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How Texas Can Lead in Fighting Anti-Asian Racism

Rather than demonize immigrants as forever foreigners, the Texan thing has been to document their longstanding commitments to the state.

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The State’s Bible-Only Reading List Is a Disservice to Texas Kids

A new required list doesn't meet the need to learn about the major religious traditions that make up Texas today—and it could impair public schools' ability to serve diverse populations.

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Can We Survive Naomi Klein’s Depiction of ‘End Times Fascism’?

Klein and co-author Astra Taylor’s new book is too bleak and unfocused for our shameless and sharp-edged political moment.

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Free Tickets, Familiar Jokes, and an Unsettled Party Grasping for Unity—and a Fight

At the unusual midterm convention, Republicans pleaded with voters not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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Not All Texas Republicans Are Condemning Bo French

While many top Texas GOP leaders rushed to denounce the Railroad Commissioner nominee's latest racist screed, another assortment of Lone Star conservatives has stood behind him.

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Why Texans Live and Die by the Gun

At the firearms training center, fear becomes the foundation of the state's violent obsession.

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Beware the Perfect Day

Now is a perfect day, good and fresh, clear and bright...

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In Laredo, a County Judge and MAGA Convert Seeks to Topple Henry Cuellar

Tano Tijerina, who prominently switched parties after Trump's 2024 inroads in South Texas, is trying to cash in on political connections while also casting himself as the insurgent outsider.

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One of the Top Texas House Races Could Come Down to a Single Issue: Water

As Corpus Christi reels from a severe water crisis, debates rage on at the city level and in a top targeted fight for state House District 34, currently held by a Republican.

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1.2 Million Oil Wells Are Buried Underneath Texas. Do You Live on Top of a Dangerous One?

Our state's homes are built above a hundred years of drilling by an industry that was never made to clean up after itself.

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Texas Is Trying to Punish Its Way Out of a Prison Overdose Crisis

While quality treatment options remain scarce—even in the hardest-hit lockups

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Who Stands Between Texas and a Fascist Railroad Commission?

This man here—and a plurality of voters if he can find them

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ICE Contractor for Controversial Camp East Montana Is Trailed by Fraud Allegations

To continue running the deadly El Paso detention center, the feds turn to a company that’s faced numerous lawsuits from labor unions and former employees and is actively fighting a whistleblower in court.

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The Year for Magical Thinking

How one progressive Texan's blog, filled with years of misplaced optimism and disproved predictions, has come to seem increasingly… reasonable

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Mexico’s Deportation Capital

Tapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the United States have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported—not home to Mexico—but first to Central America.

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The Last Mayor of Houston

As the strong mayor of Texas' largest city, the former dean of the Texas Senate should be able to get his way in Houston. But he faces a shrinking ability to do so without vindictive state Republicans or other regional actors intervening.

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Corpus Christi Withholds Water to Wetlands While Lifting Restrictions on Lawns

Reservoirs have rebounded from critical levels, but an emergency order absolves the city of requirements to resume releasing water for the Nueces River Delta.

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Kam Franklin Goes Solo

The accomplished Houston musician, known as lead singer for The Suffers, draws on surprising sources of inspiration and puts “the message into the music” in her new album, "Land of the Neon Sun."

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Will a Coalition of ‘MAGA Moms’ Rally Behind Gina Hinojosa’s Bid for Texas Governor?

Some Republicans say they won’t give Governor Greg Abbott a fourth term after what he’s done to the public education system in Texas.

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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our September/October 2026 Issue

A note from the editor-in-chief

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‘Living like Vampires’: ICE Surge Fractures Daily Life in Deep South Texas

"It's gotten that bad: People don't want to register their children to school. They don't want to do groceries. They don't even want to stop by the store for their morning coffee."

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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick

An Abilene public school librarian has a message for the lieutenant governor and his book-banning crusade.

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Immigrants Keep Saying She’s Ripping Them Off. Why Won’t Texas Stop Her?

The attorney general's office once aggressively pursued fraudsters targeting immigrants. Not on Ken Paxton's watch.

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A Texas Austerity Crisis Is Playing Out City by City, School by School

Texas' local governments are facing growing fiscal pain. What’s that mean for the 2026 elections—and the 2027 session?

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