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This Session’s Worst Anti-Abortion Bill Died, but Pro-Choice Advocates Aren’t Celebrating

Following mixed results for both sides, the far right says it won’t give up on targeting what little abortion access remains in Texas.

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Texas Quietly Downsizes Border Security Spending

But outlays remain far above state funding prior to the Operation Lone Star era.

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I Was an Undocumented Texas College Student. I’m Not Going Anywhere—and Neither Is Our Movement.

Lawmakers lacked the political courage for a floor vote at the Capitol on the Texas Dream Act, so state leaders took a coward’s path.

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Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

“It’s particularly important at a moment when our state leaders have demonstrated that they don't want students to have a really full, inclusive accounting of our state or national past.”

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Here Are the New Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Texas Passed into Law

This session, the Legislature filed more anti-LGBTQ+ bills than ever before. The dozen that passed threaten to negatively impact queer Texans.

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The Massive U.S. Pipeline Buildout Is Mostly for Gas Going Overseas

Plans for U.S. gas pipelines could lock in a dramatic increase in fossil fuel exports and their greenhouse gas emissions, a new report finds.

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Will Texas Workers Ever Get a Break from the Summer Heat?

A long-awaited hearing on a proposed OSHA heat protection rule is set for June 16, but workers are uncertain to get relief under Trump.

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Legislature Mandates Sheriff-ICE Cooperation in Jails or Streets

Texas lawmakers are ordering all counties to seek federal agreements that may be limited to jailhouses—or may convert deputies into roving immigration agents.

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Texas House Passes Raft of Dan Patrick Priorities Imposing Conservative Mandates on Public Ed

In final days of session, the lower chamber voted to further advance the classroom culture wars.

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The Love and Loss of the Quintanillas

A new documentary uses archival family footage to retell the story of Selena y Los Dinos.

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Abbott’s Bail Crackdown Meets Mixed Fate in Texas House

The lower chamber approves key pieces—but only pieces—of the governor's pretrial incarceration agenda.

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Ronnie Dugger, 1930-2025

The Observer's crusading founding editor—a prolific author and agitator who helped animate the spirit of a true Texas liberalism—has died at 95.

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New Leads in an Infamous Corpus Christi Cold Case

An open-source review unearths fresh details about a Texas oilman’s murder.

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Texas Set to Create State Bitcoin Reserve

The latest version of the bill includes a previously nixed provision to allow Texans to donate crypto to the fund.

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Three Years Later, an Uncle in Uvalde Searches for Solutions on School Board

Jesse Rizo, who lost a niece in Texas' deadliest school shooting, turned pain into a run for public office. He thinks his town is beginning to “come back together.”

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Republicans Push to Define Biological Sex in Statute

“If biological sex were as obvious as lawmakers keep insisting that biological sex is, we wouldn’t be here.”

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Texas School Districts Slam the Senate’s School Finance Plan

“It’s like your house being on fire, and the fire department showing up with a 12 ounce cup of water”

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‘You Don’t Have to Kill Us. You Don’t Have to Throw Us Away.’

Clinton Young spent nearly two decades condemned to die. His peaceful, productive time out on bond poses questions about how Texas decides who lives long enough to get another chance.

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Texas Set to Execute Fourth Person of the Year on Tuesday

Matthew Johnson was convicted of the 2012 murder of Nancy Harris in Dallas County.

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Shipped to El Salvador: An Austin Immigration Lawyer on Her Teen Client’s Forced ‘Disappearance’

“Due process hasn’t been protected. The process that is set in place in this country that is the basis and foundation of our legal system was not allowed to work.”

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A Thirsty Tesla Refinery Could Exacerbate Corpus Christi’s Water Crisis

Local activists warn that while residents must ration, unimpeded industrial expansion is imperiling the region’s future.

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A Texas Writer Tackles a Subject ‘Beckoning in the Shadows His Entire Life’

Stephen Harrigan explores his own Catholic boyhood in Texas—and the prophecy left behind by a Portuguese prophet girl—in a compelling new book.

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Texas Already Gives Public Ed Dollars to Private Operators. Here’s How That Worked Out.

The state created “Texas Partnership” charter schools to turn around struggling public campuses, but an Observer investigation has uncovered numerous academic and financial issues.

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Harrison the Huckster

The right-wing state rep has led an army of one on a self-righteous crusade in the Texas House.

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