group, funding the good work of our colleagues year-round. See you in September!

Disclosure: Planned Parenthood, Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts and New York Times have been monetary supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news group that’s funded partly by donations from members, foundations and company sponsors. Financial supporters play no position within the Tribune’s journalism. Find a whole checklist of them right here.