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Dammed if You Do: East Texas Locals Fight to Stop an Unnecessary Reservoir

In Van Zandt County, a fight over water rights, government transparency, and land ownership came to a head with a proposed dam project.

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New Report Highlights the ‘Fatal Flaws’ Behind Wrongful Capital Convictions

The ACLU found official misconduct, perjury, and predominantly white juries to be leading contributors to exonerated death sentences.

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The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas

The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions are derailing the academic dreams of students who carry out important research—and sometimes pay hefty tuition—to attend Texas institutions.

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Pitted Against Waste

In bucolic areas near the Louisiana line, residents ask, "Why are Texas taxpayers liable for other states’ toxic waste?"

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At Barton Springs, Trans Existence Becomes Resistance

Following a transphobic incident earlier this year, community members gathered to "protect trans joy."

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Prosecutors Drop Only Criminal Cases from Hays County Airbnb Raid

Pending drug charges have been abandoned from the multi-agency April operation that supposedly targeted Tren de Aragua and led to multiple deportations.

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Texas’ Top Voucher Vendor Taps Abbott Allies in Contract Bid, Program Rollout

The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.

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Pro-Life, Anti-Death Penalty

Nan Tolson is the face of the conservative movement against capital punishment in Texas.

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Crypto’s Cryptic Texas Takeover

State regulators don't want you to know about the 60-plus Bitcoin mines guzzling public water and electricity—even though consumers are already paying the price.

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Jane Goodall, the Natural World, and Why I Track Skunks

Whenever I see one, I think: fashion show. Something from Chanel. A bit of art deco. That black and white aesthetic.

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Houston’s Top Magnet High Schools Could Become Private Partnership Charter Schools, Raising Equity Concerns

Texas' largest school district may even convert its renowned performing arts institution under a program that benefitted the state-appointed superintendent in his previous career.

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My University Just Taught Extremists How to Eliminate Academic Programs They Don’t Like

Texas Christian University handed its power to the people working hardest to dismantle learning itself.

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Texas Turns Its Sprawling State Police Force Into Immigration Agents for Trump

The notorious 287(g) task force program has finally reached DPS, raising fears of widespread racial profiling.

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The ‘Queen Mother’ of the Reparations Movement Gets Her Due

A UT-Austin historian tells the under-told story of Audley Moore, “one of the most important activists and theorists of the twentieth century.”

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Black Bookstore Owners, Government Spies, and Murder

At the 2025 Texas Book Festival, authors bring new insights to complex stories in nonfiction.

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A PRAYER for Brody & Rhys

& for Bruno Schulz, shot and killed by Gestapo officer Karl Günther in 1942 while walking home through the Aryan quarter with a loaf of bread

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SNAP Shutdown Will Leave Texas Students like Me Hungry

I don’t know when this shutdown will end or when my benefits will be reinstated. But I do know we are worth more than the petty arguments of political powerhouses.

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Bail Crackdown on Ballot Ignores Mental Health Crisis, Advocates Say

Even without Proposition 3, "The jail system is already the largest warehouse of people with mental illness in the state of Texas."

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Fort Worth ISD Parents Fear the Same Chaos that State Takeover Has Brought to Houston ISD

TEA intervention into locally controlled school districts has become increasingly common—despite mixed results.

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Castle Hills Settles ‘Retaliatory Arrest’ Case for $500,000 in Win for Free Speech Advocates

Along with the monetary settlement, city officials agreed to send its employees to training that the Texas Municipal League will develop about Sylvia Gonzalez’s case.

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Trump’s Federal Cuts Are Hitting Texas Food Banks Hard

Food pantries in the Lone Star State have lost over $50 million in funding this year, with more projected cuts to come.

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Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our November/December 2025 Issue

A note from the editor-in-chief

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Texas Can’t Keep Up with Surge in Workers’ Wage Theft Complaints

State labor investigators struggle to process more and more paycheck complaints, with millions of dollars in workers’ pay at stake.

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A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas from Federal Push for Mining Revival

The United States doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips, or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible.

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ICE Still Won’t Answer Questions About Prosecutor with White Supremacist X Account

Congressman Marc Veasey arrived at an ICE facility Monday in his latest attempt to follow up on the Observer's reporting.

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